pedanther

I've been remiss in not signal-boosting

lost_spook's Obscure & British Comment Fest.

The idea is that people leave comments suggesting prompts for fanfic or fanart for British fandoms that don't usually get enough of that sort of thing, and then other people are inspired and post the results.

(The definition of "obscure" is fairly broad, and mostly means "not as mega-fan-active as Harry Potter or anything with hobbits in". There's a more specific explanation of what is and isn't included in the Fest rules.)

Three of my favourite results so far are a character study of Ace by

astrogirl2 (yes, the McCoy era counts as "obscure" by the rules of the Fest), a vignette of Edmund Blackadder at Downton Abbey by

buckbeakbabie, and the fic that will probably be the Comment Fest's lasting gift to posterity...

...see,

lost_spook made a bunch of images to promote the Comment Fest (collected here and here), featuring characters from eligible fandoms, such as Bagpuss, Mr Steed and Mrs Peel, Miss Marple, the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad... and, as seen above, a Nice Cup of Tea and Some Biscuits.

And then

justice_turtle requested a fic with Tea and Biscuits as the characters.

And then

brutti_ma_buoni wrote it.