To wonder how many of you have Terry Pratchett-related usernames?

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Come forward, all you Pratchett People!

Me.

Yum.

All right, that does it!!!

I've been pondering a name change for months now. The second I get home to my laptop, it is so on...

Not on MN but I was Wuffles on another forum.

Now inspired to name-change to something DW-related...

Some bloody inspired namechanging here!

Ooh I love a bit of Pratchett. Currentlt on Witches abroad. Discworld books are what I read when my anxiety gets me.

Ta daaa!

captchaos it's sort of a geeky double reference. Partly to Douglas Addams and partly the dark references in Thud and Teatime from Hogfather. Really geeky I know.

Geeky is good! We intersect in our geekiness

Discworld books are what I read when my anxiety gets me

Me too. They are like a big comforting hug.

The discworld books are partly how I got through my final year exams many years ago. My comfort blanket read.

One of the characters in my novel has a TP name

Hmm. I'm thinking of a steamy novel better written than the awful 50 Shades but I can't really picture the main male character as a Gaspode somehow, which was the name that sprang to mind.

Yup, obliquely, but definitely inspired by my favourite TP novel.

Am I the only one in the universe to HATE Sam Vimes?

Anyone?

Just me???

........I'll show myself out.....

Mmmmmm Terry is awesome.

Make sure the door doesnt hit your arse on the way out>

Evening all. There a lot of TP name on here aren't there? My cat is called Greebo. Unfortunately he's scared of everything, including flies.

at Annarose

What...? I mean....why?

Vimes is the BEST. The best anything ever.

I wanted to be "Buggrit, millennium hand and shrimp" or "hats! That's what you think" but neither work quite as well without punctuation. And they're probably too long.

Is Embuggerance a Pratchett word then? My beloved Grandad has been using it for years, I didn't know he was a fan!

anathema I totally agree.

Embuggerance is how TP announced that he had been diagnosed with dementia.

My darling mum also has dementia, and has read TP with great enjoyment as long as I have (I can date this exactly as my brother brought the Colour of Magic and the Light Fantastic at the station coming back from his first university interview and he got off the train eulogising about them), but for a woman only seen without a book when moving or with both hands occupied (and then she might be listening to an audiobook) dementia has taken her ability to read.

TP is a comfort read for me too - a big hug of words, and I'm still finding things I missed the first forty time round

Does anyone else buy the paper backs to read and the hard backs to stroke?

I bought some Unseen Library leather bound special editions. Can I get any geekier?!

I also have them on kindle as well as hardback and paperback . My house is full of books in my defence, kindle saves space (or so I try to convince dh; doesn't work so well when I have three copies of the same book!)