#the glorious 25th of may

[alda-rana]

I know I'm two days late, but I couldn't let the 25th of May pass without a drawing... And these days we could find worse role models than Reg, still fighting for justice and equality despite having been dead for over 30 years...

[datsderbunnyblog]

Yesterday was definitely a day, huh

[calamitys-child]

RE lrb . Vetinari working out a few years back, actually, now, that Vimes looks and acts and is just a little too much of that mysterious John Keel he had to trail for a week, that week the city boiled with change. Vetinari realising what Vimes is going to have to do. Vetinari seeing Vimes in the morning hale and hearty in full dress uniform and seeing him that evening naked and bloodied and with a scar and an eyepatch and fresh tear tracks and knowing. And he's not stupid, he knows that this doesn't negate the existence of a separate John Keel, cos of quantum, but this is here, and this is now, and Vimes is standing by his own grave trembling with the birth of his son only hours-fresh in his mind, and besides some loony monk sweeping the doorway of pseudopolis yard, he might be the only man in the world who knows what just happened

[higgsbison]

happy glorious 25th of may

[reverse-mermaid]

“He never forgot. He just put the memories away, like old silverware that you didn’t want to tarnish. And every year they came back, sharp and sparkling, and stabbed him in the heart.” ― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

[thestuffedalligator]

[potato-lord-but-not]

HAPPY GLORIOUS 25th EVERYONE GO GRAB YOURSELF SOME FREE STICKERS !!!! TODAY ONLY HEEMHEEM

(I’m using a google form bc kofi doesn’t have a free option for physical items </3)

[jothehat]

See how they rise up! Wishing you all Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Love, and a Hard Boiled Egg.

[Alt text: 3p Discworld stamp commemorating the Glorious 25th of May. Includes lilac blooms and a figure atop a barricade waving a flag.]

[robotbirdhead]

We get, rightfully imo, pretty sad and somber and naval-gazey about Discworld and Sir Terry on the 25th of May but I need everyone who might be discovering this series through this annual outpouring of love and sadness to know that these books are mostly just really fucking funny. Like, they're heart-wrenching and poignant but really they can only pull that off because they're also the funniest books ever written. There's a line near the end of Hogfather that, when I read it, made me feel more deeply connected to, like, the concept of humanity then I ever have before, but the book was only able to deliver that because the rest of it is about what if Santa Claus got kidnapped and a Big Skeleton had to take over his job? It's a patently ridiculous series but that is absolutely also where it's power comes from.

[murphysletsdraw]

And a hard-boiled egg (Buy the print here or check out my patreon and ko-fi!!!)

[elliottjpg]

⚔✊All the little angels, rise up, rise up...

This is a redraw of a very old piece, because Vimes deserves better than 2019-me's art skills.

That is not to say I look down on the original, I still love it, and it was one of my best drawings at the time. This redraw is a tribute to the Treacle Mine Road Revolution, to Pratchett's writing, to its impact on my life, to little-me, and to the passage of time.

Rise up!

[calamitys-child]

The Night Watch quote I've been carrying in my heart this year is Lilac was common in the city. It was vigorous and hard to kill and had to be. Every time this fucking country starts wearing me down. I am vigorous and hard to kill and have to be. I am the memory of all my loved ones who are no longer part of this fight and I am the promise that this will not be forgotten. I am the knowledge that we may not have truth yet, or justice, or freedom, but we can probably have reasonably priced love and the trust and camaraderie of those around us, and we can damn well have breakfast. How do we rise up?

[along-the-meadow-path]

All the little angels rise up high...

[dovesandmagpies]

Lilacs for the glorious 25th of May,

[syl-stormblessed]

“You know what day it is, Ping?” said Colon.

“Er…25th of May, Sarge.”

“And you know what that means, Ping?”

“Er…”

“It means,” said Nobby, “that anyone important enough to ask where we’re going—”

“—knows where we’ve gone,” said Fred Colon.

The door slammed behind them.

— Sir Terry Pratchett, Night Watch