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Samu 2008-01-31 ch 1,	abuseThis has that sad kind of happiness that you've seemed to master in your fics. I love it, and just how much Vimes has matured over time. I agree with what you said in one of your responses that he'd go spare for a while, but then he'd get over it and move on. Well done!
snackfiend101 2005-04-20 ch 1,	abuseOwies. I'm having serious trouble imagining Vimes as a historian...or in a wheelchair. But...somehow, I do get the feeling that it would take a speeding cart to take Vimes out of commission...
blazingfirewolf 2005-03-03 ch 1,	abuseSad and sweet. Perfect. Y'know, when I was a ghost reader (like I know so many people are) I read so many brilliant Discworld fics, and I only realised recently that a great many of the really good ones were written by you! You're definitely going on my favorite authors list.
ihadanepiphany 2003-03-19 ch 1,	abuseAltogether now, awh! :) But why not go into how Vimes got into the chair? Esp when igors around. Or just leave it one chapter, whatever you choose. You have the power I'm just a lowly reader and reviewer. kudos!
samvimes 2003-03-07 ch 1, anon.	abuseThat's all right, Ponder, disagreement is the spice of life (to which garlic comes a close second). Of course it would devastate him, it would devastate all but the most psychotically happy of people, to be suddenly confined like that. I know when I was down for four weeks after an accident, I was miserable and angry and often threw things at the television because I was stuck on the couch and my bicycle had been murdered. But this is set quite a good length of time after the original incident (whatever it was), and the thing about Vimes is, he's a bottle covey. You can put him down, but you can't put him out. He'd be devastated, and then he'd be furious, and then he'd get over it. Or he'd get drunk. I chose the "get over it" option. :) Vimes has no room for self-pity unless he's two-thirds of the way through a whiskey bottle. He's spent most of his life being disappointed by the way the world works, so he's had good practice. Anyhow, that's my take on the matter. Besides, most of what I write could be considered Wrong on some level; that's my personal fanfic challenge, taking things that could never work and making them work somehow. I got the Patrician drunk once, you know. Just you wait till I post /that/ one. Thanks to everyone for the reviews :)
Ponder Stibbons 2003-03-06 ch 1,	abuseVimes in a wheelchair? No. #Shudders involuntarily# Extremely well written but Wrong. Vimes is composed of at least 80% anger so far as I know, being confined to a wheelchair would devastate him. Sorry, but I really don't agree with this story.
dreamkin 2003-02-20 ch 1,	abuseso ouching, i love your work SO much it's unbelievable. you capture the young Sam wonderfully well, and i assume you either have/have contact with small children because my brother behaves in a very similar way to him. Vimes' weary acceptance of his wheelchair is both touching and admirable, and not a plot development i would have anticipated.*dreamkin
The Nightrunners 2003-02-19 ch 1,	abuseI like this story. It's not sad so much as. wistful, maybe. I especially like the lines "The wheelchair wasn't the prison Carrot always made it out to be; it was a release, of a sort. It had taught him patience, which most men, if they hadn't learned it by the age of fifty, wouldn't learn at all." It's very Vimes-esque, even though it looks at first glance to be out-of-character. He's just showing the resiliency that makes him who he is. Very very good job, one of your best, I say (here I appologize in being remiss for not reviewing everything you've written, because I've certainly read it). Once more, kudos on a remarkable job. Cheers, Jai of the Nightrunners
yap 2003-02-19 ch 1, anon.	abuseOh. Liked it.Very much. AND i got behind the wheelchair thing soon, thanks to your wonderfully subtle, well, changes. Like Vimes being all patient and teacheresque? Sitting in the library in bríght daylight? Having this kind of detached behaviour? - Something must have happened! The way he talks. Aw. And really SMILES. Not Grins, Glares or anything.The way he DOESN'T MOVE a bit! I love descriptiveness shifted over into the dialogue. And i love the reading glasses. The image of Vimes using glasses has popped up in my head before. Probably because he would look cool dangerously glaring over their rims at some poor bugger. So, again, thumbs up!!
Mary Mack 2003-02-18 ch 1, anon.	abuseAw! It's all heartwarming and stuff. How'd Vimes wind up in the wheelchair, though?
Ryulabird 2003-02-18 ch 1,	abuseAww. I'm gonna cry. Well.not really, but still. Sad! But very good too. ^_~ I'll get over it as soon as I see your next update though!
samvimes (lazy) 2003-02-18 ch 1, anon.	abuseHallo :) Monique -- glad you didn't find it depressing. There's enough to be depressed about in this life without me adding more. Twist -- don't let the trainers fool you, there are always excuses! I will quite graciously accept your unending praise, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to amend it. Suggesting that I might be published! I blush deeply. You ought to know that -- as I've said to others -- I am not really a good writer so much as a talented mimic. I've written plenty original work, but nothing that in a million years would get past a publisher, or even reach the standard of most of my fanfic (e-mail me and I'll prove it to you:D ). I've found I'm happy with posting here. :) Which is probably why I do it so often. Thanks both for your reviews! Sam
monique 2003-02-18 ch 1, anon.	abusesniff sniff. Not depressing. A bit sad, yes. But pretty. Lovely as usual.
Twist 2003-02-18 ch 1, anon.	abuseI don't think I've reviewed many of your fics, and I must now apologize. I have no excuses (having a trainer yell 'no excuses' at yu for several yaers will do that) but I do have unending praise, which I hope you will accept. You're writing is marvelous. I'm frankly astonished you haven't been published yet (if you have, what did you write?) but I'm also immensley(sp?) grateful that you are writing fanfic for us to marvel over. Brilliant job(s), keep up the good work!

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