zombeesknees:

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22ndcenturyswearwords:

blackboardmonitor:

hey do you know what’s super cool

each Discworld series has a sort of set of key themes, which match the key characters, and all the books in that series centre round the theme

for example the Witches’ books are all centred around words and their power, so it’s all theatre and plays and stories and fairytales and opera and shakespeare – because on the Disc the power of witches comes through words

and the Death books are all about great big capital-lettered human concepts, like Justice, Oblivion, Hope, Belief, and Time, because after all, that’s what exactly Death is (only he happens to have developed a conscience and a like of cats)

and then the Vimes books are all about people, and people in charge of other people, and how the people in charge of other people are perhaps best suited to not being people at all, and instead being something much more harmless like a teapot, and so you’ve got so so many repeated themes of mobs of people and kings of people and the importance of caring about the little people because the big people are too busy being big to give a damn and each Vimes book has more and more types of people, dwarves, werewolves, trolls, gargoyles, feegles, zombies, goblins, even vampires… because the whole point of Watch is people – to keep the bad people away from the not-currently-bad-people & keep the occasionally-alright-people safe.

anyway, basically, Terry Pratchett’s a genius.

I have never noticed this before. What about Rincewind’s stories? Is there a theme there?

ok so compiling what some lovely people (x, x, x, x, x) have said about the main themes of Rincewind’s: 

running, destiny, running, sanity in an insane place, running, the world (and all it’s dangers), science (and all it’s dangers), anything and everything you really don’t want to do, running (including the planned benefits of running and the accidental benefits of running), fear (and how it’s actually a pretty smart thing), cowardice (and how it’s also a pretty smart thing), trust, screwing your reputation up the buttock, screwing your destiny up the buttock, self-acceptance, self-realisation, running, survival, accidental survival, survival through running…

so, to summarise, I guess the Rincewind books are about screwing up destiny/reputation/science/the world by running away from them as fast as possible in the opposite direction

@insomniabug, these are gr8 precis for each subseries!