mayhap: magnetic letters reading put Smarties tubes on cats legs make them walk like a robot (put Smarties tubes on cats legs)
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.
mayhap: Inui throws stuff into his juice (Inui Juice)
I knew that the ancient Egyptians considered lettuce to be an aphrodisiac—I even mentioned it in an Osiris/Set fic once—but I always assumed that it was one of those wacky things with no physical basis whatever which are so common in ancient medicine.

Then I learned from the latest episode of Q.I. (series L, episode 15, "Long-Lost") that wild lettuce contains psychotropic chemicals that have been bred out of domesticated lettuces, and decided that we have been going about trying to get people to eat more salad the wrong way all along.

I mean, sure, they say the psychotropic lettuce is more bitter than regular lettuces, but those already aren't particularly sweet and I would never eat them by themselves, whereas I think I would be more likely to eat a salad if it promised me "mild hypnotic or sedative effects which are often described as being similar to those of opium," and I don't think that I'm alone in this.

Perhaps this is what those women alone with salad have been laughing about all along.
mayhap: magnetic letters reading put Smarties tubes on cats legs make them walk like a robot (put Smarties tubes on cats legs)
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.
mayhap: magnetic letters reading put Smarties tubes on cats legs make them walk like a robot (put Smarties tubes on cats legs)
Nine episodes from series I of QI are available for legal streaming in the U.S. on Hulu! I mean, this is clearly still less than ideal, but it's a huge improvement over the prior state of affairs where no episodes of QI were available legally in the U.S. in any format.

Also, I just caught that A Tale for the Time Being made the Booker shortlist, which pleases me greatly as it is by far the best novel I have read thus far this year. ♥
mayhap: Russell Brand plants a kiss on Noel Fielding (Goth Detectives)
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.
mayhap: sketchy Harry in red with text Gryffindor (gryffindor)
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 [livejournal.com profile] yuletide to open.
mayhap: sketchy Harry in red with text Gryffindor (gryffindor)
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 [livejournal.com profile] yuletide to open.

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