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“All witches are selfish, the Queen had said. But Tiffany’s Third Thoughts said: Then turn selfishness into a weapon! Make all things yours! Make other lives and dreams and hopes yours! Protect them! Save them! Bring them into the sheepfold! Walk the gale for them! Keep away the wolf! My dreams! My brother! My family! My land! My world! How dare you try to take these things, because they are mine!”
- Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TERRY PRATCHETT!
I was re-reading some Discworld books, and it really struck me how different the endings of The Wee Free Men and Harry Potter were.
Harry Potter is all about how death is a nice thing, a good thing, that it's ok to lie down and die. And that is a good thing to know. But. But The Wee Free Men takes such a different approach.
Tiffany fights to live. It's a very selfish thing, and that's ok. That's the point. You have to want to live, so want. And the Discworld books don't make you fear death. Death is a major character. There is an entire book on why Death is important, is needed.
But when JK Rowling teaches children to die for other people, Terry Pratchet teaches kids how to live for themselves. And that's important.
More great Tiffany Aching art!
Here she is!!! I really like how it came out, she looks like she’s gradually becoming a real witch (she’s also growing into her boots)