In the seventh part of\u00c2\u00a0Carpe Jugulum<\/i>, Agnes and Nanny begin to put the pieces together. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read\u00c2\u00a0Discworld<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
This might be the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153slowest\u00e2\u20ac\u009d section so far, but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a bad thing by any means. The story still moves forward, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just as eager to see what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gonna happen next. LET\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S DISCUSS.<\/p>\n
Magpies<\/b><\/p>\n
Okay, maybe I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just imagining a connection between the Magpyrs and magpies but COME ON, THEIR NAMES ARE SO SIMILAR. Instead, the magpies picked up Granny\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s invitation because it was\u00c2\u00a0shiny<\/i>. Hey, we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get too many magpies around here, so this wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a thought I had in my head. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve only seen them in person a few times! Still, maybe the Magpyrs had something to do with it because\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 well, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never heard about magpies in the Ramtops before, you know???<\/p>\n
Mightily Oats<\/b><\/p>\n
HE IS SUCH AN INTERESTING CHARACTER! I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m glad that my attentiveness paid off for once, and now we know that like Agnes, Mightily Oats can resist the mind control of the Magpyrs. His \u00e2\u20ac\u0153dual\u00e2\u20ac\u009d nature is more\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 uncertainty? This aspect isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t as obvious as it is with Agnes, whose Perdita persona provides an explanation for her resistance. Instead, Oats seems stuck between what his religion\u00c2\u00a0used<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0to be and what it is\u00c2\u00a0now<\/i>. Throughout this part of the book, he speaks of the Omnian religion with a reluctant reverence OR with a quiet regret. That same dichotomy is turned on himself, too! There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a fascinating scene where he talks about why he doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cut out to prosthelytize to others, which he immediately follows up with AN UNBEARABLY AWKWARD CONVERSATION ABOUT WITCHES. He goes from talking about how literal everyone is in this part of the Disc to\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 well, basically saying Omnians got witches wrong? Which is great I\u00c2\u00a0suppose<\/i>, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not much in the face of hundreds of years of witches being burned alive by Omnians. (Or dropped in vats of treacle.)<\/p>\n
Then there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s his connection to Granny, which is mostly nonexistent, aside from the fact that he\u00c2\u00a0specifically<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0sought her out, the only person from Lancre to do so. I chalk most of this up to circumstance and ignorance, actually. The man knows very little of this part of the Disc, and he just\u00c2\u00a0heard<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0about Granny and assumed she was an old, frail woman who needed his spiritual guidance. (SHE DIDN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T.) He also had no idea that there was any mind control going on. HE TRULY BELIEVED THAT VAMPIRES WERE JUST HANGING OUT AND BEING OPEN ABOUT THEIR VAMPIRISM IN LANCRE. BLESS.<\/p>\n
So in that sense, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fun watching all of his preconceived notions about\u00c2\u00a0everything<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0get torn apart. Take the scene where he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in Nanny Ogg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cottage. The guy can barely handle it, first of all, but he adjusts. Quickly, I might add. And he also stops making comments about witches and their lives as he spends more time with Nanny and Agnes. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s almost like\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 seeing others as whole people with their own lives\u00c2\u00a0<\/i>is a\u00c2\u00a0good thing<\/i>!<\/i><\/p>\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m into this, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. Agnes and Oats are going to try to rescue Magrat and her child, which sounds like a dangerous mission AND WHICH I AM 100% INTO, BY THE WAY. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be excited for more Magrat\u00c2\u00a0anyway<\/i>, but Mightily Oats intrigues me. I need to know more. I also need to know how the\u00c2\u00a0hell<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re gonna sneak Magrat out without attracting the attention of the Magpyrs, who most likely can hear the thoughts of everyone in the castle.<\/p>\n
I NEED MORE.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vppwT6r0828<\/p>\n
Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n
– I am now on Patreon<\/a>! There are various levels of support, from $1 up to whatever you want! You’ll get to read a private blog, extra reviews, and other such rewards. I POST A LOT OF CUTE PHOTOS, OKAY. Think of it like a private Tumblr blog that only SPECIAL PEOPLE get to read.<\/b> In the seventh part of\u00c2\u00a0Carpe Jugulum, Agnes and Nanny begin to put the pieces together. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read\u00c2\u00a0Discworld.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[451],"tags":[526,463,248],"class_list":["post-4108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discworld","tag-carpe-jugulum","tag-mark-reads-discworld","tag-terry-pratchett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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