My God, It's Full of Stars

I absolutely fucking hate this. Gold star, no notes.

BROAD CITY (Web Series) | Episode 24, "The Commute" (x)

Do you guys ever think about how Vetinari believes that all people are inherently evil, but then he does things like:

Giving people others would deem irredeemable second chances (Lipwig, the other thief too, he even regretted the death of Lupine Wonse, the guy who summoned a dragon and tried to kill him); spends time with ppl who see only the good in everything (Carrot, Leonard); treats and values ppl like individuals and actually cares about them (that scene in Jingo where he tells Vimes that it’s good that people didn’t get killed in the war).

So I thought,

What if he doesn’t want to believe that everyone is evil. What if he had arrived to that conclusion just from his actual life experience with the assassins and guild leaders, because that’s all he had seen other people do. But he tries to spend time with good people and give criminals second chances because he wants to be proven wrong. To be proven that his philosophy is actually wrong and “there is some good in the world and it’s worth fighting for.”

I see Vetinari not as someone who believes in the inherent evil of humanity as much as a man acutely aware that humanity’s priority is *survival* - and that is the force he is working against. The selfish instinct that unchecked falls into self destructive competition instead of self interested cooperation.

If he can make sure as many people in his city have their basic needs met (food, shelter, safety, etc), that becomes the base on which the people with more altruistic motives can build something better.

Which is also what lets him give the likes of Moist a second chance: for those less instinctively giving, make altruism in their best interest.

There’s still a deep well of cynicism - but also an optimism that if he does his job right, Vetinari can make the world less evil.

Don’t forget: a young Havelock Vetinari wore a lilac and fought on the side of the revolution in Night Watch. He did so as an Assassin in the pay of those who wanted only change that put them in charge - but it’s telling that once he becomes the Patrician, the Seamstress’s Guild is legitimized (reasonably priced love) and throughout the novels we see him ultimately supporting Justice (the rise of the Watch) and Truth (a free press via the Ankh-Morpork Times). Unclear if he managed the hard boiled egg.

lot of people are going to be sent careening three posts down their dash and crashing into a brick wall because of this post

was trying to type "oh my god" and it corrected to "oh my gif" so who wants to join my new religion

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#sounds great#this is a very reasonable religion with no possible major schism#no religious wars will arise from this#nobody needs to debate a minor point for thousands of years#by the way how do you pronounce that?

yeah okay ill reblog that

Faces carved into the walls of the Paris Catacombs

Frenchmen be like “this pitch black cave full of skeletons is not scary enough, I must make it worse”

Endless optimism is a foolish way to look at the world, unable to see the strife and suffering. Endless pessimism will never make anyone happy, especially not you. You need to take the good and the bad, the dark and the light, the full and the empty. Hummina hummina hummina

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hey gamers I’ve started watching star trek does anyone else see the romantic tension between captain kirk and mr. spock

watching the realization publicly dawn in real time in the comments is fucking amazing

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Listen if the study of ancient humans doesn’t make you at least a little bit emotional idk what to say.

I started crying today at the museum because they had reconstructed the shoes of Otzi the iceman.

Either he or someone he knew who cared about him made these shoes out of grass and bear skin and twine and he was wearing them when he died over five thousand years ago.

And a Czech researcher and his students did reconstructions of these shoes and wore them to the same place where he died to test them out and they were like yep! These shoes are really cozy and comfy and didn’t give us blisters while hiking!

Is that not just the coolest shit ever????

(Quietly, with love) We will remember your bread, we will remember your dog, we will remember your shoes

(Quietly, with anger) We will remember your copper