Im not blond:(

She/Her

[cephalopod-celabrator]

I think it's really funny that reading the discworld witch books (at least the ones that are Weatherwax+Ogg+Magrat), Granny immediately seems like the scariest one by far. She seems like a terrifying force of nature accompanied by a jovial old grandma and an insecure young woman. But as the series progress, the times when Granny holds back and Nanny and Magrat jovially engage in brutal physical violence add up. Now I'm not saying you *shouldn't* be scared of Granny, I'm just saying that she has a rather strong conscience in her way, whereas Magrat and Nanny will both sucker punch you, kick you between the legs and happily step over your groaning body. Granny is to be feared, but Nanny doesn't fight fair and Magrat will kill a motherfucker. Terry Pratchett really knew how to write female characters.

[oma-goodness]

Too right to stay in the tags

[cakesandfail]

I also think, like... it's very sweet that whenever Vetinari is, shall we say, not feeling 100%, he likes to just have a chat with whoever's keeping an eye on him at the time. Ah, V- oh NOT Vimes, okay, and you are? Wonderful! Do you like being in the Watch? Well done. Who's that over there doing the shouting? Very good! This all seems in order, if you don't mind too much I'd like to be unconscious again now. Please let everyone know I'm not dead yet. Sorry about the carpet. Thank you so much.

[cakesandfail]

The thing about this is, it's indicative of his actual character, rather than the Tyrant Persona or the general vibe he lets people assume about himself when they're working off of limited information. When he's hurt, or ill, or under the influence- whatever state he's in at the time where he physically cannot keep the evil dictator thing going- he's just cheerfully weird and very polite, and interested in other people. Ultimately I think these little unguarded moments do a lot to explain why he's doing this job in the first place, and what he might be like if he didn't feel like he had to be doing it.

[cakesandfail]

(tags via @n3cropants)

YEAH THOUGH

They are very similar in a lot of ways and I don't think it's just me reading too much into it- they're friends, right? They've got to be friends for a reason, and if Sybil is calling him Havelock as early as Men at Arms then they've obviously been friends since before Sam came along. And I don't think Sybil would be actual, proper friends, on first-name terms, with someone whose Aloof Scary Tyrant persona was real. She sees the best in people and I think 'politely whimsical nerd who Cares A Lot' Vetinari is probably what she's seeing.

[monsterblogging]

Bet there's a lot of toxic old man yaoi at the Unseen University

[oh-good]

Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett is good because all gentle women who are treated like doormats should be allowed to raid an armory and the go absolutely berserk on some bitches

[uptownthots]

crazy how many people legitimately don't think misogyny is like an actual form of bigotry lmfao

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

People will be so mean to teenagers do you literally not remember what it was like to be sixteen. Every time I talk to a teenager I feel I should hold their hands and tell them I think they're one of the bravest people on the planet just for choosing to endure but I don't because I don't want to be creepy.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Bedtime should work like in computer games where I lie down and click "yes" on a menu and then there's an eight hour timeskip and I can get up again all refreshed.

[redstonedust]

normalize being dogshit amateur at your special interests and hyperfocuses. no more autistic savants. yes i am very into that topic no i am not good at it. we exist <3

[deepspacescully]

[starberry-cupcake]

gotta give it to riker, the man looks at her the way she deserves to be looked at

[cowboyspones]

being So Normal abt will riker and deanna troi

[overseer-picard]

Violating Starfleet bridge protocol with Momma

[plank-flankered]

This is a pro Wesley account

[goldenleopard34335]

I know Rincewind's a professor only in name, but I like to think that he still holds classes and teaches about the places he's been to and how to effectively escape them. Running Away 101.

Only, like, ten kids attend them, seven of which are losers who want a quiet place where they won't be bothered and don't have to actually study, one is a nerd who attends all the classes, one is a guy who accidentally tunred himself into a dormouse, and one is a spell pratice dummy who was mistakenly given student status which hasn't been revoked yet.

His favorite is the dummy. It doesn't interrupt with questions like 'so what happened after you escaped the dungeon dimensions?' That's none of your business. That period doesn't exist, I don't know what you're talking about.

[averycleverpuniwillthinkoflater]

Crazy how Rincewind is canonically the descendant of Odysseus (or Lavaeolus on the disc) is almost never brought up.

Being dragged along on by the winds of fate and put narrowly escaping death is an old family tradition

[alwayshypedforhalloween]

Rincewind is not so much doomed by the narrative as doomed to be part of the narrative at all. He does not want to be in these books. Let him out

[cephalopod-celabrator]

One of the best things about discworld is that the whole thing is just a giant genre tug-of-war, and genre shifts are sometimes very dangerous. Get too much magic in a place? Well, then it shifts from funny ironic fantasy to full on major high fantasy, which sounds fun until you realize that high fantasy has dragons and otherworldly monsters. A fairy godmother makes everything fairytale, but the sheer force of cliches sort of eliminates free will. A pair of skilled killers come to the city hoping to take it by the shorthairs, but keep on getting traumatized by the various monsters that are just around. There's a politician very aware of how the story keeps dangerously veering into lovecraftian horror. The elves from fairyland actually turn the genre into alien horror, not whimsical fantasy. I know people say that "discworld is sci-fi in fantasy clothes" and that has a lot of truth to it, but that shortchanges the constantly shifting barroom brawl of genres that is the discworld.