The best part about Weatherwax is she is only a "good" witch because her Sister went bad, so she had to switch from being the bad witch she had wanted to be.
What I liked was how it was explained that Carcer understood that the rules of society do not have to apply if you don't really want them to. It was so well explained within the context of that character, i.e. a sociopath by choice, who knows he can basically be a wolf among the fold.
That's the trick though. You want to see him succeed so bad, and you like the character so much that when he finally gets there, it's all the sweeter.
Then either make a new thread or derail this one. It's nearly a year old and only five pages, the mods won't give a fuck.
If you make a new account and use a vpn you can still get it. Means juggling a second account but its manageable.
Tbh she's a character I like on the surface, but the more you dive into both her history and dwarf culture, the more (and I am so sorry for using this word) problematic she becomes. Okay, fine, dwarf culture is rigid and conservative, and personal expression is frowned on but on the other hand, males and females are completely equal, and the genders and therefore sexuality of a married couple are seen as no one's business but their own. Species, even, is optional in dwarf culture. So long as the child is raised as a dwarf, he is a dwarf, even when he's a seven foot high human. Dwarf culture is confined, but within those confines is a freedom that many humans on the Discworld don't have. Female dwarfs are high priests and low kings, and for the majority of the dwarven people, racism/specisim towards other individuals in their culture isn't an issue, even if the individual isn't of the dwarf species.
Same, the whole first/second/third thoughts thing as one of her special powers really sets it up that other people don't have that, and that she's somehow special for having a very common interior monologue. Like I get some people don't and some people are that impulsive and stupid, but the ability to think through your actions isn't uncommon, either.
I didn't really read dwarves as intentionally equal; I saw it as a critique of religion where to acknowledge femaleness is embarrassing and that's what Cheri was rebelling against (even if I also hated the girliness). Like you could do whatever you wanted, just not while acknowledging you were female and instead hiding/being ashamed of it.
IDK but there are a few accounts out there of him being supportive / encouraging to trans fans. He might have just been generally encouraging instead of actively pro-trans but then that crazy Watch adaptation happened. I've never been convinced by his daughter saying she had no idea they were going to do that. I think it was BBC America and they don't usually overhaul things like that, particularly when it's already a british bestseller with a worldwide fanbase.
