#wazzer

[waxworks1992]

when the regiment is monstrous!!!

#have not stopped thinking abt this book since i first read it months back. my little lads... #monstrous regiment #discworld #polly perks #maladict #shufti #wazzer #tonker #lofty #igorina #carborundum

[potato-lord-but-not]

lol hi

#the first one is LITERALLY them I don’t think I’ve seen a meme that encapsulated them so much #discworld #discworld fanart #discworld meme #going postal #monstrous regiment #moist von lipwig #adora belle dearheart #golden spike #igorina #tonker #wazzer #maladict #meme redraw

[pratchettquotes]

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.

Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment

#polly perks #wazzer #monstrous regiment #discworld #terry pratchett #truth #seeker #enlightenment #quest #philosophy #learning #preference #good company #bad company #friend groups #infinitely to be preferred

[chokopoppo]

Chapters: 1/4 Fandom: Discworld - Terry Pratchett Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Alice “Wazzer” Goom & Mildred Froc Characters: Alice "Wazzer" Goom, Mildred Froc, Sacharissa Cripslock, Otto von Chriek, Original Characters Additional Tags: Politics, Plot, Religious Discussion, Visions Series: Part 6 of Six Months Passed. Summary:

Alice Goom makes her choice.

#my writing #six months passed #monstrous regiment #discworld #alice 'wazzer' goom #alice goom #wazzer #the first multi-chapter installment of this series! #because. my god. the plot is starting in earnest now

[koncussionkat]

Monstrous Regiment II

Some people have asked for more thoughts, and I can’t help it. I went to see if there were discussion posts on this but couldn’t really find any. SPOILER for Monstrous Regiment.

Polly has a complicated relationship with her mother from the small snippets we get of her past, which transfers to that of the Duchess. The Duchess is the highest noblewoman and the leader of the country. She lost her husband when she was young and had no children. Due to this, she kept herself locked away, and no one has seen her in years. If she has died, then the country belongs to a neighboring prince who is currently fighting to take over the country regardless. The Duchess exists as long as no one opens the box to check her quantum state. Everyone prays to the Duchess, and there are pictures of her everywhere—at least one in every house.

Polly’s parent's bar and inn is even called “The Duchess.” The sign has a picture of the Duchess on it, and after her mother's death, her father can’t be bothered to keep up with cleaning the sign. The sign now has bird poop on it, which don’t even get me started on the birds. That is a whole other thing. It is a sign that belief is dying. The feeling of losing the war is settling in but hasn’t been spoken aloud. To join the army, you must kiss the Duchess and swear loyalty. Even the soldiers who hold no love for the Duchess have to do this. People are dying in the Duchess’ name. Polly is followed and can’t help but always think of the Duchess.

This is the start of the book. This is the very beginning. She thinks of her mother and how she gave rites to the Duchess every night, and she can’t take the glaring judgment. Is this the judgment of the Duchess or her mother? It doesn’t matter. She knows what she has to do. She has to rescue her brother; she has to care for her brother as she has always done. Her Mother is absent unless it is to hand out punishment or to lecture, much like their god and his abominations.

Then we are introduced to Wazzer, who Sir Terry Pratchett treats as a Joan of Arc character. Wazzer can converse with the Duchess. Wazzer can hear the Duchess; the most heartbreaking moment comes when she says she mostly hears the Duchess crying.

At the end of the day, the Duchess is only a woman. She is not a god; her people have been praying and begging for her help, and she can only change things in small ways. She cannot stop the river from moving, which changes the borders and causes most of their battles; she can’t cure the sick and can’t be there. She is an absent parent damned to hear about her children, like the Christian God. The Christian god sent his son to be sacrificed to save those who called out to them. The Duchess is sending this pack of women in to attempt the same. She is attempting to give them a chance.  

She uses her command one more time to rally her people in a way she never did when living. She is passing on the mantle to the children of Borogravia. The line ‘Find yourself a worthier god’ chills. Polly attempts to do this after the war. She has outgrown the Duchess and small beliefs. She is finally letting go of it. There is still a need for belief, though, and what that is is a bit of a mystery, at least to myself. You can think that Polly is more confident now and has become her own belief. Or it could be the belief that there is no one thing or idol to believe in. I would love to know what people think. What is large enough to care for?

  I am tittering on rambling, so I am going to end this one here, but PLEASE tell me your thoughts.

#discworld #Polly Perks #The Duchess #Wazzer #Monstrous Regiment #Monstrous Regiment Spoiler

[milfdarthrevan]

I'm quite glad I read Small Gods- definitely something that is inspiring this book's theological stuff.

#honor reads discworld #discworld #monstrous regiment #wazzer

[dimity-lawn]

#discworld #gnu terry pratchett #meme #discworld meme #created by yours truly #monstrous regiment #the duchess #borogravia #wazzer #alice “wazzer” goom #alice goom #lotr

[projectorthus]

Really quick Monstrous Regiment comic because I miss Wazzer and love her to bits.

I like my female characters strange and unsettling.

#art #drawing #comic #discworld #discworld fanart #monstrous regiment #gnu terry pratchett #terry pratchett #Wazzer Goom

[asparklethatisblue]

Good Borogravian girls...

The backstories of the (human) members of the Monstrous Regiment squad, and what pushed them into joining up

#polly perks #shufti betty manickle #tonker magda halter #lofty tilda tewt #wazzer alice goom #idk how to tag them I don't ever think of them by their “real” names #monstrous regiment #discworld #my art #oooh this took way too long to make I kept forgetting about it aha

[cosmicrhetoric]

REVENGE IS NOT REDRESS. REVENGE IS A WHEEL AND IT TURNS BACKWARDS. THE DEAD ARE NOT YOUR MASTERS

#deep in the denouement of my nine millionth listen of the monstrous regiment audiobook and it's still the only book ever #maybe its cause im hearing a new voice/version but the duchess/wazzer scene was SCARY i got fr chills. ty jen from the it crowd #and pollllyyyyyyy polllyyyyy my friend polly. i forgot she decked strappi at the end #monstrous regiment #discworld #the vimes voice is growing on me though hes such a bastard in this book. more so than normal #hes like......my fave vimes moment (or one of) is the feet of clay fakeout where he pretends the plot to break his sobriety works #and hes pretending to be passed out and then gets up and breaks rusts nose and downs a packet of what looks like arsenic and goes #MMMMMM DELICIOUS. YAY. that's my fave moment and hes giving elevated That energy in this book

[sphyrne]

i know we all know that monstrous regiment is good but also monstrous regiment is so good

#terry pratchett was SOOO very good at writing about. darker topics and so good at balancing it appropriately w humour or lighthearted stuff #the stuff w blouse saying polly et all could not POSSIBLY disguise themselves as women is always so fucking funny #coupled w the fact that they do indeed immediatyely get clokced when they try it #i love it so much #but then in the same book. theres the bit when tonker is like yeah lofty killed two people but they were awful and got her pregnant #and the whole thing w wazzer. #not to mention the Horrors Of War #and geneder roles etc #anyways. yeah. one of my faves. always a joy to read #delete later

[scarecloud69]

every friend group should include

just finished Monstrous Regiment and this is all I could think of

art by @potato-lord-but-not

#monstrous regiment #gnu terry pratchett #terry pratchett #discworld #this took way longer than expected #but only because of translation of the names #like i know coto but who is wazzer???? #this reminds me #gnu jan katůrek

[potato-lord-but-not]

calling the book unintentionally queer was my greatest mistake. The book IS QUEER. It’s UNAPOLOGETICALLY gay. Pratchett really put his whole p. put his. his whole-

#I can’t say it #sir terry please forgive me #ig I called it unintentionally queer bc that’s just what you’re used to yk #it’s nice to read a book and not have to reach for representation #anyway enjoy the character designs <3 #discworld #discworld fanart #monstrous regiment #polly perks #maladict #tonker #lofty #wazzer #shufti

[pratchettquotes]

"You don't believe in the Duchess, do you? I mean the real Duchess, not your inn."

Polly looked into the small, pinched, intense face.

"Well, I mean, they say she's dead, and I prayed to her when I was small, but, since you ask, I don't exactly, um, believe as--" she gabbled.

"She is standing just behind you. Just behind your right shoulder."

In the silence of the woods, Polly turned.

"I can't see her," she said.

"I am happy for you," said Wazzer, handing her the empty mug.

"But I didn't see anything," said Polly.

"No," said Wazzer. "But you turned around..."

Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment

#polly perks #wazzer #the duchess #monstrous regiment #discworld #terry pratchett #religion #faith #belief #prayer #atheist #agnostic #seeing is believing #she's right behind you #happy for you

[chokopoppo]

Chapters: 2/4 Fandom: Discworld - Terry Pratchett Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Alice “Wazzer” Goom & Mildred Froc Characters: Alice "Wazzer" Goom, Mildred Froc, Sacharissa Cripslock, Otto von Chriek, Original Characters Additional Tags: Politics, Plot, Religious Discussion, Visions Series: Part 6 of Six Months Passed.

“Thank you, general,” Alice says, clutching the letter to her chest, “but I… I must ask you for more.”

Froc watches her, saying nothing. She’s smiling.

Alice bites her lip. It was easier to ask for things when the Little Mother was telling her what to ask for, when there was someone with her. This, she asks for alone. “When the troops arrive tonight,” she says, “I request that you bequeath to me one regiment, which I will take to the town of Cröen, for the purposes of finding and shuttering a women’s workhouse, which I believe to be there.”

Froc continues to watch her. She has stopped smiling.

Alice folds her hands on her lap, because she has finished speaking. She stares back, and she waits.

#monstrous regiment #six months passed #alice goom #wazzer #general froc #mildred froc #my writing

[batteryfisher]

My first headshot sketches of the Ins-n-Outs of Monstrous Regiment where I was mostly satisfied with the designs (minus a properly drawn Carborundum, plus extra Mals). Still fond of it, but definitely one of those "I should try redrawing this since it's been so long" things.

#discworld #monstrous regiment #terry pratchett #polly perks #maladict #sergeant jackrum #igor #shufti manickle #lofty tewt #tonker halter #lieutenant blouse #wazzer goom #my art #artists on tumblr #gnu terry pratchett