Historium Round Up #7

[thisbluespirit]

New communities (new/newly imported):

Creative/Multifandom etc.
(Please check individual comms for rules on RPF & Hist RPF)

fandom_itest - a new icon challenge comm where each round is for a specific different fandom & is currently looking for future hosts.

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!")

* mmom - the Merry Month of Masturbation is running from now till May 31st. ("The challenge? To post a masturbation fic for every day in May. 31 days. 31 stories. All involving masturbation in some way...")

* Spring Cleaning event @ story_works. Open now till May 31st. (" A multifandom and multimedia challenge with two options: 1) Dust off an old idea, and work on that for the challenge or 2) 2) Use 'spring cleaning' as a prompt and create something new.")

* icontalking has a round up of current icon challenges

Upcoming:
* justmarriedexchange is taking nominations till May 31; sign-ups 15-26 May. ("ust Married is a marriage-themed multifandom exchange for marriage tropes of all kinds: convenient, accidental, undercover, arranged, forced, and so on.")

* nonconathon is taking nominations till May 9th; sign-ups open 11-19th May. ("a porn fest for creating noncon works. That means explicit works in which one or more people are forced into non-consensual sex.")

For more, follow fandomcalendar and fandom_on_dw.

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Other Communities & Off-Dreamwidth Blogs
historygirls_feed: Mary Hoffman investigates Shakespeare's Dark Lady
frockflicks_feed looks at Mrs Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries & has upcoming historical drama trailers for spring, recaps Gentleman Jack Part 2 & part 3 & The Spanish Princess episode 1, lists things learned while watching The Crown Prince (2006)
janeaustenworld_feed reviews Only a Novel: The Double Life of Jane Austen by Jane Aiken Hodge

victorian221b discusses Holmes and the typical Victorian upbringing, reviews The Ardlamont Mystery, reports a New fill for the Victorian Holmes kinkmeme & asks is if there is any interest in sustaining the community
genealogy - egret posts about using research reports
indeedsir reports more fills for the kinkmeme and has a plotbunny farm post for merfolk
renaultx announces Jeanne Reames novel is available to pre-order
vicomte_de_chagny - igenlode discusses kisses in Leroux

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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
thesadchicken - Wallpaper and Screensavers & Mermay | Mermaid AU (Jeeves & Wooster)
olivermoss - Happy Mermay (Jeeves & Wooster)

Fic
dreamlittleyo - Let Some Things Slide, Sometimes That's How It Goes (WIP), & The Art of the Compromise (WIP) (Hamilton)
2 works posted to the New Year's Resolution collection in The Picture of Dorian Gray & Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes via yuletide
breathedout - Common to the Race (Sherlock Holmes (Downey Films))
cuddyclothes - The Mating Call of the Northeastern Screech Owl (WIP) (Jeeves & Wooster)
earthspirits - The Woods on a Spring Evening (American Gods)

Podfic
twilight_podfic - Listening In (fic by astolat) (LA Confidential)
aethel - 5 podfics, including Let's Start the Year Right (Band of Brothers)

Vid
thesadchicken - Let's Misbehave (Jeeves & Wooster)

Some recently canonised historical fandoms on AO3: Quincas Borba - Machado de Assis, Vengeance - George Jonas, Notes of a Russian Sniper - Vassili Zaitsev, Les Chouans - Honore de Balzac, The Book of Kings - Ferdowsi, The Violet Carlyle Mysteries, The Stone Carvers - Jane Urquhart, The Memoirs of Hadrian, Gettysburg Trilogy - Gingrich & Forstchen, Maud: The Illustrated Diary of a Victorian Woman - Flora Fraser, Political RPF - Hungary 19th c., The Golden Boys (2008), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960), 3:10 to Yuma, Mississippi Burning (1988), The Emperor's Shadow, Saving General Yang (2013), Cat Ballou (1965), All About Eve - Mankiewicz, Whistle Down the Wind - Lloyd Webber, Miss Holmes - Walsh, Peggy Sue Got Married - Gaudio/Liechtling & Sarner, Tombstone Territory (TV), Gentleman Jack & Story of Yanxi Place.

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Random Links
Two historical British travelogues free online at Vision of Britain - Daniel Defoe - A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724-1727) and William Cobbett - Rural Rides (1821-1826).

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Other historical/historical fandom newsletters:

despatches (Age of Sail - see this newsletter for 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.

Fic: his wonders to perform

[thisbluespirit]

his wonders to perform (3000 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 15th Century CE RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Elizabeth of York Queen of England/Henry VII of England, Margaret Beaufort & Henry VII of England
Characters: Henry VII of England, Elizabeth of York Queen of England, Margaret Beaufort, Jasper Tudor, John de la Pole Earl of Lincoln, Richard III of England
Additional Tags: Community: genprompt_bingo, Alternate Universe - Always a Different Sex, Female Henry VII
Summary: As a woman, Lady Margaret Tudor’s fate is in the hands of others – and in the hands of God, of course. And God, as everyone knows, moves in the strangest of ways.