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The next time anybody tries to coopt #TerryPratchett into their weird transphobic cult (against the advice of literally everybody who knew him) please remind them that he wrote this in 1995.

"We've got extra pronouns here"

#Discworld #books #literature #Fantasy
Picture of text from a discworld nove; - “Female? He told you he was female?” “She,” Angua corrected. “This is Ankh- Morpork, you know. We’ve got extra pronouns here.” She could smell his bewilderment... “Well, I would have though she’d have the decency to keep it to herself,” carrot said finally. “I don’t think it’s very clever, you know, to go around drawing attention to the fact.” “Carrot, I think you might have something wrong with your head,” said Angua. “What?” “I think you might have it stuck up your bum.” — Terry Pratchett - Feet Of Clay
#fantasy #discworld #books #literature #terrypratchett
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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@Pixel Bandits Thanks for that, also now I'm unhealthily curious about how Pratchett is being coopted by TERFs?
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some of it just here - https://lithub.com/heres-why-terry-pratchetts-daughter-and-neil-gaiman-are-fighting-with-transphobes-on-twitter/

Here’s why Terry Pratchett’s daughter and Neil Gaiman are fighting with transphobes on Twitter.

All of a sudden, scores of people on Twitter are speculating about the late Terry Pratchett’s feelings on gender. This discourse hasn’t arisen spontaneously—it’s because Neil Gaiman weighed in on a…
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Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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@Pixel Bandits Thanks, so just baseless recruitment of a dead authors who cannot speak for himself, disregarding what he actually wrote. I'm not surprised, and yet I'm still disappointed.
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