In the eight part of\u00c2\u00a0Hogfather<\/i>, Susan makes a discovery. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read\u00c2\u00a0Discworld<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mr. Crumley<\/b><\/p>\n
I would feel bad about his predicament, except I am so amused by Death\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new role. Plus, Pratchett does an amazing thing by turning Crumley\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s logic on its head through Corporal Nobbs, who goes through a bit of chaos himself. The \u00e2\u20ac\u0153crime\u00e2\u20ac\u009d being committed by Death is less of a crime and more of an inconvenience because he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s giving away\u00c2\u00a0exactly<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0what these kids want. How can Crumley ever compete with\u00c2\u00a0that<\/i>? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lot of fun watching Crumley squirm his way through a conversation with Nobbs, since he can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t truly admit the reason why he wants the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153impostor\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Hogfather removed.<\/p>\n
But then Pratchett takes it a step further: Nobby\u00c2\u00a0HATES<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0Hogswatch, so much so that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s determined to find a way to help out Crumley (and perhaps get a little something on the side, of course). YET WHO CAN RESIST THE CHARMS AND WILES OF DEATH? No one, and I thought it was pretty damn cool to see Death\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s development as the Hogfather thus far. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gotten so good at it! Thus, when Nobby tries to do his best to trick Death, he is instead completely taken in by the Hogfather. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s beautiful, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. BEAUTIFUL. He gets a crossbow!!!<\/p>\n
Susan and the Wizards<\/b><\/p>\n
My new band name, friends.<\/p>\n
Susan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s consultation with the wizards produced a result that truly shocked me. I was a bit confused by how much time was spent on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153curing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the hangover that the Oh God of Hangovers, but as this section moved towards that new reveal, it started making a lot more sense. What if this god could provide insight on how it came to be? Even better, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a long scene where Susan debates cures as the wizards debate amongst each other, all certain that they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got the best treatment for a hangover. (Which I read as a joke on a very real phenomenon: everyone I know swears they have a foolproof way of getting rid of a hangover. I am glad I do not drink and thus never have to deal with them anymore. I only had one of them in my life, and NO THANK YOU.) It leads to the brilliantly foolish idea of MIXING ALL OF THEM TOGETHER AT ONCE.<\/p>\n
As you do. And you must add Wow-Wow Sauce, which I kind of want to try? That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a mistake, I know it, but I DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T KNOW IF YOU KNOW THIS, BUT MAKING VERY PUBLIC MISTAKES IS KIND OF MY JAM. All of these ridiculous cures are poured in a beaker, which reacts with a flash of white light, a couple tinkles, and a fizz, and Bilious, ever the sport, decides to actually drink this monstrosity. Look, what else was he going to do??? So I understood by the end of this section\u00c2\u00a0why<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0Pratchett had spent such a huge block of text focusing on just one solution. The glimpse into the world of the God of Wine was a hint towards what this potion would do, and lord, I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ready.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oh, look, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s obvious,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Susan. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153When the God of Wine drinks, Bilious here gets the aftereffects, so when the God of Hangovers drinks a hangover cure, then the effects must jump back across the same link.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Which makes this a story about VENGEANCE. Because this poor god \u00e2\u20ac\u201c who has only been around for a very short amount of time \u00e2\u20ac\u201c has been on the receiving end of every painful repercussion of the God of Wine, AND NOW HE CAN GET HIS REVENGE. Yet that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not the point of this character; Susan still wanted information. But how can a being provide that kind of information of they were just incarnated into a human body? This part particularly broke my brain:<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Odd, that. I remember always having headaches\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 but never having a head. That can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be right, can it?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n GOOD LORD. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in this moment that Pratchett reveals a little bit of what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going on. The wizards joke about Ridcully creating this god out of nothing, someone makes a joke about a Hair Loss Fairy, and then GLINGLE. There it is. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s real.\u00c2\u00a0THE WIZARDS ARE CREATING GODS JUST BY THINKING THEM INTO EXISTENCE<\/b>. But\u00c2\u00a0how<\/i>? And why? Are they part of something bigger???\u00c2\u00a0 Oh my god, they created a fairy for missing socks. OH MY GOD, THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get what this has to do with the Hogfather, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m excited nonetheless.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7sMILpN7mt0<\/p>\n Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n – I am now on Patreon<\/a>! There are various levels of support, from $1 up to whatever you want! You’ll get to read a private blog, extra reviews, and other such rewards.<\/b> In the eight part of\u00c2\u00a0Hogfather, Susan makes a discovery. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read\u00c2\u00a0Discworld.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[451],"tags":[519,463,248],"class_list":["post-3932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discworld","tag-hogfather","tag-mark-reads-discworld","tag-terry-pratchett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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