Historium Round up #17

[thisbluespirit]

Happy New Year to everyone at historium! Here's the first Round Up of the year, if a little belated. (The reading list stopped short of last Round Up's date, unfortunately.)

For those involved in yuletide, please feel free to crosspost any relevant fic announcement and recs here at historium if you want! And don't forget you can also add AO3 bookmarks to our collection as you go.


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

monthlysupergo - "a monthly challenge community featuring various sorts of challenges that fandom has created over the years. (But smaller, and without the pressure.)" - is relaunching after a break.

fandomhistoryproject - "Our goal is to save online fandom history that is at risk of being lost. Feel free to join our conversations. Our current project at this comm is saving fandom history from LiveJournal."

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.

yuletide went live on the 25th - check out the collection for loads of historical fic over multiple small fandoms if you haven't already! Plus, check the recs tag at the comm.

seasonofkink is running until Feb 14th - "just pick three or more kinks from our masterlist, and produce a fan work containing all of them. "

snowflake_challenge - "a celebration of fandom and the people in it with a series of fannish challenges" is running again until 31st Jan

Upcoming:

poetry_fiction has a new set of challenges for the year - "This year's challenge will be a rolling challenge, with a retrospective of poets from previous years. Each month, the mod will share fragments of poetry from previous featured poets to serve as inspiration, so you can either request new prompts or look at the prompts that are already on the community."

For more, follow fandomcalendar and fandom_on_dw.

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Other Communities & Off-Dreamwidth Blogs
frockflicks_feed looks at multiple versions of Emma and concludes that Dracula 2020 doesn't entirely suck

fancake's new theme is Diplomatic Marriage
heavyartillery's inaugural Rare Pairs Exchange is open for sign-ups until 18th January and is rewatching The Pacific
nirvana_in_fire links to Yuletide Nirvana Fire works
victorian221b looks at A Study in Emerald, has extracts from the Granada Holmes DVD commentary, reviews The Rider Named Death (2004), as a recipe of a Holmes story and examines ACD and appreciation of male beauty
acdholmesfest - a new round kicks off on 6th Jan!
yuletide_admin has a list of some of the less obvious newly created/synned Yule-fandoms (including several historical fandoms).
friendsofenglishmagic has statistics!
mag7daybook has a round up of the fandom's first decade on AO3
anything_aos has a round up of Yuletide Age of Sail fic
indeedsir is updating the list of Wodehouse comms & Discords
renaultx links to Renault-based stories in Yuletide
sutcliff_space has statistics on the state of the fandom plus links to Rosemary Sutcliff in Yuletide
give_satisfaction has a New Year's prompt challenge

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

Art, Icons & Graphics
magicrubbish - 32 Icons - a new decade (Multifandom including Downton Abbey)
mintesque - 354 Icons (The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Esmeralda) (Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame)
mekare - nif art (Nirvana in Fire)

Fic
mistymads - Journeys End in Lovers' Meeting (Sherlock Holmes)
arwen88 - I'll Be Home for Christmas & Groundhog Day (Band of Brothers)
likealeafonthewind - Smile, Breathe and go slowly, plus recs (in the same post) Folk Music by demitas (Nirvana in Fire)
undeadrobins - A Dog in Wolf's Clothing (Magnificent Seven TV)
seshat0120 - Kringle (Magnificent 7 TV)
scandalinbohemia - And Nights are Bright Days (Band of Brothers)
zairaa - Like a Dragonfly in Amber (Nirvana in Fire)
slightlytookish - Christmas 1944 & This Time Next Year (Band of Brothers)
muccamukk - We'll Walk in Good Company (The Pacific)
lt_aldo_raine - Midnight, C'mon it's Fun, Winter Storm After, Families, Cold Out, & The Stocking (Band of Brothers)
olivermoss - The Snowed In Flat (Jeeves & Wooster)
luthienberen - Feline Frolics (Jeeves & Wooster)
muccamukk - Pantomime Dreams & An Evening of Fire and Ice (Band of Brothers)

Fanmixes
impala_chick - Still Valliant in my own Little Way and Mixed Signals (Band of Brothers & Generation Kill)


Some recently canonised historical fandoms on AO3: Mariah Mundi series, The She-Wolf - Giovanni Verga, Tell It To the Bees (2018), To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), J J Sneed (Heartstrings), Titanic - Stone, Moulin Rouge: The Musical, The Three Musketeers - Ludwig, Jekyll & Hyde - Wildhorn, Princess Maleine, Frankenstein: A New Musical, Grand Hotel - Wright & Forrest, & Dracula (TV 2020)

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Random Links
Welsh Newspapers Online - free collection of historical Welsh newspapers from the National Library of Wales.

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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.

Comments

[theseatheseatheopensea]

Yay! Bookmarkssssssss! <3

Awesome info, as usual. Thank you!

[thisbluespirit]

Thanks!

[luthienberen]

Thank you for such resourceful round-ups! Hugely appreciated. Ah so much to check hurrah.

[thisbluespirit]

My pleasure!