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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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.

I always love hearing about everyone's favorite (and least favorite!) Discworld books so I thought it might be fun to rank them all. Put the title of your favorite book, and maybe a reason why it's your favorite, and everyone can upvote if they agree. Most upvoted comment wins; and then we start again tomorrow with all the books except that one to determine the second best book, etc.

Let's include the 41 main books only, no Science books or short stories. Unless you think we should include them, then I guess we will.

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?