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(Anonymous) 2025-06-29 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)no subject
(Anonymous) 2025-06-29 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)I could have written this secret. Some of what Granny does is straight up bullying. And it makes her occasional genuinely cool moments curdle for me, because I keep feeling like 'why are you trying to make me like this person who takes so much pride in being bitter and unkind?' Yeah, sugary-sweet/polite 'nice' is not enough to be good, but being actually kind to the people around you - especially your student! - is in fact a big part of it! I'm a teacher myself and the way Granny treats Magrat in the early books really bugs me. And then she's a hypocrite who acts like other people being vaguely rude in her direction (like calling her and nanny Old Bats or whatever) warrants humiliation and magical punishment, and clearly we're supposed to think she's so cool for it. And I just don't.
It sucks. Of the three things that bothers me about discworld, it's probably the one with the biggest impact on my enjoyment.
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(Anonymous) 2025-06-29 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)Granny does a lot of good, but has cost herself a lot of life to do it. She is someone who can be admired for the strength of her convictions, and the value of her deeds, but not someone to be emulated in lifestyle. I thought that came through quite clear, especially in the Tiffany books.
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(Anonymous) 2025-06-29 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)ayrt
(Anonymous) 2025-06-29 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)And so far I don't really get the sense that Pratchett doesn't see her as a moral exemplar when you get right down to the stuff that really matters. When it comes to 'who you are in the dark'. Granny being bitchy and provincial is funny; Granny's still the one who gets to have so many of the banger philosophical lines at the climax of Witches Abroad, or Lords and Ladies. And most of the fandom definitely adores her, which makes any fandom gripe 10 million times more annoying.
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(Anonymous) 2025-06-29 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)At the very least she later admits Magrat's a good doctor because she puts in the effort to learn about herbs and medicine.
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(Anonymous) 2025-06-29 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)Sometimes. The books made it clear that she's the Mother-in-Law from Hell.
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(Anonymous) 2025-06-29 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)Plus, there are good character flaws and deal breaker character flaws, all that are very subjective to the particular audience.
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