Apparently 28th April is Terry Pratchett Day, being his birthday an' all.

[bernard_433@cupoftea.social]

@Odaeus Yes, it does feel odd to miss someone you never met, but nevertheless, I do as well !

[ninetiger@writing.exchange]

@Odaeus

[ghostdancer@mastodon.sdf.org]

@Odaeus And footnotes, don't forget the footnotes #speakhisname

[violanders@mastodon.nu]

@Odaeus
There is also the Glorious 25th of May which also happens to be Towel Day. My wife, however, insists that my towel isn't lilac at all.

[connynasch@mastodon.social]

@capnthommo @Odaeus Cheers!

[revk@toot.me.uk]

@Odaeus Wish I met him, even once.

[misaimed_brain@mas.to]

@Odaeus

I had the privilege to meet him once, after seeing him speak. He was great.

[odaeus@social.vivaldi.net]

I shouldn't be surprised that Mastodon is comprised of a large number of Pratchett fans, but I am touched.

[kaasbaas@social.oevents.co.za]

@Odaeus He is missed.

[perylenebleu@eldritch.cafe]

@Odaeus I started (re-)reading the whole Discworld series (in order of publication) last year. I'm about halfway through and this was such a good idea. I had read some when I was younger but I was very depressed at the time and my brain was not functioning properly. Plus I read them in French and now I can read the original text ! It's quite different ! I'm having the greatest time. The reading was prompted by my discovery of The Annotated Files (on L-Space), which was mentioned in a very very long Tumblr post about Vimes/The Watch and the Witches, similarities and differences.

Also I'm now old enough I think, to really get what Sir PTerry was putting in his books. The DEPTH.
A French artist/writer, Jacques Deval, (from whom I have read or seen absolutely nothing) said that "A good book is one which we always find full after emptying it". I think these are truly books you could read and read and read again and every time you'd notice something new, or understand something in a new way. A marvelous gift.

[aminorjourney@insearchofportlandia.com]

@Odaeus @WizardOfDocs I was lucky enough to meet him once. An amazing man who was always surrounded by a bunch of enthusiastic neurodivergent people. Never felt so welcome then or since.

[guillotine_jones@beige.party]

@Odaeus
I like your hat, Sir Terry.
Happy birthday.
Bong Hits 4 Jesus.

[moranaga@literatur.social]

@Odaeus And Footnotes.¹

¹ Lots of them.

[odaeus@social.vivaldi.net]

@PeryleneBleu that's nice to hear! It's true, they are very re-readable books as no one else could compress so many references and jokes into the text like him. They are a marvellous gift indeed!

[misaimed_brain@mas.to]

@Odaeus

To add to the barebones story, I met Terry Prattchett during a book signing session. We had an exchange that could have been in one of his books.

TP: you look familiar. Have we met before?
Me: no, but you met my sister.
TP: does she look like you?
Me: not really.

That was a long time ago, and I am paraphrasing to an extent, but it stuck with me!

[timwardcam@c.im]

@Odaeus I met him. In a field which almost certainly wasn't that one but looked very much like it. With the hat of course.

[simonf@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Odaeus Does a book-signing count as meeting?

[spoon@freeradical.zone]

@Odaeus GNU Terry Pratchett

GNU Terry Pratchett :: Generate your own Clacks message

A man is not dead while his name is still spoken. GNU Terry Pratchett.

(www.gnuterrypratchett.com)

[tuban_muzuru@beige.party]

@Odaeus

Everyone who came to love Terry Pratchett was shaped thereby. It's not hard to tell, this is a person who knows and has opinions about Granny Weatherwax