I had totally forgotten this! Just ran across this quote on TV Tropes (not linking, be grateful): "The Discworld story Thud! features the mad artist Methodia Rascal...who spent the last few years of his life thinking he was being pursued by a giant chicken."

Presumably an invisible giant chicken, since no one else could see it. From space, do you

via neadods:

Where's My Cow? by googlebrat.

Discworld, worksafe, not very long, absolutely brilliant. Go read now.

Re-reading Reaper Man, and I found this, at the part where "Bill Door" is waiting with Miss Flitworth for the new Death to come and claim him:

"Have you got any last words?"
YES. I DON'T WANT TO GO.

Sounds familiar, doesn't it?

You know, if you somehow managed to combine Sam and Gene's personalities into one body...

...you'd get Sam Vimes.

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Does anybody want to beta a short Life on Mars fic with special guest? Because there's no fandom that can't be improved by inserting Jack Harkness!

Er...I mean...oh, never mind.

I so need a Random Update icon. Random Fandom? Random Ramblings ( Read more... )

I am mostly back, although I may be a little scarcer than normal for a while. Doesn't seem to matter, though, as a quick scanthrough seems to show that 95% of the flist is on vacation or moving or otherwise unavailable. Hey, you guys, come back! I need entertainment! And encouragement to stop messing around and get to work on some of those plot ( Read more... )

( Multi-fandom spoilers! Minor for DW Blink, the first ep of Firefly, and Discworld. )

Thanks to shannonsequitur for the (probably entirely unintentional) reminder.

Tomorrow (May 25th) is Lilac Day! Truth, justice, freedom, reasonably priced love, and a hardboiled egg! (Don't miss the annual "You weren't there!" wank on discworld).

Which also means that tomorrow is Towel DayCarry a lilac towel tomorrow, you'll be good to go ( Read more... )