Things worn down by people.

this is unironically one of the most beautiful photo sets i've ever seen

Tonight I can't stop thinking about how my favourite Sam Vimes moment isn't any of his triumphs, but instead it's that moment in Thud! when he stands at the bottom of his stairs and looks up just in time to see the Deep Downer enter Young Sam's nursery with intent to kill.

Truly, right, of every moment in every Sam Vimes book that's his truest moment of terror. The staircase becomes endless under his feet, he can't think beyond the impending violence and vengeance that he both expects to witness and to perform; the promised payment for the wild happiness of his life in recent months. There's nothing in his head but the understanding that he's about to lose everything he loves. And then, miraculously, he doesn't. And all he can do is clutch his son and sob like we've never seen him sob before - he'd be the first to say that if people were trying to kill him he was doing his job correctly, but that's nothing. People try to kill him all the time, it's a game to him now. This is different. This is Young Sam. Young Sam whose eyes outshine all the lamps of the world for his father. Sam Vimes has never had things to be afraid for before. This is the first time truly that terror has found him. We've seen him in the gutter, but this one beat is the lowest and most frightened he ever gets. He brought the violence home with him like dirt on his shoes and no matter what happens in that room, he'll be to blame for it. His son sleeping peacefully is the last thing he expects.

And it's all done in about a hundred words. The destruction and the rebuilding of his character in one terrifying page.

I miss Sir Terry so much

I love the way Terry Pratchett uses Carrot and Sam Vimes as foils for each other.

Sam Vimes is a bastard. He knows he’s a bastard. He knows that if Sam Vimes isn’t looking over Sam Vimes’ shoulder, Sam Vimes would become a complete monster of a copper. So Sam Vimes picks some rules to make sure that he stays the person he wants to be (be there to read to your son, don’t do bad things for a good reason), and then he sticks to them like a they’re the only way to heaven. Sam Vimes fights tooth and nail to try to be a decent person and that’s part of being a good copper.

Carrot, on the other hand, is the hero. Carrot carries justice like a halo. Carrot is the rightful king in waiting, the one who can dispense justice with wisdom and sword. And Carrot knows that he cannot let the personal become important - he knows that he can’t just give people what they deserve, because only a few people could possible live up to that.

I love that Sam Vimes and Carrot start from different places and meet in the middle. I love how much they play off of each other and get to the realization that a bastard can be a good man and a good man can be an utter bastard.

🐘🐘🐘🐘...🐘?

She ankh on my pork til I need more or whatever they said idk I didn't read the books

OH SEVEN 🫡🫡🫡 @foxtail-1311

they are very used to this by now

(d20 art requests are open! comment or send an ask. i may or may not do it. hashtag lack of executive function skills)

I made a Fantasy High zine :)

truly has been the year of dimension 20 for me, because I went from having watched 1.4 seasons (never stop blowing up and a couple episodes of freshman year) last year to the rest of fantasy high freshman year, all of fantasy high sophomore and junior year, a court of fey and flowers, misfits and magic season 1, titan takeover, and several episodes of a starstruck odyssey just this year. Here’s to hopefully many more!!

I can make anything about my favs. Don’t underestimate me

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Headcanons/Ships of:

-Figayda + Faebees

-Coffee addict Riz (essentially canon)

-Fabian gives Riz his card to spend whenever

-Fabian listens to white girl music / Ragh listens to white girl music

-ADHD Gorgug

-ADHD Kristen

Also!!! Please check the usernames and such once again cause I’ve edited them. Reasonings for each below:

Slapping favs on text posts once more since yall seemed to like it

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Once again featuring ships/headcanons of:

-Figayda

-Fig ‘parent collector’ Faeth

-Kristen can’t bake

-They/Them Gorgug (check username on fourth pic. Taken from tags left by enbykristenapplebees on a ‘Fag Faeth’ post)

-Matching pfp of each other Riz/Fabian

Elephants eat 300+ pounds of foliage a day so they’re almost always moving and grazing in their waking hours but they will stop if another elephant cannot walk. They’re known to try to pick up the fallen elephant and stand and wait for them to remain enough strength to rise and walk if the elephant is injured or ill. Some Asian elephants reportedly guide injured wild elephants back to humans for help. I can’t help but think about adage attributed to Margaret Mead, first sign of civilization is a healed human femur. We know Neanderthals cared for the individuals in their community because there are archeological finds of Neanderthals with disabilities and healed major injuries that would have required the group assisting the individual to eat and drink during their recovery, instead of seeing the injured or disabled Neanderthal as a waste of resources, they valued them as an individual and were willing to put work into their recovery and survival. Elephants seem to view members of their species in the same way but due to their anatomy and cognition, they have a harder time rendering medical aid themselves, though they want to help.

my friend liz downloaded some free audio software a few months ago to do something and now every time she joins a call a female voice says “trial. trial.” and liz doesn’t remember the name of the software or know how to stop it and she doesn’t want to

my friend liz had her spotify account hacked and literally didn’t realize for a year until I was talking about my decade in review playlist and she looked at hers and it was all brazilian music and she was like oh this explains why I would go to sleep listening to classical music and wake up and it’s playing trap. and also why there are like 30 playlists on my account that I didn’t make. she just thought spotify was like that

hand to god at some point my friend liz managed to fuck up her install of Portal so bad that it was displaying minecraft textures

like she’s bringing me dead mice

tonight she very carefully explained that there’s been a screw rattling around in her laptop for months but today it stopped which means it’s wedged on something and then the image on the screen started sliding sideways but she rebooted three times and now it’s fixed. and then an hour later she dropped from the call

also she said her laptop bluescreens every time she connects to the school wifi specifically I guess just to round things out

I had a vision

fabian screaming at his mom that he can’t just be a thing around the house haunts me. he was so fucking mad and he couldn’t help but fume because he knows this story. he knows that someone will die because that’s what happens with heroes. he knows he will kill his dad, he knew that the second he got into the manor, because that’s what happens to all fathers and sons and there is anger boiling his blood as he thinks about fate and it’s cruelty. and here is his mom who doesn’t feel angry or heartbroken like him, she feels utter nothing and he needs her to understand that life doesn’t work that way. his emotion leaving him for a few seconds and flowing into her

i flipping hate ao3's layout there's too many goddamn words

you know what i deserve this

a lot of mean things have been said about me on this post, but none of them hurt as much as this

This websites hatemail game is insane

when boy bands sing a love song addressed to the listener does that imply all 5-10 of them are in love with you at once. that seems like a lot of pressure i don't know if i want to be the nucleus of the boyband polycule.