Thief-taker, Rust had called him. The man had meant it as an insult, but it’d do. Theft was the only crime, whether the loot was gold, innocence, land or life.

Terry Pratchett, Jingo (via opheliaintherushes)

i like this passage because as far as i can recall this is not a morporkian ideology? it’s either omnian or klatchian (or both) but as we’ve seen murders in a-m tend to get classified as ‘suicides’ if the people killed showed little sign of self-preservation (even though this changes after men at arms) but vimes isn’t working completely off the a-m manual anymore which he definitely was in both guards guards and men at arms like he pretends not to be specist when he very very clearly IS and that is GREAT because he doesn’t STAY that way from feet of clay onwards he isn’t allowed to get away with thinking like that because every day his assumptions are challenged by the people around him like in g!g! and MaA he liked to darkly lampshade just how messed up a-m is but it’s only *really* in FoC when he begins to decide to challenge it and not be a part of it i’m so proud sam vimes Discworld @the-tao-of-fandom

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athousandwords: You know that part in The Fifth Elephant, where Vimes tells Ingio that Sibyl is finishing packing, learning ancient Kalacthian, and remolding their house, just those things women do in the last minute? And you’re like: Vimes. Come on. You’re engaging in information gathering via fruit tossage right now! Hypocrite.  But then you realise…

ofpaintedflowers:

Sam Vimes’ first and last appearances in Discworld.

Guards! Guards! p.10 and Raising Steam p. 470

the-tao-of-fandom: But yeah, as I went on about at great lenght, the parallels between Angua and Vimes are just astounding, once you start pay attention (I sure didn’t, at first), but Thud! is just a bloody masterclass like all that stuff about not giving into the Beast part of you? Who are we talking about?…

mollyscribbles: I’ve been thinking about Sam Vimes’ boots.  I mean … he likes the soles cardboard-thin, so he can feel the cobblestones; he can tell where he is in the city blindfolded that way.  But Sybil loves her husband and cares about the state of his feet on cold, wet nights, so she buys him…

p0werbottomvimes:

that time Sybil called Sam smol and angry and he was too smol and angry to notice

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 mind-controlling spirit and won.…

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn’t as cynical as real life.

Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett (via cat-sophia)

thesummoningdark: Also, related to that last post about Detritus, can we talk about the fact that Vimes trusts his officers not to follow bad orders EVEN WHEN THEY’RE FROM HIM

dudepool:

I fought the law, and the law won;
a mix for assorted Vimes badassery

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