There is nothing new in the world

[clocketpatch]

I've got a bit of a scrambled up belief system, but the multi-verse as presented by Discworld suits me well. The idea that there is a multi-verse and that anything CAN happen, but not everything DOES happen, because we make the choice between can and does. I believe that there is a place somewhere where all of the ideas and possibilities gather and sleep and give out inspiration to anyone who bothers to listen. And I believe that belief itself can sometimes make the unreal real.

Which is all just prologue to me noticing last night that Night Watch by Terry Pratchett and Life on Mars share several spooky plot similarities, and wouldn't it be fun to have Sam Vimes and Sam Tyler meet up on the beat one night and have a chat?

The Rules of The Internet tell me that this must exist somewhere, because the Internet is the multi-verse personified. So... does anyone know of the existence of such a fic?

(and bonus points if the Brig is involved.)

Comments

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

I know nothing about either of those fandoms except for the time I read half of a Discworld book and then my attention span expired (this happens a lot, I tend to borrow more library books than I can ever hope to finish), but a cursory AO3 search turns up this massive multifandom multichapter drabble thing, if you feel like pawing through it to see if it has what you want. Sadly tag filtering on the AO3 has been under maintenance, but you can still plug both tags into the search bar and that works fairly well--I did "Sam Tyler, Sam Vimes".

[purple_bug.livejournal.com]

Maintenance seems to be finished, if you use this URL to access the site: http://next.ao3.org/ Don't know why it's a different URL, exactly, but the tag filtering works :)

[thisbluespirit]

It's a test version for people to play with before they go live and find any bugs (so they want people to play with it) - the url will be the same as ever once it does. And from looking, it seems to be just a sort of sample of tags and not all of them, although I'm not sure.

I don't know anything about this stuff, just saw the post on yuletide_admin

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

Hmm, interesting! It's very spotty, though, in terms of how well it works--I can't get it to filter much without turning up an error. But thank you v. much for the link!

[clocketpatch]

I'll take a looksie. Thanks!

You should try more Discworld (which book did you try? Some of the earlier ones especially are a bit... well, they're a bit anyways). I thoroughly recommend anything with Vimes in it though, or the Tiffany Aching series.

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

Um, it was the one that's sort of a Macbeth spoof? I think it might have been Wyrd Sisters. The only other Pratchett I've read is Good Omens, which I thought was really funny. I think he and Neil Gaiman balance each other out well. :P