violent-darts: cakesandfail: violent-darts: cakesandfail: So I was just thinking about those posts you get in the Discworld tag about the way belief works on the Disc and how Vetinari and/or Vimes is so integral to the way Ankh-Morpork works that they might just sort of… not ever die. You know, the ones like ‘Vimes is going…

bookhobbit: lonelymountainson: Honestly one could make an argument that, culturally, all Discworld dwarf women are trans? on a similar basis that in modern Western culture, nonbinary people are inherently trans, namely that their gender differs from the one they were assigned. Discworld dwarves are all assigned male at birth; some of them later come out…

sator-the-wanderess:

Susan and her g’pa

Bonus–

leona-florianova:

its made out of pure eeeevil

dharmageek:

Just some warm fuzzies on the Friday before classes start. The phases of a Sam Vimes/Sybil Ramkin hug, I commissioned it from pmendicant, please check out pmendicant’s art  at http://pmendicant.tumblr.com/ (it is wonderful).

iconuk01: cakesandfail: So I was just thinking about those posts you get in the Discworld tag about the way belief works on the Disc and how Vetinari and/or Vimes is so integral to the way Ankh-Morpork works that they might just sort of… not ever die. You know, the ones like ‘Vimes is going to become…

The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.

Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett, p. 253 (via myprivatelibrary)

subsequentibis:

he’s used to it. he’s everyone’s dad

…the food was good solid stuff for a cold morning, all calories and fat and protein and maybe a vitamin crying softly because it was all alone.

Terry Pratchett;  Guards! Guards!  
(via merrychimera)

‘You can’t arrest the commander of an army!’

‘Actually, Mr. Vimes, I think we could,’ said Carrot.  ‘And the army, too.  I mean, I don’t see why we can’t.  We could charge them with behavior likely to cause a breach of the peace, sir.  I mean, that’s what warfare IS.’

Vimes’s face split in a manic grin.  ‘I LIKE it.’

‘But in fairness our–that is, the Ankh-Morpork army–are also–’

‘Then you’d better arrest them, too,’ said Vimes.  ‘Arrest the lot of ’em.  Conspiracy to cause an affray,’ he started to count on his fingers, ‘going equipped to commit a crime, obstruction, threatening behavior, loitering with intent, loitering WITHIN tent, hah, traveling for the purposes of committing a crime, malicious lingering and carrying concealed weapons.’

Terry Pratchett, “Jingo”
(And the thing is, we laugh at this because the idea of Sam Vimes arresting two armies IS funny.  But on top of being funny–and on top of Vimes trying to pile on the charges here with this list–Pratchett intended with this book above all else to characterize war as, in itself, a crime.  In this case, a war started because of a lie and because of racial/ethnic/national prejudice.  But we’re meant to be thinking about this.  When is war NOT a crime, when you get down to what most people think crimes are?  Why is killing people okay and legal when it’s war, for one thing?  Why is it legal to loot places when you conquer them?  Why isn’t it murder and theft?  Well?)