#jingo

[veni-vici-vetinari]

‘Once again, there was one of those moments when Vimes felt that he was under close scrutiny. Be diplomatic, Vetinari had told him.’

Fellas, do you enjoy it when he pays attention to what you’re saying

[reddy-reads]

[reluctanttree]

vimes continues to be a mood

[akboro]

[dusya-do-blog]

The Ankh river

[lizormianillustration]

reading terry prattchet is so crazy, cause you'll be reading about a character called something like plinko plonko and their zany exploits, and then he'll just drop a paragraph that goes so insanely hard like -

and then I just have to stare at the wall for a bit.

[anonomouslyabanana]

Love havelock vetinari bc he’s introduced as a terrifying tyrant that will cut off your finger if you wave it at him and is inhumanly calm and collected but then you realize he’s actually just LARPing as a villain. He asks to be handcuffed so he can be arrested properly. He disapproves of his aunt’s cat because it’s not the kind you can pet sinisterly while waiting in the dark. He tries to do “tis but a scratch” about a fucking gunshot and collapses on the spot.

[discworldquotes]

‘He was in the scrap we had against Pseudopolis and my great-gran gave him this book of prayers for soldiers, ’cos you need all the prayers you can get, believe you me, and he stuck it in the top pocket of his jerkin, ’cos he couldn’t afford armour, and next day in battle – whoosh, this arrow came out of nowhere, wham, straight into this book and it went all the way through to the last page before stopping, look. You can see the hole.’   ‘Pretty miraculous,’ Carrot agreed. ‘Yeah, it was, I s’pose,’ said the sergeant. He looked ruefully at the battered volume. ‘Shame about the other seventeen arrows, really.’

Terry Pratchett, Jingo

[blackboard-monitor]

quote of all time

[wellplayed-tp]

Re-reading Jingo for the umpteenth time, I've always known the whole "second bowman" concept was a reference to the JFK assassination but I've never put two and two together on some of the other references, the two main ones being that Snowy Slopes fired from the back storage rooms of the UU library, a storage room filled with textbooks, a reference to the Texas school book depository.

And the second reference actually made me groan. Angua and Carrot meet up with a Gnoll named stoolie, a regular informant of the watch. I believe this is the first time we actually meet a gnoll in the discworld series, seems like a random inclusion in the story. Then i realised.

In the UK police informants are commonly known as a "Grass"

So stoolie... is a "Grassy Gnoll"

God damnit STP, still taking me to school.

[hiljametsa]

“It was much better to imagine men in some smokey room somewhere, made mad and cynical by power and privilege, plotting over the brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn’t then you might have to face the fact that bad things happen because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told their children bedtime stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people.

It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone’s fault. If it was Us, what did that make Me? After all, I’m one of Us. I must be. I’ve certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We’re always one of Us. It’s Them that do the bad things.”

Terry Pratchett, Jingo

[veni-vici-vetinari]

"Then if you persist in playing games I will say that before a knight is created he must spend a night's vigil watching his armor-"

"Practically every night of my life," said Vimes. "A man doesn't keep an eye on his armor round here, that man's got no armor in the morning."

"In prayer," said Rust sharply.

"That's me," said Vimes. "Not a night has gone by without me thinking, 'Ye gods, I hope I get through this alive.'"

"—and he must have proved himself on the field of combat. Against other trained men, Vimes. Not vermin and thugs."

Vimes started to undo the strap of his helmet.

"Well, this isn't the best of moments, my lord, but if someone'll hold your coat I can spare you five minutes..."

Vimes antagonising Rust at any given moment

This man’s never taking Vetinari’s role again

[warriorsproject]

Jingo

[mushroom-punk]

was going back and forth on whether or not to post these, and then i remembered that theres three people total who have drawn this man and one of them is paul kidby. so. anyways. i didn't particularly like Jingo as much as the other watch books but 71 hour Ahmed has a lot of potential as a character and is just kind of unnecessarily cool. i enjoy him *and it's sikh. sheikh is a legend of zelda character.

[reluctanttree]

i know everyone posts this one cause its just so well written but im still going to cause damn

[aeshnacyanea2000]

'Can't argue with the truth, sir.' 'In my experience, Vimes, you can argue with anything.'

-- Terry Pratchett - Jingo