Footnotes*
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The first queer character in Discworld (before all the trans characters in Monstrous Regiment) was the footnote in Jingo about Mr Harris from the Blue Cat club, whom Mrs Palm argued for admitting on the grounds that “unnatural acts is only natural, after all.” (Although it can be argued that the dwarfs are most of where Pterry puts what he says about gender: moving from transmasculine as an assumed base state to ciswomen
“Lancre’s standing[2] army[1]
[1]Shawn Ogg
[2]Except when he was lying down.”
And the extended joke about the speed of succession to the monarchy as particle physics—“kingons, or possibly queons, unless they strike an anti-particle or republicon”—“but this argument by the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle was never developed, because at this point the bar closed…”
“Lancre’s standing[2] army[1]
[1]Shawn Ogg
[2]Except when he was lying down.”
And the extended joke about the speed of succession to the monarchy as particle physics—“kingons, or possibly queons, unless they strike an anti-particle or republicon”—“but this argument by the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle was never developed, because at this point the bar closed…”
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