What a treat it is for me when two things I love crossover: I picked up the new version of the audiobook of The Truth, and whose voice do I hear? Ghostsā very own Mathew Baynton!
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What a treat it is for me when two things I love crossover: I picked up the new version of the audiobook of The Truth, and whose voice do I hear? Ghostsā very own Mathew Baynton!

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When it comes to Discworld audiobooks and the different versions, I feel spoiled because I love many of the narrators for different reasons.
For instance, I adore Stephen Briggsā characterization of Igor. He plays him with such a jovial tone, I cheer when Igor shows up in his narrations. Itās a detail, yes, but it makes me oh so happy.
Iām re-reading Snuff, and that moment when the goblin tells Sam Vimes āthank you for believing that goblins have namesā after he asks the name of the victim just breaks my heart every time.
The way Terry Pratchett can make me feel so much in just a few words, so often⦠it never gets old.
It's been years since I've read a Discworld novel and I don't remember what the actual plot of The Shepherd's Crown was.
What I do remember is fucking sobbing in my bathtub because of how obvious Pratchett made it that he was aware his time was coming and he wanted to face his own mortality, and did so by taking Granny Weatherwax with him.
For those who don't know Pratchett was diagnosed with Alzheimer's eight years before he died, and advocated for the legalization of medically assisted suicide. He was open about how he struggled with Alzheimer's, and how he wanted to die while he was still himself.
I don't remember the plot of the book, but I do remember Granny Weatherwax cleaning her home, taking a bath and dressing in her finest clothes, then altering her "I ATE'NT DEAD" sign to say "I IS PROBLY DEAD" before laying down to pass away.
I remember Death greeting her with a kind judgement when he came to reap her soul.
FOR I CAN SEE THE BALANCE AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE WORLD MUCH BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT, AND IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT.
Like, it's so glaringly obvious that Pratchett was expressing that control he craved over his own end. Dying with dignity and leaving a positive impact on the world. Granny Weatherwax knew it was her time and took every detailed preparation she could. I think Pratchett did the same with the Shepherd's Crown.
This might be a very controversial take but Sybil being fat with no hair and Adora being weird about golems and Granny being old and a virgin and Magrat being ugly and Agnes being fat and Nanny being Nanny and Cheery existing does more for feminism than 90% of intentionally "feminist" media produced in the past 5-10 years actually

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Here I am when I'm meant to be asleep, silently yelling TERRY!! because I just realized that the dwarf Goodmountain in The Truth is the literal definition of Gutenberg. š¤¦š»
I am re-reading I Shall Wear Midnight, and it is pointed out that Tiffany wasnāt born a witch, she chose and worked for it. Just like Granny Weatherwax wasnāt chosen, she chose for herself, and worked for it.
I love that message of choice. It speaks to me a lot more than the āchosen oneā narratives. The chosen one narratives, the destiny narratives, make me feel like there is no point, everything is decided from birth anyway.
Terry Pratchett is all about choice, and I love him for that too.
I am smitten with the narration of Indira Varma for the Witches books. Iām currently listening to Equal Rites, and Granny Weatherwaxās voice is that of a younger woman than in the other audiobooks. Which makes sense because itās the first of the Witches books, but I love the attention to detail.
This whole audiobook collection, with Bill Nighy as the Narrator and Peter Serafinowicz as Death, is such a success, I am in awe.
And that doesnāt take away the love I have for Stephen Briggsā narration: itās a different interpretation and good for its own reasons, and his Igor is equal to none.
But to me, Indira Varma is now the Witches.
When I properly started with the Discworld, I opted to read them as they came to me, re-reading my favourites, taking my time, etc. I didnāt want to rush. And the important thing was to keep a couple For Later. Because I didnāt want it to end.
Over the years, I fell deeply in love with the Discworld, of course. I adore the Witches, I love the Watch, therefore I have read all their books several times. A few more too. And I kept away from the ones that were not my cup of tea (life is too short to finish a book Iām not keen on).
Today, I finally picked one of the For Later book. Because I realized I was wrong: I can spend my life re-reading these books, finding new details to love, new puns to understand, and being touched by different moments. It will never end. What a gift.
Honestly, the fact that terry Pratchett has experience around nuclear power makes so much sense once you realize what magic is standing as a metaphor for in the discworld. Like, look at this fucking quote from going postal:
"That's why [magic] was left to wizards, who knew how to handle it safely. Not doing any magic at all was the chief task of wizardsānot "not doing magic" because they couldn't do magic, but not doing magic when they could do and didn't. Any ignorant fool can fail to turn someone else into a frog. You have to be clever toĀ refrainĀ from doing it when you knew how easy it was. There were places in the world commemorating those times when wizards hadn't been quite as clever as that, and on many of them the grass would never grow again."
Like... It feels incredibly obvious what he's talking about once you know the context.

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Listening to a history podcast on the history of printing in England and they mention this guy as being 1, one of the first printers in England, and 2, having the best name for a printer
And I'm like...that sounds familiar...only as William de Worde, which is of course this guy
I see what you did there Pratchett
The other day I saw a random person at a restaurant table reading A Hat Full of Sky. I've never stumbled upon a Discworld reader in the wild before, and I stopped to tell him so. He said he has two young daughters, 5 and 3, and he can't think of a better character for them to learn from than Tiffany Aching, so he's reading up in preparation for when they're ready.
I'm completely fine about this, btw. The hysterical sobbing is just allergies.
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
Constantly re-reading Discworld novels and finding new things to love about them. My friends and family have reached their limit of āthatās nice, dearā. Posts will follow.