TV Tropes Day
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crossover_chickPrompted by a combination of:
A) Finishing Making Money
B) That damn "Victor is a necromancer" idea which is not leaving me alone
The latter is just me looking up necromancy and magic and making silly scenes in my head, so let's discuss the former!
1. I was wrong about Mr. Fusspot possibly having the ability to speak human. I guess Terry just wasn't using that conceit in this book. I also didn't see him more or less taking the place of Vetinari's late dog Wuffles, although it's kind of adorable that he did. :)
2. I DID guess another twist, though! Or at least the general gist of it. You see, there's an important minor character in the book named Mr. Bent. He's the bank's chief cashier, and everything about him basically screams "vampire." Anyone who's genre savvy will immediately realize that, while Mr. Bent has a dark secret, he can't be a vampire because that's waaaay too obvious. At one point he has a freakout and disappears, and Moist and senior clerk Miss Drapes (who has a crush on Bent) go and investigate his rooms. And around this time, the mention of "funny-looking people" having come to see him in his past caught my eye. And something clicked in my head. Mr. Bent is described as having no sense of humor. Who are the most humorless people in the Discworld?
Anyone who's had to spend time in the Fool's Guild.
I credit my realization to my enduring love of King Verence II of Lancre, former fool to the previous king. As it turns out, I was wrong about him being Fool's Guild educated -- his backstory is actually that his father was a circus clown who had a tryst with his mother, then picked up his son and tried to throw him into circus life after said mother's death -- but I was right about him being a former member of the unfunniest profession on that world!
Incidentally, Mr. Bent is described as having a funny walk. I have decided that if there were ever an adaptation to be made of this book, they'd have to get John Cleese to play him.
3. Have I mentioned I really, really love Moist and Adora Belle Dearheart? Their interactions are hilarious and strangely awww-inducing. Notably, she's able to keep him from doing dangerous things out of boredom just by being around -- flirting with her is enough of a risk for him. XD (Incidentally, this is part of why he's offered the job of Master of the Royal Mint -- Vetinari KNOWS he's getting bored, and wants to keep Moist out of trouble.)
4. On the other hand, this book just highlights more things that are wrong with the Going Postal adaptation to me -- Adora still smokes like a chimney and wears austere clothing, and Moist is still mostly a rogue, if very loveable. It's sad, really -- they could have done so much better with that.
5. One thing I wasn't too fond of -- the touch of body horror. You see, the main villain has an obsession with becoming Vetinari, mostly by stealing or having replicas made of his things. One of those is a ring.
Which is too small for his finger but he shoves on anyway.
The oblique discussions of what HAPPENS to said finger made me rush through them because YIKES. Moist actually ends up saving his life by using the unique properties of the metal the ring is made of to burn the finger off. The villain also ends up in the looney bin, but this is oddly enough a happy ending for him, because he's in the ward where EVERYONE thinks they're Vetinari. So he can indulge his delusion -- and he even wins the eyebrow-raising contest.
6. Unseen University is back! :D And Ponder, and this awesome cabinet of curiosities, and the Postmortem Communications department (which is definitely not necromancy, not even with all the skulls and such. They're fake, anyway, except for Charlie). You can blame those necromancers in part for my current thoughts of Victor being one. There's just something great about a humorous take on raising the dead. Especially when that dead is a lecherous former professor who ends up being bound to a "gentlemen's club" in payment for helping Moist save the day. XD I will not tell you how the day is saved, only that it involves golems -- and pretty awesome ones at that.
Okay, time to get back to tumblring -- and to see if I can whip up a quick birthday fic for a friend.
A) Finishing Making Money
B) That damn "Victor is a necromancer" idea which is not leaving me alone
The latter is just me looking up necromancy and magic and making silly scenes in my head, so let's discuss the former!
1. I was wrong about Mr. Fusspot possibly having the ability to speak human. I guess Terry just wasn't using that conceit in this book. I also didn't see him more or less taking the place of Vetinari's late dog Wuffles, although it's kind of adorable that he did. :)
2. I DID guess another twist, though! Or at least the general gist of it. You see, there's an important minor character in the book named Mr. Bent. He's the bank's chief cashier, and everything about him basically screams "vampire." Anyone who's genre savvy will immediately realize that, while Mr. Bent has a dark secret, he can't be a vampire because that's waaaay too obvious. At one point he has a freakout and disappears, and Moist and senior clerk Miss Drapes (who has a crush on Bent) go and investigate his rooms. And around this time, the mention of "funny-looking people" having come to see him in his past caught my eye. And something clicked in my head. Mr. Bent is described as having no sense of humor. Who are the most humorless people in the Discworld?
Anyone who's had to spend time in the Fool's Guild.
I credit my realization to my enduring love of King Verence II of Lancre, former fool to the previous king. As it turns out, I was wrong about him being Fool's Guild educated -- his backstory is actually that his father was a circus clown who had a tryst with his mother, then picked up his son and tried to throw him into circus life after said mother's death -- but I was right about him being a former member of the unfunniest profession on that world!
Incidentally, Mr. Bent is described as having a funny walk. I have decided that if there were ever an adaptation to be made of this book, they'd have to get John Cleese to play him.
3. Have I mentioned I really, really love Moist and Adora Belle Dearheart? Their interactions are hilarious and strangely awww-inducing. Notably, she's able to keep him from doing dangerous things out of boredom just by being around -- flirting with her is enough of a risk for him. XD (Incidentally, this is part of why he's offered the job of Master of the Royal Mint -- Vetinari KNOWS he's getting bored, and wants to keep Moist out of trouble.)
4. On the other hand, this book just highlights more things that are wrong with the Going Postal adaptation to me -- Adora still smokes like a chimney and wears austere clothing, and Moist is still mostly a rogue, if very loveable. It's sad, really -- they could have done so much better with that.
5. One thing I wasn't too fond of -- the touch of body horror. You see, the main villain has an obsession with becoming Vetinari, mostly by stealing or having replicas made of his things. One of those is a ring.
Which is too small for his finger but he shoves on anyway.
The oblique discussions of what HAPPENS to said finger made me rush through them because YIKES. Moist actually ends up saving his life by using the unique properties of the metal the ring is made of to burn the finger off. The villain also ends up in the looney bin, but this is oddly enough a happy ending for him, because he's in the ward where EVERYONE thinks they're Vetinari. So he can indulge his delusion -- and he even wins the eyebrow-raising contest.
6. Unseen University is back! :D And Ponder, and this awesome cabinet of curiosities, and the Postmortem Communications department (which is definitely not necromancy, not even with all the skulls and such. They're fake, anyway, except for Charlie). You can blame those necromancers in part for my current thoughts of Victor being one. There's just something great about a humorous take on raising the dead. Especially when that dead is a lecherous former professor who ends up being bound to a "gentlemen's club" in payment for helping Moist save the day. XD I will not tell you how the day is saved, only that it involves golems -- and pretty awesome ones at that.
Okay, time to get back to tumblring -- and to see if I can whip up a quick birthday fic for a friend.
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Date: 2014-03-29 05:25 pm (UTC)I did clear enough of the Sixth Island to move all my Epic Habitats plus the Light off of the other one so now I have to figure out how I want to fix up that other one and gather the funds to do said stuff. There's some bushes and crap hiding behind the Huge Trees that I can't get to yet because the hit detection sucks, lol.
Scales won a Silver and I threw Fang into Earth.
And...yeah, that's about it.
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Date: 2014-03-30 01:59 am (UTC)Heh, I see. And tell me about it -- trying to get ANYTHING behind a big tree is a lesson in frustration. Gah. Still, at least you've got some space. I'm still trying to figure out how to best arrange my islands. (I was going to do Cold/Dark and Fire/Light, but then I realized that puts all the various hybrids in a bind. . .now thinking I'll do Cold/Air and Lightning/Dark, since it's easier to move their hybrids.)
Got a Gold from Wocky in Earth, have Guardian (my new Palladium) proving his mettle in Metal. Er, pun not intended.