#Sam Vimes

[higgsbison]

POV you posted cringe at the daily guild meeting

[hoerrrru]

🖤🧡

[reddy-reads]

Vimes and 71 hour Ahmed just really have.... something in jingo. The conversations he has with Ahmed where they're comparing their approaches to policing and Ahmed points out that vimes experience in the city is very different from his own.... the way they both struggle with the scope of what they can do vs what Ahmed calls being part of a big crime..... the way vimes's conversation with Ahmed changes him/reveals himself to himself, his dream that he can chase the big crimes and do something about the bigger more systemic crimes.... I don't think vimes really has a relationship like his one with Ahmed elsewhere in the series. Ahmed is his peer and an established officer on his own right. It's just interesting

[hp-mineccraft]

I think Sybil x Vimes x Vetinari is an incredible ship, in part because it retroactively makes this scene the funniest instance of foreshadowing ever;

Vimes: What kind of rich people threesome thing did I just walk into?

Vimes, however many years later:

[izzi-illustrates]

I have an immense soft spot for Sam Vimes and his giant wife Sybil Ramkin

[nobrain-nothoughts]

Also connected, Sam Vimes, who believed "the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but on the longer term even more from those who say things like 'the innocent have nothing to fear'"

[moddeydhoo]

[arretoskore]

I'm rereading Night Watch and every time, every time the tragedy of being John Keel hits me like a ton of bricks. You are a seasoned policeman, coming to a new town in the middle of your career for a better pay. You get to Ankh-Morpork alone, no friends, no family, you have to start again. And the first thing that happens is that you get robbed and killed without no one ever knowing you, just your name. It gets remembered carried on through the decades only because in a different timeline you made such a strong impact on the life of (1) new recruit that years later he will be thrust in your place in a cruel twist of fate and decide to be you, because someone's got to be. And he will be the only one to grieve you, the actual John Keel. And when he is gone people will keep saying your name but not know it belonged to you. You were gone before the story even started.

[stackofsnakes]

Nothing will ever be as horrifying to me as Sam Vimes organizer rattling down the timeline of the fall of Ankh-Morpork and the death of the guard members, one by one, including the typically unkillable protagonists Vimes and Carrot. I can still remember the deep existential dread of then

[lizormianillustration]

who watches the watchmen?

[alyona11]

Quickly colored the sketch of Vimes and Sybil

[yushauwu]

[motion-blur-crowley]

this always makes my event medicine heart skip a beat. it doesn't take much to start a panic in a crowd, and once that kicks off, it can be deadly, and incredibly difficult to stop.

OH TERRY YOU ABSOLUTE SAVAGE

[veni-vici-vetinari]

Could Vetinari kill inhume all the criminals in his city in a single night?

Yes.

Is he going to do that?

No.

He’ll sit back and let his bf lawfully arrest them one by one, by protocol and all, bc he is a good and loving partner.

[pennzance]

His Grace, the Duke of Ankh, Commander of the City Watch, Blackboard Monitor, Sir Samuel Vimes is literature's greatest Policeman.

Not Detective. He himself would readily admit he sometimes misses the obvious clue (not to mention his general view on 'clues'), and plots have turned on how stupid some people believe him to be.

No, Policeman. It is a very different role than the Detective. Sam Vimes fills a hole in the universe labelled Policeman. There are any number of contenders scrabbling to fill the hole labelled Detective and, on the Disc at least, no one is quite the right shape. All of the time, anyway.

But Vimes is different. He is the quintessential 'on the job all the time' sort of Copper. Consistent. He works at a problem and he just never stops. He doesn't solve crimes with a flash of brilliance that needs to be explained away as some sort of superpower, he does it by writing things down and asking questions and taking note of who is trying to kill him this week.

Most would describe him as a fundamentally decent bloke, but Vimes sees himself differently. He is a suspicious bastard who happens to be employed in his capacity AS a suspicious bastard for the good of the City. That he is perfect for his job never enters his mind.

He's not necessarily a good MAN. Suspicious as he is, and maybe just a bit too knowledgeable about how best to disable an opponent in really quite painful but technically non-lethal ways, he knows deep down he's an irredeemable street tough made good.

He's certainly not the best HUSBAND, although Sybil would likely disagree with any who said so out loud. He's constantly late, he's dour at parties, he keeps the worst hours known to man or ape, he reflexively dislikes anyone who refers to their 'breeding' as an asset, and in general he does not fit into the world of high society she hails from.

And, as much as it pains him, he could be a better father. But he is doing his best in that regard, and woe betide anyone who would be stupid enough to make any such comment to the contrary in front of him.

But Sam is certainly the best Policeman he can be. Understanding, but rigid in his adherence to the letter of the law, he knows how to bend it in a way that doesn't threaten to break it. If he's unsure of himself, he'll barrel on ahead to do what is RIGHT and put up with the consequences.

He is Pratchett's ur-example of the man who does the job in front of him because no one else is going to. And that job is Policeman.

And he does it SO well, he sets such an incredible example, that late in his career, he commands the respect of policemen far and wide. They follow in his many boot-wearing footsteps. They fit the hole in the universe labelled Policeman as well, and make it their own.

But they are all called Sammies. After the first. The best. The only.

Sam Vimes, despite his titles and accolades and honors, is literature's greatest Policeman. And he will forever be so, because a Policeman is all he feels comfortable being.

[limewind-ferie]

They deserve one quiet night together