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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

if flat earthers would just write books

Yup, if Pratchett had been born thirty or forty years later we would have gotten unhinged twitter rants instead of discworld

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I am not sure I like my Pratchett being likened to an actual nutjob flat earther. Or did I miss him being all about that other than writing humorous books about a world like that?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

"my"

parasocial relationship detected lol

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My Pratchiousssss

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Tricksy little flat earthers!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

physically forces himself not to say GNU

Shut up nerd, I can stop loving him anytime I want

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Horse shit. Pratchett was a well grounded, sane human being.