Historium Round Up #19

[thisbluespirit]

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

podfic_calendar - "a brand new community event archive especially for podfic fandom, to keep track of podfic-centric & podfic-friendly exchanges, meetups & challenges."

slashficlets - "a weekly prompt community for works of 100-1000 words featuring m/m relationships. All fandoms are welcome."

villainous_big_bang - "a big bang-style event for fictional villains, evil-doers, criminal masterminds, etc. from all over the fandom spectrum."


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 please continue with the current challenge to promote your fandoms until Feb 10th! (An extension due to my not-at-all-evident current state of disarray. *coughs*)

halfamoon - 14 Days of celebrating women is running until 15th February. See the Prompt List here

Victorian Holmes Prompt Box open - "an all-year-round prompt challenge for all Holmes universes set in the late 19th - early 20th century."

The 2020 Three Sentence Ficathon is live for prompts and fills

elasticella is hosting Femslash February Frenzy


Upcoming:

unsent_letters_exchange - "an epistolary fic exchange." Nominations open from 20th Feb.

smut4smut - "a gift exchange for smutty fic and art." Sign-ups open 15th-25th Feb.

genfreeformexchange - "A multi-fandom exchange focused on gen fanworks, with freeform tag matching so that you can request and offer all your favorite gen tropes and scenarios. Both solo characters and gen character combos can be requested, and fic, art, vids, and podfic are all welcome!" Nominations open till Feb 20th; sign-ups 23rd Feb-Mar 5th.

hurtcomfortex - "a pairing and freeform matching multifandom gift exchange run on AO3 with a hurt/comfort theme." Nominations open 14th-28th Feb.

waybackexchange - "a multifandom fanwork exchange (fanfiction, fanvids, podfic, and fanart all accepted) for canons that are more than 10 years old." Sign-ups open February 16th.

marchmetamatterschallenge - "focused on not just new meta, but making sure older meta gets a chance to be read and remain a part of fandom history." Running March 1st-April 1st.


For more, follow fandomcalendar and fandom_on_dw.

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Other Communities & Off-Dreamwidth Blogs

All the below saw relevant activity in the last two weeks. Click on the comms to see more!

frockflicks_feed review Ottoman (2020) and Tutankhamun (2016)
janeaustenworld_feed continues to review Sanditon on TV
historygirls_feed - Anna Mazzola has a list of the Best Historical Fiction for LGBT History Month

heavyartillery is up to Episodes 9 & 10 in The Pacific rewatch
victorian221b writes about ACD meeting Oscar Wilde and the possibility of silent communication for Holmes and Watson
indeedsir are thinking about Wodehousian Valentines and The Duties of a Valet
kjc_fans asks how do you read your KJ Charles?, looks at their profile on Tor and points out The Magpie Lord is on offer
icontalking's new activity is group icons is up, plus a round up of current icon challenges.
sutcliff_space has an article A Love of Legend (1960).
sutcliff_swap announce the fest will be running this year
give_satisfaction's February Prompt Challenge is Love, plus they have a new post for non-kink related prompts

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

Art, Icons & Graphics
magicrubbish - Icon Dump (Multifandom inc. The Crown & Breakfast at Tiffany's)
wunderkind_lucy - Remakes of 2019 Icons (Multifandom inc. Pride & Prejudice and Mulan)
mekare - Miss Fisher's Murder Mystery icons

Fic
ohveda - The Legacy of Starecross Hall (WIP, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell)
muccamukk - And Lay Our Bones to Rest (The Pacific)
northstarfan - Death's Lover Went Riding (Magnificent 7 2016)
lt_aldo_raine - Spectral Color (Band of Brothers)

Fanvids
lilly_the_kid - Apple Blossom (Indiana Jones)


Some recently canonised historical fandoms on AO3: Butcher's Crossing - John Williams, According to Hoyle, The Seagull - Chekhov, The Viper - Tolstoy

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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.