[merinnan]

[vindalf]

Detritus: I think dem rioters about done. Dem's all calling for a cab.

Littlebottom: They're chanting "ACAB", Detritus. It means "All Coppers Are Bastards"

Detritus: Heh. Well, they ain't wrong. I know I am, and Mister Vines would say he is.

Littlebottom: What about Carrot?

(thinking at Troll Speed)

Detritus: Well, ok. But then again... Nobby is bastard enough for two coppers.

Very precise Ahnk-Morporkian rioters: ACAOTAOBE!*

*All Coppers Average Out To Approximately One Bastard Each

[everlovingt]

Reblogged for truth. Though I do think Carrot has learned how to be a bastard by observation, as Angua observes in Jingo. Carrot knows just how to use it, an no more.

[mortispoxi]

Lord Vetinari is one of the many anonymous authors that make up the Times’s advice column. He goes under the pseudonym Mrs. Venerable and he primarily writes as a hobby but likes the catharsis of being able to help the citizens of Ankh-Morpork with their smaller life problems. The people working for the paper have no idea who the true identity of Mrs. Venerable is. All they know is that in the early mornings, letters regarding questions asked by readers the day before are dropped off in a sealed envelope without name or address. Readers of the Times hold Mrs. Venerable in high regard because her answers are always tactful and even comedic in nature. Questions involving how to deal with a terrible spouse get responses from Mrs. Venerable that usually include the phrase, if you don’t divorce them I will start the proceedings for you. 

[datsderbunnyblog]

#vetinari opens up the paper and starts reading some of the questions that he could answer #the paper: i think i have a crush on an important public figure. how do i get over it? #vetinari: nope not touching that one…

[mortispoxi]

@scent-ofbooks brought up a really good point in the tags that if someone suspected Vetinari no one would believe them which got me thinking. William de Worde was absolutely invested in finding out the identity of Mrs. Venerable and tried multiple times to track the mysterious delivery person who dropped off her letters. Sacharissa was dead set against the idea since she felt that William might scare her off from writing and they would lose the growing fanbase she brought in to the advice section of the newspaper. Despite her protests, he still tries his best to solve the mystery of who Mrs. Venerable really is. 

[datsderbunnyblog]

I’ve also just got the image of Nobby and the gang coming up with questions for Mrs Venerable, and Vimes walks in on them one day and they’re all huddled around the paper reading the response aloud in Pseudopolis Yard.

It starts out as a joke, but eventually it gets to the stage where Lord Havelock Vetinari, Provost of the Guild of Assassins and Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, is giving Nobby Nobbs anonymous advice on his love life.

[mortispoxi]

They even tried to convince Angua to help them out at the beginning of their informal investigation. Nobby comes up to her during her break holding the envelope William gave to them as evidence in his grubby hands and asks if she could sniff this real quick. She stares down at the envelope for a couple seconds before retorting that she’s not gonna fall for that trick again. Angua could easily figure out who the envelope might belong to but once you fall for Nobby’s “here smell this,” prank you don’t fall for it again. So they were left to their own devices to figure out who in the world Mrs. Venerable could be. 

[scent-ofbooks-deactivated202201]

Why does it sound so canonically???

[mortispoxi]

@scent-ofbooks because it’s canonical in our heart. 

Vimes had a hard time getting Nobby and the others to get back to work since they were all super invested in this case. He arrived at the patrician’s office more frustrated than usual which Vetinari picked up on immediately. Before he dismissed him, Vetinari asks the Commander what was on his mind and Vimes proceeds to tell him the whole business involving the ongoing investigator to discover the true identity of some Times writer. Vetinari had to sit there and try not to smile as he went on and on about how everyone was making a big deal over finding this “Mrs. Venerable,” who clearly wasn’t making it easy to be found. 

[elidyce]

Moist Von Lipwig has no idea who ‘Mrs Venerable’ is but he likes her style, and entertains himself by pretending to be her when it suits him. Adora Belle has no interest in the newspaper advice column, which almost never contains technical specifications, but she enjoys Shenanigans and thus backs up Moist’s spurious claims. 

Lady Sybil, who’s known Vetinari for most of their lives, has a shrewd suspicion but never tries to confirm it. Dear Havelock deserves a nice hobby he can enjoy in private and she wouldn’t want to spoil it. Now and then she writes in a question, say, about managing a husband who, while a wonderful man, can sometimes be a bit too involved in his work. Vetinari, who knows her handwriting, nearly laughed himself sick writing the response.

[discworld-heritage-posts]

Discworld Heritage Post

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

Vetinari: You see, Mister Lipwig, I am Mrs. Venerable. I write the column for mental fitness and fun.

Moist: Why are you telling me this?

Vetinari: Because no one will ever believe you.

Moist: You sick son of a bitch.

[kinjedl]

Of all of the random fan-plots, this is probably the one I could most see Sir PTerry actually including in a book.

[mortispoxi]

@annethecatdetective I adore this because a) I’m a Drumknott enjoyer and love adding him to the narrative whenever I can, and b) it fits so well into the storyline I had going in the tags when I originally wrote this post

Because Vetinari would undoubtedly employ a variety of different methods for how and who is delivering his responses to The Times to keep playing his little game of cat and mouse with De Worde.

The thought of Drumknott being among the ones chosen, whether they’re aware of the contents or not, to drop off the envelope has me cackling though. Drumknott is more than capable of doing this without incident. If he wasn’t the patrician wouldn’t have dreamed of sending him out in the first place. But the entire operation hinges on his ability to walk in and out of the room completely undetected. Even a troll would put two and two together if Drumknott were to somehow get caught smuggling something in without a word to anyone because it would be like a flashing neon sign screaming that Mrs. Venerable *is* Havelock Vetinari. Granted, the man carries office supplies wherever he goes, so to the inattentive observer it would not raise suspicions since it looks like any normal drop-off. However, when Williams wants to get to the bottom of something, nothing is going to stop him from looking for clues even in the seemingly mundane. Anyone carrying in letters, envelopes, packages, and other office supplies could be a suspect, thus it’s imperative that Drumknott’s little “heists,” on the occasion he is the one making the delivery, must go extra unnoticed no matter how good he is at doing so.

Therefore, I can picture the first time Vetinari asked him to drop off this seemingly ordinary manila envelope to The Times without alerting anyone to his presence was also the day The Lady smiled upon little Rufus Drumknott because when he showed up he walked smack-dab into a particularly heated argument between William and Sacharissa over whether it was time to leave well enough alone and stop looking into Mrs Venerable. No one noticed this man, who seemed to be doubly silent and swift footed today, wander into the background of this ongoing chaos to place an envelope on an unoccupied desk, then exit without a sound.

[datsderbunnyblog]

#vetinari when someone keeps writing in but wont divorce her spouse and hes on his last nerve: i know an assassin. please just do something. (via @rabb-te)

Vetinari gets so frustrated that he actually considers revealing his identity just so that he can personally grant the divorce himself

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

one of the deans in beijing dance academy rehearses with students

[mondengel2]

#he's so good damn#obvs he doesn't have the same athleticism as the students#but he's so much more in control of his body#he moves much more self assuredly#and doesn't exaggerate the way the more inexperienced ones do#he knows exactly what to do and how to do it naturally#wow

[crazy-pages]

Oh so that's what books mean when they talk about seeing a swordperson or a martial artist move and immediately knowing you're fucked. If I saw someone handle a weapon or switch martial art stances that smoothly and with that economy of motion, I would immediately know I was going to die.

[ruffboi-mags]

And in his DRESS SHOES.

[glassesmcfancyhair]

One of my favorite things in the whole world will always be watching someone do something they’re an expert in.

[notesbyash]

think that everyone has their own personal theme in life

[notesbyash]

every nolan film is about time. it winds its way through his filmography; it is fractured in memento, distorted in inception, expanded in interstellar, reversed in tenet.

every hopper painting is about stillness. it is found in every brushstroke; at dusk in automat, at dawn in morning sun, at noon in office in a small city, at night in nighthawks.

i have a friend who orbits ideas of power, another who delights in the prosaic and the plain. one weaves around systems and structures, another returns always to wonder at the sea.

there are other elements of course - our lives cannot be measured by single concepts no matter how large they may be - but time and again i think we return to the things that fascinate, the things that intrigue, the things we cannot quite tear ourselves away from. the themes of our lives.

[velinxi]

Wedding night

(Part 1) (Part 2)

[hp-mineccraft]

I think Vetinari's rats should have a Vimes-equivalent. Like, Vimes leaves the office after having an argument with Vetinari, and then five minutes a rat with a giant fuckass cigar comes out and has the exact same argument with him.

[duckmeat-woohoo]

We're being followed by a mysterious mustachio'd man!

[guzhufuren]

250609 ATEEZ Yeosang, cr. hugging_99

[sealsdaily]

Today's Seal Is: Making Contact With An Unknown Beast

[mugwomps]

I have never seen "wtf" so clearly expressed on an animals face

[aliciabenissa]

He looks so fucking upset I can't breathe

[asparrowdraws]

Gaming Dice.

I learned a lot about edges and light and color relationships here.

[greywolfheirs]

PAINTING!!! THIS IS A PAINTING

[sensoryscorpio]

CHAT THIS IS A PAINTING!!!

[almaignismare]

I went over this post twice before realising. I was like "oh it's just set up like a still life painting, right". NO IT'S FUCKING NOT!

[alivehouse]

fun fact about me is that when i was a kid id write capital E’s with as many of those little horizontal lines as possible and id call them ladder E’s and adults fucking hated them

[alivehouse]

artistic rendition

[ceekari]

All capital letters should have a leveled-up form

So far I’ve got

ladder letters: A, E, F, H, T

humpback B’s and P’s get as many bumps as you think they need

circle O’s, you just keep spiraling in til you feel like you’ve made your point

tree letters branch into smaller versions of themselves ad nauseum: X, Y

spider Q’s, so many legs

Please add your own unsettling godtier capitals!

[catgirltoes]

New alphabet dropped!

[ceekari]

oh my god, it’s beautiful

(future handwritten notes are gonna be so wonderfully cursed now, thank you! :D )

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

well it’s going to take some getting used to, @ceekari (don’t mind the redacted letter between T and U)

But I think i’ve taken a real shine to it! 

[modmad]

recursive

[arkaine-spell]

So i may have done a thing in an insomnia fueled jaunt into insanity.

find an .otf of the font here

[idlnmclean]

This is how new alphabets get invented.

[varrusgraves]

@vague-magnus-archives

[whyrobot]

@avatar-of-the-blank it’s your official font

[avatar-of-the-blank]

THIS IS MY DEFAULT FONT FOR MY PC ACTUALLY.

[randompajamaalt]

I’m so tempted to start genuinely writing with this

[sleepy-bebby]

[mommyhorror]

”you are a lawyer he is a hamster” 😭😭😭😭

[biglawbear]

Losing my mind rn

[jackoshadows]

[unclefather]

I am going to fucking frow up

[melodyburst]

When the zoo orders a new worm but they give you an otter instead and you gotta improvise………….

[heroicallynude]

My two yr old is looking through a book about prehistoric art and she saw a picture of those cave painting of hands and she held up her own and said "hand!" And I gotta be honest. That hit

[im-da-bronx]

Oh my god, this reminds me of the childrens garden of our local botanical garden. There’s one section that’s called the prehistoric lives garden or smth, and it’s full of native plants that indigenous people 2000 years ago would have eaten and used as medicine, etc. And within this little garden, there’s an adobe style playhouse, which for some reason (probably lighting reasons) has no roof, which means the rusty red dirt floor is often quite muddy.

And this series of events has led to my favorite interactive art piece ever.

Handprints.

Little tiny handprints at the bottom. Big teenager and adult sized handprints at the top. Handprints upon handprints upon handprints, a modern day continuation of an ancient tradition.

Most of the people who contributed were probably doing so because they thought it would be fun, not for any deep philosophical reason. Heck, you can tell based on the height of the larger handprints that their owners were having a jumping competition. They didn’t think about the fact that they were creating art in the exact same way the earliest humans created art. They didn’t think about the fact that humans have always been and will always be humans, and the ways we interact with each other and the world have always stayed the same in the most important ways.

But I did. I thought about it. And I am in love with humanity all over again.

[heroicallynude]

[midwinterhunt]

hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

[narrettwist]

Homie gonna share this

[animatejournal]

Discworld: Wyrd Sisters Director: Jean Flynn | Studio: Cosgrove Hall | UK, 1997

[touhouweed]

It genuinely upsets me that there are people who call this animation and voice acting bad, there’s so much heart and soul on display in just this clip alone

[handsometabbyc]

At first glance: ‘lol this is going to be one of those hilariously cheap animations’

30 seconds in: ‘…Oh my god this is fantastic’

[dizzyhslightlyvoided]

“WHO DARES TO INVOKE WXRTHLTL-JWLPKLZ?” “Where were you when the vowels were bein’ handed out, behind the door??”

[warmchrysanthemum]

It’s even on youtube, the whole movie, free:

Wyrd Sisters - A Discworld animated movie (FULL)

Soul Music: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqJa0gUZrDbu5ZPwAENx0ScdkjnP1vLKzDiscworld and Terry Pratchett playlist: https://www.yout

[ventrue-in-control]

[shaaknaa]

I recently looked into the history of Hawaiian/Aloha shirts. Turns out the first ones were made by Japanese immigrants using Kimono Fabric. They've evolved since then, but I personally think it explains a lot.