Random Discworld Question!

“And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.”

“It’s a lot more complicated than that –”

“No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”

“Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes –”

“But they starts with thinking about people as things…”

(Granny Weatherwax, to Pastor Mightily Oats, Carpe Jugulum, Terry Pratchett.)

Granny Weatherwax didn't hold with looking at the future, but now she could feel the future looking at her. She didn't like its expression at all.

Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

Granny Weatherwax is one of my favorite characters in any piece of media ever, and I was recently thinking about why I like her so much. There are so many reasons, but I think one of them is that she's oddly comforting. Yes, she's rude and prickly and scary, but she always helps people when it matters. There's just something nice about the idea of someone who would always help you if you were in serious trouble, no matter what your problem is or even if you've talked bad about her. You could have spread a rumor about her and then have an eldritch monster about to kill you, and Granny Weatherwax would step in, send it running, and then give you a stern talking to while treating your wounds. In conclusion, Weatherwax 2024

I love how much Nanny Ogg bullies Agnes about being a boring virgin, while also being glad she’s The Maiden to round up the little group.

Surely I can trick myself into using a small pen size if I do one of these ridiculous zoom-out evolution drawings?

She hated everything that predestined people, that fooled them, that made them slightly less than human.

-- Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad

Discworld inktober day 22 - Esmerelda Weatherwax

Granny Weatherwax was the strongest witch in the Discworld books. When Sir Terry Pratchett found out he was dying, he needed to say goodbye to his fans. He did that through the passing of the beloved character of Granny Weatherwax in “The Shepherd’s Crown”

Even though when he was already gone when I started reading the discworld books, it was still very heartbreaking. She also kept bees as part of her specialty and after she passed, her protégé had to tell the bees. I’ve always felt like us the readers were Sir Terry’s bees.

RIP Mistress Weatherwax

21 August 2023: Senior Citizen Day

I can’t recommend the Tiffany Aching books enough.

There are 5 books that span the preteen to young adult events of a young witch from a barren place known as The Chalk outside of Ank-Morpork. These are lesser known gems that I cherish deeply. They were written with young readers in mind, but they’re absolutely comfort food (particularly if you were raised by a Scottish granny like me- listening to Stephen Briggs read the Nac Mac Feegles make me homesick). They were all available via audio book from my library app (libby).

My Granny Weatherwax trinket box

Old Woman Tourney - Results

and thus, another tournament comes to a close, so without further ado,

THE WINNER OF THE OLD WOMAN TOURNEY IS...

EILEEN THE CROW from Bloodborne!

In second place, we have Lucretia from the Adventure Zone: Balance, and in third, Esme Weatherwax from Discworld.

Thank you all so much for participating! It's been a delight to host this, even through the tougher times.

There will be another tournament coming soon, and I'll announce it here as well, though it will be on another account due to how it doesn't directly involve the elderly. That being said, I will make a post closer to its unveiling, at least announcing who the initial 4 participants are based on the themes provided. This one will also allow multiple entrants per franchise...mainly because while it's still a wide topic, it's a bit more niche than others.

Still, see you then, and in the meantime, check out @retirement-home-rumble for further jousts of geriatricity! (that's not a word but it gets the message across)

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

Asexual granny Weatherwax, anybody?

Granny Weatherwax and her bees