2019-02-27

Historium Round Up #2

I'm not generally intending to do these weekly, but I'm still feeling my way around what to include - and it seems to have been a busy week!


New communities (new/newly imported):
Historical
[community profile] peakyblindersficexchange
[community profile] hmsloop_hotspur (Hornblower)
[community profile] indeedsir_backup (LJ comm indeedsir archive)

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 & Ongoing Events:

* Don't forget that Historium Commentfest is 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!

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


Upcoming:
* [community profile] origworkex: "an exchange for creating works featuring original characters created in the spirit of transformative works." (Sign-ups open till 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." (Sign-ups open till 2nd 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.")

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

* [community profile] hurtcomfortex: ("a pairing and freeform matching multifandom gift exchange run on AO3." Nominations open till 27th Feb; sign-ups open 1st-7th March.)

* [community profile] fandomtrumpshate: Bidding opens 26th Feb till 1st March ("an online fanworks auction, designed to raise money for nonprofit organizations that help and protect those who are being targeted by the current administration.)

* [community profile] multifandomdrabble: ("an exchange for stories of exactly 100 words." Nominations open till March 2nd; sign-ups March 3rd-9th).

For more, follow [community profile] fandomcalendar and [community profile] fandom_on_dw.




Other Communities & Off-Dreamwidth Blogs
[syndicated profile] historygirls_feed: carolyn Hughes writes about the problem with historical fiction while Miranda Miller looks at reimagining the Iliad and Catherine Hokin asks How Fictional is Your History?
[syndicated profile] newsmusings_feed: reviews Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant & Crystal King's The Chef's Secret
[syndicated profile] frockflicks_feed reviews 1890s couture in Mathilde: The Affair to Break an Empire & has posted a Guide to Lesser English Medieval Queens on Film
[syndicated profile] englishhistoryauthor_feed are having a giveaway of copies of "Earl of Huntingdon"

[community profile] hmsloop_hotspur posts a welcome & asks for introductions and suggestions from members
[community profile] call_the_midwife_fans is hosting a friending meme for the show's fans & opens up discussion on episode 8x07
[community profile] indeedsir: [personal profile] cuddyclothes Has solved an illustration mystery and is looking for icons
[community profile] mystery_mansion: [personal profile] thisbluespirit links to a murder map of 13th C London




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
[personal profile] parisdiorchanel - Harlots icons (gifs)
[personal profile] alexia_drake - multifandom icons + stock (including various vintage items)
[personal profile] sharpiefan has a collection of useful historical screencap links

Fic
[personal profile] kunstarschloch - From the Sea & Fighting the Urge (Boardwalk Empire) and Snow Day (Band of Brothers) plus various Band of Brothers pieces for [community profile] fandom_stocking
[personal profile] dreamlittleyo - The Art of the Compromise & Let's Go (Hamilton)
[personal profile] muccamukk - come down and kiss me fairly (Kidnapped!)
[personal profile] thisbluespirit - Immoral Support (The Hour)
[personal profile] scripsi - A Moment (Marvellous Mrs Maisel)
[personal profile] gettinggreyer - fic recs for Le Fanu's Carmilla
[personal profile] ursula - Taking Inventory (13th C RPF) & The Pelerins Progress (Chaucer Hath a Blog
[personal profile] ljwrites - The Dream of the God's Wife (Ancient Egypt RPF) & Les marguerites fleuriront ce soir (WWII RPF)
[personal profile] all_choseny - Everything (The Tudors TV)
[personal profile] leahclaire - Common as a Winter Cold (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell)

Some recently canonised historical fandoms on AO3: The Black Cat - Poe, Blackthorn Key series, Love/War/Death - Kij Johnson, Navigating Early, Ozymandius, Jeanne d'Arc | The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999), White Sun of the Desert (1970), Polteucte - Gounod, The Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood, Young People of Border Town, Gwanggaeto The Great Conqueror & General & I.




Random Links
London Lives 1690-1800 (Browse & search an online collection of London criminal and parish documents + further London links & background.)




Other historical/historical fandom newsletters:

[community profile] despatches (Age of Sail - see this newsletter for AoS comms & fandoms related fic, links, discussion etc.)




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 [community profile] 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.