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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 30m

There was something about the eyes. It wasn't the shape or the color. The was no evil glint. But there was... a look. It said: You are nothing. It said: You are flawed, you have no value. 𝘓𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 3h

"In a figurative sense," he said. "What does that mean? "Well, it means no," said Cutwell. 𝓜𝓸𝓻𝓽

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 6h

"You mean you didn't even have fun? If I'd been as bad as you, I'd have been a whole lot worse. Better at it than you've ever dreamed of," said Granny. 𝒲𝒾𝓉𝒸𝒽𝑒𝓈 𝒜𝒷𝓇𝑜𝒶𝒹

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 9h

And then five years later they elected another one just like him, and really it was amazing how intelligent people kept on making the same mistakes. 𝘚𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘎𝘰𝘥𝘴

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 12h

There was another of those long, long pauses, wherein may be seen the possibilities of several different futures. Men at Arms

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 15h

The planet Earth is now banned to an alien races until they can compare notes and find out how many, if any, real humans they have actually got. It is gloomily suspected that there is only one who is big, hairy and has very large feet. Hogfather

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 18h

They were not life-forms. They were...nonlife-forms. They were the observers of the operation of the universe, its clerks, its auditors. They saw to it that things spun and rocks fell. 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒆𝒇 𝒐𝒇 𝑻𝒊𝒎𝒆

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 21h

It was so easy to slip into immortality, to ride the horse, to know everything. And every time you did, it brought closer the day when you could never get off and never forget. Death was hereditary. You got it from your ancestors. 𝓗𝓸𝓰𝓯𝓪𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The days followed one another patiently. Right back at the beginning of the multiverse they had tried all passing at the same time, and it hadn't worked. 𝒲𝓎𝓇𝒹 𝒮𝒾𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓈

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Am I going to be crowned or not?" she said icily. "I've got to die a queen! It'd be terrible to be dead and common!" 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘵

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards'. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"The big trouble," he added, "is that everyone wants someone else to read their minds for them and then make the world work properly. 𝓕𝓮𝓮𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓒𝓵𝓪𝔂

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Sodomy non sapiens," said Albert under his breath. "What does that mean?" "Means I'm buggered if I know." 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒕

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Miss Smith thinks a good book is about a boy and his dog chasing a big red ball," said Miss Susan. "My children have learned to expect a plot. No wonder they get impatient. We’re reading Grim Fairy Tales at the moment." 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒆𝒇 𝒐𝒇 𝑻𝒊𝒎𝒆

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Gods like a joke as much as anyone else. 𝓛𝓸𝓻𝓭𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓛𝓪𝓭𝓲𝓮𝓼

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"I’m trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun." "I should leave it for a while," said the Senior Wrangler, squinting under his hand. "It’s too bright to see the numbers at the moment." 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓛𝓪𝓼𝓽 𝓒𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓮𝓷𝓽

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Well, he thought, so this is diplomacy. It’s lying, only for a better class of people. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑭𝒊𝒇𝒕𝒉 𝑬𝒍𝒆𝒑𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒕

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There was much pushing and shoving and honking of noses and falling of prats. It was a scene to make a happy man slit his wrists on a fine spring morning. Men at Arms

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That was the thing about death. When it happened to you, you were among the first to know. Men at Arms

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Never sick himself, he tended to the belief that sickness in other people was caused by sloppy thinking. 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓛𝓪𝓼𝓽 𝓒𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓮𝓷𝓽

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Personal isn't the same as important. Men at Arms

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The voice didn't believe in gods, which in Rincewind's book was fair enough, but it didn't believe in people either. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘍𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The guards were pretty much like guards as Rincewind had experienced them everywhere. They had exactly the amount of intellect required to hit people and drag them off to the scorpion pit. 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Carter, tears of terror mingling with makeup and the rain, squeezed the accordion. There was the long-drawn-out chord that by law must precede all folk music to give bystanders time to get away. 𝓛𝓸𝓻𝓭𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓛𝓪𝓭𝓲𝓮𝓼

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

An immortal has a great deal to remember. Sometimes it’s better to put things where they will be safe. Thief of Time

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This was real. This was more real even than reality. This was history. It might not be true, but that had nothing to do with it. Wyrd Sisters

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Victor had never worked for anything in his life. In his experience, jobs were things that happened to other people. Moving Pictures

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

No naked little men sat on the summit dispensing wisdom, because the first thing the truly wise man works out is that sitting around on mountaintops gives you not only hemorrhoids but frostbitten hemorrhoids. Reaper Man

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying "End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH," the paint wouldn’t even have time to dry. 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒆𝒇 𝒐𝒇 𝑻𝒊𝒎𝒆

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There was a certain core of stubborn bloody-mindedness there which upset important people, and anyone who upsets important people is automatically not a good copper. Men at Arms

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They were...sort of gods, he supposed. They had names like Olk-Kalath the Soul Sucker, but, frankly, the overlap between demons and gods was a bit uncertain at the best of times. The Last Hero

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm surely going to regret this, she told herself, displaying considerable foresight. 𝘌𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘴

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Why is it all Mr. Dibbler's films are set against the background of a world gone mad?" said the dwarf. Soll's eyes narrowed. "Because Mr. Dibbler," he growled, "is a very observant man." 𝑴𝒐𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑷𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Now their long war was over and they could get on with the proper concern of civilized nations, which is to prepare for the next one. 𝑬𝒓𝒊𝒄

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"She wasn't necessary," said Teatime. "Few people are." 𝐻𝑜𝑔𝒻𝒶𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"It's still a lie. Like the lie about masks." "What lie about masks?" "The way people say they hide faces." "They do hide faces," said Nanny Ogg. "Only the one on the outside." 𝑀𝒶𝓈𝓀𝑒𝓇𝒶𝒹𝑒

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Actors," said Granny, witheringly. "As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more." 𝑾𝒚𝒓𝒅 𝑺𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

He'd looked at its ramshackle organisation, such as it was, with the eye of a lifelong salesman. There seemed nowhere in it for him, but this wasn't a problem. There was always room at the top. 𝑀𝑜𝓋𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒫𝒾𝒸𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒𝓈

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In the village in the Ramtops where they understand what the Morris dance is all about, they dance it just once, at dawn, on the first day of spring. They don't dance it after that, all through the summer. After all, what would be the point? Reaper Man

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"I shouldn't think Esme'd want that. She's not keen on gods. She thinks they're a waste of space." 𝒲𝒾𝓉𝒸𝒽𝑒𝓈 𝒜𝒷𝓇𝑜𝒶𝒹

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"How we gonna do that?" "Intelligently," said Mr. Pin. "I hate that —ing way." 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑻𝒓𝒖𝒕𝒉

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

She had a number of stoutly-held views on a variety of subjects, but most of them involved the flaying alive of people she disapproved of. This meant most people under the age of thirty-five, to start with. 𝓟𝔂𝓻𝓪𝓶𝓲𝓭𝓼

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"We've strayed into a zone with a high magical index," he said. "Don't ask me how. Once upon a time a really powerful magic field must have been generated here, and we're feeling the after-effects." 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"So how do you explain fossils, then?" said Ponder. "Ah, you see, I don’t," said the Lecturer in Recent Runes, with a triumphant smile. "It saves so much trouble in the long run." 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓛𝓪𝓼𝓽 𝓒𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓮𝓷𝓽

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Sphinx is an unreal creature. It exists solely because it has been imagined. Pyramids

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The fact is that camels are far more intelligent than dolphins. Pyramids

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"I’ve been around for some time and I’ve noticed that them as has it in them to shine will shine through six layers of muck, whereas those who ain’t shiny won’t shine however much you buff ’em." 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒆𝒇 𝒐𝒇 𝑻𝒊𝒎𝒆

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Huh! Priests!" said Mr. Shoe. "They're all the same. Always telling you that you're going to live again after you're dead, but you just try it and see the look on their faces!" 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒑𝒆𝒓 𝑴𝒂𝒏

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Too much magic could wrap time and space around itself, and that wasn't good news for the kind of person who had grown used to things like effects following things like causes. 𝓢𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓬𝓮𝓻𝔂

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