thinking about night watch again and about how john keel is a ghost for the entirety of the novel. his name is the only name visible on the graves in the present. six illegible graver markers and one which reads john keel. we know he died in the past before we know anything else about him. and we know he was important - not just to vimes but to the mixed group of people who gather at the grave to remember him.

and by the time we (vimes) realise we are there in the past, keel is already gone. hes dead, and now vimes is wearing his name as he navigates through what should have been keel's final days. and john keel haunts the narrative continuously, from before we even see his gravestone to the very end, and not just bc vimes is now keel. almost every decision vimes makes has keel's spectre hanging over it - what did keel do? how did keel think in this moment? keels influence on vimes was so huge and the impact of his death so great that u cannot separate keel from the story.

even if hes never actually in it

*walter white vvoice* jesse we need to talk about how john keel is haunting the narrative he is dead he is a memory he is unavoidable we never know who john keel truly was he only lvies on in memories and given the time fuckery that happened he only truly exists and lives on now in vimes memory

But what could you say? Sorry you're dead? Keel had originally died on the barricades, not in a street fight. But he was just as dead, all the same.

But what could you say? Sorry you're dead? Keel had originally died on the barricades, not in a street fight. But he was just as dead, all the same.

how jingo went

close ups on his face, bc i like when hes holding on by a thread

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how jingo went

close ups on his face, bc i like when hes holding on by a thread

vimes my slimes

hes everything to me

hes everything to me

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Hey!! sorry for the late answer!!

and YUEAH so much!! so much!! i still have wips from like. 2022. that ive not finished because I was struggling with getting it to look the way i wanted

I normally leave and come back to it if its an idea i really like, at which point im a bit better. for example, this dishonored painting i stopped and started a lot and i think i finally finished it a year after i initially ocnceptualised it, bc yeah. it was a bit above me when i started

other times, i do perservere and finish, and i definitely feel like a learn a lot from aiming high!!

i read guards! guards! again recently 👍 sam + sybil are everyhting

vimesy wimesy

some vimes and vimes eyes 👍

also ive been drawing lots of old men faces which means ive managed to give vimes some delicious saggy wrinkly faces, though often the Prime Sag gets covered up by his side burns, but his side burns are important to me so they remain. just know his jaw line is not defined bc he is old and wrinkly <3

realising its april which means its almost may which means its almost 25th may which MEANs i need to get to work on my night watch art i started like in october and also figure out how 2 draw again and-

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