Ladies Who Organise / by reckonedrightly (PG-15)

Title: Ladies Who Organise
Author: reckonedrightly
Fandom: Discworld
Genre: Genderswap, Pre-Series AU, Women Being Awesome
Pairing: Vetinari/Lady Margolatta, Vetinari/Sybil Ramkin, Vetinari/Rosie Palm
Length: Short (Words: 6,630)

Author's Summary:
“A woman,” Roberta Meserole had said once, lighting a long black cigarette with a silver lighter, “hides in plain sight. Visibility, Haveline, is our most important asset—”
She looked up. Around. “Haveline,” she said, “that is not funny.”
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or, how Ankh-Morpork acquired its first female Patrician very, very quietly.

Review:
It's not especially witty or funny and there's not a lot about this fic that makes specifically a good gender-swap fic so don't read it for any of these (or the ships - it's certainly no romance fic) but it is a good fic in several other important ways. For one, it is great at showing Vetinari (who is still very much in character) politicking her way into the patricianship with brilliance and cunning (and some help from certain other cunning ladies). Of the three pairings listed, I think only the first is actually obvious sans Shipping Googles, but the relationship or friendship (however you see it) with Sybil is very important to the story and very well done.

Ladies Who Organise (on AO3)

A Grand Sneer / by MoragMacPherson (PG-15)

Title: A Grand Sneer
Author: MoragMacPherson
Fandom: Discworld, Supernatural
Genre: Crossover
Length: Medium (Words: 35,323)

Author's Summary:
While hunting in a library, Dean slips into L-space and runs all the way to the Discworld. Getting home is going to take a little more effort.

Review:
If you happen to like both Supernatural and Discworld, you can't miss this fic! It starts in Season 5 of Supernatural with a very short glimpse into an original case that quickly turns into a problem for Dean as he tries to outrun a monster in a library and... I know you can see it coming... travels through L-Space to the Unseen University's Library. In addition to the obvious plot of how Dean will get back home, there's also a great deal of time and effort put into dealing with Dean's inevitable culture shock - after all, he comes from a universe where non-humans are Always Chaotic Evil and has landed in one where they're just another shape of "humanity". On his journey, Dean encounters the wizards, the Watch, and the witches and eventually, takes a bit of Discworld home with him that gives him and Sam the upperhand against the apocalypse at last.

A Grand Sneer (on AO3)
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