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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.
emeraldarrows: Prison Break - Michael hugging Lincoln with text "never let you go" (15)

[personal profile] emeraldarrows 2018-05-07 10:54 am (UTC)(link)
Robin of Sherwood, Robin/Marion (either Robin) or gen group, a happy day in their lives.
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[personal profile] shewhostaples 2018-05-07 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Thunderbirds, John Tracy, change of scene
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[personal profile] shewhostaples 2018-05-07 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Thunderbirds, Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward, when in Rome
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[personal profile] shewhostaples 2018-05-07 12:53 pm (UTC)(link)
The Prisoner of Zenda, Rudolf Rassendyll/Rupert Hentzau, play-acting
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[personal profile] shewhostaples 2018-05-07 12:54 pm (UTC)(link)
North Face, Miss Fisher/Miss Searle, day trip
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[personal profile] shewhostaples 2018-05-07 01:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Captain Scarlet/Captain Blue, destiny
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.
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Department S, Annabelle, Stewart, Jason & Sir Curtis, holiday

[personal profile] timelessapeel 2018-05-07 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
“I should’ve known,” Annabelle Hurst said miserably, huddled in her bathing suit on Jason’s couch with her beach towel swirled around her shoulders. “A working holiday on a tropical island was too good to be true.”

“I should have known,” Sir Curtis grumbled, sitting in a nearby armchair distractedly puffing on a cigar. “The invitation to the peace conference came too suddenly. If we hadn’t been having problems with our internal mail delivery, I would’ve treated it with more caution.” He sighed in exasperation at his mistake. “I was so concerned that we were going to arrive late that I didn’t follow my usual protocol. I would have worked out that it was a trap.”

“No, I should have known,” Jason King muttered darkly around the cigarette between his lips, fingers otherwise occupied with flying across the keys of his typewriter. “Why I ever suggested that the three of you could stay in my vacation house for the duration of the conference is beyond me. I must need my head examined.”

“What I want to know,” Stewart Sullivan said tersely, busily stacking furniture against the beach house’s front door, “is when the three of you are going to quit sulking and help me! Annabelle?”

“The conference was only supposed to be in the mornings,” Annabelle moped. “I was going to spend all the afternoons on the beach working on my tan.” She regarded her decidedly-untanned bare legs despondently.

“Sir Curtis?”

“The peace conference is undoubtedly underway by now,” Sir Curtis sighed. “It will reflect very badly on Department S that no one is representing us.”

“Jason?”

“Stewart, I’m on a deadline,” Jason said irritably. “If I don’t have this manuscript typed up by the end of the day, Nicola will have my head.”

“If we don’t stop those armed men coming up the beach,” Stewart exclaimed, looking worriedly out the window, “there won’t be enough of you left to fill a paper bag!”

Jason snorted in a puff of smoke. “Stewart, if you think that’s going to dissuade Nicola, you’re very much mistaken. Death to an editor is but an unfortunate stumbling block on the way to publication.”

“But they’re coming here!” Stewart said desperately, trying to make his colleagues understand the severity of the situation. “Lots of them! All armed to the teeth!”

“Well, I hope they’re not expecting me to play host,” Jason said distractedly, tapping his cigarette into the ashtray with long, elegant fingers. “The three of you have drunk and eaten me out of house and home. I’m fresh out of champagne and strawberries.”

“Food’s going to be the least of our worries in about five minutes,” Stewart warned, drawing his gun.

Jason sighed expansively. “If you’re so worried about our chances, we can always slip out through the secret underground tunnel.”

Stewart froze from lining up a shot between Jason’s exquisite silk curtains. “What secret underground tunnel?”

“Hmm?” Jason said distractedly, typewriter tapping out a jazzy tattoo. “Oh, didn’t I mention it? I had a secret tunnel installed when I built the property. Comes out in the jungle at the other end of the island. It’s handy for avoiding tax collectors, ex-girlfriends, that sort of thing.”

Stewart was gaping uncomprehendingly at Jason. “Why didn’t you say something earlier?”

“Oh, because Mark Caine’s only just mentioned it,” Jason said unconcernedly, pulling the sheet of paper from the typewriter, and adding it to the leather portfolio at his elbow. “I suppose we should get going. If they break in and get blood all over my new pages, Nicola will have an absolute fit.” He packed the typewriter in its case and closed the portfolio, hefted both and moved to where Annabelle was brooding. “Annabelle, you’re mechanically-inclined. Carry this for me, will you? There’s a good girl.”

Annabelle scowled at the black case plopped in her lap. “I came here for a holiday, Jason, not to be your bellhop.”

“Chin up. The sun’s much better on the other side of the island at this time of day,” Jason informed.

Annabelle’s face brightened instantly. “Is it really?”

“I have the sunburn to prove it.” Jason turned to Sir Curtis. “There’s a café, as well. You can use their phone to get in touch with Department S.”

Sir Curtis perked up instantly. “That’s excellent, Jason. Perhaps I can arrange a charter flight. We might be able to attend the last part of the conference.”

“Suit yourself,” Jason said unenthusiastically. He strode over to a bookshelf laden with Mark Caine first editions, and pulled at the spine of a hardback. A secret door swung open, and Stewart could just make out a long flight of stairs leading down. “Come along, everyone. Unless you want to stay on and greet our invited guests, Stewart?”

Stewart took one last glance out the window before stalking over to where Jason was waiting. “How do you do that?” he demanded, as Annabelle and Sir Curtis filed down the staircase.

Jason was nonplussed. “Do what?”

“Save the day without breaking a sweat.”

“Infuriating, is it?”

“Extremely.”

“My dear Stewart,” Jason condescended. “Because I’m Jason King. What did you expect?”

Stewart watched Jason’s retreating back with pursed lips, then followed. It was a glib answer, but Stewart was damned if it wasn’t the right one. Annoyingly right.
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Re: FILLS

[personal profile] timelessapeel 2018-05-07 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Department S, Annabelle, Stewart, Jason & Sir Curtis, holiday:

https://lost-spook.dreamwidth.org/812931.html?thread=11161987#cmt11161987
Edited 2018-05-07 17:40 (UTC)
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[personal profile] gillo 2018-05-07 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
The Eyre Affair (Jasper Fforde series) crossover with any Dorothy Dunnett. Meeting of TN with any of the charismatic women - Sybilla, Kate, Phillippa, Gelis, Katelijne, Marion de Charetty, Gruoch etc.
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[personal profile] gillo 2018-05-07 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
The Eyre Affair, (Jasper Fforde series. Miss Havisham trains a newby from any other qualifying fandom.
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[personal profile] gillo 2018-05-07 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Green Wing. A patient goes missing. (Bonus for crossover with Black Books)
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[personal profile] fiachairecht 2018-05-07 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
BBC River, Stevie, born without a name on the darkest day
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[personal profile] rusty_armour 2018-05-07 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
The Persuaders, Brett Sinclair/Danny Wilde, hurt/comfort. It would be great to have a fic set after "Someone Like Me," but I'd be happy with anything. :-)
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Re: Department S, Annabelle, Stewart, Jason & Sir Curtis, holiday

[personal profile] timelessapeel 2018-05-07 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay, I'm glad you enjoyed it! I'm always amused by the fact that the government uses Jason's tax situation as a way to draw him back into the fold. He's bound to take evasive action eventually. ;-)

I really enjoy this fest and am so pleased to see it back this year. Looking forward to seeing what comes else pops up!
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[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)

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