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JOMP BPC || March 10 || Character Growth:
Sam Vimes from Discworld by Terry Pratchett
#Sam Vimes#Discworld#Terry Pratchett#jompbpc#justonemorepage#book photo challenge#book photography#books#Reasonably Priced Love and a Hardboiled Egg#Not out of void but out of chaos#did i plan to stop using Discworld as my answer to everything? yes. but this is still my go to response to this prompt
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Lilacs for the glorious 25th of May,
#fanart#polymer clay#Lilacs#the glorious 25th of may#The 25th of may#Terry Pratchett#discworld#discworld fanart#Truth! Justice! Freedom! Reasonably priced love! And a hardboiled egg!
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Wear the lilac if you were there.
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Thursday May 25.
The People's Revolution of the Glorious Twenty-Fifth of May.
It's May 25th, but it's not just any May 25th. It's a particularly glorious one, after all, as it is The People's Revolution of the Glorious Twenty-Fifth of May, as depicted of course in Terry Pratchett's beloved Discworld series. It also happens to be Wear the Lilac Day. #gnu terry pratchett—you know what to do, folks.
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But wait—what is Wear the Lilac Day? you once again enquire.
"Wear the Lilac Day was adopted by Discworld fans the world over as a day to commemorate Terry Pratchett's writing, and following his diagnosis in 2007, to support research into Alzheimer's Disease.
On May 25th, certain members of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, and a few others around the city, wore a sprig of lilac. The 25th of May was the day that they remembered those who fought and fell for hardboiled eggs, truth, justice, and reasonably priced love, who died, and in Reg Shoe's case rose and kept fighting, in the Glorious Revolution of Treacle Mine Road."
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Happy May 25th, comrades x
#today on tumblr#gnu terry pratchett#terry pratchett#discworld#may 25th#night watch#the glorious 25th of may
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...and a hardboiled egg
So, the motto of the Glorious Revolution: Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably-Priced Love, and a hardboiled egg. It's a very Discworld-esque joke, that slight bit of humanization to bring down the grandeur. And it's a character moment for Vimes, the idea that he's a bit too cynical and pragmatic to believe in Truth and Justice but he can believe he'll get a hardboiled egg (and of course, the tragic irony that he doesn't even get that much).
But I've been mulling it over, and I unironically think this serves as a good reminder for praxis in activism. Political change happens on multiple scales, big and small. What practical help is your movement offering everyday people?
Take the Black Panthers for a historical example. It is undeniable that they were working toward larger ideals of justice, freedom and equality. And one of the ways they did that was providing free breakfast for children.
It's not that the big-picture ideals don't matter, they do. It's not "a hard boiled egg instead of Freedom" it's "Truth and a Hard-boiled egg" or "A hard-boiled egg as part of Justice". When you're writing big speeches about The People, how else are you meeting their needs?
(Reasonably-priced love addendum of Also include marginalized groups like sex workers in your activism but that's a whole other point).
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Truth, justice, freedom, reasonably priced love, and a hardboiled egg.
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Truth! Justice! Freedom! Reasonably priced love!
And a HARDBOILED EGG!
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Heute ist Handtuchtag zu Ehren des verstorbenen Douglas Adams und seiner berühmten fünfteiligen Trilogie "Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis". Vergesst nicht, immer ein Handtuch dabei zu haben, damit der gefräßige Plapperkäfer von Traal Euch nicht sehen kann.
Außerdem ist heute Fliedertag! Auf der Scheibenwelt findet gerade in der Treacle Mine Road die Lila Revolution statt. "Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!"
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Today is Towel Day to honour the great and regrettably late Douglas Adams and his famous 5-partish trilogy "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Don't ever forget your Towel when travelling for you might encounter the ravenous bugblatter beast of Traal.
Also remember it's Lilac Day in remembrance of the great and also regrettably late Sir Terry Pratchett. "Truth! Freedom! Justice! Reasonably priced love. And a hardboiled egg."
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Learning more about Discworld makes me want to read it more
For truth, justice, freedom, reasonably priced love, and a hardboiled egg.
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Happy Glorious Revolution of the 25th of May!
Truth! Justice! Freedom! Reasonably-priced Love! and a hardboiled egg!
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“The riot was over the price of bread, I understand.”
No. The protest was over the price of bread, said Vimes’s inner voice. The riot was what happens when you have panicking people trapped between idiots on horseback and other idiots shouting “yeah, right!” and trying to push forward, and the whole thing in the charge of a fool advised by a maniac with a steel rule.
Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
#quote#Terry Pratchett#Night Watch#Discworld#the glorious 25th of may#Reasonably Priced Love and a Hardboiled Egg#Night Watch Reread#Current Reading#Current Reading Quotes#Not Out of Void But Out of Chaos#of course the italics don't show up on my dash
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Wear the lilac if you were there.
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Tomorrow is the 25th of May
It'll be lilacs and turtles all the way down.
Blacklist "the glorious 25th of may" if this isn't your cup of hot cocoa.
#I do hope the scheduling system will work#*Death voice*#THE APP HAS NOT BEEN AT ALL COOPERATIVE#but I'm getting those freedom + justice + reasonably priced love + hardboiled egg posts here one way or another
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I don't know anything about Discworld and I fucking love it. I'm gonna read ur posts like they're candy. What's special about the 25th of May?
Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Love, and a Hardboiled Egg!
The book Night Watch by Terry Pratchett is about the Glorious Revolution in which the desperate people of Ankh-Morpork rise up against their tyrannical ruler. They also attacked Watch Houses because the police was corrupt and a little too fond of brutality. Gotta say, reading that in 2020 hit very different.
There are a lot of really powerful lines in the book such as "Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revoultions". And a lot of excellent points about corrupt governments, trying to fight for a better world, doing the job you have to do, and going against unjust orders are made. It's a very very powerful book.
In the book, the survivors of the revolution wear lilacs to honor and remember those who died. Since Terry Pratchett's death in 2015, fans of his wear lilacs as well to remember him. It's also to raise awareness for Alzheimer's, which Pratchett died from
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I read the following on Reddit and I would like to hear what you think. It is not really the feeling Night Watch gives me but I don't have the words to describe why and it's a bit frustrating. Maybe you can help me out :)
"I love Discworld and Pratchett and Night Watch might even be by favourite so I speak with love, but Night Watch is not a good memorial to the Peterloo Massacre, because the moral of it is that uprisings are pointless and the status quo is always more-or-less restored.
You know the quote most associated with Night Watch? "That's why they call them revolutions. Because they always come around again." The story beautifully humanises the radicals but also believes that they're pointless and a little laughable, even if loveable like Reg Shoe. The status quo doesn't change, nor should we expect it to. The demands are rendered ridiculous ("and a hardboiled egg!"). I've grappled a lot with this aspect of the book, fundamentally Terry wasn't a political radical himself and it shows in the book."
(Here's the link to the Reddit)
Well, first of all, Terry never claimed to be a radical and was famously cranky about basically everything, so jot that down.
Secondly, I agree with you, I don't really have this interpretation of Night Watch either. This is gonna get long because I have so many Discworld opinions.
For a start... it's not exclusively based on Peterloo. The Dolly Sisters massacre that happens during Night Watch was based on that historical event, and Terry seems to have said so, though the l-space wiki entry doesn't have a source for that. Anyway, the events of Night Watch are based on multiple historical events, including:
Yes, the Peterloo massacre
The Battle of Cable Street, which is also why there's a Cable Street in Ankh-Morpork
Possibly the liberation of Pilsen (in what is now the Czech Republic) in May 1945, which is an event that occurred in May and has an association with lilacs- source for the lilacs here but I actually heard about this from a former colleague who is originally from the Czech Republic herself
Specifically the 25th of May is the date of multiple different uprisings (and is a national holiday in Argentina)
And of course the book is also a parody of Les Miserables, which in turn is set during the June Rebellion in Paris in 1832
On top of that, not all of the revolutionaries are considered laughable. Sure, Reg Shoe is, but the point is also made that Reg isn't actually directly involved in the reality of the revolution until he gets onto the barricades. We also get a lot of understanding about why Reg- a character we already know- is the way he is, and we get the sense that while he is a bit silly about the clothes and the slogans, he genuinely does give a shit to the point where he ultimately lays down his life for the cause. And then we see him in both timelines of the book, showing that even death couldn't keep our Reg away from political activism.
But yeah, revolutionaries in the book who are actively a part of what's been going on are taken entirely seriously, as far as anyone ever is in a Discworld novel. Ned Coates certainly is, but I'd put more emphasis on Rosie Palm. In a lot of mainstream fantasy, Rosie would be as much of a joke as her name is, assuming she was even allowed to be funny instead of constantly shamed or having terrible things happen to her. But no, Rosie is clever, part of the city's organised and politically active group of sex workers, and we know that this is only the start of her side hustle as one of the city's most powerful and influential guild leaders. "Reasonably priced love" is a joke about 'free love' political slogans, sure, but it's also an acknowledgement that you cannot have real political change if you don't acknowledge the wants and needs of people who are fundamental to making that change happen.
And speaking of slogan jokes, the hard-boiled egg is only a joke right up until you realise that the barricades encompass the gates where the food comes into the city. That's the point. You're supposed to realise that things like where the food comes from are vital, because Lord Winder doesn't. Terry was always very good at that- hiding the point inside a joke until it all explodes and you get stabbed in the heart.
One last thing- as much as Vimes is a Terry mouthpiece for a lot of things, that doesn't mean he's never wrong even to Terry himself. Sure, revolutions always come round again- but this one did result in change. Rosie, Reg, Vimes, Vetinari, Dr Lawn, and even CMOT Dibbler were all present for the Glorious 25th of May, and while it took thirty years to make significant changes, they were still the people who did it. Now the citizens of Ankh-Morpork have access to medical care, a police force that is... not perfect by any means but at least trying, a free press, and unionised sex workers. And thanks to Vetinari's incredible organisational skills, there's always lots of food coming in and out of the city- not all of it edible, admittedly, but that's more of an indictment of the population's tastebuds than anything else.
So in the end, they really did get truth, freedom, justice, reasonably priced love, and a hard-boiled egg.
And that, really, is the entire point.
#wow this got even longer than i expected sorry#tldr: gem has a lot of thoughts about night watch#and also history#and also the depiction of politics in fantasy novels
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