who am i

More Higuruma doodles/sketches and even more on the way!

Hello! I write Discworld fanfic on AO3 as Zakalwe, and I'm pretty obsessed prolific.

I previously had a pinned post that individually listed all my Discworld fanfics, but it was getting huge and messy so I decided to replace it with this.

I am trying to be organised - not always sucessfully - and these are my current collections:

Vetvimes Expanded Universe

Over 50 fics centered around Vimes/Vetinari, and a mixture of humour, smut, fluff and angst. A couple of these are long and actually have some attempts at plot. Some are very dark; please check the tags!

Discworld Gen and Humour

Fics with no ship, or where the pairing isn't the main focus; mostly humour, some angst, and a lot of my attempts to force random characters to meet. If you ever wanted Vimes to meet Esme Weatherwax or Sybil to meet Nanny Ogg, I've got that in here.

Other Ships

Any shippy fic with a non-Vetvimes pairing, basically. Mostly Sam/Sybil, a Drumknott/Vetinari, and a few rarepairs such as Vetinari/Rosie Palm and Vimes/Angua.

Whumptober Fics

A random assortment of pairings and gen fics written for Whumptober. If you need to see Vetinari getting tortured, Vimes getting possessed by the Summoning Dark, or Sybil coping with Sam being a shitty husband, that's in here.

Also, I regularly open up my inbox to prompts, and these get put in their own collections:

Quote prompts

Fluff prompts

But how do I convey what life looked like before? How do I get them to imagine hearing Yiddish regularly in urban life? How do I paint the picture of whole Jewish rural communities? How do I explain that it used to be normal in so many major cities in Eastern Europe to have neighbors who spoke multiple languages? How do I convey the hole left in Polish intellectual life from the intelligentsia being shot en mass? A Mediterranean before the treaty of Lausanne? All the border regions where multilingualism was a fact of life?

Tiny grannies and magrat i drew on the back of postcards at my schools open days under the cut...

Lady Sybil Vimes is one of the ladies, so Sam Vimes is on the warpath until he can find her, while the watch desperately try to keep all infrastructure from falling apart without all the fat ladies who keep it together on a daily basis

Now this book is great; it tells you the lore behind characters in classic myths and texts, explains many literary allusions as well as the etymology behind certain phrases

Have you ever read chaucer or shakespeare and there's footnotes every five seconds because they're using a phrase that's an allusion to five greek myths and you didn't get the joke? It's that but a dictionary basically

It's honestly so much fun to just pick up, open to a random page and read. I used to do it all the time when I was a teenager

If you were wondering where all the deep puns, references and jokes in Pratchett came from; he had a copy of this on his desk