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Tiffany couldn't quite work out how Miss Level got paid. Certainly the basket she carried filled up more than it emptied. They'd walk past a cottage and a woman would come scurrying out with a fresh-baked loaf or a jar of pickles, even though Miss Level hadn't stopped there. But they'd spend an hour somewhere else, stitching up the leg of a farmer who'd been careless with an axe, and get a cup of tea and a stale biscuit.
It didn't seem fair.
“Oh, it evens out,” said Miss Level, as they walked on through the woods.
“You do what you can. People give what they can, when they can. Old Slapwick there, with the leg, he's as mean as a cat, but there'll be a big cut of beef on my doorstep before the week's end, you can bet on it. His wife will see to it. And pretty soon people will be killing their pigs for the winter, and I'll get more brawn, ham, bacon and sausages turning up than a family could eat in a year.”
“You do? What do you do with all that food?”
“Store it,” said Miss Level.
“But you-”
“I store it in other people. It's amazing what you can store in other people.” Miss Level laughed at Tiffany's expression. “I mean, I take what I don't need round to those who don't have a pig, or who're going through a bad patch, or who don't have anyone to remember them.”
“But that means they'll owe you a favour!”
“Right! And so it just keeps on going round. It all works out.”
“I bet some people are too mean to pay-”
“Not pay,” said Miss Level, severely. “A witch never expects payment and never asks for it and just hopes she never needs to. But, sadly, you are right.”
“And then what happens?"
“What do you mean?”
“You stop helping them, do you?”
“Oh, no,” said Miss Level, genuinely shocked. “You can't not help people just because they're stupid or forgetful or unpleasant. Everyone's poor round here. If I don't help them, who will?”
"A Hat full of Sky" - Terry Pratchett
#Tiffany Aching#terry pratchett#discworld#If you're too young to read “Das Kapital” ready Tiffany Aching instead is2g#anarchocommunist icon Constance Level#Miss Level must be protected at all costs
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an Angel
#moist von lipwig#discworld#going postal#terry pratchett#fanart#marcia#literally shutupshutupshutup i knOW he is not that cool but i really wanted to draw wings#i dont think im drawing him lame enough even though he is not all that lame#i mean lets be real if youre reblogging this youve read this book you know i mean#he is just so shaped as a character#lame in some aspects overcompensating in other and perfectly capable and even admirable in some other other aspects too#regardless he is not that cool.#illustration#digital art#original art#artists on tumblr#character art#marciaillust#the alternative caption is “And then an Angel appeared” which is a direct passage from the book but i dont want to discourage the uninitia#ted from reblogging; the tumblr art sphere is already dying lolol
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Alright, I will start with this one then - everything starts with the glorious revolution and everything starts with the night watch 🌸
#discworld#terry pratchett#samuel vimes#havelock vetinari#vimes x vetinari#vetvimes#lord vetinari#glorious revolution#lilac#the night watch#night watch#Am I doing it right at all#AAAAA#I love this book I hate it so much#Blame my sweet gf for spoiling me with such amazing literature also#AND FOR MAKING ME GO THROUGH THESE BOOKS IT'S JUST... UGGGH#Also also it's not Carrot I swear he wasn't there also Vimes should've been armorless but I realized it a bit too late BUT THAT'S FINE#my art
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god. GOD. the underlying anger in everything terry writes really IS apparent in hogfather bc fuck u mean this is how things should be? no the fuck it shouldn't. poor people shouldn't have to be satisfied with what they get, that's just fucking capitalism. i REALLY like that terry decided to use death as projection for what he thinks bc death doesn't know anything and it has to be explained to him and by it being explained to him it shows how fucking stupid those things are. bc ok here's this world where an equivalent of santa ACTUALLY exists and, because it mirrors our world, it's still unjust. santa actually fucking exists in this world and he could give ANYONE ANYTHING bc he's essentially a god and people gave him that power by making him up, BUT because ppl imagined him in a way that poor people don't get shit (like they usually do) and rich people get EVERYTHING they want, he exists like that. whereas death has seen the absolutely WORST of humanity and he STILL thinks that's bullshit and it's not how it should be, it's just how it goes. bc capitalism is always capitalism where there's money and the world will always be fucked up as long as there are oppressor to hold it up. like i just.
#IT IS HOGSWATCH said Death AND PEOPLE DIE ON THE STREETS. PEOPLE FEAST BEHIND LIGHTED WINDOWS AND OTHER PEOPLE HAVE NO HOMES. IS THIS FAIR?#“Well of course that’s the big issue—” Albert began. THE PEASANT HAD A HANDFUL OF BEANS AND THE KING HAD SO MUCH HE WOULD NOT EVEN NOTICE#THAT WHICH HE GAVE AWAY. IS THIS FAIR? “Yeah but if you gave it all to the peasant then in a year or two he’d be just as snooty as the king#NAUGHTY AND NICE? said Death. BUT IT’S EASY TO BE NICE IF YOU’RE RICH. IS THIS FAIR?#“You did say we just had to do this so’s people’d believe—” he began and then stopped and started again.#“When it comes to fair master you yourself—”I AM EVENHANDED TO RICH AND POOR ALIKE snapped Death.#i love him i love him#discworld#gnu terry pratchett#discworld death#hogfather
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Sauron: Aha, who is now in possession of the One Ring? A common soldier? Perfect; they will be tempted by dreams of conquest, wealth and power! But... wait, what is happening? Why is the tempation not affecting them? What sort of lowly human could possibly resist my power?
Sam Vimes, chucking the One Ring into the fires of Mount Doom before striding off to get home before 6pm: Bloody stupid piece of jewelery-
#sam vimes#discworld#lord of the rings#lotr#crossover#when a discworld character appears in something else they bring discworld's rules with it#the one ring corrupts all who possess it? well sam vimes already dealt with a maleficient evil entity from the dawn of time so no biggie#technically he knows it's giving him visions of power etc but he is Ignoring That because it's time to read where's my cow to young sam#because Some Things Are Important
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finally watched the movie and was so disappointed I had to draw the man to cope
#there’s more I just think they deserve their own posts#ALSO GIRLIES IM SO SORRY THE MOVIE WAS JUST NOT IT BESTIE NOT AT ALL#ACTUALLY had to apologize to my gf for making her watch it with me#im sure its objectively a decent movie but THE HATER IN ME IS STRONG#artists on tumblr#digital art#discworld#discworld fanart#going postal#making money#moist von lipwig
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("Always. Continuously. With increasing apprehension, and decreasing hope. I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday. I will love you as a corpse loves the beak of the vulture. I will love you no matter what happens to you, and no matter how I discover what happens to you, and no matter what happens to me as I discover this." -- paraphrased from The Beatrice Letters, Lemony Snicket)
#svsss#bingqiu#luo binghe#shen qingqiu#lbh#sqq#i've been working through the series of unfortunate events and somehow that series has paired really nicely with svsss#the themes of cycling violence and what's justified and what isn't and what can possibly be done differently#and how trying to bring love and honour into the midst of it really changes nothing but also changes everything#it's just *chef's kiss*#i don't know how i can quite do my thoughts justice but i've spent the past few weeks quietly going between the two series (and mdzs and tg#as well if we're being honest they all hit similar questions and themes) and just reveling in the pain and ambiguity of it#everything is interconnected and it means you can never know what trauma and pain and necessity has shaped a person#each story goes too far back to ever ever EVER possibly see the full extent of it#at that level even communication itself is nearly impossible.#and because of that it's almost impossible to change anything. beat yourself apart and the outcome is the same#and yet ATTEMPTING to change things ATTEMPTING to do the kind thing the honourable thing is absolutely critical#because while you can change nothing you also have the capacity to change EVERYTHING#aaaaaaah i don't even know what i'm saying#but i read the beatrice letters today and the love letter just. killed me.#(obviously i cherrypicked some lines because it's three pages long but those ones felt right)#''i love you like a corpse loves a vulture's beak'' i just. can't get over that line.#to be completely changed. altered. destroyed. redeemed. purified. desecrated. reduced to nothing yet entirely necessary for another's life.#what a FUCKING line#anyway i was either going to blow up from thinking about it or else i had to exorcise it via art from an entirely different series#i've already done svsss and discworld why not throw a series of unfortunate events into the mix#i'll be honest folks i did not expect svsss to be the mxtx series that would fuck me up the most about the main ship#bingqiu is something else. i don't even know how to begin to approach my feelings on it. impossibility and necessity all at once#bizarre#my art
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"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!
#discworld#night watch#vetinari#lord vetinari#havelock vetinari#the glorious 25th of may#lilac day#the glorious republic of treacle mine road#all the little angels#justice truth freedom reasonably priced love and a hard-boiled egg#ankh-morpork#ankh-morpork city watch#terry pratchett#GNU Terry Pratchett#glorious 25th of may
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Mrs. Sandwich, a seamstress (Good Omens Season 2)
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The Seamstresses' Guild (Discworld)
(Men at Arms)
(Men at Arms)
(The Fifth Elephant)
#my delighted squeak when i realized what they did there!#these gifs do not do the delivery justice#good omens#good omens season 2#mrs. sandwich#good omens 2#the seamstresses' guild#discworld#terry pratchett#neil gaiman#men at arms#the fifth elephant#gifs#all images and gifs described provided tumblr didn't eat the alt text
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night watch keeps throwing absolutely mean right hooks then kicking me while i’m down like. we’ve got this intensely topical political drama unfolding in the foreground, one where the guy in charge is hiring his buddies into office and the poor are getting poorer while their friends are arrested and killed in the streets, and they’re all so desperate they’d gladly put the lesser of two evils into office, not knowing what that future holds. and while vimes knows the outcome /we/ don’t, we just know it’s in history books and it absolutely ends with the death of john keel. beyond that there’s all the time shit with lu-tze and closed loops and historical imperative and then vimes finally getting his wish of going back to simpler times but simpler does not mean easier, don’t you remember how horrible it all was? have you become so used to comfort that you forgot what it was like in the gutter? and now vimes is running around in a divergent timeline he created (again 🙄) because he’s incapable of staying in his lane. all this is happening and then terry’s like. hey so i know you were wondering what vetinari was up to 30 years ago. i’ve also canonized him as a dog person
#me.txt#discworld#night watch spoilers#not to mention the gun control commentary#or the deep grief and loneliness vimes is feeling at all times#while also gleefully fucking with the timeline and breaking soooo many time laws#AND on top of all this i’m frantically working on the discworld timeline in my mind palace#like no one fucking talk to me i’m thinking about how this is pre-orangutan librarian era
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I’ve been reading + rereading a lot of discworld books lately so here are some doodles of characters from some of them.
#discworld#i think silly doodles are probably the only thing that ever cures my art block moods#i just read the hogfather for the first time since i was a kid and i read it all in one sitting it was so good#i’m using the mr teatime drawing as my discord pfp and I decorated it with pink flower and heart emojis lol#one of my fav types of villain is one who’s silly about things#the hogfather#monstrous regiment#going postal#terry pratchett#doodle#drawing#art#artists on tumblr#bookblr#discworld art
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I added some colours to her :)
#digital art#character art#character design#marcia#discworld#discworld fanart#angua von uberwald#bro i need to get weirder i need my art to be weirder i need the shapes i need the colurs i need to not play safe i need to be a freak#2025 goal become an even bigger freak i can never stop#i really like how she turned out#i never used such muted colours before i kinda like how murky she looks#a true ankhmorporkian#still making my way through men at arms they just found the clown#i am fascinated with the river that is running through that city#it makes me think of Bristol uk <3#going back to angua i like to think the armour they gave her was already all beaten up#hello and welcome to the nightwatch. have the nastiest underfunded gear we could find this side of the city#also i like to think that the official colours of ankh morpork are greenred#two colours on the opposing sides of the colour wheel but they are forced together to coexist#ankh would be green morpork would be red#and now everyone and their patrician just gotta cope#worldbuilding through colour would be fun : )#ohhh the inside of the palace could look quite cool because it would have to utilize both to celebrate the union#but then you go into the city and across the river you can sorta see the divide#not that all the houses would be one colour or whatever thats a bit predictable#but through fashion statements or exported goods or family insignia#and then you could incorporate it further for example vimes the guy of the city would want to take on the whooole thang. thats his city#some criss cross apple sauce checkers quilted mismatched mumbo jumbo#and then in contrast to that you would have his wife-elected suit and tie getup that distances him from his duty and kills him#so many options i tell you
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#discworld#gnu terry pratchett#meme#discworld meme#created by yours truly#night watch#the watch#discworld fans#wear the lilac#the glorious 25th of may#all the little angels#music
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rereading small gods for the fourth?? fifth?? time and it's really just dawning on me how absolutely BRUTAL this book is. i mean this book was my very first discworld novel and i had nothing to compare it to but rereading it now its soo obvious that it's different from other books. dont get me wrong other discworld books can be and ARE brutal but there's something unflinching about small gods. it showcases the violence of the church and the violence people will do for the church and the unnecessary amount of blood that comes from religion and its one of the only books where you can particularly TASTE terry's anger in every single sentence. it's truly the best book i've EVER read on organized religion and the harsh plainness terry portrays it is truly brilliant
#i wish i could read all of the discworld books for the first time again immhoing insane#discworld#gnu terry pratchett#small gods
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poor lady ramkin, can't understand why she'd marry such an unpleasant man
#discworld#samuel vimes#sybil ramkin#men at arms#gnu terry pratchett#arty things#never mind all that stuff that happened like. an hour before this#anyway. im standing at your bedside i frew up.#AUDGHHHHH THEM#feels so incorrect drawing him cleanshaven with a fresh haircut#like an angel without his wings 💔
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