#golems

[mygrrlwednesday]

i am so consistently disappointed by the representation of golems in media but goddamn did dunmeshi do such an interesting job with this. like as somebody who is paid to do sensitivity reading for jewish cultural issues, i fucking love these big veggie dudes

#golems #dunmeshi #dungeon meshi #senshi is so cute also

[pratchettquotes]

A Personal Note: Celebrating 4,000 Followers*

Lord Vetinari walked out of the room and back into the main hall, with Vimes trailing behind. "However," he said, "in order to keep the peace, the golem will have to be destroyed."

"No, sir."

"Allow me to repeat my instruction."

"No, sir."

"I'm sure I just gave you an order, Commander. I distinctly felt my lips move."

"No, sir. He's alive, sir."

"He's just made out of clay, Vimes."

"Aren't we all, sir? According to them pamphlets Constable Visit keeps handing out. Anyway, he thinks he's alive, and that's good enough for me."

The Patrician waved a hand towards the stairs and his office full of paper. "Nevertheless, Commander, I've had no less than nine missives from leading religious figures declaring that he is an abomination."

"Yes, sir. I've given that viewpoint a lot of thought, sir, and reached the following conclusion: arseholes to the lot of 'em, sir."

The Patrician's hand covered his mouth for a moment. "Sir Samuel, you are a harsh negotiator. Surely you can give and take?"

"Couldn't say, sir."

Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

*A Rare Personal Note: This exchange comes after what may be one of the most famous Discworld moments of all time: the conversation where Vimes and Vetinari first discuss the age old question, "Who watches the Watch?", which becomes one of the central threads of Vimes' character progression. But the end of the conversation, which involves the fate of the newly christened Constable Dorfl, strikes me powerfully today. This marks one of the few times in canon that Vimes explicitly rejects one of Vetinari's commands on moral grounds. It also marks a rare moment when Vimes and Vetinari (who are often complex foils for each other) seem to agree on a fundamental point of morality: that a person must be treated as a person, whatever the cost, even if we do not understand them. On the last day of 2023, this seems more important to me than ever. We 4,000 Pratchett fans who share the quotes that fill this blog likely share very little else: If we met on the street we would not agree about politics, religion, the weather, or the correct storage of Battle Bread. But I think that Sir Terry would perhaps want us to remember that, even when we are at our most opposed, we are all made out of clay -- and that is something worth protecting. Happy New Year, my friends. May we all continue to learn what must be given, and what can never be taken.

#sam vimes #samuel vimes #havelock vetinari #dorfl #visit the infidel with explanatory pamphlets #the watch #feet of clay #discworld #terry pratchett #golems #human nature #humanity #value #human value #being alive #self awareness #power dynamics #politics #agency #negotiation #religion #philosophy #morality #made out of clay #aren't we all #footnotes for followers #tumblr milestone #long quote

[hachama]

I really like making these little dudes

#crochet #golems #Jewish art #jumblr

[vaspider]

I haven't test stitched this yet, and I wrote the Yiddish so I hope I didn't fuck it up. But yeah.

I'll let you nerds guess what it says. If you speak Yiddish, let the people who don't guess first. :P

#discworld #golems #dorfl

[gay-jewish-bucky]

Golems are Jewish, you don't get to take Jewish folklore figures out of the context of Jewish oppression, prosecution and trauma and remove all traces of Jewish history and the pain they came out of because you think they're "cool" or "aesthetic".

#jumblr #jewish #judaism #golem #golems #the golem of prague #cultural appropriation

[whereserpentswalk]

Wendigos and Golems are two very different creatures, but pop culture gave them the same treatment of taking them away from their cultural origins and stripping them of their interesting themes so that they could be big monsters for heroes to fight. Probably because both of the original stories are from a context of oppression the storytellers faced from European Christans.

While I don't have the cultural background to tell you how to use the Wendigo, I am from the culture that invented the Golem. And I will tell you that I don't personally take offense to people using Golems in fantasy, but I'd much rather people actually understand the context that they came from, and what happened in the original story, rather than just making it a robot with magic. At the very least make it divine magic instead of arcane.

#196 #my thougts #worldbuilding #fantasy #writing #urban fantasy #golem #golems #wendigo #mythical creature #mythical creatures #cultural appreciation #cultural apropriation

[zenitsuinamogus]

Dungeon Meshi Ep. 4 ~ Senshi vs. the Golems

#dungeon meshi #senshi #delicious in dungeon #senshi of izganda #gifs #golems #anime #ryoko kui #i thought this went hard so i made it into gifs #feel free to reblog or use however #fantasy #fantasy anime #anime gif #anime gifs #delicious in dungeon gif #dungeon meshi gif

[jhscdood]

*lays down on floor*

There's a call for artists at my local art gallery.

I could..... I could submit my golems....

It's been like 20 years and 4 career changes since I submitted art to an exhibition.....

But like....

Technically I could....

#me #personal #auauauaghhh #golems

[grison-in-space]

anyway I'm rereading Pratchett--the Moist von Lipwig books principally just now--and finding myself rotating two things in my head:

one, how much Pratchett seems to have enjoyed specifically small dogs, given that he preferentially references and makes characters of terriers, small poodles, and of course Mr. Fusspot, who I have always envisioned as a Pekingese. (More precisely, I have envisioned him as a specific Pekingese of my acquaintance, a pet-bred cream specimen with no two legs or eyeballs that pointed the same way. As I recall he was called, fittingly, Grunt.)

two, how the golems think about freedom, labor, and devising a purpose out of life, and how they make a fine foil to a character like Murderbot, who I expect would have extremely strong feelings about them it claimed not to exist.

#Pratchett #discworld #murderbot #golems

[suckrose-and-akwa]

The vampire looked from the golem to Vimes.

"You gave one of them a voice?" he said.

"Yes," said Dorfl. He reached down and picked up the vampire in one hand. "I Could Kill You," he said. "This Is An Option Available To Me As A Free-Thinking Individual But I Will Not Do So Because I Own Myself And I Have Made A Moral Choice."

"Oh, gods," murmured Vimes under his breath.

"That's blasphemy," said the vampire.

He gasped as Vimes shot him a glance like sunlight. "That's what people say when the voiceless speak. Take him away, Dorfl."

-Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

#discworld #discworld quotes #feet of clay #sam vimes #dorfl #golems

[bhaalspawnshitposting]

The contrast between Broodmother, and the fertility to produce an army of soldiers forced against her will, vs the anvil, and the inability to create any manmade life, so it must be stolen. Both are being used for such a twisted purpose, war, slavery, and the exploitation of women and men. The act of creation itself corrupted and done through force, while he true act of creation being based in love and motherhood.

"No mere smith, however skilled, has the power to create life"

Not to mention, Broodmother is entirely organic, as it is, opposite the anvil. The anvil can claim creation, but it is really transmutation. Broodmother can claim creation, but even Hespith calls it the darkspawn *remaking Laryn in their image*

Its just such a good trope that I've never seen in horror, and they make such good foils of each other one immediately after the other, how both darkspawn and greed corrupt even the most holy and well-intentioned acts. It makes sense when you consider the darkspawn are the Golden City's reflection of man's sins.

#broodmother #hespith #laryn #anvil of the void #branka #deep roads #golems #dwarves #orzammar #dragon age #dragon age origins #dao #dai #da2 #bioware

[pratchettquotes]

"I Wish To Ask You A Question," said the golem.

"Yes?"

"I Smashed The Treadmill But The Golems Repaired It. Why? And I Let The Animals Go But They Just Milled Around Stupidly. Some Of Them Even Went Back To The Slaughter Pens. Why?"

"Welcome to the world, Constable Dorfl."

"Is It Frightening To Be Free?"

"You said it."

"You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves?"

"Seems to be a major human activity, yes."

Dorfl rumbled as he thought about this. "Yes," he said eventually. "I Can See Why. Freedom Is Like Having The Top Of Your Head Opened Up."

"I'll have to take your word for that, Constable."

Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

#dorfl #samuel vimes #sam vimes #feet of clay #discworld #golems #freedom #free will #oppression #questions #psychology #human nature #philosophy #meaning of life #welcome to the world #is it frightening to be free #a major human activity

[hachama]

I'm building my army

#crochet #golems #fiber art #jumblr

[vaspider]

#jumblr #golems #Judaism #jewish folklore #Youtube

[whereserpentswalk]

I always found the idea of a golem compelling

A rabbi, a desperate cleric, a man of god who has run out of options, forming a man from the earth as God once did to Adam.

But this act of creation is not out of love but fear, danger and death has come to the people he loves and if he's not strong enough to stop it, then he will make something that can

He hurriedly sculpts and shapes the river muck before preparing the ritual. He fumbles out the prayers as his fingers shakily inscribe the letters onto it's chest. "Truth". He begs G-d for salvation.

He breathes life into this great clay beast and his prayers are answered

Yep! It's why it's a great myth.

#196 #myths #mythology #golems #golem #jumblr #jewblr

[dndcreaturesinfo]

Bone Golem by Critical Crafting

#critical crafting #bone #golem #golems #huge #construct #constructs #undead #necromancy #necromancer #skeleton #skeletons #CR16