#john keel

[fiberartsash]

Every time I give in to despair I read a Pratchett book. Well, when one is available near me.

Because those books are full of anger at the world and the state it's in. Real, actual, barely-concealed beneath clever puns anger. It's a rage, not the pretty "i'm mad" calligraphied in the page in white ink. It's something like "I'm angry and you should be, too" scribbled in red ink over the pages.

But these books are so kind. So hopeful. And it's not mindless kindness, either. It's not "I'm kind until it's not easy or convenient to be anymore". It's actual kindness from people who are angry but turn that into fierce, deliberate, stubborn kindness. And of course you can despair but you can also turn it into anger and then the kind of fierce kindness that you can change the world with.

These books were so important for me growing up, still are. I literally wouldn't be the same person without them. And I reread Night Watch today, as one does, and the terrible fairness of Sam Vimes struck me. The world is a terrible, unfair place, he said, and I'm not participating in that. I'm not adding misery to it. I'm gonna be fair and I'm gonna be good if it kills me. (the same goes, of course, with Granny. It's about choosing to be good. It's about being good if it kills you. It's about desperately hoping and never letting go)

Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably-Priced Love and a Hard-Boiled Egg. And by gods if we aren't going to fight to get it.

[hoerrrru]

Truth! Justice! Freedom! Reasonable priced love! And a Hard-boiled Egg!

[arretoskore]

I'm rereading Night Watch and every time, every time the tragedy of being John Keel hits me like a ton of bricks. You are a seasoned policeman, coming to a new town in the middle of your career for a better pay. You get to Ankh-Morpork alone, no friends, no family, you have to start again. And the first thing that happens is that you get robbed and killed without no one ever knowing you, just your name. It gets remembered carried on through the decades only because in a different timeline you made such a strong impact on the life of (1) new recruit that years later he will be thrust in your place in a cruel twist of fate and decide to be you, because someone's got to be. And he will be the only one to grieve you, the actual John Keel. And when he is gone people will keep saying your name but not know it belonged to you. You were gone before the story even started.

[owllog]

Mothman by Andrew Smart (owllog)

https://ko-fi.com/owllog

[leona-florianova]

hot chocolate time :)

[tsarq]

As you go to bed tonight don't forget to leave out your hardboiled egg and lilac for John Keel

[sanenc-draws]

How do they rise up.

Glorious 25th of May animatic which is slightly less elaborate then I would have preferred but I really like how it has turned out regardless.

Edit: Apparently it is restricted in some territories so I am adding the actual file under the cut as a back up

[yushauwu]