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Sometimes I remember this is canon

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Hello yes okay I've been here for only four minutes but I already have a Favorite.

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"afterwards we could—"

Do you ever just want to fucking cry?

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commission for @sirkai , a toast to not quite health

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They got weird cats in Ankh-Morpork

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horse announcer voice: and they're off, a truly solid start for both contestants, this might be a close one

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city watch sketch dump,,,

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reading hogfather in the middle of june

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no one did clowns like pratchett. sure "the fool jingled miserably across the floor" but that's just the tip of the iceberg....imagine alluding to a character's tragic backstory and deep repression of his true nature and heavily implying he might be a vampire before revealing the identity he's been battling against all book is actually just a literal circus clown

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I've been thinking of the "Can Granny Weatherwax beat Bugs Bunny" question and this is my full take for Discworld characters:

Vimes - Cares too much, too easy to piss off. Has the innate chase instinct that makes characters run into walls with realistic tunnels painted on them. Might get to arrest Bugs Bunny but the beast will just slip out of the handcuffs to help him lock them, then walk out of the jail cell to have a union mandated coffee break.

Ridcully - Classic hunting season scenario, but has enough charisma to probably still get a few good shots off before the inevitable.

Rest of the wizards - No survivors, only Bugs.

Carrot - The intense near-magical narrative aura of well meaning innocence should make him immune, Bugs will likely be forced to be the villain of the episode.

Lord Vetinari - Flattened by a comically large anvil in the first few minutes of the episode, unclear if it was all a part of his long term strategy or not.

Moist - Has the 'lovable trickster getting away with it' energy, but nowhere near Bugs level. Already fell for the "old lady who swallowed a fly" scenario with the stamp slugs once, won't fare any better here.

Death - Definitely one of those "character is trying to avoid death" episodes, would go back and forth. Might actually get to end Bugs but his spirit will reappear in Death's domain and ruin his garden.

Nanny Ogg - The ultimate in anti-Bugs technology, a gleefully annoying old lady who doesn't give a fuck and definitely won't be the first to instigate the plot bearing conflict. This is a full sweep, he's the episode antagonist.

Granny Weatherwax - Too win-motivated to not lose. Would have to break the story to have any chance. Might do it.

Magrat - Will have sappy ideas about helping the poor animal which honestly has the 50:50 chance of either getting slapsticked or Bugs ending in a ye olde stroller&pacifier gag.

Colon&Nobby - Designed in a lab to be totaled by Bugs Bunny.

Tiffany Aching - A child that also has a large pan that is the perfect thing to hit someone over the head with and make a BOIOIOINGGG sound, so great odds.

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"I could fix him", "I could make him worse" – You know, I rather think I invented him.

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Thats SENIOR postman to you!

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HE'S GOT A LITTLE DOG? He's got a little dog that he's very fond of? A small wire-haired terrier? please........

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A Night at the Patrician’s palace

(by mari.o)

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So Meserole saw Vetinari being bullied by the kids and did nothing? Not even after, when they were alone?

I get it was ‘all part of his plan’ and he ‘had it under control’ but damn did that kid have anyone by his side. One, she didn’t know that, so a simple ‘are you alright?’ couldn’t hurt, given that she is his only parental figure.

And two, there is a difference between “I’m glad he destroyed the book bc now only I’ll have that information” and “yes, I wanted to be mocked and humiliated in front of the entire guild and have my book taken from me and thrown into the fire when I was just trying to enjoy a meal”.

And we also know he didn’t want the book burned, because he doesn’t burn the other copies (he just hides them) because they are too dear to him to do so.

So, no, I don’t think he was fully fine with what Downey did and I find it kinda sad that he had no one to talk to about it.

This is also without considering that the book incident was only one thing we were shown but considering how natural Downey and the other kids act through it is safe to deduce it happened regularly.

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so genuinely fascinated by the total disregard pratchett has for vimes's marriage in the books leading up to fifth elephant. theres a sense that hes trying to resolve a lot of the tension there in fifth elephant, and i genuinely do not think it works because in order to do that he turns vimes into an action hero. theres interesting character work but its so empty...it feels so empty because it lacks the real heart and tact that you find in books like jingo. i understand why people want to make vimes and sybil into a beautiful perfect marriage. its because youre uncomfortable with pratchett's heavyhanded misogyny. the marriage that vimes and sybil have from fifth elephant thru snuff is so disconnected from the first four books it feels gross and strange... and this is why a lot of people hate vetvimes or are uncomfortable with it: because they feel bad for the way sybil was treated in the books that have so much heavy vetvimes work happening. i get it. i really do. but my solution is not to say "well actually while vimes is offscreen, he and sybil are having a loving relationship" . what i do instead is admit that vimes Fucking Sucks and that sybil should divorce him and they should never have had a child together. fifth elephant is a book with rampant misogyny all around and so much of it is just a mishmash of themes that dont work together. of course its the book where sybil is pregnant! because vimes is becoming a cool action hero! hes this caricature of masculinity! and its entirely disconnected from the other books. u want a perfect vimes? go read feet of clay. he is literally the epitome of what he should be in that book