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Roll up, roll up for another bingo challenge! This time, we want your best recommendations for fanworks.

The rules, such as they are:

The cards:
Bingo cards of 5x5, 1-3 recs per square.
3 vetoes allowed per card.
Players can request a romance included or a totally gen card.

The players:
Players may interpret prompts as freely as they wish.
Players may post their recs one by one or in batches on the Historium comm (remember to include the header Historium Recs Bingo).
Recs have to be readily available and cannot be locked in any way.
No self recs.
If linking directly to a page with no header info (etc.), please include appropriate ratings and warnings/content notes.

The banners:
There are banners for 1, 2, 4 lines plus a full card.
There's no time limit for claiming banners.

Any questions?

auroracloud or I will be happy to answer them.

What are you waiting for? Ask for a card, get out those hidden gems it's a shame more people haven't read or seen, and start reccing.

All prompts:

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thisbluespirit

Our current

historium challenge is now closed! However, should anyone pick up any new fandoms thanks to people's efforts in posting Fandom Promos here, please do feel free to still get back to the original poster if you want to.

historium is always open for new Fandom promos so if you're (like me) still working on a Manifesto from the last-but-one challenge, it's never too late to post it, and we will probably re-run this challenge some time.

And, of course, all members are welcome to post any news, links, discussion, fanworks, reviews, events etc. that they feel are relevant here at any time. (If you have questions, check out the sticky for guidelines or ask a mod - you can comment there or here or PM one of us.)

Meanwhile, my co-mods

dimity_blue and

auroracloud are plotting our next challenge even as I type! It should be something a little bit more laid back and accessible, I think - but I'll leave that to them to explain! Watch this space...

thisbluespirit

Just a reminder that we have the latest challenge going on at

historium to pick up a new fandom, running until June 30th.

You can check out what's been promoted in our fandom promo tag, post a new fandom promo (or manifesto) yourself (the comm is always open for them).

Plus, as the more fandoms there are to choose from, the more people will be able to play, you can also promote your fandom in a comment at the fandom promo post. (Feel free to chat about fandoms in the promo post, too!)

There's no hurry, but I thought it might have got rather lost in the sudden turn of events everywhere! ♥

thisbluespirit

Our latest challenge is to pick up a fandom, and while you can already find several fandoms via our fandom promo tag, more is good, yes?

So, here's an extra place to share some of the historical fandoms we love! Our definition is fairly wide and includes things that may contain supernatural elements, contemporary material that is now historical, RPF and fiction, and our cut-off date is fifty years ago (1970). Fandoms may be as obscure (or not) as you wish. (Please - no bashing of anyone or their fandoms in this post.)

Here's a template to use, with c+p text below in the box:

Fandom:
Historical Period:
Content Notes/Warnings:
What it is/what’s so great about it:
Where to find it:

Share your fandoms!

thisbluespirit

As things seem to get ever more depressing around us, here's a challenge where we can try and maybe cheer each other up a little!

Thank you so much to everyone who posted a fandom promo for our last challenge! It is now (belatedly) officially closed, but fandom promos are always welcome here - and any that have posted here (whether before or since the previous challenge as well as specifically for it) will be valid for our current challenge.

You can find them all by checking out our fandom promo tag.

Promos made for the previous challenge:

The Pacific by

thrillingdetectivetales
Transparent (TV) by

duskpeterson
The Queen's Thief by

duskpeterson
Nero Wolfe by

delphi
House of Five Leaves | Sarai-ya Goyō by

delphi
Desert Peach by

sailorkitty

The rules of our next challenge are simple - try out one of the recommended new-to-you fandoms and then create something for it (or generally respond to it). What that might be is pretty flexible, but it must be something positive! (No one is obliged to pretend to like anything they hated, but a rant or anything 100% negative will not qualify as completing this challenge.)

What if none of the fandoms promoted here are your cup of tea/available/in your preferred medium?

Don't panic! People should continue to post fandom promos (I still have at least one I've been meaning to finish), so keep an eye on the comm and the tag to see if something more to your taste crops up over the next three and half months.

I will also make a fandom promo post

yuletide style, so that more of us can chip in, particularly for shorter fandoms or just for those who prefer the lower visibilty of comments over posts. (The individual post promos will stand out more in the tag, so this won't be unfair to anyone who has taken the trouble to make one.)

Things you can do to complete the challenge, many of which don't necessarily involve actual fannishness for a thing (as we all know, that's not a feeling that can be guaranteed, even for things we enjoy):

* stop by the original post to discuss the fandom with the OP in the comments, letting them know you watched it (and hopefully enjoyed it/the bits you did enjoy/found interesting).

* create fic, art, vids, fanmixes etc.

* upload screen grabs or scans for the use of others

* picspam scenes, write reviews, meta, comparisons with similar sources

* rec lists

* graphics - gifsets, icons, text icons, headers, moodboards

* podfic someone's existing fic for the fandom

* lists of useful period resources for those creating fanworks for the fandom

* create a related challenge, fest, community etc.

In short, this is pretty low level and if there's something positive you can think of, from chatting to the OP to knitting or baking or the more standard types of fanworks, it should fulfil the challenge. Ask here or PM me if you want to double check any more outside the box ideas!

If you want to tie it in with other challenges, like bingos,

100fandoms etc.,

bethefirst, then feel free to do so (provided it's within the rules of the other challenge).

And a reminder again that the response does need to be generally positive.

Once you have made your response, post it or link to it in the original fandom promo post or comment so that the OP will see it.

You will need to also post/link directly to the comm in a post, and tag it with "type: historium challenges" so that I can see that it was posted for the challenge. (For anything like comment discussions etc. where that may not be appropriate, please just link back to this post instead so that I know you've completed the challenge.)

There will be banners for everyone who successfully takes part.

This challenge will close on June 30th 2020. Good luck everyone!

duskpeterson

Title: Thieves and Royalty and Gods and Diversity: A Queen's Thief Promo
Author: duskpeterson
Fandom: The Queen's Thief
Historical connection: A historical AU (with just a touch of fantasy) set in a secondary world resembling the Mediterranean region during the gunpowder era, with strong echoes of the classical era.
Content warning: This is a young adult series, so there isn't much that's graphic in the canon, but there is a shocking act of violence in one of the volumes, which probably carries over into some of the fanfic. I'm going to be talking here about the fanart, which (as far as I've seen) is PG-rated.

( My, this fandom attracts wonderful art - I have recs! )

delphi

Title: Colts and Cattleyas: A Nero Wolfe Fandom Promo
Author:

delphi
Fandom: The Nero Wolfe Mystery Series
Historical Connection: This is a series of mystery novels written contemporaneously between 1934 and 1975.
Content Warning: n/a

If he had done nothing more than to create Archie Goodwin, Rex Stout would deserve the gratitude of whatever assessors watch over the prosperity of American literature.
—Jacques Barzun

His narrative and dialogue could not be improved, and he passes the supreme test of being rereadable. I don't know how many times I have reread the Wolfe stories, but plenty. I know exactly what is coming and how it is all going to end, but it doesn't matter. That's writing.
—P.G. Wodehouse

Stout says to us, "Here are two friends. Here are two people sharing their lives. As you wish for friendship, share in theirs. As you seek companionship, share in theirs. As you search for love, share in theirs." Rex Stout invites us into the family and offers warmth and security and certainty. He affirms what we all seek on some primal level. If such disparate individuals as Wolfe and Goodwin can share friendship and love and caring and life, can not we? That’s the strength here. That’s the message and the feel-good inherent in the voice and character that Rex Stout has given to Archie Goodwin. In this cold world, it is a fire on which we may warm our hands.
—Robert Crais

( The World of Nero Wolfe )

delphi

Title: Waifs and Strays: A House of Five Leaves Fandom Promo
Author:

delphi
Fandom: House of Five Leaves | Sarai-ya Goyō
Historical Connection: This is a historical fiction manga series set during the Edo period in what would today be Tokyo, Japan.
Content warning: n/a

( 'Quite the good man, aren't you.' )

dirty_diana

updating my bingo card fills

Never Been The Same
a Medici: The Magnificent fanvid
Giuliano de’ Medici (Giuliano/Simonetta, Giuliano & Lorenzo)
rated teen
2m30s
contains lots of shaky cam, major character death
for "victim" square on my bingo card

April 26, 1478

on dw
on ao3

DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love
a Dirty Dancing fanvid
Baby Houseman/Johnny Castle
rated teen
2m24s
for bingo square "summer"
contains black frame flicker effects between 1:48 and 2:06

Dance like it’s the last night of your life.

on dw
on ao3

dimity_blue

Our first Historium Bingo was posted here.

Has anyone completed any lines? If so, don't forget that banners are available for 1, 2, or 4 lines, plus for a whole card.

Let me know if you've earned a banner and which banner(s) you've earned, and I'll post your banner(s) so you can repost them with bragging rights.

ETA: If you haven't signed up for a card, feel free to do so at the above link. There's no time limit on completion, so take your time and have fun.

sailorkitty

Note: If anyone who has read this comic wants to weigh in with things that should go under ’content warning’, I’ll be happy to know.

Title: Peach Melba!
Author: SailorKitty
Fandom: Desert Peach
Historical Connection: Historical Fiction, WWII, Afrikan Campaign, Underground Comic.
Content Warning: Takes place on German Front during WWII, some characters display period attitudes to ethnicity and gender/sexuality. Out of ca 30 chapters, 3 deal directly with the Holocaust. 1-2 occurrences of graphic violence. Nazism is never portrayed in a positive light, but does feature. Erwin Rommel appears as a character. Swastikas. Rape via sex pollen in order to turn character straight (Treated as rape by the narrative).

( Only click this if you have read the warning. )

auroracloud

Welcome to the first fandom promotion/manifesto challenge of the Historium community! Since this is a community for all fandoms with a connection to history, many of us may have many fandoms the others haven't even heard of, or only have a vague idea of. In this challenge, we encourage you to tell other members of the community about your favourite fandoms, so that others may find fandoms they're interested in and you get more people to share the love with!

The challenge is running until January 15, 2020, but if someone feels like posting a manifesto/fandom promo after that, go ahead! The next three months are just when I'll be encouraging people to do this, and when we hope to get a nice collection of many different fandom manifestos/promos for our members and followers to browse.

We're keeping this pretty chill, so I'm not setting up a sign-up process to start with — but if many of you feel you would prefer to sign up for a particular date, and have me gently remind you if you haven't posted yours by then, let me know and I can set up a voluntary sign-up system. There's no limit to how many manifestos one person can post (unless someone starts flooding the community by posting every day or something, but I doubt it!). I more than one person wants to post about the same fandom, that's all right as well; you may have very different perspectives on it. But do try to keep at least a few weeks between them!

I'll try to post a few of my own in the coming weeks to so it'll be easier for you to get started as well, and see some examples of how to do it. Hopefully the first one will be up within a week. But you don't need to wait for me to post some of mine - you can start as soon as you want to. I'll also keep track of posted manifestos, so you can find them more easily later.

I'm providing a possible template for your manifesto, which I've adapted from

shipmanifestos. As I said, we're keeping things chill, so you don't have to adhere to this format if you prefer to structure your post differently. Feel free to adapt the format if you like, to add categories you need, or to make it simpler. But even if you change the format or use a different one, please make sure you at least include information on the fandom, its connection to history, and any content warnings.

If anything I've written in the template seems unclear to you, or you find errors in it, please let me know in the comments!

After you've hopefully found some new fandoms via other people's manifestos, you can check out the comment fic challenge again to see if you now can write for more prompts than before! And you can always keep posting fills for the bingo challenge (that reminds me, I need to get on with mine…).

( Templates for posting )

dimity_blue

Roll up, roll up for the first Historium Bingo!

The rules are simple:
Comment here leaving the type of card you want (gen vs. romance), your chosen fandom, and favourite character(s) from that fandom. I can PM a link to your card if you like, otherwise I'll post it in reply to your comment. Please say if you would prefer a PM with a link.

Fill in your squares any way you like - fic, icons, poetry, art, vids, screencaps, meta, crafts... Anything goes! There are no requirements as to size - short drabbles, long epics, all are welcome. All that's needed is for the work to be complete.

Post links to your fabulous work and apply for a banner. Banners are for 1 line, 2 lines, 4 lines, and full cards. There's no time limit either, so take as long as you need.

ETA: You may use multiple fandoms for your card, if you wish. The card background picture will be from one fandom of your choice or be a non-specific image (books, a globe, a sand glass, etc.) if you prefer.

Another edit: There's now a Historium collection on AO3 to make it easier for you to impress people.

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/Historium/profile

thisbluespirit

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