#Dr. John 'Mossy' Lawn

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‘I just wondered where you trained.’ ‘Why?’ ‘The kind of people who come in by the back door are the kind of people who want results, I imagine.’ ‘Hah. Well, I trained in Klatch. They have some novel ideas about medicine over there. They think it’s a good idea to get patients better, for one thing.’

-- Terry Pratchett - Night Watch

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Some drawings from today!

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This has Dr. John “Mossy” Lawn vibes, does it not? Given his sarcastic nature and the preexisting records already on file to acknowledge what it actually was, it seems like something he’d do, or perhaps say to an assistant/student who was taking notes.

after recently gaining access to my medical records, i am mystified to discover that instead of recording my regular t-shot as "sustanon injection, intramuscular" (as is standard), the doctor i saw last week chose to record it as "problem: gender. history: ongoing."

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Dr. John ‘Mossy’ Lawn (Discworld)

Competent doctor who actually manages to keep his patients alive and is trustworthy. He seems to the main doctor for the local sex workers and gives free treatment for people who need it, like torture victims. I would also like to mention that while his full name is John Lawn, he is most commonly known as Mossy Lawn, which is a great pun.

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Medic (Team Fortress 2)

I like Him ❤️❤️ he strong❤️❤️ he's so helpful and has great respect from his teammates and owns an entire flock of doves in his medical room. He's SO dramatic and gorgeous and has the best theme out of all of the mercs imo (the saxophone!! I love his meet the team video too, it's so funny!)

[ao3tageverything]

Night Watch - AO3 tagged

Rating Teen And Up Audiences Warnings Minor Character Death Fandoms Discworld Categories General

Characters Samuel Vimes, Fred Colon, Nobby Nobbs, Carrot Ironfoundersson, Carcer, Rosie Palm, Dr. John “Mossy” Lawn, Lu-Tze, Samuel Vimes (young version), Findthee Swing, Lady Roberta Meserole, Havelock Vetinari, Qu, Ned Coates

Additional Tags lilac, cop killer, commemoration day, visiting graves, mad murderer, storm, magical accident, time travel, Monks of History, mulitverse theory, wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff, impersonation, curfew, meeting your former self, secret police, craniometry, fledgling revolution, riots, booby traps, bamf!Vimes, the art of deescalation, build-up to big events, Sam Vimes whump, barricades, item connecting you with reality, changing history, torture chambers, torture victims, coup de grâce/mercy kill, arson, improvised weapon, The People’s Republic of Treacle Mine Road, hero worship, soldiers’ song, civil war, malicious use of ginger in body orifices, assassination, terror-induced heart attack, coup d'état, death by grapnel, violating amnesty, surprise attack, police-confiscated vehicle, improvised plumes, delayed major injury reaction, mêlée, berserk moment, the Glorious 25th of May, back to the future, disregarding one’s nudeness, difficult childbirth, beyond exhaustion, ... (spoilers after the jump)

not changing history (much) after all, resisting the beast inside, by-the-book arrest

[dimity-lawn]

Why do I feel like this song would become a tradition at the Pseudopolis Yard Watchouse?

Imagine that a similar version of the original song already existed in Ankh-Morpork, but after the year when some watchperson had had a few too many “festive drinks” at what Nobby refers to as a “Hogswatchly piss-up”, resulting in the song above, the rest of the Watch wouldn’t let it go, and after a while it just turned into something of a competition.

The competition wouldn't have set standards, or even a prize (except a hangover the next day, to poor Bilious’s dismay), and usually the only goal was to have a laugh (there was one year when Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson and most of the undead with hypersensitive hearing, i.e. werewolves and vampires, were out on patrol when “Jingle Rock Bell” was being sung, and it was decided that a there was an additional goal of a noise complaint). Generally most of the watchpeople who are still sober enough to even attempt to perform the accompanying dance* will do so with incredible enthusiasm, and those who are too drunk to perform the aforementioned dance will at least make spirited attempts while laying on the floor.

*The dance is preformed thusly: each dancer wears their uniform, including their chainmail and bell (usually with something to somewhat muffle the din), and some even wear extra bells (Nobby does this every year without fail). Upon each word of the song they perform an accompanying motion: at “Jingle” they jump, twirl, shake, or find another way to make the chainmail jingle; at “rock” they usually jump or stamp their feet on the floor, but some people who get really into it run outside to actually have cobblestones under their feet**; and at “bell” they either ring their bells or try to clang them together (sometimes this results in an injury or two. Or more. The important thing is that Igor (or Dr. Lawn if Igor is particularly drunk) has never had to get involved).

**This is the rule that everyone remembers, no matter how drunk they get, and possibly the only rule of the dance. Some of the trolls used to incorporate dance moves that explained Detritus’s “hand off rock and on with sock” to anyone who didn’t already understand, but this stopped the year that Miss Iodine Maccalariat happened to be passing by, entered the Watchouse to tell His Grace, His Excellency, The Duke of Ankh, Commander Sir Samuel Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch about the mad watchpeople stomping on the streets (and they say working in the Post Office drives you mad!), witnessed a particularly inopportune part of the dance, and decided she had to do Something to make sure that His Grace, His Excellency, The Duke of Ankh, Commander Sir Samuel Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch prevented any future indecency or nothing else that might possibly suggest anything even slightly adjacent to Hanky-Panky, which led the rest of the watch started to debate the merit of what parts they (including a vampire) could overhear coming from Vimes’s Office Upstairs, which led to Sharing Opinions and then Disagreements.

Additionally, nobody wants a repeat of the year when someone brought a brick to the dance and accidentally threw it out into the street through a closed window and got a stern talking to from Carrot, or the year some of the Watchpeople decided to bring some of the cobblestones inside, resulting in multiple arrests by Colon (nobody ever actually went to the cells that night because Carrot insisted that they had the right to not injure themselves falling down the steps on the way to the cells and one of the arrested watchfolk said they didn’t want to fall but was clearly already having trouble standing still on flat ground, so they were simply handcuffed to a desk instead) for unlicensed theft of public streets, a lot of angry citizens in the morning, and a letter from Lord Vetinari the next day.

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Inktober day 23: Dr John ‘Mossy’ Lawn

I’m a big fan of Dr Lawn, he’s a good guy and I enjoy his perpetual sarcasm. I decided to give him one of those hats from the classic plague doctor costume, since Vimes identifies him as a doctor by his hat and he is primarily described as a ‘pox doctor’. Also I thought about drawing him circa the Glorious Revolution, but decided to go with the 30+ years later version who helped deliver Young Sam because it conveniently let me avoid deciding what age he was back in the day.

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You reblogged my Young Sam the Park Ranger/Animal Wrangler/Combatant of Delinquents in His Park post, and now there's notes and I almost want to do something with the idea. Thanks, bc Pratchett fic is HARD!

Yes, yes it is, now go have fun :P

Seriously, it’s such a nice and good idea I’d love to read it. 

I’d offer to help but I’m too far down the rabbit hole of writing my own personal headcanon that Young Sam, with his love of studying things right down to literal shit, ends up working in forensics under Cheri. He’d learn anatomy from Igor too, and even perhaps Dr John ‘Mossy’ Lawn who has always retained a soft spot for him, so when Sam Vimes Jr turns up at the Lady Sybil Free Hospital one day and asks if he can watch the operations, Mossy simply shrugs and hands him a mask and an apron cause he’s seen that fire in the eyes before. That fire built barricades and, and then in the face of another man who was not, arrested a dragon. You can’s say no to that.

Sybil is so puffed up with pride she’s practically floating off the ground, and dear old Dad Vimes is going “YOU WANT TO WHAT, no, you’re supposed to do something better with your life, look at all the opportunities you have, you could be a scholar or a professor, you could be a great man, why the hell would you want to be a watchmen?” And Young Sam just shrugs, turning to look out at the city below and says, “I’d rather be a good one.”

[fictionalmedicshowdown]

Dr. John 'Mossy' Lawn (Discworld)

Competent doctor who actually manages to keep his patients alive and is trustworthy. He seems to the main doctor for the local sex workers and gives free treatment for people who need it, like torture victims. I would also like to mention that while his full name is John Lawn, he is most commonly known as Mossy Lawn, which is a great pun.

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First Aid (Transformers)

He's a chill, down to earth sort of guy with a morbid habit of collecting dying patients' faction insignias (they're robots so they have war badges literally attached to their bodies) with the hopes of finding a secret message sent by a spy. Also despite being a doctor he will absolutely murderize his enemies but to be fair you'd have to kill his patients in order to get on First Aid's bad side.

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If Dr. Lawn can survive 30+ years of working in The Shades, taking care of plague victims, midwifery, "seamstresses", victims of the Cable Street Particulars, a Cable Street Particular, a Glorious Revolution, an angry Vimes worried about the safety of his wife and unborn child, the wig of Tolliver Groat, a goblin(?) coming back to life, &c., he could beat Frankenstein half-asleep after being woken up in the middle of the night. And he cares about the well-being of his patients.

How long do you want him [Frankenstein] down?

N.B. Listing Frankenstien alone is Igor/Igorina erasure, whereas Dr. Lawn works with the clan and teaches students.

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the SAWBONES SHOWDOWN has BEGUN!

Round 1 Masterpost:

Julius Barber vs John Smart Peddie

Dr. Sankey vs Dr. Nye

Dr. Sawbones vs Dr. Moreau

Carlisle Cullen vs Doc Cochran

Hazel Sinnett vs Stephen Samuel Stanley

Johan Gustav Dåådh vs Graaf Ernst van Suchtlen

Nahri e-Nahid vs M. Perrelet

Artemy Burakh vs Dref Wormwood

Dr. Lowenstein vs Joly

Alexander Macdonald vs Dr. Clive

Combeferre vs Dorothy Watson

Mamma Gkika vs Dr. Griffin

Jonathan Fanshawe vs Dr. Quinn

Wolfe Macfarlane vs Henry Jekyll

Doctor Dolittle vs Archibald Cameron

Gilgamesh Wulfenbach vs Mossy Lawn

Disqualifiers Wildcard Poll

[sawbones-showdown]

it's time for ROUND 2!

Round 2 Masterpost:

Marius von Raum vs John Smart Peddie

Abraham Van Helsing vs Dr. Moreau

Doc Cochran vs Roach

Henry Goodsir vs Stephen Samuel Stanley

Artemy Burakh vs John Seward

Medic vs Joly

Stephen Maturin vs Combeferre

Mamma Gkika vs David Livesey

John Watson vs Dr. Quinn

Mossy Lawn vs Victor Frankenstein

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I love him. (Oh and Discworld people, does anybody agree that Harry Goodsir looks kinds like a young Dr. Lawn? Or is it just me?)

@ the anon who asked for some fanart for The Terror, here u go, HERE’S MY FAV.