Snowflake 6 - 2025

Snowflake Challenge #6:
Share your favourite piece of original canon.

I have no idea? 🤷 I have terrible episodic memory, plus I’ve been in fandom so long that it’s changed how I watch media. The creators just want to tell a story (usually about a white guy), and meanwhile I’m busy tilting my head at the marginalized character whose backstory and screen time got cut and trying to figure out why they made this choice. I know other fans will come up with more satisfying answers, but it’s more fun and interesting to think about than whatever is happening onscreen to Hollywood Chris #4 or whoever the main character is supposed to be.

🤔 Hmm. My semantic memory for things that I read is significantly better than what I watch. Maybe … I like Sam Vines and his wife, Lady Sybil. I like how they love each other without trying to change each others joys. Lady Sybil breeds tiny dragons, which are a constant danger to her, but Vimes gets it because he runs the Ankh-Morpork City Watch with the kind of aggressive integrity that makes rich nobles try to assassinate him repeatedly and he just considers that the normal cost of being a good copper, takes it as a sign he’s doing something right. He actually is the kind of person all real-world cops think they are but never live up to. Most real cops are Sergeant Colon, if they aren’t worse. 😒 And the series of Discworld books about the Watch make that very clear.

So I guess that one scene in the beginning of Night Watch where he [redacted] and his response is just eye-rolling aggravation that, today of all days, the Assassins’ Guild thinks they can [redacted]. He is not a training dummy, damn it! But he never considers being any other sort of cop, because he’s seen what the other kind of policing can do to a city.