Non-Obligatory Introductions Post

[thisbluespirit]

Hello and welcome to historium! Your mods are thisbluespirit and auroracloud.

This post is for us to introduce ourselves (for those who want to - it's in no way obligatory).

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Periods/areas of interest:
Historical Fandoms:
Got any more historical comms we've missed?
Any other comms/events/ideas you'd like to see here?

<b>Periods/areas of interest:</b> <b>Historical Fandoms:</b> <b>Got any more historical comms we've missed?</b> <b>Any other comms/events/ideas you'd like to see here?</b>


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[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!