Rhianna Pratchett 🧙🏻♀️
@rhipratchett
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Writer & presenter - Mythical Creatures (R4) Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch, REKA, Lost Words, Tomb Raider, Overlord, Mirror's Edge, Crystal of Storms.
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Joined May 2011
Going to take a bit of a break from this place. You can find me here rhi@bsky.social. Love and strength to all those who need it right now.
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This is horrifying. My father would most definitely not be a GC if he was still alive. Read. The. Books.
I note that having not got over Atwood's betrayal, the GCs are trying to recruit Terry Practhett posthumously presumably because they know he can't contradict them.
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This is in many ways a typical Pratchett photo - Mum is holding a cat, I’m trying to pretend it’s not happening and Dad has boomerang sticking out of his head. Come back, Dad. The world needs you. 7 years is long enough. ❤️ @terryandrob #GNUTerryPratchett #SpeakHisName
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8 years of missing you. This photo makes me laugh because it’s so un-Pratchetty. We’re looking in the same direction & there’s hugging (ish.) It’s the kind of pic that, in a movie, one or other of us would look at wistfully before tooling up to go rescue the other #speakhisname
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Dad didn’t make the list either. This really isn’t bias.
JK Rowling — the greatest writer of her generation and one of the most successful women in modern history — has been excluded from the BBC’s Platinum Jubilee 70 Greatest Reads. They aren’t even trying to hide their bias.
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We decided to treat ourselves to afternoon tea at the Ritz afterwards (extremely fancy and unprecedented for the Pratchetts) and my father got mistaken for a waiter. He was delighted.
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Just found dad’s school report aged 12. Top positions in English, history, religious knowledge (surprising but then he did go on to write Small Gods) and metal work. Bottom in maths and French. PE ‘Tries hard’ which is truly as athletically skilled as Pratchetts ever get.
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Okay do I go and introduce myself to the lady on the train who was talking very enthusiastically about my dad and his work?.
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To the fathers. Wherever they may be. Raise a glass and take them onward in your adventures. Mind how you go.
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Happy birthday to my late Gnome-on-a-swing father. Banananana daiquiris will be drunk in your name tonight. #TerryPratchettDay #Speakhisname
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Dad… it’s been 9 years. In our family collection of blurry, squinty and poorly composed photos around the world, I found this - a typical Pratchett shot since we are 1)Not looking at the camera 2)focused on food and 3) embracing hat wearing. The trifecta. Miss you always. ❤️
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Even when attending a wedding (circa 1990) Pratchetts will always look slightly scruffy. Not my colour, not his suit, but we’re both looking at the camera. Albeit in a slightly bemused way. He would’ve been 76 today. GNU Dad. Happy Birthday. #Speakhisname #TerryPratchettDay ❤️
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Hard to believe that he's been gone for 5 years. Partly because I carry the-Dad-in-my-head everywhere I go, which means I always have to order Bananana daiquiris whenever see them. This is how I like to remember him - laughing with a bird on his head.
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This relentless policing of @BootstrapCook - criticising the shoes she wears, what sandwiches and roast dinners she eats, what she's allowed to spend money on, in order to somehow ‘prove’ that she' s not poor or worthy enough comes across as pathetic bullying. 1/2.
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It's official! #VimesBootsIndex. With a little added Pratchettian anger from me. @BootstrapCook @terryandrob. ❤️
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Just to be clear @terryandrob has not paid for Twitter Blue. If Mr Musk is a fan then I suggest a rereading of the books might be in order.
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One of favourite (albeit slightly blurry) pictures of my Gnome-Wizard father. Taken by me @SWWR #FathersDay #SpeakHisName
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At level 10 the goose is driving the train, stopping to pick up renegade chickens whilst a duck ticket inspector shout ‘TO FRANCE!’ and eats all the Pringles.
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This was in the works for so long, but today is finally the release of A Life in Footnotes, dad's official biography by @terryandrob. Proud of you, Rob. It's been emotional.❤️
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Hate can not be allowed to win. Be better humans. Choose kindness, understanding and inclusion. I stand with the trans community today and always. 🏳️⚧️ #CisWithTheT.
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Dad, you knew how to take delight in the little things. This is how I'll always remember you. Happy Father's Day. X
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It absolutely breaks me to hear my mum telling me she’s sorry she couldn’t “save dad” as we snuffle and cry down the phone to each other. I am drowning my sorrows in alcohol (bananananana daiquiris) and animal fats. It’s what he would’ve wanted.
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Happy birthday, Dad. Miss you so much. Which game shall we play next?❤️ #GNUTerryPratchett #speakhisname
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Media, please stop referring to Good Omens as just @neilhimself's Good Omens. My father was a HUGE part of that book.
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Okay I did it and she was delighted and I delighted and also got a chance to promote Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch.
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Sitting on a train and the lady two seats in front of me is talking very enthusiastically to her seat mate about dad’s work. And I am grinning away like a loon.
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Happy Father's Day to the fathers who are with us and the fathers who are not. Wherever you are, mind how you go. ❤️
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No. Inspired by characters created by Terry Pratchett.
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Look, I think it's fairly obvious that @TheWatch shares no DNA with my father's Watch. This is neither criticism nor support. It is what it is.
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Cis woman here with trans and non-binary friends and colleagues, and in case it wasn’t bloody obvious #JKDoesntSpeakForMe.
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Truth! Justice! Freedom! Reasonably Priced Love! And a Hard Boiled-Egg! #Glorious25thofMay #GNUTerryPratchett #SpeakHisName
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Musing on a doing a ‘Rhi Reads’ series of blog posts on Narrativia’s website where I read all of Dad’s books (some of which I’ll be reading for the first time) and write my thoughts on them, including personal anecdotes and Pratchett family titbits. Any interest in this, folks?.
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Glad to see that an untidy desk is hereditary.
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Well, it's been quite a couple of weeks. For my own mental health I'm going to be bowing out of the debate for a bit. Thanks to those who engaged with respect and good faith. I am forever learning. May Weatherwax and Vimes guide your steps.🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈❤️.
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When countless members of the LGBTQ+ community speak about how utterly damaging Section 28 was, listen to them, try to understand and don’t pretend it was in their best interest. It wasn’t.
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That’s me that is.
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Seldom would you find Dad spending much time in a kitchen but I think he’d appreciate the use of his official title. 😁.
I know I've said this before, but naming your cat after your favorite author is a bit of a two edged sword because it's weird to have to shout "Sir Terry Prettchett get off the counter!".
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This is the show-runner of The Watch, failing to thank MY FATHER. This should tell you everything you need to know.
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‘If a pitch doesn’t convince Rhianna Pratchett and Rob Wilkins that it can distil Pratchett’s essence into its adaptation, then it has no right to exist.’ 😁.
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Yes, I know I use this picture (now actually attached!) of Nanny Ogg and Greebo living their best lives (by the fabulous @PaulKidby) most years, but it’s just so damn joyful. Happy Hogswatch all!
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When Dad was part-time he wrote 400 words a day. Full time it was 1000 words no matter what. If he was having a v good day it could be anything up to 6k. But the Oblivion playing time, the tortoise polishing, the bubblegum for the brain was as important as the words on the page.
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To be honest… I’d just like my dad back. Even if he never wrote another word.
@rhipratchett @cmcdonald_141 I get sad and angry every time I think of what could have been there, and I can't imagine how much stronger that feeling is for you and Rob. A full on police procedural set with the City Watch cast? Would have been mind blowing if they ACTUALLY DID IT.
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I love this interview with Dad. He was very proud of his Blue Peter badge.
#OnThisDay 1996: Discworld author Terry Pratchett explained where his love of reading and writing began.
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My dearest Perky cat crossed the rainbow bridge today. She was nearly 19, but I am still devastated. It’s a triple blanket evening.
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Dad knew how to spin an opening line. He particularly loved a good weather-based metaphor or simile. British DNA and a family of storm watchers.
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GNU Dame Maggie Smith. My perfect Granny Weatherwax. Mind how you go.
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Never as much as when I talk about Dad’s younger literature, do the replies make me realised how much he helped create better humans.
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The boys are back!.
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Twitter, I have done a bad thing. I expressed an extremely mild mannered disappointment in GTAV not having a female lead (a missed opportunity IMHO) and now I must pay. A.K.A. This week being-a-woman-in-games-on-the-Internet.
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Happy birthday, Dad. Miss your laugh and your awkward hugs. ❤️
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Happy New Year, folks! May we all live in less interesting times. 🎉🎉🎉.
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She is loved and supported because of who she is, and who she tries to be, not what she has or doesn't have. 3/3.
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So, a🧵from someone who has an inkling of how these things come about, and for those who might be interested to know how to avoid it. This isn’t a narrative issue in the way it might appear. IMHO it's come about due to narrative/level design & object placement misalignment. 1/16.
Minutes in, and this is worse than any dialog. Her life savings are RIGHT THERE! Pick up the bag! . This is the bad Forspoken writing you should be mad at. I'm livid.
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IMHO those that support her do so because she's trying to do good (from her recipes to her tireless campaigning) in a world often full of bad. She's honest about her past and present struggles and that gives us comfort that we're not alone. 2/3.
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GNU James Earl Jones. What an utter legend. The Pratchetts once had lunch with the Jones family. I told James how much I loved his performance as Ommadon in The Flight of Dragons and he said ‘You’re so sweet, that’s when I discovered there was magic in the voice.’ 💔.
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Good luck, America.
You can’t start with a democracy. You have to work up through stuff like tyranny and monarchy first. That way people are so relieved when they get to democracy that they hang on to it. – Terry Pratchett, A Blink of the Screen.
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This. ❤️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. Equal Rites. #TransRightsAreHumanRights.
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That’s lovely. Thank you for sharing.
Terry whomst, at a book signing, asked my name, and being a young egg, I told him, adding "for now" so he leaned in, asked what it *will* be, and signed my copy of Guards Guards ambiguously enough that it can be read either way. He was the first human to know of Tal.
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BIG NEWS! Grab your frying pans and start practicing your hard stare, there’s witching afoot! Delighted to be collaborating with @GabrielleKent, @PaulKidby and @PuffinBooks to bring this in-world guide to aspiring witches everywhere. Updates soon!
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'Privilege, which just means private law. Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.' Sam Vimes in Night Watch, as ever, nailing the mood and the fact that too often those people are the same.
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Abuse is never okay. And you are correct, he didn't say this. Because these sentiments are fear-mongering in the same vein as the ways in which LGBTQIA+ folks and other minorities have been demonised in the past. I support trans rights and I believe my father would too.
@Dragonkat42 @Steelcryo @Queenkatinka @NoodleNetti @twocitiesnickie "I am totally cool with gender non-conforming kids being encouraged into lifetime medicalisation using drugs and surgery. And I'm fully in favour of death threats being sent to feminists who criticise this and defend women's sex-based rights". is something Pratchett never said.
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Terry took Death’s arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night.
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BTW I’ve no issue with Dad not being on the list. It’s there to highlight, in part, lesser known authors across the Commonwealth. Which is laudable. It also doesn’t include greats like Tolkien & Wodehouse. But to suggest JKR isn’t on it just because of their views is ridiculous.
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Bat Out of Hell was part of my childhood - Meat clutching a silk scarf, forward-rolling on stage, him as Eddie in Rocky Horror, Cher looking like a badass in Dead Ringer for Love. We had BOOH for the ending song at Dad’s funeral and we so needed it. GNU Meat Loaf. Thank you ❤️.
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I put the memory my father said he never wanted to forget (the night I was born) into Rise of the Tomb Raider. It’s in one of Richard Croft’s letters to young Lara.
Gamedevs, can you name and describe an instance when you put something really personal about you or your life into a videogame?.
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To dad's fans - Cherish what he gave us, every book. They are marvellous gifts of laughter, wisdom and empathy. Through them he is immortal.
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OK, clearing this up again. ‘No new Discworld novels’ is correct. Not ‘no more Discworld stories’ because Narrativia was formed by Dad explicitly to manage adaptations/spin-offs across other media, which he was well aware would need to contain new material, characters & stories.
[Quoting because I can't reply - will delete if against etiquette]. There was a commitment to "no new Discworld novels" by @rhipratchett. While this is technically only an animated feature, it does seem to run counter to the spirit of that commitment. cc: @terryandrob.
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I walked in front of his coffin holding it at his funeral (with correct hand positioning from the great @SamanthaSwords) whilst wearing a pair of Jimmy Choos, since Dad liked them and always said he imagined me clacking down the corridors of game studios, striking fear into devs.
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Exciting news about Night Watch!.
So proud that Sir Terry Pratchett's NIGHT WATCH is to become a Penguin Classic. It will publish in April 2025 to coincide with Terry Pratchett Day.
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“Sometimes people leave you, halfway though the woods. Do not let it grieve you. No one leaves for good. You are not alone. No one is alone.” GNU Stephen Sondheim. Will fondly remember the time when a trio of Pratchetts sobbed together in the third row during Into the Woods.
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We played Bat out of Hell at the end of Dad’s funeral (and I thoroughly recommend ending such things on an ‘up’ song) and he also chose it as one of his songs on Desert Island Discs. It has a special place in my heart. A big GNU for Jim Steinman.
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Just been called a Satanist on Instagram which is such pleasingly retro insult.
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This was what I called his 'Darwin beard'. Miss you always, Dad. Mind how you go. #GNUTerryPratchett #speakhisname.
Six years ago today we lost a great man and a dear friend. Remembering Terry today and always. #TerryPratchett #SirTerryPratchett #Discworld
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GNUTerryJones and GNUTerryPratchett.
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The way folks have been talking about @Joannechocolat and her child is truly despicable. As is this manufactured controversy-for-clicks which seeks to centre JKR yet again. JH is a beacon of light and love and does not in any way deserve this. She has my support unwaveringly.
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❤️❤️❤️.
Sometimes, the voice of a person long dead remains more alive and more relevant than that of a thousand still living.
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Feels like older male devs want to explore the facets of fatherhood and what it means to feel and break that bond. Older female devs are more like 'Yes! Send me into the wilderness with a cat and a load of books and a weapon made of my own teeth. FINAL CRONE FORM, MOTHERFUCKERS!'.
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BIG NEWS ❤️.
A Life with Footnotes – announcing the official biography of Terry Pratchett. Published by Doubleday on 29 September 2022, full details at: #50YearsOfTerry.
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I’d say Dad’s world is rich specifically *because* of his characters. They are the pillars - Vimes, Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, Death, Moist, Rincewind, Tiffany Aching et al.
@LittleMissLizz @woofknight Potter's worldbuilding is flimsy because at its core, it's the story of a kid going to an elite boarding school and making friends. The fantasy element is just the specific flavoring. A fantasy fan will prefer discworld, but for someone in it for characters, it won't work.
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So wonderful to hear. Somewhere Dad is beaming. ❤️.
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HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to Tiffany Aching's Guide to Being a Witch. Stepping onto Discworld for the 1st time front-of-house has been daunting (it's why I chose the golden hare as my signature stamp) but I had the best fellow witch I could ask for in co-writer @GabrielleKent ❤️🧙🏻♀️1/5
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Happy Hogswatch Day from our kitties to yours.
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Happy birthday, Dad. Miss the long walks and chats ❤️
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My mum took care of everything else in the house so Dad could write. She was the oil that kept the Discworld machine running.
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BIG NEWS! #50YearsOfTerry ❤️.
Such fantastic news! We’re re-recording all of the Discworld novels with an incredible cast #50YearsOfTerry
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Happy International Women's Day! With a particular shout-out to the trans women of the world who inspire me every day with their courage, humour and sheer bloody brilliance. #InternationalWomensDay2022 #TransWomenAreWomen 🏳️⚧️
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