Historium Round Up #5

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New communities (new/newly imported):
Creative/Multifandom etc.
(Please check individual comms for rules on RPF & Hist RPF)

iconprompts: "a low-pressure prompt community designed to help you find inspiration when making your icons."

For more, follow dw_community_promo, fandom_on_dw, ipromo and icontalking & don't forget our Masterlist of Communities.

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

Open Collections & Ongoing Events:
Victorian Holmes Kinkmeme - Round 1 is running on AO3 until June 30th 2019. ("an AO3-hosted prompt meme for all Victorian-era Sherlock Holmes canons: ACD, film adaptations such as the Downey, Rathbone, and Peter Cushing films, the Granada series starring Jeremy Brett, and so on!")

Multifandom Poetry Fest ("A prompt fest for poetry for all fandoms.")

podfic_bingo opens for its 2019 Round - sign-ups from now till 1 Oct.

genprompt_bingo is open for Round 16. ("a low commitment multi-fandom, multi-media bingo challenge.")

* 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.


Upcoming:
* springfest - claiming open till April 2; posting April 2-April 30. ("A month-long, once-a-year promptfest run in a manner similar to the prior kinkfest community.")

* dick_or_treat: "a multi-fandom fanfic/fanart fest that runs from April 1 to April 30. Participation is open to anyone, no sign-up required! Participation is open to anyone, no sign-up required! Dick-or-Treat is akin to Kinktober in April. Kinktober is an event where participants have a list of kinks they're free to mix and match as they choose. Rather than kinks, however, participants of Dick-or-Treat can choose from any Pokemon move in existence."

* slashorific - prompt claiming open from April 1. ("A Fanfiction & Fanart Community For All Slash Fans (in all the fandoms).") 2019 round theme is Fairy Tales.

* npt_admin: Not For Prime Time - nominations open till April 15. ("a gen, het, femslash, and slash multifandom secret fiction exchange for medium sized fandoms.")

* nightonficmountain: sign-ups open until 21 April. ("an annual fic and art exchange for small, rare, and inactive fandoms.")

For more, follow fandomcalendar and fandom_on_dw.

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Other Communities & Off-Dreamwidth Blogs
historygirls_feed: Mary Hoffman reviews Diarmaid MacCullough's Thomas Cromwell: a Life
frockflicks_feed looks at Doctor Who: The Masque of Mandragora, Murder on the Orient Express (1974) & Mary Queen of Scots executions on screen, and has a sneap peek at The Spanish Princess (you might want to check the date before reading)

icontalking links to current icon challenges on DW

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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 categories.

Art, Icons & Graphics
felis recs Eyes are the Window to Your Soul and Good Morning both by Luluha (The Hour)
olivermoss - Merfolk (Jeeves & Wooster)
eadu - 87 Agent Carter icons

Fic
give_satisfaction - first prompt fill Eau de Lust (Jeeves & Wooster)
kunstarschloch - Winters/Nixon rec list (Band of Brothers)
dreamlittleyo - We'll See How It Goes & All You Had to Say(Hamilton)
cuddyclothes recs some kinky Jeeves & Wooster fic

Podfic
hrj - Where My Heart Goes (Italian Renaissance RPF)


Some recently canonised historical fandoms on AO3: The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton, The North Water - Ian McGuire, Saviour of the Soul (1991), Red Cherry (1995), Sword Dynasty, & A Chinese Ghost Story

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Random Links
Food History Jottings (Food history blog, main focus on UK, Europe, & America).

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Other historical/historical fandom newsletters:
despatches - Age of Sail newsletter. 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, comment here or PM a mod to let us know.