i picked up Sanctuary: A Witch's Tale and its sooooo terrible lmao
Out with crystals and thyme white women witches that can warm their coffee cup with a hand and work their magic with spells and in with diverse ordinary gothy overweight witches that solve their problems with psychology and weird fucking plants and burning things (including property)
If you smoke weed and lend an ear to ur friends when theyre in need that makes you a bona fide fucking witch
This is actually something I take from and love about Terry Pratchett's interpretation of witches. See wizards and witches are cleanly delineated (god bless Eskarina Smith i love her with my whole heart), wizards do spellcraft and study, zappy wands and lots of writing and experiments and explosions. witches dont. their magic is understanding the true nature of things and knowing where to push. they communicate and form connections and actually do the hard work nobody else bothers to
@lanodan Yeah I actually went back to read Equal Rites (i didnt manage it because adhd lol) and the opening scene with the wizard talking over the midwife who is trying to warn him that hes giving wizards magic to a newborn baby girl is absolutely hilarious