#carcer dun

[mushroom-punk]

Good cop. Bad cop. A very happy, very belated 25th of May, for those who were there.

[justafterjericho]

Here's my discworld folder for music sheets. À la - what I did during my summer singing camp at the and of August. But hey it did wake up my artistic soul, even though not the type it was arming at xD.

[aquitainequeen]

Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett

[vonlipvig]

hey this is probably a wild ask to get but? can we see your carcer/teatime art? pretty please

not at all lmao, it might be random, but i love bastard4bastard crack ships, gotta love those two!

uh, i'm not sure why you're asking, but i haven't actually drawn them properly yet (i know i briefly mentioned them when i was rereading hogfather, but i was super busy back then and i never got around to it).

but i did draw a very quick and frankly messy doodle a couple of years ago, so i'll leave you with that for now!

(i really have to draw them again, if only because old art mortifies me lmao BUT I LOVE THEM carcer would really drive teatime up the wall ♡ hate wins)

also here's a link to the one good carcer i drew also years ago, if you wanna take a peek! (and to this date i haven't drawn such a banger background again, lol)

[bbcamerica]

Fear can be a powerful thing. 

[therealeagal]

The Watch

New series based on the Discworld books by the late Terry Pratchett. It’s primarily an adaptation of the book Guards! Guards!, with bits of the other Discworld books thrown in here and there, most notably in the character of Carcer Dun.

And yes, I did say adaptation. I don’t give a shit what Rhianna Pratchett says.

I watched the first episode, just to see what it’s all about and I quite liked it, actually.

Sam Vimes, Captain of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is dead. Death, - that is the anthropomorphic personification of (primarily human) death - shows him (and consequently us) the preceding few days leading up to his untimely demise (quite over Vimes’ objections).

While Vimes pursues a lead on a missing library book, newcomer to the Watch, one Carrot Ironfoundersson along with the rest of the Watch, a ragtag group of misfits if there ever was one, consisting of Corporal Angua von Überwald (a werewolf), Corporal Cheery Littlebottom (a dwarf) and Sergeant Detritus (a troll), investigates the illegal murder of an alchemist (this may seem redundant, but it assuredly is not).

Well, I’ll be the first to admit that it doesn’t hold a candle to Pratchett at his best, but it’s still quite good. Certainly better than the series post-Snuff.

Otherwise, as I said, I quite like it. Anyone who disagrees is A: wrong and 2: a Communist.

My only real complaint is that there’s no Fred Colon or Nobby Nobbs in sight!

[firstpuffin]

BBC America’s The Watch characters: what’s been “reimagined” pt 2

Lord Vetinari, the Patrician, “architect of the city’s normalized wrongness and ramshackle system of governance.”

Alright. I’ve had a little cry, and gone out to grab a beer. I’m ready now.

  The hardest part of about this is how it’s not technically wrong. The city’s normalised wrongness? Well, yeah, he legalised crime after-all; once he dies then the system of governance will be ramshackle as no-one else will be able to maintain it.

  I really hope this is just badly written, as the Patrician has taken all the unavoidable aspects of a city and made it work to become a positive. Unfortunately, it does look like BBC America has made Lord Vetinari less of a genius self-proclaimed tyrant and instead into either an incompetent leader, or a mob-boss.

 The- Archchancellor…? “a wizard, magical advisor, and the Head of the Unseen University.”

  So, is this Ridcully? Or just a nameless wizard? Because that does matter.

  Well, I’ve not seen a picture of James Fleet in character so we’ll see.

 Cut-me-own-Throat Dibbler, “the city’s best snitch, with a gang of freelance henchmen at her beck and call.”

  Um, why? I mean seriously, why? Sure, this works as nobody bar the beggars or Gaspode knows the going ons of the city like Dibbler, but snitch? Gang of henchmen?

  Dibbler is a hot sausage salesman with a knack for selling even his sausages (100% pig. not pork, but pig) and whose schemes for bigger business goes wrong because- well mainly because he accidentally always gets involved with the main story. But he’s harmless as long as you don’t buy his dodgy sausages.

  Surely that’s just as useful as a gang boss? And we know it is because it is in the source material.

  Can’t really comment on Ruth Madeley in the part, simply because the part sounds so generic that my beer bottle could do the job.

 Captain John Keel, “former leader of The Watch and mentor to Sam Vimes, determined to save the corrupt and chaotic city.”

  Once again, not quite accurate. Keel never rose above Sergeant-at-arms before he died, and transferred from Pseudopolis shortly before that without any apparent aspirations towards anything more than doing his job.

  I was tempted to say that Vimes pretends to be Keel in Night Watch which might be difficult with Hakeem Kae-Kazim in the role, but given I doubt they’re going down the time-travel route from that book I also doubt they’ll be bothering with that either. I wonder if they’ll give him an eyepatch…

  We don’t actually see the man, except as a corpse, so there’s not much to say about who he is as a person except for Vimes’s memories, so there’s not much else to say here.

 Wonse, “a wizard hopeful in waiting that is frequently underestimated.”

  A wizard only in the loosest sense in that he summons a dragon, but he’s actually the patrician’s immediate aide. The antagonist in Guards! Guards!, Wonse is aiming to put a puppet-king on the throne that he can control. Potentially there is some emotional conflict between Wonse and Vimes, given they grew up together with very different levels of success. I wonder if he’ll die in the same, grimly humorous way…

  Not much to say about Bianca Simone Mannie in the role, or even the role itself at this point. I dunno how charismatic she is, but Wonse in the books needed at least some, although that may not be needed here.

 Carcer Dun, “the wounded and wronged Carcer Dun, out to hijack destiny itself, take control of the city and exact a terrible revenge on an unjust reality.”

  Fuck. Where to begin. Carcer is- Carcer- well he’s fucking terrifying and not at all wronged; that’s why he’s terrifying. Carcer isn’t a relatable character, he doesn’t have valid justification, he’s just a monster who always has one more knife and will cheerfully protest his innocence while the blood on the blade drips onto the still warm body. Carcer gives me shivers exactly because he is so wrong.

  I have nothing to say about Sam Adewunmi except that I hope he has an innocent smile, because that makes Carcer worse.

  I’m going to pass on Ingrid Oliver as Doctor Cruces. I liked her in Doctor Who, but the description given here provides nothing towards the character.

 So there is a lot to say here, hence the reluctant 2-parter and my late dinner, but I can’t help but notice some rather worrying absences from this list. Where’s Sergeant Colon and Corporal Nobbs? Detritus the troll (who appears in pictures) and Constable Cuddy? Gaspode the talking dog or Foul old Ron, always being dragged about on a lead?

  How about Wilikins the violent butler, or the Librarian?!

 In all fairness there are many characters we needed to hear about before bloody Wonse or Doctor Cruces.

[haltraveler]

So, about Carcer

Carcer only appears in one Watch book, but he is VERY thematically important to the entire series. While the Grags are definitely the overarching narrative villains for the Watch books, Carcer is equal to them (and Lord Rust, who occupies a very similar thematic niche to the Grags) as a thematically essential part of the series. 

While Rust and the Grags represent old, conservative, bigoted people in positions of power, Carcer is if anything more disturbingly relevant to today’s forms of evil. Soo casting him as a black guy... Is’m not a fan. 

I think this Twitter thread sums it up: 

Carcer is the kind of person who people like Rust, the Grags, Winder, Snapcase, and every other “big scale” Watch villain NEEDS. He makes up the backbone of these evil operations and enables atrocities because he will follow any command that allows him to exert power and sadistic violence over people who can’t fight back. Making him a lone, wronged non-white vigilante misses the entire point of his character.