A one-shot Discworld short by A.A. Pessimal in which Lord Vetinari has to rule on the establishment of a new City Guild and whether or not its chosen name is permissible.
To be found here, at Fanfiction.net
. A slightly expanded, revised and improved version of the story is here, at Archive Of Our Own.
This Fanwork has examples of the following:
- Band of Brothels: Mrs Sandra Battye has in fact secured Guild status for the other sort of Seamstress, the type that actually mends clothes, and is naming it the Guild of Prostitutes.
- Deadpan Snarker: Sandra. Perhaps also Vetinari.
- Refuge in Audacity: Sandra Battye's reasons why her Guild should have that name.
- Unusual Euphemism: Sandra manages to subvert this and subvert it again.
