#Vetinari

[dimity-lawn]

—Lord Vetinari

would you?

[jojaydoodles]

need I say anything?

------- ko-fi // redbubble

[chechula]

evening request part 1: Angua and Sam Vetinari and Granny Weatherwax (two separate requests, but I wish that these two meet ♥)

[megafaunatic]

the night watch and friends

[elliottjpg]

"Boo."

Happy Glorious Twenty-Fifth of May to all who observe.

Like last year, I opted to do a redraw of an old drawing from 2020; a companion piece to my previous drawing, a redraw from 2019. Night Watch is a good context to revisit the past and look at how I've evolved.

Rise up!

[magpiesketchins]

Moist Von Lipwig voice: Why are you telling me this, sir?

Vetinari voice: Because no one will ever believe you, Mr. Lipwig.

Based on this post because look I just. I just had to ok.

[catharsis-in-a-bottle]

^

the Extremely Normal Vimes/Vetinari Dynamic ™️ in jingo

[ode-to-fury]

Love that Vetinari is just in contact with everyone's wives

[merlinmerlot]

this weird guy and his crusty eyed white dog

[songthursh]

Quick smol sillies

[thefandomlifechoseme]

Vetinari: *successfully gets Vimes to accept a higher position*

Vimes: >:( fine. I'm not happy about it, but fine.

Vetinari, internally: *delighted* I'm sicking my dog on unsuspecting society again. I'm enriching him. It's good for his character development. I'm making him someone else's problem again :D I'm so good at running our city. This is great. I should force him into more positions so he can distress more unsuspecting society :D

[colouredbutnotblue]

save me lord Vetinari (some hand practices)

[wykart]

I’m entering my Vetinari era. Going to start saying shit like “Capital!” and “Do not let me detain you.” and “A great rolling sea of evil. Shallower in some places, of course, but deeper, oh, so much deeper in others. But people like you put together little rafts of rules and vaguely good intentions and say, this is the opposite, this will triumph in the end.” Gonna start juggling knives.

[megafaunatic]

silliest guy in ankh-morpork

[mildlybizarrecorvid]

I find it greatly amusing that Lord Vetinari can't seem to stop. Put him in prison? He'll advise one pest on how to eliminate the others, putting him in a position of power amongst the dungeon dwellers. Put him on a train? Oh, no, that's not Vetinari that's just a coal shoveler. And a vicious one at that, when they have a fight he always wins.

And as a sidenote/addition: I don't think his age for that second example was specified, but it's established by that point that he's getting on in years, uses a cane, and his beloved dog Wuffles has passed, so he can't be a spring chicken.

[insatiable-hungey]

You know what I want to see more of?

Ankh Morpork Souveniers

SPECIFICALLY

Lace bobbins

So, info dump time, round world historical lace bobbins are made from wood or bone, specifically horse or cow shin bones, and they can be plain or decorated. English midland style bobbins have beads called spangles to weigh them down and keep them flat.

Historically you had a large portion of poor and working class women making lace (because it's tedious, repetitive, and was worth a fair amount compared to other home crafts of the time) and they would often sit in their front gardens/on the street/in their doorways making lace because they needed good light.

Now, people would wander by and see what people were working on/what could be purchased, so one way people would promote things, say an election candidate, a moral bible message or an event (like a hanging) would be with engraved bobbins.

Bobbins, the free pens of the semi- literate world

They would also be given as gifts to the lacemaker from family members or sweethearts, sometimes with names or messages etched into them (theres a saucely one with 'kis me quick my mome is comin' etched into it in the Cowper & Newton Museum)

Now back to the Disc.

Thanks to Guards Guards we know that there is lacemaking on the Disc because Vetinari is reading a book on it in prison.

Ergo, there are lace makers*

Lacemakers who would go head over heels to be brought a tiny dwarf battle bread shaped bobbin by their friend who visited Koom Valley, or be gifted an antique troll bone bobbin that sparkles with tiny diamond flecks (new troll bone products since been outlawed everywhere but Uberwald much like the round world's ivory laws)

But most of all

I want to see hanging bobbins.

You know with absolute certainty that CMOT dibbler is hawking badly made bobbins, made from the finest (rat) bones yessir, to watchers of the seasons hangings.

Which means after the events of going postal...

There are ALBERT SPANGLER commemorative SPANGLED BOBBINS

VETINARI PROBABLY COMMISSIONED THEM

I AM LOSING MY MIND over moist von lipwig having to deal with the shipping hassle of every lacemaker and their aunt sending a bobbin to their far distant friends COMMEMORATING HIS OWN DEATH

I'M TOTALLY NORMAL ABOUT THIS I SWEAR

*Vetinari would 100% enjoy lacemaking**, as it is all about following the strings and making sure they are heading where they need to go to complete the pattern.

**He would attend the Thursday morning club because lace ladies are incorrigible gossips and know everything about everyone

EDIT:

Ohmygod I forgot about the potential of souvenier PINS