#taseries

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Oddly it doesn't get mentioned often but Steeleye Span did an album inspired by Wintersmith with Terry Pratchett. The song "We Shall Wear Midnight" is my favourite but I wanted to share "The Good Witch" since it contains an excerpt of Pratchett reading at 2:10

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the shepherd’s crown is one of my all-time favourite books, it makes me cry <3

yessssss, it is such an amazing book but I actually struggle to read it sometimes because I know I will be a wreck by the end!

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Tiffany Aching aesthetic

Then it came to her. She did not deserve to die. And she was not alone. She never would be. Not while her land was beneath her boots. Her land. The land of the Achings. 

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Your power is only rumour and lies, she thought. You bore your way into people when they are uncertain and weak and worried and frightened, and they think their enemy is other people when their enemy is, and always will be, you - the master of lies. Outside, you are fearsome; inside, you are nothing but weakness.

Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

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Witches were a bit like cats. They didn't much like one another's company, but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case they needed them.

Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

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"Zoology, eh? That's a big word, isn't it?" "No, actually it isn't," said Tiffany. "Patronizing is a big word. Zoology is really quite short."

Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

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The stories never said why she was wicked. It was enough to be an old woman, enough to be all alone, enough to look strange because you have no teeth. It was enough to be called a witch.

Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men