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Young Munstrum Ridcully and Esmerelda Weatherwax. I thought the affair between them more-than-aluded-to in Lords and Ladies was too damn adorable.So here's Ridcully, all football-player like hoping for some "smoochy-shmoos" and Esme's like, "oh I know what you want and yer not gittin it." aw.
Characters from Discworld, property of Terry Pratchett.
EDIT: HAI GUYZ--in lords and ladies, young Esme is ESSENTIALLY magrat. She's got flowers entwined in her hair, it's a summer fling, she actually had feelings for Ridcully--but as you can see, I definately hold respect for Granny Weatherwax's pride--she's not *leaning* into Ridcully, it's not a slash piece. Terry Pratchett has the excellent writing skillz to extrapolate information. I was lead to believe that Granny's proud, restrained, and traditional witchness came after she crossed paths with the Elves.
But whatever. So the "blasphemous" comments are uniformed. That's all I'm sayin'. Done.
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Excellent proportions and use of lines. The lines are crisp and clean, the colours are natural the facial expressions are realistic. βΊοΈπ
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I love this <3 Very in character for them both i think Β
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This is gorgeous! And I love her sweetly smug expression--very young Esme in my opinion (even though we see so very little of her).
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I love this picture! The only thing is, Granny Weatherwax had blonde-almost-white hair when she was young but apart from that, perfect!
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AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW i LOVE them together ^^
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This is just fabulous! they both look great! (I too, initially though Verence is looking rather demure- but now I get a closer look Ridcully remindes me more of Trev 
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elude - to avoid
alude - to hint at
I really like how you have imagined them.
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it was that kind of afternoon...
love it. great job.
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When I listened to Lords and Ladies the revealed history between Granny Weatherwax and Ridcully was definitely the highlight of the book. Pratchett's skills in defining characters in separate story lines and having them connect to each other in such logical ways is very enjoyable. Ridcully's charmingly belligerent, ignorant optimism and single minded honesty and Granny's pride, sarcasm and ultimate lack of control of her interests (she loves the attention here, come'on!) are really well protrayed in this pic.
To those of you who mistake her for Magrat, she's not mousey, lackluster, semideflated or anything, hell, her hair looks good, so it can't be her.
A nice Terry Pratchett piece, I love looking for TP artwork while listening to the books on audio, and this is one of the better ones, for what it does, that I've found on deviantart.
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Her hair looks good so she can't be Magrat? Ouch! Just... ouch!
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my pleasure! Its always fun to find similar minded fans
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Thatβs Granny? Seriously? Heck, here I was thinking it was Magrat. I need to read Lords and Ladies now - my brain almost exploded at seeing that. I think itβs just having issues imaging Granny at any age younger than 60β¦
Great illustration though - and the young Mustrum is spot-on.
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*mutters dazedly* Granny Weatherwax and Arch-Chancellor Ridcullyβ¦ whoβd have thoughtβ¦
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I totally love this, and I don't think it's off the mark at all. EXCEPT that didn't Ridcully say her hair was so blonde it was almost white? I was imagining her with dark hair, too, which is why I remember.
Not that it matters much because Granny spends 99.9% of the books old. : ) I love it, INCLUDING the canon flowers. Awesome.
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man, I'll just have to reread that, because I totally don't remember this blond business. (what a shame, having to reread a Pratchett novel, oh woe is me! 
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Ha, this is perfect! Really portrays their...state of affairs quite well...not quite, absolutely
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haha, thanks! Yep, I tried to make her look like a hippie... which would mean drapey clothing?
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Yeah, I guess
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I don't know how you did it, but somehow that really is a young Mustrum! I just love this drawing, you really captured their younger selves.
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thanks for all the complimments! This piece certainly does have a special place in my heart.
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This is brilliant. I totally agree with your π: 0 β©: 1
No problemo, whatsoever.
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Ummm... Ridcully is mortifyingly attractive, and I feel really awkward about this, cuz he's OLD. Ew. 
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ah, but in this he's young. So it's okay.
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*Sigh of relief* Okay, good.
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so cute!!! i loved the love story between them!!! so sweet & imposible
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oh thats very cute
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Oh, lovely. Definitely Esme, and definitely Ridcully. I saw the thumbnail, and clicked, all ready to go into a "Magrat is blonde, you fool! And the Fool doesn't wear norma-looking clothes!" But then I saw the face, and thought, "wait a minute; that's not Magrat at all!", and read the title. I then thought, "Oooohhh, of COURSE", and felt -extraordinarily- silly.
PS. I just realised there's a mood for llama!
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It's a Drama Llama! But it obscured my brilliant thoughts, so I won't use it again
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I don't think that this is too far off the mark. Ridcully is always referred to as having charm and being athletic, and in his youth, well, he might have been like this. Maybe the young Esme had a touch of Magrattiness to her, despite her toughness, and seeing it in Magrat brings up disturbing memories. Ridcully described the young Esme as "striking-looking" more than beautiful, and that's right. Not to everyone's taste, but plausible. Thanks for posting this!
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thank you for your intelligent and true-to-the-book comment! It's so refreshing.
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Wonderful. Almost make you wish Pratchet would write a book about those time.
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That is really sweet! I loved that part of Lords and Ladies! You captured the mood really well!
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oh joy, a positive comment, who understands the senerio! <3
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I just can't imagine Esme with such clothing. I think she would be wearing something simple yet beautiful.
but otherwise it's really great!
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I totally love love LOVE your work but i agree with eTinuviel! Granny is a tradional witch: black clothes, no flowers and most importanly black hat!
still love your work!
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i like it....but.....what the heck! she is smiling! (other than that i like the expression.) and her dress is coming off her shoulder! and wearing flowers! in her hair! flowers! and she's smiling! (yes yes, i've quite gotten that across by now)
but other than that it gets the old
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lords and ladies, it says "flowers in her hair"
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okay, you got me there 
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oohh, it's alright. I figured as much: see, I'm not one to draw much uncannon things.
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