Discworldathon 2017 discussion

Hello everyone, next week starts Disctober: A Discworld Themed Inktober! and I can't believe the year's gone by so quickly. Pyramids has been hilarious reading and I don't want to distract anyone who is finishing up, but since October is a week away, I thought I'd share my character appearance lists for anyone interested in Disctober.

While I was reading, something I unfortunately didn't do as much as I wanted this year, I noted down some traits of characters, mostly appearances and possessions. I've made them into lists for some prominent characters as a refresher for anyone who wants to draw them.

I want to be clear that I'm not telling anyone how to draw these characters. We all have our own way they look in our mind's eye and that's a beautiful thing. It's why Disctober works! If everyone drew characters the same way it'd get boring very quickly. The lists are just for those who maybe haven't read these books in a while and want a refresher on how Terry Pratchett describes them in the novels.

If anyone wants to add to these or add their own lists, you would be a godsend!


To start us off, Greebo:

1. Mottled Gray
2. Extremely Big/Fat
3. One Yellow Slit of an Eye, “like a yellow window into Hell”
4. Ears Perforated Stubs '
5. Tons of Scar Tissue "It was covered with so much scar tissue that it looked like a fist with fur on it"

He's Usually described/depicted with one eye though in Wyrd Sisters he's described with two. From Wyrd Sisters: “It was covered with so much scar tissue; that it looked like a fist with fur on it. Its ears were a couple of perforated stubs, its eyes two yellow slits of easy-going malevolence,”



I'll be back with more but this should start us off.

Slán!

My apologies to you and to anyone else who is reading Pyramids: I was supposed to be hosting the reread for that this month and it totally slipped my mind: I can plead work and family commitments but I really don't have an excuse for something that I signed up to do months ago and had a plan all set out for and everything.

Again, my deepest apologies.

Ian

Ian wrote: "My apologies to you and to anyone else who is reading Pyramids: I was supposed to be hosting the reread for that this month and it totally slipped my mind: I can plead work and family commitments b..."

What was your plan? I haven't started Pyramids yet.
It will be my second read of it. Pyramids was my first introduction to Discworld and I loved it so much I'm a bit worried a second read might not be as great...

Ian wrote: "My apologies to you and to anyone else who is reading Pyramids: I was supposed to be hosting the reread for that this month and it totally slipped my mind: I can plead work and family commitments b..."


No worries, I completely understand how non-internet commitments can displace internet ones in our minds and make us forget. Had a touch of that myself last week when I realised that a dance competition I'm practising for is coinciding with the first week of Disctober and my new classes. For whatever reason it seems like this time of year, between when summer's just ended and fall truly starts is when you become the busiest. I could have nothing going on during the spring and summer and then BAM! I have 50 million things on my to do list.

Like Kate, I want to hear more of your plan. I've recently finished Pyramids and wouldn't mind discussing it.

It was nothing special: Just one week per section of the book and what the main ideas and book-ish references were in each one.

F'r'instance, I love the Tom Brown's Schooldays vibe from the first section, and the fact that there are several scenes ripped straight from the pages of that venerable classic of boarding school lit. Also, the resonances between Teppic going home and realising that he doesn't fit in there and how he can't just be an ordinary person any more and how that fits in with other fictional "suddenly king" characters.