Someone asked for the smaller Hitchhiker’s Towel in my notebook paper style, which I was more than happy to try, lol. The others in the set will have some of the doodles I usually add on the sides, but had to rest it out plain first, and quite like how it turned out.
**happy towel day! fun fact one of great uses for a towel is blocking out vogon poetry.. even if its just the czech translation.. it still can be lethal.
Para celebrar que ya sois mas de 2000 los que me seguís por aquí (gracias, gracias, gracias :_D), este retrato de mi hermana Nieves, posando con la traducción de su primera novela y una toalla (don´t panic) que hicimos para celebrar el dia de la toalla, homenaje que cada año rendimos a Douglas Adams.
“That’s a nice song,’ said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time.
“It’s an old soldiers’ song,“ he said.
“Really, sarge? But it’s about angels.”
Yes, thought Vimes, and it’s amazing what bits those angels cause to rise up as the song progresses. It’s a real soldiers’ song: sentimental, with dirty bits.
“As I recall, they used to sing it after battles,“ he said. “I’ve seen old men cry when they sing it,” he added.
“Why? It sounds cheerful.“
They were remembering who they were not singing it with, thought Vimes. You’ll learn. I know you will.
Эльфы на краю Вселенной Elves at the End of the Universe
It is implied that in the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, from Douglas Adams Happy Towel Day! and today is the day of the Glorious Revolution - from Pratchett’s Night Watch
подразумевается, что в ресторане на краю Вселенной, из Адамса с Днем Полотенца! и еще сегодня день Славной революции - из Ночной Стражи Пратчетта
а еще вчера я узнала, что 23 мая в пожаре погибла Майя Лидия Коссаковская, автор чудесного, восхитительного “Сеятеля ветра”. Он читался с таким упоением, мне не хватило, я ждала еще
так что вместе с эльфами на картинке - за них за всех за Джона Киля, Билли Букли, Горация Масхерада, Дэй Дикинса, Сесила Хлопмана по прозвищу Пятак, Неда Тренча “и, формально”, за Реджа Башмака за тоску по родной Бетельгейзе за Майю
I think it’s interesting how the two big holidays we celebrate today have completely exchanged places over their lifetimes.
When it started, Towel Day was very much a memorial. The date - May 25th - has no textual significance whatsoever. Rather, like the feast day of a Saint, it is the anniversary of Douglas Adams’ death. The observance with the towels and all is/was a Fandom reference, but the purpose of the holiday was to honor the memory of a Great Man - and how more appropriately than with a bit of silliness? And in the, what is it, 20? more? years since his death, the memorial aspect has been eroded away, until it is now basically a celebration of the work more than the man, fun unalloyed by grief, a way to fly your geek colors. And perhaps that’s what he would want in the end.
The Glorious 25th of May is exactly the opposite. It is - or was - purely a Fandom thing. It’s a holiday in text, and we celebrate it alongside the characters because, well, Night Watch is a frickin amazing book and deserves to be celebrated. And there’s admittedly always been a melancholic aspect, deriving from the text itself, but the date and the celebration were ultimately fictional. What I used to say is that I celebrated both, but I celebrated Towel Day harder because it commemorated something real.
And then Terry Pratchett died.
And this silly fandom thing we were already doing proved a ready made memorial to honor the memory of a Great Man. The fan art now us bursting with lilac covered fedoras. It now celebrates the man in addition to (perhaps even more than) the work.
I always wondered if Pratchett chose May 25th in honor of Adams. And I wonder what this day will look like in another 20 years, when the grief of this death has faded as well.
HappyTowel Day! Time to grab your favorite towel and contemplate hard-boiled eggs and the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything!
