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:

prodigy
Letter link: https://nighthuntermoppet.dreamwidth.org/330.html
Fandom(s) & Character(s): The Tudors (TV) - Thomas Cromwell & Anne Boleyn
Request details:

This show is just one iteration in a massive sprawling genre of what I can only refer to, lovingly, as "Tudor trash," dedicated to interpreting and reinterpreting the Anglosphere cultural obsession with the Tudor family, their comparatively-brief reign, and their many lucky-and-unlucky orbiters. The Tudors is one of the most shameless entries on there, which is part of my delight in it: it's 30% trying to transpose plot points from history through the mangling meat extruder of Showtime fictionalization and 70% "cast the hottest person or at least person we think is hottest for the role, surviving Holbein images be damned." It's where I first saw Henry Cavill's face. It has a whole thing with Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Henry VIII gorging himself on a symbolic swan dinner while ignoring Anne Boleyn being executed elsewhere. It's really something.

It also contains James Frain Cromwell and Natalie Dormer Anne, who are absolutely shining examples of the aforementioned show priorities and also they're hot, charismatic, have a dreadful amount of chemistry, and only seeded more of my investment in this poisonous relationship! Here I can say I am into Wolf Hall but I also do like A Man for All Seasons and probably my opinion on Cromwell's character falls somewhere between those two writers, but honestly I'm just interested in that strange little dynamic and alliance-turned-to-enemyship and subsequent fall, one and then the other... and I ship it. Many counterfactuals may be required. Happily, this is what fic is all about. More details in my linked request.

Tide of History mini-challenge

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