guide to misunderstanding people

multifandom wallflower // 25+

[world-beauty]

IC 342: The Hidden Galaxy

Credits: Arturas Medvedevas

[maxchumbert]

☀️☀️☀️

[maxchumbert]

[si3art]

Baldurs Gate 3 girlies~ ^^🫶🏻💕

[voydhymn]

having many trinkets and books is so cool and fun until you realize you have to dust them

[marwyn]

Is your first name canon in asoiaf

Yes

No

Sort of (spelled differently, etc.)

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Here’s the character list on the wiki for reference

[librarycards]

gentle

[cart-a-hearts]

Saruman tuning into the Merry and Pippin show

[writingdose]

being a writer is fun

[ethanmaldridge]

Menswear Menagerie

Clothes I'm wearing this summer

[cheerfullycatholic]

When medicine is holding the migraine back but you can still kinda feel it in the distance waiting to return

[phantastische-illustrationen]

'Autumn Evening', 1893 (Franz von Stuck)

[thecollectibles]

Virgo by Artem Chebokha

[a-book-of-creatures]

The illusion of choice

[targetedknowledge]

[ah0yh0y]

havelock is the most perfect first name for vetinari actually

[trambrosia]

What do you like about it? I've always felt like there's something I don't get

[animate-mush]

I know "Vetinari" is a play on "Medici" but I don't know the specific joke being made with Havelock. Have Lock? Have a lock? It seems like there should be something there but I don't know what it is.

That said I agree with OP that it does seem to fit him on the level of vibes/mouthfeel - it's got that old timey feel while not being a name anyone else has, and the consonants have like... very clean lines to them. (Contrast "Mustrum" which is equally old timey but is nothing but sonorants - it sounds like a noise you would make into your mustache, you know?)

Who's Václav Havel? I could see something maybe with clav ~ key ~ lock?? But that might be a stretch. Most of Pratchett's puns are purely phonetic - Dunmanifestin or Djelibeybi or Didjabringabeeralong,although Cassanunda has a bit of a semantic component as well, and there are of course the Selachiis and the Venturis, which ate a translation pun

[n3cropants]

i've always figured there's no particular reference or gag, it's just an unusual name that pterry wanted to use. kinda like how some discworld characters like angua have completely made-up names

although i kinda feel like it makes him sort of spiritual siblings with sherlock holmes

but it goes nicely with his surname cuz it adds some internal alliteration, and it feels like an unusual name without being overly showy, and it's sort of unexpected cuz honestly you'd have expected something medici-related, right? i like the combo of a northern european first name & italian-esque pun surname

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