#glorious 25th of may

[ripeteeth]

"’As I recall, they used to sing it after battles,’ he said. ‘I’ve seen old men cry when they sing it,’ he added.

‘Why? It sounds cheerful.’

They were remembering who they were not singing it with, thought Vimes. You'll learn. I know you will.”

- Night Watch, Terry Pratchett

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Glorious 25th of May <3 GNU Terry Pratchett

[klinefelterrible]

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Reblog this to give Sam Vimes a hard-boiled egg.

[theygotlost]

Every step I choose to take begins to set the world aflame!

And the soldiers march behind me,

I can hear them beat their spears!

And for the first time in all my life,

I know I'm more than what I fear!

Happy Glorious 25th of May!

[tiruvenkadu]

[elliottjpg]

"Boo."

Happy Glorious Twenty-Fifth of May to all who observe.

Like last year, I opted to do a redraw of an old drawing from 2020; a companion piece to my previous drawing, a redraw from 2019. Night Watch is a good context to revisit the past and look at how I've evolved.

Rise up!

[sphyrne]

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.

[hermitmoss]

Vetinari's Patricianate pulled it off, by the way. After the revolution, slowly, over many years of civil service.

The Times (truth), the remade Watch (justice),

“I'm sure we can pull together, sir.” Lord Vetinari raised his eyebrows. “Oh, I do hope not, I really do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.” He smiled.

+ the directions things are going with golems, goblins and orcs (freedom), the Seamstress' Guild (reasonably priced love), and a hard-boiled egg.

[mirtadraws]

He took another sip of his cocoa. It was only lukewarm now, but along with the cigar it meant that both his hands were occupied. That was important. He wasn't holding a weapon. No one could say afterwards that he had a weapon.

-Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

[lancrewizzard]

So does anyone else look back at Reg Shoe's silly characterisation in Reaper Man and look at it through the lens of him suffering from survivor's guilt as the only lilac revolutionary to rise up after death and then cry, or is it just me?

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

“He wanted to go home. He wanted it so much that he trembled at the thought. But if the price of that was selling good men to the night, if the price was filling those graves, if the price was not fighting with every trick he knew … then it was too high.

It wasn’t a decision he was making, he knew that. It happened far below the levels of the brain where decisions were made. It was something built in. There was no universe, anywhere, where a Sam Vimes would give in on this, because if he did then he wouldn’t be Sam Vimes, anymore.”

And this is one of dozens of reasons Sam Vimes is the best. All he has to do to get back to his life, his family, is let history play out as it once did. And he can’t. Plain and simple. He can’t let people die while he can maybe do something about it.

A Glorious 25th of May to you all.

[geopsych]

My lilacs bloomed in April but I’m posting them for the Glorious 25th of May!

[mariana-oconnor]

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We might not have truth, justice or freedom. But here's a hard-boiled egg.

GNU Terry Pratchett

[mushroom-punk]

ITS THE FUCKING. DISCWORLD DAY. HAPPY DISCWORLD DAY

[p4nishers]

something about lilacs symbolizing first love something about young vetinari fighting in the revolution with a lilac in his MOUTH for keel. s. something. i need to lie down