introvert-unicorn:

Words to describe facial expressions

• Absent:preoccupied 
• Agonized: as if in pain or tormented
• Alluring:attractive, in the sense of arousing desire
• Appealing:attractive, in the sense of encouraging goodwill and/or interest
• Beatific:blissful
• Black:angry or sad, or hostile
• Bleak:hopeless
• Blinking:surprise, or lack of concern
• Blithe:carefree, lighthearted, or heedlessly indifferent
• Brooding: anxious and gloomy
• Bug eyed: frightened or surprised
• Chagrined: humiliated or disappointed
• Cheeky: cocky, insolent
• Cheerless:sad
• Choleric: hot-tempered, irate
• Darkly:with depressed or malevolent feelings
• Deadpan:expressionless, to conceal emotion or heighten humor
• Despondent: depressed or discouraged
• Doleful: sad or afflicted
• Dour: stern or obstinate
• Dreamy: distracted by daydreaming or fantasizing
• Ecstatic: delighted or entranced
• Faint: cowardly, weak, or barely perceptible
• Fixed: concentrated or immobile
• Gazing:staring intently
• Glancing: staring briefly as if curious but evasive
• Glazed: expressionless due to fatigue or confusion
• Grim:fatalistic or pessimistic
• Grave: serious, expressing emotion due to loss or sadness
• Haunted: frightened, worried, or guilty
• Hopeless:depressed by a lack of encouragement or optimism
• Hostile:aggressively angry, intimidating, or resistant
• Hunted: tense as if worried about pursuit
• Jeering:insulting or mocking
• Languid: lazy or weak
• Leering:sexually suggestive
• Mild:easygoing
• Mischievous:annoyingly or maliciously playful
• Pained:affected with discomfort or pain
• Peering: with curiosity or suspicion
• Peeved:annoyed
• Pleading: seeking apology or assistance
• Quizzical: questioning or confused
• Radiant: bright, happy
• Sanguine: bloodthirsty, confident
• Sardonic:mocking
• Sour:unpleasant
• Sullen:resentful
• Vacant:blank or stupid looking
• Wan:pale, sickly
• Wary: cautious or cunning
• Wide eyed: frightened or surprised
• Withering:devastating
• Wrathful: indignant or vengeful
• Wry: twisted or crooked to express cleverness or a dark or ironic feeling

captainsupernoodle:

Something something vimes and carrot as foils the descendant of kingslayers and the descendant of kings the man who sees clearly the truth of evil and the man who sees clearly the truth of good the man who’s being pulled up from the gutter and the man being pulled down from his near miss with glory and both of them being made better for it the man whose apathy covers deep personal care versus the man whose boundless kindness covers personal disconnection the man who lives so mired in the world at it is and the man who lives almost entirely in the world as it could be the way they could never understand each other and the way they understand each other better than anyone else

curlicuecal:

zetabrarian:

quakerhobbit:

professorsparklepants:

lannamichaels:

usually-abnormal:

Okay so I just finished Going Postal and started Making Money and I realized something.

Moist’s postmaster uniform is based on a statue of of a god in Discworld that’s inspired off of how Hermes looks with the wings and gold and all that. At first I wrote it off because okay, he’s messenger to the gods, makes sense Discworld had a version of him. But then the book mentions that moist might be an avatar for that god and I remembered something and realized it went so much deeper than that.

Hermes was also the god of theives, wealth, and travel.

Moist Von Lipwig was a theif/con artist before he became the post master.

Then the second book with Moist, Lord Vetinari has him take over the Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork and the Ankh-Morpork Roayal Mint.

And in his final book, Raising Steam (which I haven’t read yet so I don’t know the details) , he’s given a job where he works for the newly invented railroad in Discworld.

Theif, Postmaster, Banker, Railroad Worker.

Theives, Messenger, Wealth, Travel.

They literally made Moist Von Lipwig a mortal of version Hermes, and this totally has to be intentional! Especially with the avatar thing!

Moist von Lipwig: “I commend my soul to any god that can find it.”

WAIT. HERMES IS A PSYCHOPOMP. HE WAS LITERALLY THE FIRST GOD THAT FOUND IT.

@zetabrarian have you read the Moist von Lipwig Discworld books?

I own them and they are on my TBR list–exactly for these reasons. :D

Thank you for thinking of me!

hang on i have to look something up

okay yes that’s clever