#*thud thud thud thud thud*

[yeehawpim]

#original comic #comic #writing #terry pratchett #thud! #artists on tumblr #my comic #my art #i was honestly so mad at myself when i realized i didnt own a physical copy of thud while i was writing this #i had to buy the ebook to pull that line cuz there werent any available at my library or local bookstores

[wolfertinger666]

it's on the mouse!

(he/him)

#furry #anthro #my art #mouse #small style test #i wanna throw him against the wall making a loud thud noise

[supurrb]

he keeps knocking this chair down due to being TOO big to be on it but by god will he keep jumping up anyways

#ragdolls #cats #prince daffodil #when he jumped down the whole chair went back and thudded back down #sometimes in the middle of the night he’ll knock it over completely #he underestimates his own size

[creepyscritches]

Look at what I got for white elephant this year 😊😊😊

#Creepy chatter #I cut air holes in a box + hot glued fake poop in the bottom + filled it w litter + sealed a fake running hamster inside #Before wrapping it so it would thud around while the game went #I serial killer duct taped another box and put a cowbell + Bambi shirt in it

[g4yr4t]

what the actual FUCK are my upstairs neighbors doing

#thud thud thud thud THUD #just kick me in the head gaaaaawd #babble and blather

[mendedrum]

Beating people up in little rooms, he knew were that led. And if you did it for a good reason, you'd do it for a bad one. You couldn't say "we are the good guys," and do bad guy things.

Terry Pratchett, Thud (via Samuel Vimes)

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Terry Pratchett's social commentary is impeccable as always. I love these lines. They're so simple yet so raw.

#discworld #samuel vimes #thud #terry pratchett #gnu terry pratchett #discworld thud #heli and discworld

[the-wine-dark-sea]

I love their dynamic lol

#currently reading #Thud! #GNU Terry Pratchett #Discworld

[jazzkrebber]

Kaz: checkmate

Wylan: what- we're playing monopoly???

Kaz: when you can't beat the odds, change the game

#and then he pulls a pair of sunglasses out his butt and says swag #wylan proceeds to beat him with his light up sketchers #you hear a thud see a flash of light then Kaz is on the ground #six of crows incorrect quotes #soc incorrect quotes #leigh bardugo #save shadow and bone #grishaverse #shadow and bone #six of crows #crooked kingdom #ruin and rising #siege and storm #wylan hendriks #jesper fahey #wylan van eck #kaz brekker #wesper #inej ghafa #kanej

[thestuffedalligator]

So there’s this bit at the end of Thud! where they’re in the king’s cave, and Bashfullson explains the nature of the Summoning Dark, and Angua says she believes him, and Sam is presented with proof of the dark and he starts. Rationalizing.

…his mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that what had happened hadn’t really happened and, if it had happened, hadn’t happened much.

It was all mystic, that’s what it was. Oh, it might all be true, but how could you ever tell? You had to stick to the things you can see. And you had to keep reminding yourself of that, too.

Yeah, that was it. What had really happened, eh? A few signs? Well, anything can look like you want it to if you’re wound up enough, yes? A sheep can look like a cow, right? Ha!

And I laughed when I first read this because it’s very Sam Vimes, but now that I’m thinking about it. I think this is the only time we ever see a Discworld protagonist do this.

Other characters get to see the squiddy, weird underbelly of the universe, the invisible magic and the world of the supernatural and acknowledge it. Moist hears the whispers of the words, Tiffany can see the Nac Mac Feegle and so on but Sam never does. Carrot and Nobby and Fred have all seen Death enough to greet him in public, but in I think? Fifth Elephant? Sam says he’s never seen Death before, and in that case only saw him because he was fighting for his life.

It’s like the opposite of First Sight. Sam has Second Sight so hard that he can look into First Sight, close the door, and block the way with huge bricks of rationalization. The only character who comes close to that is Susan, who tries to ignore the supernatural but knows she never can.

#discworld #gnu terry pratchett #thud! #i’ve been relistening to the audiobook and this stuck out to me for some reason

[magpiesketchins]

I'm sorry I didn't sign up to be emotionally eviscerated by Sam Vimes reading to his son.

#Thud! #sam vimes #This book is going to be a trip for someone with a Bad Relationship With Their Father isn't it #Sam fucking Vimes man #Truly the most character ever #This is my first read through of the city watch series and it has consumed me #discworld #He's a good dad!!!! #I'm emotional about it!!!

[stickandthorn]

The way Terry Pratchett handled police in the Discworld continues to be one of the many, many things I love about his works. I certainly don’t have time to describe all the details of why he wrote such good policing, but I think the best summation of it is the arc that Sam Vimes had in many of the books.

I haven’t read all the watch books, but in the ones I have, there’s often a similar plot structure. We meet a truly detestable criminal Vimes is chasing down (think the Deep Downers in Thud, or Carcer in Night Watch). They show themselves to be truly awful people who do awful things, and they’re also just plain jackasses. They’re characters you hate to read about, the grind the audience’s gears. They also grind Sam Vimes’s gears. 

Throughout the story, they commit more and more crimes. Horrible crimes, like torturing and killing innocent people, or practicing violent religious extremism. They do things that personally target our protagonist, like go after his wife and son, or relentlessly taunt him and try to kill him and his past self. They consistently do bad things, and even as Vimes is chasing them, they do more bad things. You want them to be punished.  Finally, at the climax, we get some sort of final confrontation between the villain(s) and Vimes. In a different book, Vimes might kill the people who sent people to hurt his infant son, or tortured and killed innocent people, and the audience would probably cheer. In fact, Vimes wants to kill them. 

But he doesn’t. Every time, he suppresses the urge to enact his own justice, and he doesn’t kill them. He arrests them. Because, as he says many times, if you’ll do something for a good reason, you’ll do it for a bad. Even when there’s every excuse as to why this particular villain doesn’t deserve to live, he just arrests them. It’s not his job to decide how they should be punished for their crimes.

I think this is a masterful takedown of police brutality and Punisher style characters. Vimes isn’t a perfect person, it’s not that he could never dream of killing the bad guy. He can, and he does, often. But he never follows through, he understands why he can’t do that, so no matter how tempting it is, he doesn’t.

Because in this story, the hard boiled cynical cop truly believes in following the law. The message is always that law enforcement killing a criminal is never ok, even if they’re undeniably guilty of something truly dreadful. Hell, police brutality is personified as a millennia old demonic quasi-deity possessing Vimes, one that’s never been beaten before, but he beats it and doesn’t give in. I think that’s a really unique message in cop stories, and another reason as to why Pratchett was such a good author. 

#Discworld #Terry Pratchett #night watch #the watch #sam vimes #thud! #not cr #tw police brutality

[theygotlost]

family iconograph at koom valley ♥

#discworld #terry pratchett #sam vimes #sybil ramkin #samsybil #thud! #samuel vimes #sybil vimes #young sam #mine #I SPENT DAYSSSSS ON THIS............ PLEASE LOOK AT IT 😭 #I dont normally have cause to draw babies but when i do.... jesus christ look at that little thang #also i know i cant draw backgrounds. IM SORRY

[ghastmaskzombie]

God I really do love when the stakes in a narrative are deeply, unapologetically personal. Reading Sam Vimes drag himself through the dark beneath the world (again) with quite possibly some broken bones, maybe bleeding out, only a snowball's chance in hell of him making out of this cave alive, no way he's bringing his humanity home with him if he does, whole countries ready to go to war if he doesn't, and I'm crying sobbing because he's not going to make it in time to read a picture book to his baby boy tonight. And I'm like 95% sure that's just what Sir Terry was going for.

#discworld #thud! #gnu terry pratchett

[pratchettquotes]

"I have to tell you, sir, that Lady Sybil has found out about the bacon sandwich arrangement. She said to tell you the game was up, sir."

"I am the commander around here, you know," said Vimes, with as much hauteur as he could muster on an empty stomach.

"Yes, sir. But Lady Sybil has a very quiet way of being firm, sir."

"She has, hasn't she," said Vimes as they strolled toward the building. "I'm a very lucky man, you know," he added, just in case Carrot may have got the wrong impression.

"Yes, sir. You are indeed."

Terry Pratchett, Thud!

#sam vimes #samuel vimes #sybil ramkin #carrot ironfoundersson #thud! #discworld #terry pratchett #marriage #hauteur #power #eat better #food #diet #compromise #persuasion #the bacon sandwich arrangement #very lucky man

[oakys-sideblog]

"What would you do if I asked you an outright question, Vimes?"

"I'd tell you a downright lie, sir."

#HELP I LOVE HIM #this is one of the best dialogues terry has ever written #havelock vetinari #sam vimes #discworld #discworld quotes #thud! #terry pratchett #gnu terry pratchett

[mendedrum]

Young dwarfs listened to him because he talked about history and destiny and all the other words that always got trotted out to put a gloss on slaughter.

Terry Pratchett, Thud

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the way this line was delivered was brilliant. drew a good chuckle out of me. it's so raw and relevant especially when discussing topics such as ultranationalism and well, fascism.

#discworld #discworld thud #samuel vimes #gnu terry pratchett #heli and discworld