Charlie Brooker/David Mitchell
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| Pairing: | Charlie Brooker/David Mitchell |
| Alternative name(s): | Bitchell, Mitchellbrook (both used tongue-in-cheek) |
| Gender category: | slash |
| Fandom: | British Comedian RPF |
| Canonical?: | No |
| Prevalence: | Minor |
| Archives: | brookerfic on LJ, kinkmeme on LJ |
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Charlie Brooker/David Mitchell is the RPF pairing of British comedians Charlie Brooker and David Mitchell.
The ship originated in January 2010, when a picture of Charlie Brooker and David Mitchell on the Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2009 was posted to fandomsecrets with the text, "I want fic where they're together, with all their combined social awkwardness and their mild misanthropy; the sex is mediocre and neither of them get relationships, and yet they're kind of fond of each other." rionaleonhart commented on this on her LJ:
Thank you, secret-maker, because now so do I. Possibly with a slight element of Mitchell's unrequited love for his comedy partner. I want Mitchell and Brooker to have awkward, uncomfortable glance-conversations when Webb is around and never overtly bring it up. Brooker knows and Mitchell knows he knows and they both know it would probably be best if they just talked about it, but if Brooker's just some substitute he'd rather not confirm that, thanks, and Mitchell feels that maybe he can pretend the issue isn't there so long as it never comes up in conversation.
Oh, dear, I'm making this scenario a bit sad, aren't I? Also they would obviously have amazing banter and genuine fondness and it would be, well, nice, despite all the problems they don't talk about. I would be delighted were someone to write this.
A week later, the first Charlie Brooker/David Mitchell story was posted (under flock, by someone who prefers to rename anonymous). Two days after that, brookerfic was created on LJ.
The community remained fairly quiet until the new season of panel show recordings started in March 2010. There were members of the fandom present at most recordings featuring either Charlie Brooker or David Mitchell, and at all recordings featuring the pair of them.
Recording reports had an invigorating effect on the fandom. Suddenly, canon fodder increased from, "They got on well on the Big Fat Quiz!" to "Did Charlie Brooker really just talk about tenderly kissing David Mitchell?"
The kinkmeme was started around this time, and proved to be extremely active for such a small fandom.
Fannish activity was already starting to die down a little by August 2010, when Charlie Brooker married Konnie Huq. Stories are still being posted as of March 2011 but at a much slower rate. Most are set, without it being explicitly mentioned as such, in an alternate reality where both Charlie and David are single.