"I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire," said Miss Tick. "There may be no survivors.”
- Terry Pratchett
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No man drinking a nonalcoholic chocolate drink had ever been the centre of so much attention.
Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
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my favorite thing about Corporal Carrot is that he’s a romantic hero plopped right in the middle of the greediest cesspit of a chaotic neutral city ever to debase the pages of literature, and yet instead of having his shining idealism destroyed by an uncaring reality, he makes reality embarrassedly put down the weapons and agree to make nice, and then mutter an awkward “Good morning” whenever it passes him on the street.
And conversely, Vimes is a noir hero in a noir setting (Ankh-Morpork) but instead of an acceptance of the unstoppable awfulness of people in power, these are stories about Vimes dragging them in by their neck and saying, I’ll arrest you, yes, even you.
"The Glorious People’s Republic of Treacle Mine Road: Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Love and a Hard-Boiled Egg"(via tehbewilderness)
Happy 25th of May
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Happy Glorious 25th of May!
Here’s Vimes-as-Keel de-escalating the riot attempt at the Treacle Mind Road Watchhouse. Such a great scene, where our hero shows himself to be far more heroic by working to avoid violence than by fighting.
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Damn! Damn! Damn! Every year he forgot. Well, no. He never forgot. He just put the memories away, like old silverware that you didn’t want to tarnish. And every year they came back, sharp and sparkling, and stabbed him in the heart. And today, of all days…
happy 25th of may everyone
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“‘What will it matter in 100 years time?’
‘It matters now.’”
~Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad
“Here and now, we are alive”
-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
“We are here, and this is now… Vimes understood it to mean, in less exalted copper speak, that you have to do the job that is in front of you.”
~ Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
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‘Really? And some sort of inspiring slogan?’ said Vimes.
‘Yes, indeed. Something like, perhaps, “They Did The Job They Had To Do”?’
’No,’ said Vimes, coming to a halt under a lamp by the crypt entrance. ‘How dare you? How dare you! At this time! In this place! They did the job they didn’t have to do, and they died doing it, and you can’t give them anything. Do you understand? They fought for those who’d been abandoned, they fought for one another, and they were betrayed…’
He may be gone but his words never lose their relevance.
Support the people doing the job they didn’t have to do, and not just with catchy slogans and clapping.
GNU Terry Pratchett.
GNU SIR TERRY PRATCHETT