#sergeant jackrum

[vectorofsins]

"You are my little lads", and I will take care of you."

Ooktober Day 17 - Upon my oath, I am not a violent man

[discworldquotes]

“Any good with [a sword]?” said the sergeant to Maladict. “Not really, sir,” said Maladict. “Never had training. I carry it for protection, sir.” “How can you protect yourself by carrying a sword if you don’t know how to use it?” “Not me, sir. Other people. They see the sword and don’t attack me,” said Maladict patiently. “Yes, but if they did, lad, you wouldn’t be any good with it,” said the sergeant. “No, sir. I’d probably settle for just ripping their head off, sir. That’s what I mean by protection, sir. Theirs, not mine. And I’d get hell from the League if I did that, sir.”

Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment

[stomachforcrows]

This is kind of a dead meme but it made me giggle so

[41protons]

So

I imagine Sergeant Jackrum (Monsrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett) looks quite a bit like Silver (Treasure planet)

Here’s a few sketches of the design:

[krowbby]

polly:

sarge telling people every day:

bonus from tonker:

[thetruemechanicum]

*Spoilers for Monstrous Regiment*

Terry Pratchett really is something else when it comes to writing. I just finished Monstrous Regiment and it's an absolute blast to read. I'm amazed he could make the victory and ending so profoundly sad.

Yes Polly finds her brother, Shufti finds her man (and rightly tells him to get fucked) and the squad bring victory and a change to an ass backwards country.

But, the squad becomes idols and not soldiers that they want to be. Woman can be in the army but the ones at the top are no better than the men at starting wars.

And at the end, war still happens. The squad won a 6 month break from another bullshit conflict. This is a realistic conflict, this is realistic fantasy. It's not 100 hours of sex and everyone only wearing black and grey all the time. It's people being stubborn, funny, loving, looking for betterment and ending slightly sad.

[mywingsareonwheels]

I really do think that all Endeavour fans need to read a) the Discworld Watch books and b) Monstrous Regiment, because Russell Lewis is *such* a Discworld fan, and there are literal lines lifted (omg the moment where Max gets a line spoken by the Watch's Igor is INCREDIBLE), and it's a delight to know that Thursday is very blatantly partly based on:- 1. the most cynical copper who ever lived, who is constantly fighting his own darkness and has a son called Sam and can be terrifyingly protective of the people he loves 2. the most horrifyingly competent and scheming and also terrifyingly protective of "his little lads" sergeant who ever sergeanted and who is also canonically... (behind the cut is a fairly major Monstrous Regiment spoiler...)

... a trans man. <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 (This means so so so much to me I cannot tell you. :) )

(And omg, yep, Jackrum's "talking to Ruperts" voice and Vimes's "talking to aristocrats" voice is totally deployed when Thursday is dealing with Bright before Bright's upgrade to awesomeness. And, um, one of the aristocrats who Vimes deals with on a regular basis? Is called Ronald Rust. NO ONE can tell me that Reginald Bright wasn't originally partly based on both Rust and Lt Blouse, though of course Bright (like Blouse) does get that upgrade. :D )

(I think it's not too much of a stretch also to see Endeavour's Morse as just a little bit based on Carrot (as well as a bit on Vimes too), to see Jakes as based partly on both Nobby and all three of Wazzer, Lofty, and Tonker (AAAAAAAAAH MY HEART FRICKING OUCH), and so on. And I am still waiting for someone to write a fic in which Joan's a werewolf; I'm not usually a Morse/Joan shipper but I would read the *fuck* out of that. :D )

[floridahistoryman]

Trans Masc’s will see this and say “ Transition goals”

I could not find any artist credits for this, but if anyone knows please share.