#night watch

[moss-ghoulette]

There's a lot of lilac near my house

Had to take some pictures before it's gone (will take some more)

#discworld #the glorious 25th of may #night watch #gnu terry pratchett #terry pratchett #pterry

[higgsbison]

happy glorious 25th of may

#discworld #the glorious 25th of may #sam vimes #samuel vimes #night watch #my art

[songthursh]

Alright, I will start with this one then - everything starts with the glorious revolution and everything starts with the night watch 🌸

#discworld #terry pratchett #samuel vimes #havelock vetinari #vimes x vetinari #vetvimes #lord vetinari #glorious revolution #lilac #the night watch #night watch #Am I doing it right at all #AAAAA #I love this book I hate it so much #Blame my sweet gf for spoiling me with such amazing literature also #AND FOR MAKING ME GO THROUGH THESE BOOKS IT'S JUST... UGGGH #Also also it's not Carrot I swear he wasn't there also Vimes should've been armorless but I realized it a bit too late BUT THAT'S FINE #my art

[thestuffedalligator]

#discworld #gnu terry pratchett #night watch #the glorious 25th of may #watercolours #i have no time this week for anything bigger than this #but this is good enough

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

The gun is cocked. I'm sobbing and shaking.

"Say it."

"I can't!"

They push the gun into my temple. "Say it now."

"ACAB includes Sam Vimes, OK, are you happy now?"

#Discworld #Acab #night watch #Sam Vimes #post o' mine #clearing out the drafts

[snippit-crickit]

wee oo wee oo discworld doodle dump (and i mean really doodle)

(cheery, i love her)

small nobby!!

+ i love that angua got comforted by sybil and vimes,,,, i like how people point out that angua and vimes are kinda similar, how they both have a darker side and are loved by someone who they feel is too good for them sometimes.... and how vimes taught angua some dirty street fighting moves that she uses on wolfgang, absolute dad moment

also carrot, now that im looking at it his hair looks crown-ish, i might go into that direction more some other tidbits under the cut

vimes as a dog vimes as a dog

vimes playing the werewolf game........ god dammit i gotta draw more stuff from fifth elephant this was absolutely epic, so was night watch

((tried to sketch out the werewolf game, failed miserably))

height headcanons? more or less

and wuffles......patricians terrier ((also shoutout to the one person who set out one of my vimes arts as their discord pfp i love when people use my art as pfp's aaargfhn im glad you enjoy)) ok thats all i could gather, i am constantly doodling discworld characters theyre running in my head like little creatures but its hard to gather it up all in a post grhn

#gnu terry pratchett #terry pratchett #night watch #fifth elephant #discworld #carrot ironfoundersson #samuel vimes #sam vimes #wuffles #angua von uberwald #sybil ramkin #cheery littlebottom #nobby nobbs

[mirtadraws]

He took another sip of his cocoa. It was only lukewarm now, but along with the cigar it meant that both his hands were occupied. That was important. He wasn't holding a weapon. No one could say afterwards that he had a weapon.

-Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

#gnu terry pratchett #discworld #glorious 25th of may #night watch #john keel #fanart

[theygotlost]

Every step I choose to take begins to set the world aflame!

And the soldiers march behind me,

I can hear them beat their spears!

And for the first time in all my life,

I know I'm more than what I fear!

Happy Glorious 25th of May!

#discworld #terry pratchett #glorious 25th of may #sam vimes #samuel vimes #lilac day #sybil ramkin #reg shoe #night watch #mine #SHOUTOUT MY BUDDIES TO NICO AND CIARAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WOULDNT HAVE MADE THIS WITHOUT UR IMPACT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #ive been working on this for the past 2 months 😭😭😭😭😭

[jothehat]

See how they rise up! Wishing you all Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Love, and a Hard Boiled Egg.

[Alt text: 3p Discworld stamp commemorating the Glorious 25th of May. Includes lilac blooms and a figure atop a barricade waving a flag.]

#gnu terry pratchett #night watch #the glorious 25th of may

[pratchettquotes]

People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so, the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people.

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

Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

#sam vimes #samuel vimes #reg shoe #night watch #discworld #terry pratchett #revolution #politics #government #social reform #revolutionary #the people #people #psychology #clever #suspicious minds #human nature #group dynamics #the age-old problem #the wrong kind of people

[asparklethatisblue]

Night Watch, Sam Vimes learning important lessons about being a good man and a good copper

#sam vimes #night watch #discworld #my art

[strummerjoe]

Okay okay, listen, Night Watch is an absolute masterpiece of storytelling. It’s done so well I want to scream. Not only do we, the readers, know that the revolution will end in tears, the protagonist of the story knows it too! Vimes goes into this with the exact same expectations as the reader of here we go, we know we’re in a tragedy, we’re know we’re doomed by the narrative. AND YET, AND YET as the story goes on, you start to hope that maybe, just maybe, something will be different this time.  Even Vimes starts to entertain the idea, but every time this happens, you get reminded (by the History Monks) that No. This is only going to go one way. This. is. a. Tragedy.  BUT STILL. These are good people and look, some things have gone better this time, maybe it’s enough? Vimes always wins in the end, doesn’t he? And so you HOPE and by hoping, you wilfully forget what you’ve been told again and again, that this is a tragedy.  AND THEN THEY GET SO CLOSE. SO FREAKING CLOSE that when it all goes wrong you feel surprised, even though you were told from the very beginning how it was going to go. It’s insane. It’s Terry Pratchett at his finest. Its’s a goddammed masterpiece.

#I've read this book at least 4 times and it still GETS ME every damn time because hope is the thing with feathers #Its my favourite discworld book #the glorious 25th of may #Night Watch #spoiler alert #gnu terry pratchett #discworld

[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

[leona-florianova]

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#discworld #night watch #finished this two day later but ey #sam vimes #john keel #gnu terry pratchett #gnu jan kantůrek #my art

[dariabilvizz]

Vimes. Back to my comf fandom))

#sam vimes #discworld #terry pratchett #night watch

[kala-mies]

Finished Night Watch recently which means it's finally my turn to draw Vimes and lilacs

#discworld #sam vimes #samuel vimes #night watch #can't believe it took me this long to find Night Watch #banger book. i am. not okay! #kala art