Now Waving, Not Drowning

First things first, I'ma say all the words inside my head

[alanaisalive]

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

[iguanamouth]

oh shit

[throughshadow-to-the-edgeofnight]

[alanaisalive]

As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.

[striving-artist]

At time of posting, this is at 711.6k notes

29 Days Remain

[queer-as-city-folk]

We can't have housewives without also bringing back the milkman that the housewife is fucking

[queer-as-city-folk]

It would be cruel to the housewife for her to not have a milk man come by every morning after her husband leaves for work

[nowwavingnotdrowning]

This post now heralds the return of...

Ernie, the fastest milkman in the West!

[vonnebenan]

Happy Glorious 25th of May

[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]

[mariana-oconnor]

🥚

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

GNU Terry Pratchett

[riteofashkente]

The new sergeant-at-arms picked up his badge with care and saluted yet again. ‘Oath, sir,’ he said.

‘Oh, er, that thing? Er, I believe I’ve got it written down somewh—’

Vimes took a deep breath. This probably wasn’t a good idea, but he was flying now.

Night Watch by Terry Pratchett, pp. 115-116.

[stivaktis]

An oldie, but a favourite.

Happy Glorious 25th of May.

[dimity-lawn]

[thestoryhollow]

My first Discworld book was the Wee Free Men. I loved it, and read it over and over again. But since that was the only one my local library had, for the longest time I thought it was a standalone. Imagine my delight when, years later, I discovered the rest of this fantastic series.

The City Watch books in particular struck a note with me, and they’ve quickly become some of my all time favorites. So of course I had to draw this to celebrate.

[pratchettquotes]

There was muttering from the defenders. Most of them had a look Vimes recognized, because it was one he was trying to keep off his own face. It was the look of people whose world had suddenly been swept from under them, and now they were trying to tap-dance on quicksand.

He tossed away the stupid pompous megaphone. He cupped his hands. "Some of you know me!" he shouted. "I'm Sergeant Keel, currently in command of the Treacle Mine Road Watch House! And I order you to dismantle this barricade--"

There was a chorus of jeers and one or two badly thrown missiles. Vimes waited, stock-still, until they'd died away. Then he raised his hands again.

"I repeat, I order you to dismantle this barricade." He took a breath, and went on: "And rebuild it on the other side, on the corner with Cable Street! And put up another one at the top of Sheer Street! Good grief, you don't just pile stuff up, for gods' sake! A barricade is something you construct! Who's in charge here?"

There were sounds of consternation behind the overturned furniture, but a voice called out: "You?"

Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

[thequeenofbithynia]

Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Love, and a Hard-Boiled Egg!

[tiffanyachings]

“But here’s some advice, boy. Don’t put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That’s why they’re called revolutions.”

Happy glorious 25th of May!

[realmsofacademia]

Happy Towel and Wear the Lilac Day, everyone.

[wondersmith-and-sons]

Well…a kind of revolution. That wasn’t really the word for what it was. There was the People’s Republic of Treacle Mine Road (Truth! Freedom! Justice! Reasonably priced love! And a hard-boiled egg!) that would live for all of a few hours, a strange candle that burned too briefly and died like a firework.

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[discworldtour]

“You’d like Freedom, Truth and Justice, wouldn’t you, comrade sergeant?” said Reg encouragingly. “I’d like a hard-boiled egg,” said Vimes, shaking the match out. There was some nervous laughter, but Reg looked offended. “In the circumstances, sergeant, I think we should set our sights a little higher–” “Well, yes, we could,” said Vimes, coming down the steps. He glanced at the sheets of paper in front of Reg. The man cared. He really did. And he was serious. He really was. “But… well, Reg, tomorrow the sun will come up again, and I’m pretty sure that whatever happens we won’t have found Freedom, and there won’t be a whole lot of Justice, and I’m damn sure we won’t have found Truth. But it’s just possible that I might get a hard-boiled egg.”

– and a hard-boiled egg | Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

[therightprometheanfire]

It’s the Glorious 25th of May! For the first time, I’ve done art in advance. Out of all these, I’m proudest of the first one.

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