yuletide | Tide of History mini-challenge

For those of us interested in historical requests, it can be hard enough just to pinpoint all the different RPF fandoms, let alone the various fictional ones, so this is a mini-challenge to help history-lovers find each other this Yuletide!

Tide of History

Link to your letters or post/expand requests here if you're into historical canons (RPF or fictional), want historical aspects of a non-historical canon (time travel, backstory, immortal lives), historical fantasy/SF/horror canons, traditional tales etc. with a period-setting, once-contemporary canons that are now historical, or if you'd love historical AUs for your fandom(s)!

Simply comment below using the handy c+p text to find like-minded requesters and treaters.

AO3 Name:
Letter link: (optional)
Fandom(s) & Character(s):
Request details: (optional, though some indication of period/setting would be good)

I'm not going to be prescriptive about what is and isn't history - if your request/canon involves a recognisable period prior to the 21st C, and you think it belongs here, then it does.

You can tag it "Tide of History Challenge" when posting if you would like.

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AO3 Name: iberiandoctor
Letter link: (optional) Pls see my letter for more background, links to source materials and specific prompts!

Fandom 1: 19th Century CE French Politics RPF — Jacques-Antoine Manuel
Request details: I'm asking for fic for 19th C French politician Jacques-Antoine Manuel (10 December 1775 – 20 August 1827), a Leftist Restoration-era liberal Deputy famous for his handsomeness, his integrity, and his resistance to the Bourbon monarchy. He was illegally expelled from the Chamber of Deputies by a fearful ultraroyalist government in 1823 on a trumped-up pretext; his cowardly Leftist colleagues feared his controversial politics would damage the electoral prospects of the Liberal slate and blocked his candidacy in the 1824 elections. Manuel died tragically three years later, in the arms of his beloved companion, Pierre-Jean de Béranger, the poet and political songwriter with whom he had lived since his parliamentary ouster; he didn't get to see the 1830 July Revolution. I've prompted dastardly political shenanigans and an AU where he actually lived to see the toppling of the Bourbons in 1830, or the Revolution of 1848, and shipfic with Béranger or any of the political figures of the day.

Fandom 2: Chì bì | Red Cliff (2008) — Zhōu Yú, Zhūgě Liàng
Request details: I'm asking for fic for Red Cliff, a John Woo war film based on the famous Battle of Red Cliffs (AD 208–209), set immediately prior to the Three Kingdoms period in imperial China (220–280 AD). My characters are legendary strategist Zhuge Liang (AD 181 – 234), trusted military advisor and later Chancellor of the kingdom state of Shu, and viceroy Zhou Yu (AD 175 – 210), chief military general of the kingdom of Wu. Thanks to these two envoys, Shu and Wu agree to set aside their enmity and join their armies together against Cao Cao, the Han emperor’s grand chancellor who usurped the throne in the final years of the Eastern Han dynasty. Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang are fascinated by each other's abilities, bond over battle tactics and banter over each other’s eccentricities, and succeed in this one shining campaign by working together, before the alliance falls apart post-movie in a tragic end for both kingdoms and both men. I've prompted gen and shippy missing scenes from the movie that lean into the men’s gallant rivalry which becomes respect and admiration (and love), the fix-it AU where the Kingdom of Wu and Shu cement their truce and the men's love changes the world, and the non-fix-it future where everything burns down.

Fandom 3: The Lions of Al-Rassan – Guy Gavriel Kay — Rodrigo, Ammar
Request details: I'm asking for fic for The Lions of al-Rassan, a historical fantasy novel set in an analogue of medieval Spain in the 13th century prior to and during the re-conquest of the Iberian Peninsula by the Castilian kings. In this reimagined Al-Andalus, the decadent city-states of the ruling Asharite empire jostle for power over territorial ambitions and ideological differences, triggering a rupture between King Amalik of Cartada and his trusted advisor, Ammar ibn Khairan, while military upheaval in the former Esperana in the north forces the Jaddites' most celebrated military leader, Rodrigo Belmonte, into exile. Ammar and Rodrigo, two very different men from different cultures and religions, meet in Ragosa, a stand-in for the celebrated fortress-city of Alhambra, fall in love with the same woman, court physician Jehane bet Ishak, and with each other. I've prompted gen and shippy vignettes from Ammar’s past with Amalik, and Rodrigo’s with Raimundo, scenarios involving Jehane and Rodrigo's wife Miranda Belmonte, missing scenes from the book that reflects the men's friendship and respect for each other, and that final heartbreaking battle between the two men.

Tide of History mini-challenge

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