#Constable Visit-The-Infidel-With-Explanatory-Pamphlets

[leona-florianova]

Guards..

[dislocated-thumbs]

a doodle of constable visit with a messenger pigeon I did a couple weeks back. this guy is neurodivergency at its. not exactly finest. but he sure is neurodivergency

[dimity-lawn]

[monstrous-tournament]

Ankh-Morpork City Watch Tournament!

Dorfl is a golem who owns himself - his chem isn't a list of magic words, it is his ownership receipt. He chooses to work for the Watch, reasoning that there is no better job for someone who loves freedom than to be a Watchman. Immensely strong and fiercely logical, he is a boon to the Watch and a terror to criminals throughout Ankh-Morpork.

Visit-The-Infidel-With-Explanatory-Pamphlets (or just "Visit"; also nicknamed "Washpot") is an Omnian of a gentle but determined proselytising nature. He can clear a large crowd in seconds, just by talking to them about religion and threatening them with pamphlets. He spends all his wages on them and has even his own printing press. In off-duty moments he goes door to door with his fellow Omnian, Smite-the-Unbeliever-With-Cunning-Arguments. Samuel Vimes says he is a good copper, his highest form of personal praise.

[captainsupernoodle]

I finished feet of clay and I was like damn that was a good book. There's a lot to think about in there. And then I updated my reading log and thought about some of the top things I enjoyed and I was like DAMN that's a good book. And then I was mulling over the top things I enjoyed and that led me to think about my favorite top quotes and that led me to think about what struck me so much about those quotes and anyway I have enough seeds of thesis statements here for an essay series and every two things I write down that I noticed on my read leads me to notice a third completely new thing that ties in perfectly with all the others. It's like story baklava. I feel like I need a conspiracy board. I need to read this book again and start digging through jstor for essays.

Anyway feet of clay is a good book.

[onlycosmere]

Angemon175: When Adonalsium Will Remember Our Plight Eventually came on page did anyone else immediately think of Good Omens and Thou Shall Not Commit Adultery Pulsifer?? That was my first thought and couldn't stop laughing, I hope it's an homage

Brandon Sanderson: It kind of is, kind of isn't. I first became aware of this quirk of puritan societies because of Pratchett, but it was Constable Visit-The-Infidel-With-Explanatory-Pamphlets that did it, actually.

Truth is, these kind of names were very rare (and kind of odd) in actual puritan societies, but they're just too deliciously interesting to not riff off of. Single word puritan names, like Faith or Justice, were far more common. (Including Silence, which I used after I actually encountered it doing genealogy of puritan Americans.)

[discworldquotes]

'Atheism Is Also A Religious Position,' Dorfl rumbled. 'Not it's not!' said Constable Visit. 'Atheism is a denial of a god.' 'Therefore It Is A Religious Position,' said Dorfl. 'Indeed, A True Atheist Thinks Of The Gods Constantly, Albeit In Terms Of Denial. Therefore, Atheism Is A Form Of Belief. If The Atheist Truly Did Not Believe, He Or She Would Not Bother To Deny.'

Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

[erkauberscream]

them. ,w,

[patricianandclerk]

constable visit-the-infidel-with-explanatory-pamphlets has the BIGGEST dick* in the watch, but as a modest man of piety he has NO IDEA of 

a) how big his dick is in comparison to other dicks

b) how desirable this makes him

c) that everyone OPENLY stares at him in the showers, bc he’s got his eyes closed and he’s merrily scrubbing away and singing his hymns

(* his dick is the same size as carrot’s but carrot is 6′6″ and beefy af and visit is like, 5′11″ and has a body like a beanpole so it’s not the same)

[vonlipvig]

I spun the Discworld Character Appreciation wheel and I drew the lovely Visit-The-Infidel-With-Explanatory-Pamphlets!

Please take one of his pamphlets, he spent all his money on them.

[noirandchocolate]

Constable Visit-the-Infidel-with-Explanatory-Pamphlets

Also known as Visit-the-Ungodly-with-Explanatory-Pamphlets (infidel can get you a thick ear), usually just known as Visit, or by his nickname of Washpot.

--Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs, “The Ankh-Morpork Archives” (illustration by Paul Kidby) 

(One wonders how he got that nickname.  Anyway he’s Omnian.  The ‘new’ kind of Omnian.)

[subsequentibis]

tadaaa, city watch lineup bonus points if u can name em all

[jenniferstolzer]

Inktober 2019 The Watch

Day 10 Constable Visit

Visits full name is Constable Visit-the-Infidel/Ungodly-with-Explanatory-Pamphlets, nickname "Washpot." He is an Omnian, a proud and evangelical people who are very strictly religious. Visit is very Omnian, spending much of his time spreading his literature and disparaging other religions holidays. He's a good sport, though, and knows whats important when push comes to shove

[niche-pastiche]

Neal Gaiman is a good tree man and Good Omens is a good fruit book and I am very tired and trying to figure out a way to reference Matthew 7:15-20 but every time I try it just comes across too Constable Visit-The-Infidel-With-Explanatory-Pamphlets. And I don’t mean it that way at all. I should sleep. 

[discworldtour]

“Mister Vimes sent me to search the dens of iniquity and low places of sin for you,” said Visit. “And the literature?” said Angua. “By the way, the words ‘nothing personal’ could have so easily been added to that last sentence.” “Since I was having to tour the temples of vice, Sergeant, I thought I could do Om’s holy work at the same time,” said Visit, whose indefatigable evangelical zeal triumphed over all adversity.* Sometimes whole bars full of people would lie down on the floor with the lights out when they heard he was coming down the street.

*They say there’s one in every police station. Constable Visit-The-Infidel-With-Explanatory-Pamphlets was enough for two.

-- Washpot | Terry Pratchett, Thud!

[nightfoot]

So many Discworld fans say things like “I relate most to Vimes” to “I see myself in Granny Weatherwax” but stop lying, every other Discworld fan I’ve met is clearly channelling Constable Visit the Infidel With Explanatory Pamphlets in their enthusiasm to whip out reading order charts and explain to strangers why they should convert to Omnianism read Discworld.