roachpatrol: autrelivre: carry-on-my-wayward-artblog: alda-rana: out-there-on-the-maroon: muffinworry: roachpatrol: out-there-on-the-maroon: babtest: so. they made a new german discowrld essentials edition, with a new covers (which is good because the old ones are real bad) and they are these manga-like ‘build a picture’ style, which i like but. oh my god. look at that vimes this isn’t samuel…

soyonscruels: It wasn’t a decision that he was making, he knew. It was happening far below the areas of the brain that made decisions. It was something built in. There was no universe, anywhere, where a Sam Vimes would give in on this, because if he did then he wouldn’t be Sam Vimes any more.…

xserpx: lullabyknell: Can I just say something that I really love about Terry Pratchett’s Guards! Guards! series? I’m really, really grateful for everything those books taught me about prejudice and justice and every person’s responsibility to Suck it Up, Stick it Out, and Be A Decent Human Being. Even if it’s not fun or pretty,…

thestubborntortoise: I was thinking about Sam Vimes and which side of Civil War he would choose But see, he wouldn’t choose. He would arrest them all. “If someone is going to destroy my city because of an ideology squabble, it’s going to be me”

lynati: mage-warden-surana: shaddy24: entjadun: kiss-my-aspergers: cosmictuesdays: witchylana: unbuttonedinawood: pasiphile: fructosebat: swanjolras: when i find myself in times of trouble terry pratchett comes to me whispering sam vimes once arrested a motherfucking dragon you are capable of literally anything Sam Vimes once arrested two opposing armies to end a war. x Sam Vimes fought an ancient…

celynbrum: thebibliosphere: the-tao-of-fandom: But what about that inevitable point when future Ankh-Morpork historians try to write the biography of Commander Sam Vimes (probably some time post-mortem, since he’d never hold with it while he was alive), is it going to start something like ‘The Commander came from humble beginnings, only to rise up above his station…

stophelping: the-tao-of-fandom: But what about that inevitable point when future Ankh-Morpork historians try to write the biography of Commander Sam Vimes (probably some time post-mortem, since he’d never hold with it while he was alive), is it going to start something like ‘The Commander came from humble beginnings, only to rise up above his station later…

cro-gall:

Sam Vimes in ‘’Night Watch’’: lilac, dust and rust

Vimes is fundamentally a person. He fears he may be a bad person because he knows what he thinks rather than just what he says and does. He chokes off those little reactions and impulses, but he knows what they are. So he tries to act like a good person, often in situations where the map is unclear.

Terry Pratchett, describing Sam Vimes in a Usenet post back in 2004.

Also, accidentally, describing me. Shit.

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Okay, so this is what I love about Samuel Vimes as a Heroic figure. 

Sometimes you get Heroes who are paragons of virtue. Even if you see their internal monologues, their mindset is pure and virtuous. Sometimes, they’re tested and you get a Big Moment where they have to choose whether or not to stick to their principles or give in to temptation and expediency.  

And then you’ve got the more “Pragmatic” anti-hero types, who do some nasty things in pursuit of the greater good, and who might struggle with the things they’re doing, but they do it anyway because the world is not black and white. 

And then you’ve got Sam Vimes, who is dragging himself kicking and screaming into being Lawful Good. Sam Vimes would not beat a suspect into confessing, but NOT because Sam Vimes is an innocent soul who finds the idea abhorrent. Not because he dosn’t think there are some scumbags who deserve to be separated from their teeth. Sam Vimes won’t beat a suspect because that’s not what a good man would do. Sam Vimes is understanding with others, but totally uncompromising when it comes to his own behavior.

Vimes isn’t a “Good Person” by nature, but by choice. By constant, uncompromising choice. 

I think this is the only way to be a decent person.

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Vimes had never got on with any game much more complex than darts. Chess in particular had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went off and slaughtered their fellow pawns while the kings lounged about doing nothing that always got to him; if only the pawns united, maybe talked the rooks round, the whole board could’ve been a republic in a dozen moves.

Thud!
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