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[theotterkit]

Art by Paul Kidby

[tindome-art]

Happy Towel day, and Glorious 25th of May!

Know where your towel is!

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

And if you can, donate to research about Alzheimer's disease, that horrid thief of not just memories, but people, leaving only shells behind.

For more on the importance of towels, read below the cut.

A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you — daft as a brush, but very very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough. More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost." What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with. Hence a phrase that has passed into hitchhiking slang, as in "Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is." (Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)[4]

— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[javaelemental]

Terry Pratchett on believing in Santa Claus the Hogfather:

“All right,” said Susan. “I’m not stupid. You’re saying humans need… fantasies to make life bearable.”

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little -"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

“So we can believe the big ones?”

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

“They’re not the same at all!”

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET – Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME… SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

“Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what’s the point -“

MY POINT EXACTLY.

Terry Pratchett, "Hogfather"

[paolobeneforti]

Happy Terry Pratchett Day!

[curlypie]

Happy birthday to Terry Pratchett

I'm a huge fan of Discworld and here is some of my collection of fanart I've done over the years. :')

[tealin]

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

[joqatana]

Happy Year of the Querulous Megapode ## . #gnuterrypratchett #discworld #hothemegapode #myyear https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm25-igrPw7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[annlarimer]

...and then there's THESE IDIOTS slap #GoodOmensFanart #label228 #sharpieart #goodomens #Aziraphale #Crowley #slaps #Stickers #ineffable #gnuterrypratchett #neilgaiman https://www.instagram.com/p/CZLRPCGMmwP/?utm_medium=tumblr