Historium Round Up #8

[thisbluespirit]

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

iconcolors - "a new icon comm... where the challenge is to make up to 3 icons inspired by a different color palette every week!"

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:

* hurtcomfortex's collection is now live! (Fandoms include The Alienist, Greek Myths & Legend, Aubrey-Maturin, The Musketeers, Original, The Terror, Timeless and more.)

* waybackexchange has also gone live! (Fandoms include Greek myths & legends, Jane Austen, Anne of Green Gables, Band of Brothers, Great Gatsby, Shakespeare, Little Women, A Room With a View and more.)


* 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 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 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.")


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

* raremaleslashex - sign ups open till 1 June. ("Rare Male Slash Exchange is a gift exchange for m/m slash ships. Participants match on at least one fandom, one ship, and one medium (fanart or fanfiction).")

* Les Miserables BBC Exchange opens for sign-ups 26th May-3rd June.

For more, follow fandomcalendar and fandom_on_dw.

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Other Communities & Off-Dreamwidth Blogs
historygirls_feed: Penny Dolan reviews Jack Fortune and the Search for the Hidden Valley by Sue Perkiss and LJ Trafford makes some Roman Recommendations
englishhistoryauthor_feed: Richard Denham discusses modern day stories of King Arthur
frockflicks_feed looks at Tolkien (2019), Yellowbeard (1983), Little Women (2018) & Austenland (2013), and recaps The Spanish Princess (ep 2) & Episode 3, & Gentleman Jack (ep4) & Episode 5
[Unknown site tag] reviews Tell Them of Battles, Kings and Elephants

victorian221b: discusses height difference between Holmes & Watson, domestic service, the Sherlock Holmes test, looks at ACD's tales of criminals, announces a BFI introduction to Victorian Film, reviews Arthur Conan Doyle: Memoirs and Letters, Pt. 1 & announces a new Russian Sherlock Holmes series
give_satisfaction reports more fills (& check out some rule changes & ongoing discussion about the comm format.)

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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
goodbyebird - 45 icons, including Harlots
turlough - 20 Cecily M Barker Flower Fairies icons

Fic
anon - And yet my sky shall not want (Henry V; for the Historium Commentfest
dreamlittleyo - The Situation is Fraught & What Do You Stall For? (Hamilton)
earthspirits - The Woods on a Spring Evening (WIP) (American Gods)
ohveda - The Legacy of Starecross Hall (WIP) (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell)
cuddyclothes - The 3A Berkeley Mansions Literary Society (WIP) (Jeeves & Wooster)
thisbluespirit - his wonders to perform (15th C RPF)

Vids
thesadchicken - Drive My Car and Sexbomb (Jeeves & Wooster)

Some recently canonised historical fandoms on AO3: Valkyrie - Maria Semyonova, Pelko and Wolves - Maria Semyonova, The Secret River - Kate Grenville, Bernice Bobs Her Hair - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Burnt By the Sun (1994), East of Kensington, We Have Always Lived in the Castle (2019), The Timber (2015), Apollo 11 (1996, & The Spanish Princess

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Random Links
The Ersatz Genremixer - my favourite random generator. Simply type in the characters of your choice, adjust the settings to your preferences and generate some tropey prompts!

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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.