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thecommonchick

Same sis, same

prozdvoices

my cat

roboco-san

I just saw somebody express disappointment that the new Watch show is intended to be “modern and inclusive”

buddy. friend. pal. half the goddamn series is about Vimes unlearning his prejudices and the other half is about Vimes’s extreme dislike of people who abuse their power. if anything I’m willing to bet they’ll tone it down out of cowardice

roboco-san

Samuel Vimes is the embodiment of “always punch up, never down” and if you missed that I’m not even sure we read the same books

asymbina

I reserve the right to bludgeon anyone who complains about this with hardcover copies of Monstrous Regiment and Snuff.

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

Anyone who complains about the show being inclusive is going to get a visit from the ghost of Terry Pratchett, who is going to beat the stuffing out of them

obaewankenope

@maawi

questbedhead

hello it’s dumb taz headcannon o’clock: about 1/5 of the planes the ipre visited had a type of berry that was identical to raspberries in every way except for the fact that the twins were deathly fucking allergic to them

it was a big ole production when they first encountered em but after a century they just learned to carry a fantasy epipen until someone felt up to playing Raspberry Roulette and it wasn’t a big deal… except when lucretia was halfway through editing the journals she realized she couldn’t remember if this was a Gaspberry plane and she didn’t know how to ask taako without seeming suspicious

so in the end she just went ‘fuck it’ and edited out everything but one memory of a bad reaction so taako would assume he’d always been allergic, and it stuck so hard that even after the second inoculation he was p much convinced they couldn’t eat raspberries

the upshot is post-finale lup and taako got into a three hour argument on weather or not they were actually allergic that ended when lup scarfed an entire thing of raspberries in under a minute and almost wrecked her brand new body because it turned out this was, in fact, a Gaspberry plane

questbedhead

@thatsdelightful

Dumb headcanon o'clock is my favorite time of day and I want more

the reason no one could remember if it was a Gaspberry plane is because they were all to busy with relics of mass destruction to care about the raspberry sitch, and so never bothered checking, and so forgot they never bothered checking in the intervening 12 years

the only person who actually remembered they hadn’t checked was Barry, but since the likelihood of any given member of the ipre communicating with their crewmates effectively and in a timely manner is roughly the same as the likelihood of the twins being allergic to alien raspberries, he obviously completely forgot to mention it

this at least partially explains why his only comment while walking into his kitchen to stab his shrieking, dying wife with a makeshift fantasy epipen was ‘Woof, looks like somebody lost Raspberry Roulette, huh? :) ”

protect-and-love-animals

The funny cats histories

d3monicas

cats are so beautiful and loving…. when they paw at you and ask u to pet them.. when they purr and close their eyes in content… a warm loaf … when they knead on you… thinking YOU are the bread… stupid… they are the bread… i love cats… so much….

ocherumber

What were once beautiful succulent children are now just some real crispy boys.

bixbiboom

And he continues to be too good for us all.

maureen2musings

knitmeapony

I love this sewing tin pin so much. By @nautikalmiles

jumpingjacktrash

#i need this#like burning#the Cookie Tin of Disappointment

i think you mean the cookie tin of fun! signed, a child who liked buttons more than shortbread

vladtheunfollower

i-chew-on-pushpins

kittens are so fucking stupid & i love them

hellenhighwater

thats not stupid, that’s The Dream

heartsnbruises

tired: breakfast in bed.

Wired: Breakfast IS bed.

marisatomay

I don’t wanna name an actual author so let’s just make one up; let’s call her ‘JK Rowling.’ So I’ll fall in love with this author’s work and I’ll ask her, ‘Can we have some happiness?’ And she’ll go, ‘No. They all end up straight or dead.’ And I go, ‘Okaaay!’ And then I go to the bathroom. Then I come out of the bathroom and I go, ‘How about a sequel?’ and she goes ‘Ha, you get one (1) weird play. Now take this shitty play that paints everyone you loved as super out of character and leaves you feeling queerbaited, go fetch!’ And I go ‘Okaaay!’ and I go over to Pottermore and go, ‘Can I have anything please?’ and they go ‘NO!’ And I go ‘Okaaay!’ And they go, ‘Everything JKR does is good because she considers herself a feminist!’ And I go ‘Nooo,’ and they go ‘SAY IT!’ and I go ‘Everything JKR does is good because she considers herself a feminist.’ And then I go over to look at the diversity and representation in Harry Potter, which is an oxymoron, and I go, ‘Can we please have an openly gay character?’ and they go ‘No! In fact, we’re not even going to mention the sexuality of the one (1) gay character we revealed to be gay post canon despite his central roll in the new movie series that we’re pushing at you! And we’re going to support a man who beat his wife instead of listening to the scores of fans who feel hurt and alienated by our decisions!’ And I go ‘Why are you doing this?!’ And they go, ‘Because we’re JK Rowling and Warner Bros, and life is a fucking nightmare!’

why-is-it-always-autumn

It’s a tradition in the Bureau of Balance to haze new members by getting them to challenge Davenport to strategy games and then watching him annihilate them. Davenport seems to like it, and it’s hilarious to watch this goofy little gnome utterly destroy any sense of ego these newbies have. Sometimes there are accusations of cheating or rigging the game going around, but no, he really is that good.

Obviously, someone tries to pull this on the new reclaimers. Taako folds about two rounds in and just sits there buffing his nails, and Magnus loses pretty handily, but Merle and Davenport are… weirdly well matched? Like, it’s not that Merle is better at the game than anyone else, but he doesn’t fall for any of Davenport’s usual tricks or bluffs. It’s like someone handed him a cheat sheet of all Davenport’s tells, except that Davenport is reading him right back, so within ten minutes they’re both making these bizarre moves that no one could have predicted to counter these equally strange strategies the other one is throwing out, and Magnus keeps chiming in “helpfully”, and it’s really not helpful but it does seem slightly more in tune with how Merle and Dav are playing than anything anyone else who’s watching picks up on.

It ends up lasting five hours, with Davenport victorious. “You win again, C-” Merle says, before his train of thought gets unexpectedly derailed and he forgets what he’s gonna say.

“Davenport,” says Davenport smugly. They shake hands and meet up again a week later. Everyone in the Bureau is shooketh. The Director chugs another fishbowl of fermented grape juice.

keplercryptids

hot linguistic take on Taako’s speech

I started looking into this after reading several fics featuring Taako where his speaking voice was…kind of jarring to me? Mainly in the usage of vocatives. Taako uses vocatives (my dude, homie, darling etc) but he uses them in particular ways, and they’re often very overused when people write dialogue for Taako.

Anyway, as I started researching this, it felt a little…mean-spirited? so I stopped lol. but the more I thought about it, the more I was interested in these particular quirks of Taako’s speech and how they add to his character. A bunch of you seemed interested in it too. So here I present the essay nobody asked for but some wanted after I mentioned it: Hot Linguistic Take on Taako’s Speech! Under a readmore cuz it got LONG, y’all. Buckle up.

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#this is beautifully written #and suddenly i realise why i felt so iffy about the way alot of people write Taako #10/10