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“Elves are wonderful… marvellous… enchanting—
but never said to be nice.”
A reminder that words, like things, can shift and surprise.
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
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Book cover: “Lords and Ladies” by Terry Pratchett (Victor Gollancz, 1992); audiobook read by Indira Varma (Penguin Audio, 2022)
Over-padded in places but otherwise a merry old romp. Pratchett draws readers in through Nanny Ogg and Granny Weatherwax before crafting a suitably dark take on (cruel, catlike) elves. Ridcully is given some depth. Magrat comes into her own—the book’s highpoint! #Discworld #LordsandLadies #Pratchett
Here's today's Flower Frog and Toxic Friend, a Japanese Common Toad portraying the poisonous plant, Lords and Ladies. #Artist #Artwork #DigitalArtwork #DigitalArtist #DailyArt #IndependentArtist #digitaldrawing #cutespooky #halloween #spooky #frogs #toads #flowers #lordsandladies
Our Terry Pratchett quote of this particular day, because all you can do is be yourself, here and now
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Our Terry Pratchett quote of this particular day, because people've got enough to cope with just being people
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Our Terry Pratchett quote for when breaking rules
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"In front of her the cat Greebo, glad to be home again, lay on his back with all four paws in the air, doing his celebrated something-found-in-the-gutter impersonation."
-from Lords and Ladies
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Bright orange wild arum
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Well, it’s like this…The Carter parents were a quiet and respectable Lancre family who got into a bit of a mix-up when it came to naming their children. First, they had four daughters, who were christened Hope, Chastity, Prudence, and Charity, because naming girls after virtues is an ancient and unremarkable tradition. Then their first son was born and out of some misplaced idea about how this naming business was done he was called Anger Carter, followed later by Jealousy Carter, Bestiality Carter, and Covetousness Carter. Life being what it is, Hope turned out to be a depressive, Chastity was enjoying life as a lady of negotiable affection in Ankh-Morpork, Prudence had thirteen children, and Charity expected to get a dollar’s change out of seventy-five pence—whereas the boys had grown into amiable, well-tempered men, and Bestiality Carter was, for example, very kind to animals.
- from Lords and Ladies
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lords and ladies faces
blazing red like berries
because of mischief by their king
who signed the card with secret merry’s
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#WildWalkPrompt
As their laundress, she washed the aromas of exotic spices and perfumes, but also the blood spots from flea bites. They were no different, just hid from work in fancy clothes. She called the starch root #lordsandladies -it was utterly useless except to stiffen the ruffs.
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#WildWalkPrompt
Lords and ladies
A court filled with poison
Excessively dressed.
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Far off in the hills
Past a small stream
Deep in the underbrush
Beyond the ferns
In the shadow
Of lords and ladies
There, underneath
A small part of me
Hidden
Long ago
For no one to see
I check in
Now and then
A reminder
Of what could be
#blueskyrelay #shadow
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Ate lords and ladies
Burning mouth, then it went bad
Dug a hole and died
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The castle walls echoed their excess and debauchery. Insatiably taking from the peasants. When there was no more, they took children.The bereaved parents finally had enough, burning the castle.The only #lordsandladies they would now know, were the berried plants springing from ashes.
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Scarlet blooms, berries
Rich, crimson luxury, Lords
And Ladies burgeon.
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Hello Wild Walk #writers
Today my attention was captured by the striking red berries of
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Use the image to inspire your writing, then post using the hashtag #WildWalkPrompt
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Chain-mail from the point of view of an arrow can be thought of as a series of loosely connected holes.
-from Lords and Ladies
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Nanny Ogg gave this the same consideration as would a nuclear physicist who'd just been told that someone was banging two bits of sub-critical uranium together to keep warm.
-from Lords and Ladies
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Truly stupid wizards have the life expectancy of a glass hammer.
-from Lords and Ladies
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Morella reviews 'Lords and Ladies,' the fourteenth Discworld book by Terry Pratchett. www.douxreviews.com/2025/07/lord... #discworld #terrypratchett #bookreview #lordsandladies
It wasn’t that Ridcully was stupid. Truly stupid wizards have the life expectancy of a glass hammer. He had quite a powerful intellect, but it was powerful like a locomotive, and ran on rails and was therefore almost impossible to steer.
-from Lords and Ladies
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Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot one, and there’ll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland? In fifty years’, thirty years’, ten years’ time the world will be very nearly back on its old course. History always has a great weight of inertia.
-from Lords and Ladies
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On a million hillsides the girl ran, on a million bridges the girl chose, on a million paths the woman stood… All different, all one. All she could do for all of them was be herself, here and now, as hard as she could.
-from Lords and Ladies
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Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvelous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment. Elves are terrific. They beget terror. The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning. No one ever said elves are nice. Elves are bad.
-from Lords and Ladies
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Walking to work in the sun with a flat white whilst listening to a Terry Pratchett audiobook is a bloody good start to a working Monday! #LordsAndLadies
“So I had to learn. All my life. The hard way. And the hard way’s pretty hard, but not so hard as the easy way. I learned.”
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