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The full quote is fascinating though, and adds an interesting context as it's Angua (a werewolf) and Carrot (human, but raised by dwarves) discussing a dwarf colleague, Cheery.
"Female? He told you he was female?"
"She," Angua corrected. "This is Ankh-Morpork, you know. We've got extra pronouns here."
She could smell his bewilderment...
"Well, I would have though she'd have the decency to keep it to herself," Carrot said finally. "I don't think it's very clever, you know, to go around drawing attention to the fact."
"Carrot, I think you might have something wrong with your head," said Angua.
"What?"
"I think you might have it stuck up your bum."
Sir Terry Pratchett - "Feet of Clay"
This is CARROT being the asshole. Carrot who has, throughout all the prior books, been depicted as basically the best of all possible people. He is noble, brave, considerate, kind. He is the good guy in the entire City...
... and yet, he grew up dwarf, and has picked up their more conservative views on gender identity.
Discworld dwarves start out in the books as basically a people without visible gender differences (thanks to the woman growing beards just like the men) and using "he/him" pronouns as their default. Anything else is seen as breaking the most basic of social conventions. (Dwarf dating is described early on as being two dwarves who like each other spending an inordinately long time trying to find out, as tactfully as possible, what gender the other dwarf is)
Carrot does immediately adopt the "she" pronoun for Cheery, which is but wishes she didn't make such a fuss about it. He's prepared to tolerate her choices, but he doesn't APPROVE of them, and thinks that that is enough.
Carrot, because he IS Carrot, does learn to open his mind on this subject, perhaps his final frontier of bias, but I do love that it's addressed as something he has to work on, and succeed.
And to Terry Pratchett's credit what started out as a throwaway joke about dwarf sex, gradually becomes a multi-volume subplot which is a fascinating exploration of gender and social identity as more dwarves start to "come out" as being female, and not just identifying as female, but changing their form of dress to something which matches who they are (they keep their beards though, because to a dwarf, that has nothing to do with gender, and everything to do with being a dwarf) and how their society has to adjust, with differing levels of comfort, to this new reality.
Carrot was also prejudiced against the undead early on as well. And the fact that he unlearns these views is a good example of a common theme in Pratchett's work
The overwhelming theme of Pratchett's work is change. Not good vs evil but progress vs stasis/going backwards. The protagonists of Pratchett's stories are people who can take on board new ideas and change and grow and adapt. Some of them start out as very stupid people with very stupid views in fact until they learn and grow and improve. The villains on the other hand are people who desperately want things to either stay the same or regress back to some imagined "Good old days" that they prefer.
While we're talking about Terry Pratchett gender, there's also golems, who are basically lumps of clay that have been brought to life but don't actually have any gender or secondary sexual characteristics so everyone defaults to male and he/him. As the books story goes on some of them decide to try being women just because.
Feet of Clay came out in 1996. I cannot overstate how pronoun discourse wasn't anywhere on the radar then. I'm fairly terminally online, active in fandom, and the first I can remember is some timid discussion of neopronouns in the mid-2000s, where "how could you tell other people to use them for you" was a major puzzle. (I still love neopronouns - zie/hir appeals to me in a way they distinctly doesn't, genderfluid though I am.) Pterry was so far ahead of the game, he was the very definition of galaxy brain, with extra heapings of kindness.
Another Terry Pratchett character. But I still haven't figured out how to build an audience here. Social media algorithms are generally not encouraging.
Aaah! I'm almost out of Discworld characters! I'd love to draw only them, but I have work to do... And by the way, are you interested in other drawings? Or are you just here for the Terry Pratchett art?
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Describing Terry Pratchett’s books is difficult. Someone asked me what the book I was reading was about, and I had to tell them it was about banking and the gold standard, but like in a cool way with golems and action.
It is so, so difficult to explain to people that your favorite book is about transgender feminist dwarves, Nazi werewolves, and the mystery of a missing piece of really old ritual bread. And Opera saves the day.
The bureaucrats of the universe get annoyed at the paperwork humanity causes so they decide to steal Christmas. Replacement Christmas is done by Death and replacement Death is done by goth Mary Poppins, who is also in charge of the investigation.
An entire clan of tattooed, hairy, kleptomaniac, alcoholic Scotsmen decide a little girl is their new best friend whether she wants to be or not and she rescues her absolutely worthless brother by discovering the power of selfishness.
So I've stumbled across Cat Sebastian and let me tell you this is exactly the sort of cotton candy read that I love in June. Normally I'm not that into an uncut romance but god if there isn't something compelling about how she creates her characters and arranges her settings.
Absolute Pleasure: Queer Perspectives On Rocky Horror
A neat collection of essays all about the queer experience and interpretations of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Like any sort of essay anthology this did have some wildly varied levels of quality but I by and large quite enjoyed it. My favourites were the ones that dealt more with “historical” perspectives or actual film analysis. The ones that were more personal narratives with minimal ties to the movie itself inspired me less (at least one was so wildly unhinged that I had to gleefully read it outloud to multiple people so they could also experience it with me). There was some about this whole book that made me feel very seen… it’s obvious that there’s a real sense of community built around Rocky Horror and it spills out warmly into this. Makes me want to rewatch the movie again.
Boom Times in Chilliwack: Memories from the Post-War Years
A nonfiction book looking at how a Canadian farming community has gradually changed over time, from the baby boom in the 1950s to modern day. It was quite indepth, covering different larger categories (residential, businesses, sports, recreation, etc) and describing general attitudes and influences that played out in the community. It did a decent job of providing a broad overview while also looking at minutiae as small as how individual buildings changed over the decades.
Dinosaur Sanctuary v1-7
A fun, quirky manga series I’ve been wanting to try for a while! I busted up my tailbone so I was stuck lying around not doing much and read through this in a few days. It’s a fun story about a newly employed “dinokeeper” who works at a Dinosaur Park, something like a zoo for dinosaurs which were rediscovered and cloned in the 40s. It’s at a point in time where artificially bred dinosaurs are a norm, and if anything are rather out of fad — it’s like Jurassic Park except a mundane slice of life with a dash of animal conservation on the side! One of its strongest points is that it’s very well-researched and illustrated, a lot of academic thought was put into how these dinosaurs should look, move, and act.
Hockey Super Six v1-8
A children’s series about a group of hockey-loving kids who all acquire hockey-related super powers and use them to save hockey and/or Canada and/or the world (priorities vary xD) from all sorts of mad scientists, monsters, and schemes. It should be ridiculous, and it is, but I found it shockingly charming — I meant to read one book to see what it was all about and ended up reading and enjoying the entire series. It knows exactly what it is, decided to jump the shark in book one, and is so unapologetically over the top that it ends up creating a very fun romp. Also the author plays hockey himself and you can tell in how he writes the hockey matches. Some of them are seriously high octane, I couldn’t look away from them! (Heated Rivalry take some fucking notes, please add better written hockey to your hockey story!)
A Long and Speaking Silence
The latest novella in The Singing Hills cycle, which I always look forward to. This book acts as a prequel and shows one of Cleric Chih’s earlier adventures with Almost Brilliant. It’s very neat to see them as a younger, less experienced, and less confident cleric, and the book itself had some very timely things to say about refugees and immigration. It wasn’t my favourite in the series, but it was a very solid entry that I enjoyed reading.
Mistakenly Saving the Villain v1
This one disappointed me a bit — I heard so much hype around it and got strongly recommended it as my next danmei read but honestly it kinda fell flat for me. Part of it might be that it leans heavily into a “yandere” sort of character, which is not a trope I’m very fond of, but mostly it just felt… tropey and not very deep. There was stuff that I found very compelling, but the story often felt like it was skating along the top of what I was really interested in without getting as deep into the emotions and natural repercussions or broader healing journey that I would have really liked to have seen. I don’t think I’ll continue it, especially knowing that it’s been stretched out into four short books rather than three normal sized ones.
Night Watch
I’m not sure I could ever tell you which is my absolute favourite Discworld novel is, but I do think that Night Watch is hands down the best written of them all. It’s also, sadly, one of the only Discworld books I don’t recommend people start with just because it is such an emotionally impactful novel and you don’t really get it unless you’re already familiar with the characters. This book follows Sam Vimes tracking a deranged serial killer up the wizards’ tower and ultimately being blown straight into his own past by the magical storm that was building up. It is fascinating to watch Vimes need to readapt to how things were done in “the bad old days”, before he turned his life around and started turning the Watch into something that mattered. There’s a reason why the tumblr Discworld fandom all but has a holiday built around this book.
Star Shipped
I happened across this in a local bookstore, was mildly intrigued by what looked like a queer Star Wars rpf parody, and decided to listen to the audiobook to see if it was any good. Given how many more Cat Sebastian books I then followed this up with, it can be safely concluded that I liked it way more than I expected! I can’t say this is anything approaching high brow literature, but the author does a very compelling job of creating characters and relationships that you really want to follow. Her stories from what I’ve read so far tend to be somewhat meandering, more slice of life than pursuing any serious plot, but it gives breathing room for the relationships to develop very naturally.
They’re like a warm hug and I’m a little addicted to them. This book is about two actors who had been working together in a trashy scifi serial for years and had an off-screen rivalry. Just as one of them decides to leave the show and set out for greener pastures, a chain of events end up forcing them into closer proximity and make them reevaluate their feelings about one another. It’s part work-place drama, part-road trip, and just so very, very affectionate. I then went back to the bookstore to buy myself a physical copy.
Thud!
More Discworld, more Sam Vimes. I love the Koom Valley storyline, and who doesn’t love everything that happens with the Summoning Dark? I have a keychain that has both the Summoning Dark and the Guarding Dark on it!
The Truth
I feel like I never see people talk about The Truth enough, I really adore it. William de Worde delights me, so do Saccarissa, Otto, and the dwarves, it’s just such a lovely dynamic of characters. This is a story that sees moveable type introduced to Anhk-Morpork and the rise of its very first newspaper, brought about mostly by accident and William’s general inclination to be nosy and pedantic.
(also can we acknowledge how absolutely appalling Discworld covers can be? What is this meant to be. Is the hunchbacked villain on the cover meant to be William?? Choices are being made here. Why is it so hard for such an amazing series to get good cover art?)
We Could Be So Good // You Should Be So Lucky
The Cat Sebastian duology that I picked up after enjoying Star Shipped. These two are set in New York City during the 1950s, centred around a newspaper staff (and is in part what spurred me to reread The Truth!). The first book is about the son of the paper’s owner who starts working as a reporter in order to learn the ropes of the business that his father is intent on him inheriting. The second follows a background reporter from the first series who has been struggling with personal grief and finds himself put on a new project somewhat against his will — he is to interview and ghostwrite a “personal diary” of a somewhat notorious new ballplayer that had been recently traded to the new expansion team in New York. Apparently Cat Sebastian is known for her historical fiction and Star Shipped is an anomaly in being a contemporary romance; having read these I understand why she works so well as a historical fiction author! She really makes the settings feel very alive, and the stories and characters feel very grounded in whatever setting she chooses to use.
I think it's really funny that reading the discworld witch books (at least the ones that are Weatherwax+Ogg+Magrat), Granny immediately seems like the scariest one by far. She seems like a terrifying force of nature accompanied by a jovial old grandma and an insecure young woman. But as the series progress, the times when Granny holds back and Nanny and Magrat jovially engage in brutal physical violence add up. Now I'm not saying you *shouldn't* be scared of Granny, I'm just saying that she has a rather strong conscience in her way, whereas Magrat and Nanny will both sucker punch you, kick you between the legs and happily step over your groaning body. Granny is to be feared, but Nanny doesn't fight fair and Magrat will kill a motherfucker. Terry Pratchett really knew how to write female characters.
#Granny fears what she might do too much to ever do it #the other two have no such limiter #because Magrat believes she’s a good person #and Nanny doesn’t care
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I don't know how to articulate this well, but I really fucking hate the way a lot of thin writers write fat characters. Like how men write women "breasting boobily" there is something so dehumanizing about how fat characters are often written. "He waddled", "he lumbered", the writer of the book I'm reading always mentions this characters "fleshy hand" when he does something with his hand. Like, we already know that he's fat. There is no need to describe everything he does as "doing it fatly".
This the report that JK Rowing doesn't want you to see. This report scares her so much that she is trying to destroy Amnesty International, a human rights organization, to stop you reading it:
Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their fundin
(Amnesty already pulled the report because of JKR's threats. Of course that didn't and won't stop her - capitulating to fascists and bigots is never the answer. Alejandra captured the report and posted it, so you can read what JKR doesn't want you to know.)
For those who don't know: Ikumi Nakamura is the woman who was senior artist on Bayonetta, and designed the titular character along with Hideki Kamiya. Their greatest moment of bonding was over their insistence that Bayonetta keep her glasses on at all times.
Nakamura cannot go to horny jail. She is the warden.
Wouldn’t it be funny if the final round of the tumblr sexyman poll was Sans vs Jesus… and Sans won? I think I’d consider opening up that mini bible my aunt gave me for pride month in that case.
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