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Grown adult. FORTUS UT BOS. Pronouns: she/her, they/them. Not gay as in happy but queer as in fuck you. I reblog mostly social issues with some fandom stuff. Current hyperfixations: Dimension 20; Ted Lasso; Heated Rivalry. If you need it tagged, please send me an ask and I will see what I can do. Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Black lives matter. No human is illegal.

[ilyashaneconnorhudson]

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[parkayquarts]

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!

[noirandchocolate]

Okay so Dear My Followers Who Aren’t Discworld People,

I bet you get so FUCKING confused when I and dozens of others are putting all this “Glorious 25th of May” stuff on your dash and I’m sorry about that so let me TELL YOU what it’s ALL ABOUT okay but I had a couple shots too fast so bear with my lightweight ass.

It’s a thing from a book called Night Watch by Terry Pratchett. On May 25 in-universe, a thing happened called the “Glorious Revolution” where in this city called Ankh-Morpork the leader (Patrician) died (was sort of assassinated sort of induced into having a heart attack) and a new leader came to power. There was a lot of unrest in the city because the regular people were like Life Sucks We Want Things To Not Suck In These Particular Ways. So the Bad side of the police got dispatched to quell the rebellion and also the damn army got made involved, while there was a group of ragtag Good police who ended up just trying to actually keep the peace and protect the rebels so things would calm down, but a bunch of them got killed and the revolution ended with the new leader sucking almost as bad as the old leader and yeah everything still kinda sucked.

Fast forward a bunch of years to our hero Sam Vimes the commander of the Watch cops chasing a criminal and getting zapped back into the past by magical lightning no that’s not a joke. Vimes was a teenage new police recruit the first time the Glorious 25th happened and now he’s in the past having to pretend to be the guy who trained him the first time. As the same things happen as happened before in this pivotal moment in his life/the city’s history.

And like!! Vimes knows what’s going to happen! He knows people are going to die!! And he knows that if anything about the past changes too much, he won’t be able to go home to his proper present. But the criminal he was chasing got zapped back to the past too and could be fucking things up even worse due to being an asshole! So Vimes has to catch that guy so he can go back to the present and have justice be served.

BUT!!!! Even though he KNOWS he probably can’t save anyone who’s “supposed to die” and even though he KNOWS he’s doomed to lose everything he has in his present if things change too much (his wife! is about to have their child!)!!! HE TRIES TO SAVE PEOPLE. Because they’re good men!! And if the price of going home is NOT TRYING! and selling those good men to the night! He doesn’t want to pay it!!

So he TRIES. So fucking hard. Because if he didn’t, he wouldn’t be Sam Vimes.

And okay anyway let’s not spoil the whole book KidK but anyway! When the good cops are out doing their duty trying to just help things be peaceful in the city, one of them is like “we should have some kind of banner or plume to show we’re in this together” and one of them is like “how about sprigs of lilac I mean they’re all over the place.” So that’s why lilac.

And that’s why Glorious 25th.

And the fandom decided to celebrate it as a remembrance of Terry Pratchett and as a Thing to raise awareness for Alzheimer’s because that’s what PTerry died of.

So that’s what this is all about. A really good book about time travel and found family and comradeship and trying your best against the worst kind of odds. And a really good author who shouldn’t be dead and trying to help others with his same illness.

That’s why lilac, that’s why 25th of May. Okay? Okay.

[mercy-misrule]

All the little angels rise up, rise up. All the little angels rise up high!

The glorious 25th of May is upon us once again.

GNU Terry Pratchett

[zambonioperator]

timbits shane with mama and papa

[jothehat]

A reminder on this 25th of May that it wasn't just watchmen and the Patrician wearing the lilac. CMOT Dibbler wore it too.

We need all the allies we can get, even imperfect ones.

Also beware Snapcase syndrome...

[basilikum7]

The scent rolled over him.

He looked up.

Overhead, a lilac tree was in bloom. He stared.

Damn! Damn! Damn! Every year he forgot. Well, no. 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.

Remember, if you forgot all about the Glorious 25th of May until a post or some other outside influence reminded you, you are, in fact, following a time-honoured tradition for this day.

[dimity-lawn]

The Glorious 25th of May

Truth!

Justice!

Freedom!

Reasonably priced Love!

And a Hard-Boiled Egg!

I haven’t read Night Watch yet

I haven’t read Discworld (yet)

I don’t plan on reading Discworld (why?)

Other?

Voting ended onMay 26

[mariana-oconnor]

[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

[jothehat]

May your 25th of May be glorious! Here's to Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Love, and a Hard Boiled Egg.

[powersimon]

The carrier of carriers. A tribute to Terry Pratchett

[writergeekrhw]

GNU.

[gayvampyr]

are you squeamish about needles?

yes

yes but only shots/injections (not IVs)

yes but only of IVs (not injections)

no

nuance

Voting ended onMay 23

[planeposting]

Stabilize our trajectory please

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Voting ended onMay 10

I just wanna see how we crash this plane

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Good luck soldiers

[a-tian]

[i-still-am-distantstarlight]

The Ides of March, coming soon to a coliseum near you. Knives not included.

[mageless]

🔪🔪🔪

Free knives!!! Take one on your way down the dash!

[bloodybellycomb]

All of tumblr the second it becomes march

[oysters-aint-for-me]

do me a favor and plz reblog with your five most recently used non-face, non-hand, non-heart emojis