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ive been reading a lot lately, and rn im reading my first discworld book (guards guards!) and it is. so insanely good?? like, so much better than i ever though it would be, vimes is such a little guy?? i might love this series and try and read all of them? one sec, im gonna google how big the series is

FOURTY ONE????? BOOKS????

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I just wanted to say I ADORE how you draw Magrat. She's exactly how I pictured her when reading the books

omggg thank you so much i love drawing her shes real as fuck and she keeps serving incredible fits

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Looking up Discworld quotes and it's always so fun because one quote will be like

"Homo Sapiens? You could keep it."

And the next one will be

"LORD, WE KNOW THERE IS NO GOOD ORDER EXCEPT THAT WHICH WE CREATE... THERE IS NO HOPE BUT US. THERE IS NO MERCY BUT US. THERE IS NO JUSTICE. THERE IS JUST US. ALL THINGS THAT ARE, ARE OURS. BUT WE MUST CARE. FOR IF WE DO NOT CARE, WE DO NOT EXIST. IF WE DO NOT EXIST, THEN THERE IS NOTHING BUT BLIND OBLIVION. AND EVEN OBLIVION MUST END ONE DAY. LORD, WILL YOU GRANT ME JUST A LITTLE TIME? FOR THE PROPER BALANCE OF THINGS. TO RETURN WHAT WAS GIVEN. FOR THE SAKE OF PRISONERS AND THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS. LORD, WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?"

And now I'm crying because of one man's overwhelming love for humanity and the fact that he wrote 44 books in which one of the overarching themes is just... take care of one another. Even the bad ones.

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absolutely cannot get over this cold open from etho’s let’s play 13 years ago

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ONLY 2022'S KIDS WILL REMEMBER GET DOGGIFIED AU 🗣️📣🐾 I'll be trying to keep up with Hermit A Day May (once again) to come back to this little project! Impulse being the first one was HUGE motivation #MySpecialGuy. Always wanted to draw him doggy in phasmo!

If u arent a 2022's kid heres the new AU Masterpost

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Have you ever wondered "Hey, which person is this Hermitcraft fanart actually depicting?" and didn't want to just scroll down to read the tags?

Behold. My magnum opus. The Hermitcraft fanart flowchart! Please click for legibillity.

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Hermit-a-Day May #1 - impulseSV

Starting out strong! I literally got a new stylus and art program specifically for this event, because I wanted to be able to color these well and my markers just weren't cutting it. I'm excited!

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current fan creation landscape is kinda like if you went to a party with a homemade cake and everyone takes a slice and silently thumbs up at you with no attempt to start a conversation except for occasionally some guy sits in the corner with a tape recorder critiquing the cake as though he was a restaurant critic and another guy is handing the cake to an uber driver like "yeah i need you to find a restaurant that makes cake like this so i can have more of it" and the only person that's talked to you in 30 minutes is a very sweet little guy who was like "hey i liked your cake" and then ran away apologizing for bothering you the moment you said thank you.

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I'm scrolling through Rhianna Pratchett's bluesky and saw her say Granny Weatherwax could probably bend the One Ring to her will.

Now I can't get out of my head this image of her rolling her eyes at all the self-important men at the Council of Elrond and doing it herself because they would just bungle it, giving Gandalf a stern talking-down-to, being jealously unimpressed with Galadriel's treehouse, sending Shelob running, and generally stomping her way across Middle Earth and into Mordor to chuck a piece of jewelry into a volcano.

She would be complaining the ENTIRE time.

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I'm reading The Truth, and the way Terry portrays Vimes in this book almost feels like a test for those who have read previous City Watch books. A reader who has read the previous books knows and trusts Vimes. We love him, we know he's a good man, we want him to succeed.

But in this book, he's almost an antagonist to William, at least initially. He's resistant and hostile to William's journalistic efforts, it seems like William is making his job harder, and my instinct was to be irritated with William about this. But as I've progressed through the book, I've realized that I fell into the Protagonist Trap with Vimes.

I, the reader, love Vimes. I trust Vimes. I want Vimes to succeed. But Vimes doesn't get to do whatever he wants just because I love him. William isn't doing anything illegal and he isn't doing anything wrong. And Vimes, irritated as he is, recognizes this.

It almost feels like Terry is leaning over the reader's shoulder to see if you were paying attention to the message of the other City Watch books, not just enjoying the adventure stories.

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ourgh discworld is still so good

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why is ao3 is blocked on the hospital wifi????

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@mawofthemagnetar you might like these /lh

I feel confident enough to post these now. A collection of all the existing posters after some edits from the other post that got 13k notes! These are full size/quality. Go nuts.

You may use them for wallpapers, tabletop campaigns, whatever. Consider tipping me or buying a print or sticker on ko-fi here! If you do use them, let me know what for, or send pictures!

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“We saw the fire—” Carrot began, running up. “Is it all over?”

“Mr. Vimes saved the day!” said Sergeant Colon excitedly. “Just went straight in and saved everyone, in the finest tradition of the Watch!”

“Fred?” said Vimes, wearily.

“Yessir?”

“Fred, the finest tradition of the Watch is having a quiet smoke somewhere out of the wind at three a.m. Let’s not get carried away, eh?”

Ok, Vimes, that’s enough cynicism for today