#Sandra Battye

[justafterjericho]

Here's my discworld folder for music sheets. À la - what I did during my summer singing camp at the and of August. But hey it did wake up my artistic soul, even though not the type it was arming at xD.

[rokkster]

I was today years old when I realised that Sandra Battye in Night Watch specialises in crochet and therefore might call herself a hooker.

Hooker is also a slang term for... 'seamstress' in the UK.

The puns in these books >.<

[pourablecat]

Sandra B. used MUSHROOM! It's super effective!

The Princess Maker sprites are so hard to make consistent and so big, so I decided to use a different style. I'm still not sure if flapper Rosie/Sandra necessarily fits in Night-Watch era Ankh Morpork (or any Ankh-Morpork at all) but it looks good, so I'm going with it. Seamstresses and needlewomen. Needlewomen and seamstresses.

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Fun fact: The sign "Battye & Palm" is a Discworld Easter Egg - in the novel Night Watch, Rosemary Palm is a seamstress and Sandra Battye is a real seamstress (truly working with needle :D).They are flatmates. They deal with ppl depending on which seamstress is being looked for :).

[eruvadhril]

@aspie-atmo just pointed out yet another patent Pratchett Stealth Pun: Sandra “I Do Crochet” Battye is not a Seamstress, but she is a hooker.

[vbartilucci]

“Seamstress” is the second-greatest euphemism for the profession under discussion.

Pterry is also responsible for the best one, “Ladies of negotiable Affection/Hospitality”

We must also remember Miss Sandra Battye, flat-mate to Rosemary Palm, and person actually trained in the art of sewing. Every so often a slightly confused man shows up at Mrs. Palm’s place with a torn pair of trousers, and they politely direct them to Sandra’s place.

Mrs. Sandwich, a seamstress (Good Omens Season 2)

and

The Seamstresses' Guild (Discworld)

(Men at Arms)

(Men at Arms)

(The Fifth Elephant)

[cake-apostate]

In Night Watch, Sandra Battye the needlewoman makes more money that Miss Palm because she’s the only real ‘Seamstress’ in the entire city; men aren’t taught to sew, so single men who previously relied on mothers or wives have no choice but to go to her. 

By the present day, Reg Shoe the zombie stitches himself up every time he gets injured. If few men in Ankh-Morpork know how to sew, then where did Reg learn? From Sandra! 

I don’t think Reg knew Sandra as a revolutionary; Sandra smuggled weapons, while Reg didn’t even know about the real meetings. But he’d know Sandra as the needlewoman. 

I imagine that when Reg woke up and realized that he wasn’t dead, he panicked and went to Sandra. Sandra at this point had some experience stitching up wounds; I see Dr. Lawn enlisting her to sew people up. I can see that Sandra would do it for free out of respect for how he died on the barricade, but he keeps coming back. Eventually, he loses his arm and asks her to put it back, so she gets annoyed and teaches him to do it himself (after putting the arm back, of course). 

I can also see that Reg winds up working as her assistant before he joins the Watch. He needs to practice, so why not practice by mending trousers and shirts before working on limbs? He might even go work for Dr. Lawn. 

Reg in the present can now sew his own wounds, but sometimes he loses both of his arms, so he goes to Sandra to get one stitched. 

[ayashiki-i-i]

Hello! I’m back with more Discworld!

I’m currently re-reading Night Watch, which is proooobably my favourite Discworld book, and once again I’m reminded how much I love the Semstresses’ Resistance of Treacle Mine Road. Badass ladies, every single one of them. I wish we saw more of them in the other books.

I regret every single decision that drove me to drawing lilac flowers by hand.

[call-me-schmidt]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Discworld - Terry Pratchett Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Samuel Vimes, Angua von Uberwald, Havelock Vetinari, Sybil Ramkin, Fred Colon, Nobby Nobbs, Carrot Ironfoundersson, Detritus (Discworld), Rosemary "Rosie" Palm, Sandra Battye Additional Tags: The People's Revolution of the Glorious Twenty-Fifth of May, Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Memory Loss, Mentor/Protégé, POC Vimes Summary:

“‘I might be wrong,’ said Glenda, ‘but if you don’t want to know what the things are that you don’t want to know, then that means that there are going to be even more things that you don’t want to know and I imagine that sooner or later, if that goes on, your head will cave in around the hole.’” –Unseen Academicals.

A newly sober Sam Vimes deals with the troubles of remembering.

[honourablejester]

To be fair, that's at least partly because calling them seamstresses is a running joke, gently poking fun at the confusion between 'seamstresses' and seamstresses (see Sandra Battye), but yeah. Pterry generally didn't use demeaning language for much of anyone.

Also of note, the Seamstresses Guild is one of the most politically powerful and respected guilds in the city, and has been since Guards Guards. This isn't something developed later, it was there all the way back at the start of the Watch books.

Anyway, shout out to Terry Pratchett to not only have legalized, completely safe sex work in his books, but also have one of the prominent figures of the Seamstresses’ Guild be a major positive supporting character in Night Watch, as well as general helpfulness of the guild to board single, vulnerable women in their establishments without expecting almost anything in exchange from them.

Like, is used mostly as a joke some times, yes, like changing Free Love with Reasonably Priced Love, but is never a joke directed at the sex workers themselves. It could be more, but is honestly more than you would expect from a fanstasy series nowadays really.

[regicidal-defenestration]

I would like to thank you for your extremely correct and valid categorisations of Discworld characters, and also ask for your opinion on Rosie Palm, Seamstress, and Sandra Battye, Non-Euphemistic Seamstress.

o7 thank you I try my best

Sandra isn't gay as is happy but queer as in "I not only own these needles but know how to use them, so don't even think of trying any funny business"

Rosie Palm seems the kind of person who's identity is very much None Of Your Business - including to herself sometimes. Building her entire guild from the ground up and becoming the Head Seamstress? Easy enough. Figuring out what the fuck is going on with her orientation and gender? Much harder

[pourablecat]

uGH

I tried to do Sandra's idle animation but I don't quite like this (doesn't look like crocheting if her arms don't move)

but I changed the whole thing like five times in the past hour, I deserve a break

[hogswatch-fanworks-exchange]

Happy Hogswatch, @laminatednewspaper! Your secret author has written you a lovely Sandra Battye/Rosie Palm fic about two working girls making a life together and sharing sweetness.

[rokkster]

I've shared this one before, but Sandra Battye the (actual) seamstress in Night Watch is a crocheter - someone who might call herself a hooker. That is to say, a prostitute in common slang. Like, y'know... the Seamstresses she hung out with

It’s not a Discworld joke unless you read it, don’t parse it as a joke, and then carry on with your life for ten years until someone stops you to say something like “It’s a pavlovian response because the dog ate a pavlova” and you scream Terry’s name with enough indignant rage you hope it rattles the pillars of the multiverse so wherever his soul is he’ll hear it.

[muse-en-scene]

Two illustrations from last year of the Ankh Morpork City Watch.

Night Watch by the late great Terry Pratchett has to be one my favourite novels of all time. I included the majority of the major cast in the illustration (clockwise from top left: Sergeant Dai Dickins, Rosie Palm, Vimes, Reg Shoe, Young Sam, Nancyball, Fred Colon, Lu Tse, Sandra Battye, CMOT Dibbler, Snouty, Nobby, Carcer, Billy Wiglet and Young Vetinari).

The below illustration is The Laws and Ordinances of Ankh Morpork, featuring the modern Watch members.

[rolypolydandy]

Just had the thought that you're Reg Shoe and I'm Sandra Battye. You're welcome.

Fuck yes I feel like we need to cosplay this at some point