Plagiarism of the Gods: Equestrians of Discworld

by Bugsydor

Foreward to the Disc

The Disc is hardly a world of originality. That's not to say that it's a dull, uninteresting, normal, or mediocre sort of world; far from it. It is more that its interestingness comes from being a sort of cosmic melange_[1] of everything its gods took a shine to that hadn't been securely bolted down.

[1]: which is not, contrary to popular belief, the name of a sort of rusty orange color

That's the sort of behavior that gives you a disc floating through space balanced across the backs of four primordial pachyderms who circle, in turn, atop the shell of a truly astronomical turtle.

Sometimes, a god or few would take inspiration from a passing wonder on a nearby world_[2], and cobble together something similar to it. That's how the first swamp dragons_[3] happened.

[2]: The view atop Mt. Dunmanifestin, at the Hub of the Disc, is quite lovely.

[3]: Adorably disgusting creatures, rather like reptilian pugs_[4] in a number of ways. They have the unique feature of being able to rearrange their own innards on-the-fly to try to turn things they eat into a fiery breath weapon. They are biological alchemical plants, with all of the fumes and explosions that implies.

[4]: Except that their host of alarming medical issues can be blamed more on the gods than on man.

Other times, though, the gods just lazily copy something wholesale without even bothering to file the serial numbers off.

The gods were feeling quite lazy when Equestria flew by…

Thankfully, the great melting pot of the City of Ankh-Morpork exists to accept such fruits of the gods’ caprice, whether they like it or not.

Author's Note:

It finally happened. A fey mood struck me, and I decided to expand upon a story that was in my cryogenic ficfrag storage. Accordingly, "The Gryphon Take of Postal Service" has been disappeared from said storage (unpublished, but not deleted) so that it could be the nucleus for a new collection here.

I'd been reading a lot of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series lately (especially the Watch novels featuring Sam Vimes), and a few ideas came together this morning. I'm happy with the results so far.

There isn't planned to be any sort of overarching plot, nor is there any particular schedule for updates beyond "whenever the heck inspiration strikes or I feel like it". Hopefully I do
both worlds justice.

I hope y'all enjoy these vignettes for what they're worth.

Comments

[Reese]

"A fey mood struck me"
Thank goodness you got the materials you needed! :D

"[/size=.75em][1]: Yes, I know that grammatical construct grinds your gears, Zippy. : P"
You appear to have a problem with the size tagging here.

[Bugsydor]

8622137
Tagging problem? What problem? I can quit anytime I like! (Fixed)

And yes, it is rather convenient that the proper materials were on-hand. I might have gone mad if I didn't have a working phone and internet connection available.

[NobodieZ]

Not really a fan of Discworld series but I give this a read.