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quick discworld vid

🕑 Added 2021-08-05 17:39:09 +0000 UTC

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Carl Wauer

I liked the content of this one. You had a great argument and showed it pretty well in respect to Discworld. If you like the lighter weight videos, I think it's a great format.

TheSoulJames

This one secured my patronage, thank you.

Adam Greene

I'm very glad you hammer home that trans people ARE NOT NEW. It's like the bathroom issue. Where do you think trans people have been taking a shit since the dawn of humankind, Barb? None of this is new.

Adeoxymus

Ah lol that makes sense thanks ☺️

Wesley Loving

Great video, change nothing

Ray

6’2 and 200 something pounds is a big person. a literal big fan

What's Therapy

nice vid, loved the outro

Ash Rose

This is a fun one but has a couple of problems with scope (transphobes never think they have opened a losing front and treat them actually losing the front as somehow unsporting) Ditum (not sure on pronunciation but have heard D-eye-tum and D-eet-um) herself recently linked this piece https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/feminism/2021/08/core-message-terry-pratchett-s-books-was-people-should-think-themselves in which a biographer of Pratchett hits many if the same points as you before landing on "We cannot know Pratchett’s views on the gender wars" which feels tauntingly close to self reflection until you learn it had apparently been the result of an edit https://twitter.com/20thcenturymarc/status /1422538377585377295 But gender critical twitter is like playing That One Scene from "Downfall" on a loop, hardly a surprise they are ordering about phantom arguments in the "trans debate".

SirVival

I second this opinion :)

SirVival

From the Novel "The amazing Maurice and his educated Rodents": 'I want to see lots of cheeky stuff. Stealing the food out of cats' bowls, pies from under the cooks' noses-' '- false teeth from out of old men's mouths-' said a small rat, who seemed to be dancing on the spot while he stood there.

John MacDonald

I can see that you were just reading it as it looks, but 'PG Wodehouse' is typically pronounced wood-house. Not that it matters either way, it's clear what you meant.

M

I'm anticipating the pivot when some GC person realises Terry Pratchett identified as a humanist, smashes that together with the words 'trans rights', and comes out with 'Terry Pratchett was actually a transhumanist, so it's a good thing he doesn't agree with us actually!!'

Adeoxymus

oh I really liked this video, now I want to go and read monstrous regiment! I don't get the big fan joke though lol :-p

Nicolai Nielsen

This and the previous were very good. I thought what I enjoyed were the length of your videos, but I now realize it was the thoroughness and accuracy. You hit that right on the nail with this super shorty. Great stuff, Shaun!

Martha

Liking the extra Shaun fix this week.

Martha

I think it is really important for you to know that PG Wodehouse was pronounced "Woodhouse." I know there will be complaints if that is wrong in the public video, even though most of your audience may not be familiar with this.

Paul Sheckarski

Okay but why does the rat have dentures?

Anastasia

This is excellent and also makes me want to go re-read Monstrous Regiment. <3 (Also I’m so glad that I’ve deleted Twitter on my phone and didn’t know this “””debate””” was a thing, because if I’d encountered it in the wild my head might have actually exploded.)

Hazel

Experimenting with the format you used to do all the time before you moved into making full length dissertations : P

Magdalena Milewska

So good, I was thankfully unaware of the conversation but you said what needed to be said, and also please feel free to make a series of in-depth queer readings of Pratchett, I would listen all day every day

Magdalena Milewska

THIS

Gene Agee

Monstrous Regiment was the first Pratchett book I read and is still my all-time favorite book. I fell in love with it before I knew I was trans and fell even more in love with it when I came to terms with who I am.

Michal Jahns

Same here <3

Johan Eriksson

Again, don’t you dare change that thumbnail.

Roenin

I've could have listen to Shaun talk about Terry Pratchett for hours

Michael Muto

Loved it!

Jacob

Experiment succesful dude. Fun vid, I'd definitely watch more like this, whether that's more on books you like or dunking on bigotted twitter posters

May Miao

Me: Shaun made a short video? This won't take long to watch. Shaun: go read a whole book or I'm gonna spoil it

Clayton

You know, I would listen to people just talk about Terry Pratchett books the way some youtubers talk about games

Andrew L Butula

This may be the first time you've recommended something to your viewers that they'll enjoy, as opposed to three hour Stephan Molyneux slogs that are still fucking up my recommendations. Great video, and it's always nice to hear about Discworld, even if the impetus was stupid transphobia.

Suzanne Schenewerk

This is rad! You might note that it’s also weird to tell Gaiman that trans issues weren’t a thing back in the day, when he himself wrote a trans woman character in A Game of You in 1993.