My tags were later copy-pasted by someone into their own reblog of that post, and made their way into the reblog stream (note that the post has nearly 400k reblogs/likes). all i can say clearly is that he did not say those exact words. january 2016: i reblogged this post and commented in the tags about how it reminded me of terry pratchett’s idea about the object of satire - again, the one i can’t source because i never wrote it down or bookmarked it. so, while i realize that this wasn’t something i could have predicted or controlled, i would like to apologize all the same. misattributing a quote to him - a quote that doesn’t even sound like it came from him - is just about the worst thing i could think of doing as a long-time reader and fan. i admire and love terry pratchett, and the discworld series was formative for me as a teenager and young adult. i realize there’s no way for anyone to control how things spread on social media, but all the same, i want to make it clear: this was not intentional. now that i found that post again, i can try to fix the situation.Ģ. you can see how going around all ‘yeah i accidentally made up a terry pratchett quote and now it got famous but i have no proof to back up my claim’ wouldn’t fly with most people. the problem is by then i’d lost track of the original post, so i had no hard evidence that my tags were the source. it first came to my attention in october 2016 when i got an ask about the origin of the quote. i’ve been aware that quote was on twitter for a while, but never realized the extent to which it had spread - for reasons i’m going to explain in a bit. i made a throwaway comment in the tags of a tumblr post, which later got picked up and reblogged, eventually hit twitter and has been thrown around social media as a legit terry pratchett quote since.īefore i move into the long version where i try to document how this happened, i want to clarify two things:ġ. it could have been an interview, or a non-fiction piece, or even a scene in one of the discworld books. terry pratchett said something to that effect somewhere that i can’t source because i didn’t stop to write it down, it’s just something that stayed with me. short version: in january 2016 i reblogged a post and commented in the tags that it reminded me of something terry pratchett said about the use of satire.
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a journey about how i unknowingly, and very much unintentionally, released a fake terry pratchett quote into the wilderness of the internet, where it’s been roaming free for nearly 3 years. Vrabia: hello friends! let me take you on a journey. November 28, 2018 4,862 notes elodieunderglass
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