Badfic strikes again....
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dangermousieIt's full moon tomorrow, Angua is edgey because of an absence of attention and can't sleep. But then, so can't Commander Vimes. AnguaxVimes. One Shot.
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa????
Normally I’d never quibble over a fic just because it has an UC pairing (even when it busts up the only OTP I have in Discworld books, Angua/Carrot 4evah :D) but BWAAAAA????
What?
Angua. In love with Carrot. And they straightened out all their issues at the end of Fifth Elephant. If they broke up, I can see her moving on with someone else (Fifth Elephant has got to be the only book in creation which has a love triangle between a werewolf policewoman who is an aristocrat from a weird family, a wolf, and a 6ft6 policeman, who is secretly king-in-exile, and it works) but cheating with Vimes? Their immediate superior?
Vimes=Married. Not to Angua. Would not cheat on wife and certainly not with someone he works with and whom he has never ever looked at that way. Also, Vimes ever doing that (aka sleeping with someone else’s gf) to anyone, especially someone he is as close to as he is to Carrot? My brain just broke. Not to mention Vimes has a healthy dose of self-preservation and you just don’t go against Carrot. Things happen when you do. Bad bad bad things.
Speaking of that, I would love to read a book where Vimes and Carrot are on different sides (after Vetinari’s death maybe?) It would take a civil war though, and the book would be pretty grim which is not Pratchett’s speed. But it would be a great follow-up on that chilling insight Vimes got in Fifth Elephant that Carrot is the fate’s favorite (in fantastical world of Discworld, literally, I guess). Vimes being Vimes, he’d still go against him but…
Ehhh, I just have a Carrot fixation. There is a reason why Fifth Elephant is my favorite Discworld book. Most Carrot (and Carrot/Angua! ;))
Also, apparently people write Vetinari/Mary Sue fics. Now I’ve seen everything.
ETA: Man. I just found fic, a number of them, where Angua does go ‘rabid’ (like her brother in FE) and Carrot does have to carry out his promise to put her down. *meep* notreadingnotreadingnotreading. What is with angst!fic for Pratchett anyway? It’s Pratchett!
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa????
Normally I’d never quibble over a fic just because it has an UC pairing (even when it busts up the only OTP I have in Discworld books, Angua/Carrot 4evah :D) but BWAAAAA????
What?
Angua. In love with Carrot. And they straightened out all their issues at the end of Fifth Elephant. If they broke up, I can see her moving on with someone else (Fifth Elephant has got to be the only book in creation which has a love triangle between a werewolf policewoman who is an aristocrat from a weird family, a wolf, and a 6ft6 policeman, who is secretly king-in-exile, and it works) but cheating with Vimes? Their immediate superior?
Vimes=Married. Not to Angua. Would not cheat on wife and certainly not with someone he works with and whom he has never ever looked at that way. Also, Vimes ever doing that (aka sleeping with someone else’s gf) to anyone, especially someone he is as close to as he is to Carrot? My brain just broke. Not to mention Vimes has a healthy dose of self-preservation and you just don’t go against Carrot. Things happen when you do. Bad bad bad things.
Speaking of that, I would love to read a book where Vimes and Carrot are on different sides (after Vetinari’s death maybe?) It would take a civil war though, and the book would be pretty grim which is not Pratchett’s speed. But it would be a great follow-up on that chilling insight Vimes got in Fifth Elephant that Carrot is the fate’s favorite (in fantastical world of Discworld, literally, I guess). Vimes being Vimes, he’d still go against him but…
Ehhh, I just have a Carrot fixation. There is a reason why Fifth Elephant is my favorite Discworld book. Most Carrot (and Carrot/Angua! ;))
Also, apparently people write Vetinari/Mary Sue fics. Now I’ve seen everything.
ETA: Man. I just found fic, a number of them, where Angua does go ‘rabid’ (like her brother in FE) and Carrot does have to carry out his promise to put her down. *meep* notreadingnotreadingnotreading. What is with angst!fic for Pratchett anyway? It’s Pratchett!
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Date: 2007-05-05 05:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-06 01:49 pm (UTC)Actually, you might like the Pratchett books. Especially the guards ones.
It's
Guards Guards
Men at Arms
Feet of Clay
Jingo
Fifth Elephant
[forget the name of last book, can look it up]
in that order. Totally awesome
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Date: 2007-05-06 03:05 pm (UTC)the invisible strings that tie from me to you
Date: 2007-05-06 07:02 pm (UTC)I don't read Discworld ff very much because I'm so satisfied with the world Terry's built and the characters, that I don't need to venture far off the page to go, "hmmm, I wonder what his motivation is for that," etc, etc. Though I will say I did see amazing femslash opportunities for Monstrous Regiment. ;)
Just as Carrot is in love with Angua, so is Vimes with Sybil. Sybil and Sam jr. are EVERYTHING to Vimes. It just doesn't compute that they would ever even look at each other in a second glance type of way - unless you really went insanely AU, and everyone else on the Discworld is dead - apocalyptic grief hooking up, I get that. But even then, it still really wouldn't fit, unless you were the best damn writer, ever.
I love the Death books, then the guard books, and then the witches and the wizards dead last.
Re: the invisible strings that tie from me to you
Date: 2007-05-07 05:20 am (UTC)But yes, agree with every word.