Hi everyone! My father is a huge Discworld fan, and asked if I could draw a Discworld stamp for him for his birthday (to keep all the Discworld emporium ones he has company).

As Granny Weatherwax is his favourite character, I thought I'd start with a her. I was thinking of drawing her with a teacup, and a shelf with an assortment of items behind her.

Particularly, I was envisioning the jug in the shape of a humorous cow and a jar of honey with a buzzing bee, but am getting stumped on what else to add on the shelves. If anyone has any ideas, I would truly love to hear them! I mean to draw him stamps of the other witches as well (and then other groups of characters in future)

The roughest thumbnail sketch of the sort of thing I'm envisioning below.

Edit: This is the best community, thank you so much for your help! I'll widen the background to add more of the ideas in the thread. I am extremely grateful, and will post an updated drawing when it's all done.

Need to get back to objects. People are not my strong suit.

Day 14. Lady

'Excuse me, are you the lady who is with the clowns?'

Corporal Nobbs, who had been trudging along gloomily, looked up. He was being addressed by a pleasant-faced young woman. A woman actually talking to him by choice was a novelty.

Smiling while doing so was unheard of.

'Er yeah. Right. That's me.' He swallowed...'Beti.'

Terry Pratchett, Jingo

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I'm listening to yesterday's The Race podcast from The Athletic, which is about Formula 1. They're trying to find ways to make things fairer for smaller teams, and one of these presenters brings up Vimes theory of boots, which he doesn't exactly apply correctly, but it's still a pleasant surprise to hear how widely that has spread.

I was introducing a friend to the series, telling her there's no wrong book to start with. She asked what my favorite book on the series was, and I said Night Watch. She said "okay, I'll start with that".

"...correction," I said; "there is ONE wrong book to start with."

seen on the back of CoM

Day 13. Flimsy

Rincewind's hourglass looked like something created by a glassblower who'd had the hiccups in a time machine. […] But strange curves and bends and extrusions of glass had developed over the years, and quite often the sand was flowing backwards, or diagonally. Clearly, Rincewind had been hit by so much magic, had been thrust reluctantly through time and space so often that he'd nearly bumped into himself coming the other way, that the precise end of his life was now as hard to find as the starting point on a roll of really sticky transparent tape.

Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

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Cheap Ink and Flimsy Paper Plague Print...

"He pulled at the leather cord around his neck and felt the reassuring lump on the end. A potato can be a great help in times of trial."

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There's a line in this movie lifted from the book where Malicia Grim mocks Mr. Bunnsy for being a story with no narrative tension. Which is exactly what this movie is.

It has no darkness, no death, and no stakes.

It is the Cars 2 of Discworld.

Every single way this movie bastardizes its characters is downstream of the fact that the story has been fundamentally stripped of its darkness.

The Rat King is hatred and suffering incarnate. In this movie he's nothing!

Dangerous Beans is motivated by death. In this movie he's motivated by nothing.

I think it's fine that movies like this exist. But not when it butchers such a good story.

The first idea was to draw the entire "Silver Flock", but since I intend to keep things simple, couldn't miss the opportunity to draw at least Psita Cohen the Birdbarian (thanks u/Crafty_Genius 😂!), (he being one major character in this book).

Design inspired in the great Paul Kidby's Cohen, of course :)

Just for the record: I'm trying to do this year's Disctober cockatiel-themed. I owe them the inspiration to participate this year, so why not an entire series 🙂

Since the Discworld books and especially the Death series relies heavily on internal story telling and the characters thought and feeling, I find it very difficult to imagine a movie adaptation delivers the same kind of story.

I watched the Going Postal series and the animated Soul Music movie, and they are definitly not bad. At the same time a lot of the novel's genius is lost. What is your opinion on the Hogfather movie and did you watch it before or after reading the book?

Spotted at LAX

I am, however, the type of person to read/watch/listen to the same thing 100 times and still enjoy it. Pratchett has become my favorite author and I'll probably be re-reading the Discworld in a loop as long as I'm alive (interleaved with other books, of course).

Obviously progressive, obviously. But!

In (I think) Carpe Jugulum, Granny says something along the lines of “Evil is treating people as things.” Which is a pretty big umbrella statement, which is mostly but not always true.

On a similar note, I’ve heard an umbrella statement of “Conservatives believe people are fundamentally bad, progressive believe people are fundamentally good” and that lines up with what I’ve seen in political rhetoric and policies from various parties.

Pratchett’s authorial voice tends to portray people as being fundamentally bad. Characters like Carrot who believe the opposite are present! But the authorial voice puts this down to his personal charisma more than anything else.

It also makes sense that despite the “woke” nature of Pratchett’s philosophy, I’ve seen conservatives enjoying his books.

So is this the case where that umbrella statement doesn’t fit? Or was Pterry someone who had progressive values but a conservative outlook?

Hey all, I'm slowly making my way through the Discworld novels. I started with the Watch novels, then detoured through Death. I decided to read Pyramids mostly because I want to listen to the audiobook version of Small Gods.

Anyways I think I want to branch off again before I return to Watch novels. The plan is to read Colour of Magic first. If anyone has any tips, or would like to share a bit of context you think might be valuable to know (I am younger than the book after all) then I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks in advance!

"And it started to rain. Not rain generally, but specifically. Specifically on about a square foot of ground which contained Rincewind."

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After 18 years of watching me read, re read and read the Discworld novels again, my wife has started to show some interest in reading them. She’s always been a fan of LoTR films but until the recent romantasy trend fantasy books just weren’t for her.

Where I’m stuck is where she should start, my favourites are the Watch and Death series.

Other than romantasy her books of choice have typically been romance or crime fictions. I was torn between Guards Guards, Wyrd Sisters or Mort but would welcome suggestions.

Hello,

Long story short, I did my first read through of the Discworld quite young. I’m now much, much, much older and reading through it again, in release order.

It’s delightful and I’m picking up a lot that I didn’t get on the first round, but I am autistic (metaphors can be a problem) and also, honestly, sometimes a bit dumb, and I just can’t understand the shopping mall thing in Reaper Man.

I understand that the book, in its essence, is about craftsmanship and commercialism. I think the closest I got to understanding the mall thing was likening it to Westfields (Australia) taking over.

But I don’t think I’m really getting it.

If this is something you really clicked with, I’d love your passionate explanations.

Spoiler: he didn't step on it and went out