historium | Historium Round Up #1

A newsletter was one of the suggestions made and while any sort of comprehensive attempt at that for such a wide subject as "history fandom" is certainly beyond me, I will attempt some occasional round-ups. This one, for obvious reasons, is far longer than others are likely to be! (At the moment I'm planning on every 2-4 weeks for frequency, depending.)

New communities (new/newly imported):
Historical

call_the_midwife_fans

poldarks

sherlockkinkmeme

Creative/Multifandom etc.
(Please check individual comms for rules on RPF & Hist RPF)

semidrabbles (50 words),

sesquidrabbles (150 words),

doubledrabbles (200 words) &

tripledrabbles (300 words) - writing prompts for specific length fic.

vid_bingo

fluffbingo

100fandoms (100 prompt table to use to write fic in 100 different fandoms) & over at

icontalking,

tinny is running an icon version.

For more, follow

dw_community_promo,

fandom_on_dw,

ipromo and

icontalking & don't forget our Masterlist of Communities.

Multifandom Fests & Events
(Please check individual comms for rules on RPF & Hist RPF)

Open Collections:
* Chocolate Box Exchange Collection (

chocolateboxcomm: "a low commitment exchange for both ships and gen combos, to be revealed for Valentines Day.") Fic + Art. See here for Historical RPF works. Fandoms also include Aubrey-Maturin Series, Don Carlos, Greek & Roman Mythology, Rosemary Sutcliff, Hamilton, Hornblower, The Lion in Winter, Jane Austen, The Mummy, Original Works, Pirates of the Caribbean, Shakespeare's Histories, The Queen's Thief & The Terror among many others (522 fandoms).

* Past Imperfect collection (

past_imperfect: "a fanfiction and fanart exchange for time travel/time loop tropes." 50 fandoms, including Hamilton & Original Works)

*Festivids 2018 Collection (

festivids: "an annual anonymous vid exchange for rare and obscure fandoms, inspired by yuletide." Fandoms include Foyle's War, Hidden Figures, The Innocents, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Much Ado About Nothing & Underground among others. 60 fandoms.)

* Body Talk: a porny comment ficathon @

girljustdied (Link goes to rules post).

* Friends Will Be Friends: a multifandom fic (and art) fest @

ruuger (Link goes to the main post)

Upcoming:
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once_upon_fic: "a gift exchange focused on fairy-tales, tall tales, epics, rhymes, fables, myths, and legends!" (Sign-ups open till 20th Feb.)

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smutswap: "a smut exchange. Everything created for this exchange must feature sexual content in some way and be rated NC-17/Explicit because of said content." (Sign-ups open till 26th Feb.)

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origworkex: "an exchange for creating works featuring original characters created in the spirit of transformative works." (Nominations open till 21st Feb; sign-ups open 23rd Feb-16th March.)

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waybackexchange: "gift exchange is focused only on canons that ended more than 10 years ago. That means that for the 2019 round, the only canons eligible will be ones with no new material published or released after December 31, 2009." (Nominations open till 20th Feb, sign-ups 2nd -9th March.)

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easycotroopers HBO War Week March 3-9 2019. ("HBO War Week is the first of what we hope to make an annual prompt meme. Each day of one consecutive week is dedicated to a one-word prompt.")

For more, follow

fandomcalendar and

fandom_on_dw.

Other Communities

mystery_mansion:

cimorene reviews the Malkovitch ABC Murders

corsets_and_carriages: offers up a welcome & has a new header

historicalyafen announces the winner of the 2019 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction

historicalyafen:

gourmandizingcats is looking for discussion on Elizabeth Wein's Young Pilots series

vicomte_de_chagny:

igenlode on why Love Never Dies is a tragedy

all_things_spartacus:

fucktheg0ds posts fic and hopes there are still Spartacus fans around

sutcliff_space:

chantefable links to Rosemary Sutcliff discussion on FFA

history links to twitter threads on Victorian builders and grave desecration and Rome and the Ancient World

recsrainbow links to two fanfic reccing sites (covering several historical fandoms between them): Fanfic Recommendations by Isabelle Disraeli and espresso Recommendations.

Fanworks
Posted to Historium since the last round-up, inc. recs and announcements + farmed from other general comms (all are open comm-posted announcements). Recs are included within the relevant category.

Art, Icons & Graphics
Non-historium posts taken from

icons,

fandom_icons &

icon_library.

thisbluespirit - 195 Shadow of the Tower icons

magicrubbish - TV Icon dump (inc. 20s Penny Dreadful icons) & 100 Movie Icons (inc. The Mummy)

dickinsons - 11 multifandom icons (inc. Harlots, Becoming Jane, Hidden Figures, Pride & Prejudice) & 16 multifandom icons (inc. Harlots & Pride & Prejudice)

all_choseny - 58 Man from Uncle Icons (Movie)

meganbmoore - 216 The Princess Weiyoung icons

ella_rose88 - 47 Multifandom icons (inc. Outlander, Poldark, The White Princess, The Woman in White, Little Women, Emma & Victoria.)

Fic

betweensunandmoon - Three one-shots (Master of Ballantrae, Man Who Laughs, Othello).

earthspirits - Penny Dreadful series "Demimonde of Shadows."

olivermoss - Away for the Holidays (Jeeves & Wooster)

earthspirits - Of Wings Shining in Darkness (Penny Dreadful, ch 10-13, WIP.)

earthspirits - Shadows in the Garden (Versailles/Timeless)

fucktheg0ds - Under Attack (Mongolian History RPF)

dr_zook recced Schön und jung und stark by

liriaen (Renaissance RPF)

sweetsorcery - Adonais, Besieged (19th C Literary RPF)

thisbluespirit - i love the rose both red and white (The Shadow of the Tower/15th C RPF)

senmut - Troubled Reign (Ancient History RPF)

thisbluespirit - We'll Burn That Barn When We Come to It (11th C RPF)

senmut - A Spartan Courtship (The Odyssy)

miss_morland - Nocturne & Suite in Five Movements (Don Carlos & 18th C RPF)

senmut - Too Quiet (Masters of Rome)

thisbluespirit recced Whose Bitter Tears & A Falcon at Stoke Field by

misura &

kaffy_r (The Shadow of the Tower/15th CRPF)

senmut - Caesar's Dalliance (Ancient History)

senmut - Saltpetre (1776)

sea_changed linked to their Yuletide Recs and to lineaments of desire (Society of Gentlemen)

saki101 - Signs and Signals (Sherlock Holmes)

teatimemols Late Night (Band of Brothers)

dreamlittleyo - The Art of the Compromise, I Fall Apart, Thought I Was So Smart, & Something to Prove (Hamilton)

isabellerecs recs Nurturing the Garden & Small Things by cruisedirector (Les Mis)

Some recently canonised historical fandoms on AO3 include: Green Book (2018), The Children of Huang Shi (2008), Any Old Diamonds - K J Charles, Bordertown (TV 1989) 킹덤 | Kingdom (TV 2019), Великая | Velikaya (TV 2015), & 紫色大稻埕 | La Grande Chaumière Violette.

Random Links
19th Century Character Trope Generator

Other historical/historical fandom newsletters:

despatches (Age of Sail - see the weekly newsletter there for AoS comms & fandoms related fic, links, discussion etc.)

If you have any useful links or resources to add, we have a general sticky Resources Post. You can add to it by posting your links/info to the community (or by commenting on that post if you prefer).

Disclaimer: As I said, this in no way comprehensive even for history & fandom on Dreamwidth, let alone anywhere else and I am not aware of all fictional historical fandoms by name.

If there is anything you would prefer not to be linked here just let me know. If you want to bring something of interest to

historium, please post directly to the comm, but if you do want anything specifically included in the round-up or think there are any other comms/site we should be keeping an eye on, just comment on the latest edition to let us know.