July 21st, 2020
21 Jul 2020 · page 1005 of 1306
More Nyree? More Nyree.
Cast: Arpana Sherpa, Harriet Barber, Jack O'Malley, Nyree
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More Nyree!!!
oh my GOODNESS, I LOVE the look on Mal's face in panel 3!!
and I am SO EXCITED FOR A TRAINING SEQUENCE. I have this image of Nyree teaching Mal all kinds of Wild Witch Tricks, and Wolfe, like.... lurking sadly in the distance, watching his friend in his 'new life'.
Why would you do this?? 😭
^^D I just... couldn't bear to be the only one thinking about it.
Now that I wasn't expecting! I love the moment of silent communication between the older witches in panel 3, Arpana conveying to Nyree that Mal really needs someone to help him.
Yeah that look really says a lot, they are worried about him, and presumably also the fate of the city anchor. Mal knows that he has no idea what he is doing, and everything he knows about witching is picked up from second hand hearsay. He needs someone to show him the ropes.
...That could be a very useful trick in the Far Eastern trade. Go to London, pick up the mail, drop off the mail, go to Tibet, drop off the mail, pick up the mail. Make the mail rates astronomical, of course; you're limited to what you're carrying. And my God, but how the money rolls in!
it occurs to me we have never seen arpana standing.... and now she cant be the one to go with him, since they are magic folks that begs the question, can she walk?
Interesting point!
"Look, I WOULD be the one to help him out, but Widdershins is nowhere near up to code when it comes to accessibility. Stairs... so many stairs..." Yeah, this is my headcanon now.
I was thinking that as the senior witch, she's the one who gets to give the orders.
Witches don't have a leader! (And the leader they don't have is Granny Weatherwax.)
Though Arpana does look older, and it seems likely that she was Nyree's Mentor back when Nyree was new to this.
All this speculation is fine, but we all know that the real reason it has to be Nyree and not Arpana who comes to Widdershins is that Nyree is better placed to get involved with shipping Harry and Sid.
Is it shipping if it's already established as in-world canon?
Yes.
Fine, we'll settle on saying that she plans to get things in shipshape.
They don't have leaders, they just have strongly held opinions. And mostly, that is to do what Granny Weatherwax thinks they should do.
:)
Indeed!
She had to get from her usual perch (in front of the cave with the bar and gift shop) to get to the interdimensional space - and who knows how much climbing that would involve, depending on how close her door is to the anchor?
ah yes cause someone with such a vast knowledge of magic couldnt possible have the brains to think up something like a magic wheelchair :P
She lives next to a mountain, so she has some way of dealing with difficult terrain.
Probably yes, but it's more like it's easier to sit? (Same reason I don't go mountain climbing every day.)
[She can move her legs](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/june-30th-2020 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/june-30th-2020"), at least a bit, but arthritis is a pain (literally)
Yes, I looked up all the previous pages to make sure she had feet at all.
moving your legs does not always equate to walking tho --see literally every baby ever--
That's possibly just a relative air pressure thing? She lives at quite an altitude and we know that the space-between handwaves that by being a magic space. But the whole city?
(Actually, I can't tell what would be worse, that or Mal politely explaining the issue to the town itself, and it adapting. 🙄😬😇)
I did go back and check, she does have feet...
Nyree is just the best °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°
But hey, Harriet's got a point there, Nyree, since you wouldn't be able to charm a fainted lady (plus I don't think anyone's going to be pleased about all the passed out women lying all over the streets)
Perhaps it sorts out the ones who are charmed and don't faint, since I think she would better suit the less faint-hearted ones?
So basically survival of the fittest flirtiest?
:D
Quite right! Ms Nyree's scanty revealing outfit is fine for the beach, but hardly suitable for walking down the High Street in a respectable Yorkshire town.
That's a...gasp an ankle!
And that skirt is so short you can almost see her knees
Also, Widdershins isn't as cold and dry as the Himalayas but it ain't exactly a tropical rain forest, either. You're gonna want some very long wool socks there, Nyree.
Vash ott hyur mout' Sir, hyuz' usink der bad verds!!
I was half-expecting panel 1 of today's page to be Mr Luxuria taking off his O'Malley mask and shouting 'Surprise!'
You monster!
Why, thank you.
Underrated reply. :)
Out of the entire cast, Mal is probably the last person Luxuria could convincingly imitate.
(Sharpe is the first.)
WAIT WAIT This means they're going to get into the city and realize that all their friends need saving, and then ROCK IN like the freaking awesome witches they are, the whole city conspiring with them to beat up the baddies!
I am very looking forward to seeing the city's reaction to 2 witches and a Harry appearing from a magical door in the middle of the wizard's graduation ceremony.
One upvote and one comment to add additional YES because one upvote simply isn't enough.
Hello! I’ve been following this web comic since volume 7, and I wanted to gush to you about how much I love your characters and art and writing! The people are such lovely people and they have such wonderfully expressive faces and the colors are amazing (as is the comedy <3).
Go back to the beginning and read it ALL!
aw thank you!!
MORE NYREE MORE NYREE MORE N
Clears the road, wouldn't it?
... and then O'Malley walks through Nyree's door and creates his own ata, requiring twenty more pages to clean up. ;)
I am so glad Nyree is sticking around.
I didn't think I could like her more and then that last panel happened.
Soooo... Harry is going to meet up with her family. Mal may or may not be coming along, which means that Nyree may or may not also be coming along. Is it too early to start a ship between Nyree and Nicola? laughs
Well, in this Q&A [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/character-questions-2-2 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/character-questions-2-2") Nicola indicated that her ideal spouse is "Someone who speaks her mind..and knows what she wants." which seems to fit Nyree pretty well. And the last panel may indicate some openness to such a possibility on Nyree's side. I personally would wait until they meet before starting to ship them, but I would not rule out the possibility until they meet.
It would be a very long distance relationship - but with shortcuts?
Nicola would need to relax quite a bit. It would be good for her. Maybe she is more fun when she's happy?
Ooooh, good catch with the Q&A! :D
As for Nyree's side, she was also disappointed that the new witch wasn't a woman, too ( [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/january-24th-2020 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/january-24th-2020") ), and her body language and facial expression says to me that she was hoping for more than a friend, hah~
And hey, lissen... one of the best ship types (platonic, romantic, or otherwise) is a grumpy and/or stern person matching up with literal rays of sunshine~ laughs
Got linked back to this comic in September. Congratulations on your prescience.
Hehehe, thank you~ :D
Nyree is my comic crush, and this last panel just makes her that much more awesome!
Pana needs to knit Nyree some socks and shawls for the trip. Widdershins is definitely a long sleeves type of place.
Ladies fainting at you is probably better than many of the alternatives.
More Nyree is always a good thing!
"Why wouldn't I want that?" :D :D
So is there a forest witch?
This is going to be more and more fun-ness.
I wonder if Mal is going to have an interesting monster stalking him on the island?
Seems like the island already has a rainforest. perhaps the next witch will be a plains or prairie shaman. There are so many underrepresented native groups to choose from.
I was hoping that, at this witch's conclave, we would finally meet Witch #4 (the one opposite Arpana, if Widdershins is opposite Aotearoa, going by the globe-and-pistol theory). We have City, Mountain, Island so far, is #4 Forest or Ocean? I can't calculate it for realsies because the author has taken a few liberties with the globe layout (New Zealand is actually opposite Spain, not the UK)
she's not on aotearoa proper, she's on an island, and luckily i can put them anywhere i like!
Your universe, your choice of island locations of course.
If the anchors are equally spaced around the globe, then that would imply not just one more (somewhere in the vicinity of central America) but in fact another pair as well (between Siberia and Africa). One for each of the 6 senses? But the nexus would then be showing 6 doors, wouldn't it?
Maybe I'm overthinking this. Too much of a math brain.
I’ve been telling people there are six anchors for years but does anyone listen! It’s a conspiracy I tell you!
Lissen. You just need enough globes and bullets to prove your point to enough likeminded people.
Unfortunately, there seems to be a shortage of both of them lately, for some reason...... :P
Look, it's obvious that if there are four anchors equally distributed around a great circle, then you can draw two other great circles that pass through the opposite pairs of anchors at right angles to the first circle, and where those two meet you will find the fifth and sixth anchors! Not only that but...
Hey, where did everyone go?
Hmm... I see, I see~ but what if they've been so far undetectable because they're axis points that keep the anchors in balance? Like magnets, but also not? Something along the lines of this~ [https://www.youtube.com/wat...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLIIYtnDups "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLIIYtnDups")
(Forgive me, insomnia and school projects have lead to too little sleep lately, haha XD )
Having all anchors equally spaced throughout the globe does not mean that there must be 6 anchors (for the SIX senses? What?). Assuming all anchors are equidistant, four anchors would mean the resulting shape of all the anchors would be a tetrahedron or triangular pyramid, so the angle formed by the intersection of each anchor "chain" would be at a 60° angle. This is the 3-dimensional shape with the smallest possible number of points. Having 6 points on a sphere would make the resulting shape an octohedron but you only NEED 4. However this is all assuming that the arrangement of the anchors is both equidistant and 3-dimensional, this is a work of fiction and the author can apply whatever laws of reality she wants. She could have the 4th anchor appear on the moon if she wants.
I wrote that last part as a joke but the more I think about it the more I want Harry and Sid to fight fish people on the moon.
Six senses? 5 normal ones, plus 'empathy'.
I picked 6 as the most likely number of anchors, because we know (due to the pistol-and-globe theory) that at least 2 are diametrically opposite; a tetraherdon or a cube would not have opposite points, but an octahedron would. The other 2 points would be roughly S Africa and Alaska.
I've also consulted a globe and find that Tibet is nowhere near the midpoint of City and Island (that would be Thailand or Beijing). So who knows? It might be an icosahedron, and Widdershins just rolled a 20.
like the idea of an equally-spaced chain of 6 points around the world - that would then give Borneo and Pacific Ocean as the remaining ones, and would sove the question of Mountain being far offset from the midpoint.
Or maybe, when applying science to a fictional work about magic in an alternate universe, you deserve every headache it gives you. Kate is probably laughing hysterically at all this speculation and looking at the pin she used to randomly select the places.
You guys are clearly all part of the Illuminati Conspiracy to Suppress the Truth! Those of us who aren’t fooled by the Lies of the Military Industrial Complex know that the Moon is inhabited by Cat People!!
Fun thing to play with: [https://www.antipodesmap.com/](https://www.antipodesmap.com/ "https://www.antipodesmap.com/")
Pemberton Pryce is about to have a very bad day. evil grin
Harry's giving fashion advice. Now, I've seen everything!
MORE NYREE! Forget about the Deadlies, Widdershins is not ready for Nyree and her exposed ankles.
You'd better not express that sentiment in front of Florrie, Nyree!
She will make plans.
She can come to my city anytime! And also- all the fun when she meets all the different Harry Barbers!
I don't know if this question has been asked already and I missed it, but it occurred to me recently: what aspects of normal sensation are Arpana and Nyree deprived of, as spirit-sensing witches?
Mal sees spirits as colors... but for everything else, he's utterly color-blind. And Arpana and Nyree must know that's the consequences for every witch that perceives spirits with sight, or they wouldn't have reacted with 'oh you poor dear' (heavily paraphrased) when they find out. Which really leads one to think that their versions of witch-sensing have imposed other losses on them:
Arpana hears people's spirits as music... My guess is that she's very tone-deaf, unable to perceive differences in pitch, and unable to appreciate any earthly instrument or any form of music beyond its basic rhythm.
Nyree can scent and taste spirits... But! She can definitely cook, for which good senses of smell and taste are basically prerequisite. And moreover, she was able to associate Harry's spirit with charcoal and licorice, which means she's smelled licorice and charcoal often enough to identify them and recognize associations with their respective scents, whereas poor Mal didn't even know what the colors blue and green were until very recently. So, what everyday aspect of smelling or tasting sensation for us is forever lost to Nyree?
I know I'm late to the party, but its lovely seeing kia ora in this context! what a wonderful word. As someone with many Māori friends, I'll have to send them this