#Margolotta

[redkap421]

Drawing a dragon a day till all my dragons are drawn: Day 1

Margolotta.

She currently is a nocturne, but I am turning her into a ridgie when I can. :D

[autisticfiend]

I love that Margolotta canonically looks like a middle aged lady who loves pink and would probably share memes with Minions.

[creativenicocorner]

Now I KNOW this has been done already, but I wanted to give my take on Ye Olde Lesbian Meme ♡ 

[tinypuffballofanger]

Found this pose from adorkastock and thought it would be fun to draw Margolotta like that - pleased with how she turned out!

The wine charm is a flamingo and she has ducks on her socks because as my partner said "the tchotchkes are Essential"

[theygotlost]

THE BLACK RIBBONERS!! 🎗🧛🏻

[madcat-world]

Discworld Character Portraits (3 of 3) - Federica Costantini

[higgsbison]

Hahaa what if I told you I went sicko mode after realizing Dracula Daily is happening again and started writing the very obvious Discworld paralel in roughly the same style.

[spamuelsonofspamothy]

Reread Unseen Academicals recently and I've been thinking about that scene towards the end between Nutt and Ladyship and Vetinari. More after the break because there are spoilers.

So, Nutt's an orc. Everyone knows that orcs are savage beasts that tear people's heads off, and Margolotta is desperately trying to make sure he comes up "civilized". Thematically, there's links to the Uberwald League of Temperance, which was at least partially her project, since Margolotta's taking a non-human race famous among humans for being evil, dangerous, and generally bad news and trying to reform it. Her instruction for Nutt to "teach [the remaining wild orcs] civilized behavior" follows naturally from her attempts to do the same with vampires.

And then Nutt fires back with, "And who would you send to teach the humans?"

He earns a "brief outburst of laughter" from Vetinari, which is usually reserved for Vimes. There's no mention of Margolotta's direct reaction, but for the last few lines she's been described as "taken aback" and "[saying something] coldly", so she can't be too amused by this comment. But why is she so unimpressed with Nutt's asides about humans?

It's because, for all she tried, his situation isn't actually like the Black Ribboner vampires. In that case, Margolotta more or less succeeded in making her the vampires into reasonable facsimiles of humans, although with a few weird habits. In the quest for acceptance, Margolotta believed it necessary to emulate humans, to redirect entirely the thirst for blood and control into other passions. But Nutt? He's been raised to be a human orc, to be part of the civilized world, and how does he find true acceptance and happiness?

By accepting himself not as human, but as an orc.

Nutt's comment about "teach[ing] the humans" isn't just a funny aside about human nature. Deliberate or not, it's a slap in the face to everything Margolotta's worked for since at least The Fifth Elephant. For her, humanity is a goal to aspire to; for Nutt, who's lived among the people of Ankh-Morpork and seen their moods, their mobs, their stupidity and even their kindness, humanity is an amusement.

Thank you for taking the time to read my rambling thoughts, and good night.

[skyofdarkmatter42]

The most important Vimes-Angua parallel

[storekn1fe]

some discworld girlies because i finished the fifth elephant a few days ago! [id in alt]

[mortispoxi]

Pratchett trying to shoehorn in a romantic partner for Drumknott at the end of Unseen Academicals is honest very funny in retrospect because the lad shows up two more times before the series concludes and is still romantically unattached which implies that despite Vetinari and Margolotta’s best efforts to play matchmaker something must’ve gone so wildly wrong that it made the two of them not want to engage with each other any further.

So because of this oversight, my headcanon is that when Drumknott and Miss Healstether had their little rendezvous they argued over who had the better filing method which ended in Vetinari and Margolotta having to physically separate and restrain them to keep them from killing each other. It’s the first and only time Vetinari ever had to reprimand Drumknott in his entire career all because he bit Margolotta’s librarian during the altercation. However, deep down he was more than a bit amused watching two mild mannered individuals throw hands over a ring binder so it was more of a halfhearted, “don’t do it again,” kind of scolding.

[aeshnacyanea2000]

‘I would like you to teach them civilized behaviour,’ said Ladyship coldly. He appeared to consider this. ‘Yes, of course, I think that would be quite possible,’ he said. ‘And who would you send to teach the humans?’

-- Terry Pratchett - Unseen Academicals

[cosmicrhetoric]

unseen academicals was my first practical introduction to crab theory/crab mentality ("if i can't have it neither can you") and it makes me so fucking crazy so crazy it's SO crazy to realize that you're the person who is limiting and hurting someone you truly love because you want to keep them safe and your status quo is the only safety you know. the fact that the book relates that back to model minority theory is also crazy. the other fact that the tip glenda uses to bake pickled onions into pies while keeping them fresh and crunchy actually works is also also crazy

[pratchettquotes]

"Your secretary seems to be getting on very well with my librarian," said Lady Margolotta.

"Yes," observed Vetinari. "Apparently they are comparing ring binders. He has invented a new one."

"Well, for the proper working of the world," said Lady Margolotta, "it is essential that ring binders are important to at least one person."

Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals

[cakesandfail]

Margolotta and Vimes interacting is SO funny because he's 100% convinced she's been spying on him

and I'm not saying she HASN'T got spies but like... what she knows about him is "in recovery, grumpy about everything, generally a good egg" and her follow-up questions are "how is Havelock" and "how is Sybil"

so maybe Vimes needs to calm down because she's actually getting all her info from his two biggest fans and it's fine

[theygotlost]

margolotta posted this on fantasy facebook 100% unironically