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hapfairy:

WHO WROTE WHAT BIT?
Ah. Another tricky one. As the official Keeper of the One True Copy, Terry physically wrote more of Draft 1 than Neil. But if 2,000 words are written down after a lot of excited shouting, it’s a moot point whose words they are. And, in any case, as a matter of honor both of them rewrote and footnoted the other guy’s stuff, and both can write passably in the other guy’s style. The Agnes Nutter scenes and the kids mostly originated with Terry, the Four Horsemen and anything with maggots started with Neil. Neil had the most influence on the opening, Terry on the ending. Apart from that, they just shouted excitedly a lot.

The point they both realised the text had wandered into its own world was in the basement of the old Gollancz books, where they’d got together to proofread the final copy, and Neil congratulated Terry on a line that Terry knew he hadn’t written, and Neil was certain that he hadn’t written either. They both privately suspect that at some point the book had started to generate text on its own, but neither of them will actually admit this publicly for fear of being thought odd.

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (2006 edition) – appendix by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
 

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eponymous-rose:

Pros of writing transcripts: Holy crap, look at all these details I never would’ve noticed otherwise! Whoa, I feel 1000% more confident with these character voices! Hey, there’s a fantastic idea for an fic/meta post/audio post! Boy, I sure do love typing things… that’s probably weird isn’t it. Haha. Yeah.

Cons of writing transcripts: Trying to decipher Caboose’s dialogue.

#some… of these are words? probably? #same goes for half of sarge’s sargeisms

If loving typing things is wrong, I don’t want to be right.

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#Red vs Blue #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #one time when I was about nine I decided to transcribe the entirety of The Austere Academy so I could have it with me on my computer #(I’m pretty sure I had no idea ebooks were a thing) #(but I wouldn’t have been able to buy one anyway) #I would type a page or two whenever I was bored #I never completed it #but I still have the partial file #I typed 109 pages out of 221 #(109 pages of a Series of Unfortunate Events book is about 23.5 pages of OpenOffice) #(but still) #(~17.8k words) #tag rambles

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narwhal-noir:

I took my girlfriend to an improv show the other night and during intermission we were passionately arguing over whether half a 5 Hour Energy shot would give you 2.5 hours of energy or 5 hours of half-assed energy so we turned around to ask the opinions of the three people behind us and one of them said “Are all your arguments like this because we heard you in the lobby earlier fighting over the right way to pronounce ‘egg’?”

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wolfluxury:

bo burnham being a sassy little shit on twitter part 1/5

(Note: the binary code above is actually real meaningful binary. I’ll let you decipher the punchline yourself, but to help you out I’ll give you a translator, as well as the binary in easily copy-pasteable format: 01000110 01010101 01000011 01001011 01011001 01001111 01010101 00100001.)

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#Bo Burnham #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(the Hunter pair) #(though I was gratified to find it was real binary) #(thank you cosmic-llin for giving me that translator link a while back)

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airyairyquitecontrary:

spockvarietyhour:

well overall Frontier in Space is strong, wasn’t expecting the Cliffhanger. And looking at the BBC episode guide for the next episode just look at how fabulous the Doctor looks in Planet of the Daleks

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I think this sums up Pertwee’s run on the series nicely.

And I’m sad now because this was Roger Delgado’s last appearance on the series as the Master!

I believe in never missing an opportunity to tell this story about Roger Delgado, because it’s both one of the sweetest and one of the most trolly things I’ve ever heard of:

During his time as the Master, Delgado would sometimes find that when he was out and about doing ordinary things, like grocery shopping or waiting in a queue at the post office, he would feel someone’s stare boring into him. At about mid-thigh level. And he would look around unobtrusively, and there would be a little kid, usually standing behind its mother’s legs and holding onto a handful of her skirt for safety. Staring at him with the greatest suspicion and concern. Was it him? In their town? What the hell was he up to? Should they do something?

And Delgado would gaze back, give them a small, vulpine smile, and softly say ‘Yes, it’s the Master, small child.’

And there would be a little sharp intake of breath and the kid would disappear entirely behind Mum’s legs.

He always enjoyed thinking of the little thrill of pure terror and wonder he had thrown into their lives – and after all, no permanent psychological harm was done, since after a few days when the world wasn’t destroyed, they would have concluded that the Doctor turned up and discreetly took care of things, so everything was all right.

And, at least until they grew up enough to realise that they’d just seen an actor and he was having a bit of fun with them, they got to believe, no, to know for certain that everything they saw on Doctor Who was true.

heheheee

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