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Granny Weatherwax and Esk, from Terry Pratchett's Equal Rites
Unlike wizards, who like nothing better than a complicated hierarchy, witches don’t go in much for the structured approach to career progression. It’s up to each individual witch to take on a girl to hand the area to when she dies. Witches are not by nature gregarious, at least with other witches, and they certainly don’t have leaders. Granny Weatherwax was the most highly-regarded of the leaders they didn’t have.
Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
Granny Weatherwax embodies "with great power comes great responsibility" better than any iteration of Spiderman ever has. Granny is the most powerful witch in the entire Disc and she hardly ever uses it. She knows that solving peoples problems with magic, with power, just means that she has to keep solving them with more magic and more power. That the only responsible way to have power is to not use it unless there is no other option and every other possible option has failed. In this essay I will
Granny Weatherwax deserves to say fuck. As a treat. For when she’s just done and doesn’t want to muster up yet more biting wit.
Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world's greatest creative forces. But you had to learn how to control it. That didn't mean you let it trickle away. It meant you dammed it, carefully, let it develop a working head, let it drown whole valleys of the mind and then, just when the whole structure was about to collapse, opened a tiny pipeline at the base and let the iron-hard stream of wrath power the turbines of revenge.
Granny Wheatherwax and Nanny Ogg on the street of Ankh-Morphork, commission for Becky ♥
He is proof that male authors are capable of writing good female characters. If you can't, your a bad writer.
Legit don't understand why more people don't read Discworld
Adora Belle Dearheart
She helps the voiceless and will shoot you as soon as look at you. The most cynical person in Ankh-Morpork, yes even more cynical than the legendary Sam Vimes. She's not here for your shit.
Susan Sto Helit
Death's granddaughter, all around badass whether with withering scorn, fireplace pokers, or her grandfather's sword. She will fuck you up.
Angua von Uberwald
Werewolf with a bad hair day (internally, externally her hair is always lovely and soft because she uses dog shampoo). She will go for your throat with a terrifying snarl. Most of the time she lets go. Most of the time.. Don't mess with her.
Granny Weatherwax
Most feared/respected witch on the Disc. Has stared Death in the face numerous times, so much so that Death actually respects her. Whew, you do not want to get on her bad side.
Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad
"Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other things might be on this house.
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.
“There’s no grays, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.”
- Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum
There's no greys, only white that's got grubby.
Granny Weatherwax, Carpe Jugulum; Terry Pratchett
Day 23. I am beginning to get burned out on fanart, and I still have a week left. So, today is a speed paint.
(Granny Weatherwax, Discworld series.)
This is amazing. This is more heart and care in four and a half minutes than most of what Hollywood is pushing out today.
Discworld: Wyrd Sisters Director: Jean Flynn | Studio: Cosgrove Hall | UK, 1997
I picked Dorfl, but I also think Colon and Nobby would be a good pick - they'd do the wrong thing at every point, but somehow end up accidentally dropping the ring into Mount Doom anyway.
The one character I would never give it to is Granny Weatherwax. Even if she resisted the temptation - and the temptation would be profound, far moreso than for any other character on the list - she would hate every moment of it. It's a terrible thing to do to her, and potentially a terrible thing to do to the world.
Explanations welcome! No "other" option, sorry.
Oooooh
But I dont want to teleport and suddey BE Granny Weatherwax.
I want to live my life in ways that allow me to become somone that have her good sides, while trying to minimize her bad.
You know that intriguing backstory that we get little flashes of in the book?
THAT is who I want to be!
I want to be Granny Weatherwax'es backstory!
i do think it's cute how many posts on here are like "i want to be granny weatherwax when i grow up!" like it's sweet but also yes the perfect grown human ideal that we all have to aspire to is a 70-something yr old huge bitch
"The woodcutter never understood why the wolf laid its head on the stump so readily.
Or why the old woman, the one in whom anger roiled like pearl barley in a bubbling stew, insisted afterwards that it be buried properly"
witches abroad are better than i thought.