TERRY PRATCHETT'S Pyramids 📖 DISCWORLD READ-ALONG

[@wolervine]

Welcome baaaack!

[@TLBainter]

Thank you! Feels good to put something out there again!

[@domdomdominique]

Glad to see you. 😊

[@TLBainter]

Awh thank you; you too! Thanks for checking in!

[@lorenkilldeer8218]

Loved your video! This is such a good book, I haven't read it in quite a while and it was nice to re visit!

[@TLBainter]

Hey there! Thank you so much for checking it out and for the kind feedback! It had been a while for me too and it still stands out as one with a lot of meaning to me! :)

[@sarsoups]

I really like this video! I’m reading Guards! Guards! right now and I am looking forward to your video on it!

[@TLBainter]

Thank you so much, that means a great deal to hear! I'm super stoked about the Guards! Guards! video, as well. I'll see you there! :)

[@amymyers5503]

T.L. - Welcome back. It's great to see you again. Out of all the Discworld content on the youtubes, most of which inferior, you provide the highest quality analyses and engagement with your audience. You provide background information and discussion of its structure and characters that will change how I read Pyramids. You spoke about tradition and change. There's a saying "Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people," which is evident in the novel. Thank you for reading my very long comment. (I'm embarrassed and fangirling so hard right now!) I think other viewers' comments were good and insightful too. Thank you for incorporating viewer comments into your videos. You reminded me there's a lot of humor and fun stuff in the novel, especially the gods fighting like kaiju and destroying stuff. Last year, I went down a research rabbit hole looking up Djelibeybi god and their analogs in Egyptian mythology. The Djelibeybi system of hieroglyphs was also hilarious. If you chose a god/dess from the Egyptian pantheon, who would your god/dess be? Mine are Thoth and Bastet. Thoth because he created the system of writing (the bird is the word) and magic, and Bastet because she is the mamma of cats and crazy cat ladies. [P.S.: Hearing my comment read out loud made me realize I sound like and am a pretentious a-hole. I am humbled. Thank you.]

[@TLBainter]

Hi, Amy! Thank you very much, it's good to be back! I really appreciate that feedback so much, it means a lot! "Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people" is a saying I haven't heard before, I wish I had because I 100% would have included that here, it fits the themes of Pyramids so well. No trouble at all! I always know I'm going to get some interesting insight from your comments. Personally, I really love Anubis in multiple facets. Whoever first came up with him was probably exactly the sort of person I'd hang out with today (or maybe not, I guess they'd be at least a little culty by modern standards). Death, resurrection, the black-and-gold aesthetic. It's all my kinda vibe! Realistically, though, probably Ptah as the god of craftsmanship and the arts. Supposedly the creator of the cosmos, so definitely someone I could ask questions of if I need advice for my own little creations. [hahaha---well from one pretentious a-hole to another, it ain't so bad!]

[@nealsteplaws]

Great to see you’re back!

[@TLBainter]

Thanks so much! It's exciting to be back :)

[@sassysuzy4u]

Nothing wrong with referring to your notes. =]

[@TLBainter]

Haha thank you! I mainly just try to make sure it doesn't sound like I'm reading the whole time

[@LoganStargazer]

@22:30. No, Dios isn't destroyed. He's thrown back in time about 7,000 years with a bad case of amnesia. He meets Knuk's (whatever) party of nomads. He then "goes forth" to do it all again. That makes me wonder if Dios is stuck in a time-loop. He may be many millions of (subjective) years old just doing it all over again and again. That could be why he's bananas.

[@TLBainter]

Yep, you're right! My mistake; not sure why, but for some reason I had it in my head that he was essentially unmade when the pyramid was destroyed.