Mr. Slightly Damp Gets Spiked

Late 20s - she/they - Discworld side blog - AnkhMorporkBoneZone on AO3 where I almost exclusively write about Moist von Lipwig getting pegged 🐢

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Discworld - A‘Tuin

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Discworld Heritage Post

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"shall i tell you about angels, Mr Lipwig?"

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stills + frames i didnt use

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Oh for god's sake—

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I had to pause the audiobook and physically walk away from this one

[eelisavi]

i fr can't pass by a dynamic between a cool unhinged threatening woman and a chaotic little silly freak of a man <3

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[haveyoureadthisqueerbook]

Have you read Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett (2003)?

YES

NO

Voting ended onFeb 9, 2025

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THE LADS!!!

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Discworld Heritage Post

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Guards! Guards!

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Discworld Heritage Post

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Love love love characters that present themselves as emotionally open social butterflies but the more you see of them the more obvious it is that they’re the most closed off fuckers in the story. Sure, they want to help you with your personal problems and messy emotions, but if you turn that shit back on them, they’ll shut down or deflect every time. Why are you sticking your nose in their business anyway? It’s not like it matters. They’re not a person, they’re just a role being played. They’re the guy who fixes things and saves people. Please ignore the man behind the mask, he’s fine. Everything’s fine.

[takofukkatsumi]

I love Nobby Nobbs so much. He was a street urchin. He was briefly an earl. He is a drag queen. He is a looter and a weapons maniac. He carries around a paper to prove he is human. He is smarter than he looks. He is still a dummy. He once dated a gorgeous stripper because no one else approached her. He dumped her because she couldn't cook. He has a goblin girlfriend whose friends think he is too good for her. Everyone outside the Watch thinks he is a werewolf. He is the character of all time.

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Discworld Heritage Post

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Rincewind vs Eva Birdman Jarthur

Rince!!!

Jarth!!!

Voting ended onJan 5, 2025

Art Battle Masterpost

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Will Wood vs Moist Von Lipwig

Will !!!

Moist !!!!

Voting ended onJan 5, 2025

Art Battle Masterpost

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I recently reread monstrous regiment and tonker and lofty have been on my mind since

quote is from wild blue yonder by the amazing devil

[thestuffedalligator]

What I like about Pratchett’s mysteries — because Pterry could write a good mystery and I stand by that — is that they’re almost never whodunnits.

Because we — and usually the characters — know instantly whodunnit. It’s the smug bastard who smiles too much and is dramatically diabolical all the time. We know from the beginning of Feet of Clay that Dragon King of Arms is somehow responsible for the death of Father Tubelcek and Vetinari’s poisoning. We know that the werewolves are somehow behind the disappearance of the Scone of Stone. We see Teatime get hired to kill the Hogfather.

So because whodunnit isn’t a question, the mystery is finding out how they dunnit. The really interesting thing about Hogfather is that in the original book, the method of how Teatime is trying to kill the Hogfather is a twist that shows up late in the book (which was kinda lost in the movie, which as a visual medium couldn’t fall back on the trick of hiding the murder weapon outside of the narration).

And I find this to be sort of like the Columbo “howcatchem” structure. Discworld mysteries are “howdunnit.” “I know you dunnit and once I figure out how ooo you’re in trouble.”

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