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thisbluespirit ([personal profile] thisbluespirit) wrote2018-05-07 10:08 am

Obscure & British Commentfest 2018

Welcome to the Obscure & British comment fest V! Last year didn't happen for various reasons, but it is now back. And it would be wearing a hat if it could. \o/

This is a comment fest for any tiny/small(ish)/medium(ish) British fandom and open to all fanworks.



If you've ever loved any British fandoms, find yourself too obscure for most fests, or you're busy wondering why there's still no Emma Peel in all this Avengers stuff, you're in the right place. Come on in and help yourself to a cup of tea and a crumpet. Also you should make prompts and fill them.


Rules & Guidelines
This commentfest works in the same way as most comment ficathons, although all kinds of fanworks are welcome. (Fanart, icons, fanmixes, vids, or whatever your creative mind can come up with or prompt for.) Just leave your prompt and/or browse through other people's prompts to see what you can fill.

1. Be polite - no bashing or shaming of anyone, or any prompts, characters, ships or fandoms! Thank you.

2. One prompt per post, please use format: Fandom(/Fandom), Character(s)/Pairing(s), prompt (i.e "Spooks, Tom/Ruth, apocalypse AU"). You may repost prompts from previous years (or even from elsewhere, as long as that's okay with the other fest/comm/whatever).

3. Post fills as replies (or links in replies) to the comment containing the prompt. Please format the subject line as follows: Fandom - Character(s)/Pairing(s) - Ratings/Warnings (if included). There's a fills thread at the start of the post. Please also link your fill here, if you can. (I will also start up a masterlist post as soon as we have some fills.)

4. You may fill your own prompts if you wish, and multiple fills are more than welcome. (No prompt claiming, please.)

5. For crossovers any fandom is allowed as long as the first fandom qualifies. (If it's a cracky multi-fandom crossover prompt, that's fine, too, though try and make sure there are always equal or more eligible fandoms in proportion to those that are non-eligible.)

6. Any other questions - there's a questions thread at the start of the post if there's anything else you want to ask.

7. Prompt, fill, away!


Eligible Fandoms
Basically, any rare to small/medium British fandom, no matter how odd, old, obscure, non-existent, random or how shiny and new or in what medium - anything that's not on the below list is fine. (Definitions of British are also fairly wide and hand-wavy - check on the questions thread if you're not sure.)


Non-eligible fandoms
ALL non-British fandoms are ineligible and the following fandoms are British but too large and therefore ineligible for this fest (although don't forget that you can prompt for any fandom as a crossover with an eligible fandom):

Chronicles of Narnia (all), Doctor Who (2005+), Downton Abbey, Harry Potter, The Hobbit (all), James Bond (Craig!Bond films), The Kingsman films, Lord of the Rings (all), Merlin, The Musketeers (BBC), One Direction, Primeval, Sherlock (BBC), The Silmarillion, Torchwood.

(RPF is welcome. Please use specific categories when prompting (e.g. history by century, and all actor/bandom RPF by individual series/film/band or whatever grouping seems most appropriate. In the spirit of the fest, please try and avoid RPF for non-eligible shows/v. popular actors like Tom Hiddleston & Benedict Cumberbatch, but as they turn up in less popular film/TV RPF, that's a guideline, not a rule.)


There's no closing date for prompts or fills - the fest will stay open until next year's post goes up. Once you've created a fill, you're welcome to crosspost it anywhere you like. (If you're posting to AO3, there's no collection for the fest, but there is an "Obscure & British Commentfest" tag you can use if you want.)


If you want to promote the fest, then thank you! Please do. You can find a selection of banners ready made with code here and rebloggable tumblr posts here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

You can find the previous fest (2016) here. Also: O&B 2015, O&B 2014 and O&B 2013. If you want to fill or repost a previous prompt, you may, although please also post to the fills thread on the current post.

ETA: The fills post is here

For those who don't have an Dreamwidth account or prefer to remain anonymous, anon commenting is on.
peoriapeoriawhereart: very British officer in sweater (Brigader gets the job done)

[personal profile] peoriapeoriawhereart 2018-05-07 02:07 pm (UTC)(link)
The Avengers/Doctor Who (old school, 2nd-5th) Mrs. Peel consults for U.N.I.T. (or interacts with Sarah Jane Smith, U.N.I.T related characters)

Steel & Sapphire/Man from U.N.C.L.E Author picks whose 'procedural' it is and whether there is any outside antagonist.

The Avengers, Mrs. Peel crosses paths with Peggy Carter (Captain America:The First Avenger)

Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries Really, the crossover possibilities are infinite with any of the above mix/match.
peoriapeoriawhereart: Cartoon Stantz post-kafoom (Default)

[personal profile] peoriapeoriawhereart 2018-05-07 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Steel & Sapphire/Man from U.N.C.L.E Author picks whose 'procedural' it is and whether there is any outside antagonist.
peoriapeoriawhereart: Steve in khaki, Peggy foreground (Behind Woman)

[personal profile] peoriapeoriawhereart 2018-05-07 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
The Avengers, Mrs. Peel crosses paths with Peggy Carter (Captain America:The First Avenger)
timelessapeel: (Emma)

The Avengers, Mrs. Peel crosses paths with Peggy Carter

[personal profile] timelessapeel 2018-05-07 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Emma Peel rounded a corner, pursuers in tow, and nearly barrelled into a brunette clad in a smart skirt suit and carrying a gun.

“Whoops!” Emma spun around and grabbed the man close on her heels by his lapels, swung him into the wall, and followed through with a lethal chop to the neck for good measure. “Who goes there?”

“I’m Peggy Carter,” the brunette identified, pausing only to shoot a second man creeping up behind Emma’s right shoulder. “I’m your SHIELD contact.”

Emma cocked her head quizzically to one side. “SHIELD’s an American organization, isn’t it?” she queried, neatly sidestepping a third attacker and kicking out hard to send him on his way. “And judging by your accent, you are most definitely British through and through.”

Peggy smiled tightly. “I was waylaid,” she explained, finishing Emma’s man off with a wicked right hook. “By a man whose ideals and morals wouldn’t have looked out of place in the last century.”

“What a coincidence,” Emma exclaimed, driving her knee up into the last man’s stomach with a force that sent him tumbling to the ground wheezing. “So was I.”

Peggy holstered her gun and reached out a hand. “You must be Mrs. Emma Peel.”

Emma pushed back her auburn tresses and treated Peggy to one of her trademark lopsided smiles. “In the flesh,” she confirmed, shaking Peggy’s hand warmly.

“You certainly know how to handle yourself, Mrs. Peel.”

“I could say the same about you. I understood you were here to brief me?”

Peggy nodded. “Is there somewhere safe we can talk?”

“That depends. Have you eaten?”

Peggy frowned a little. “Is that important?”

“Only if you’re hungry,” Emma said lightly. “My partner scheduled this meeting during lunch and I’m positively famished. There’s a very nice little bistro not too far from here. If you don’t mind talking about state security over an excellent wine and a sinfully rich quiche.”

“Yes, please!” Peggy exclaimed enthusiastically. “I can’t remember the last time I had a lunch that wasn’t pastrami on rye.”

Emma laughed her lovely laugh. “My car’s out front. Follow me.”

“Oh, it’s good to be home,” Peggy said wistfully, and fell into step beside her.
timelessapeel: (Diana Rigg)

Re: The Avengers, Mrs. Peel crosses paths with Peggy Carter

[personal profile] timelessapeel 2018-05-07 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! :-)
peoriapeoriawhereart: Steve in khaki, Peggy foreground (Behind Woman)

Re: The Avengers, Mrs. Peel crosses paths with Peggy Carter

[personal profile] peoriapeoriawhereart 2018-05-07 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
*\o/*

Delicious. Thanks for writing.
timelessapeel: (New Avengers)

Re: The Avengers, Mrs. Peel crosses paths with Peggy Carter

[personal profile] timelessapeel 2018-05-07 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks for the prompt! Glad you enjoyed. :-)
romanajo123: (Default)

Re: The Avengers, Mrs. Peel crosses paths with Peggy Carter

[personal profile] romanajo123 2018-05-07 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
* claps*
timelessapeel: (red)

Re: The Avengers, Mrs. Peel crosses paths with Peggy Carter

[personal profile] timelessapeel 2018-05-07 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! :-)
tree_and_leaf: Watercolour of barn owl perched on post. (Default)

Re: The Avengers, Mrs. Peel crosses paths with Peggy Carter

[personal profile] tree_and_leaf 2018-05-08 11:23 am (UTC)(link)
This is great!
timelessapeel: (green dress)

Re: The Avengers, Mrs. Peel crosses paths with Peggy Carter

[personal profile] timelessapeel 2018-05-08 11:27 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you!
rusty_armour: (wearit)

Re: The Avengers, Mrs. Peel crosses paths with Peggy Carter

[personal profile] rusty_armour 2018-05-08 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
This is delightful! I really like the dialogue and how well Emma and Peggy interact with each other. I can easily imagine them becoming good friends.
timelessapeel: (Cybernauts)

Re: The Avengers, Mrs. Peel crosses paths with Peggy Carter

[personal profile] timelessapeel 2018-05-08 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! I think they'd get along famously, too.
chelseagirl: (Peggy Carter)

Re: The Avengers, Mrs. Peel crosses paths with Peggy Carter

[personal profile] chelseagirl 2018-05-09 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
So much fun!
timelessapeel: (Diana Rigg)

Re: The Avengers, Mrs. Peel crosses paths with Peggy Carter

[personal profile] timelessapeel 2018-05-09 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! It was fun to do.
lyssie: (Jenna Stannis)

Re: The Avengers, Mrs. Peel crosses paths with Peggy Carter

[personal profile] lyssie 2018-05-09 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
Ahhh. There's just something so perfect about this. Maybe it's their nonchalance in defeating the bad guys. Idk. Anyway, excellent work. =D
timelessapeel: (Emma)

Re: The Avengers, Mrs. Peel crosses paths with Peggy Carter

[personal profile] timelessapeel 2018-05-09 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! It was just a few bad guys, so not much to tax Peggy and Emma. There's something a little more challenging down the road I'm sure. ;-)
peoriapeoriawhereart: very British officer in sweater (Brigader gets the job done)

[personal profile] peoriapeoriawhereart 2018-05-07 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries Really, the crossover possibilities are infinite with any of the above mix/match.

Please treat the original posting as the first prompt.