something short and simple i did in blender, 'animated' introduction of Carrot,,,,,its tough learning that you belong to a different species
i did some discworld experimental paintings too *throws them at you* !!!!!
Can we talk real quick about how beautiful Leonard and Vetinari’s friendship is thematically speaking? Like, we have a dude who’s whole deal is believing that the world is inherently evil, who’s friends with this other guy that almost sees it as his responsibility as a living thing to be unconditionally in love with the world. I’d also argue that this may be slightly present with Sybil, and possibly Carrot. Vetinari just likes people who can make him believe, even briefly, that his ‘the world is inherently evil’ philosophy is false.
- an inventor who's capable of creating things that can blow up mountains and kill thousands of people, but is incredibly naive and believes no one would ever use his inventions with bad intentions? I'm gonna let him live in my attic, surrounded by traps of his own devising so no one can disturb him, and give him all the supplies he asks for for his little projects, because occasionally he comes up with a doozy.
- A con man who stole hundreds of thousands of dollars? I'll fake his death and put him in charge of some of the major industries in the city, because if there's anyone who knows how to get money out of people, it's a con artist.
- A man who looks exactly like me and was used as part of a plot to overthrow me and take over the city? I'll send him to the actors' guild so he can impersonate me whenever I feel like taking a little holiday.
- The world's greatest forger? Yoink. He's mine now.
Look, I know Vetinari is already the maelstrom at the center of a shipping war, but I really like what he's got going on with Leonard da Quirm.
Like Leonard is his opposite and yet also equal to him in intelligence, just a completely different kind. Innocent where Vetinari is cynical, balancing each other well.
And I love their conversation where they just talk at each other about their respective special interests, with Leonard continuously interjecting to offer Vetinari tea.
I just think they'd be cute together, is all <3
(and Vetinari keeping Leonard locked up and hidden away in the palace pleases the edgy teenager in me)
They said he'd been educated at the Assassin's school, but no one remembered what weapons he'd learned. He'd studied languages.
I'd forgotten Vetinari specialized in languages at school. It's not a very important detail, but it does make this bit later in the book a lot funnier:
“Ah.” The Patrician flicked through a stack of Leonard's drawings. “And the hieroglyphs - an alphabet of signs and colors. Colors is a language... What a fascinating idea...”
“An emotional intensifier,” said Leonard. “But of course we ourselves use something like it. Red for danger and so on. I never did succeed in translating it, though.”
“Colors as a language...” murmured Lord Vetinari.
They're in a life-or-death race against the clock to stop a war before it can start and he's geeking out over his college major. Good for him, honestly.
I have to admit, I have been looking forward to this one. You guys have emphatically voted in favor of reading sheet music every single time. But, is it weirder than faking a guy's death, locking him in your attic, giving him unlimited resources to invent whatever he wants, and periodically sneaking away to divulge state secrets to him?
In any case, you couldn’t really imprison someone like Leonard of Quirm. The most you could do was lock up his body. The gods alone knew where his mind went.
"A splendid people with much to recommend them," said Leonard. "I always thought it was the presence of the desert. It leads to an urgency of thought. It makes you aware of the briefness of life."
The Patrician glanced at another page. Between a sketch of a bird's wing and a careful drawing of a ball-joint was a little doodle of something with spiked wheels and spinning blades. And then there was the device for moving mountains aside...
Quote for today. I actually think with Jingo, the whole book is one very long delightful quote . :-)
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Sergeant Colon knew he was facing one of the most dangerous moments in his career. There was nothing for it. He was out of options. ‘Er … if I add this A and this O and this I and this D,’ he said, the sweat pouring down his pink cheeks, ‘then I can use that V to make “avoid”. Er … and that gets me, er, a … what d’you call these blue squares, Len?’
‘A “Three Times Ye Value of Thee Letter” score,’ said Leonard of Quirm.
‘Well done, sergeant,’ said Lord Vetinari. ‘I do believe that puts you in the lead.’
‘Er … I do believe it does, sir,’ squeaked Sergeant Colon.
‘However, I find that you have left me the use of my U, N and A, B, L, E,’ the Patrician went on, ‘which incidentally lands me on this Three Times the Whole Worde square and, I rather suspect, wins me the game.’
Sergeant Colon sagged with relief.
‘A capital game, Leonard,’ said Vetinari. ‘What did you say it was called?’
‘I call it the “Make Words With Letters That Have All Been Mixed Up Game”, my lord.’
‘Ah. Yes. Obviously. Well done.’
‘Huh, an’ I got three points,’ mumbled Nobby. ‘They was perfectly good words that you wouldn’t let me have, too.’
‘I’m sure the gentlemen don’t want to know those words,’ said Colon severely.
So, apparently there’s a common misconception in certain corners of academia that Leonardo Da Vinci worked in a restaurant at one point. Honestly though, I can see Leonard of Quirm doing that. Making automatic pasta rollers, telling customers that the food is made with love, accidentally burning the place down several times. It would be nice for him.
Captain Carrot sat near the prow. To the astonishment of Rincewind, who'd got out for a gloomy evening walk, he was sewing.
'It's a badge for the mission,' said Carrot. 'See? This is yours.' He held it up.
'But what is it for?'
'Morale.'
'Ah, that stuff,' said Rincewind. 'Well, you've got lots, Leonard doesn't need it and I've never had any.'
'I know you are being good-humoured about it, but I think it's vital that there is something that holds the crew together,' said Carrot, still calmly sewing.
'Yes, it's called skin. It's important to keep all of you on the inside of it.'
There can be a modern AU for everything, can there not? Only the Da Vinci look is kind of hard to lose. I wish we got to see more of the car (or submarine) trip quartet in action, but alas.