#Captain Carrot

[youwontbelievethethingsiveread]

Can Vetinari please be in charge of all my meetings

[jojaydoodles]

Upholding the Laws And Regulations because you deeply hate crime (unlike Sir Samuel Vimes, who only feels personally offended by crime, because it dares happening in his city)

You look into Carrot's face for clues and only get a blank expression of polite innocence in return. You'll never know if he's that simple and literal, or maybe he means the exact opposite of what he just said. You'll never know for sure.

Just your friendly local giant cop, who inexplicably knows the names of all your third cousins and their pets.

---- ko-fi // redbubble

[dimity-lawn]

Vimes needs some rest.

I am Carrot. Is the exhibit on a different continent? I'll still be excited about a good museum exhibit.

[discworldquotes]

There were other letters. The Community Coordinator of Equal Heights for Dwarfs was demanding that dwarfs in the Watch be allowed to carry an axe rather than the traditional sword, and should be sent to investigate only those crimes committed by tall people. The Thieves' Guild was complaining that Commander Vimes had said publicly that most thefts were committed by thieves. You'd need the wisdom of King Isiahdanu to tackle them, and these were only today's letters.

Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

[sphyrne]

carrot and angua

[thebestcomicbookpanels]

Arthur Adams draws Alley-Kat-Abra from Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew (1982).

[twasjane]

Making Money, Terry Pratchett

(Carrot still needs to be reminded about pronouns and gender expression sometimes, but he means well. Also, yeah, golems don't have a gender until they choose one, but sure, Terry Pratchett would've totally been """GC"""" 🙄)

[wacomart]

Nobody asked me; nobody made me. I just felt like doing it.

[jotun-philosopher]

Discworld/Good Omens parallels ramble

Exactly what it says on the tin! These are some fun little Discworld/Good Omens parallels that my brain picked up on at various times (usually 3 a.m. or thereabouts... Thanks, mum, for the persistent insomnia...)

Mild-to-moderate spoilers for Wyrd Sisters, Lords And Ladies, Men At Arms and Carpe Jugulum below the cut.

In A Life With Footnotes, the official biography of Terry Pratchett, Rob Wilkins mentions that when he was in school, a young Pterry wrote for English class a story (sadly lost to the mists of time) about orcs attacking a vicarage in full Jane-Austen-spoof fashion. Now, given how the Whickber Street Shopkeepers' Ball turned out, it seems reasonable to assume one of two things: a) this story was not a factor under consideration when writing S2 and the parallel is an ineffably delightful coincidence (a bit unlikely) b) this story *was* an inspiring factor in the writing of S2, and the nod to Pterry happened to work really well with the plot (seems a bit more likely). Either way, the parallel is there and giving me all of the warm fuzzies <3

There's an idea in Discworld, forming a significant part of the moral backbone of the series, that's very succinctly summed up by Granny Weatherwax in Carpe Jugulum: "[S]in [...] is when you treat people like things. Including yourself." This is absolutely at the core of what's wrong with Heaven and Hell and God and Satan in Good Omens; the leadership and culture of both organisations/cults treat everyone -- angels, demons and humans alike -- as disposable things to be used and toyed with and discarded or destroyed if they start having the temerity to be imperfect or form opinions or thoughts of their own.

There're two characters in Discworld who parallel Aziraphale surprisingly strongly: Magrat Garlick (of the Lancre witches) and Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. -*Magrat is viewed as a bit of a soft, soppy 'wet hen' by the other witches, but she is still a witch, with all that that implies. She also has at least one scene in every book in which she appears where she does something extremely badass and witchy; for example, turning an ancient wooden door back into a tree, or (very pertinently to GO) delivering a literally iron-clad punch to the face of a villain who's mentally torturing her with her own insecurities. Likewise, Aziraphale seems to mostly be viewed as a bit dull and wimpy by the other angels we see (though Magrat still has the genuine respect of her witchy peers) but he is still an angel -- a Principality -- with all the powers, steadfast guardianship and bloody-minded stubbornness of that rank. The Metatrash might not be vulnerable to iron in the same way as Discworld elves, but you can bet that his attempt to break Aziraphale and bring him into line is going to backfire just as spectacularly! *For the parallel between Aziraphale and Captain (well, Corporal, at this point in the Discworld timeline) Carrot, the novel I have in mind is Men At Arms. At one point, Vimes is being held at crossbow-point by a villain, and has a bout of internal monologuing about how, if someone has you at their mercy, you'd better hope they're evil, because that way they'll take time to gloat and mock you so you'll have an opportunity to think of a way out; a good man will kill you with barely a word. Carrot does exactly that at the climax of the plot, putting his sword through the villain and the stone pillar behind said villain without saying a thing. Now, Aziraphale might not quite have Carrot's 'incorruptible pure pureness' tendencies, but he is -- for all his flaws -- a good person. If he knows that something needs to be done to prevent an evil outcome, he will DO it without hesitation. He knows how to use a sword, too, and if That Frickin' Elevator Smile Of Tranquil Fury is any indication, the Metatrash is in far deeper doodoo than he realises! Related to the above, The Smile also reminds me of the old adage, "beware the fury of a patient man." (Well, man-shaped being in this case...) Very appropriate for our careful, thoughtful angel -- it would not surprise me (much) if Metatron were to depart the plot of S3 with a flaming sword pinning him to one of Heaven's columns (probably won't happen, but I can dream, eh?)

Hope you enjoyed reading all that :D

[thefandomlifechoseme]

The Watch infuriates me

it could've been so good

and then they fucked up the world

and then they. did something. to the plot. put it in a blender, maybe. also Carcer's there, somehow.

I adore he/she Vetinari. Also Cheery & Vimes & Carrot & Angua & the forty minutes BBC America could afford to CGI Detritus into an adaptation of a British book series

except for that bit where Detritus is actually. Just a guy. Like. Detritus is not that smart. He has to think about the order of the words. I didn't get that image from Watch!Detritus. also where's Nobby. And what is happening with Sybil. ??????

also. CMOT Dibbler. was. apparently. in it. that was. ok sure. I mean your wrong, but sure.

Good Boy is best boy. I love him. The music is fun.

Death doesn't work but only partially in that usual way he doesn't really work in the same way that you can't really manage live adaptation Auditor's either, and mostly in that he feels like a plot device. Except for that one scene in Angua's past that I really really liked, that worked really really well

Dammit {whoever the show runner for BBC America's The Watch was} if you wanted to make an original show you really, really, seriously-you-shouldn't-have butchered a beloved book series like this

I like it. It works. It's just not Discworld.

You can't sell not Discworld as Discworld. Which is what you did.

Which is why everyone hated it. It works fine on its own. Slap some different names on and it'd've done okay, if not well. But you didn't.

[rincewinds-hat]

Headcanons

Vimes naturally runs hot. He's all pent up rage, what did you expect? In his younger days, other watchmen would walk closer to him on particularly cold nights. Vimes thought it was either because a)he was too drunk and swerving into them ; or b)they can't walk in a straight line. Vimes thinks it's the first one, because after he quit drinking he became busier and busier until patrols for him were basically non existent.

Rincewind is a blanket hog. He's usually cold, semi because of the fact that he doesn't have the greatest circulation (despite his heart beating really fast most of the time)

Carrot listens to rock music. Do with that what you will.

Angua, surprisingly, wasn't big on music, but Carrot introduced her to rock so she'll only listen to that.

Vetinari wishes he could smack someone over the head with his cain, but that wouldn't end well for him so he refrains.

Gaspode sometimes stops by the Watch 'just to check up on them' when really, he's looking for food that isn't moldy or too dry/wet (and if talking to someone is actually nice, that's his secret)

Sybil puts dragons in a corner if they misbehave. Vimes thinks it's hilarious.

[pargery]

..."But there's a lot of armed men down there."

"My strength is the strength of ten because my heart is pure," said Carrot.

"Really? Well, there's eleven of them."

-- Jingo, by Terry Pratchett

[browsethestacks]

Action Comics #01 Cover Recreations

[dimity-lawn]

[discworldquotes]

Does Mr Vimes know you’re doing this?’ ‘He sort of knows, yes. I said I’d like to start a club for the street kids and he said it was fine provided I took them camping on the edge of some really sheer cliff somewhere in a high wind. But he always says things like that. And I’m sure we wouldn’t have him any other way.’

Terry Pratchett, Jingo

[sphyrne]

discworld + midsomer murders dialogue