Historium Round Up #3

[thisbluespirit]

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

Open Collections & Ongoing Events:

* Don't forget that the Historium Commentfest is still open for prompts and fills! All historical fandoms welcome, both fictional and RPF, also general fandoms in historical settings. All types of fanworks welcome. Prompt and fill to your heart's content!

* fluffbingo is open for round 2 ("a low pressure bingo prompt challenge community for the romantic heart in you.")

Upcoming:

* origworkex: "an exchange for creating works featuring original characters created in the spirit of transformative works." (Sign-ups open till 16th March.)

* peakyblindersficexchange: ("a gift exchange for Peaky Blinders fandom." Sign ups open till 15th March.)

* Be The First is now open for sign-ups & writing (a challenge to write the first fic in any fandom without fic; on LJ, though no account is needed.)

* ssrconfidential Nominations for 2019 are now open (Agent Carter exchange; see comm for more info)

* fandom5k: ("a multi-fandom gift exchange for fic with a 5,000-word minimum.") Open for nominations till 22nd March; sign=ups 23rd-6th April.)

For more, follow fandomcalendar and fandom_on_dw.

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Other Communities & Off-Dreamwidth Blogs
historygirls_feed: Gillian Polack looks at novelists and primary sources while Anna Mazzola lists ten best witch historical novels & Antonia Senior has list of her favourite historical novels from five years of round-ups
newsmusings_feed: reviews Smoke and Ashes by Abir Mukherjee
frockflicks_feed looks at The Josephine Baker Story (1991), take a in depth look at The Duchess (2008), reviews The Portrait of a Lady (1996), continue their Guide to Lesser English/British Queens on Film from the renaissance to the 19th C into the 20th Century & discuss Top five upcoming Netflix releases
englishhistoryauthor_feed are offering chances to win copies of An Abiding Fire by MJ Logue
janeaustenworld_feed are offering free copies of Saints & Sinners

sutcliff_swap announces a hiatus for 2019 (unless anyone else is interested in running it this year).
indeedsir highlists Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week & are Wodehouse spotting in other fictional sources and discussing future comm activities
call_the_midwife_fans is discussing episode 8x08 & announces the show's renewal
history links to the hedgehog's great escape
easycotroopers is looking for feedback on the HBO War Week event
historyisalie is promoting the land comm Game of Cards
genealogy is discussing Ancestry's ThruLines feature

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Fanworks
Posted to Historium since the last round-up, and farmed from other general comms. Recs are included within the relevant category.

Art, Icons & Graphics
tremendousdetectivetheory - Jooster Kiss (Jeeves & Wooster)
felis recs 1935, 1940, and 1945 by cj-ludd18 & The Hour (Freddie) by Ruvillie (The Hour)
jmlittle_art - The Moment Before & NSFW Hamilton/Washington Art (Hamilton)
jakeremake - reposts Jeeves & Wooster icons
iliadtea - Jeeves Makes an Omelette mini comic (Jeeves & Wooster)

Fic
teatimemols - Disgust (Band of Brothers)
brideoffrankenstein - The Strange Case of the Vanished Mr Norrell (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell)
dreamlittleyo - Do Whatever It Takes, Here's What I Got, Never Be Satisfied & ch4 of The Art of the Compromise (Hamilton)
muccamukk - The Old North Star & When First Their Eyes Met (Band of Brothers)

Plus fills so far for the Historium commentfest (Murdoch Mysteries, The Lost World, Marco Polo, Black Sails, Greek Myths, Sapphire & Steel, Spartacus, The Mummy & The Hour)

Vids
sanguinity - Archie in the Rain (Hornblower)

Some recently canonised historical fandoms on AO3: The OVal Portrait (Poe), Misty of Chincoteague, Le Rouge et Le Noir, Invisible Agent (1942), Song of the South (1946), Novecento | 1900 (1976), Bad Girls (1994), Don't Look Back (1967), Akhnatan - Glass, Xin Yi Jian Mei (TV 2009), The Flame's Daughter, Prince of Lan Ling, All Men Are Brothers (TV 2011), Love Legend of the Tang Dynasty & The Conquest (TV).

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Random Links
Regency Explorer's Story Generator for those stuck for a plot twist

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Other historical/historical fandom newsletters:

despatches (Age of Sail - see the most recent edition for all AoS comms & fandoms related fic, links, discussion etc.)

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Disclaimer: This in no way comprehensive even for history & fandom on Dreamwidth, let alone on other sites and I am not aware of all fictional historical fandoms by name.

All posts are taken from public community posts or via the wider web, but if there is anything you would prefer not to be linked here just let me know. To bring something of interest to historium, please post directly to the comm. But if you do want anything included in the round-up or know of comms/sites we should be watching, let us know.

Comments

[auroracloud]

Lovely newsletter, thank you for taking the time to make this!

And I still need to do something for the commentfest... People should prompt in my fandoms more so that I'd be able to! But I at least remembered to finally leave a few prompts... I might go back with more later.

That's a neat generator! Wonder if I should try to write a story with that...

[thisbluespirit]

People should prompt in my fandoms more so that I'd be able to!

I'm having the same problem - more prompts is always the answer! <3

And I'm glad you found the newsletter useful.