Obscure & British Commentfest 2018

[thisbluespirit]

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.

Comments

[el_staplador]

'Don't say, you haven't changed,' Isobel said. 'I know I have. You can't disguise fifteen years.'

But she had to admit to herself that Zoe looked like she'd stepped out of one of the fifteen-year-old photographs that lay on the café table between them.

Zoe shook her head, and the corner of her mouth lifted in something that was either amusement or distress. 'If you want the truth, Ms Watkins, I honestly don't remember.'

'Isobel. Please.' She looked more closely at Zoe, and saw that her first assessment had been too hasty. Zoe was not much older than she had been when Isobel had last seen her, but she had changed. There was a certain worried vagueness that had not been there in the swinging sixties.

'If I were to say that I've forgotten a lot of things, and many other things were what people from your period might call odd, what would you say? How much do I have to explain to you? How much do you know?'

Isobel laughed. 'I probably know enough. I heard all sorts of strange things from my uncle, and I believed a lot of them.'

Zoe brightened. 'Your uncle - yes, I remember about your uncle. Better than -'

'Me?'

'No. I remember you quite well. You used to write things on the wall.'

'I still do, sometimes,' Isobel confessed.

'But what I don't remember is why I know you and where your uncle came into it, and why I was here at all. And clearly I was.' She picked up a print and studied it closely, tilting it this way and that as if expecting the picture to move.

'You came with the Doctor,' Isobel said, watching Zoe's face carefully for any signs of recognition. 'And Jamie.'

Zoe nodded. 'That's what other people have told me. I don't remember either of them. Do you have pictures?'

'A couple. Not as many as I have of you.'

'Could you -' Suddenly, Zoe stiffened, then scrambled to her feet. 'Quick. Run!'

A flash of white fire, sweeping just over Zoe's shoulder and igniting a bag of coffee beans, emphasised her point.

It had been fifteen years. And her shoes had not been made with running in mind. Nevertheless, what Isobel lacked in speed compared to Zoe she made up for in local knowledge. There wasn't a street in this area she hadn't scouted for photograph locations. 'This way!' she gasped.

Seven corners, two bridges, and goodness knew how much alleyway further on, they stopped to get their breath back. 'I think we've lost them, for the moment,' Isobel said.

'I'm very sorry about this,' Zoe said.

'They're after you?'

Zoe shrugged her shoulders. 'Somebody seems very keen that I don't remember anything about the Doctor. Which makes me very keen to find out who they are, and what they don't want me to know, and why.'

'If I knew,' Isobel said, 'I'd tell you.'

From somewhere not far enough away, there came the sound of running footsteps, and the smell of burning.

'And since I don't,' she added, 'I'm going to help you find out.' She looked left and right. This road looked like a dead end, but if they could only get over the top of that wall then she was pretty sure, they could drop down to the canal.

'Really?' Zoe looked relieved.

'Really. It'll be just like old times, won't it?'

Zoe grinned ruefully. 'I'm just going to have to take your word on that.'

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, this is lovely!

[el_staplador]

Thank you!

[liadt]

Aw, sort of sad, but I am hopeful Zoe will get all of her memories back!

Bon!

[el_staplador]

Thank you! (Still cross about Zoe!)

[tree_and_leaf]

This is lovely! (But poor Zoe...)

[el_staplador]

Still cross about Zoe! (Thank you!)