Tumgik
#the glorious 25th of may
higgsbison · 10 months
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media
happy glorious 25th of may
99K notes · View notes
reverse-mermaid · 10 months
Text
Tumblr media
“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
10K notes · View notes
thestuffedalligator · 10 months
Text
Tumblr media
6K notes · View notes
calamitys-child · 10 months
Text
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?
5K notes · View notes
jothehat · 10 months
Text
Tumblr media
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.]
2K notes · View notes
ra-artblog · 10 months
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
Happy glorious 25th!!
2K notes · View notes
strummerjoe · 10 months
Text
Okay okay, listen, Night Watch is an absolute masterpiece of storytelling. It’s done so well I want to scream. Not only do we, the readers, know that the revolution will end in tears, the protagonist of the story knows it too! Vimes goes into this with the exact same expectations as the reader of here we go, we know we’re in a tragedy, we’re know we’re doomed by the narrative. AND YET, AND YET as the story goes on, you start to hope that maybe, just maybe, something will be different this time.  Even Vimes starts to entertain the idea, but every time this happens, you get reminded (by the History Monks) that No. This is only going to go one way. This. is. a. Tragedy.  BUT STILL. These are good people and look, some things have gone better this time, maybe it’s enough? Vimes always wins in the end, doesn’t he? And so you HOPE and by hoping, you wilfully forget what you’ve been told again and again, that this is a tragedy.  AND THEN THEY GET SO CLOSE. SO FREAKING CLOSE that when it all goes wrong you feel surprised, even though you were told from the very beginning how it was going to go. It’s insane. It’s Terry Pratchett at his finest. Its’s a goddammed masterpiece.
2K notes · View notes
potato-lord-but-not · 10 months
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
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)
2K notes · View notes
Text
2K notes · View notes
elliottjpg · 10 months
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media
⚔✊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!
Tumblr media Tumblr media
1K notes · View notes
robotbirdhead · 2 years
Text
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.
11K notes · View notes
eeriefeelingsat3amuwu · 7 months
Text
*shoots up from bed* HOLD UP!
So. Okay. Monstrous regiment, after climax. Polly is meeting with Vimes and he’s giving her the vibes of this chill, not particularly noble dude who actually cares about human lives and stuff. It was a great conversation and one of my fave moments from the book, as a certified Vimes lover. But.
There’s one thing I JUST NOW realised happened in it. When Polly’s worried about all the ‘people in the other room’ (Rust and such), Vimes gives her a smile and says to not be worried because ‘I was once a seargant too’. This is obviously hillarious and it implies that Vimes knows how to manipulate the people in power to do what he wants them to, which we already knew, he is a nuisance to the nobs. But.
This book is set AFTER NIGHT WATCH. He was a SEARGANT TOO. Seargant in a special, almost military-esque rank during a really shitty situation. And it wasn’t that long ago. Or was it thirty years ago? Does it matter if the memory is still fresh in his mind?
HE’S TALKING ABOUT KEEL. HE’S TALKING ABOUT BEING JOHN KEEL. I AM GOING TO GO INSANE OVER HERE. FUCK THAT’S A GOOD DETAIL TO INCLUDE.
I am once again tipping my hat to Sir Pratchett for his writing. Fuck these books. How am I supposed to ever think about anything ELSE?!?!
865 notes · View notes
murphysletsdraw · 2 years
Photo
Tumblr media
And a hard-boiled egg (Buy the print here or check out my patreon and ko-fi!!!)
10K notes · View notes
along-the-meadow-path · 10 months
Photo
Tumblr media
All the little angels rise up high...
1K notes · View notes
dovesandmagpies · 10 months
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
Lilacs for the glorious 25th of May,
767 notes · View notes
syl-stormblessed · 10 months
Text
“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
1K notes · View notes