Fannish bits

[lost_spook]

1. It is nearly time for the Obscure & British Commentfest! I was in two minds whether to run it or not this year - up until a few weeks ago, ever since when I've been basically hopping up and down going "Is it time yet? IS IT NOW?" Well, next weekend and onwards, it will be. The May online b'day party for those who love obscure and British

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[ylla]

Hooray! Do you do an Age of Sail banner already? I think I first saw it in a Heyer group, so maybe not.

[lost_spook]

I tend to use the Austen and Heyer ones generically for AoS comms too, but I could do a specific one! (I have a whole bunch of still usable ones and the template to hand, so it'll be easy enough to do any extra if they're useful for pimping.) Do you have a handy image I could snatch? (I don't want to accidentally grab the wrong sort of ship or something.)

[ylla]

There are literally about a million lovely Master and Commander ones here, but I don't have time to look through for pretty ships right at this moment! You could always pick a page at random and hope :)
(I tried that with page 45, and got some nice ship underneaths, which must have a proper name that Jack Aubrey would be mad at me for not knowing! Actually, page 47 has the classic painted-ship-upon-a-painted-ocean, as well as some nice sailing ones.)

I don't know where I've put all my pictures of Trincomalee's masts, although I took plenty!

[lost_spook]

Thank you! One good classic ship pic should be perfect. :-)

[a_phoenixdragon]

YAY!!! Sounds like another fun-filled fest in the offing!

*HUGS*

[lost_spook]

Thanks! I hope so! It's such a lovely buzz to host it when it gets going, so here's hoping it doesn't just fall over this year...

[shyfoxling]

1. It is nearly time for the Obscure & British Commentfest! ... \o/ Any fandoms I should make banners of that I haven't already done?

I'm probably the only person who cares about Takin' Over the Asylum in this context, aren't I? lol.

I made a thing: an Unconventional Courtship Generator Tumblr.

A sample from that - Inheriting half of his late wife’s company means Dave Lister is now Holly’s business partner - to their mutal dismay!

Working together, they are forced to confront their growing attraction. Then Dave discovers that Holly promised his late wife she’d take care of him.

Oookay then. Now I'm wondering who this "late" wife would be. We better not be talking about Hilly, here, lol. And how did this person die, anyway? Maybe I am being too narrow-minded to assume it would be another computer in the first place...

(And as you commented, I would probably read this anyway, heh.)

[lost_spook]

I am all sympathy for being in fandoms of one! I shall try to make one for you. <3

And, aha, knowing red Dwarf and Lister's history, Lister's late wife was probably Lister. (Or is he technically sort of married to that gelf?)

[shyfoxling]

I guess I was getting lost in pronouns, because I was reading the wife as being Holly's wife!

And yeah, I think he's still married to Achehchchachhahhehehk. Or however you want to spell "a footballer clearing his nose." :)

[lost_spook]

I think he's still married to Achehchchachhahhehehk. Or however you want to spell "a footballer clearing his nose." :

As infrequently as possible?

(And, ahh, I hadn't read it that way round. Sometimes it's not always clear once they go through the summary.)

[swordznsorcery]

Hooray! And also oops, as I'm pretty sure I've got something unfinished still from last year. *embarrassed face* How can it be twelve months already?!

[lost_spook]

It's never too late! And it isn't quite 12 months yet - last time's started on May 16th and went on for a good month. :-)

[oonaseckar]

It's that time of year? Does that mean that Pinch-The-Rubbish-Bin Day is also coming up shortly?

[lost_spook]

I like to think Pinch the Rubbish Bin Day is a dying tradition! ;-p