Historium Round Up #16

[thisbluespirit]

As I'm away and, in any case, the next round up would be due on Christmas Day, here's an early round up to keep everyone busy in the meantime.

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

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:

Here at historium you can take part in our current challenge to promote your fandoms (open until January 15th)! You can also still sign up for or claim your banners for our Historium Bingo challenge.

story_works is hosting a Paranormal Challenge open till Jan 31st 2020.

elasticella is running Sapphic Stuffing Stockers a holiday femslash ficathon open till 2nd January.

genprompt_bingo "a low commitment multi-fandom, multi-media bingo challenge." is open for Round 17. (Prompts are gen; fills can be of any type/rating.)

inkingitout "a low-key writing support community with weekly check-in opportunities" is open for sign-ups until 1 January

fandom_stocking won't be happening this year, but you can link to a similar 'stocking' of your own via stocking_wishlist, post a more general wishlist at holiday_wishes or leave treats for others at in_a_peartree (sign-ups there finished a week or so ago). Treats from random passers-by welcome at all three.

Upcoming:

yuletide will go live on the 25th December; Yuletide Madness on 26th. Treats still welcome!

chocolateboxcomm " a low pressure, low commitment multifandom gift exchange" is open for nominations until 28th December.

For more, follow fandomcalendar and fandom_on_dw.

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Other Communities & Off-Dreamwidth Blogs
frockflicks_feed has upcoming trailers for the new year, looks back at the Top Five Things Poldark has given us, and reviews Mrs Maisel and A Tale of Two Cities (1980)
englishhistoryauthor_feed looks behind the scenes of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol
janeaustenworld_feed reviews The World's Classics edition of Sanditon and The Lost Books of Jane Austen by Janine Barchas

heavyartillery has a resource post on the 1st Marine Report on Cape Gloucester
nirvana_in_fire links to the now-open Nirvana in Fire exchange collection
victorian221b looks at an article on tattoos in Victorian England, is looking for recs for books on WWI and recs the film They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)
ddsherman's Exchange collection is open, plus Prompts
archaeology has an interesting link
history links to an important question about eel rent

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

Art, Icons & Graphics
nowhere - 630 Aladdin icons (Aladdin (2019))

Fic
lt_aldo_raine - Oops, Fudge Part II, Mistletoe, Jingle Bells, Thoughts From a Foxhole, Rachamps, The North Pole, Shifty Remembers & Casual, Anything But (Band of Brothers)
muccamukk - As Seen Through a Fog (The Pacific)
ohveda recs A Lily on Thy Brow by BeautifulSoup (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell)

Vids
lilly_the_kid - Blood in the Cut (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood)

Some recently canonised historical fandoms on AO3: The Country of the Pointed Firs - Sarah Orne Jewett, Day of Anger (1967), A Man Called Hero (1999), Legend of the Daming Palace (2010), A Woman of No Importance - Wilde, Becoming Nancy, The Man Who Came to Dinner & Acacias 38

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Random Links
HistoryExtra advises on how to celebrate a Medieval Christmas via Medieval Festive Facts.

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Other historical/historical fandom newsletters:

despatches (Everything Age of Sail related)
looselipssinkships (HBO War Fandoms)

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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 next round-up or would like us to add any comms/blogs/your journal to the watchlist, comment here or PM a mod to let us know.