“You make enemies like a craftsman.”

hello sir good to meet you, i’m attorney blabbo, your court-appointed jester. let me set my briefcase down here. sorry about all the bells. your file here says you killed five men. let me juggle about this.

absolute favourite thing is when, in accordance with moments in guards! guards!, people write vimes to completely lose all sense of fine conversational and motor skills in front of sybil so he's continuously doing the equivalent of stepping on a rake

happy glorious 25th of may to those who celebrate and also those who don’t, for the glorious 25th of may is for All Of Us

once again unequivocally lost in the sauce at the implication that younger vimes suspects that john keel!vimes is his dad who left when he was young. my favorite subtext of night watch i love the way it just sits there just out of focus

when sam says here's your hard boiled egg i bet you like your toast cut into soldiers and the yolk still runny. because i do. thats the culmination of 'this strange man looks like me and looks at me like he seems almost afraid of me, took me under his wing over every other person in the watch house and acts protective of me even when he doesn't need to. he just came in from pseudopolis but knows this city too well to be anything but a local. and not from the nice part of town, the roughest of the rough part, where i came from, too. he asked after my mum but blew me off when i told him she wanted to meet him. he asked after my dad and looked distinctly unsurprised to hear he wasn't in the picture. he seems to know what i'll do before i do it. sometimes looking at him is like looking in the mirror. there's a tightly coiled anger in him, i can see it, and it looks like something in me i've felt before. on our first patrol he taught me how to walk. i know him i know him i know him'

​it’s not an understatement to say I think about this all the time

Did anyone ever consider the contradiction of this perspective and the other one given in Discworld that sin is when you treat people as things?

pratchett is such an insanely good writer like it still floors me sometimes how good he was at putting together a book. you read the phrase "you do the job that's in front of you" one million times in night watch and sometimes it's about vimes stepping into his mentor's role in history and sometimes it's about cops who keep their heads down when bad things happen to people and sometimes it's about clearing off your own gravestone every year and sometimes it's just about surviving the barricades and the phrase picks up steam and meaning every single time until you get to the end. the revolution was always going to happen and the lilac was always going to bloom. they did the job they didn't have to do and they died for it🪻🥚

It is officially the glorious 25th of May. Enjoy the scheduled content and please go read a discworld novel. <3