need I say anything?

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Welcome to the Year of the Luminous Lemur.

Can Vetinari please be in charge of all my meetings

Lord Vetinari approves.

Fun surprises in your Discworld calendar: 6th July, Patrician’s Day

Reblogging myself because it’s today

Happy whatever the fuck this is, Havelock, you scary old bastard 🖤

Ah, Patrician’s Day. The children wave their paper flamingos on a stick, and Dibbler sells slices of dry bread, and the whole family can attend the execution of a mime at 12.

"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!

Look at us go!

I will say, things have never run smoother than with Lord Vetinari around. I'm almost sad to see him go... Well, regardless, it seems that Lord Havelock Vetinari could catch Kira and survive, quite handily as well. ...I mentioned being sad to see him go, but it was rather difficult to see him even enter or leave, sometimes. A man with a cane has no business being so skilled in stealth and camouflage - it's as if he's a trained assassin, or something. I must be imagining it...

Lord Vetinari Realizing Things Very Calmly

"I didn't exactly say--"

"In my experience, Miss Cripslock tends to write down exactly what one says," Vetinari observed. "It's a terrible thing when journalists do that. It spoils the fun. One feels instinctively that it's cheating, somehow."

Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

Lord Vetinari, Patrician of Ankh-Morpork

Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

the city watch series

Hughnon sighed. "Words are too important to be left to machinery. We've got nothing against engraving, you know that. We've nothing against words being nailed down properly. But words that can be taken apart and used to make other words...well, that's downright dangerous. And I thought you weren't in favor, either?"

"Broadly, yes," said the Patrician. "But many years of ruling this city, Your Reverence, have taught me that you cannot apply brakes to a volcano. Sometimes it is best to let these things run their course. They generally die down again after a while."

"You have not always taken such a relaxed approach, Havelock," said Hughnon.

The Patrician gave him a cool stare that went on for a couple of seconds beyond the comfort barrier.

"Flexibility and understanding have always been my watchwords," he said.

"My god, have they?"

"Indeed."

Terry Pratchett, The Truth