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“Commander Vimes didn’t like the phrase ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’, believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’.”

— Terry Pratchett (via beornwulf)

“

And then [Vimes] realized why he was thinking like this.

It was because he wanted there to be conspirators.

It was much better to imagine men in some smoky room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over the brandy.

You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn’t then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told their children bedtime stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people.

It was so much easier to blame it on Them.

It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone’s fault. If it was Us, what did that make Me? After all, I’m one of Us. I must be. I’ve certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No-one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them.

We’re always one of Us. It’s Them that do the bad things.

”

— Terry Pratchett, Jingo (via captainofalltheships)

neil-gaiman:

hapfairy:

Good Omens fans!

With regards to the upcoming radio show, I’ve seen a few people saying “I’ll just pirate it” or “I’ll wait for it to get put up on YouTube”.

You don’t need to do this! http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/ -should- be listenable from any country, as long as you have a computer, the internet and the world isn’t, y’know, ending…

This means that you can listen to it when it airs, and it’s likely that the episodes will be up for a week or so after they air (this is usually the case) so you won’t miss any.

I had to explain this a lot when NEVERWHERE came out from the BBC. THere’s not a lot of point in pirating something that is yours for free — and they LOVE you downloading it and streaming it legitimately as that means it’s popular.

I’ll remind you of all of this in December.

worthyourtears:

The audio drama, which begins recording today in a secret London location, has a cast including Colin Morgan (Merlin, The Fall) as Newton Pulsifer, Josie Lawrence (Skins, EastEnders) as Agnes Nutter and Paterson Joseph (Peep Show, Green Wing) as Famine, as well as a host of delightful cameos, from the Gardeners’ Question Time team to Neil and Terry themselves. Other cameos are set to delight listeners, but they are under wraps for now. Probably in a dusty occult bookshop in Covent Garden, but no one is quite sure. (x)

This sounds fantastic!

“‘You took an oath to uphold the law and defend the citizens without fear or favor,’ said Vimes. ‘And to protect the innocent. That’s all they put in. Maybe they thought those were the important things. Nothing in there about orders, even from me. You’re an officer of the law, not a soldier of the government.’”

— Sam Vimes in Night Watch by Terry Pratchett (via e-hyde)