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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.
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.
Questions & Comments thread
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Letter link: https://learnedfoot.dreamwidth.org/6912.html
Fandom(s) & Character(s):
-- The Great: Catherine & Peter III
-- The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Shy Baldwin & Reggie
-- Pilgrimage: Brother Diarmuid & The Mute
Request details:
-- The Great is a dramedy TV show about Catherine the Great's rise to power. It's kind of intentionally ahistorical in many ways, especially with its dialogue and humor (it's by the same writer as The Favorite), but it also draws a lot from the actual history. It's especially good for anyone who likes to purposefully blend modern sensibilities with history. It is one season so far.
-- The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is a dramedy TV show set in the late 50s/early 60s. I'm requesting a black, closeted gay musical superstar and his childhood bff/manager, so there are a lot of different historical angles to mine here, from the very serious to the quite fun (for example, I'm open to appearances from actual musical figures from the era, if that's the kind of thing you like to do. The show does it with comedians -- Lenny Bruce is a major reoccurring character). It is three seasons so far, though my requested characters only play a major role in the third season.
--Pilgrimage is a drama movie set in medieval Ireland (early 13th century). It's about a group of monks making a pilgrimage to Rome, so it's especially good for anyone who likes dealing with religion during that era. Also slashy af.
See my letter for more detailed prompts!
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Letter link: https://doreyg.dreamwidth.org/10922.html
Fandom(s) & Character(s):
--Benjamin January - Barbara Hambly (Ben, Shaw)
--Blake and Avery - MJ Carter (Blake, Avery)
--Cadfael series - Ellis Peters (Cadfael, Hugh)
--Frey & McGray series - Oscar De Muriel (Frey, McGray)
--Sam Wyndham - Abir Mukherjee (Sam, Surendranath)
Request details:
-Benjamin January is a crime series set in 1840s New Orleans. I'm requesting Ben (the main character, a black musician and surgeon who keeps getting dragged into solving crime) and Shaw (a detective who originally comes from Kentucky, a lot smarter than he pretends to be).
-Blake and Avery is a crime series set in 1830s India, and then 1840s London. I'm requesting the two main characters, Avery (an upper middle class soldier who starts off rather sheltered but slowly has his horizons expanded) and Blake (a working class Sherlock Holmes type, who has lived most of his adult life in India).
-Cadfael is a crime series set in the anarchy (Stephen v Matilda). I'm requesting Cadfael (the main character, a monk with a fondness for herbs who used to be a crusader) and Hugh (his BFF, the deputy sheriff and then the sheriff of the town where Cadfael is, extremely smart and cunning).
-Frey & McGray is a crime series set in 1880s Edinburgh, that also contains big supernatural elements. I'm requesting the two main characters, Frey (snooty English detective, a huge snob who has a heart of gold) and McGray (Scottish chaos goblin, firmly believes in the supernatural and is dealing with the murder of his entire family)
-Sam Wyndham is a crime series set in 1920s India. I'm requesting Sam (British detective, opium addict, strongly committed to justice but has a big blind spot about the injustices he's helping to perpetuate) and Surendranath (Indian detective, general sweetheart but getting steadily more annoyed about the situation in India)
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Letter link: https://brideoffrankenstein.dreamwidth.org/17646.html
Fandom(s) & Character(s):
- Ghosts (BBC 2019) Kitty
- Alan Grant (Josephine Tey) Alan Grant
- Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (Book; Susanna Clarke) John Childermass, Gilbert Norrell
- Agatha Christie's Poirot Hercule Poirot, Arthur Hastings
Request details:
Ghosts is a BBC sitcom from the Horrible Histories gang, and features a modern couple who inherit a stately home only to find it full of ghosts! The ghosts range from a prehistoric chess master through a beheaded Tudor nobleman, a Stuart witch, a Georgian delight (Kitty!), a shot Regency poet, an Edwardian bitch, a gay WWII captain, an eighties Scouts leader who quotes Top Gun, and a Tory MP from the 90s.
I'm asking for anything that concentrates on Kitty, whether on her life and her family, or her death and her relationship with the other Ghosts. There's lots of room for historical settings, even if not Georgian - she's been dead at least two hundred and fifty years - or a mix of historical and modern.
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is a historical fantasy novel set during the first twenty years of the 19th century. I've requested Gilbert Norrell, a delightful Yorkshire magician who is also a dick, but he Does Try, bless him. My other requested character is John Childermass, his man of business, who is also a dick sometimes, but he ultimately is a reasonably decent person, if rather ruthless. The novel features an alternate history where the North of England was ruled for several hundred years as a seperate kingdom from the south, and both my characters are dyed in the wool northerners who are extremely uncomfortable in the South. (I ship them like mad). I'd love anything that explores them, in canon or pre-canon, the North, and other related aspects of canon. There's also a TV show, which I love, but Norrell and Childermass were only nominated for the book. I don't mind a blending of canons.
Moving away from Georgians now!
I've also requested the Alan Grant series by Josephine Tey, which is set approximately in the 1920s or 1930s (it's never wholly clear, but there's no mention of WWII in the ones I've read that I remember). Alan Grant is a gentleman detective who has a lot of actress friends and moves in interestingly high circles. I headcanon him as queer, and I'd love to see historical explorations of queerness (especially ones that really dig into what it meant to be queer in the '30s, how it problematised gender, etc.)
My final historical request is Agatha Christie's Poirot, and I've requested Poirot and Hastings (or Poirot/Hastings) for it. I love the 30s setting, and the found family elements to the canon. I like TV canon best, because you get more of a sense that Poirot and Hastings actively like each other and like each other's company. I'd love anything that explored their relationship, platonic or romantic.
More info on my likes and dnws is in my Letter!
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Letter link: https://thisbluespirit.dreamwidth.org/983849.html
Fandom(s) & Character(s):
- Dracula (TV 1968) (Mina Harker, John Seward)
- The Power Game (TV)
- Sapphire & Steel (Silver)
- The Shadow of the Tower (Henry VII)
Request details:
More details and prompts at my letter (including how to get hold of canons & links to the promo post), but some details in brief:
Dracula (TV 1968) - feature-length adaptation of the novel from 1968, which can be found on YT and out on DVD (as Mystery & Imagination, as it's actually part of an anthology gothic horror series), set in 1890s Whitby (the cardboard edition). It's not as wildly unfaithful as some, but it is very much its own thing, and I want more of it, especially Dr Seward (complete fainting snowflake of vampire hunters) and Mina (who tries to be sensible but is nevertheless seduced by vamped Lucy and drawn astray by Renfield-Jonathan). And, yes, more. Plus, vampires, if Mina stays turned she could live through the 20th C as well. Although staying in period, vampires + seduction + Victorian clothing is great.
The Power Game - contemporary 1960s TV show about civil servants and business-types that is now historical by default. I'm here for these (mostly terrible) characters, but the background to their plotting and the whole show is 1960s business affairs and attitudes, and beyond that, issues of (& anger at) the way business set itself up to continue colonialism in the post-colonial world. My prompts are all regarding character interactions, but one of the attractions of this kind of TV (for all its other problematic elements) is the way it can be really great at introducing historical issues, attitudes, and events that don't get covered in history (and should). But also terrible charming power-mad types backstabbing each other while making concrete and running the National Export Board.
Sapphire & Steel is a weird gem of a 1970s/80s SFF TV show (v little of it, and all up on YT and out on DVD, might even be on some streaming services) about mysterious non-human beings who fight Time, which tries to ruin everything. Silver is a technician or specialist who turns up to help sometimes and also flirt and make things sparkle, including his waistcoat. Its contemporary form features a lot of items, ghosts and people from the past haunting the present or slipping through to the present, which allows for some great historical angles. Also the main characters are mysterious possibly anthropomorphic whatsits and canonically have existed for at least a few hundred years, and historical assignments featuring Silver would delight me. It is a very go-anywhere fandom and could easily be crossed with other historical fandoms.
The Shadow of the Tower - a 1972 BBC series about the reign of Henry VII, which is generally pretty plausible and close to history and fascinating. (It's also cardboard BBC 1970s TV with dream sequences and random episodes of assassination by astrology, which allows a LOT of scope for a fic writer to be as historical and serious and ambiguous and angsty or straight up experimental or cracky as they choose. Because both are totally canon.) I'm happy to have anyone else from the series or history, too, but SotT's Henry is a surprisingly fascinating character and I love everybody's different interactions with him, whether they hate him, love him, could go either way, or hate him but are strangely obsessed by him (I'm looking at you, Lincoln & Perkin ok), or whatever. Also: AU where there's also magic. Because random assassination attempts by magic are already a thing here.
Plus, I am always up for a good historical AU in my non-historical fandoms. This year my other request is for the Sid Halley series by Dick Francis, which is not a creaky TV show! It is a short mystery book series & you could get all you need from just Whip Hand, really.
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Letter link: https://notearchiver.dreamwidth.org/4654.html (please see my letter for specific prompts)
Fandom 1: 14th Century CE Religious Women RPF
Julian of Norwich
Margery Kempe
Details:
Julian of Norwich was an anchoress (see details on Ancrene Wisse to learn more about what an anchoress was. Margery of Kempe was a particularly strange religious woman who the acronym OTT was invented for. According to Kempe's book, she spent several days with Julian.
Here's a primer I made.
Fandom 2: Ancrene Wisse
no characters nominated/worldbuilding
Details:
Ancrene Wisse is a religious text from the 13th century. Written in the early 1200s, the title translates as A Guide for Anchoresses. Anchoresses (female declension of anchorite) were religious women who took vows similar to those of monastics, including chastity and stability of abode. They lived as recluses in cells literally walled into the sides of churches, entering a space between the living and the dead (the ritual for entrance into the cell was a type of funeral). Anchoresses were highly revered and many people sought them out to talk to them for spiritual (and secular) advice, as they were thought to have a special connection to God. Many anchoresses were mystics who received visions from God. One of the most famous anchoresses was Julian of Norwich (see 14th Century CE Religious RPF).
As a pseudo-monastic rule, Ancrene Wisse is a mix between an idealized version of anchoritic spirituality and a realistic view of what anchoresses may be confronted with (e.g. dealing with cow disputes). It prescribed everything from the size of the cell anchoresses lived in and the location of windows to prayers and sins anchoresses had to be very careful about (especially problems concerning sight and being seen). Of course, it isn't all straight up religion! There's also mentions of a cat being a great pet and being careful about evil lesbian!anchoresses. It's just great for worldbuilding :)
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Letter link: Here, at my Dreamwidth
Fandom(s) & Character(s):
Benjamin January mysteries — Barbara Hambly (characters requesedt: Dominique Viellard, Chloe Viellard)
Pagan Chronicles — Catherine Jinks (characters requested: Pagan Kidrouk, Isidore Orbus, Babylonne Kidrouk)
Request details:
The Benjamin January mysteries are set in 1830s New Orleans (with forays into other parts of the US and the wider region), and as mentioned in other comments here, the title character is a free black man, trained as a surgeon, working as a musician, who keeps getting dragged into solving crimes. I've requested fic about Ben's sister Dominique (also born free), who is the mistress of a wealthy white man, and Chloe, the wife of Dominique's lover. The two women have a really intriguing relationship — both are aware of each other's existence, seem to genuinely like and appreciate one another, and are completely happy with the weird set up in which they find themselves. My interest in these books and these particular characters lies primarily in the ways they find to navigate what is essentially a dystopia, and the very different forms resistance is shown to take.
The Pagan Chronicles series begins in Jerusalem during the fall of the city to Saladin, but all but the first book take place in late twelfth- and early thirteenth-century Languedoc, where the characters end up after fleeing Jerusalem. The series focus is very much on the political and religious tensions of the era, with a particular focus on religious heresies and minority religions, the tension between characters' nonviolent principles and the violence of the times, and the struggle to carve out spaces of plurality and tolerance in the wake the homogenising might of empires. The characters I've requested are Pagan Kidrouk (a teeange Christian Arab forced out of his native Jerusalem in the first book, later a canon lawyer and Archdeacon of Carcassone, and someone who really, really loves arguing with people), Isidore Orbus (Pagan's scribe, later an ecclesiastical educator at the University of Bologna, someone who loves reading and finds people exhausting), and Babylonne Kidrouk (Pagan's illegitimate daughter, an adherent of the heretical Cathar sect, and someone who has known nothing but war and trauma for most of her life).
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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.
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Letter link: https://chronicbookworm.dreamwidth.org/
Fandom(s) & Character(s):
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen: Fanny Price
Sense and Sensiblity - Jane Austen: Elinor Dashwood, Colonel Brandon, Edward Ferrars
Kulla-Gulla series - Martha Sandwall-Bergström: Vera Karlberg, Ville Karlberg, Mamsell Modig
Peer Gynt - Henrik Ibsen: Solveig
Request details:
Both Mansfield Park and Sense and Sensibility are Jane Austen novels, set in Regency England or around that time (late 18th/early 19th century), and depict characters from the upper classes trying to find love, marry well, and avoid scandal. They're both romance novels and social commentary.
The Kulla-Gulla series is a children's/young adult series of books set around the late 19th/early 20th century in rural Sweden. They depict the misery and poverty that was prevalent in Sweden at that time, and also the injustices perpetuated by those with power, often unthinkingly. However, because they're meant for younger readers, they never get too grim and bleak - there is always a belief in the goodness of humanity and a sense of optimism that runs through the books.
Peer Gynt is a play by Henrik Ibsen from the mid-19th century. It starts with a depiction of rural Norway around that time (not so different from the rural Sweden of the Kulla-Gulla request), but from there the main character Peer goes off and has lots of adventures all over Europe and northern Africa, some natural, some with a supernatural, folklore, or allegorical element to them.
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Letter link: Here
Fandom(s) & Character(s):
- 18th Century CE Frederician RPF: Wilhelmine, Heinrich and August Wilhelm of Prussia
- Circle of Voltaire RPF: Émilie du Châtelet, Lady Mary Wortley-Montagu
- Vincent & Theo: Theo van Gogh, Vincent van Gogh
Request details:
18th Century CE Frederician RPF: deals with people related to, friends or dire enemies of Frederick II. of Prussia (aka Frederick the Great). It's an outrageous real life soap full of melodrama, twists you wouldn't dare to invent, and pretty much everyone is the hero of one and the villain of another story, starting with Fritz himself. Since I'm into messed up, complicated family relationships, my particular interest lies in his siblings, which is why I requested his favourite sister, the brother who both hated and supported him and whom he saw as a younger alter ego, and the brother whom he destroyed.
Circle of Voltaire RPF: also 18th Century, but here focused on the intellectuals of the Enlightenment who despite hailing from various countries had an intense (and at times just as melodramatic) network of relationships going - and Voltaire knew the lot. I've requested two of the most fascinating women, Émilie du Chatelet, who was a brilliant mathematician and natural philosopher (and a card shark in her spare time) whose translation of Newton into French is still the one used to this day, and Lady Mary Wortley-Montagu, traveller, witty poet, and arguably most gifted snarker of the (early) Georgian age.
Vincent & Theo: 19th century, Robert Altman's movie about the Van Gogh brothers (starring Tim Roth and Paul Rhys in the title roles), still my favourite fictionalisation of Van Gogh, and another fandom with messy and intense sibling relationships. I requested both brothers.
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Letter link: https://karanguni.dreamwidth.org/296943.html
Edo Era Japanese Go Players RPF
Characters: Honinbou Shuusaku, Oota Yuuzou
tl;dr: Go rivals in Edo Japan! Competence pornography over a board game; the honour and history of famous Go-playing houses; historical foe!yay; age gap!
Easy consumption of canon: https://senseis.xmp.net/?OtaYuzo
17th Century CE Japanese Arts & Sciences RPF
Characters: Any
tl;dr: I give you an astronomer-Go player, a genius mathematician, the head of the Bureau of Divination, and the genius head of a Go playing house who also has foe!yay with the aforementioned astronomer. Want to romp around calendrical/astronomical studies or muck around with competence porn or just magical AU something after reading 10 minutes of Wikipedia? This is for you! I am easy to please!
Easy consumption of canon possible if you can get your hands on the movie Tenchi Meisatsu!
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street - Natasha Pulley
Characters: Mori Keita
tl;dr: magical realist eldritch horror feudal remnant in the Meiji Era Mori Keita seeks someone to write literally anything about his ability to see through time and spymastering as he attempts to Get With His One True Person, Englishman Thaniel. Want to play with languages, culture clash, watchmaking, time bending, the politics of Meiji Westernisation? Come right over!
Easy canon consumption: the nominated fandom is just one easy reading book; my requests can include the equally easy sequel if you want to pick that up.
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Letter link: https://regshoe.dreamwidth.org/43658.html
Fandom(s) & Character(s):
Lolly Willowes - Sylvia Townsend Warner (Laura Willowes, Vinegar)
Malory Towers - Enid Blyton (Bill Robinson, Clarissa Carter)
Quatrevingt-treize | Ninety-Three - Victor Hugo (Michelle Fléchard, Housarde)
Travel Light - Naomi Mitchison (Halla, Steinvor)
Request details:
Lolly Willowes, published in 1928, is a short novel following the life of a middle-class English woman who doesn't get married, lives the tedious, hemmed-in life of a spinster aunt and eventually finds a way to escape to freedom and independence. Without going into spoilery details, it also has supernatural elements! The story begins in the late nineteenth century, with most of the main plot happening in the 1920s. I'm requesting the main character, Laura, and her cat (who's not quite just a cat) Vinegar.
Malory Towers, six books published from 1946-1951, is a series of classic school stories set at a girls' boarding school in Cornwall. There's lots of small-scale adventure, friendship, drama, thoroughly Blytonian midnight feasts, and so on. The setting is vaguely contemporary except that there's no mention of the war. I'm requesting Bill, a forthright, horse-obsessed tomboy, and Clarissa, a lovely and equally horse-obsessed daughter of the aristocracy. They are BFFs and have a lot of femslash potential!
Quatrevingt-treize, published in 1874, is set in Brittany during the fighting following the French Revolution. The main story is an argument about the historical and philosophical significance of the Revolution, with lots of drama, angst and symbolism. I'm requesting two side characters—Michelle, a young mother who flees from the fighting with her children, and Housarde, the independent-minded canteen woman of a Republican battalion—who have a lovely sweet, drama-free friendship in the midst of lots of suffering, until one of them is killed off.
Travel Light, published in 1951, is a fairytale-ish novel set in a fantasy version of pre-Christian Scandinavia, featuring dragons, 'heroes' (not, in Mitchison's estimation, terribly heroic), Norse gods and Valkyries, amongst others. I'm requesting the main character Halla, a princess raised by dragons who later goes on a journey across Europe to Constantinople and has to decide what sort of path she'll ultimately take, and Steinvor, a Valkyrie who keeps turning up to give Halla advice and eventually befriends her.
The Mummy Series; Gabriel Knight
Letter link: on DW
Fandom(s) & Character(s): The Mummy Series; Gabriel Knight
Request details: I have two, one of which fits more squarely within this challenge, the other less so.
The more straightforward one is the Mummy series of movies (the ones with Rachel Weisz and Brendan Fraser, not the one with Tom Cruise). These are set in the 1920s and involve archaeology; my request is for the Carnahan-O'Connells to run into interesting mummies anywhere in the world that suits your fancy (and has appropriate dead bodies to animate and cause problems with).
The one that strays a little further afield is the Gabriel Knight series of Sierra video games. These are set in the modern day -- well, more like the 1990s, since the games are old -- but what I've always loved about them is how their plots are based in history somehow coming back to bite people now. So anything that involves a cool bit of history rearing its head in supernatural fashion would be very appropriate to this canon.
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Letter link: https://luzula.dreamwidth.org/354727.html
Fandom(s) & Character(s): Flight of the Heron by D K Broster (Ewen Cameron, Keith Windham), and Flemington by Violet Jacob (Archibald Flemington, James Logie, Captain Callandar)
Request details: Both of these are gloriously slashy novels written by women in the beginning of the 20th century, and set in the mid-18th century Jacobite rising in Scotland!
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Letter link: https://trobadora.dreamwidth.org/1098638.html
Fandom(s) & Character(s): Nantucket Trilogy - S.M. Stirling: Kashtiliash, Raupasha
Request details: In the Nantucket Trilogy, the island of Nantucket is transported from the late 20th century into the Bronze Age. There's a lot in this scenario, and Stirling really takes advantage of it: there's figuring out how to survive, meeting Bronze Age characters (some of them historical or from myths), there's a diverse cast and a LOT of culture clash, and there's the way the world changes as the time travellers establish themselves in their new situation.
One of the characters I'm requesting - Kashtiliash - is a real historical person whose life is changed dramatically by the time travellers' effect on history.
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Letter link: https://jalu2.dreamwidth.org/12982.html
Fandom(s) & Character(s): The Little Stranger -- Sarah Waters
Details: THIS promo post does better justice than I could, and is what initially had me pick up the canon in the first place! But, basically, we have a gothic novel set in the 1940s. Maybe there's a haunted house -- or maybe there's a haunted family. Either way, we have a lot of creepiness and post-war social structure exploration just ripe for fic.
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Letter: https://madame-madeleine.dreamwidth.org/5955.html
Fandoms and Characters
-Wings (1927): David Armstrong, Jack Powell
-1st Century BCE Roman Politics RPF: Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus | Pompey
-Rómeó és Júlia - Színház: Any (Julia, Romeo, Tybalt, Mercutio, Lady Capulet, Lady Montague)
Request details:
-Wings is a silent movie about American pilots during WW1, featuring some fascinating early filmmaking techniques and a ton of slashiness between the main characters, as well as the first same-sex on-screen kiss (according to my sources, anyway).
-Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus was a Roman politician who sneaked past the cursus honorum all the way to the top only to inevitably fall. He had pretty interesting relationships to his contemporaries, my personal faves being Julius Caesar, his daughter Julia, whom Pompey married, and everyone's fave Cicero, who probably couldn't be more different than him.
-Rómeó és Júlia is a Hungarian musical adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (subtitled pro-shot available
on youtube), which seems to suggest a strange, kind of goth-y, maybe post-apocalyptic world through its stage and costume design -- much leather! very fire! - but still generally retains the Renaissance setting, and is overall a great adaptation with a lot of drama and interesting takes on the characters.
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Letter link: https://lemonsharks.dreamwidth.org/33323.html
Fandom(s) & Character(s):
Request details:
Peloponnesian War RPF: Classical Greece, featuring characters perhaps best described in D&D terms. Alcibiades is a chaotic chaotic rogue with a starting Charisma stat of 38. Aristophanes is a comedic bard who traverses neutral good/true neutral/neutral evil depending on who's watching the play (or featured in it), and I desperately want for someone to find the lost play featuring Alcibiades up there.
Neo-Babylonian Breakup Tablet: Bronze age poly drama, fictional. But I fell for it super hard when it crossed my tumblr dash.
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Letter link: https://keerawa.dreamwidth.org/4602.html
Fandom(s) & Character(s):
The Expanse/Black Sails: Any of Naomi, Chrisjen, Amos with Vane, Max, Flint
킹덤 Kingdom (TV 2019): Any (Cho Beom-pal, Seo-bi, Yeong-shin, Crown Prince Lee Chang)
Rivers of London – Ben Aaronovitch Peter Grant, Thomas Nightingale
Mercy Thompson - Warren Smith
Request details:
* The Expanse is set in the future. Black Sails is set around a group of pirates in the 1800's Caribbean. I'd love a cross-over or fusion set during that time period. If you know about naval asymmetrical warfare of that time, or matelotage, or the shady financial details that kept money and goods flowing between legal and illegal ports, I'd love to see you flaunt it!
* 킹덤 Kingdom is about a zombie apocalypse during Joseon-era Korea. Any knowledge or expertise you can bring to a story in this canon would be welcome. I specifically requested the introduction to an article in a scholarly journal or a guided tour of an exhibit in a modern-day museum examining some aspect of the Joseon zombie incident.
* In Rivers of London, Thomas Nightingale was a British wizard combatant in the WWII battle against Nazi practitioners. I have a couple of requests requesting events of the war coming back to haunt him, or set in immediate post-War Britain. Also, this book series includes canonical time travel, so if you know something about London during any time period, feel free to bring poor Peter to that time!
* Warren Smith, from the Mercy Thompson series, is a 135+ year-old gay werewolf who was a cowboy in the American West. One of my requests is for him watching a cowboy movie with friends (who know his age) and critiquing how unrealistic it is. But honestly, any historical details or cultural references you can bring in from his youth would delight me!
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Letter link: (optional) https://silverink.dreamwidth.org/11807.html
Fandom(s) & Character(s): Most of my fandoms for Yuletide are historical. My fandoms are: Frontier Wolf (Alexios Flavius Aquila), The Mummy series (Evie Carnahan O'Connell, Rick O'Connell, Ardeth Bay), Ted Lasso (Roy Kent, Keeley Jones, Ted Lasso, Rebecca Welton)
Request details: (optional, though some indication of period/setting would be good) See my letter for more details, but I'd love historical Romano-British holidays for Frontier Wolf, and either the canon 1920s setting or an ancient Egyptian setting for The Mummy, and possibly historical ghosts for Ted Lasso!
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Letter link: https://impala-chick.dreamwidth.org/46298.html
Fandom(s) & Character(s): Medici (TV) - Lucrezia Donati and Lorenzo
Request details: I would love to read slice of life fic about Renaissance Florence, or just read more details within a larger story. What is Lucrezia's day to day like? How does she manage her household? Is there a secret bar or club where Lucrezia and Lorenzo met at/continue to meet at? Also, I know Lorenzo loves art and poetry - how do they access the art scene? How do they find artists that aren't famous?
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Letter link: https://lorelei42.dreamwidth.org/8847.html
Fandom & Character Chef RPF - Julia Child
Request details: I would love literally anything about Julia Child and I adore period details in general. Specific prompts with a particular historical aspect - Julia hosts a dinner party anytime from 1950 to 2000 – who’s there and what are they eating? (Vintage celebrities! Vintage food!) Julia’s adventures at the White House in any era from Kennedy to Clinton. Julia's time in the OSS during WWII (Julia Child - super spy!) or something with her husband, Paul, during WWII or during their time in Paris. Paul was a photographer and this Bon Apetit article (https://www.bonappetit.com/story/julia-child-never-before) has some of his pictures of Julia from the early 1950s. I would love a story centered around the pic of the two of them on the rooftop.
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Letter link: https://derry-rain.tumblr.com/post/632677673500590080/yuletide-letter
Fandom(s) & Character(s): The Terror - Dan Simmons
John Irving, Silna | Lady Silence
Request details:
Supernatural horror, set during the lost 1845 Franklin Expedition to discover a Northwest Passage in the Arctic. My request is to explore - whether as canon compliant or not - the relationship between the John Irving, a lieutenant on one of the ships, and Silna, a Netsilik woman who is the daughter of a shaman the explorers kill accidentally. It would be great to see some post-canon fic, either set when they've returned back home (a reminder that I am not above requesting a "John Irving lives" fixit...), or in the Arctic. I'm all about any and all playing with these characters and Arctic history.
Fandom(s) & Character(s): The Alienist
Mary Palmer, Marcus Isaacson
Request details: The Alienist is set in 1896 New York and follows a story in which a psychologist, Dr Laszlo Kreiszler, is called in to help solve a series of murders of young male prostitutes. Mary is a young woman who Kreiszler took in following her acquittal of a murder, and Marcus is a young detective who, alongside his twin brother, specialises in forensics. There's so much room for casefic, or other explorations of this setting, especially with characters who are already working on the cutting edge. Perhaps fics dealing with women's rights, or Mary's history.
I kind of also feel like The Alienist is RIPE for some historical ghost story shenanigans.
Fandom(s) & Character(s): A Knight's Tale
Kate, Jocelyn, Christiana
Request details: Any expansion on the pseudo-nonsense-medieval setting of A Knight's Tale is perfect. End of.
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Letter link: https://arysteia.livejournal.com/138147.html
Fandom(s) & Character(s): Rome (TV), Mark Antony
Request details: In a word? Shenanigans. For considerably more words, see my letter. :-)
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(Anonymous) 2020-10-26 09:48 am (UTC)(link)Letter link: http://docs.google.com/document/d/1S9k4Z-cM3HRtP1Nx346hFP1SaJHKdEstzYvWHVUPy9E/edit?usp=sharing
Fandom(s) & Character(s): Katherine - Anya Seton: Katherine Swynford, John of Gaunt
Request details: Set in 14th century England
Fandom(s) & Character(s): The Far Pavilions - M.M. Kaye: Anjuli-Bai, Sita, Ashton "Ashok" Pelham-Martyn, Walter "Wally" Hamilton
Request details: Set in 19th century India
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Letter link: My letter
Fandom(s) & Character(s):
- - Colditz (1972): John Preston
- - Enemy at the Door (TV): Dieter Richter
- - Public Eye (TV): Frank Marker, Helen Mortimer
Request details:
- - Colditz (1972) is a British TV show that ran from 1972-1974, and is about Allied POWs imprisoned at the supposedly escape-proof Colditz Castle in WW2. The show features real escape attempts both successful and unsuccessful, and many of its characters were based on real people, including Pat Grant, an expy of British Army captain Pat Reid, POW and author of the book on which the show was based. I'm requesting gen and shipfic for Preston, set before, during or after his time at Colditz, but I would equally love a story that made use of Colditz’s ensemble cast and the setting, as long as it involved Preston in some principal way.
-- Enemy at the Door (TV) is a British TV show that ran from 1978–1980 and is set in the same historical period as Colditz; it's about the German occupation of the Channel Islands during WW2. Again, many of the episodes reference historical events and depicted the reality of life under the occupation for the islanders on Guernsey. I'm requesting gen or shipfic for Richter, set before, during or after the war, but I would equally love genfic that makes use of the cast and setting, including future fic post the April 1943 series finale.
-- Public Eye (TV) is a British TV show that ran from 1965-1975, and is about a private enquiry agent who did actually realistic private investigative work. Set in the time period in which it aired, the show followed Frank on location from London to Birmingham, Brighton, Windsor, Walton and Chertsey (and the advent of colour television broadcasting at Thames TV!), and is a detailed, fascinating look into life in 60s and 70s Britain. I'm requesting gen as well as shipfic from Frank's and/or Helen's pasts in Birmingham and Brighton, and their future in Windsor and elsewhere.
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Letter link: over here
Fandom(s) & Character(s):
• Band Sinister - K. J. Charles
Guy Frisby (Band Sinister - Charles), John Raven (Band Sinister - Charles), Lord Corvin (Band Sinister - Charles), Philip Rookwood (Band Sinister - Charles)
• A Knight's Tale (2001)
Kate (A Knight's Tale)
• Will (TV 2017)
Christopher Marlowe (Will TV), Thomas Walsingham (Will TV)
• Sins of the Cities Series - K. J. Charles
Emma (Sins of the Cities), Justin Lazarus, Sukey (Sins of the Cities)
Request details:
• Band Sinister (book) is a queer poly Regency romance described by the author as "Heyer but gayer". Corvin, John Raven and Philip Rookwood are an established triad at the start of the book, Guy is a young man who's lived in a secluded village all his life hearing tales of the scandalous Hellfire club who periodically descend upon the local Hall, and suppressing any unruly thoughts instigated by his uncensored copies of Catullus.
• A Knight's Tale (movie) is the tale of a thatcher's son in 14th century London/Europe who becomes squire to a knight, takes on the knight's armour for a tournament, and builds a successful career in jousting. Kate is a widow who's taken on her husband's trade as a blacksmith and travels to work on the tournament circuit.
• Will (TV) follows actor and aspiring playwright Will Shakespeare as he lives in (16th century) London for the first time, getting entangled in politics and religious treason. Kit Marlowe, queer nihilist atheist goth poet, playwright and spy in the Queen's service manipulates events to save Will from arrest on his first day in the city, and is in a (TV canon, this show plays fast and loose with historical fact) romantic relationship with Thomas Walsingham, nephew/cousin (look it's not both but show adapts the Tudor habit of calling every relative 'cousin') to Sir Francis Walsingham, the Queen's spymaster.
• Sins Of The Cities (book trilogy, the relevant one to my request is An Unnatural Vice) is a m/m romance set in Victorian London. Justin Lazarus is a fraudulent Spiritualist medium duping the gullible rich to earn enough money to live, Sukey and Emma are his young assistants.
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Letter link: https://slashmarks.dreamwidth.org/119034.html
Fandom(s) & Character(s):
Legends of the Wolf - Alice Borchardt
Regeane, Lucilla
Request details: Legends of the Wolf is a fantasy novel series set mostly in Dark Ages Rome, involving arranged marriages, werewolves, an impoverished noblewoman escaping an abusive family, and Papal politics. Regeane is the noblewoman and werewolf; Lucilla is Pope Hadrian's mistress and a wealthy woman known for training/placing concubines. They have a canon sex scene! I'm asking for femslash primarily but platonic friendship fic would be fine too. I would be happy with fic based just off of the first book, The Silver Wolf.
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Letter link: https://carabas.dreamwidth.org/1492.html
Fandom(s) & Character(s):
- Vampyr: Jonathan Reid, Edgar Swansea
- Animamundi Dark Alchemist: Germant Cassel, Lucifer
Request details:
Vampyr is a game about a doctor who's just returned from the First World War to a London under quarantine during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic - but with vampires. Plus a bit of Arthuriana for good measure. My request revolves around his relationship with a somewhat unethical hospital administrator, and I'd enjoy any historical details about the setting.
Animamundi is a BL game that's mostly based around namedropping historical figures related to mysticism and the occult, from Paracelsus to Timothy Leary. The characters in the game bear very little resemblance to their namesakes, but if you're interested in occult history and like going 'hey, I understood that reference', this is the game for you! And if you wanted to throw even more occult namedropping into this story, I would be delighted.
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Letter link: (optional)https://corinalannister.dreamwidth.org/6118.html
Fandom(s) & Character(s):
Divinity: Original Sin - Characters requested: Ifan ben-Mezd and Sebille
Vampyr - Characters requested: Charlotte Ashbury and Jonathon Reid
Enola Holmes - Characters requested: Enola Holmes and Viscount "Tewky" Tewksbury
Cirque du Freak | The Saga of Darren Shan - Darren Shan - Characters requested: Darren Shan, Larten Crepsley and Steve "Leopard" Leonard
The Decoy Bride (2011) - Characters requested: Katie Nic Aiodh and James Arber
Get Smart (2008)- Characters requested: Agent 99 and Maxwell Smart
Request details: (optional, though some indication of period/setting would be good)I love historical aus like medieval, regency Englang, ww1 or ww2. I'm happy with any of my requests to be written in a different historical period than the original.
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AO3 Name: DesertVixen
Letter link: https://desertvixen.dreamwidth.org/775181.html
Fandom(s) & Character(s): Nantucket Trilogy - Stirling (Kashtiliash, Kathryn Hollard, Althea Walker, Odikweos)
Request details: Castaways in time get stuck in 1250 BC Bronze Age (I realized last year that a good argument could be made that the Nantucketers are the mysterious Sea Peoples, although not sure if that was Stirling's intent)
AO3 Name: DesertVixen
Letter link: https://desertvixen.dreamwidth.org/775181.html
Fandom(s) & Character(s): The Scoop - London Detection Club (Geraldine Tracey, Denis Oliver, Mr. Hemingway)
Request details: 1930s London detective story
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Letter link: https://maat-seshat.dreamwidth.org/26346.html
Fandom(s) & Character(s): Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame: Wu Zetian & Di Renjie
Request details: Tang China, cheerfully anachronistic in style but with a nice sensitivity to the significance of Wu's historical strategies. I would love more of the same, or a more strictly historical take on the Tang, or a transposition of the characters to another era of imperial China, or any other inventive use of history.
This is just one short and fun movie, with three great leading actors, so it's easy canon consumption.
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Letter link: https://bring-me-sugar.dreamwidth.org/18682.html
Fandom(s) & Character(s): Laverne and Shirley (TV), Any
Request details: The whole show's set in both the 1950s and 1960s in Milwaukee, WI and Burbank, CA., respectively! Prompts are up in my letter.
AO3 Name: Missy
Letter link: https://bring-me-sugar.dreamwidth.org/18682.html
Fandom(s) & Character(s): Army of Darkness (1992), Ash, Sheila, Arthur
Request details: Details in my letter; the movie has canonical time travel (from Michigan to 1300s Britain).
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Letter link: https://tigerlily.dreamwidth.org/57468.html
Fandom(s) & Character(s): Lovecraft Country (TV), Ruby Baptiste
Request details: Lovecraft Country is a horror/fantasy/science fiction drama set in the United States of the 1950s. Ruby, a singer, is a major supporting character who is drawn into the magical plot over the course of the show.
I like the way the period setting interacts with the sff aspects, both with them baked into the historical horrors and with things like Hippolyta's trip to different lives. How about a scenario in which there is contact with an alternate history of the world, with Ruby meeting another self--or not meeting herself because that world is one she couldn't exist in.
On an aesthetic level, I enjoy seeing the women's fashion, the cars, and the music of the time as depicted in the show, so emphasis on that would be lovely as well.
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Letter link: https://ar.dreamwidth.org/500770.html
Fandom(s) & Character(s): Prairie Lotus - Linda Sue Park, Sam Baxter & Hanna Edmunds
Request details: My letter has all the real details, so here I'll just mention the bare bones and then try and sell y'all on the book. ♥ Hanna Edmunds is the main character, while Sam is a friend of hers who stuck by her even when his entire family shunned her and demanded she be barred from the town's school. I want ship or friendship fic about them post-book, because I just love the two of them and want to hear more about what happens next.
Prairie Lotus is set in the Dakota Territory in 1880 and, like Louise Erdrich's Birchbark House books, is a reenvisioning of the works of Laura Ingalls Wilder. It tells the story of an Asian-American seamstress who comes to a frontier town with her white father and struggles to find acceptance in a community where she's the only person of colour. While that might sound depressing, Park does an incredible job of capturing the frequently gentle prose and attention to detail that also exist in the Little House books--she just opens up who is and isn't granted humanity within that milieu. I've included ways to get a copy of the book within my letter, and I'll hope you consider reading it! It's one of the best things I've read this year.
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Letter link: Over here, including various likes, general DNWs, and prompts.
Fandom(s) & Character(s):
Lovecraft Country - Hippolyta Freeman, Josephine Baker
Set in the 1950s, though complete with time travel shenanigans, including a trip to 1920s Paris!
Princess Mononoke - Eboshi
Set in the late Muromachi period of Japan, complete with fantasy elements!
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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.
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Fandom & Character(s): Moths - Ouida | Vere Herbert, Raphael de Corrèze | fandom promo post & free on Google books
Request details: This novel was published in 1880 and takes place contemporaneously (the clearest indication of setting is that some characters mourn the passing of the Second Empire). It deals with ~scandalous~ issues like prostitution, divorce, and adultery and tries (not very coherently) to look at politics and class as well. It is delicious. I'd really love something that takes seriously Vere's penchant for maths; in the opening scene, her mother derisively refers to her as "a Girton guy". Incorporating women's education into a post-canon story would be great! In a different direction, something about political unrest and different varieties of affiliation would be very cool -- there are the Nihilists being sent off to Siberia who arouse Vere's sympathy while in Russia; one character says of Corrèze that "he might be a Communist"; yet other passages compare Vere's nobility and grace to now-obsolete models like those sent to the guillotine(!!!) and Elizabeth of Hungary. (I said it was incoherent :D) A story about crusading Corrèze and Vere, working for mass liberation now that Vere is free, would be *amazing*.
Fandom & Character(s): POKEMON Detective Pikachu | Tim Goodman & Detective Pikachu
Request details: A historical AU would be delightful -- I'm most conversant with and interested in postwar US cultural history; Anglophone 19th century history; and the Bolshevik/early Soviet period. Solving mysteries and befriending Pokemon in any of those settings would blow my mind.
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Letter link: https://reconditarmonia.tumblr.com/post/632998612355432448/dear-yuletide-writer-2020
Fandoms:
Fiddler on the Roof - 2018 Folksbiene Production
(Early 20th century Russian Empire and/or America. What's going on with the socialist Pertshik pre-play in Kiev, him and Hodl post-play in Siberia or afterward, Shprintze growing up post-play in America?)
Where the Sky is Silver and the Earth is Brass - Sonya Taaffe
(WWII/Holocaust-era Poland; Chaye's life as a partisan)
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Letter link: https://xslytherclawx.tumblr.com/yuletide2020
Fandom(s) & Character(s):
• Fandom: Derry Girls (TV) • Character: James Maguire • Setting: 1990s Northern Ireland
• Fandom: The Secret History - Donna Tartt • Characters: Francis Abernathy & Richard Papen • Setting: 1980s USA (Vermont)
• Fandom: Seducing the Sedgwicks - Cat Sebastian • Characters: Martin Easterbrook & Will Sedgwick • Setting: Regency England (London & Sussex & Cumberland, 1816-19)
• Fandom: Was nützt die Liebe in Gedanken / Love in Thoughts (2004) • Characters: Paul Krantz & Günther Schiller • Setting: Germany, 1927 (Berlin-Steglitz & Mahlow)
Request details: I have a lot of historical fandoms this year, and I'd love fic that fits in with the era for any given fandom.
I like the parts in The Secret History where you're suddenly acutely aware it's set in the 1980s, though with Derry Girls, Seducing the Sedgwicks, and Was nützt die Liebe in Gedanken it's rather impossible to ignore the setting.
Historically-specific likes and ideas from my letter:
(Love in Thoughts) - I like the entire “corrupt morality” of the Weimar Republic - the sex, drinking, excess, politics. literally genuinely one of my favorite things to read about.
(Derry Girls) - I like the idea of Clare and James bonding over being not straight, but I feel like the way a lot of the fandom does it is sort of twee and modern in a way that makes no sense for the 90s (and also… not for Catholics), so if you can nail that I’d love it! / I could also see James somehow getting a Prod boyfriend and obviously it’s fine that he has a boyfriend but did he really have to pick a Prod? (and thus the gang loses their collective shit)
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Letter link: HERE
Fandom(s) & Character(s):
The Alienist - John Schuyler Moore (The Alienist TV), Laszlo Kreizler (The Alienist TV), Sara Howard (The Alienist TV)
The Alienist is set in late 1800s New York City and involves a psychologist ("alienist") who solves crime!
Puppet History - Ryan Bergara, The Professor (Puppet History)
This webseries explores various interesting/macabre/funny events throughout history. Would love fic involving time-travelling or adventuring in different time periods a la Indiana Jones!
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Letter link: https://sea-changed.dreamwidth.org/7564.html
Fandom(s) & Character(s): Society of Gentlemen - K.J. Charles (Dominic Frey, Silas Mason, Zoë Shakespeare, Richard Vane)
Request details: Set in 1819-1820 in England, this m/m romance novel series focuses on class issues at the politics of the time.
Fandom(s) & Character(s): Portrait de la jeune fille en feu | Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Héloïse, Marianne)
Request details: Set in late 18th century France, the film centers on two women who fall in love while one has been commissioned to paint the other's marriage portrait.
Fandom(s) & Character(s): The Bedlam Stacks - Natasha Pulley (Raphael)
Request details: A fantasy/magical realism novel set in 1850s Peru and England, centering around an ex-East India Company officer and a Quechua man.