Non-Obligatory Introductions Post

[thisbluespirit]

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Periods/areas of interest:
Historical Fandoms:
Got any more historical comms we've missed?
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[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.)

[duskpeterson]

Queen's Thief is a judgment call. The setting isn't antiquity, though. The setting is the Age of Gunpowder, with references to myths in ancient times and a continuance of polytheism. The location is throughout that universe's version of the eastern Mediterranean. To give a sense of what sort of thing Ms. Turner does: the fifth novel - which is set in her universe's equivalent of Mesopotamia - is plotted around the retelling of an epic that is clearly her universe's version of Gilgamesh, but she never calls it that.

I'd call her series an AU. I'm reasonably sure Ms. Turner's publishers don't know what to make of it, so they just call it a fantasy and leave it at that.

The map of her universe.

[thisbluespirit]

Thanks! That does sound far more complicated! I'll add it in anyway; for finding purposes it's definitely better here to err on the side of inclusiveness rather than exclusiveness.

[duskpeterson]

:)