butleroftoast: The Discworld is a series of books about satirical fantasy, mocking the absurdity of the genre and taking it to extremes. It’s a series of books about surreal humour and lame puns. It’s a series of books about cartoonish characters in ludicrous situations. It’s also a series of books about hope in the darkest times. …
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spacecapart: He wanted to go home. He wanted it so much that he trembled at the thought. But if the price of that was selling good men to the night, if the price was filling those graves, if the price was not fighting with every trick he knew… then it was too high. (…) What …
mosymoseys: don’t put your trust in revolutions. they always come around again. that’s why they’re called revolutions. in memory of …
july-19th-club: Magic wasn’t difficult. That was the big secret that the whole baroque edifice of wizardry had been set up to conceal. Anyone with a bit of intelligence and enough perseverance could do magic, which was why the wizards cloaked it with rituals and the whole pointy-hat business. The trick was to do magic and …
spacecapart: Slightly less dramatic than the incident in Koom Valley was the time when Vimes’s Inner Watchmen beat back the Summoning Dark using the universal policeman’s trait that is a love of baked goods. Source: spacecapart
Started reading The Prince – to look for exact stuff that Lord Havelock Vetinari does. Was not disappointed
xemylixa: “Therefore a wise prince ought to adopt such a course that his citizens will always in every sort and kind of circumstance have need of the state and of him, and then he will always find them faithful.” (Page quote for Vetinari Job Security on TvTropes, btw. No shit.) “… princes become great when …
the-tao-of-fandom: roachpatrol: autrelivre: carry-on-my-wayward-artblog: alda-rana: out-there-on-the-maroon: muffinworry: roachpatrol: out-there-on-the-maroon: babtest: so. they made a new german discowrld essentials edition, with a new covers (which is good because the old ones are real bad) and they are these manga-like ‘build a picture’ style, which i like but. oh my god. look at that vimes this isn’t …
kass-king-of-sass: Discworld Aesthetic: Going Postal I did a re-read of this while on a long plane ride the other day. It’s definitely one of my favorite Discworld books outside of the Watch series and I hope to read the rest of the Moist books soon. Source: kass-king-of-sass
spacecapart: ‘Sam Vimes once arrested [the Patrician] for treason. And Sam Vimes once arrested a dragon. Sam Vimes stopped a war between nations by arresting two high commands. He’s an arresting fellow, Sam Vimes. Sam Vimes killed a werewolf with his bare hands, and carries law with him like a lamp. Watchmen across half the …
havemanymonkeys: The Ankh Morpork Post Office has the best victory dance in all the city. Source: havemanymonkeys
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