potentialities

I'm quite torn about the news that Stephen Fry is going to be replaced by Sandi Toksvig as the host of Q.I.

On one hand, Sandi Toksvig is hosting a panel show again, and this time it's on television? YES PLEASE.

But on the other hand, they're messing with the partnership at the heart of my show and I don't like it.

And also: shouldn't Sandi Toksvig get her own permanent panelist for her N-Z tenure on the show? I'd suggest Susan Calman based on their work together on the News Quiz, personally.

The Big Fat Anniversary Quiz was pretty much everything I could have hoped for, plus all kinds of things I hadn't even thought of. I'd never seen Warwick Davis not in a movie, for instance, and he fit right in with all the returning panelists. It would have been nice if Richard Ayoade and David Mitchell could have been on this show instead of the 2014 one (although without Richard there to take the piss out of Mel B. that show would have gotten unbearable, so there is that).

I personally scored 21 points, only one point behind ( spoilers for the results of people who are not me )

I desperately want secondary school AUs for both Big Fat Quiz of the Year RPF and QI RPF. It could even be a crossover, with Stephen Fry as the regular teacher and Jimmy Carr as the supply teacher, although then you miss out on having Jimmy as one of Stephen's pupils. I might even take a stab at it myself, but it would be annoyingly difficult, whereas writing an American high school AU would be easy but not at all satsifying.

Stephen Fry called Alan Davies his little puppy on Twitter and my heart skipped a beat. Not least because I'm one of the authors who've used puppy imagery in their fic. But then, it is rather obvious, isn't it? I'm only surprised no one's written full-on puppy play, to be honest. At any rate, this sent me looking for previously-undiscovered fics in my British comedian rarepairs.

Point (1393 words) by Niektete
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Real Person Fiction
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Alan Davies/Stephen Fry
Characters: Alan Davies, Stephen Fry
Additional Tags: British Comedy
Summary:

Alan will do most anything to win QI. Stephen approves!

Mmm, a blowjobs-for-points scheme. I like the dialogue, although there's a bit of an epithet infestation.

Audi, Vide, Tace (hear, see, be silent) (685 words) by pushkin666
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: QI RPF
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Alan Davies/Stephen Fry
Additional Tags: Light BDSM, Spanking
Summary:

Alan still isn’t quite sure what this relationship between them is; work colleagues, friends, fuck buddies, Dom and Sub. The different parts of it leave Alan nervous and confused at times, not sure how to react to Stephen. Which has led them here: Alan on his knees and Stephen in full Dom mode.

*whines* What kind of tease writes spanking fic and then ends it before they get to the spanking?

The Terrifyingly Mysterious Case of the Mysterious Phone Call of Mystery (4483 words) by sheldrake
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: British Comics RPF, The Mighty Boosh RPF, Goth Detectives
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Noel Fielding/Russell Brand
Characters: Noel Fielding (Bob Skeleton), Russell Brand, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Humour
Summary:

What is really going on at the end of Hell Lane? Who made that mysterious phone call of mystery? Why are Russell's trousers so tight? All good questions, some of which even may be answered.

This is the delightfully daft Goth Detectives fic of my dreams. ♥

Counting (1844 words) by sheldrake
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Mighty Boosh RPF, British Comics RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Noel Fielding/Russell Brand
Characters: Noel Fielding, Russell Brand
Summary:

It was just a threesome without one of the ones, that was all.

And this is the fic where they get together properly! Well, relatively properly. Consider the subjects, after all.

Daniel Radcliffe is so precious and clever and wee in his turn on Q.I.! I am sort of but actually not really distracted from waiting for yuletide to open.