#The Shepherds Crown

[anigozanthos]

there's a terrible sense of finality when it comes to finishing The Shepherds Crown.

#i cant explain why #if anyone knows why #tell me #sometimes love is a stack of biographies #with a bookmark near the end #and sometimes love is simply #continuing to read books #even when it hurts #discworld #tiffany aching #The Shepherds Crown #sir terry pratchett

[thehopefulraincoat]

The sheep one is actually my fav! But the last, while a bad sketch, was a better idea and was the direction my friend (who was functioning as a sort of art director for the purposes of our prompt swap) wanted. I'm very happy with the end result (posted it here on Tumblr like a week ago, so go check that out).

#WIPs #art #sketching #sketches #sketches and studies #the shepherds crown #terry pratchett #digital #drawing #wip #work in progress #behind the scenes #art blogging

[markwateneymemorialcrater]

Reading the chapter where granny Weatherwax dies in a shepherds crown hits hard knowing it was the last book written by Terry Pratchett before his death.

#terry pratchett #the shepherds crown #granny weatherwax #spoilers

[theshepherdscrown]

the shepherd’s crown is one of my all-time favourite books, it makes me cry <3

yessssss, it is such an amazing book but I actually struggle to read it sometimes because I know I will be a wreck by the end!

#terry pratchett #discworld #ask #the shepherds crown #taseries #i do just cry everytime i read it or nation

[booksbabybooks]

In rereading Discworld, I marvel at how lucky we were that Sir PTerry lived to give us such a fitting send off to that universe: and how that send off is much richer if you view Raising Steam and The Shepherd's Crown as a dual goodbye.

Steam gives us "big ideas" Pratchett at his finest: what happens when you introduce a world-changing roundworld idea to Discworld (the railways). It showcases a host of favourite main characters (Moist, Vimes, Vetinari and the Night Watch) plus some beloved minor characters (Harry, the Low King) and develops their relationships in new and interesting ways (see how Moist, who has never had time for the police, is forced to reassess Vimes, and vice versa). It moves key issues forward - gender politics in the dwarves, how certain species are treated - and revisits old stories (Vertinari's secret double, the golden golems). Plus we get some genuinely exciting set pieces, and happy endings all round. It would, on its own, be a fitting finale.

Then we get Shepherd. A small scale, intimate book about one old woman's death and one young woman's destiny. About how a life can ripple through the world, but without pulling focus from those in her smaller circle. It's not scared of big ideas - from the gender dynamics of witches to the relationship between faeries and the world - but it ultimately feels focused on one compact group of (mostly) women. While Steam felt like a big, showy leaving party, Shepherd feels like a farewell between friends, bittersweet but lovely all the same.

Together, they reflect the strengths of Discworld, its ability to tackle big ideas but to do so by tying them to characters who feel like people you know, making them small enough to grasp. Read them in close sittings, and they fit together beautifully.

#discworld #gnu terry pratchett #terry pratchett #tiffany aching #samuel vimes #moist von lipwig #raising steam #the shepherd's crown

[tiffanyachings]

Reaper Man / The Shepherd’s Crown / Going Postal by Terry Pratchett

#inspired by that post about terry giving us so many frameworks to think about death #discworld #reaper man #the shepherd's crown #going postal #* #feel free to add on other instances of this theme this was just off the top of my head

[sing-you-fools]

being a Discworld fan honestly should be, like, the #1 book recommending a person sort of things, and i hate that it's not because so many of his fans get it so wrong. like. i try not to get incensed about people being wrong on the internet, but how anyone reads these books and thinks this man was a bigot, thinks the representation he put in Discworld was at the expense of those represented, like. like. i'm furious about it. every time. especially as he continued to learn and grow both as a writer and as a person. even stuff that was originally meant to be a little silly, like a female dwarf, he found meant a lot to people, and he learned how to better include that story!

(spoilers ahead for Shepherd's Crown)

he leaned into it in the most loving and respectful way. fucking READ The Shepherd's Crown!!!!! the man found out trans women identified with his character so he learned how to represent them! and then, he wrote Jackrum! AND THEN HE WROTE GEOFFREY!!!!! with his last fucking book he gave us a character who says he doesn't really feel like a man or a woman, just himself, fucking ages before anyone else was writing nonbinary characters! AND HE PUT HIM IN GRANNY WEATHERWAX'S FUCKING COTTAGE Y'ALL! LIKE HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT WHAT THAT MEANS BECAUSE I HAVE SOBBED SO FUCKING MUCH ABOUT IT! (Note that obviously Geoffrey doesn't have/use different language for himself, but that's how he feels and pronouns are not gender.)

thanks to how he handled Cheery and how he went from there, Pratchett included trans representation for ALL of us SO SO SO SO SO LONG before we were on anyone else's radar, and it's honestly so much more respectful than some of the stuff i've seen out there more recently!!!!!

he wasn't perfect, and a lot of social standards have evolved since the earlier Discworld books especially, but he always kept an open mind and listened and tried and grew. and there are people out there insisting he would be this hateful bigot!!!!! i hate them!!!!! let me hire the fucking assassin's guild!!!!!

#GNU TERRY FUCKING PRATCHETT Y'ALL #terry pratchett #gnu terry pratchett #discworld #rant #incensed about people being wrong on the internet #boomers in fb groups make me want to scream #the shepherd's crown #geoffrey swivel #trans representation #book recs #sing-you-fools

[rogue-rook]

I have SOME THOUGHTS about equal rites ushering in early era discworld by giving us eskarina, a girl who becomes a wizard with granny weatherwax's help, and now shepherd's crown is ushering out late era discworld by giving us geoffrey swivel, a boy who wants to become a witch with tiffany aching's help, neatly closing the narrative loop

#I'm not slandering colour of magic/light fantastic but they are very clearly just worldbuilding exercises #while equal rites is more of an actual discworld book #discworld #the shepherd's crown #gnu terry pratchett

[lilithsaur]

I loved #OneDark Window , but #TwoTwistedCrowns had me on a chokehold. If it was up to me, Elm and Ione would have their own duology lol

The Shepherd King Duology by @rmgillig

#ElmRowan #IoneHawthorn #lilithART #bookART

#ElmRowan #IoneHawthorn #lilithART #bookART #OneDark Window #one dark window #two twisted crowns #the shepherd king

[alphasrainbow]

The Shepherd King dedications slap

One Dark Window

Two Twisted Crowns

#Especially One Dark Window #one dark window #two twisted crowns #the shepherd king #rachel gillig #The girl the king and the monster they became

[s0fter-sin]

thinking about the way ghost doesn't hesitate to start killing shadows when graves betrays them but soap only takes one hostage

you can almost hear the voice in his head telling him it doesn't have to be this way; they can still talk it out

"i'm calling shepherd"

his first instinct when confronted with betrayal is to play it by the books; to go up the chain and sort it out democratically. that goes against everything we've seen him do; he’s quick to drop his enemies and bucks authority at every chance except for the one time he's confronted with the barrels of his allies' guns

he wants a peaceful resolution; for the first time we've ever seen, he doesn't want violence to be the answer

there has to be another fix, a solution that doesn't end with him killing the same men he's been working with; his friends

nothing's happened yet

it doesn't have to go this way

but ghost has been betrayed before. he knows the way this ends; either with him six feet under or his enemy

he doesn't hesitate

it's only when they knock alejandro out that soap shoots; when they spill the first blood and cross a line they can never come back from

only when ghost orders him to run and he has to cover his retreat

and somewhere along the line, between civilians’ screams and taunting voices, between his shaking breath and ghost steady in his ear, that naivety is stripped away; his trust turned to teeth that he uses to sink into throats of men he'd have given his life for

"be careful who you trust, sergeant; people you know can hurt you the most"

he's learned the price of trust

just like ghost did

but unlike ghost, he has someone to guide him through the aftermath

"good advice, It"

#i might crown myself the ceo of soap meta at this point i love digging into this boy #but it seriously fucks me up how much he tries to de escalate the situation #invoking shepherd like hes trying to remind graves of who funds him and the power he holds #the consequences he’ll face if he goes through with this. just stop and think it through first #only to be stricken silent when graves drops ‘general shepherd sends his regards’ #he doesnt say a single word after that #ghosts the one who picks up the lead for him ‘he knows about this?’ #he can still function through his shock and the gut wrenching betrayal bc he’s been through this before #and he knows freezing will get him killed #but soap doesnt #he freezes #getting shot is something he wouldve been through before but being shot by an ally? #at that moment he isnt sergeant mactavish #hes johnny and hes in shock #and thats why ghost yelling for johnny doesnt reach him #he only breaks through when he calls him soap. when hes forced back into a soldiers mindset #thats all thats keeping him going. he isnt johnny a man whos been betrayed by a friend #hes a soldier following direct orders to keep himself alive #i can only imagine the after #when he lets his rage run out and is faced with the vulnerable and painful betrayal #but ghosts there to help him through that too. there for johnny the way he wished someone had been there for him #coming out of my cage and ive been doing just fine.txt #cod mw2 #john soap mactavish #soap cod #simon ghost riley #ghost cod #soapghost

[thehopefulraincoat]

So it's been a minute. 👋

Life's been busy and apparently I've just been forgetting to update my sketchblog? Oops.

But anywho, I was trading prompts with a friend and she asked me to do a cover for The Shepherd's Crown. It is one of the only Discworld books I've read (& I know it's the last one!) but I've heard there are a lot of good starting points. So tell me your Terry Pratchett Discworld favs! Maybe they'll go on my reading list soon! ⁠

Love the vibes of this one. And some of the textures in it make me so happy. Pretty pleased with how it turned out. Fyi tho, I'm both lazy and not I'm not a graphic designer - thus the screen shot from my Instagram below... 😅 But yeah, text is not my fav thing. But I think it looks pretty good. 😄⁠

#terry pratchett #the shepherds crown #tiffany aching #wee free men #book art #cover art #art #illustration #digital #completed #art blogging #book covers #fantasy #disc world #tiffanys boots #books #book #painting #drawing

[ekatdoodles]

“Be wary the pink, be wary the rose. Be wary of beauty divine, unopposed…”. 🥀✨ Ione Hawthorn and her Maiden Card from The Shepherd King duology by Rachel Gillig. Art by me: @ekatdoodles

#one dark window #digital art #two twisted crowns #the shepherd king #rachel gillig #one dark window fanart #fanart #art #bookblr #digital aritst #fantasy books

[bubbles-for-all-of-us]

The Shepherd King duology showed me what reading top notch quality fantasy feels like. From the world building to the the absolute beauty of every single character. There was not a single flaw in it. It's a masterpiece that should be talked about so much more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#I'll carry this story with me for a real long time #and Elm is just how Eris would have been if Beron haven't fucked him up fully #the shepherd king series #one dark window #two twisted crowns #rachel gillig

[andallshallbewell]

#dog #puppy #australian shepherd #flowers #flower crown

[pratchettquotes]

"I hear that goblins believe that the railway engines have a soul, elf," she said softly. "Tell me, what kind of soul have you? Do you run along your own elvish rails? With no time or place for turning?" She looked at the kelda and said, "Granny Aching told me to feed them that was starving and clothe them as is naked and help the pitiful. Well, this elf has come to my turf--starving, naked pitiful--do you see?"

The kelda's eyebrows rose. "Yon creature is an elf! It has nae care for ye! It has nae care for anyone--it disnae even care for other elves!"

"You think then there is no such animal as a good elf?"

"Ye think there is such a thing as a gud elf?"

"No, but I am suggesting that there is a possibility that there might be one."

Terry Prachett, The Shepherd's Crown

#tiffany aching #the kelda #nightshade #granny aching #iron girder #the shepherd's crown #discworld #terry pratchett #identity #souls #change #development #character development #responsibility #determinism #prejudice #stereotypes #expectations #empathy #compassion #fairies #elfs #goblins #feegles #witches #possibility #no such thing #help the pitiful #what kind of soul have you