This is the single most pratchettian thing @tkingfisher.com has ever written. FIGHT ME (From Summer in Orcus.) - ThreadSky

kithrup.bsky.social • 21 days ago

This is the single most pratchettian thing @tkingfisher.com has ever written. FIGHT ME

(From Summer in Orcus.)

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sewingwithdragons.bsky.social•21 days ago

This made me think of my favorite book dedication ever, from @tkingfisher.com’s Hamster Princess, book 6: Little Red Rodent Hood (written as Ursula Vernon.

whetstone.bsky.social•21 days ago

omg it never occurred to me that other little girls shared this fantasy

i wore the werewolf book in my elementary school library RAGGED

vmcclain.bsky.social•21 days ago

I love Summer in Orcus so much!! And yes that line definitely gives Pratchett vibes.

irishwol.bsky.social•21 days ago

I think so. There's a lot of Pratchettian moments in that book.

lauragarabedian.bsky.social•19 days ago

This is very fair, and very true and I should reread this.

kithrup.bsky.social•21 days ago

(I am reading that, and watching The Iron Giant. As I said, I needed heroes.)

gftomatoes.bsky.social•20 days ago

I discovered last week that, in much the same way as I reach for Summer when I need comfort, my grandchild reaches for Harriet.
Harriet, the child who is the kind of Bold we all could have been before we learned to be afraid...
Thank you again, @tkingfisher.com

kithrup.bsky.social•20 days ago

Harriet is *smart*. She's going to be empress of the world someday.

gftomatoes.bsky.social•20 days ago

We certainly hope so!

passeriform.bsky.social•21 days ago

I don't think I'm strong enough to reread Summer In Orcus just yet, but I shall try to fortify. I am a proud chordate, after all.

kithrup.bsky.social•21 days ago

She is so fucking brave.

passeriform.bsky.social•21 days ago

(oh, my dear)

amyhoy.bsky.social•21 days ago

i thought the same thing when i read that passage

not to take away from her own inventiveness

nowrench.com•21 days ago

A Sorceress Comes to Call had a few that I think are in the same ballpark. "Maybe what we call holy ground is only holy because I believe it and you believe it and hundreds of other people have believed it, and all that belief builds up like snow on a patch of ground and makes it holy." For one

nowrench.com•21 days ago

Also strongly channeling Vimes with
"It is a strange reflection that, like Hester turning the cuffs on her gowns, you were somehow allowed to be poorer if you were rich than if you were actually poor."