History Fanfic / TheBlackSheep

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: The affluent and influential end of the Smith-Rhodes family sent out Assassin-trained ninja lawyers to serve a compulsory Change of Name Form on Balthazar Smith-Rhodes. He was ordered to drop the "Rhodes" bit for trading purposes, but it was agreed that "Smith" was nicely vague. Thus Howondaland Smith was born...%%InUniverse

* LandOfTulipsAndWindmills: This fic is set mainly in the Discworld equivalent of Holland. As might be expected in an OriginalFlavour fic taking its cue from Creator/TerryPratchett's UpToEleven parodies of real world countries and (more importantly) states of mind, all the associations of Holland are dropped in the bag, shaken up, and tipped on the table to see what comes out. Windmills, clogs, tulips, canals, a national tendency to smoke strange tobaccos in smoky coffeehouses, a language described by the unkind as the product of an untreated throat infection, and that bland tasting cheese with the chewy red rind (which nobody ever tells you that you aren't supposed to try and eat). They're all there. Oh, and a semi-misunderstanding relationship with colonial cousins in, er, "Africa", who speak broadly the same language, and in that time and place [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra have somewhat illiberal social ideas]]. Next door to "Sto Kerrig" is [[UsefulNotes/{{Belgium}} a strange border region]] where "sto helit sprouts" are cultivated and a related language called "Phlegmish" is spoken.

* UpToEleven: [[UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands Sto Kerrig]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra Rimwards Howondaland]].

* [[UsefulNotes/{{France}} Quirm]] The major protaganist of this story is Quirmian Assassin Emmanuelle-Marie Lapoignard les Deux-Epées, a woman who embodies the Discworld France with ''tous les controles emphasées a l'onze''.[[note]] possibly very bad French for "all the knobs turned up to eleven". if any reader can suggest a better phrasing? Thanks![[/note]]

A ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fanfic which can be found at [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6791038/1/The-Black-Sheep Fan Fiction Net]].

* LandOfTulipsAndWindmills: This fic is set mainly in the Discworld equivalent of Holland. As might be expected in an OriginalFlavour fic taking its cue from Creator/TerryPratchett's UpToEleven parodies of real world countries and (more importantly) states of mind, all the associations of Holland are dropped in the bag, shaken up, and tipped on the table to see what comes out. Windmills, clogs, tulips, canals, a national tendency to smoke strange tobaccos in smoky coffeehouses, a language described by the unkind as the product of an untreated throat infection, and that bland tasting cheese with the chewy red rind (which nobody ever tells you that you aren't supposed to try and eat). They're all there. Oh, and a semi-misunderstanding relationship with colonial cousins in, er, "Africa", who speak broadly the same language, and in that time and place [[TheApartheidEra have somewhat illiberal social ideas]]. Next door to "Sto Kerrig" is [[UsefulNotes/{{Belgium}} a strange border region]] where "sto helit sprouts" are cultivated and a related language called "Phlegmish" is spoken.

* LandOfTulipsAndWindmills: This fic set mainly in the Discworld equivalent of Holland. As might be expected in an OriginalFlavour fic taking its cue from Creator/TerryPratchett's UpToEleven parodies of real world countries and (more importantly) states of mind, all the associations of Holland are dropped in the bag, shaken up, and tipped on the table to see what comes out. Windmills, clogs, tulips, canals, a national tendency to smoke strange tobaccos in smoky coffeehouses, a language described by the unkind as the product of an untreated throat infection, and that bland tasting cheese with the chewy red rind (which nobody ever tells you that you aren't supposed to try and eat). They're all there. Oh, and a semi-misunderstanding relationship with colonial cousins in, er, "Africa", who speak broadly the same language, and in that time and place [[TheApartheidEra have somewhat illiberal social ideas]]. Next door to "Sto Kerrig" is [[UsefulNotes/{{Belgium}} a strange border region]] where "sto helit sprouts" are cultivated and a related language called "Phlegmish" is spoken.

* LandOfTulipsAndWindmills: This fic set mainly in the Discworld equivalent of Holland. As might be expected in an OriginalFlavour fic taking its cue from Creator/TerryPratchett's UpToEleven parodies of real world countries and (more importantly) states of mind, all the associations of Holland are dropped in the bag, shaken up, and tipped on the table to see what comes out. Windmills, clogs, tulips, canals, a national tendency to smoke strange tobaccos in smoky coffeehouses, a language described by the unkind as the product of an untreated throat infection, and that bland tasting cheese with the chewy red rind (which nobody ever tells you that you aren't supposed to try and eat). They're all there. Oh, and a semi-misunderstanding relationship with colonial cousins in, er, "Africa", who speak broadly the same language, and in that time and place [[TheApartheidEra have somewhat illiberal social ideas]]. Next door to "Sto Kerrig" is [[UsefulNotes/{{Belgium}] a strange border region]] where "sto helit sprouts" are cultivated and a related language called "Phlegmish" is spoken.

* LandOfTulipsAndWindmills: This fic set mainly in the Discworld equivalent of Holland. As might be expected in an OriginalFlavour fic taking its cue from Creator/TerryPratchett's UpToEleven parodies of real world countries and (more importantly) states of mind, all the associations of Holland are dropped in the bag, shaken up, and tipped on the table to see what comes out. Windmills, clogs, tulips, canals, a national tendency to smoke strange tobaccos in smoky coffeehouses, a language described by the unkind as the product of an untreated throat infection, and that bland tasting cheese with the chewy red rind (which nobody ever tells you that you aren't supposed to try and eat). They're all there. Oh, and a semi-misunderstanding relationship with colonial cousins in, er, "Africa", who speak broadly the same language, and in that time and place [[TheApartheidEra have somewhat illiberal social ideas]]. Next door to "Sto Kerrig" is a strange border region where "sto helit sprouts" are cultivated and a related language called "Phlegmish" is spoken.

* TheApartheidEra; [[UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica Rimwards Howondaland]] and its people, both black and white.

* MalignedMixedMarriage: Balthazar Smith-Rhodes was exiled from [[TheApartheidEra Rimwards Howondaland]] not for being a rogue and a confidence trickster, but for repeatedly offending against the Racial Separation Acts. He has left one officially unacknowledged mixed-race member of the Smith-Rhodes family behind him, to further embarrass the whole family. Based in [[UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands Sto Kerrig]], he further appalls his countrymen by setting up home with Sissie, who claims to be a Zulu Princess. Neither they nor their more liberally minded Sto Kerrigian hosts give a damn about this, but expat [[UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica White Howondalandians]] have their eyebrows more than raised.

* UpToEleven: [[UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands Sto Kerrig]] and [[TheApartheidEra Rimwards Howondaland]].

* MuseumOfBoredom: Emmanuelle encounters several when looking for somewthing ''interesting'' to do to pass the time in [[UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands Sto Kerrig]]. In swift order, the local museums deal with tulips, windmills, cheese and clog-making. She is just about to give up when she discovers De SexMusee.

* [[TheDutifulSon The Dutiful Niece]]: Johanna Smith-Rhodes, even knowing her uncle is a disreputable cheating rogue and con-man, still feels a family duty and is compelled to do right by him, even though she knows he won't give up grifting and she'll never see her money again. This is ''family''.....