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If they ever adapt Night Watch, Jack Laskey should be a shoo-in for the role of Young Vetinari.
I could go on and on about his features or his scene-stealing appearance in the Endeavour finale, but all I really have to say this: watch this till the end, and say you see it.
BECAUSE GUYS
Hugo Speer as Vimes? Something that I never considered before, but now I’ve read it, nothing and nobody else will do. He was great as Inspector Valentine from Father Brown, too. Perfect choice.
Let it be my christmas gift for you all.
Also Vimes can’t dance.
Stephen Player’s 2015 Discworld calendar
“‘I get it,’ said the prisoner. ‘Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh?’ If you like.’ said Vimes. ‘But we’re a bit short staffed here, so if I give you a cigarette would you mind kicking yourself in the teeth?’”
Terry Pratchett, Night Watch (via blackboardmonitor)
“‘Yes, I’d better go and see my father,’ he said, and the glow in his face faded. ‘It’s well past lunchtime. If I don’t see him every day he forgets who I am.’”
"I hate things that try to take away what you are. I want to kill those things, Mr. Anybody. I want to kill all of them. When you take away memories, you take away the person. Everything they are."
- Wintersmith, Terry Pratchett, 2006
This book went to press about a year before Sir Pratchett was diagnosed. I’m past crying; I’d just like to breathe right about now.
Ah yes the halloween decorations are up
perfect
OMG, predatory black flamingo!
I save about twenty drafts — that’s ten meg of disc space — and the last one contains all the final alterations. Once it has been printed out and received by the publishers, there’s a cry here of ‘Tough shit, literary researchers of the future, try getting a proper job!’ and the rest are wiped.
Terry Pratchett on whether he archives any of his research or drafts. (via scared-of-clouds)
Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way.
Small Gods by Terry Pratchett (via thehistorymonks)
Sometimes, when a man has made such a foul and tangled mess of his life that death appears to be the only option, an angel appears and offers him a change of life. I should like you to think of me as that angel.
Who the fuck ships Vimes/Vetinari
Why is that the most popular Discworld ship on AO3
???
In answer to your first question: I do, for one. Have done since long before you were still in elementary, probably. As do a sizeable portion of the fandom, old and new.*
In answer to your second question: Why not? If it bothers you so much - make your own AO3 posts. If you can’t, keep your whining out of the tag, do they not teach basic netiquette to teenage boys these days?
*and a sizeable portion do not ship it. Surprisingly, these two factions have got along with each other perfectly happily for years, without feeling the need to start bellyaching at other. I don't see any need for this to change, do you?
Sometimes I think about how many little things we probably do every day that would totally mess up the reasoning of a Sherlock-Holmes-style detective.
Like the other day we went to the cinema and I was wearing a shirt with no pockets so I put the ticket in my trouser pocket. The next day I was wearing the same trousers and I put my hand in my pocket and found the ticket there.
Now, I have a certain selection of things I always have in my trouser pockets and I don’t really like having anything else in there because it confuses my hands when I want to get something, so I took the ticket out. And I wasn’t near a rubbish bin, but I was wearing a shirt with a breast pocket. So I put the ticket in the shirt pocket.
And I thought: if I get interestingly murdered, the Sherlock-Holmes-style detective is going to deduce that I’m wearing the same shirt that I wore yesterday. Because it’s got a cinema ticket in the pocket with yesterday’s date on, and why on earth would anyone put a cinema ticket in the pocket of a shirt unless they were wearing the shirt when they went to the cinema?
Which is a bit of reasoning we would all find totally convincing if it came from a Sherlock-Holmes-style detective. But it would be wrong. Because actually there are so many other explanations for things once you take account of the fact that people are often slightly eccentric in completely trivial and unguessable ways.
“Samuel Vimes dreamed about Clues. He had a jaundiced view of Clues. He instinctively distrusted them. They got in the way. And he distrusted the kind of person who’d take one look at another man and say in a lordly voice to his companion, “Ah, my dear sir, I can tell you nothing except that he is a left-handed stonemason who has spent some years in the merchant navy and has recently fallen on hard times,” and then unroll a lot of supercilious commentary about calluses and stance and the state of a man’s boots, when exactly the same comments could apply to a man who was wearing his old clothes because he’d been doing a spot of home bricklaying for a new barbecue pit, and had been tattooed once when he was drunk and seventeen* and in fact got seasick on a wet pavement. What arrogance! What an insult to the rich and chaotic variety of the human experience!”
—Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree. There is the constant desire to find out where - where is the point where it all began. But much, much later than that the Discworld was formed. Drifting onwards through space…atop four elephants on the shell of a giant turtle, the great A’Tuin. It was some time after its creation when most people forgot that the very oldest stories of the beginning are sooner or later about blood. At least that’s one theory. The philosopher Didactylos suggested an alternative hypothesis: ‘things just happen, what the hell’.
Narrator (Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather)
With the risk of sounding really stupid, could you maybe explain the joke: “One false move and [...] you’re Home Economics." from 'Guards! Guards!' ??
Not at all! It’s a fairly Brit-specific reference, but even so it’s a little bit surreal? Basically Colon is trying to come up with a clever pun or phrase along the lines of ‘one false move and you’re toast history’ (think back to some of the previous threats, the clever ones) but being Colon, he can’t quite do it. EDIT: Thanks to @nightfoot, who pointed out that what Colon is trying and failing to pun on is “history”, not toast.
Also, in case some of you are too young to know of it (cos apparently we have a huge range of ages here in the fandom), Home Economics was a class they used to teach in British schools about 30 yrs ago, where kids would learn how to cook basic stuff, balance a cheque-book, stuff like that - ask your parents or grandparents, most schools all over the world would have had some variant. (And I think there’s a cliche that kids would take home awfully burnt food or scorched pudding, perhaps that's not what he was trying to go for here…)
If there are any more jokes or references that you need clarifying (cos some are country-specific or era-specific, then please never feel embarrassed to ask - there’s also this great guide if you want to read about the references and injokes in every book!
A Discworld/GoT crossover: in which Sam Vimes basically just arrests everyone and that’s it that’s the show
But does Carrot sit on the Iron Throne?
why in the name of god did vetinari not put on the harem pants
I think I mentioned this before, but there’s an image even funnier than the harem pants we’re all missing. (which is indeed hilarious and someone should draw it) When Nobby is wearing the juggling men’s outfit - (aka, from the book, and the description of the Klatchians, what looks to be a traditional salwar kameez or tunic and pajama pants) there’s a point where he says to Colon “It’s a bit short sarge”, or something similar…
When Vetinari refuses to wear the harem pants, he makes Nobby swap with him.
Vetinari is a considerably taller bloke than Corporal Nobbs.
Picture that outfit. :D
Do you believe all that, sir?" he said. "About the endless evil and the sheer blackness?" "Indeed, indeed," said the Patrician, turning over the page. "It is the only logical conclusion." "But you get out of bed every morning, sir?" "Hmm? Yes? What is your point?" "I'd just like to know why, sir." "Oh, do go away, Vimes. There's a good fellow.
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
