The Shepherds Crown Spoilers - Tumblr Posts

Spoilers for The Shepherd's Crown, the last published Terry Pratchett/Discworld book (Other than a few short story collections)

In that book, the Elf queen loses her station, and begins a redemption arc. She does well! This vicious bastard of a conquering monarch tries her best to be nice, and it works!

Until her former second in command kills her.

That's probably the single character across those forty something books I despise most, because he ruined redemption.

the concept and idea of “you can always start trying to be a better person” is extremely important to me both in media and irl and i continue to be deeply deeply disturbed by the trend on this site pushing that these ideas in media are bad writing or even morally reprehensible

because theyd rather someone stay terrible or just straight up die than become a better person 

from a compassionate point of view it’s deeply distressing and from a pragmatic point of view it’s outright frustrating

it’s fucked up.