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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
[community profile] call_the_midwife_fans
[community profile] poldarks
[community profile] sherlockkinkmeme

Creative/Multifandom etc.
(Please check individual comms for rules on RPF & Hist RPF)
[community profile] semidrabbles (50 words), [community profile] sesquidrabbles (150 words), [community profile] doubledrabbles (200 words) & [community profile] tripledrabbles (300 words) - writing prompts for specific length fic.
[community profile] vid_bingo
[community profile] fluffbingo
[community profile] 100fandoms (100 prompt table to use to write fic in 100 different fandoms) & over at [community profile] icontalking, [personal profile] tinny is running an icon version.

For more, follow [site community profile] dw_community_promo, [community profile] fandom_on_dw, [community profile] ipromo and [community profile] 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 ([community profile] 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 ([community profile] past_imperfect: "a fanfiction and fanart exchange for time travel/time loop tropes." 50 fandoms, including Hamilton & Original Works)

*Festivids 2018 Collection ([community profile] 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 @ [personal profile] girljustdied (Link goes to rules post).

* Friends Will Be Friends: a multifandom fic (and art) fest @ [personal profile] ruuger (Link goes to the main post)


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

* [community profile] 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.)

* [community profile] 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.)

* [community profile] 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.)

* [community profile] 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 [community profile] fandomcalendar and [community profile] fandom_on_dw.




Other Communities
[community profile] mystery_mansion: [personal profile] cimorene reviews the Malkovitch ABC Murders
[community profile] corsets_and_carriages: offers up a welcome & has a new header
[community profile] historicalyafen announces the winner of the 2019 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction
[community profile] historicalyafen: [personal profile] gourmandizingcats is looking for discussion on Elizabeth Wein's Young Pilots series
[community profile] vicomte_de_chagny: [personal profile] igenlode on why Love Never Dies is a tragedy
[community profile] all_things_spartacus: [personal profile] fucktheg0ds posts fic and hopes there are still Spartacus fans around
[community profile] sutcliff_space: [personal profile] chantefable links to Rosemary Sutcliff discussion on FFA
[community profile] history links to twitter threads on Victorian builders and grave desecration and Rome and the Ancient World
[community profile] 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 [community profile] icons, [community profile] fandom_icons & [community profile] icon_library.
[personal profile] thisbluespirit - 195 Shadow of the Tower icons
[personal profile] magicrubbish - TV Icon dump (inc. 20s Penny Dreadful icons) & 100 Movie Icons (inc. The Mummy)
[personal profile] dickinsons - 11 multifandom icons (inc. Harlots, Becoming Jane, Hidden Figures, Pride & Prejudice) & 16 multifandom icons (inc. Harlots & Pride & Prejudice)
[personal profile] all_choseny - 58 Man from Uncle Icons (Movie)
[personal profile] meganbmoore - 216 The Princess Weiyoung icons
[personal profile] ella_rose88 - 47 Multifandom icons (inc. Outlander, Poldark, The White Princess, The Woman in White, Little Women, Emma & Victoria.)

Fic
[personal profile] betweensunandmoon - Three one-shots (Master of Ballantrae, Man Who Laughs, Othello).
[personal profile] earthspirits - Penny Dreadful series "Demimonde of Shadows."
[personal profile] olivermoss - Away for the Holidays (Jeeves & Wooster)
[personal profile] earthspirits - Of Wings Shining in Darkness (Penny Dreadful, ch 10-13, WIP.)
[personal profile] earthspirits - Shadows in the Garden (Versailles/Timeless)
[personal profile] fucktheg0ds - Under Attack (Mongolian History RPF)
[personal profile] dr_zook recced Schön und jung und stark by [personal profile] liriaen (Renaissance RPF)
[personal profile] sweetsorcery - Adonais, Besieged (19th C Literary RPF)
[personal profile] thisbluespirit - i love the rose both red and white (The Shadow of the Tower/15th C RPF)
[personal profile] senmut - Troubled Reign (Ancient History RPF)
[personal profile] thisbluespirit - We'll Burn That Barn When We Come to It (11th C RPF)
[personal profile] senmut - A Spartan Courtship (The Odyssy)
[personal profile] miss_morland - Nocturne & Suite in Five Movements (Don Carlos & 18th C RPF)
[personal profile] senmut - Too Quiet (Masters of Rome)
[personal profile] thisbluespirit recced Whose Bitter Tears & A Falcon at Stoke Field by [personal profile] misura & [personal profile] kaffy_r (The Shadow of the Tower/15th CRPF)
[personal profile] senmut - Caesar's Dalliance (Ancient History)
[personal profile] senmut - Saltpetre (1776)
[personal profile] sea_changed linked to their Yuletide Recs and to lineaments of desire (Society of Gentlemen)
[personal profile] saki101 - Signs and Signals (Sherlock Holmes)
[personal profile] teatimemols Late Night (Band of Brothers)
[personal profile] dreamlittleyo - The Art of the Compromise, I Fall Apart, Thought I Was So Smart, & Something to Prove (Hamilton)
[personal profile] 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:

[community profile] 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 [community profile] 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.

Date: 2019-02-19 06:46 pm (UTC)
muccamukk: Lt Bush salutes ironically. (HH: Salute)
From: [personal profile] muccamukk
This is great! Thanks for putting it together.

Date: 2019-02-19 11:45 pm (UTC)
olivermoss: (Default)
From: [personal profile] olivermoss
This is great!

Can [community profile] indeedsir get a listing in a future newsletter?

Date: 2019-02-20 10:24 pm (UTC)
olivermoss: (Default)
From: [personal profile] olivermoss
Thanks!

Date: 2019-02-20 01:05 am (UTC)
isis: Isis statue (statue)
From: [personal profile] isis
Woohoo, yay! This is a great idea.

Date: 2019-02-20 01:02 pm (UTC)
duskpeterson: The lowercased letters D and P, joined together (Default)
From: [personal profile] duskpeterson
Oh, this is magnificent! I am deeply impressed by your hard work.

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