Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably-Priced Love, and a Hard-Boiled Egg

Oh man, that's super cool!

 

@hyrax WOW *_* Those are some awesome tattoos.

 

@smyxolotl thank you! i love the way they turned out :D

 

I'm deeply amused that according to the poll nobody loves Rincewind.

 

I love him!

...Just not as much as the witches

 

I have a friend who, when talking about her favorite Discworld people, will ramble at lenght about her love for Vetinari etc. and then add as an aside: "..I also have a soft spot for Rincewind". I think that captures my feelings too! Poor Rincewind, everyone's second (or fifth) choice.

 

I think it's mainly that while Rincewind is great, he's just - he really doesn't want to be noticed. He's at his happiest when he's getting three reliable meals a day and a quiet office with nothing at all that will chase him. Which makes him fun to read, but also hard to do anything with as a character.

 

I love Rincewind buuuut I don't love his books. Well to be clear, I love Rincewind, Ponder Stibbons, Ridcully, and the Librarian. Unfortunately there are a whole lot of other Wizards at UU and I don't really care for them at all.

 

screeches quietly
I got into Discworld with The Wee Free Men, a gift from my birth father. It came alongside The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, but for some reason I highly distrusted this book—why would I want to read about some smug guy named maurice
then I hit the library and found a tattered old copy of Night Watch for sale (mind, I was about 11 or so), and it was all over from there
(I love Maurice now, in case anyone wondered!!)

 

As I grow older I like Rincewind more and more. When I was wee he was kind of exasperating and I wanted to just smack him and get him to stand still and actually do something for once. Now that I'm older the idea of being to nope out of things rather than everything being a big battle sounds pretty great.

Not Discworld, but Pratchett fans will appreciate this mysterious discovery in someone's car...

 

The wizard faculty were my favourites when I first read the books. I remember reading the island part of The Last Continent over and over, and wishing they'd get their own book instead of sometimes having subplots in other characters' books.

I guess the Science of Discworld books sort of count as UU-centric.

 

i started re-reading Thud! today, and god damn. i obviously love that book (coughs, points at icon) but re-reading it in our current extremely polarized political environment is hitting very close to home.

i've been saying for years that Jingo should be required reading for every country with a current or former empire, but now i think Thud! should be required reading for every country that is tearing itself apart politically.

 

Guess who just finished another annual Night Watch reread. Question of the reread:

Spoiler: Night Watch spoilers

What are people's theories for why Vetinari was there in the original timeline? In the revised timeline, he was sent by Madam to warn Vimes/Keel that Snapcase had ordered him killed, but the first time round, the cavalry came in the gates and took out the defenders quite a bit earlier, while Vetinari was busy killing Winder.

Also, while I'm at it, personal "first time round" theory:

Spoiler

Coates definitely stayed on in the original timeline and fought on the barricades with everyone else.

 

Spoiler: Night Watch spoilers

Was Vetinari there in the original timeline? Vimes doesn't recall seeing him there. Granted, that doesn't mean much, since I don't think Young Sam was there when Vetinari showed up. A lot of the things that alter are because of how Vimes responds to things now that he's a grizzled adult who's seen this all happen once already.

But, working from an assumption that he was there the first time around: he may have been sent by Madam to try and keep the civilian casualties to a minimum however he had to. Or he might have gone over to do that on his own initiative. (Or! He went over to find out wtf was going on, decided he couldn't sit there and let civilians get killed.)

 

Spoiler

He's wearing a lilac at the start of the book, so yes, presumably he was.

 

Spoiler

considering vetinari's stealth teacher never saw him (in class), i think now being seen was just as vetinari liked it

 

Spoiler

I think even Vetinari would have had trouble not being seen in the middle of a melee stabbing people with a lilac flower in his teeth. :::PPP There's a lot of focus re: the stealth stuff on staying completely still, and that's not a thing you can do while stabbing people.

 

happy 25th of may

The lilacs are probably in bloom at my parents house, i havent gone looking for any here but we're farther north so

I should really get back to reading jingo

 

my yearly lilac selfie taken a couple weeks ago at my parents' house:



#howdotheyriseup

 

Unfortunately the heat wave last week means there's no lilacs in bloom here. I need to order some sort of lilac shaped barette for these eventualities.