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I love playing as Adaar for many reasons, but perhaps most of all because it's so so funny to me that the Conclave gathered an unprecedented number of the most important religious figures on the entire continent under one roof, and the one person who stumbles out of the rubble as a very confused messiah at the end of it all is essentially the bouncer. you played cardinal roulette and somehow ended up with the doorman.

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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

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say what you like about that old man, you can't deny he had vision

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langwrightworth is so funny to me because you have phoenix who got hit by a car and only got his ankle sprained and you also have lang who got shot in the leg and just walked it away and then you have miles who got his ass beat by a badger

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You know in Farewell my Turnabout when Edgeworth carries away the big bear? I GOTTA see that 💔

Certified big bear moment.

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The Maiden, The Mother and… The Other One

I love my bickering old biddies and their wet hen. I’m very happy about how Greebo came out

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some discworld girlies because i finished the fifth elephant a few days ago! [id in alt]

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Cheery Littlebottom on an Xmas card

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I love presenting profiles to people but in regards to the Feys it’s so. Why would you do this to me. I’ll write it down bc it’s too many screenshots to fit in one post but man. This is all from 2-2 since that’s where I’m at in my replay

Presenting Pearl’s profile to Maya:

Maya: Pearly… She definitely has more than me…

Phoenix: Huh? What are you talking about?

Maya: Who I think the next Master should be… I mean, she’s got more spiritual power than me, and she always works really hard at her training…

Presenting Maya’s profile to Maya:

Maya: I… I can’t face myself…

Presenting Maya’s profile to Pearl:

Pearl: I look up to Mystic Maya a lot. She’s my role model. She’s so smart, and pretty, and kind, and loving. She’s always cheerful, never gets sick, isn’t picky, and has good sleeping habits. She always wakes up before me, and always eats breakfast before me too. [part I didn’t manage to screenshot because it skips automatically but it’s basically "and she has you and you two are so cute-"]

Phoenix: Ack! OK, OK! I get the idea! (She really thinks the world of Maya, doesn’t she?)

Presenting Pearl’s profile to Pearl:

Pearl: To tell you the truth, I really want to grow my hair out, just like Mystic Maya.

Phoenix: [something about how her hair is cute and suits her I didn’t screenshot it either]

Presenting Mia’s profile to Pearl:

Pearl: I knew her for a little while. Mystic Mia was your teacher, right? I’m sure she was a great Master of Lawyers.

Presenting Maya’s profile to Mia:

Mia: I can’t see Maya… when I’m in her body like this… But I can tell. She’s very lonely and sad. Take good care of her, will you, Phoenix?

Phoenix: I-I will…

Presenting Pearl’s profile to Mia:

Mia: Pearly! She’s really grown up… I left Kurain Village a long time ago. She probably doesn’t remember a thing about me by now…

Presenting Mia’s profile to Mia:

Mia: That’s right. I’m already dead. But I feel very grateful to have been born a Fey… so I can talk with you like this…

And it’s not a profile but presenting the magatama to Mia:

Mia: This is something very important to me. Take good care of it, OK?

Phoenix: (She’s looking at it with a soft look in her eyes…)

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Scarlet Witch by Mindy Lee

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it just hit me that Carrot in Discworld is prone to discourse among fans, just as SU and Homestuck are discourse gold mines, and part of it seems to be that ambiguity really attracts a lot of discourse.

there’s no straight answers with them, so people come up with their own conclusions, often extreme ones. people disagree and argue, and things get heated.

Carrot is notable in that he comes with two big details: the first is that we never really see into his perspective or see what he’s thinking past his first few appearances, and that he is the Discworld’s most extreme example of how characters weaponize narrative, and the ethics of how that actually works.

The first point is that in his first few appearances, Carrot does have many scenes where we see things from his perspective, narratively speaking; the narrator comments on things in relation to Carrot, or his feelings. But, as Carrot begins to learn about his origin as the once and future king of Ankh-Morpork, and him willing to use that, we see less of this.

In later books, we almost never have his feelings or thoughts relayed directly. Instead, we hear about what he’s probably thinking from other characters, who do know him well… but in the end, they’re really not sure. They can’t be sure.

This ties into the second point: how much is Carrot weaponizing his narrative weight?

It’s pointed out, multiple times, that Carrot’s role as once and future king plays weirdly with the modern world around him. He has enormous charisma, and he can just force people into doing what he wants, because that’s the story. And, of note, he is implied to be hugely uncomfortable with this; he deliberately avoids getting promoted to minimize his actual authority, he gently tries to get other people he trusts to have a position over him, and he alludes several times to not liking the idea that people go along with his ideas or his idealistic attitudes because they agree with him… but just because it’s him saying it.

So he tries to prevent this, as much as he can, and only makes use of it when he absolutely has to.

The ambiguity enters here in a few books, like The Fifth Elephant, where Carrot comes off worse in a fight that ultimately does work out for him; he goes into that fight in a totally bad way, fighting like a gentleman against a known dirty fighter, and almost gets killed. A potential romantic rival (who is very heavily characterized as being a wolven equivalent to Carrot) takes a worse hit, removing him from the equation.

And so Vimes, the most pragmatic of the main characters, wonders if perhaps Carrot did it on purpose, or if its his narrative bending things around him as usual. He can’t be sure, either way.

And its things like this that attract a lot of discourse towards Carrot, I’ve noticed; people who think he’s doing it all on purpose and lies about it, for example. Interestingly enough, I’ve seen some people accuse him of being a sociopath because of his mentality of ‘personal isn’t the same as important’, and the people saying this view it as a bad thing. but the books are clear; this is an admirable attitude. this is the kind of thing people SHOULD do. Carrot is unusual in that he actually does it.

Carrot is, the books stress, genuinely a simple and straightforward guy, who happens to be in a wretched hive with just enough charisma that people don’t want to disappoint his assumptions. but there’s just enough ambiguity to make some people a bit wary of him.

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Upholding the Laws And Regulations because you deeply hate crime (unlike Sir Samuel Vimes, who only feels personally offended by crime, because it dares happening in his city)

You look into Carrot's face for clues and only get a blank expression of polite innocence in return. You'll never know if he's that simple and literal, or maybe he means the exact opposite of what he just said. You'll never know for sure.

Just your friendly local giant cop, who inexplicably knows the names of all your third cousins and their pets.

---- ko-fi // redbubble

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california girls we’re inconsolable

dreams of doom the visions wont stop

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team five consistently had stunner outfits and adric

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Depending on how work goes this year it might be a while before the actual final piece sees the light of day - so I'm releasing the animatic for the Guards! Guards! animated trailer on the unsuspecting public. I was hoping it could work as both a trailer/intro animation to a non-existant Guards! Guards! animated show, and I think it turned out pretty neat! I hope you enjoy.

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some watch stuff