History FanFic / SlippingBetweenWorlds

* YouHaveToHaveJews: Corporal Greenberg and Fusiler Cohen, whose JewishMother gives Holtack an administrative issue to deal with. Also CSM Weissmann, the Army Rabbi who helps resolve things to Mrs Cohen's satisfaction.
** Also Holtack and Powell's suspicions about the Cenotine religion (the one with the secret of making the very Yiddish Golems, and which patronises kosher butchers).

* GentlemenRankers: Hans Ruijterman is a close modern example, as he was an officer while serving with the [[SouthAfricansWithSurfaceToAirMissiles SADF]], but joined the ranks upon entering the British military. Holtack can't help but be self-conscious that he might be silently judging his performance as an officer; for his part, Ruijterman seems perfectly content as Holtack's subordinate.

* HeelFaceTurn: what Holtack hopes to be able to persuade IRA gunman MacElroy to do, as it looks as if his co-operation will be needed to return ''all'' the Visitors to Earth. But will he listen? And he has to be found first...

* MonsterFunFacts: Sally von Humpeding patiently explains to Philip why vampires in relationships with human men are worried by neither contraception nor STD's. Apparently human sperm can't cut it and nor can human diseases. They're too weak and wimpy for vampire systems.
** Apparently there is also a Monster Manual designed for the information of new members of the city Watch that explains all about non-human sentient species. Philip holtack gets a courtesy copy.

* ButNotTooBi: Jocasta Wiggs used to think she was 100% gay. After interacting fairly intensively with Philip Holtack, she is troubled by feelings towards him. Is her gay status due merely to her having ExperimentedInCollege, or is it a case of SuddenlySexuality?

* [[NotEnoughToBury Sandbag Funeral]]: The burial services on Roundworld.

* AmoralAfrikaner: Subverted by Hans Ruijterman, who is a Rhodesian who later moved to South Africa, but left when the rumblings against apartheid began. While he is nostalgic for the Rhodesia of his youth, and resents being targeted by black politicians with a chip on their shoulders against whitey, he has nothing but respect for the black soldiers he served and serves with, frequently questions why black soldiers in South Africa stayed loyal ("We gave them ''nothing'' to be loyal ''to''") and was harshly reprimanded for his "dangerously liberal" attitude to apartheid laws.

** On the few occasions where they handle them, Discworld characters report hearing the Platoon's rifles talking to them. This is the phenomena that made the gonne so dangerous in ''Discworld/MenAtArms''.
** AMUFORA references Leonardo da Quirm's Kite from ''Discworld/TheLastHero''.

A critically acclaimed Fan Work by author Creator/AAPessimal in which two worlds collide - ours (the Roundworld) and the slightly bizarre flat earth called the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''. Terry Pratchett's creation is used as the mirror to reflect concepts, issues and social unrest in the world we inhabit.

Pessimal, who in a previous life served in the British Army, started the tale by writing slightly embellished SliceOfLife fiction, based partly on his own experiences and on the related experiences of others. He viewed this work as partly an attempt to break out of merely pastiching Pratchett and writing something original to himself in his own voice. Another spur was to get some of his own experiences of UsefulNotes/NorthernIreland down on paper, or at least as a digital file, before they're lost. He also asked the question - what would you see if you were suddenly catapulted into the Discworld and fiction became reality? How would an average British person cope in a strange new place? Which occupational group in British society might assimilate and blend in best, and make the most of the situation? What would you do, what would you see, how would you know you weren't on Earth any more? How would different people rationalise it to themselves? How would this hypothetical person cope with a world where there is more than one sentient species - several of whom hate each other as deeply and abidingly as Irish Catholics and Protestants appear to?

* FlyingSaucer: AMUFORA believe this is how Holtack and the other Visitors arrived in Ankh-Morpork. It was more like Shopping Trolley And Mysterious Old Bag Lady - but AMUFORA refuse to believe this, calling it yet another government cover-up.
* FunetikAccent: All over the place, as is normal for Discworld. As a consequence, two of the soldiers mistake {{golem}}s (giant animate statues of clay) as being ''[[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Gollums]]'', leading to a rather rude awakening at the Species Awareness Raising in chapter 49. The author notes that this is a reference to an incident where he made a similar mistake whilst playing a game of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', resulting in his character being mashed by an iron golem after he took it on singlehandedly.
* TheFunInFuneral: Denise Holtack starts uncontrollably and hysterically laughing at her brother's funeral. It's either that or howl with uncontrollable tears - she does this too, but later.

* NotEnoughToBury: this is what Denise Holtack is initially told concerning her brother's apparent death. the Army explains the apparent absence of bodies by pointing to the bomb explosion being so incredibly large that six men were completely vaporised. She considers it to be the sort of huge black joke her brother would have been ''first'' to laugh at - that a coffin will be filled with sandbags containing dust and rubble from a Northern Irish street, that just ''might'' contain a few atoms of her poor dead brother.

* SkepticNoLonger: Holtack on first meeting things of myth and legend in the flesh (or silicone) - and ''definitely'' after encountering Sally.

* WorldBuilding: Part of an ongoing attempt to expand Pratchett's disordered and often internally contradictory ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' by adding countries hinted at or barely there in the canon, giving them backstories that fit, and smoothing out contentious bits of the discworld timeline. [[note]] ''There are no timeline difficulties. Only alternate pasts.'' - t. Pratchett.[[/note]].

* AmoralAfrikaner: Subverted by Hans Ruijterman, who is an Afrikaner and a patriotic South African, who left when apartheid came down. While he is nostalgic for the South Africa of his youth, he has nothing but respect for the black soldiers he served and serves with, frequently questions why black soldiers in South Africa stayed loyal ("We gave them ''nothing'' to be loyal ''to''") and recognizes that apartheid was beyond vile. As he himself puts it: "It's just the bluidy bleck ''politicians'' I can't stand."

* AmoralAfrikaner: Subverted by Hans Ruijterman, who is an Afrikaner and a patriotic South African, who left when apartheid came down. While he is nostalgic for the South Africa of his youth, he has nothing but respect for the black soldiers he served and serves with, frequently questions why black soldiers in South Africa stayed loyal ("We gave them ''nothing'' to be loyal to") and recognizes that apartheid was beyond vile. As he himself puts it: "It's just the bluidy bleck ''politicians'' I can't stand."

* EnsignNewbie: Philip Holtack is just experenced enough not to be this. The Batallion ButtMonkey is Second Lieutenant Rebecca Trett, Captain Band's deputy. She is brand new, completely inexperienced, and Ground Zero for every put-on and practical joke going.
* FatherToHisMen: certainly the Colonel. Lieutenant Philip Holtack aspires to this but most of the time considers it an achievement to be Big Brother to his men. Many of whom are older than he is.

Owing to misadventure and a series of close encounters with the mysterious Mrs Norah Tachyon (from Pratchett's ''[[JohnnyandTheBomb Johnny Maxwell]]'' stories), a patrol of British Army soldiers narrowly escapes death on the Roundworld only to be scattered all over the city of Ankh-Morpork. Other concepts from Roundworld piggy-back in with them and pose problems for Lord Vetinari, Sam Vimes, the wizards and the Assassins. There are several sub-plots, both on Earth and on the Discworld.

A critically acclaimed Fan Work by author [[Creator/AAPessimal A.A. Pessimal]] in which two worlds collide - ours (the Roundworld) and the slightly bizarre flat earth called the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''. Terry Pratchett's creation is used as the mirror to reflect concepts, issues and social unrest in the world we inhabit.

* SouthAfricansWithSurfaceToAirMissiles: What Vetinari fears will happen if "Rimwards Howondaland" gets the secret of the Gonne.

* AnOfficerAndAGentleman: Philip Holtack.

* TheTroubles: the chapters set in Northern Ireland.

* TheApartheidEra: The story is set in 1985 when apartheid was still a going concern. It ''certainly'' is on the Discworld, in Rimwards Howondaland. Also Hans Ruijterman, the drifter from Rhodesia who ends up in the British Army because fighting for a living is all he knows. And he's good at it. Vetinari calls him a mercenary...

* WorldBuilding: Part of an ongoing attempt to expand Pratchett's disordered and often internally contradictory ''{{Discworld}}'' by adding countries hinted at or barely there in the canon, giving them backstories that fit, and smoothing out contentious bits of the discworld timeline. [[note]] ''There are no timeline difficulties. Only alternate pasts.'' - t. Pratchett.[[/note]].

* FunetikAccent: All over the place, as is normal for Discworld. As a consequence, two of the soldiers mistake {{golem}}s (giant animate statues of clay) as being ''[[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Gollums]]'', leading to a rather rude awakening at the Species Awareness Raising in chapter 49. The author notes that this is a reference to an incident where he made a similar mistake whilst playing a game of ''TabletopGame/Dungeons&Dragons'', resulting in his character being mashed by an iron golem after he took it on singlehandedly.