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Discworld Textposts III

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more witchesss

[chechula]

I was commissioned to draw Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Greebo by @lesnahod ♥ (really, the best kind of commission you can give me :D ). So here is Nanny, proudly showing Greebo in a new cat-hat ( which was sent to her by her grandson, since it´s a big hit at Ankh-Morpork). Oh, Granny is a bit too happy to see the torment of this poor creature x_x

[cephalopod-celabrator]

I think it's really funny that reading the discworld witch books (at least the ones that are Weatherwax+Ogg+Magrat), Granny immediately seems like the scariest one by far. She seems like a terrifying force of nature accompanied by a jovial old grandma and an insecure young woman. But as the series progress, the times when Granny holds back and Nanny and Magrat jovially engage in brutal physical violence add up. Now I'm not saying you *shouldn't* be scared of Granny, I'm just saying that she has a rather strong conscience in her way, whereas Magrat and Nanny will both sucker punch you, kick you between the legs and happily step over your groaning body. Granny is to be feared, but Nanny doesn't fight fair and Magrat will kill a motherfucker. Terry Pratchett really knew how to write female characters.

[blondenergyonabrunette]

One of the things I love most about pterry’s writing that I don’t see talked about enough is how annoying the characters are.

We all love complex characters, we all love characters that are allowed to be fully fleshed out humans not just a collection of wonderful qualities but I love how most of the discworld characters have human traits that would make them mildly irritating in real life (especially when seen from the point of view of the other characters)

Granny is an interfering old woman who cannot bear to be wrong, Rincewind is whiny and has limitless supplies of self pity, Sam Vimes is far too caught up in his own head, woe betide any young woman who happens to marry into the Ogg family, Carrot, a character who was written to be perfect in every aspect is often a frustrating boyfriend.

My favourite example of this is Susan initially refusing to believe that time is a person even though she knows death is a person and that lots of things go on that people don’t know about because they don’t see what they know can’t be real yet Susan is too stubborn to believe that time could be a person.

But despite all of this I love these characters so so dearly, because they don’t have to be perfect to be likeable and they don’t have to be caught between ultimate good and ultimate evil to be interesting and complex.

[dr-graf]

[alda-rana]

Witches Abroad!

[quenthel]

The Wyrd Sisters