Non-Obligatory Introductions Post

[thisbluespirit]

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Periods/areas of interest:
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[thisbluespirit]

Periods/areas of interest: I'm interested in a lot of periods, probably most knowledgeable about modern English social history, thanks to a long standing family history obsession & not very widely spread ancestors! I've also been reading up a lot more on the early Tudors and Wars of the Roses these last few years, thanks to falling into the tumblr fandoms for both via fictional fandoms. I'm very Anglo-centric, sadly, but I didn't exactly mean to be. And I've been watching a lot of old Brit TV & film lately, which also sort of slides into being a mid-late 20th C fandom in itself.

Historical Fandoms: I really love ancient BBC historical dramas! I know I should work on this, but I love their Tudor trilogy Shadow of the Tower (my favourite, even though it is not the best), Elizabeth R, & The Six WIves of Henry VIII and a whole lot of others like Enemy at the Door (WWII, Occupation of the Channel Islands), Tenko (WWII, female prisoners of war in Japan), The Duchess of Duke Street (early 20th C hotel running) and The Onedin Line (19th C Liverpool shipping line shenanigans). My main fandom is Doctor Who, so I blame those Hartnell historicals for a lot.

I do watch some modern ones, though - I loved Ripper Street, and I stuck all the way through Downton Abbey, despite the ridiculous. I prefer 1970s Poldark and the books to the new one, though. I'm also a long time reader of classic lit and Georgette Heyer and golden age crime and probably many other things. I was a librarian, but I studied history at uni *mumble* years ago, and it's always been one of my main passions.

Got any more historical comms we've missed? As I made the list, no! I'll keep searching, though...

Any other comms/events/ideas you'd like to see here? As mod, you will hear about them when & if I do. I think a comment or promptfest or some sort of event like that might be fun at some point.

[muccamukk]

Periods/areas of interest: General interest, but a fair bit of early modern like late Valois/early Bourbon courts in France and Late Stuarts in England especially Queen Anne, was in Age of Sail fandom for a long time, American Civil War and Reconstruction, Gilded Age New York, Jazz Age/interwar, World War II, Space race era NASA.
Historical Fandoms: Sinbad (2012), The Musketeers, Jane Austen (especially Northanger Abbey and Persuasion) Master and Commander, Hornblower, Band of Brothers, Agent Carter, Hidden Figures. I hope fandoms A LOT.
Got any more historical comms we've missed? easycotroopers for HBO War fandoms (Band of Brothers, The Pacific, Generation Kill) ETA: NM, you found that one. sinbadthesailor for the Sinbad 2012 show, but it's pretty much dead, like the fandom. Woe. ssrconfidential is an Agent Carter exchange.
Any other comms/events/ideas you'd like to see here? Some kind of weekly resource links, themed weeks, chat posts?

[thisbluespirit]

Yay, thank you, more comms! (I hadn't been sure whether to include things with fantastical elements on the initial list, because Agent Carter occurred to me, but on reflection, as long as the historical element is recognisable and central, I think that's fine. *adds stuff with abandon*)

Your ideas are noted! And I have a friend actively looking for French History people...

[muccamukk]

Forgot to add for fandoms: Guns of Navarone (1961), Twelve O'Clock High (1949), and a variety of other Gregory Peck movies. I like classic Hollywood generally.

[sharpiefan]

Periods/areas of interest: Regency/Napoleonic Wars
Historical Fandoms:Sharpe, Hornblower, Master& Commander/Aubreyad
Got any more historical comms we've missed?Oh boy! perfect_duet, rambling_soldier; corsets_and_carriages, georgette_heyer, friendsofenglishmagic. (Note: napoleonic_era isn't specifically an RPG; it's a general comm focussed on the Napoleonic Wars.)
Any other comms/events/ideas you'd like to see here?

[thisbluespirit]

Thanks! I'm sorry, I had glanced at napoleonic_era and misread the first post (for Show the Colours) as the sub-title. I have all the rest, though, save JSMN, which I initially left off because I was unsure exactly where to draw the line with the more fantastical stuff, but I don't think you really can, can you? So I've added that, too, now, & thank you!

[isabellerecs]

Periods/areas of interest: I would have to say I have a pretty general interest in history, probably with a little too much emphasis on American and British history. I have a definite interest in the World Wars and the Regency/Age of Sail though.

Historical Fandoms: Without Supernatural Elements: The Alienist, Band of Brothers, Black Sails, Downton Abbey, Dunkirk, Fury, The Great Gatsby, Hornblower, Jeeves & Wooster, King Arthur, Les Misérables, The Magnificent Seven, Master and Commander, The Pacific, Psmith, Vikings
With Supernatural Elements: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Agent Carter, Beauty and the Beast, Fantastic Beasts, The Mummy, Pirates of the Caribbean, Victor Frankenstein

Got any more historical comms we've missed? I learned about all the comms I know about from you so, I really couldn't say.

Any other comms/events/ideas you'd like to see here? I'm new at comms in general, so I am willing to follow your lead. :D

[thisbluespirit]

Welcome! I see you've friended me too, so friending you back - we do seem to overlap a bit here, don't we?

[scripsi]

Yay, another Jeeves & Wooster fan! And The Mummy. How could I forget The Mummy!

[fucktheg0ds]

Periods/areas of interest: Ancient Greece and Rome, Renaissance Italy, Medieval Mongolia, 18th Century Europe/Age of Sail/Georgian Era/Napoleonic Wars, Russia.
Historical Fandoms: My main current ones are Spartacus, Marco Polo, and Harlots. I also love Xena but that probably doesn't count for this comm. Have previously been really into Jane Austen, Hornblower, and War and Peace.
Got any more historical comms we've missed? No, I'm new to DW!
Any other comms/events/ideas you'd like to see here? I don't know what content is usually found in comms so I don't know yet.

[thisbluespirit]

Welcome to DW and to the comm, then! I hope both will work out, and that's a cool list of interests!

[22degreehalo]

Sooo hey there! *waves*

Periods/areas of interest: Though I'm generally interested in a number of periods, my absolute love is Alexander Hamilton and John Laurens. I've written quite a number of fic involving them (separately or together) on AO3 at FallacyFallacy, plus a very long fic focusing on John reuniting with Francis Kinloch during 1780 which I've been working on for several years?, and I have a history blog over at ADHD-AHamilton! As a result I'm mainly really interested in the American Revolution and the 18th century in general and I mayyy believe the Victorian era to be extremely overrated as a period :P I'm also just really interested in queer history in general!
Historical Fandoms: I like Hamilton, obviously, but I don't really write for it other than by drawing from the actors for modern AU fic (which I rarely write) and I basically don't read for it. I've just started watching through Black Sails, too! Fandoms I enjoy but am not really currently active in: Pirate of the Caribbean, Jeeves and Wooster, War and Peace, The Great Gatsby, Beauty and the Beast, Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu, and Game of Thrones if that counts!
Got any more historical comms we've missed? Don't think so - I only just came back to DW and the historical RPF is new to me!
Any other comms/events/ideas you'd like to see here? Not so far!

[thisbluespirit]

Welcome to the comm! The 18th is indeed a cool century, although I like lots of them. ;-)

[opus72]

Periods/areas of interest: Music history/musicology, primarily Beethoven (The Man Who Cannot Decide How He Really Feels About Napoleon.) That can take me anywhere, but generally, I poke around most between 1750 and 1840. Currently trying to get better at parsing through the more nitty gritty French Revolutionary politics. I ramble about fashion history a lot as well.

Historical Fandoms: I am an Old Fandom Lurking Presence w.r.t. Les Mis and Phantom of the Opera. I like Victor Hugo a lot. Also a fan of Elisabeth, Notre Dame de Paris, and archiving all those obscure Phantom adaptations.


I'm new to Dreamwidth following the tumblr exodus, so I'm combing through comms and figuring out how it works. Excited to meet new people and check out some new discussions!

[thisbluespirit]

Welcome! I hope Dreamwidth works out for you - and this comm!

[scripsi]

Periods/areas of interest: I don’t find any periods uninteresting, but I have a special soft spot for the 17th century.

Historical Fandoms: Versailles. Jeeves & Wooster. Jane Austen. Jane Eyre. A lot of fandom which mix history with more fantastical elements like Penny Dreadful, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and Agent Carter.

[scripsi]

And The Borgias, and athe Mummy...

[nocowardsoul]

Periods/areas of interest: Pretty much anything from 1500 to 1950. Unless it's the American Civil War, I'm very much over that.

Historical Fandoms: Master and Commander and the Aubrey/Maturin series, Little Women/Jo's Boys, Jane Austen, Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon. I like Call the Midwife but I've only seen seasons 5 and 6. TV isn't accessible for me at the moment.

Got any more historical comms we've missed? No.

Any other comms/events/ideas you'd like to see here?

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, I pretty much range over that whole period too! welcome!

[auroracloud]

Periods/areas of interest: I'm interested in a lot of history, but I'm especially focused on a lot of aspects of 18th and 19th century history all over Europe, and a bit of early 20th century. Am into many earlier eras as well, but not as well read on them.

In the past few year's I've focused particularly on the 19th century history of Finland (my own country), in particular social and cultural history and microhistory, because I try to write historical fiction about that era. But it leads me to plenty of reading focused on other countries as well, because there isn't really enough available about Finland, so then I read on other countries and try to extrapolate, considering the differences. (Lots of interesting mental gymnastics there!)

I'm also particularly interested in queer history, women's history, and history of sciences, arts and culture as well as history of everyday life, across all eras and geographic areas. Biographies of female scientists are my catnip. I keep meaning to go beyond the Eurocentrism of much of my history, and to dive deeper into earlier eras.


Historical Fandoms: Lots of classics, e.g. Austen, L.M. Montgomery, Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo. I'm currently a bit lacking in historical fiction / history adaptation fandoms - hoping to find some recommendations here! But I have several book fandoms of historical fantasy or sci-fi, including: Gail Carriger's steampunk/urban fantasy alternate 19th century series (The Parasol Protectorate series, the Custard Protocol series, the Finishing School series, and the associated novellas); Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell; Heather Rose Jones's Alpennia series; and Katherine Arden's Winternight trilogy.
Got any more historical comms we've missed? Not at the moment! Will let you know if I notice any.
Any other comms/events/ideas you'd like to see here? Some kind of prompt fests, themed challenges, resource sharing... Oh, and Promote Your Obscure Historical Fandom/Interest could be fun, too!

[chocolatepot]

Periods/areas of interest: Very broad, just about ... everything in general? I love everything historical as long as it's focused on women, royalty, and/or a non-military setting. Okay, but more specifically I tend to focus on stuff from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, and I love a focus on fashion and domestic settings. In non-fiction, I'm also into the Middle Ages, which is intriguingly weird, and I've tried to do some reading outside of English history - the Ottoman Empire, France, Spain, Russia. And I'm a fashion historian.

Historical Fandoms: I'm not actively in any historical fandoms right now (unless you count AskHistorians or my historical sewing), but I'm into Austen, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, early Downton Abbey, mid-twentieth-century musicals, and a lot of other things.

Got any more historical comms we've missed? Nope!

Any other comms/events/ideas you'd like to see here? I love fic exchanges (need deadlines to finish anything), would be nice to hold one sometime?

[thisbluespirit]

Welcome! I think we overlap quite a bit here and there, so that's cool. I don't know if we'll run a fic exchange here as such, but I definitely think we'll have to do something along those lines, like a prompt/commentfest or ficathon at some point.

*waves shyly*

[betweensunandmoon]

Periods/areas of interest: Ancient Egypt, ancient Rome, the Viking Age, the Golden Age of Piracy, and Prohibition-era America.
Historical Fandoms: Phantom of the Opera and Pirates of the Caribbean are my two main ones. I also am fond of The Master of Ballantrae, The Scarlet Pimpernel, and The Great Gatsby. And I have an incurable weakness for swashbuckler movies.
Got any more historical comms we've missed? No...unless you count vicomte_de_chagny, my comm dedicated to Raoul from PotO.
Any other comms/events/ideas you'd like to see here? I don't think so.

Re: *waves shyly*

[thisbluespirit]

*waves back* And, yes, your comm will count! Which reminds me, I should probably search for Phantom more generally, too, so thank you!

[dimity_blue]

Periods/areas of interest: The Tudors, Queen Victoria, WW1, 1920s, WW2, 1940s

Historical Fandoms: Cadfael, Upstairs Downstairs, You Rang M'Lord?, Chalet School, Garrison's Gorillas

Got any more historical comms we've missed? Not that I can think of.

Any other comms/events/ideas you'd like to see here? Let me think on that

[thisbluespirit]

:-D

[sea_changed]

Periods/areas of interest: The long 18th century, primarily the British Atlantic World (England, North America, the British Caribbean, West Africa). I'm a huge 18th century nerd and love any and everything about it; I also dip into the Restoration and Regency eras on either end of it, though I am generally more tentative the further we get from the 1700s. I'm also fascinated by World War I, though my knowledge there is more scattershot and casual; I'll also admit to having a soft spot for the Victorian Era. I love women's history and social history more generally, as well as LGBT history; I'm also very into material culture and especially historical clothing, which I'm a massive nerd about.
Historical Fandoms: I'm primarily a Black Sails person; I also have strong feelings about Hamilton. I'm also very into a few somewhat more obscure book fandoms, especially for the Lord John series by Diana Gabaldon (mystery novels starring a gay British Army officer in mid-18th century London) and the Society of Gentlemen series by K.J. Charles (Regency m/m romance novels; my favorite features a radical bookseller and a Tory government official), as well as books that really can't be said to have fandoms at all, but that I love dearly: Golden Hill, by Francis Spufford (1740s New York, gorgeous writing, I can't say too much or I'd spoil it) and Life Mask, by Emma Donoghue (1790s lesbians, richly detailed and all the characters were real historical figures). I'm also getting into historical sewing. For WWI, I adore the Regeneration series by Pat Barker; I also like exploration of the fallout of WWI, and to that end I really enjoy things like the Lord Peter Wimsey series by Dorothy L. Sayers and Peaky Blinders.
Got any more historical comms we've missed? I'm brand-new to dw after the tumblr nsfw ban, so I'm just glad I stumbled upon this one.
Any other comms/events/ideas you'd like to see here? Looking at others' suggestions, I very much second promptfests and "promote your obscure historical fandom" posts (obviously, I have a lot of them). Linkspams/round-up posts would also be really interesting too, though I know that puts a lot of work on the mods.

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, I think the long 18th sums up quite a few of us! It takes in quite a lot of fascinating stuff - and fictional fandoms.

I don't know if we could really do a regular links round up with such a wide topic (speaking for this mod at least!) but it'll always be open to any posts like that members (or mods) wish to make - and we'll definitely have to build up some resources posts between us, too. (I might need to wait for the New Year for that, but I certainly plan on trying to make ourselves useful as well as hopefully fun!)

[foreverdawning]

Periods/areas of interest: 18th Century France is a favorite era of mine, although England and Cornwall are also dear to my heart.

Historical Fandoms: Poldark is pretty much it. I enjoy watching shows like Versailles and Call the Midwife as well but it's more of a passing interest.

[thisbluespirit]

Welcome! And Poldark is a pretty good one, anyway. I'm rather more into the 1970s version, but it's still the same story whether you like the 2015, the books or the old cardboard telly!

[dickinsons]

Periods/areas of interest: I love reading about LGBT people from different periods and different parts of the world, and also love fictional works that depict these kind of characters. I've been really interested in Paris in the 1920s for a while now because of the amount of writers and other artists who were LGBT and had works and lives that are amazing to read about today. I'm also very interested in the experiences of people in the 20s/30s in Hollywood, for pretty much the same reason, and recently I've been reading about the Weimar Republic too. Apart from what I've said, I enjoy several historical TV shows, books and films from different periods.
Historical Fandoms: Downton Abbey, Black Sails, Anne of Green Gables, musicals (Elisabeth, Les Mis, Jesus Christ Superstar), The Great Gatsby, Harlots, Jane Austen.
Got any more historical comms we've missed? Nope! I'm new here.
Any other comms/events/ideas you'd like to see here? Same thing as above!

[thisbluespirit]

Welcome! Thanks for joining, and those sound like fascinating periods of interest.

[duskpeterson]

Periods/areas of interest: Ancient Western history; USA in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries; basically, anything that makes me go, "Oo, history!"
Historical Fandoms: Original, RPF, and various book fandoms. Right now, I'm digging into Queen's Thief (historical fantasy, Mediterranean-like setting) and Rosemary Sutcliff (British historical fiction, especially Roman Britain).
Got any more historical comms we've missed? Maybe queensthief?

[thisbluespirit]

basically, anything that makes me go, "Oo, history!"

heh, indeed! And welcome to the comm!

I'd always had the impession that Attolia was pure fantasy, and Googling it again now, Wikipedia seems to agree with me - it's a fantasy world based on some ancient Greek stuff, but not Ancient GReek + magic? Does that sound right to you? (If so, I'll leave it off. I'm not entirely sure where the line lies here, but I think that's fairly on the other side, I think.)

[sailorkitty]

Periods/areas of interest: Rougly 1700-1945. WWI, Edwardian, Regency, Victorian, some few Baroque interests.

Historical Fandoms: Boy's Own fiction, Age of Sail, 1840's adventuring, etc. Victorian novels.
Got any more historical comms we've missed? Boy, I wish.
Any other comms/events/ideas you'd like to see here? Mini-exchanges? 'I'll-watch-your-canon-and-write-about-it-if-you-watch-my-canon-and-write-about-it' exchanges?

[thisbluespirit]

Welcome! ANd your interests seem to overlap with a lot of others here, so hopefully it'll be useful.

As to the suggestions, nothing will happen till the New Year at least, but clearly some sort of fest will need to happen.

[reine_des_corbeaux]

Periods/areas of interest: I'm mostly into pre-1600s European history. 12th/13th century southern France is my big area of interest, but I'm pretty much just an all-purposes medieval and classical studies geek. I'm also fascinated by the Ottoman empire in general, late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain, the Tokugawa shogunate, Heian Japan, nineteenth century Russia, and the French Revolution. I'm mostly a social history person, and I'm super into art history, dance history, literary history, and queer history.
Historical Fandoms:
Shakespeare's the big one here (specifically the histories), as is classic lit in general. I'm also a huge Hilary Mantel fan. Oh, and I blame watching The Lion In Winter at a formative age for Why I Like What I Like. I also watch a ton of costume dramas but I'm not super clued into what the fandoms are like.
Got any more historical comms we've missed?
Nah, completely new to Dreamwidth
Any other comms/events/ideas you'd like to see here?
I have 0 idea how this whole Dreamwidth thing works, so I'm just gonna go with the flow for now.

[thisbluespirit]

Welcome! And we needed some more pre-17th C people to balance things out here, clearly.

I only watched The Lion in Winter more recently, but I can see it'd be a good thing to have to Blame for Everything. :-)

I have 0 idea how this whole Dreamwidth thing works, so I'm just gonna go with the flow for now.

Then, welcome again! I hope it works out for you, and don't be afraid to ask any questions if anything is weird or whatever.

[chelseagirl]

Periods/areas of interest: 19th century, especially in the US & UK -- Romantic and Victorian eras. Early-mid 20th century, if that counts.
Historical Fandoms: Love costume dramas, generally.
I see people are dividing by fantastic and non-fantastic, hmm. Fantastic: Agent Carter, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell, Penny Dreadful, Zen Cho's Sorcerer to the Crown. Non-fantastic: Poldark, The Alienist, Black Sails, Sharpe, Jane Austen, Call the Midwife, The Bletchley Circle, many more. Various historical mystery series including Benjamin January, Rosemary Simpson's recent one, Sujata Massey's new Perveen Mistry series. I was active in steampunk for awhile, a bit ago, which is demi-historical, at least.

As far as writing, Agent Carter, and a couple of Westerns (which is odd as I'm not generally a Westerns fan), Deadwood and Alias Smith & Jones. I'm currently working on the first of what I hope will be a series of mysteries set in 19th century NYC.

Also, I went to grad school for the Victorian novel.

Got any more historical comms we've missed? No, but happy to see some of the ones being listed here!

Any other comms/events/ideas you'd like to see here? Maybe matching potential betareaders by interest or expertise in a particular era?

[thisbluespirit]

Welcome! I'm glad you found us, and I hope you find the comm useful!