Attention, Rare Sightings Of The Patrician Of Ankh-Morpork 🦩 🖤

Hermaeus Mora has found his way in.

He is secret, and needs not tags.

Offer him comments, spread him with reblogs and praise him with likes.

I felt like drawing tentacles, and he just appeared on the paper.

The Watch was like, three poor creative decisions away from being good IMO.

Lack of Nobby and Colon messes with the tone, trying to mix Guards, Guards with Night Watch and throwing in other plot lines along the way sent the pacing to the Dungeon Dimensions and there just wasn't room to leave anything as subtext - though I did enjoy Cheery coming out being more overt.

I like the aesthetic and I think Sybil being involved more is a good thing, even if both aspects could have been better.

Talking about women and gender expression in Discworld for my midterm. Dude, it's a shame that The Watch sucked so much because Joe Eaton-Kent was such a cool choice for Cheery. I thought it was really cool that they explored aspects of her gender and "coming out" as female that was mostly just subtext in the Original stories.

(A slide from my visuals)

ok so hear me out

Beckett is an overextending little nob.

Imagine being part of the West India Co. and this smug tyke shows up with more naval power than any governor in the area, taking not only control of the government but also the economy.

East the long way around my backside.

pirates of the caribbean really introduced an eldritch octopus man who kills indiscriminately and torments the dead as their poster villain and then you watch the movies and it's like, "oh no, actually the worst villain in this series is a small white british man who functions as the herald of capitalism" and that was very very brave of them

Rare confirmation? Wow.

Does anyone has a theory/analysis on why Hea is the only one(?) who's got the hands like that above her head, almost like a crown?

For reference, here's Hea, and here's some examples that don't have the hands like that

I'm making a pmv and it just hit me now that she seems to be the only one who got the hands in that weird shape

i feel like there has to be some obvious metaphor or meaning hidden but i really can't tell what rn lol

Imo it either looks like a crown, or a star. I think it's meant to be a crown? But I prefer the idea that it's meant to be a star xP Because then it might mean that she was terrified of the fire going out, unaware/afraid to see that she can shine just as bright by herself (metaphorically, we're not in the burned grey lmao), and that she never needed the flames on the walls

Or maybe it's meant to look like the Prisoner's crown? That's the very first thing that came to my mind honestly, but i do prefer the star idea >v<

I knew it was at least highly probable this stuff would be happening from an outside point of view but that's beyond gross, revolting or any other such word.

Some people are downright horrifying, I hope things get better for women in STEM.

things that happened to me when i was a woman in STEM:

an advisor humiliated me in front of an entire lab group because of a call I made in his place when he wouldn't reply to my e-mails for months

he later delegated part of my master's thesis work to a 19-year old male undergrad without my approval

a male scientist at a NASA conference looked me up and down and asked when i was graduating and if i was open to a job at his company. right before inquiring what my ethnicity was because i "looked exotic"

a random male member of the public began talking over me and my female advisor, an oceanographer with a pHD and decades of experience, saying he knew more about oceanography than us

things that have happened to me since becoming a man in STEM:

being asked consistently for advice on projects despite being completely new to a position

male colleagues approaching me to drop candid information regarding our partners / higher ups that I was not privy to before

lenience toward my work in a way I haven't experienced before. incredible understanding when I need to take time off to care for my family.

conference rooms go silent when I start talking. no side chatter. I get a baseline level of attention and focus from people that's very unfamiliar and genuinely difficult for me to wrap my head around.

like. yes some PI's will still be assholes regardless of the gender of their subordinates but, I've lived this transition. misogyny in STEM is killing women's careers, and trans men can and do experience male privilege.

Nobby is not allowed to do, hence nobody can know what Nobby does, and I most certainly hope that Nobby doesn't.

Does anyone in Discworld have Sex?

Ok let's clarify:

Moist fucks. Moist definitely fucks, and fucks severely.

Nanny also fucks. Or at least did fuck. Ridcully would fuck but he's celibate.

Vimes and Carrot obviously make love. Mort probably also makes love. Magrat definitely "makes love," which is very different from making love without quotation marks.

Neither Susan nor Vetinari would ever be caught doing anything as uncouth as having sex.

Colon et al procreate. Nobody is allowed to know what Nobby does

Lead candidate for people who have sex are Detritus and Tiffany Aching.

I see Curse Elaine and Guybrush, Revenge (or start of Curse) LeChuck and I can't identify the version of Stan.

It's not Stan from Revenge but besides that, it's hard to say. Feels like his first appearance just because the proportions were more normal in the first two.

Great job all around.

I got into Monkey Island recently

something interesting is happening on the nexus this week