#william deworde

[final-girlfriends-club]

This is how the scene in The Truth felt to me.

[magpiesketchins]

Vetinari's Terrier mention in the Truth. There were 0 survivors.

[pippinstook]

No one:

Sacharissa Cripslock:

[pippinstook]

Sure Crowley might have invented the selfie for earth, but Otto van Criek FOR SURE invented it for Discworld.

[deboracabral]

The Ankh-Morpork Times team, minus Goodmountain because I got lazy 

[thecoppercow]

Even more untethered questions. (aka: she’s now rereading The Truth and still won’t stop rambling.)

Part 3 of an impromptu series, here

- Did the plotters not think Vetinari would want revenge? Yes, the plot depended on character assassination, and as is pointed out - it would have worked. He’d have had to step down, even Vimes would be forced to obey the rule of law, very few people would speak up for him, and it’s hard to recover your reputation once the lie has settled in and been smoothed over with a ‘pardon’. Character assassination is better than the real kind because it means what’s done is done. But then.. what were they planning to do with him? This bit of the plot doesn’t make sense to me. There’s a lot of talk about putting him in a light airy place (hinting at sectioning him in a mental home or pensioning him off) but what makes them think he would take that lying down? Even if he couldn’t get his city back, he’s still physically free to get stabby, so why wouldn’t he? How were the plotters planning to subdue him?

- That cover. Already mentioned in this crack theory here (scroll through the notes to find the unforgettable ‘Vetinari is a clown’ theory), the Josh Kirby cover for The Truth seems to show a blonde. Which got me thinking, is dark hair ever made explicit in text (not art)? Even the beard doesn’t turn up till TFE (in GG he’s shaving), so did we all just assume?

- The conversation at the beginning, where Vetinari is being incredibly Wrong Genre Savvy and making his views on rocking horses known, is interesting. We know that usually, he does nothing without reason. Why then does he encourage WdW to write to deWorde? A subtle clue that he knows what is going on? Or is this a rare mentor-ly moment that comes off as terrifying again, ala his attempts at relationship therapy in Making Money?

- What was Wuffles doing during the FoC poisoning incident, do we think? (Also, I’m calling it - Wuffles is a Yorkshire terrier.  I know thanks to Disc naming rules, he’s described as a wire haired terrier but those things are huge. So.)

Gunilla Goodmountain and Boddony. In the absence of any other evidence, and based on that ‘their own business’ footnote, I’m taking these two as the first implicit canon gay couple, Y/Y? (Not lesbian, ofc, that was MR.) I know they’re traditional dwarves so the whole gender thing is deliberately ~?~, making it hard to tell, and that Mr Harris of the Blue Cat club is probably the first explicit gay character, but as @thiswaycomessomethingwicked has articulated much better than I can (so go read her), Pterry tries his hardest with representation ...but ends up rather heteronormative without realising he’s doing it. A bit ‘You get a Distaff counterpart, and you get a Distaff Counterpart, and you get a random shoehorned het pairing! Distaff pairings for everyone!’ So ...I’m claiming these cool cats till further notice.