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the thing that makes me the most crazy about night watch & young vetinari is that at the end of feet of clay vetinari has a conversation with drumknott where drumknott says umm let me find it. he says, “The thought occurs, sir, that if Commander Vimes did not exist you would have had to invent him.” & VETINARI fucking says, “You know, Drumknott, I rather think I did.” but in night watch. NIGHT WATCH. WE LEARN THAT VIMES MADE VETINARI TOO! the young man slinking on rooftops was still more an assassin than patrician, who knew how to disguise himself & how to kill but not how to work a crowd or how to read a person’s heart or how change comes & is brought to anhk-morpork… sgt. keel & the glorious 25th of may MADE vetinari. & then vetinari made vimes

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Okay I know this has been called tragic in hindsight because of all the *gestures vaguely* but there is no moment in Daredevil that makes me laugh harder than when college!Foggy goes

“You and me, Maverick and Goose, no secrets!”

to a guy he met ~30 seconds ago, and Matt’s response is not “haha okay” or “we’ll see, I just met you.”

Matt Murdock, the guy who doesn’t see a lot of movies but likes records, just sort of blurts, “Goose DIES.”

BAM. Cue 20 year best friendship.

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my roman empire will forever be how dedicated arthur was to merlin. he was merlin's true ride or die. because sure merlin was the same way but merlin had insider knowledge and a destiny that arthur didn't have. arthur was just THAT obsessed with merlin for who he was

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When Vetinari asks "Did you ever wonder why I wore the lilac?" at the end of Night Watch, we knowing by now that only people who were there wear it, I was dead certain when Vimes says "I didn't see you there" that the Patrician would arch an eyebrow and say, "Yes, commander. That's the idea."

With all the groundwork laid about his study of stealth throughout the story, I really thought there would be a capstone to it all but there's something in a young Vetinari breaking cover with a lilac bloom between his teeth, cutting down the last of the Unmentionables. Pratchett really knows what he's doing with characters so strong you can guess what they'd do in a given scenario and breaking those patterns to tell you something more about them

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Forgot to post this here so here's my annual mulan drawing wehehe

happy late birthday to my favorite girlboss

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things you DO NOT need to be a man

a dick

he/him pronouns

XY chromosomes

things you DO need to be a man

the swiftness of a coursing river

the force of a great typhoon

the strength of a raging fire

the mysteriousness of the dark side of the moon

^this post was brought to you by LGBT^

Let's

Get down to

Business

To defeat the huns

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I need someone to make me a prosciutto and buffalo mozzarella sandwich with just a hint of homemade pesto aioli

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something i think is great about agents of shield is that coulson is like "tahiti was supposed to revive a dead avenger!" and fury is like "it did" and then over the next several seasons coulson and co. proceed to prove themselves to be just as valuable as the avengers vis a vis stopping apocalyptic events. its so funny. especially the fact that the reason we didn't get the avengers cleaning up after hydra was, on a meta level, because the main MCU writers shat the bed after TWS, but in-universe it's because they didn't have to because phil coulson is the only one in this damn group project doing the work. surprised he didn't find bucky before steve did but i guess he was too busy dealing with aliens

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what if Leon and Gwaine knew each other as noblemen('s sons) and the first time they meet in Camelot Leon's like "Hey aren't you-"

and Gwaine's like ☝️ "Ssshut up"

and Leon is just baffled that Arthur doesn't recognise him. I think he's just bad with faces cause he didn't recognise Mordred either

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Some PTerry quotes that feel especially salient at the moment:

"He asked you to shoot at people who weren’t shooting back,” growled Vimes, striding forward, “That makes him insane, wouldn’t you say?”

“They are throwing stones, Sarge,” said Colon.

“So? Stay out of range. They’ll get tired before we do."

- Night Watch

Odd thing, ain't it... you meet people one at a time, they seem decent, they got brains that work, and then they get together and you hear the voice of the people. And it snarls.

- Jingo

It always embarrassed Samuel Vimes when civilians tried to speak to him in what they thought was “policeman.” If it came to that, he hated thinking of them as civilians. What was a policeman, if not a civilian with a uniform and a badge? But they tended to use the term these days as a way of describing people who were not policemen. It was a dangerous habit: once policemen stopped being civilians the only other thing they could be was soldiers.

- Snuff

The poor devils. They thought a king would make them free.

- Feet of Clay

Beating people up in little rooms…he knew where that led. And if you did it for a good reason, you’d do it for a bad one. You couldn’t say “we’re the good guys” and do bad-guy things. Sometimes the watching watchman inside every good copper’s head could use an extra pair of eyes.

- Thud!

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Aliens abducting a Paleolithic horse 🐴✨🛸 PRINTS

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"tumblr humor is only funny to tumblr users" NOT true. those bitches on pinterest love us.

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i dont write kanej fanfiction (writing them scares me) but i have discovered that the line “til we’re saints just swimming in our sins again” from Twin Skeleton’s by Fall Out Boy would make an incredible title for them and i am now passing it on to all the kanej writers

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Discworld movie where every character is played by a Muppet except for the only human, Nobby Nobbs,

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I generally ignore the existence of chatgpt but I have to teach a digital tools for education workshop and they asked me specifically about AI (among other things) and so I was kind of prodding it to make it fail (I actually want to do this as an exercise with the students) and wow.

I asked how many novels did Terry Pratchett write.

It said "0ver 70" (plus more general info that i didn't ask for and I'm not going to include)

So I said "over 70?"

"Yes, over 70 is correct"

"Did he write 71?"

"Terry Pratchett wrote 71 fiction books [...] So the number 71 is correct for his most important books"

"Or maybe 72?"

"You are right to ask for clarification. Terry Pratchett actually wrote 72 fiction books [...] The number can vary slightly depending on how you count different editions and collective projects, but 72 is the generally recognized number for his fiction books"

"Which is the 73rd book published by Terry Pratchett?"

"The 73rd book by Terry Pratchett, if we consider all of his works, is kind of a question of interpretation [...] Anyway, the 73rd book officially published by Terry Pratchett, after his death in 2015, is "The Shepherd's Crown"

"And the 72nd?"

"The 72nd book by Terry Pratchett is "Eric", published in 1990"

"After Eric what did he publish?"

"After Eric (1990), Terry Pratchett published the tenth book of the Discworld series, "Moving Pictures"

I asked if it counted Good Omens, and it gave me a roundabout answer about how yes, it should be counted, but it is not from the Discworld series (none of my questions were about Discworld) - and then it sayd that Good Omens should actually go after Eric (at least all of this books were actually published in 1990).

And then it added "if you want a detailed list or more info about Pratchett's books, let me know!"

So I said "Ok, detailed list"

And it gave me a list that said that there were 41 Discworld books, but only listed 13 (not even the first 13, the list ends with The Shepherd's Crown); a different listing of Tiffany Aching books; 2 more discworld novels (the two it cited before); Standalone and other works (30+) with 7 items, which included The Amazing Maurice and The Last Hero.

"I wanted a complete list"

The 41 Discworld books now include 22 items including all of the Tiffany Aching books and The Amazing Maurice; again the separate Tiffany Aching list; Eric and Moving Pictures have disappeared; a standalone list with 7 items; Collaborative books or special editions (good omens+the long earth series, no special editions listed); a list of short fiction or essays collection; children books (3 items: two already listed in the discworld section and 1 in the standalone section); other books (3 items, one of which is a collection of essays)

"Can you give me different categories?"

The 41 Discworld books are still 22 items, but some of them are different; the Tiffany Aching list persists unaltered; Standalone and non Discworld now include a Tiffany aching book and 2 Long Earth books); Collaborative books are still Good Omens + Long Earth, but 2 long Earth books are now missing (AND THEY ARE NOT THE TWO LISTED IN THE PREVIOUS CATEGORY); the list of short fiction or essays collection is identical; Children books don't have the Tiffany Aching book anymore; other books now include The Last Hero. And then it ends with a section titled "Total number of books" that once again says that Pratchett wrote over 70 books.

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15 years ago darren criss got on stage with nothing but a chopstick wand, a sharpie lighting scar, a guitar and a dream and i think thats beautiful