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The Roundworld Year for 2026 shall be known as 🥁🥁🥁 The Year of the Curious Squid. 🌊

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December 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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The Roundworld year for 2026 shall be known as [FX Drum Roll] : The Year of the Curious Squid. Artwork by Discworld artist Paul Kidby.
A painting of a curious squid by Paul Kidby
December 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Here's Terry Pratchett mastering the urban fantasy/hidden London genre in less than 500 words when he was just 17, in February 1966. "The idea of
people rushing round deep under the earth is dark and mysterious, and the monks want to make sure people remember that".
A scanned black-and-white newspaper page featuring a short story titled “St Euston’s Day” by Uncle Jim, a pseudonym for Terry Pratchett. The story appears under a “Children’s Circle” header and recounts a whimsical tale about a fictional saint associated with the invention of the railway in 829 A.D. The text is printed in columns with a slightly faded, typewritten appearance. Below the story, there is a “Birthdays” section listing names and ages of young readers. The story reads: Children’s Circle by UNCLE JIM Dear Circle Members, It’s not widely known that tomorrow is St Euston’s Day, when his followers commemorate the man who failed to invent the railway in A.D. 829. He failed somewhere. Anyone who, on this day, wears their hat backwards and recites all the names of the stations on the Bakerloo Line is traditionally entitled to a silver sixpence and a return ticket to Maida Vale. In memory of Saint Euston, the famous railway station — built where he supposedly had the idea — is really a railway cathedral. According to legend, if Euston Station is ever pulled down, no trains will ever again run in London. The underground monks who look after the railway will make sure of that. No one has ever actually seen these monks, but if you have a good look round a place like Baker Street station, you’ll notice lots of small doors and passages that no one ever seems to use. Well, somebody must use them. The electricity is cut off during part of the night, and no trains run. According to the story, people hear strange chanting and see lights moving far down the windy tunnels. The stations are changed, the light bulbs dim. Sometimes, at night, organ music comes out of the loudspeakers. No one ever dares go and look. But if, on St Euston’s Day, you wear your hat back to front and can recite all the stations on the Bakerloo Line, there’s a chance you’ll receive a silver sixpence and a return ticket to Maida Vale. So you never know.
May 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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No matter what the politics, eggs hatch, and milk sours.

Lords come and go, but dust accumulates.

#Discworld #NightWatch #TerryPratchett #glorious25may
May 26, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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One simple way to resist fascism is satire, another equally important method is to read and circulate banned books— get to your local public library and check them out. 📚
February 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM