In the thirteenth part of\u00c2\u00a0Guards! Guards!<\/i>, Vimes\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s concern about the dragon is used against him. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read\u00c2\u00a0Discworld<\/i>.<\/p>\n
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I DID NOT EXPECT THIS.<\/p>\n
The Librarian<\/b><\/p>\n
It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s clear that it was very tempting for the Librarian to use the L-space to stop the theft of\u00c2\u00a0The Summoning of Dragons<\/i>in the first place. But that just can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be! You know, this brief section from the Librarian\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s POV got me thinking\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 this character is probably going to outlast\u00c2\u00a0everything<\/i>, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t he? The Librarian always knows when to get involved and when to let things be. As easy at it might have seemed to just hide the book so Brother Fingers doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t steal it, the Librarian knows that could have disastrous effects for the future.<\/p>\n
Errol<\/b><\/p>\n
Okay, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m nervous. Well, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the case in general, since this whole chapter left me uneasy about the dragon. MORE ON THAT IN A SECOND. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m nervous because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m already way too into Errol as a character, but everything I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve learned about swamp dragons is telling me that Errol is about to die. As Vimes realizes later in this chapter, he hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been taking care of Errol as he should. He hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t watched what the swamp dragon has been eating, and now Errol is sick\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I think? The boiling scales, the rumbling noises, and now, Errol is craving\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 oil? I feel like that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a set up for a pretty fantastic joke involving the swamp dragons\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 inability to consistently create a flame, but mostly, I JUST WANT ERROL TO BE OKAY. Please???<\/p>\n
Vimes<\/b><\/p>\n
Truthfully, Vimes does care about Ankh-Morpork, and as cynical and sad as he is some times, he believes in his city. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel like there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a selfish reason for his desire to protect others from the dragon, but the city is biased against him so much that people like Lupine Wonse think that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just trying to make things better for himself. Yes, it was a mistake to think a raven was a dragon. (IT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S KIND OF FUNNY, THOUGH.) But Lupine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s response to Vimes is to TAKE HIS BADGE AWAY FROM HIM. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s easier for Wonse to dispose to Vimes this way than to admit that he may be right. But just in terms of the writing\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 holy shit, this was such a shocker. I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even had all that much time with Vimes compared to other characters in the\u00c2\u00a0Discworld<\/i> universe, but I already feel like he\u00c2\u00a0is<\/i> the Watch. How can you take that away from him so soon???<\/p>\n
I think you can even see that shock in Vimes himself, who can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even be angry at this development, at least not yet. A part of him is relieved it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s over, but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just for the time being. He doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get much time to think about a life that\u00c2\u00a0isn<\/i>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t<\/i> in the Watch before the sounds of panic reach the Yard. And what does he do when he hears evidence that his city is trouble, that the dragon has indeed returned?<\/p>\n He placed his battered helmet on his head and gave it a jaunty tap. Then, humming a mad little tune, he sauntered out of the building.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n He still goes out to do his job.<\/p>\n The Dragon<\/b><\/p>\n A lot of the dread and unease I felt in this section, however, came from my fear of what the dragon would do. I knew that the dragon specifically sought out those who had summoned it, but the dragon was also EXTREMELY UPSET. It had the capacity to roast this entire city, and I would not be surprised if it did so. So how bad would this be? Characters have certainly died in the\u00c2\u00a0Discworld<\/i>, but I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know if we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d see something on a grander scale here. The High Priest of Blind Io is the first casualty here, since he offers the dragon a gold crown that isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t gold at all. (Did he seriously think a dragon wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know???) Lupine Wonse, however, is spared. Why is that? I think that the dragon knows Lupine can lead the way to\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 the king? The Supreme Grand Master? Both, probably. By the way, where the\u00c2\u00a0hell<\/i> is the Supreme Grand Master??? I find it suspicious that we haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t heard from him once since the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u009dking\u00e2\u20ac\u009d appeared. YOU ARE TRYING TO TRICK ME, PRATCHETT. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122VE GOT MY EYE ON YOU.<\/p>\n But let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also acknowledge how hilarious and perfect it is that Vimes is certain that his city is going to adopt the dragon AS THEIR KING:<\/p>\n We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll really do it, he thought. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the Ankh-Morpork way. if you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t beat it or corrupt it, you pretend it was your idea in the first place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Which sounds\u00c2\u00a0exactly<\/i> like the Patrician, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. And what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the Patrician up to?<\/p>\n In his rat-filled dungeon, behind a door with more locks than a major canal network, the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork lay back and grinned in the darkness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n OH SHIT.<\/p>\n The original text contains use of the words \u00e2\u20ac\u0153idiot,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153mad,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153whore.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n http:\/\/youtu.be\/DCb6DZ-AVtg?a<\/p>\n Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n -\u00c2\u00a0Please support the CrossingsCon IndieGogo to help get a Young Wizards convention started in 2016<\/b><\/a>! If the fundraiser reaches $7,000, I’ll be the Guest of Honor. FOR REAL. In the thirteenth part of\u00c2\u00a0Guards! Guards!, Vimes\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s concern about the dragon is used against him. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read\u00c2\u00a0Discworld.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[451],"tags":[486,463,248],"class_list":["post-3139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discworld","tag-guards-guards","tag-mark-reads-discworld","tag-terry-pratchett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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