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Victor stared helplessly at the city of lights.
"Why us?" he said. "Why is it happening to us?"
"Everything has to happen to someone," said Ginger.
Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures
#victor tugelbend#ginger withel#moving pictures#discworld#terry pratchett#fate#resigned#causality#helpless#why#chance#pragmatism#why me#everything has to happen to someone
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once upon a time students of Unseen University... also just Victor Tugelbend Maraschino.
#discworld#unseen university#Adrian Turnipseed#Ponder Stibbons#Victor Tugelbend#Skazz#my art#sketches#gnu terry pratchett#gnu jan kantůrek#moving pictures#Victor is crazy underrated character also a mood tm
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‘It’s got him,’ said Gaspode quietly. ‘Got him worse than anyone, I reckon.’
‘What has? How can you tell?’ Victor hissed.
‘Partly a’cos of subtle signs what you don’t seem to be ablter recognize,’ said Gaspode, ‘and partly a’cos he’s actin’ like a complete twerp, really.’
Terry Pratchett - Moving Pictures
#Terry Pratchett#discworld quotes#GNU Terry Pratchett#quotes#Moving Pictures#Gaspode#Victor Tugelbend#Holy Wood
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Victor Tugelbend 🤝 Jonathan Strange
Smart, tries out many jobs but is too lazy to follow up, very innovative with magic, gets passionate and incredibly popular on their niche
#also. big bi energy#discworld#moving pictures#jonathan strange and mr norrell#victor tugelbend#jonathan strange
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The Ankh-Morpork Movers and Shakers Tournament!
I know y'all know these two, but still, feel free to add your propaganda in the notes!
#monstrous tournament#movers and shakers bracket#round 1#victor tugelbend#victor maraschino#lupine wonse
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Me: *reading moving pictures and not being able to pronounce Victor Tugelbend's last name* Ah, yes, Victor Tughdjdhfbdbxn 🙂
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Victor Tugelbend went through some hard mental gymnastics when figuring out what he wants in life. Imagine wanting to be a student forever and actually having a reason and making a system to make sure it stays that way. Couldn't be me.
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when will my husband victor tugelbend return from the war
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One of my favorite Discworld books is actually one of the more obscure ones, "Moving Pictures", which is about the invention of films and the movie business in this fantasy world that has dwarves and trolls and wizards and so on. It has its rough patches like every early Discworld book, but Ginger's speech about people who were born in the wrong time or wrong place for their dreams really gets to me in a good way, and I love all of the references to classic films and commentary on fame and creativity. It also has classic characters like Gaspode the Talking Dog and C.M.O.T. Dibbler, and it introduces Detritus's romance with another troll named Ruby.
Perhaps most importantly to me is that this book introduces Ponder Stibbons, who is a wizard, and who goes on in later books to be one of the most important members of the Unseen University (he holds like twelve different positions), in that he's one of the few people who can competently manage a project and so ends up managing nearly everything. (Bear with me, it's been a while since I read any Discworld and my memory is a little rough.) In "Moving Pictures", Ponder is the classmate (roommate?) of a fellow named Victor Tugelbend, who is one of the main characters.
Victor begins the book as a career student, in that a wealthy relative left him a great deal of money exclusively for school; so as long as he STAYS in school, all of his living expenses are paid for. If Victor graduates, that's the end of the money. If Victor drops out, that's the end of the money. But if Victor manages to hit a specific mark range in the 80s every year, then he gets to stay on for another year and try again, and so Victor is perhaps the most dedicated and knowledgeable wizardry student in the university's history, because you have to know what the right answer is in order to intentionally get a certain number of the questions wrong, so that you can continue to coast along on your college fund.
Ponder's graduation is (accidentally) Victor's fault, because Victor runs away to get into the movie business. (I won't spoil what happens, but it's VERY funny.) Now, I like to imagine after the events of the book, after Ponder holds a faculty position in the university, Victor comes BACK to the university occasionally as a disgustingly well-paid external consultant, which drives Ponder UP THE FUCKING WALL. Like, people are so stingy all of the time but SOMEHOW the university budget has room to bring your offensively handsome dropout roommate back just to say, "Hmm, yes, that looks bad. Have you tried turning it off and on again?" I'd throw a fit, honestly. (As soon as Ponder has enough seniority, he probably puts his foot down to stop this if Victor isn't actually useful. Maybe he is, idk, but maybe not for THAT consulting fee.)
I also like to imagine that Victor Tugelbend and Theda "Ginger" Withel are still together, maybe even still acting (badly? mediocre-ly? decently?) together, in some dingy little theatre (Ginger is the director and runs their acting troupe like a tyrant) where the front seats are regularly filled with middle-aged folks who still sigh over the memories of moving pictures. (Moving pictures are now, presumably, VERY illegal in Ankh Morpork.) Victor and Ginger have only because even more attractive as they've gotten older, which is EVEN MORE OFFENSIVE to poor Ponder because his former movie star former roommate is married to another gorgeous former movie star?! I'd throw another fit.
Anyway, I think Ponder deserves to have an affair with a pair of aging former movie stars. I like to imagine this purely because I think it's funny. He seems kind of busy for marriage, so joining someone else's marriage part-time might be good for him. It probably makes most of the rest of the Unseen University faculty breathlessly envious and that really does it for him.
And I think that this affair would OF COURSE be covered by every newspaper and tabloid in the city, including The Times, and William de Worde and Sacharissa Cripslock don't fully understand why their entertainment reporter is so breathlessly excited about people who were famous over a decade ago? (Supermarket tabloids love to tell me about alleged affairs of people who were famous 20+ years ago.) The article on Victor Maraschino and Delores De Syn's failing marriage* is their bestselling newspaper in months and William puts his head down on his desk in despair. (He's fine. This happens on a weekly at least basis. He just needs a minute.)
*Victor and Ginger are very happy with this situation, actually. They're going to take Ponder to dinner to go on a double date with Ruby and Detritus soon. Victor and Ponder are going to get distracted arguing about some of the Inadvisably Applied Magic research projects, but that's fine, because Ginger wants to talk to Ruby about this one-troll-woman-show concept. (Detritus will proudly hand out tickets at the Watch station and accidentally intimidate all of his coworkers into accepting the invitation.)
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I would humbly like to request a Discworld kin assignment
probably a younger Gytha Ogg or Victor Tugelbend
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"You know what the greatest tragedy is in the whole world?" said Ginger, not paying him the least attention. "It's all the people who never find out what it is they really want to do or what it is they're really good at. It's all the sons who become blacksmiths because their fathers were blacksmiths. It's all the people who could be really fantastic flute players who grow old and die without ever seeing a musical instrument, so they become bad plowmen instead. It's all the people with talents who never even find out. Maybe they are never even born in a time when it's even possible to find out."
She took a deep breath. "It's all the people who never get to know what it is they can really be. It's all the wasted chances."
Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures
#ginger withel#victor tugelbend#moving pictures#discworld#terry pratchett#holy wood#tragedy#fate#destiny#meaning of life#purpose#opportunity#potential#talent#skill#people#context#the greatest tragedy in the whole world#all the wasted chances
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Victor and the talking animals of HOLLY WOOD
#discworld#moving pictures#sketches#Victor Tugelbend#gaspode#Gaspode the Wonder Dog#gnu terry pratchett#gnu jan kantůrek
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Victor peered at the collection of stars and crescent moons and things. The badges of an enlightened craft whose new dawn was just dawning looked just like the credulous symbols of a ridiculous and outmoded belief system to him, but this was probably not the time to say so.
-- Terry Pratchett - Moving Pictures
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Fuck/Marry/Kill: Pteppic XXVIII, Victor Tugelbend, Imp Y Celyn? (The big three of protagonists who fall off the disc after their book ends)
I honestly couldn't tell you cause they're not the Classic Pratchett Protagonist type so I didn't wild out quite that hard for them, but you are reminding me there's some books I haven't read a thousand times yet so I might get into that again.
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Victor Tugelbend is highly relatable
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+++Hello Roundworld!+++
I've seen my fair share of Discworld polls by now, and every character bracket that contains the Big Wukwuks like Sam Vimes, Death, Granny Weatherwax etc., always sees them win - so I'm proposing a different approach.
I'm going to offer, over the next months, brackets that will include a set of characters MINUS the Big Wukwuk you'd expect in that set of characters. Say, "Favorite Watch Character (minus Sam Vimes)" and so on. I'm going to roughly follow the character groupings that the L-Space wiki uses, but I'm also thinking of other groupings - feel free to suggest some!
Basically, if a character is the main protagonist of a series of stories, they count as a Big Wukwuk and will be banned from participating in a bracket. For main protagonists of just one story (such as Victor Tugelbend and Polly Perks), I'm going to use my own discretion as pertains to the bracket they're in. Basically, I want brackets in which the smaller wuks have a chance to win!
As of now, I'm thinking of the following brackets:
Favorite Watch Character (minus Sam Vimes and Captain Carrot)
Favorite Ankh-Morpork Character (minus Vetinari and Moist von Lipwig)
Favorite Unseen University Character (minus Mustrum Ridcully and Rincewind)
Favorite Witches Character (minus Esmeralda Weatherwax and Tiffany Aching)
Favorite Death's Domain and Other Supernatural Entities Character (minus Death and Susan Sto Helit)
Favorite Miscellaneous Character
Favorite Dwarf (minus Cheery Littlebottom)
Favorite Troll (minus Detritus)
Favorite Igor (minus Igor)
Favorite Non-Humanoid Character (minus the Librarian)
and perhaps even a bracket of bracket-winners!
Let me know what you think; submissions are open if you want to tell me about your favorite character and which bracket they should absolutely go into, or which bracket opportunity I'm totally missing, etc etc etc.
#discworld#terry pratchett#gnu terry pratchett#discworld bracket#discworld tournament#discworld poll#discworld brackets#discworld tournaments#discworld polls#monstrous tournament
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