#ankh morpork city watch

[oakys-sideblog]

As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up.

-Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

#discworld quotes that live rent free in my head #discworld #night watch #ankh morpork city watch #samuel vimes #terry pratchett #gnu terry pratchett #discworld quotes

[espressotrashcan]

Vetinari comes over for his weekly dinner at the Ramkin-Vimes house (estate) and Sybil is running around in work mode and just goes "Havelock dear, will you hold this a minute?"

It's a dragon. She handed him a dragon. It's wheezing little gusts of smoke and chewing on Vetinari's sleeves.

Vimes is looking on in terror, wondering how long his wife has to live.

Vetinari, secretly, is quite pleased. The dragon reminds him of Wuffles.

#discworld #havelock vetinari #ankh morpork city watch #samuel vimes #sybil ramkin #dragons #swamp dragons #wuffles #wuffles the terrier

[approximateknowledge]

the Watch of Ankh-Morpork is fascinating to me because it's the closest thing ive seen in any fiction to an actually *good* police force

but you know why?

because the thieves' and assassins' guilds and Chrysoprase's gang are the ones who hold the monopoly on violence!

the Watch is just fundamentally a different kind of institution than actual irl police is! and it works!

#discworld #ankh morpork #ankh morpork city watch #terry pratchett

[monstrous-tournament]

Ankh-Morpork City Watch Tournament Finale!

Cheery came from Überwald, originally trained in the Guild of Alchemists, was thrown out when she blew up the Guild's council, and then got hired by the Watch to be its first (and for a long time only) forensic scientist. She found her first city friend in Angua, and as a result became the first openly female dwarf member of the Watch and, for that matter, of the whole dwarfish race. This caused a cultural revolution and a notable degree of unrest among the dwarfs. In reaction, many dwarfs are finding that their 'sons' are dabbling in make-up and heeled boots; indeed, are beginning the journey to "coming out" (this is really not too far-fetched a comparison) as female thanks to her.

Angua is a werewolf, from a noble werewolf family in Überwald. She has a reliable nose and can track any thief, killer, or miscellaneous miscreants. She is constantly on guard against her animalistic instincts. She strives to be a vegetarian (at least in human form) and pays for the chickens she eats as a wolf, because animals don't. She has occasional dog-like habits and problems; she finds Mr. Fusspot's squeaky bone toy hard to put down, for example, and has both a bed and a basket in the place where she lives.

#monstrous tournament #ankh morpork city watch #finale #angua von uberwald #cheery littlebottom

[inbarfink]

#discworld #terry pratchett #pterry #gnu pterry #sir terry pratchett #gnu terry pratchett #gnu sir terry pratchett #rincewind #discworld death #discworld witches #Ankh-Morpork City Watch #ankh morpork city watch #discworld wizards #Tiffany Aching #tumblr polls #my polls #polls #fandom poll #i love polls

[kerrste]

Just finished Guards! Guards! - Aka the first book in everyone’s favourite discworld series, if you’re to beleive the polls. I can see why it would be.

The skeches here are a bit rough, I know. But they’re sketches!

In the bottom corner of the second image I experimented a bit with Carrot’s hair - Everyone always draws it cut short, but wouldnt it be longer like the dwarves’?The bottom right hairdo is inspired by Aragorn from Lotr.

I tried to draw their profiles more caricature-ish than I usually do, since discworld feels very exaggerated in general. That is why, for example, Carrot is built like a barge and Vetinari has a waistline that would make victorian ladies cry tears of jelousy. I have a hard time making characters ugly in general, but I feel like i accidentally made Sybil look like a godess? Then again, the book does say ”Aincient men would’ve worshipped her”, so I suppose it’s fitting.

Also, the dragon looks like a horse. Sorry all dragon-lovers out there, they are very hard to draw.

#my art #discworld #nobby nobbs #fred colon #sybil ramkin #sam vimes #carrot ironfoundersson #lord vetinari #guards! guards! #ankh morpork city watch #guards! guards! spoilers #what spoilers you say? well if you look at the tiny dot next to the dragon on the landscape #if you know you know #i hope to post more art here soon - it’ll probably be discworld aswell #gnu terry pratchett #art

[thornaelle]

Angua von Uberwald, Ankh-Morpork City Watch captain and w—

This was orignally for that "six fanarts" meme that was popular like two years ago but this was the only one I ever got even close to finishing. It's been languishing needing a few finishing touches for some time, and I finally got around to making them. Angua has long been a favourite character of mine so I was happy to see her among the suggestions I got!

#angua #angua von uberwald #discworld #ankh morpork city watch #terry pratchett #gnu terry pratchett #this is two year old art i just finished colouring the lines recently #i should revisit the meme i got so many excellent character suggestions #art

[namedafterflowerstournament]

Botanic Tournament : Main Bracket !

Round 1 Poll III

Tohru's surname, Honda, means "original rice paddy" (as in paddy fields)

(Carrots and rice paddy)

#botanic tournament #tournament polls #round 1 #carrot ironfoundersson #ankh morpork city watch #ankh morpork #discworld #discworld books #terry pratchett #tohru honda #honda tohru #fruits basket #fruits basket tohru #fruits basket manga #mangablr #animeblr #bookblr

[juliaanoia]

My toxic trait is the fact that I always spell Angua von Überwald's last name with an Umlaut

#discworld #angua von überwald #i don't know it just feel wrong if I dont okay #ankh morpork city watch

[lebagelboy]

Currently huddling out of the wind and the rain trying not to see crimes

Living my city watch dream

#however i dont smoke #discworld #sam vimes #ankh morpork #ankh morpork city watch #guards! guards! #gnu terry pratchett #not a reblog

[oakys-sideblog]

of COURSE Vimes's solution to having a state inspector asking questions at the most inconvenient time is to conscript him into the Watch

#its so him it hurts #sam vimes #A.E. Pessimal #discworld #Thud! #ankh morpork city watch #terry pratchett #gnu terry pratchett

[vamporilla]

Currently reading Men at Arms, and the part where Cuddy teaches Detritus how to count reminded me of that “I CAN ONLY COUNT TO FOUR” song.

#discworld #gnu terry pratchett #terry pratchett #men at arms #ankh morpork city watch #lance constable detritus #lance constable cuddy

[lucklessrat]

people always draw vimes as stout and burly, but in my mind he’s a wiry, scruffy cartoon of a man who is always exhausted. Still a short king though

#fanart #procreate #illustration #small art blog #discworld #sam vimes #discworld city watch #ankh morpork city watch #night watch #discworld night watch

[monstrous-tournament]

Ankh-Morpork City Watch Tournament!

(minus the Big Wukwuk His Grace Sir Samuel Vimes The Duke of Ankh, Commander)

(I know I said Lancre next, but this one is a bit easier to set up; Lancre will be next after this!)

Round 1 brackets:

Carrot Ironfoundersson vs. André, Cable Street Particulars

Detritus vs. Buggy Swires

Dorfl vs. Visit-The-Infidel-With-Explanatory-Pamphlets

Angua von Überwald vs. Wee Mad Arthur

Cheery Littlebottom vs. Sally von Humpeding

Nobby Nobbs vs. Cuddy

Reg Shoe vs. A.E. Pessimal

Errol the Swamp Dragon vs. Fred Colon

#discworld #terry pratchett #gnu terry pratchett #discworld bracket #discworld tournament #discworld poll #discworld brackets #discworld tournaments #discworld polls #monstrous tournament #ankh morpork city watch

[per-aspera-ad-aporia]

i made my first cross-stitch pattern

pls forgive bad design, i haven't done any embroidery in a long time and never actually designed one before this! sorry i didn't give suggested floss codes—but if you download the PDF linked below, you can edit it to add your own :)

download: PDF | PNG

#pinboard #paaa #gnu terry pratchett #terry pratchett #discworld #sam vimes #fabricati diem pvnc #ankh morpork #ankh morpork city watch #cross stitch #embroidery #cross stitch pattern #glorious 25th of may

[tiredtiresias]

Cheery’s like can you have a fistfight or make out already

#discworld #discworld fanart #cheery littlebottom #angua von uberwald #sally von humpeding #angua x Sally #ankh morpork #ankh morpork city watch #fanart