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

yeah the lilacs here bloom in April and are gone by early May! i always have to take my lilac selfies like a month before the ACTUAL 25th of May.

 

Last year when I was standing by our lilacs trying to take a photo my neighbor came up and gave me a freaking kitten, so perhaps I will not risk it. (Also it's pouring.)

 

No lilacs round here, will a light purple headscarf do?

 

Another Very Important Night Watch thing to consider: the Times probably about ran out of exclamation points, there were so many headline-worthy stories that day, and there was almost certainly a political cartoon about

Spoiler

Vimes running naked through the city,

and Sibyl definitely requested the original and had it framed.

 

Okay, I'm pretty sure that first bit is the opposite of a problem?

 

Well, they came to me because they knew my mom did animal rescue, and it was a stray kitten off the street, and my mom was out so I brought it into the bathroom and then she was mad because it hadn't had any sort of vetting and it could have gotten our cats sick, so.... Alas we have so many cats that I no longer see new ones showing up as a boon :P

 

I'm sure the Times always keeps a few spare exclamation marks aside for Vimes.

Eta: they had to add a dozen more to their emergency supply when Moist took over the post office.

 

Via Tumblr: "Another thing I love about Terry Pratchett's writing is that in a world of magic, all the wizards were desperate for science to be real."

And it's true. The older wizards might not really understand Ponder Stibbons and his crew, but they very much appreciate that Ponder has figured out, for example, that Death can be summoned with 2 cc's of mouse blood and an egg, rather than needing to go to a whole elaborate ritual requiring a virgin.

And they equally want to get the exact same result that science provides: knowing why something happens, and knowing at least enough to figure out when you'll stop getting the result you expect and what you can do to avoid that happening to begin with. No one wants to accidentally open up a tear into the Dungeon Dimensions, and no one wants to accidentally explode themselves or turn people into frogs either.

 

Happy 25th of May

There aren't really any lilacs around for me to take photos of, but I'm still in the habit of wearing something on my wrist each year in remembrance

Spoiler: photo

(okay, I know it's more purple than lilac, but you've gotta work with what you've got)

 

I don't know where any lilacs around me are! It's starting to be a bit late for them where I live, though

 

yeah it was such a cold winter, and such a rainy spring... normally the lilac flowers are almost over by the end of May but this year they're just barely getting started. here's my lilacselfie from last year, though!

Spoiler: how do they rise up

 

Lilacs happen much too early here for the 25th, but I'm planning to spend today parked at the park doing my annual reread.

Also, I can't see my Tumblr dash because I'm getting buried in notes on a post where I marked out the barricades on the map.

 

holy shit i want to rate that informative, useful, and winner, because it's all those things! i always knew roughly where the fighting etc took place, but seeing it marked out like that is great. thank you for making it!

 

Saw some lilacs in minneapolis last week, but i don't know if they're blooming here yet

 

Down by the traintracks.

 

GNU!

 

all the lilacs here are in heavy bud, but nothing's bloomed quite yet
@auxanges and I are gonna go for a lilac walk as soon as they come in and the delay means I might have enough time to coerce her into reading Night Watch after all

 

I only started reading Discworld last year, but I have read them all straight through in original publishing order, only I had to stop at Unseen Academicals because I don't have any of the other books :(

Turns out I once read Wintersmith when I was younger and I did like it, but not enough to go looking for the other books.

I honestly am not sure which storyline is my favourite because I love most of them a lot.