#Lords and Ladies Terry Pratchett

[snippit-crickit]

also.... discworld

angua thingy i really like making these little sketches, theyre just little guys.....little fellas....

angua in a dress, vimes in a dress duke regalia, carrot inspired by Sergey Chinenov's art as well as some lady Sybils and a tsundere vimes

oddly amiable patrician

this ones hard to read but imma put it in here anyway

#discworld #terry pratchett #angua von uberwald #havelock vetinari #lord vetinari #sam vimes #samuel vimes #carrot ironfoundersson #lady sybil #sybil ramkin #gnu terry pratchett #rincewind #the luggage #colon

[calamitys-child]

Granny Weatherwax is consistently described as handsome rather than beautiful and always keeps her hair tied up tight under her hat and has no interest in romantic or sexual contact past present or future and drives a janky old car broom which she refuses to let anyone else fix or replace and is deeply practical and self sufficient in her household management and is gruff and compassionate and mentors the younger members of her community and has zero time for bullies or bigots and what I'm Saying is. Stone Butch Granny Esme Weatherwax fucking When

#gnu terry pratchett #discworld #im readin lords and ladies

[puttingthebiinmorbid]

Rip Nanny Ogg you would have loved the song Rasputin

#she would have made it so much more vulgar #nanny ogg #discworld #granny weatherwax #sir terry pratchett #wyrd sisters #witches abroad #lords and ladies #maskerade #carpe jugulum #wee free men #guards! guards!

[pratchettquotes]

It wasn't that Ridcully was stupid. Truly stupid wizards have the life expectancy of a glass hammer. He had quite a powerful intellect, but it was powerful like a locomotive, and ran on rails and was therefore almost impossible to steer.

Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

#mustrum ridcully #lords and ladies #discworld #terry pratchett #wizards #character description #intelligence #stupidity #stubborn #power #locomotive #impossible to steer #a glass hammer

[madcat-world]

Discworld Character Portraits (3 of 3) - Federica Costantini

#Discworld #Federica Costantini #Terry Pratchett #characters #Grim Reaper #skeletons #Lord Havelock Vetinari #Lord Vetinari #Lady Margolotta von Ubervald #vampires #magic #fantasy art #digital art

[yeoldecryptid]

Headcanon

Sybil has ‘talked wicked young and spoke at an adult level by age three’ autism, and Vetinari has ‘didn’t talk until age five and casually started speaking like an adult one day’ autism.

#discworld #gnu terry pratchett #terry pratchett #havelock vetinari #lord vetinari #sybil vimes #sybil ramkin #lady sybil

[tiffanyachings]

every time esme says stuff like this i take 10 damage

#she never stood in front of no one. she wasnt chosen she chose. TERRY #lords and ladies #terry pratchett #discworld #esmerelda weatherwax

[spamuelsonofspamothy]

Reread Unseen Academicals recently and I've been thinking about that scene towards the end between Nutt and Ladyship and Vetinari. More after the break because there are spoilers.

So, Nutt's an orc. Everyone knows that orcs are savage beasts that tear people's heads off, and Margolotta is desperately trying to make sure he comes up "civilized". Thematically, there's links to the Uberwald League of Temperance, which was at least partially her project, since Margolotta's taking a non-human race famous among humans for being evil, dangerous, and generally bad news and trying to reform it. Her instruction for Nutt to "teach [the remaining wild orcs] civilized behavior" follows naturally from her attempts to do the same with vampires.

And then Nutt fires back with, "And who would you send to teach the humans?"

He earns a "brief outburst of laughter" from Vetinari, which is usually reserved for Vimes. There's no mention of Margolotta's direct reaction, but for the last few lines she's been described as "taken aback" and "[saying something] coldly", so she can't be too amused by this comment. But why is she so unimpressed with Nutt's asides about humans?

It's because, for all she tried, his situation isn't actually like the Black Ribboner vampires. In that case, Margolotta more or less succeeded in making her the vampires into reasonable facsimiles of humans, although with a few weird habits. In the quest for acceptance, Margolotta believed it necessary to emulate humans, to redirect entirely the thirst for blood and control into other passions. But Nutt? He's been raised to be a human orc, to be part of the civilized world, and how does he find true acceptance and happiness?

By accepting himself not as human, but as an orc.

Nutt's comment about "teach[ing] the humans" isn't just a funny aside about human nature. Deliberate or not, it's a slap in the face to everything Margolotta's worked for since at least The Fifth Elephant. For her, humanity is a goal to aspire to; for Nutt, who's lived among the people of Ankh-Morpork and seen their moods, their mobs, their stupidity and even their kindness, humanity is an amusement.

Thank you for taking the time to read my rambling thoughts, and good night.

#discworld #gnu terry pratchett #Mr Nutt #Lady Margolotta #Lord Vetinari #unseen academicals #what does it mean to be civilized #and also Glenda's there and not to minimize her importance to Nutt's development #but my focus is on Nutt's end result as interacting with Margolotta #and at this point Glenda is less active of a character because she's had her big moments

[gwydionmisha]

Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot one, and there’ll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland? In fifty years’, thirty years’, ten years’ time the world will be very nearly back on its old course. History always has a great weight of inertia.

― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

#Terry Pratchett #Lords and Ladies #Discworld #Gnu

[cosmicrhetoric]

lords and ladies night......three cheers for me who am becoming old....

#im losing it its literally granny night i guess #also all my notes were still in the ancient zip folder that has all my disc pdfs and like......15 yr old me felt the same way abt this book #as 25 yr old me....thats crazy #lords and ladies #granny weatherwax #gnu terry pratchett #discworld

[vifetoile]

I want to reread Lords and Ladies, but it's just gone spring in the Northern Hemisphere and that book really must be read in the summer.

#bookblr #discworld #lords and ladies #witches of lancre #granny weatherwax #terry pratchett #reading #my posts

[forbannelsez]

today im bringing you a quiz about what discworld witch flavour you are! enjoy💋

ps i would really love to hear what you think about your result)

#discworld #witches #wyrd sisters #lords and ladies #witches abroad #maskerade #carpe jugulum #equal rites #this one holds piece of my soul because i love this characters so much it makes my heart melt #granny weatherwax #nanny ogg #tiffany aching #magrat garlick #agnes nitt #terry pratchett #miss level

[seaweed-is-cool]

HELLO DISCWORLD!!

My theatre group is putting on a production of Guards! Guards! in February in Sheffield, UK. It would be wonderful to meet the wider Discworld community that is hiding in the crevices

#discworld #terry pratchett #ankh morpork #discworld play #guards guards #guards! guards! #carrot ironfoundersson #corporal nobbs #nobby nobbs #vimes #captain vimes #lord vetinari #lady ramkin #sargeant colon #lupine wonse

[puttingthebiinmorbid]

I think if all those Edgar Allan Poe characters who got buried alive had just hung a sign around their neck that said “I ATEN’T DEAD” all their problems would have been solved smh

#discworld #terry pratchett #equal rites #granny weatherwax #nanny ogg #magrat garlick #edgar allan poe #the premature burial #the fall of the house of usher #wyrd sisters #witches abroad #lords and ladies #maskerade #carpe jugulum

[pratchettquotes]

It was a cottage of questioning witches, research witches. Eye of what newt? What species of ravined salt-sea shark? It's all very well a potion calling for Love-in-idleness, but which of the thirty-seven common plants called by that name in various parts of the continent was actually meant?

The reason that Granny Weatherwax was a better witch than Magrat was that she knew that in witchcraft it didn't matter a damn which one it was, or even if it was a piece of grass.

The reason Magrat was a better doctor than Granny was that she thought it did.

Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

#granny weatherwax #esme weatherwax #magrat garlick #lords and ladies #discworld #terry pratchett #witches #Doctors #Magic #Medicine #Research #Questions #spell ingredients #Specialization #Eye of what newt #A better witch #A better doctor

[iconuk01]

“I don't hold with paddlin' with the occult," said Granny firmly. "Once you start paddlin' with the occult you start believing in spirits, and when you start believing in spirits you start believing in demons, and then before you know where you are you're believing in gods. And then you're in trouble." "But all them things exist," said Nanny Ogg. "That's no call to go around _believing_ in them. It only encourages 'em.”

Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

#Discworld #GNU Sir Terry Pratchett #lords and ladies