“Not all men” you’re right. Sir Samuel Vimes, Duke of Ankh-Morpork, Commander of the City Watch would never do this, and he’d arrest every single bastard who would.
on the contrary! Sir Samuel Vimes, Duke of Ankh-Morpork, Commander of the City Watch, might do this. In fact, he likely did this in the past. It wasn’t great. He may or may not have been drunk at the time, but that doesn’t excuse it. But he’s listening to the people who were hurt, now, and rethinking his assumptions, and catching the things before they turn from thoughts into actions. They’re tricky little bastards, though, those things, so sometimes he still doesn’t get it right. But the next person who does a thing, oh, you bet they’re going to see the inside of a cell, and maybe get frowned at by Carrot.
In our game of DnD we’ve implemented something we call Bird Law, which are additional laws that only apply to birds, relevant since we have a Birdfolk paladin. We look at it like the Catholic church, having laws unto itself that the local authorities generally tiptoe around.
Occasionally one of us will come across something we think might be covered under bird law and then roll to see which way the ruling goes.
Nero, a Paladin of Tyr: I’m an eagle, so I definitely eat other birds. Can I legally eat a Kenku? -rolls, gets a 20- Nero: I am legally obligated to eat birds I kill. /Proceeds to eat the guts out of the three Kenku we just fought off./ Our P.I. style Cleric of Tyr, with gravitas: Bird Law.
Bonus, from that session:
P.I. (Ash): Where exactly are you from? Nero (Bird Paladin): It has no name in common, but we of the sky call it -EAGLE SCREECH-
The Emperor, introducing Rogal Dorn to his brothers: Anyway, here’s Wonderwall.
*slams fist down* this is in Horus Rising don’t you all remember???
Most important flashback.
I’ve always maintained that this is *exactly* how the Emperor acts. He’s not so much inscrutable as he is using an extremely outdated set of references. Dude’s got thousands of years worth of tribal fireside chats, Elizabethan plays and Must See TV in his brain.
He probably makes obscure pop-culture references *all* the time. Just…ad nauseum.
And at the most inappropriate moments.
Like, I imagine him whistling the Duck Tales theme while exploring the webway, and the Custodes being *extremely* puzzled.
I can’t believe I hadn’t seen this
he uses two shave and haircut as secret password to lab in one of novels, all of these are canon
Unsure where this came from, if not the palsied hands of the good Lord himself.
Simple premise: Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” slipped from 45 to 33 rpm. Nothing more; no studio trickery, no trip hop drum breaks. The guitar lopes back in and around itself. The bass becomes elastic, hot rubber. The violin stabs become sustained cello lines. The backing choir’s split harmony rattles around, slinking ghostly into the corner. And most importantly, Parton’s once-frantic vocal is transformed from bubblegum country scrawl into something approximating field holler reverence.
“The less you eat, drink and buy books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorise, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save – the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor rust will devour – your capital. The less you are, the less you express your own life, the more you have, i.e., the greater is your alienated life, the greater is the store of your estranged being.”
Sad update everyone, Tama recently passed away… An estimated 3,000 people, including railway officials, attended Tama the cat’s funeral on Sunday, days after she died of heart failure aged 16. [x]
For those who haven’t read articles about it, the local shrine elevated her to a god. She’s now the Eternal Stationmaster and patron god of the station.
Beautiful.
Now I’m crying thanks
and a new cat was hired right?
yep! her name is Nitama (essentially ”second tama” or “tama II”) and she served under Tama as an apprentice before being appointed her deputy
she works very hard
Everytime this crosses my dash, I reblog. It is the law.
Law
I’m crying at 11pm over train cats
Nitama, already now a mature cat (born 2010), has a protege named Yontama (fourth Tama, b. 2016). There is no information available for either the physical befellment or tragic self-disgrace which has removed Santama from contention.
^Nitama majestic, and below with Yontama
Yontama.
a legacy
okay but actually what happened to santama (or sun-tama-tama, which is her name because it’s a pun on santama) was that she was basically sent to train for the position in okayama and they liked her so much they refused to send her back
“Sun-tama-tama” (a pun off of “Santama”, lit. “third Tama”) was a calico cat sent for training in Okayama. Sun-tama-tama was considered as a candidate for Tama’s successor, but the Okayama Public Relations representative who had been caring for Sun-tama-tama refused to give the cat up writing, “I will not let go of this child, she will stay in Okayama.” [25]
As of September 2018, Sun-tama-tama is working as the stationmaster in Naka-ku, Okayama and appears occasionally on Tama’s Twitter account.
Every time I see this post there’s new info and it gets better
