Fans mark Terry Pratchett's birthday with 'GNU Terry Pratchett' tributes
On Sir Terry Pratchett's birthday, readers shared Discworld and other novel quotes, naming Unseen Academicals and Raising Steam, and reproduced the memorial header 'GNU Terry Pratchett'. One poster said they cried when Pratchett died and credited Unseen Academicals' allegory about the hammer with changing their life. Several people highlighted the Raising Steam line 'Anger was a weapon to be honed and treasured and used only at the moment yielding most premium' to underscore Pratchett's moral satire. The observance shows how Pratchett's storytelling and campaigning continue to shape readers' values and humor decades after his books first appeared.
GNU Terry Pratchett, whose words will echo long after we, and our children, and our children’s children have moved on thank you, as always, for making me a better person (quote from Reaper Man)
Micah414I first picked up his books as a teenager and there are a lot of paths a bookish teenage boy can go down in this day and age and many of them are less than ideal I am very glad I went down the path of Discworld
Ben 🔔🧑🏻💻6I had never heard of Discworld until your qotds, and now I have to find the time to start
Mizore ‘getting into ffxiv’ Nakaya 🏳️⚧️5Do you not know that a man is not dead as long as his name is still spoken?
Rémi3And it is a fantastic parallel with Hiluluk’s speech in One Piece GNU Terry Pratchett
Ailbhe 2I haven't attempted a count of the babies born because their parents met via Pratchett fandom for a while. But whole new people are pretty big ripples, and he never even met most of 'em.
It’s Terry Pratchett Day! My favourite author, who gave me an escape when I needed it, inspired me to be a better person, and taught me the value of truth, justice, freedom, reasonably priced love, and a hard boiled egg. “When in doubt, choose to live.” 📚💙 #TerryPratchettDay
Brian M. Wise: Snarkasaurus Rex. Ω, MFers.30Sir Terry Pratchett gave me the best lines that apparently nobody has ever heard of in my circle of friends. "Build a man a fire, he's warm for a few hours. Set a man on fire, he's warm for the rest of his life"
bowenfabrication.bsky.social21So many just incredible stories about humanity. Also dwarves and witches, and other such ilk.
mjp61.bsky.social17Just read the 5th elephant with commander vimes stirring it up Bloody marvellous Sadly missed Sir Terry
lilith42.bsky.social12Yeah, a Terry Pratchett day is a good day !!
Mitch Russell11And the problems of living on a flat planet. Carried on the backs of four giant elephants On top of a Turtle swimming through to void. But, what was the sex of the turtle? They had to find out!
Madame DeFarge10This is weird: just YESTERDAY, I met someone who waxed rhapsodic about Terry Pratchett (of whom I was only vaguely aware— sorry!). So much so that I ordered “Going Postal.” And today my timeline is all Terry Pratchett, all the time.
Ash Oro10I am at work with headphones in... Shhhh... Don't tell anyone... #TerryPratchettDay #Booksky #AudioBooksLetMeReadAtWork
Dave Waggy10a one in a million chance occurs 9 times out of 10
Richard Tatham9Well said, and I couldn’t have put it better. Oook With a side dish of Millennium Hand and Shrimp
Johann van de Bron9He's still missing. I still haven't been able to bring myself to read The Shepherd's Crown, so my only worry now is dying unexpectedly...
Fandle Fiction8I'm a recent convert. Fantasy, humour, and a surprising amount of social commentary. Working my way through The Night Watch books and loving it.
christinedaaesnape.bsky.social6I have an autographed copy of Maskerade because I'm an Opera singer named Christine. He thought that was amusing.
Saint Helena Island Info6My (current) favourite of all his throw-away humour is when Magrat in Witches Abroad eats something she shouldn't have and Nanny describes the result as "dire rear".
Bernie (Gummo Marx) Jacobs6We have 2 shelves of Discworld books, too. And they've been read and reread. Pratchett was a humorist, a moralist, a novelist, and he was great at all 3.
damask-hq.bsky.social6stories don’t save you they remind you how to choose to live anyway
April Kendra5What a fantastic holiday! I adore Terry Pratchett and I’m so happy to celebrate him with you!
K.D. Keenan5One of my favorite authors! He did me a solid once. bsky doesn’t give me enough characters to tell the story, but he cheered me up in a bad moment at an SF conference once. Love the man.
allanlear.bsky.social4"The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so [...] it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people." - Night Watcg
NickOnSea4I read The Carpet People in primary school, then years later rediscovered him with The Colour of Magic, the rest was inevitable.
2manybooks.bsky.social4I cannot believe I’ve never read anything by Terry Pratchett-where do I begin?
PiiaPunk4Never read any of his books, but I'd like to! Any suggestions where to begin?
blu807.bsky.social4I've just ordered my first Terry Pratchett book: starting with "Guards, Guards!".
wjwylie034Sam Vimes is an epuc, cynical, bastard.
bachschrat4Strange, that looks so similar to my bookshelf! 😁 "Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape."
vocalderbyguy.bsky.social3Vimes taught me all I need to know about economics
Tom Regan3I still read Night Watch every year to celebrate the Glorious Revolution on the 25th of May. I've read many, many books, but Night Watch is one of the best and one of my very favorites.
Nadja's Dolly3I'm too lazy to take a picture of my Terry Pratchett shelves with all 41 of the Discworld novels :D
MarcWritesWeirdStuff3yo this guy taught me about how to buy shoes and also educated me on how capitalism is predicated on exploiting the working class
The Quare Drop3Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!
Dave S3Back in the 80s, you could chat with Terry on Usenet alt.fan.pratchett. Very early internet, but he was there and engaging with fans.
Charles Bonnar3He was the best. Miss that guy.
memory/rathy3I miss him so bad Lovely collection I'm jelly
sleepyhobbit.bsky.social2Love Terry Pratchett, I listen to the disc world audiobooks whenever I need some enjoyable distractions from the current dystopian reality.
RaiderLee 🏈 🇬🇧 🏟🏴🏏🏴 IDIC🖖 Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam 🪖🔫🎒2Always A Great Read ... GNU
SindyDoll2Yes, definitely a genius, he’s sorely missed. ☹️ Like you, he made my life better. 🙂
🏳️🌈🩵🇺🇦🇬🇧🇬🇱2🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇬🇧Love Terry Pratchett . Met him once a a book signing. He told me off for telling my son to say thank you 🫣🤣
Mike Pipper2"I am a bundle of suppressed instincts held together with spit and coffee." -Monstrous Regiment l
DingusBomb2Terry Pratchett is in my TBR. Guards Guards is on my shelf and I will get to it later this year.
WaitForSanity2He is the ONLY author who made me laugh out loud whilst reading his books. I mean every book! ♥️
Utinam🇨🇦🐈⬛🏴🐐🇺🇦🦦🐦🔥2We moved recently. My husband surprised me one morning by having all Sir Terry' books on a bookshelf. Truly sweet.
We remember legendary author Sir Terry Pratchett - creator of the Discworld - born on this day in 1948. GNU Terry Pratchett
Helen McCarthy14The nicest writer I ever bought a pint for, and the only one so far to buy one for me.
Breezy Artworks9His insights about boots were on point!
Siliconmana4Love all his books! ❤️
Phillip4Most amazing writer I ever waited for an autograph signing for. Miss him, his hat, and his works all the time.
Gavin Steven2The clacks will always remember.
Terry Pratchett is a lifelong inspiration to me as an artist and as a person. His writing changed the way I think about humanity, myself, world events, history, power, religion, death, aging, wisdom, magic, libraries, imagination, kindness, and loss. When in doubt- read a Terry Pratchett book.
Jerryrigged29I've kept this for years.
General Guinan13Because of Terry Pratchett I became a blacksmith, a woodworker, a printmaker, and a toymaker. I think Terry believed that life is for making something true and wonderful. whitemothlodge.myshopify.com/products/ter... whitemothlodge.myshopify.com/products/ter...
itsonlyt.bsky.social4I just donated my entire Discworld collection to a young woman who lives far from a library. She called to thank me but I just told her to enjoy!
robanybody1.bsky.social4And there have been so many! Each book is about humanity in some form or another!
Mick W3A friend of mine told me he just read a load of Pratchett books after his mum passed. He said he was laughing so much it really helped.
Thyme3Must have read the entire Discworld series 4x during the pandemic. The only thing that made sense at the time. Sorry he never made it to WorldCon in Montreal as he was too ill. He would have been fantastic. Neil Gaiman filled in. 🫤
Bill Newton2I cried the morning I heard The News, and immediately went out and re-bought (for the 4th time) Colour Of Magic to begin at the beginning once more
