Two of the Jubilee events registered in Scotland consist of a Platinum Jubilee Teenage Beauty Pageant hosted by ‘G Maxwell’ and ‘a panel of judges led by Prince Andrew’, and a ‘Guillotine Sharpening Party’.
If you wanted an idea of how Scotland is reacting to the Jubilee.
i’m almost bummed that the queen of england didn’t die in like 2014 bc i would’ve love so see some teenagers drawing some doctor who or sherlock characters mourning the queen or some shit- it would’ve been funny as hell
Whoever is running the official Discworld Instagram account made a Happy Jubilee post today and… I think they may have misjudged the mood of some sections of the Discworld fandom.
This is only within the last couple of hours; I wouldn’t be surprised if this list of comments and quotes grows over the course of the Jubilee weekend.
So I looked in the notes for this post and a bunch of people were going “ok but Terry Pratchett was a knight so he must not have hated the monarchy THAT much or he would have turned the knighthood down” and like. First of all. Did you guys miss Vimes in the books getting promoted, becoming part of the aristocracy, and hating it? Pratchett literally put his mixed feelings about his OBE in the books.
Dude was knighted in 1998. Four years later, Night Watch came out and it included this quote:
Which is both hilarious and, I think, tells you a lot about how Pratchett felt about being knighted.
Anyway I also read somewhere that Pratchett wanted to be a knight pretty much so he could have his own sword. And he got one. Good for him.
Whoever is running the official Discworld Instagram account made a Happy Jubilee post today and… I think they may have misjudged the mood of some sections of the Discworld fandom.
This is only within the last couple of hours; I wouldn’t be surprised if this list of comments and quotes grows over the course of the Jubilee weekend.
Whoever is running the official Discworld Instagram account made a Happy Jubilee post today and… I think they may have misjudged the mood of some sections of the Discworld fandom.
This is only within the last couple of hours; I wouldn’t be surprised if this list of comments and quotes grows over the course of the Jubilee weekend.
I’m expecting to find out that the Queen loves Discworld.
Considering that her favourite Doctor incarnation is the Ninth Doctor (played by Christopher Ecclestone), I wouldn’t be surprised if that was true. The monarchy really has no self-awareness.
Whoever is running the official Discworld Instagram account made a Happy Jubilee post today and… I think they may have misjudged the mood of some sections of the Discworld fandom.
This is only within the last couple of hours; I wouldn’t be surprised if this list of comments and quotes grows over the course of the Jubilee weekend.
image text from Les Mis: England solves the first of these two problems. She creates wealth wonderfully; she distributes it badly. This solution, which is complete only on one side, leads her inevitably to these two extremes: monstrous opulence, monstrous misery. All the enjoyment to a few, all the privation to the rest, that is to say, to the people; privilege, exception, monopoly, feudality, springing from labour itself, a false and dangerous situation which founds public power upon private misery, which plants the grandeur of the state in the suffering of the individual.
Whoever is running the official Discworld Instagram account made a Happy Jubilee post today and… I think they may have misjudged the mood of some sections of the Discworld fandom.
This is only within the last couple of hours; I wouldn’t be surprised if this list of comments and quotes grows over the course of the Jubilee weekend.
That’s the kind of question that only has one right answer, like “is the Queen dead?” The obvious answer to that being, yes, absolutely, she’s been dead since 2007 and it’s a good thing.
“We see no reason to celebrate 70 years of the ascension of your grandmother to the British throne because her leadership, and that of her predecessors, have perpetuated the greatest human rights tragedy in the history of humankind.”
