#Jingo

[anonomouslyabanana]

Love havelock vetinari bc he’s introduced as a terrifying tyrant that will cut off your finger if you wave it at him and is inhumanly calm and collected but then you realize he’s actually just LARPing as a villain. He asks to be handcuffed so he can be arrested properly. He disapproves of his aunt’s cat because it’s not the kind you can pet sinisterly while waiting in the dark. He tries to do “tis but a scratch” about a fucking gunshot and collapses on the spot.

[zakalwe-the-ninth]

"Odd thing, ain't it... you meet people one at a time, they seem decent, they got brains that work, and then they get together and you hear the voice of the people. And it snarls."

Terry Pratchett, Jingo

[akboro]

[lebagelgirl]

Vimes shouting "vindaloo" in Jingo

something incredibly American about an Allied trooper yelling brand names at Soviets until they recognize him as an ally.

[blackboard-monitor]

quote of all time

[reddy-reads]

[wellplayed-tp]

Re-reading Jingo for the umpteenth time, I've always known the whole "second bowman" concept was a reference to the JFK assassination but I've never put two and two together on some of the other references, the two main ones being that Snowy Slopes fired from the back storage rooms of the UU library, a storage room filled with textbooks, a reference to the Texas school book depository.

And the second reference actually made me groan. Angua and Carrot meet up with a Gnoll named stoolie, a regular informant of the watch. I believe this is the first time we actually meet a gnoll in the discworld series, seems like a random inclusion in the story. Then i realised.

In the UK police informants are commonly known as a "Grass"

So stoolie... is a "Grassy Gnoll"

God damnit STP, still taking me to school.

[a-pile-of-contented-ravens]

[veni-vici-vetinari]

“For some reason” which one I wonder 😂

[warriorsproject]

Jingo

[vegetarianmorpork]

when Sergeant Colon said the quiet part out loud

Terry Pratchett was so real for this.

It would have been so easy to keep the racism implied, with the justification that this is a fantasy novel and that Discworld isn't Earth.

Leave it as xenophobia, ignoring racism. Leaving racism as metaphorical, towards dwarfs and trolls and zombies and orcs, never mentioning it occurring between humans.

Give the readers that comfortable degree of separation.

But Pratchett didn't take the easy way out. He went there. And Jingo was better for it.

Because you can't call something out if you don't say what it is. You have to say the quiet part out loud.

[catharsis-in-a-bottle]

^

the Extremely Normal Vimes/Vetinari Dynamic ™️ in jingo

[smokingchagga]

I love it when Discworld drops the comedy and just gets real sometimes

[melissentee]

Colon had always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god, country and apple pie, or whatever particular delicacy their mother made. It had never occurred to him that they might to it because they'd get yelled at if they didn't.

Jingo by Terry Pratchett

[aeshnacyanea2000]

He believed, along with General Tacticus, that courage, bravery and the indomitable human spirit were fine things which nevertheless tended to take second place to the combination of courage, bravery, the indomitable human spirit and a six-to-one superiority of numbers.

-- Terry Pratchett - Jingo

[p4nishers]

rereading the watch books is always like god i missed these repressed fucking cunts