Vague Positivity

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Sometimes a neurodivergent person will write a tumblr post like "Here's a funny story about a time when I had a small miscommunication with my neurotypical roommate, tee hee hee" and I read the story and I so desperately want to take them gently by the shoulder and be like "My friend, this has nothing to do with your mental condition and there was no miscommunication. Your roommate is just a massive asshole."

Also that one post about the person's cat getting mistakenly summoned for jury duty and threatened with contempt. Like. That's not a funny story. That's a fucking terrifying story.

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dude star wars is so good and/or bad and/or mediocre sometimes, depending

Ohh so that's why they called that one show Andor

Wiblingen Abbey Library (Ulm, Germany)

welcome to the club

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.

yes, give us those sweet, sweet, terrible descriptions

A tortoise who’s really a god, finds an allegory for Jesus and they go on adventures in an ancient greece like place and then a desert 

The chief of police averts a rerun of an ancient war, partially despite and partially because of being possessed by a dying dwarf’s graffiti

It’s like Les Miserables but Javert is the good guy and also there’s time travel.  

Macbeth but it’s about the witches

Chapter one, the protagonist is hanged. Then he’s put in charge of the post office. Yes, in that order.

it’s like mulan if there were way more mulans in mulan and also pratchett is extra irritated that too many people missed the point of jingo

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.

these are all nice and accurate reasons to read discworld if you haven’t yet

Romeo and Juliet football AU but the other team is wizards

Hollywood????

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.

@cosmictwobyfour

Someone is dying, journalism is being invented, and part of Pulp Fiction is going on in the background.

The universes burocrats want to measure everything so they pay a man to imprison time so everything will stop and they can measure things in peace. Goth mary Poppins saves the day, the fifth horseman of the apocalypse is the best Milkman in the world, and chocolate saves the day. Also someone was born twice.

Classic dynastic machinations are happening in fantasy China, to be completely overturned by a gang of elderly barbarian heroes and the world’s worst wizard and best sprinter

Death incarnate battles a shopping cart for the fate of the world.  

@grifalinas

Phantom of the Opera au, except there’s witches, a cookbook that is thinly-veiled pornography, and Christine is played by a fledgeling witch with multiple personalities who can’t stop being sensible long enough to enjoy herself

Hidden heir to the throne decides an cynical, alcoholic cop is the best role model in the world.

Atlantis provides an excuse for a xenophobia-inspired war between Britain and the Middle East but it’s fine because the armies are arrested for conspiracy to cause public nuisance.

(sigh)(smile) All of the above.

You can defeat Vampire Fascism with the powers of violence, your debilitating anxiety disorder, and a nice cup of tea

the pied piper is a racket being run by some talking mice and a cat but they accidentally invent socialism. then of course there are also the rat horrors

A trio of witches (two of them uninvited) go on a journey to find out how the third one should be a fairy godmother. They run into and out of half-finished stories and manage to encounter a large amount of classic literature unscathed.

The cops have to solve a very slow ongoing attempted murder which the victim has already solved while a dwarf’s egg is cracked and a whole species gains free will

“You took an oath to uphold the law and defend the citizens without fear or favor," said Vimes. "And to protect the innocent. That's all they put in. Maybe they thought those were the important things. Nothing in there about orders, even from me. You're an officer of the law, not a soldier of the government.” -- Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett

Every time Vimes looks at Lady Sibyl: "I think I hauve covid"

Angua watching Carrot accidentally deescalate an international conflict by organizing a football match: "I am going to fuck him until my pelvis fractures."

Pratchett understands that Horny isn't just when there's two hot chiseled conventionally attractive people doing cool shit. Pratchett understands that the horniest state a human can be in is "Oh god I can't not fuck them" and sometimes that means two married middle-aged schlubs going at it like rabbits in heat. You look me in the eye and tell me that Vimes and Sibyl don't fuck nasty.

I will say, prattchett is very good at disguising his hornyness with humor. He has quite the talent for describing explicitly horny things in hilariously non-erotic terms. Like we know that BDSM exists in discworld, because of that scene where a kink closet gets blown up and a dog runs away with a vibrator in its mouth.

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