Oct. 16th, 2019

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[personal profile] thisbluespirit
New communities (new/newly imported):
(Please check individual comms for rules on RPF & Hist RPF)

Historical
[community profile] ddsherman (Band of Brothers)

Creative/Multifandom etc.
[community profile] inspiring_tables - "a low-pressure multifandom prompt community that is serving as an unofficial continuation/revival of the now-abandoned 15kisses, 15kinks, 15woes, and whole_new_world prompt communities."

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:

[community profile] equinox_exchange: Fall Equinox ("Costume Party") has gone live! (Historical themed vids).

[community profile] corsetsandlemons are having a round for 16th-18th century Literature prompts & fills

[community profile] horrorfanworkschallenge are running a horror challenge for fic and art for October.

[community profile] octobercest - incest fic fest running in October.

[community profile] spooktoberchallenge - "a multi-fandom Halloween challenge with two set of 31 prompts." Running in October.

[community profile] fanmixfest opens Round 2 with three new themes


Upcoming:
[community profile] holidayartswap - "an art swap for fandoms with less then 100 works tagged 'Art' on Ao3!" Nominations open till Oct 31st.

[community profile] fortune_favors - "a fest inspired by the Tarot, where the prompts themselves are Tarot cards personally generated for you by the mod." Sign-ups open till 26th October.

[community profile] peakyblindersficexchange - nominations open till 20th October.

[community profile] ddsherman - Sign ups open for Holiday Band of Brothers Exchange till 30th Oct.

[community profile] yuletide - sign-ups will open on 27th Oct.

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




Other Communities & Off-Dreamwidth Blogs
[syndicated profile] frockflicks_feed reviews Manon Lescaut (2013), Fire Over England (1937), Lady J (2018), The Harvey Girls Part 1 (1946), & looks at Five Things About the Blood Queen (2015)
[syndicated profile] englishhistoryauthor_feed explores Jane Austen & Home Theatricals
[syndicated profile] historygirls_feed look at Servants in Historical Fiction

[community profile] mag7daybook is having a Halloween Prompt Fest
[community profile] indeedsir has some 1920s & 30s Halloween songs for inspiration & a trailer for Hugh Laurie's new project - The Personal History of David Copperfield
[community profile] victorian221b has Information about Carriages & Witchcraft Laws in the UK
[community profile] icontalking - [personal profile] tinyumbrella is promoting [community profile] capshare - "a cap sharing comm and any screencaps or scans are acceptable; tv, movies, video games etc."
[community profile] fancake's October theme is "Domestic">
[community profile] give_satisfaction has an
October Prompt Challenge: Crack!




Fanworks
Farmed from other comms on the watchlist. Recs are included within the relevant categories.

Art, Icons & Graphics
[personal profile] magicrubbish - Multifandom Icon Dump (including Gentleman Jack, Magnificent 7, Pride & Prejudice, Reign, Sherlock Holmes, Pirates of the Caribbean, Poirot, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Penny Dreadful & more.)

Fic
[personal profile] meridian_rose posted 5 fills for [community profile] 100fandoms including one for The Borgias
[personal profile] luthienberen Beware the Bogeyman! Hush! Here He Comes! (Jeeves & Wooster)
[personal profile] ohveda - The Legacy of Starecross Hall (Ch5, WIP)
[community profile] give_satisfaction have more fills (Jeeves & Wooster)

Meta
[personal profile] kimboo_york - has a post about "that spoilery thing" (Nirvana in Fire)

Some recently canonised historical fandoms on AO3: Despair - Vladimir Nabokov, The Wedding of Sir Gawaine & Dame Ragnelle, The Awntyrs Off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyne, Matchmaker Duncan Sisters - Jane Feather, The Magnificent Ambersons, Great Expectations (1999), The King (2019), The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002), All That Heaven Allows, A Brighter Summer's Day (1991), The Captain (2017), Indecent - Vogel, The Flashing Blade, King's War, Charité at War & Sanditon (TV 2019)




Random Links
You Can't Say That! - a guide to anachronisms & other crimes (focusing on post 1750 set published works).




Other historical/historical fandom newsletters:

[community profile] despatches (Age of Sail - see this newsletter for AoS comms & fandoms related fic, links, discussion etc.)
[personal profile] looselipssinkships - Mail Call #6 & Mail Call #5




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, comment here or PM a mod to let us know.
auroracloud: an old moat or bridge, with the text "the past is never dead... it isn't even past" (past is never dead)
[personal profile] auroracloud
Welcome to the first fandom promotion/manifesto challenge of the Historium community! Since this is a community for all fandoms with a connection to history, many of us may have many fandoms the others haven't even heard of, or only have a vague idea of. In this challenge, we encourage you to tell other members of the community about your favourite fandoms, so that others may find fandoms they're interested in and you get more people to share the love with!

The challenge is running until January 15, 2020, but if someone feels like posting a manifesto/fandom promo after that, go ahead! The next three months are just when I'll be encouraging people to do this, and when we hope to get a nice collection of many different fandom manifestos/promos for our members and followers to browse.

We're keeping this pretty chill, so I'm not setting up a sign-up process to start with — but if many of you feel you would prefer to sign up for a particular date, and have me gently remind you if you haven't posted yours by then, let me know and I can set up a voluntary sign-up system. There's no limit to how many manifestos one person can post (unless someone starts flooding the community by posting every day or something, but I doubt it!). I more than one person wants to post about the same fandom, that's all right as well; you may have very different perspectives on it. But do try to keep at least a few weeks between them!

I'll try to post a few of my own in the coming weeks to so it'll be easier for you to get started as well, and see some examples of how to do it. Hopefully the first one will be up within a week. But you don't need to wait for me to post some of mine - you can start as soon as you want to. I'll also keep track of posted manifestos, so you can find them more easily later.

I'm providing a possible template for your manifesto, which I've adapted from [community profile] shipmanifestos. As I said, we're keeping things chill, so you don't have to adhere to this format if you prefer to structure your post differently. Feel free to adapt the format if you like, to add categories you need, or to make it simpler. But even if you change the format or use a different one, please make sure you at least include information on the fandom, its connection to history, and any content warnings.

If anything I've written in the template seems unclear to you, or you find errors in it, please let me know in the comments!

After you've hopefully found some new fandoms via other people's manifestos, you can check out the comment fic challenge again to see if you now can write for more prompts than before! And you can always keep posting fills for the bingo challenge (that reminds me, I need to get on with mine…).

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