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i wanna get good at drawing just so i can draw the silly little guys. but im also a sore looser and inpatient. so here we are. i think i may be in limbo 😑😒

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I would eat my vegetables for Sam Vimes.

I colored it!

(And added dragons cuz i forgot to the first time)

The thing that scares me the most about BBC America’s adaptation of The Watch is the possibility that Pratchett’s stance on police brutality will be diluted or distorted or even omitted entirely from the show. And I want to make it clear that this post isn’t specific to the current situation in America, it has applications in every single country.

This time, I’m not even going to talk about all those quotes from Night Watch, Thud! and Snuff on police brutality that always get trotted out; although they are profound and breathtaking, I actually don’t need to; because Pratchett’s views run much deeper than those quotes, and they are at the heart of every City Watch book.

I’m going to talk about Commander Vimes’s horror at being described as a “military man” during the war council in Jingo. He’s not a “military man”, he’s a policeman. He keeps the peace. I’m going to talk about the fact that despite fighting for his life with Carcer, a serial killer who has murdered policemen in cold blood, Vimes does everything in his power to bring him in alive and to see that he gets a fair, public trial, and that justice is done. And that coppers trained by Vimes are head-hunted by Watches in the other cities on the Sto Plains, and are prized for their principles and their integrity.

I’m going to talk about the fact that Lord Vetinari defunded the police. There is a clear Discworld precedent for defunding a police force that has gone wrong. Perhaps that was pure, cold, logical pragmatism, because the Thieves’ Guild was a cheaper solution, but I don’t think this is Vetinari’s only motivation. In Night Watch, we see a young Havelock Vetinari, with the weight of the world already on his shoulders, living under Lord Winder’s brutal, violent regime. He then lived under Mad Lord Snapcase, who would have kept the Particulars on if their headquarters hadn’t been destroyed. Vetinari was different, he decided not to keep on a corrupt organisation that wasn’t fit for purpose, and he only built it up again when he found the right man to command the Watch and was certain that it wouldn’t go back to the way it was before.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

That message is so clear in the books. And I just hope that they don’t use Sir Terry’s name to spread a different message, because that would be absolutely heartbreaking.

Vote yes or face the consequences

the consequences are being WRONG

Exactly what I was thinking! If you liked the idea, people linked a coupla fanfics in the comments or whatever they're called here

I like to imagine that Sam Vimes, instead of dying properly, instead got minor godhood. All watchmen at some point thank him for his actions, his actions a ripple across the Disc. There's precedent in the Duchess of Borogravia, and in his arc. He keeps getting promotions, and hates each one. What higher status could he be unwillingly raised to than divinity, eternally watching the watchman?

Anyways, that's just a headcanon i've got

Why's my Sam Vimes headcanon post exploding

#this is possibly my fav theory abt discworld ive ever seen and it made me an lil emotional

Glad ya liked it!

I like to imagine that Sam Vimes, instead of dying properly, instead got minor godhood. All watchmen at some point thank him for his actions, his actions a ripple across the Disc. There's precedent in the Duchess of Borogravia, and in his arc. He keeps getting promotions, and hates each one. What higher status could he be unwillingly raised to than divinity, eternally watching the watchman?

Anyways, that's just a headcanon i've got

Thank you, thank you, and thank you again for this beautiful work!

Everyone, come praise this!

I like to imagine that Sam Vimes, instead of dying properly, instead got minor godhood. All watchmen at some point thank him for his actions, his actions a ripple across the Disc. There's precedent in the Duchess of Borogravia, and in his arc. He keeps getting promotions, and hates each one. What higher status could he be unwillingly raised to than divinity, eternally watching the watchman?

Anyways, that's just a headcanon i've got

Don’t put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That’s why they’re called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes.

Samuel Vimes, Night Watch; Terry Pratchett

Villain: “You and I are very much alike, you know.”

Hero: “I realize that.”

Villain: “Doesn’t that trouble you?”

Hero: “Why would it? I share most of my genome with sewer rats.”

Mistborn era 2 but instead of reddi constable general is Samuel Vimes

I would love to see him dealing with Waxillium ,,im the Law" Ladrian

he would hate him more than he hates William de Worde