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in the middle of nowhere

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i had the same reaction when, after just indulging in a marathon of several years' worth of Welcome To Night Vale episodes, i started the Murderbot Diaries audiobooks- which are narrated by Kevin R. Free.

i absolutely got an all-over body shiver and my entire mind went "KEVIN??? noooo" like his character had escaped night vale and was now in the real world lol

it’s very disorienting that rod serling narrated jacques cousteau’s nature documentaries because you start watching and his voice hoves in and youre like IS SOMETHING CREEPY GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE MANATEES but then nothing creepy happens

#rod sterling #the twilight zone #welcome to night vale #wtnv #murderbot my beloved #murderbot diaries #kevn r. free

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i love it when a story has siblings and they have so much beef the whole time and its everyones problem

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don't mind me I just slapped a rain filter on the vimes and it made it rly nice and moody

#glorious 25th of may #discworld #sam vimes #gnu terry pratchett #night watch

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Today is the 25th of May. An important day for all Terry Pratchett's enthusiasts. An important day in the life of Samuel Vimes, a man from whom you might learn a couple of interesting things.

"That's the way it was. Privilege, which just means 'private law.' Two types of people laugh at the law; those that break it and those that make it."

"You took an oath to uphold the law and defend the citizens without fear or favor," said Vimes. "And to protect the innocent. That's all they put in. Maybe they thought those were the important things. Nothing in there about orders, even from me. You're an officer of the law, not a soldier of the government."

"You realized that people like Carcer were not mad. They were incredibily sane. They were simply men without a shield. They'd looked at the world and realized that all the rules didn't have to apply to them, not if they didn't want them to. They weren't fooled by all the little stories. They shook hands with the beast."

"Vimes had spent his life on the streets, and had met decent men and fools and people who’d steal a penny from a blind beggar and people who performed silent miracles or desperate crimes every day behind the grubby windows of little houses, but he’d never met The People. People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn’t that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people."

Night Watch, Terry Pratchett

#glorious 25th of may #discworld #gnu terry pratchett #sam vimes #revolution

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In honor of the The People’s Revolution of the Glorious Twenty-Fifth of May.

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

#glorious 25th of may #night watch #discworld #the people's republic of treacle mine road #revolution #gnu terry pratchett

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Damn! Damn! Damn!

Every year he forgot.

Happy 25th of May to all those who celebrate.

#glorious 25th of may #discworld #revolution #sam vimes #gnu terry pratchett #night watch

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The People’s Revolution of the Glorious Twenty-Fifth of May

#glorious 25th of may #revolution #discworld #reg shoe #gnu terry pratchett #the people's republic of treacle mine road #night watch

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The 25th of may. I plan to do other characters this way in the future (and not a near future), but for now, here’s Vimes and Vetinari

#glorious 25th of may #sam vimes #havelock vetinari #gnu terry pratchett #discworld #night watch

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i return to this blue hellsite twice a year

once for eurovision

and once to commemorate the People's Republic of Treacle Mine Road

GNU, lads

#glorious 25th of may #discworld #revolution #the people's republic of treacle mine road #gnu terry pratchett #night watch

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And a hard-boiled egg (Please check out my patreon and ko-fi!!!)

#glorious 25th of may #discworld #sam vimes #revolution #gnu terry pratchett #night watch

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"When you know the fourfoil in all its seasons root and leaf and flower, by sight and scent and seed, then you may learn its true name, knowing its being: which is more than its use. What, after all, is the use of you? or of myself? Is Gont Mountain useful, or the Open Sea?' "

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

#ursula k. le guin #a wizard of earthsea #the world has value beyond what profit can be made from it or how someone can use it to further their agenda. so do you. #death to utilitarianism #also death to capitalism #usefulness

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Today is Sir Terry's Birthday. In a times like this I miss him more than ever. But I can always open a book and go wander into Discworld.

And, well, “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”

#sir terry pratchett #gnu terry pratchett #discworld #discworld death #moist von lipwig #samuel vimes

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two things

buenos dias

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underrated fantasy thing is when authors want to avoid giving an actual earth year their story takes place so the characters say shit like "back in the Year Of The Skateboarding Dragon" and all the other characters are like ah yes how could we forget the crops were so plentiful the year that dragon did those sweet sweet kickflips

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Broke: Acknowledging that a character who is an objectively terrible person is also a complex and intentionally well thought out individual with different levels of nuance you can empathize with in some ways while not in others is immediately “woobifying” or “poor little meow meowifying” them.

Woke: “This character is a bad person” and “this character is still a person” are two statements that can, should and do coexist and admitting that they exhibit nuance and depth and are more than just their bad actions doesn’t immediately excuse or condone their bad actions or mean that you’re ignoring or trying to soften the canonical version of the character.

Bespoke: That’s the whole point, that’s always been the point, to be made to empathize with horrible people so you can understand that they can be anyone, that bad people can be likeable, can be interesting, can be human, are human, and it’s scary to think about all the ways they’re just like you and all the ways they’re just like everything you hate, forcing the use of critical skills in media analysis, forcing a confrontation of the duality of man.

Whatever Level is Above Bespoke: But sometimes, yeah, sure, maybe they are a poor little meow meow, what are you gonna do, get a lawyer