the thing about jack jackrum. ok let me back up a bit: i reblogged a post a few days ago talking about how there are plenty of cis people who don't have an innate sense of gender connected to their agab, but don't have dysphoria so they just. vibe. the 'i just work here' of gender identity. borogravian society does not really have an idea of being transgender, so they're entirely working off gender = sex = genitals at birth. if jackrum had been born in a world where his beloved never went off to war, and he never decided to follow him, would he have been happy as a woman? if he'd grown up today, in roundworld, would he have been a trans man? there's no way to know. but what we do know is that he's been (for all intents and purposes) a man for possibly 60 years, and doesn't want to give it up at the end of the novel. maybe that's because he loves being a man, maybe that's because he just doesn't feel a strong connection to womanhood and it's easier. either way, he makes his choice, and i want to know who changed the pronouns in his last scene of the american version of the novel so we can have a chat.

Jack Jackrum. Discworld.

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I feel like Jackrum and Polly both do “funny as long as they were useless, and safe as long as they were funny” thing. Jackrum plays up the jolly fat man routine to manipulate people into getting what he wants and discouraging people from further investigation, just as Pols acted like the ditzy bargirl to avoid abomination and convince people let their guard down. I think they both got it instilled in them for similar reasons, being a girl in an overly conservative and militaristic country. They both use it in the regiment when dealing with the higher ups.

This isnt as articulate as I would have liked but whatever.

Do you know this queer character?

Jack is transgender and MLM, and uses he/him pronouns!

Love that scene in Monstrous Regiment when Jackrum gets so sick of his little lads being accosted he just outed half of the room

"Have I gone the full fourteen miles, sir?"

OK but that line just fucking does something to me

I wish all discworld Monstrous Regiment fanartists who draw Jack Jackrum a very

Monstrous Regiment but Lieutenant Blouse is played by Hugh Grant and Jackrum is played by Philip Glenister.

(I mean Philip Glenister admittedly might be a bit skinny to play Jackrum but I was reading Jackrum’s lines in his voice lmao)

My friend said they’d have to CGI Hugh Grant’s chin out and I want you to know that 💀

Also rip Hugh Grant saying he was ‘too old, too ugly and too fat’ to be in romcoms anymore like damn mate. You’d be great as a posh idiot Lieutenant crossdresser though if it’s worth anything lmao.

diversity win! this war criminal is transgender

you can apply the jackrum principle to any morally ambiguous middle aged man in media to instantly enrich, but not excuse, all of his actions

Whatever the Jack Jackrum, Jim Jimenez, and Sheik the Sheikah trope is I love it and I want more of it

I’m having a friend read/listen to Monstrous Regiment, and it’s entertaining watching her try to figure out who gave Polly the pair of socks.

Ok I’m halfway through the book now and umm I love these little lads

how do i make you guys read monstrous regiment without spoiling the whole thing