this letter is especially funny to me because i’m like this when drunk except i talk about. cicero

i don’t think he actually sobered up before writing this letter

Changeover🔊

First, you think the bird is a fool.

They you realize the bird is smarter than you and actually checked first.

Source: Mehdi Alibeygi

@todaysbird

huh, the full video is almost two minutes long, and what got cut was entirely title and credits:

Reblog for the full length one… because you know heaven forbid people credit artists for their hard work that made us laugh or smile.

Will Graham walked so that Clarice Starling could run......

off with Dr. Lecter to Buenos Aires and live happily ever after. 

The End. 

The Remains of the Day (James Ivory, 1993).

— Anthony Hopkins

up to my neck in work rn but there is always time to sketch clannibal

He is soooo normal about her

Okay but so much of the character of Sam Vimes is influenced by him being a former alcoholic tho. I don’t think it’s possible to discuss his unbreakable moral code without also discussing his addiction.

There is significant parallels between how he does not touch alcohol EVER starting from Men at Arms and every other ways that he holds himself accountable in the books.

One minute late to storytime with his child would be one minute too much, because once you excuse one minute late then you can excuse five, ten, and then fifteen minutes late. -> one drink is too many drinks because one drink « tends to arrive in five glasses ».

« If you do a bad thing for a good reason you’ll do it for a bad one », « If one part of the machine breaks down it all breaks down » and « who watches the watchman? Me. » are all different ways of saying that Vimes cannot allow himself to make even one exception in how he behaves. Will not, yes, and that’s very admirable, but this will not is the result of a CAN NOT because what would happen if he did is not, in fact, unthinkable. On the contrary, he knows very well what would happen if he did break one of his many rules, and this is exactly why he doesn’t break them.

« One drink is one too many » is basically the center of his character’s moral code. And it hits so hard because he’s not being rigid for the fun of it, he’s like that because he knows. It’s a sliding slope and he’s been on it and at the bottom of it and he KNOWS how quickly it slides.

And it’s so interesting to see how he applies that core concept to all other aspects of his life, cultimating into the guarding dark.

Pros and Cons of the Clannibal relationship:

PROS: 

1 - Lecter respects Clarice

2 - He takes good care of her 

3- He’d never do anything to hurt her bc he loves her too much 

4- Their relationship isn’t toxic, it’s healthy 

5- He helps her heal from her father’s death 

6- Judging from the ending of the book, they have a good sex life (every day might I add 🫢

7- they have dinner together on the terrace 

8- He never forgets to remind her how beautiful she is and tries to make her see that and accept it 

9- Clarice matches his wits

10- He would literally do anything for her (includes killing anybody who is rude or disrespectful towards her. ex: Paul Krendler and Multiple Miggs)

CONS:

1- The only twisted and f*cked up thing about their relationship is the fact that they both fall on the opposite sides of the moral spectrum bc she was/is an FBI agent whose job is to put bad guys away and meanwhile he’s a cannibalistic serial killer. Therefore, that’s the only immoral thing about it.

just imagine. being Serafine von Uberwald. getting a Hogswatch letter from a colleague from high school - every year. who you don’t respond to, of course. but you do read it. and for some last few years your collegue is writing to you about her new love and how he is so kind and soft hearted. to then. meeting Sam fucking Vimes for the first time this is just to funny to put into words

Sybill writes to all the women she went to school with too. Powerful women all over the Disc get these Very Generous descriptions of her husband every year. and then it’s Sam fucking Vimes.

gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss

amazing reflections hidden in the tags

Advice from 4500 years ago.

I like ths translation. “it would be wise of you to remember this”

wow i wonder if that 300 year gap could be explained by any outside factors…….whoa! for some reason it lines up with the timeline of britain’s invasion and subsequent colonization of ireland! wild, huh? i wonder if the two are connected in some way? i guess the world will never know….

“why do the Irish hate the English so much? It couldn’t have been *that* bad!!”

This was in place till 1973.

Seeing non irish people reblogging this makes me happy

The stereotype of “the Irish are drunks” is English propaganda used to justify paternalism and controlling the Irish. It’s bullshit.

Angua has massive 'the one with the brain cell' vibes, not because she's the token girl at this point in the series but because she's the one who's most like Vimes

I've been thinking about this on and off ever since I posted it, trying to come up with something coherent and cohesive, but I can't. So instead of a proper meta post here is a list of things where I compare Angua and Vimes:

I wish more fantasy settings had the stuff discworld does. I don't mean the big themes, although I do wish more books had those too. I mean fantasy settings where there are newspapers, birth control, pizza, vibrators, crisps, unions, dog biscuits, fan clubs... just normal stuff that turns up when you have a lot of people in one place. A lot of fantasy seems to take the view that you won't have any of this stuff if you've got magic, but why wouldn't you? Some fantasy settings don't even have pencils. And what about toilet paper? Food that isn't enormous, elaborate feasts? Literacy rates? Pop culture? It feels like Ankh-Morpork in particular is just ticking over as usual when we're not looking and that it really does have a million people in it. And yet sometimes other fantasy just... doesn't bother with any of this stuff at all.

Yes, this! Ancient Rome had take out. Ancient Sumerians had complaint letters about folks who shorted them on substandard copper. People wrote stupid graffiti on the walls of Pompeii. There were children who doodled dogs in the edges of their books as far back as children had books. The monks illuminated manuscripts had cat paw prints where they got into the ink. People have been people for all of history and sure, there are grand sweeping empires, but inside the empires are little stories about the actor who messed up his line in Orestes.

one of the oldest documents we have about a sea voyage is a report from an Egyptian bureaucrat who was trying to get a shipment of wood from the northern Mediterranean back to Egypt

and it is 100% the kind of Cover Your Ass report that you write when everything has gone wrong and you want your boss to be very clear that it is not your fault

we don't even know if he got the wood back home because he is so vague and evasive about what happened to it