And now for a fourth year running: it's the Rik and Ade Fest! We've been trying to get your attention for the past 10 weeks, so hopefully you're listening! Give this blog a follow NOW to stay up to date as this year's fest progresses. Right on!
As usual, you can submit up to 3 prompts for fanart and/or fanfic for any piece of media featuring Rik and/or Ade. Also, as usual, you don't need to commit to making art or fic later to submit a prompt. We need more prompts than participants!
PLEASE READ THIS BIT! 🚨
Unusually, there's an extra rule in place for prompts this year. We're asking you to please not send in any prompts for The Young Ones or Bottom - just for this year! Next year, you can go mad!
Why are we asking this of you? Is it just that we're bastards? Well, we've noticed an (unsurprising) bias towards these two shows throughout fests, so we're trying to give Rik and Ade's lesser known/popular media a chance.
If you do accidentally submit a TYO or Bottom prompt this year, never fear! We won't be adding it to the prompt list this time, but we will hold on to it and add it next year. As well as this, all the previous unclaimed prompts for TYO and Bottom will still be available for artists and writers to claim and make work for this year.
But anyway, here's the ol' reliable Google Form for submissions. It will be open from today (23rd March) until 1st April.
If you're new to the Rik and Ade Fest or just want a refresher, the guidelines are available on the #RikAndAdeFest2024 ao3 collection:
Happy submitting, scumbags! You can contact @xgardensinspace or @neil-neil-orange-peel if you have any questions.
We are aware our fanart books currently have broken links. This is a recent occurrence. Ao3 cannot host pictures, so all fests' art is hosted elsewhere. We're looking for a new host site and may have to contact certain past artists for their art again once one is found. We intend to have this issue fixed before this year's fest is revealed in June. We apologise if this discourages artists from participating, though we would always encourage you to share your art on Tumblr, Instagram, or elsewhere too once a fest is revealed, in any case.
How to Be a Complete Bastard (ZX Spectrum/C64, Sentient Software, 1987)
The pseudo 3D adventure game that's less point-and-click and more pee-and-fart. Starring Adrian Edmondson. You can play it in your browser here, and read the ZX Spectrum version's manual here.
The brand also included books and a board game; you can read the first book here. There was also a 'Compelte Bitch' version of the brand starring Pamela Stephenson; you can learn more baout the books and board games for both brands via this podcast episode.