#it isnt a cause of Big Angst About Injustice among the city populace

[noirandchocolate]

I am often really funny when I’m mad because being mad makes my filters disintegrate pfff. I feel calmer now but just. Why would someone. Do this? Just how HIGH do you even have to BE just to DO something like that? /Homestuck

I’m just really wondering why, given all the amazing worldbuilding there already is to work with in the Discworld Watch series if you wanted to make new stories about this world and these people, would anyone just sort of go “okay my dollies now I’m taking them to MY house and giving them new CLOTHES and HAIRCUTS” and then shove some strange remakes of beloved characters into a “gritty, ~anarchic~” world? Discworld isn’t anarchic, I don’t know where they got that bizarre notion*. There are some pretty deeply ingrained rules and anyone would know that if they’d actually read the books.

That grit better give way to hope that’s all I’ll say. But characterizing Ankh-Morpork under Vetinari as “corrupt” and “broken” (as opposed to there still being some corrupt (rich) people in the city, whom the city itself as personified by Vetinari and Vimes are trying to deal with) is an oversimplification and dumbing-down that’s so...LAME that I really don’t have much hope at the moment for this feeling anything like Discworld—even a ~reimagined inspiration from~ Discworld.

I hope these articles aren’t telling the whole story but even if they’re not, the things that are likely true are not encouraging.

*except that they probably got it off the “oogh it’s ~fantasy~ land that mean ~anthyding can hadplen~” shelf /Gravity Falls

New Theory: “The Watch” is a play in-universe. Someone, having heard of the famous and oddly inspiring Commander Vimes and his once-ragtag now-respected bunch, commissioned a playwright to write a play about the Ankh-Morpork City Watch that would galvanize the local boys into being more diligent and proud about their police work. The playwright got a lot of details wrong because the commissioner didn’t know all those details (Cheery being an openly female dwarf, Angua being a werewolf), and he romanticized some things (tragic Carcer backstory and thinner smaller Sybil) and made others more action-oriented to allow for fight scenes (vigilante Sybil). So it’s basically the same as when Hwel wrote the Lancre Play—in-universe fanfiction.

(I seriously hope a lot of what I’m reading today is inaccurate or badly summed-up.)