Historium Round Up #12

[thisbluespirit]

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

Historical
heavyartillery - "an HBOWar fandom community, welcoming works from Band of Brothers, The Pacific, Generation Kill, and any future HBOWar properties."

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 new 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.

elasticella is hosting a multifandom Softer World comment ficathon with prompts from the Softer World webcomic.

stageoffools exchange has opened all its prompts up for treating ("for fanfiction based on the plays of William Shakespeare with the exception of the Histories".)

corsetsandlemons are having a round for 16th-18th century Literature prompts & fills

horrorfanworkschallenge are running a horror challenge for fic and art for October.

octobercest - incest fic fest running in October.

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

femslash_kink - "a yearly multifandom comment fic fest to promote and celebrate kink fic in femslash." Open for prompting 26th-29th November.

Upcoming:
ushobwri is kicking off the Miserable Fucks November Social for support with NaNoWriMo and Yuletide and countless other challenges.

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

yuletide - sign-ups open until Nov 4th and you can find the letters post here

het_bigbang - "a challenge focused on producing written works of 20k for the Big Bang, and 10k for the Mini-Bang." Sign-ups open until November 1st.

For more, follow fandomcalendar and fandom_on_dw.

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Other Communities & Off-Dreamwidth Blogs
frockflicks_feed reviews The Harvey Girls (1946) Pt2, The Legend of Lizzie Borden, The Scandalous Four (2011), Fanny Lye Deliver'd (2019), & Catherine the Great Ep 1
historygirls_feed - Sue Purkiss reviews The Clara Vine series by Jane Thynne

mag7daybook has the latest Hallowe'en prompts
indeedsir Talks about Yuletide and discusses the Yahoo Groups Shutdown
heavyartillery now also has a Discord and are beginning a Band of Brothers rewatch, plus a Winters & Nixon Timeline, Review of Twelve O'Clock High
sutcliff_space are looking at the Sutcliff fandoms nominated for Yuletide this year
ddsherman - kunstarschloch announces the Winnix Fluff Challenge on AO3 (Posting Nov 1-30).
nirvana_in_fire are looking at Xiao Jingyan for Character Week 2, discussing the characters nominated for Yuletide, & mekare has a set of art & fic recs

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

Art, Icons & Graphics
magicrubbish - 23 Multifandom icons (inc. Downton Abbey & Sherlock Holmes)
mekare - Nirvana in Fire Inktober Art (Nirvana in Fire)
charlottenewtons - Horror Film Icons (including Crimson Peak & Sleepy Hollow)

Fic
thrillingdetectivetales - I'll Love You Well (The Pacific)
muccamukk - Through the Clover to the Creek & All My Love to Give (Band of Brothers)
luthienberen - Bertie the Familiar (Jeeves & Wooster)
kimboo_york - Promises (WIP, Nirvana in Fire)
scandalinbohemia - The Essential (Is Invisible to the Eyes) (Band of Brothers)
arwen88 - Pirates! (Band of Brothers)
give_satisfaction have more fills (Jeeves & Wooster)
stonepicking_okapi - And Turns No More His Head (Casting the Runes)

Podfic
aethel - 9 podfics (including Moby Dick & Band of Brothers)

Some recently canonised historical fandoms on AO3: Konrad Wallenrod, The Birth-Mark - Nathaniel Hawthorne, Arthur Conan Doyle & Dr Joseph Bell Series, Roxana - Daniel Defoe, The Salem Horror - Henry Kuttner, 3rd Century CE RPF, The Catcher Was a Spy, I Married a Witch (1942), Party Girl (1958), The Crimson Kimono (1959), Good (2008), & Casablanca (TV 1983).

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Random Links
Food History Jottings Blog

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Other historical/historical fandom newsletters:

despatches (Age of Sail. Click on link for latest edition.)
looselipssinkships - Mail Call #8 & #7

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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.

Comments

[cuddyclothes]

Thank you! You say it's not comprehensive but DAMN you are amazing.

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, thank you! And much as I very much appreciate the appreciation (♥), it really isn't comprehensive (which is quite comforting in some ways given the reduced nature of journal-space these days) and also having set up a reading list, I merely have to go back through it, cherrypicking historical bits every fortnight, which takes some time but is pretty straightforward at least!