So I'm reading Witches Abroad and the first time we see Granny use magic is in Desiderata's cottage. Desiderata (deceased) was a big proponent of everyday magic. She was also quite blind. So when Granny and Nanny check on her cottage and definitely are not looking for her wand, there are no matches for the fireplace.

Granny doesn't like everyday magic. She says so. She even tells Nanny that if they found the wand she wouldn't use it, emphatically. She doesn't like the habit. But she's annoyed and wants her tea and needs a fire for that. So she uses magic.

But then she sees the mirror. And the face looking back isn't hers but Lilith's. Heres a quote about Granny:

"Very few people in the world had more self-control than Granny Weatherwax. It was as rigid as a bar of cast iron. And about as flexible."

And she smashes the mirror immediately and without hesitation.

Now we don't know who Lilith is to Granny at this point but upon reread this is a particularly interesting passage. By the end of the book we know Lilith is "the bad witch" and because she is Granny "had to be the good one".

Granny hates the fact she has to be the good one. She knows that if she was the bad one she'd be the most terrifying witch the Disc has ever seen. But she has to be the good one. That's her responsibility since Lilith turned out bad. She has to be good and she has to be responsible, especially since she has the power to be so evil and do so much damage if she ever lost control.

And I think that's why Granny smashes the mirror right then. She was annoyed at the lack of matches, she wanted tea, she used magic to get it. And that's not responsible witchcraft in her mind. So when she find Lilith looking at her through the mirror, she sees the person that forced her to have that self control. That made Granny Weatherwax a good witch when she wanted to be the bad one. And that hurt her.

This is also interesting when you consider Sam Vimes relationship with alcohol. Vimes used alcohol as a way to deal with a feeling of helplessness and lack of control. That addiction numbed the emotional pain and he had to be so careful in later books not to fall back into that habit.

Granny is the opposite. Her power is, maybe not addictive, but something she takes immense pride in. She wants to use it, she became the most powerful witch (not the most talented, that's Nanny) through hard work and dedication. But she can't use it because that wouldn't be responsible. Because everytime she uses it, it becomes a little easier to justify using a little more until she's using it for everything. Or anything. And she can't because she has to be the good one.

How much self control must that take? Granny spent her entire life becoming the best at what she does. Decades of mastering her craft and when she reaches the top she had to essentially stop. To put it aside and only use it in the most responsible way possible because if she slips, it's a long long way to the bottom.

Cast iron indeed.

the problem with having a decade old tumblr blog is that there are posts on it from a decade ago

i’ve become a completely different person like 5 separate times since making those posts and there are STILL people finding them somehow

Is this the start of a migraine or just a normal headache... guess we'll find out.

:(

jason stop stealing dick’s clothes you chronic younger brother

Not to just be constantly shilling my own stuff today, but can we take a moment to once again appreciate the attention to detail @ryehickman put into making sure Nathan's disability aids were visible on the main cover?

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ID: Two images side by side. The one on the left is a red book cover with the words "Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites, from International Bestselling Author, Joy Demorra, Flirting with Fangs Edition."

It depicts two male characters, one wearing a light shirt, a visible arm brace, and hearing aids. The other is wearing a dark suit and has visible fangs. They are walking side by side, their arms around each other. Both are turning to regard the female character on the right, who is wearing a purple flowing dress and is, in turn, looking over her shoulder at them in an implied bisexual parody of the "distracted boyfriend" meme.

The image on the right depicts the same image but zoomed in closer on the main character Nathan, visibly showing his shoulder brace and hearing aids. /ID.

Like, I know I'm the author, and this is my book, but as a disabled person who relies on braces to keep my joints in place, it still hits me sometimes when I open up the files to do something, and I get to see a visibly disabled character on the cover of a romance novel. And the hearing aids are just so well done??? They stand out SO much, and it would have been such an easy thing to overlook or make into a vague squiggle, but they're immediately visible, and I love that. I love that SO much.

Praying to all the things that exist that Joy maintains her health for herself but also so she can put book 2 into my yearning hands

Likes to charge, reblogs to cast etc etc

It’s practically 2014 and you guys still don’t know how to google if an article is real or not before giving it 100,000 notes

most of the talk on this website about Game Changer is how Sam Reich psychologically tortures his contestants, but I want to make it clear to the uninitiated that he's actually extremely ethical about it

He sends out a company wide email and asks them to choose episodes based on a chili pepper rating system

meaning he doesn't put 🌶️🌶️ people into 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ episodes

they're also big on consent ie cast and crew have to be okay with it before they'll do nudity or something like that in an episode

it's like the bdsm of psychological torture. safe, sane, and consensual.

the contestants know what they're getting into, and they're full down

Originally posted by sylvansleuth

Brennan Lee Mulligan is enrichment for Sam Reich

it's a very efficient system

Kind of a dog heaven is squirrel hell situation

@thebibliosphere and I are playing Minecraft!

Come hang out! We’re having a chill one.

Short 🥺

Not to just be constantly shilling my own stuff today, but can we take a moment to once again appreciate the attention to detail @ryehickman put into making sure Nathan's disability aids were visible on the main cover?

ALT

ALT

ID: Two images side by side. The one on the left is a red book cover with the words "Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites, from International Bestselling Author, Joy Demorra, Flirting with Fangs Edition."

It depicts two male characters, one wearing a light shirt, a visible arm brace, and hearing aids. The other is wearing a dark suit and has visible fangs. They are walking side by side, their arms around each other. Both are turning to regard the female character on the right, who is wearing a purple flowing dress and is, in turn, looking over her shoulder at them in an implied bisexual parody of the "distracted boyfriend" meme.

The image on the right depicts the same image but zoomed in closer on the main character Nathan, visibly showing his shoulder brace and hearing aids. /ID.

Like, I know I'm the author, and this is my book, but as a disabled person who relies on braces to keep my joints in place, it still hits me sometimes when I open up the files to do something, and I get to see a visibly disabled character on the cover of a romance novel. And the hearing aids are just so well done??? They stand out SO much, and it would have been such an easy thing to overlook or make into a vague squiggle, but they're immediately visible, and I love that. I love that SO much.