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the scared bond between a fortune 500 CEO and the fairy who swore to serve him in mortal form for the rest of his life because that's what he asked for
i wonder if any NYC residents in the Gargoyles universe notice that the crazy castle on top of the David Xanatos building only has gargoyles during the day. i know it was 1994 but they had helicopters, they had binoculars. they had nosy people with long-zoom cameras. there are forever going to be architectural enthusiasts and certainly many who are fans of the manhattan skyline. do they think this weirdo takes in his giant statues at night, EVERY night? his poor staff
I love Vimes' disgust when he realizes keeping track of important bloodlines and playing with family trees isn't just a day job to Dragon, but he really sees people as cattle and is passing the centuries trying to play breeding farm according to his standards.
The disbelief and then disgust at realizing that no, he didn't try to plant Nobby like a cuckoo's egg in the path of kingship for the "expected human corruption sort of reasons" (that being that Carrot wouldn't be a complacent, morally indifferent king they could control). No, it was all really about Carrot being in a relationship with a werewolf woman and Dragon found the idea of a mix-blooded, inter-species king descendant icky.
And then Vimes thinking about how Dragon is going to get away with all of it: the plot against Vetinari because the evidence is too thin and important witnesses dead. The collateral murder of two people because the justice system will view them as too unimportant to investigate. The whole breeding eugenics thing because well...it's not a crime even though it feels like it should be a crime. Because Dragon has enough political status to be protected and besides, he's a centuries old immortal vampire. Even a stint in jail means nothing to a creature like that. What can you take away from someone like that?
And when Vimes is lighting his cigar amidst all that ancient paper and tomes and bloodline records in Dragon's office... it comes to him that maybe he can't punish Dragon in the official way of law and justice, but he can punish him by destroying his favourite toys. And if Dragon is a black ribboner as I suspect, and this was his obsession, that's a double whammy right there.
I lost it when Vetinari confirms Vimes burned down— ahem, assisted in accident that was the fire at the Royal College of Arms...or well, what remains of the Royal College of Arms.
So, I’m not religious. I don’t believe in anything in particular and I certainly don’t believe in any cosmic justice, because I don’t see how there could be any. But. Because I’ve grown up in the United States in an evangelical Christian environment, the desire for some sort of ultimate justice is still there.
That’s part of why Terry Pratchett’s worldview calls out to me so much. There’s a core of anger at the universe in there, which I understand is true to Terry’s view of the world. There should be justice. Instead, there’s just us. So do what you can. And one of the passages that lives in my head is the one where Granny Weatherwax, avatar of anger at the universe, talks about what religion would be to her.
"Right. Right. That's people for you. Now if I'd seem him, really there, really alive, it'd be in me like a fever. If I thought there was some god who really did care two hoots about people, who watched 'em like a father and cared for 'em like a mother . . . well, you wouldn't catch me sayin' things like 'there are two sides to every question' and 'we must respect other people's beliefs.' You wouldn't find me just being gen'rally nice in the hope that it'd all turn out right in the end, not if that flame was burning in me like an unforgivin' sword. And I did say burnin', Mister Oats, 'cos that's what it'd be. You say that you people don't burn folk and sacrifice people anymore, but that's what true faith would mean, y'see? Sacrificin’ your own life, one day at a time, to the flame, declarin’ the truth of it, workin’ for it, breathin’ the soul of it. That’s religion. Anything else is just . . . is just bein’ nice. And a way of keepin’ in touch with the neighbors.”
Pratchett at it again with "show, don't tell." We all know the gravity of the situation without anyone outright saying what is going on. Also less important but I feel worth at least mentioning; Granny says men have no business in women's reproductive health decisions.
"Make sure he doesn't kill the the cow. They'll need it"
This is just all-encompassing of Weatherwax. She holds the burden of judgment, she rides along the edge of light and dark like the half moon. She cares about the freaking cow. And she's practical.
"Sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That's what sin is."
"It's a lot more complicated than that --"
"No. It ain't. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, it means they're getting worried they won't like the truth. People as things, that's where it starts."
"Oh. I'm sure there are worse crimes --"
"But they starts with thinking about people like things..."
“Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world's greatest creative forces. But you had to learn how to control it. That didn't mean you let it trickle away. It meant you dammed it, carefully, let it develop a working head, let it drown whole valleys of the mind and then, just when the whole structure was about to collapse, opened a tiny pipeline at the base and let the iron-hard stream of wrath power the turbines of revenge.” - Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
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