Midnight Pals: Jokey Japes (Patreon)

[at unicorn fuck club]
Terry Pratchett: I call it the story of the wacky fantasy world that’s funny
Pratchett: I hope you’re all ready for some jolly jokes and japes
Pratchett: but also
Pratchett: if you’re not careful
Pratchett: you just might learn something

JRR Tolkien: oh wonderful, I could use a good laugh!
Pratchett: what if there was a fantasy world that was funny
Tolkien:
Pratchett: in a quintessentially British way
Tolkien: hahahahah!!!!!

Pratchett: there’s a funny wizard who’s scared of things
Pratchett: also some silly witches
Pratchett: one of which is a horny grandma

Pratchett: uh oh the horny grandma has a sexual thought
Pratchett: I’m going to obliquely describe it for about 8 pages
Pratchett: “er, um, er, that is to say, er, um”
Tolkien: ha ha stop it! Stop it! You’re killing me!
GRR Martin: haah it’s like the third person omniscient narrator is embarrassed! Haha!

Pratchett: what if a wizard was bad at his job
Tolkien: hahahaa!!!
Tolkien: it’s true! It’s true!!
Tolkien: [slapping knee, howling with mirth] fantasy is so lame!!!

Pratchett: but these jokes are about more than just fantasy
Pratchett: if you look closely
Practhett: you just might notice
Pratchett: that deep down
Pratchett: they’re about us
Tolkien: hahah-
Tolkien: what

Pratchett: it’s true
Pratchett: these jokes aren’t just about genre tropes
Pratchett: they’re about how the real world works
Pratchett: similar to how in your story Sauron is an allegory for the evils of industrial-
Tolkien: how dare you
Tolkien: how fucking dare you