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Teachers Guild Practicing Anoian Follows from littletinydoom

[vectorofsins]

"You are my little lads", and I will take care of you."

Ooktober Day 17 - Upon my oath, I am not a violent man

[charlesoberonn]

Turns out you can roll a 7 on a d6

but only once.

[thebluecoyote42]

One of your players is clearly Cohen the Barbarian.

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[potato-lord-but-not]

Reread Monstrous Regiment a few months ago and forgot to show y’all my doodles of the booyyyysssssss

[junorsky]

my attempt at vetinari number 2

[artbypontpilat]

Aaah! I'm almost out of Discworld characters! I'd love to draw only them, but I have work to do... And by the way, are you interested in other drawings? Or are you just here for the Terry Pratchett art?

[powersimon]

The carrier of carriers. A tribute to Terry Pratchett

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Discworld Textposts III

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[higgsbison]

POV: Vimes about to receive another promotion absolutely unrelated to pissing off a record number of city elite all at once.

[askrobouteguilliman40k]

And the best part? The Guild of Assassins refuse to take a contract on him. He, a street kid from the slums, single handedly best the rich and elites finest trained killers.... But playing dirty and laying boobie traps.

The Lord's and ladies loath the fact they can't pay to have him killed.

And Veterinary? Loves it, he enjoys having a player on the board powerful enough to challange him, Vime's did arrest him once after all.

[marxistgnome]

Vetinari: everything I do is a carefully calculated move to keep the city running efficiently

also Vetinari: Yo drumknott I sent Vimes to uberwald this is going to be so fucking funny

[thestuffedalligator]

To be fair, you can’t carefully calculate Vimes. Vimes is a shotgun solution that you point in the general direction of a problem, and he’ll solve the problem and anything in the blast radius of that problem

The upshot of this is that he winds up getting way more done than you were expecting - “Ah, Commander. Back in one piece, I see. How did the coronation go?”

“The Low King has publicly advocated for the rights of trolls and female dwarfs, the guards of Bonk have restructured into a proper watch force, the power of the werewolf clans has been divided, and we have an excellent trade deal on fat with Uberwald.”

“…Commander?”

“Sir?”

“What the fuck”

[datsderbunnyblog]

That’s an interesting one, the parallels between Detritus’s crossbow and Vimes himself are not something I’d ever have considered otherwise. The Piecemaker/Keeper Of Thee Kinge’s Piece. Both known for leaving holes in walls.

And, most importantly, it’s Vimes who sets the boundaries on when Detritus is allowed to use the crossbow, and the same goes for his own anger. He takes responsibility for both, because he won’t allow collateral damage. I’m not sure where I’m going with this train of thought but it’s just something to think about.

[persephonbee]

Vimes has canonically forbidden Detritus from using the Piecemaker on people (and presumably also dwarves, trolls, etc). That means it’s a weapon against property, which often translates to being a weapon against power.

Sound familiar to anyone?

[whetstonefires]

i’m fairly certain the utterance ‘people and also dwarves and trolls’ would get you into some serious hot water in the late-game Ankh Morpork City Watch

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[stronglychromatictroll]

I love discworld so fucking much

[kimpossibooty]

hello sir good to meet you, i’m attorney blabbo, your court-appointed jester. let me set my briefcase down here. sorry about all the bells. your file here says you killed five men. let me juggle about this.

[charlizetheronsbush-official]

Terry Pratchett was so ahead of his time he had multiple well-written trans characters in his books in the mid-90s

[artbypontpilat]

Another Discworld character. Are you tired of them yet? What else would you like to see in the community?

[sloth-with-a-knife]

One of my favorite things about Terry Pratchett's books is their unique relationship with used bookstores. Particularly because they are difficult to find, for three reasons. The first reason is that they aren't there. Books in used bookstores were once owned by other people, people who decided to let that book go in the hopes that it will find someone new who will love it. It's very difficult to let go of a Terry Pratchett book. The second reason is that, if they make it into a store, they never stay there very long. They're usually purchased less than a few days after their arrival.

The third reason is my favorite: if they made it to the bookstore, and remained unnoticed, it's because the spine is worn. It's been read and loved so much it's almost unrecognizable from the spine. I've never found a used Terry Pratchett book without a cracked spine, and I love it. Cracked spines, stained pages, worn covers, these are the physical signs of love that we leave on our favorite books, and every Terry Pratchett book I've found in a used bookstore has been loved, dearly.

[sloth-with-a-knife]

this might be my most popular post, and I'm honored that my most popular post is a Discworld post. I love seeing how many fans there are here on tumblr, especially since I only know a few irl.

[noa-nightingale]

My sibling is learning embroidery and made this for me.

Truth! Justice! Freedom! Reasonably Priced Love! And a Hard-Boiled Egg!

The Glorious 25th of May!

[fiberartsash]

Every time I give in to despair I read a Pratchett book. Well, when one is available near me.

Because those books are full of anger at the world and the state it's in. Real, actual, barely-concealed beneath clever puns anger. It's a rage, not the pretty "i'm mad" calligraphied in the page in white ink. It's something like "I'm angry and you should be, too" scribbled in red ink over the pages.

But these books are so kind. So hopeful. And it's not mindless kindness, either. It's not "I'm kind until it's not easy or convenient to be anymore". It's actual kindness from people who are angry but turn that into fierce, deliberate, stubborn kindness. And of course you can despair but you can also turn it into anger and then the kind of fierce kindness that you can change the world with.

These books were so important for me growing up, still are. I literally wouldn't be the same person without them. And I reread Night Watch today, as one does, and the terrible fairness of Sam Vimes struck me. The world is a terrible, unfair place, he said, and I'm not participating in that. I'm not adding misery to it. I'm gonna be fair and I'm gonna be good if it kills me. (the same goes, of course, with Granny. It's about choosing to be good. It's about being good if it kills you. It's about desperately hoping and never letting go)

Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably-Priced Love and a Hard-Boiled Egg. And by gods if we aren't going to fight to get it.

[junorsky]

One very friendly watchman

[bluecontactlens]

"At this time! In this place!" 🪻🥚 Happy Glorious 25th of May to those who celebrate. GNU Terry Pratchett