#Jingo

[akboro]

[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.

[blackboard-monitor]

quote of all time

[reddy-reads]

Vimes and 71 hour Ahmed just really have.... something in jingo. The conversations he has with Ahmed where they're comparing their approaches to policing and Ahmed points out that vimes experience in the city is very different from his own.... the way they both struggle with the scope of what they can do vs what Ahmed calls being part of a big crime..... the way vimes's conversation with Ahmed changes him/reveals himself to himself, his dream that he can chase the big crimes and do something about the bigger more systemic crimes.... I don't think vimes really has a relationship like his one with Ahmed elsewhere in the series. Ahmed is his peer and an established officer on his own right. It's just interesting

[catharsis-in-a-bottle]

^

the Extremely Normal Vimes/Vetinari Dynamic ™️ in jingo

[kateksmallcuteowl]

Well, well, it’s the glorious 25th of May again, so here you are, there’s some Ank-Morporkian posters here. Hope you like them.

(Spent around 40 hours on these two, so I���ll be really glad if you let me know what’s you think!)

P.S. Some details I intended to show, but have no idea if I managed to, so that’s a description.

— Havelock looks at Keel's face, not at the slogan, because for him, the person is more important for him than the function. Keel, however, looks into the distance.

— Vimes looks at the slogan, as if uninterested in who performs the function, only in what the function is. Vetinari, however, looks at him from the poster. The Patrician sees everything and everyone, remember?

— The poster with Keel is drawn dynamically, like the revolution that turned everything upside down in one day. The young Havelock’s cloak is also caught in the wind. But the poster with Vetinari is completely static, with straight lines and a strict front. A stable, let's say "sober" composition, like everything about the Patrician.

— The places where the lilac is worn match between the observer and the person on the poster.

— Keel-Sam here is at his most mature form, with a lot of gray hair, around 46-47 years old. Although Vetinari here is quite young, at most 40. It's actually implied that this timeline is before the events of the first book, so Vimes is still just the captain of the miserable Night Watch. I know that usually in my fanarts, he has long hair during the first two books, but here I've given him a more "mature" hairstyle for the sake of character recognition. Lol.

[zakalwe-the-ninth]

I love this scene. Vimes is running late for an Important Thing, but still takes a few minutes to calmly pull someone up - a subordinate but also, importantly, his oldest friend - for being casually racist.

The man still has his own prejudices, but he’s trying.

[turning-pages-seeking-sages]

"And Sergeant Colon once again knew a secret about bravery. It was arguably a kind of enhanced cowardice—the knowledge that while death may await you if you advance it will be a picnic compared to the certain living hell that awaits should you retreat."

- Terry Pratchett, Jingo

[paradises-library]

Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads, they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way.

Jingo, Terry Pratchett

[pratchettquotes]

"Some of these are powerful nations, gentlemen. Many of them don't like Klatch's current expansionist outlook, but they don't like us much, either."

"Whyever not?" said Lord Selachii.

"Well, because during our history those we haven't occupied we've tended to wage war on," said Lord Vetinari. "For some reason the slaughter of thousands of people tends to stick in the memory."

"Oh, history," said Lord Selachii. "That's all in the past!"

"A good place for history, agreed," said the Patrician solemnly.

Terry Pratchett, Jingo

[thefandomlifechoseme]

reading Jingo and loving the way Vetinari and Vimes are just. running circles around the council guys

[valarinde]

jingo (1997)

[blackboard-monitor]

y'all ever think about how in jingo pterry took two seemingly silly concepts, the trousers of time and the dis-organiser, and then gave us the absolutely bone-chilling passages of sam vimes listening to his friends and subordinates die one after the other

[reddy-reads]

[spoofymcgee]

ah yes, an absolutely Normal and Regular thing to say about a statue of the commander of your city guard, the man everyone calls your terrier, whom you just bribed into letting you make him an even bigger problem becoming a duke by offering to help him establish in history that the monarchy did deserve to die

[aeshnacyanea2000]

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 do it because they’d get yelled at if they didn’t.

-- Terry Pratchett - Jingo