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Historium Round Up #21

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

remixapod - "A multi-fandom remix challenge where creators make multiformat fanworks that are remixes of, or inspired by, audio podfics. Podficcers sign up with between 3 and 6 podfic, and remixers have seven weeks to create a fanwork of any format (including but not limited to traditional fanfic, not!fic, pod-remixes, oral not!fic, vids, visual art, fanmixes, physical crafting…) inspired by one of the podfic they’re matched with." Podficcer sign-ups open until 22nd March. (Remixer sign-ups 23rd March-5th April.)

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:

story_works is having a Comfort Challenge - "A multifandom and multimedia challenge that is all about comfort, hurt/comfort included" open for posting until May 31st.

undeadrobins is hosting a multifandom kissathon "to celebrate all types of kisses, no matter who they’re between – or what they lead to!" (commentfest)

Here at historium we have a new challenge to pick up a new fandom from those promoted at the comm using the fandom promo tag. It's never too late to post promos/manifestos for your fandoms and we also have a lower-level option of the fandom promo post.

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.

ruuger is hosting the 8th annual Friendship fic (and art) fest (commentfest) - "A multifandom comment fest focused on friendships."

amplificathon's Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology X is now live, including 99 stories.

Upcoming:

bethefirst - "the annual challenge to write for a fandom that has no fic". Open for sign-ups until the challenge finishes on 20th April.

Via amplificathon - Out of the Auditory 2020 "a fest for podficcing works that don't fit into the "standard" fiction format, such as meta, not!fic, epistolary and chatfic, video game codes entries, fake scientific articles, poetry, and many more!"

hurtcomfortex - "a pairing and freeform matching multifandom gift exchange run on AO3 with a hurt/comfort theme." Sign-ups open until 16th March.

het_bigbang - Story claims are now live! (To create art etc. for the stories.)

For more, follow fandomcalendar and fandom_on_dw.

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Other Communities & Off-Dreamwidth Blogs
frockflicks_feed looks at The Borgias S3, Somewhere in Time (1980), Doctor Who: Black Orchid, Emma (2020), and Sanditon Episodes 2 and Episode 3
janeaustenworld_feed reviews Emma (2020)
englishhistoryauthor_feed posts A View of London in 1190

icontalking's latest challenge is Spring
heavyartillery's Rare Pair Collection is now live! The comm is also hosting a Generation Kill Rewatch, plus reviews Parachute Infantry by David Kenyon Webster
victorian221b looks at Watson a Doctor and a Soldier, Watson's Military Service and Wounds, Watson's Regiments and reviews Life Below Stairs
sutcliff_space posts about the essay Kipling for Children (1965)
fictional_fans links to a post about P. G. Wodehouse and Anti-Semitism
hamiltunes posts about Props handled by Adam Savage
indeedsir links to an archival Discord Art Gallery and looks at 1930s Long Distance Plane Travel

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

Art, Icons & Graphics
lirazel - 63 Emma Icons (Emma 2020 & Emma 2009)
olivermoss recs Jeeves & Wooster fanart by ngoziu
wunderkind_lucy - Various Fandom Icons (including Emma 2009, Ever After, Aladdin 2019, North & South)

Fic
scandalinbohemia - Oh But You're Lovely (Band of Brothers)
cabij - Prickle (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell)
luthienberen - Love's First Blush (Jeeves & Wooster)
queenkatyastar - God's Posse (Magnificent Seven)
mightymads - Such a Strange Day
lt_aldo_raine - The Boy From Kokomo (Band of Brothers)

Podfic
luzula - Shore and Ship and Moonrise (by hyarrowen) (Flight of the Heron)


Some recently canonised historical fandoms on AO3: Absent in the Spring, A Report to an Academy - Franz Kafka, Le Pic des Ténèbres - Roger Leloup, Code Poem for the French Resistance, The Counterfeiters - Andre Gide, Girl in the Blue Coat - Monica Hesse, The Best of Enemies (2019), Burke and Hare (1972), Picnic (1955), Unman Wittering and Zigo (1971), Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears, Terra Baixa | Martha of the Lowlands - Guimera, & World Without End (TV)

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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.