Do you guys ever think about how Vetinari believes that all people are inherently evil, but then he does things like:
Giving people others would deem irredeemable second chances (Lipwig, the other thief too, he even regretted the death of Lupine Wonse, the guy who summoned a dragon and tried to kill him); spends time with ppl who see only the good in everything (Carrot, Leonard); treats and values ppl like individuals and actually cares about them (that scene in Jingo where he tells Vimes that it’s good that people didn’t get killed in the war).
So I thought,
What if he doesn’t want to believe that everyone is evil. What if he had arrived to that conclusion just from his actual life experience with the assassins and guild leaders, because that’s all he had seen other people do. But he tries to spend time with good people and give criminals second chances because he wants to be proven wrong. To be proven that his philosophy is actually wrong and “there is some good in the world and it’s worth fighting for.”
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You’re not alone. There are at least two of us
reblog if you’re a writer who feels guilt whenever they’re not writing and being productive, so I know I’m not the only one lol
you know how people say soup is round and so it's messed up to put it in a square tupperware? that's how I feel every time I see a square watch
Just saw this post & remembered how much I dislike books/shows/movies named the same as the main character because when someone asks me “do you like [name]?”, I always have to reply “the character or the work?” And also the web searches & tags & stuff are always messed up
Am I the only one getting tired of shows and movies just using the name of the main character instead of coming up with something interesting? (“Ahsoka” “Obi-Wan Kenobi” etc.)
petition to rename the ahsoka show "lesbians in space accomplishing nothing for 8 hours"
Pros:
Discworld is amazing
It’s like Tolkien but modern
You will chuckle so hard you’ll have to have to have little breaks to breathe
Small fandom so it’s easy to make friends & discuss things
Really awesome if you like series because there are 40 books
But there are actually 5+ series within that & several stand alone books so you don’t have to read all of them (although by the time you finish one series you might want to read all the rest)
The world is flat & sits on four elephants who are for some reason standing on a giant turtle and I don’t think anyone is really sure why
Easy to find a cool Discworld-related url
Range of female characters (so you know the Joss Whedon Marvel/Steven Moffat syndrome of all the main females being kickass, skinny, kickass, perfect in everyway, kickass & pretty much the same character? that syndrome is stomped into the ground, cut up into tiny pieces & mocked)
Canon lesbian characters
Some super cute tv adaptions with cameos from sir pterry himself
Deep shit reflecting on life the universe and everything, the rise and fall of political systems, the power of words, the prevalence of evil, the nature of humankind, human relationships and beliefs, and so, so much more
Super silly bits where you’re like ye gods pratchett did you really just make that pun
Ships ranging from teenage fluff to middle-aged fluff to damn hot af
Characters who oppose their society’s gender binary & nice friendly badass werewolf woman lends them dresses
Badass moments which make your insides do hoola hoops
The fucking puns
Really awesome large characters who either just don’t give a flying fuck or have to deal with fat shaming and prove that they are infinitely better, kinder, cleverer people than the fat shamers and often use their size to help them as they save lives/fight evil etc.
There’s this book called Monstrous Regiment and it’s basically 400 pages of fucking up sexism, xenophobia and gender binary
There’s a character named Adora Belle Dearheart and her partner (to clarify: she’s not his wife, he’s her husband) is called Moist what more do you want
A Christmas/winter festival book which will leave you warm and happy and philosophically questioning
Do you like funny footnotes?? So many funny footnotes
Characters getting over & challenging internalised prejudices & beliefs
Destruction of racial stereotypes
Characters call even the protagonist out on their assumption of roles which fit a white supremic system
Really good model of police/civilian relationship where the commander of police force fundamentally does not agree with the police/civilian model because “what was a policeman, if not a civilian with a uniform and a badge? once policemen stopped being civilians, the only other thing they could be was soldiers.” - or put more simply “a watchman is a civilian, you inbred streak of piss”
young teenage witches coming to terms with their own strength & power, middle-aged witches who write cooking sex books and are as kind as can be, old witches who are canonically ace/aro spectrum and never regret that for a moment and just so fucking smart
so many witches
and there are wizards, and female wizards too
Death is a character and he’s adorable and he really really likes cats and he has a granddaughter who looks after children and hits monsters with pokers and has amazing hair
Super talented fandom who do art and fics which break your heart
Very good realistic characters and protagonists which are far from perfect aka recovering alcoholic picked up out the gutter by a (6 foot) dwarf and a woman who is large and kind but perfectly capable of looking after herself and the recovering alcoholic and a garden full of swamp dragons - and the old witch? she is only a goodie because everyone else is too busy being bad - and there’s an ex con artist who spent his life ruining others’ bc he found it fun and is only now a ‘goodie’ because he’s being blackmailed - and the person in charge is a tyrant but he’s really a very reasonable one - and there’s a guy who literally just runs away from things the entire time I’m not even exaggerating that’s like the entire plot of his books he just runs away from things
Have I mentioned the puns
Cons:
There are no cons
Discworld is amazing
I will lend you the books
AotC in a nutshell
(Commission from my lord my queen my light @zuo-zz )
This is where the dragons went ...
And although the space they occupy isn’t like normal space, nevertheless they are packed in tightly. Not a cubic inch there but is filled by a claw, a talon, a scale, the tip of a tail, so the effect is like one of those trick drawings and your eyeballs eventually realize that the space between each dragon is, in fact, another dragon.
They could put you in mind of a can of sardines, if you thought sardines were huge and scaly and proud and arrogant.
-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
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