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Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Memphis Minnie Sing the Stumps Down Good - LaShawn M. Wanak

https://www.apex-magazine.com/sister-rosetta-tharpe-and-memphis-minnie-sing-the-stumps-down-good/

<blockquote>Rosetta knelt to look at the stump in the corner of her client’s bedroom. It had the likeness of a ten-year-old boy, four feet tall, dressed in an oversized shirt and suspenders, and its features were flawless, from the newsboy’s cap cocked on its tight curls, to its pupil-less eyes fringed with long eyelashes. The only oddity was that stump’s hands were unformed, shapeless blobs. It was easy to believe that a sculptor had chiseled a boy out of wood and had stepped away just before finishing its hands. Rosetta sucked in her breath through her cloth face mask. The SPC hadn’t told her that her first stump extermination would look like a child. </blockquote>

#.to-reread #about-annualreclist #about-music #by-lashawnmwanak #fandom-historical-rpf #fandom-profic #focus-gen #length-10-20k #note-downloaded #type-fiction

5 years ago | View Shared by soph

Psychopompeii - Eastling (Annwyd)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/13055559

<blockquote>One man looking for a friend versus all the terrors of the underworld: who do you think will come out on top?</blockquote> ➤ based on the Pompeii graffiti: "We two dear men, friends forever, were here. If you want to know our names, they are Gaius and Aulus."

#.to-reread #by-annwyd #char-aulus #char-gaius #fandom-historical-rpf #focus-gen #length-0-2k #note-downloaded #type-fanfic

7 years ago | View Shared by soph

By Bright Moonlight - saiditallbefore

https://archiveofourown.org/works/13140180

<blockquote>“I will not take a husband unless he can best me in wrestling,” she announces. Khutulun, her suitors, and 10,000 horses.</blockquote>

#.to-reread #by-saiditallbefore #char-khutulun #fandom-historical-rpf #focus-gen #length-0-2k #note-downloaded #type-fanfic

7 years ago | View Shared by soph

Say to Them - mayhap

http://archiveofourown.org/works/8872258

<blockquote>Five undiscovered texts pertaining to the life of Ea-Nasir.</blockquote> ➤ I love this structure for the story, and how it allows to build out the whole world and culture around Ea-Nasir

#.to-reread #by-mayhap #char-ea-nasir #char-nanni #fandom-historical-rpf #focus-gen #length-2-10k #note-downloaded #type-fanfic #➤excellent

8 years ago | View Shared by soph

Words words words - La Reine Noire (lareinenoire)

http://archiveofourown.org/works/8888116

<blockquote>Two playwrights walk into a tavern.</blockquote> ➤ author's note: <blockquote>If you've been following the early modern news circuit (and if you're reading this fic, odds are you do), you might have heard about the newly fashionable theory that the three parts of Henry VI were the collaborative effort of Shakespeare and Marlowe. My main issue with this theory hinges on the definition of the word 'collaboration', which we as fan authors know can mean so many different things.</blockquote>

#.to-reread #by-lareinenoire #char-marlowe #char-shakespeare #fandom-historical-rpf #focus-gen #length-2-10k #note-downloaded #type-fanfic #➤good

8 years ago | View Shared by soph

A Change of Season - lnhammer

http://archiveofourown.org/works/8879356

<blockquote>Shangguan Wan-er could think of no reason for the Empress to summon a palace slave to her presence. No good reason. It would be the first meeting of two of the most powerful women of Chinese history.</blockquote>

#.to-reread #by-lnhammer #char-shangguanwaner #char-wuzetian #fandom-historical-rpf #focus-gen #length-2-10k #note-downloaded #type-fanfic #➤good #➤interesting

8 years ago | View Shared by soph

The Saga of Hearthruler Whitebeard and Snowsgrace Dreamfinder - melannen

http://archiveofourown.org/works/8885941

<blockquote>Snow and Whitehead bring back miasma theory, and not before time.</blockquote> ➤ John Snow of the cholera epidemic, in an apocalyptic future, discovers the miasma (radiation) from the leavings of the Old Ones is what is causing illness

#.to-reread #about-rarefandom #by-melannen #char-henrywhitehead #char-johnsnow #fandom-historical-rpf #fandom-sandialabs #focus-gen #length-2-10k #note-downloaded #type-fanfic #➤good

8 years ago | View Shared by soph

Jane Austen to Cassandra - Jo Walton

http://papersky.livejournal.com/676095.html

➤ a letter from Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra goes awry and goes to the Cassandra famously of Troy

#.to-reread #about-epistolary #by-jowalton #char-cassandra #char-janeausten #fandom-historical-rpf #focus-gen #length-2-10k #note-downloaded #type-fanfic

9 years ago | View Shared by soph

Rewritten - drayton

http://archiveofourown.org/works/5394128

<blockquote>Adolphe invented the saxophone, but is that any reason to want a guy dead?</blockquote>

#.to-reread #about-rarefandom #about-timetravel #by-drayton #char-adolphesax #fandom-historical-rpf #fandom-incompetenttimetravellingsaxophonehaters #focus-gen #length-0-2k #note-downloaded #type-fanfic

9 years ago | View Shared by soph

The Last Dancing Queen of England - meretricula

http://archiveofourown.org/works/5519699

<blockquote>On her wedding night to King Henry VIII, Katherine Parr discovers that a strange curse has been laid on all the queens of England...</blockquote> ➤ crossover of history with 12 dancing princesses - where there's a curse that all the queens of england will dance in hell until henry's line is ended. And it works so well! It's great seeing all these queens interacting with each other

#.to-reread #about-fairytales #about-rarefandom #by-meretricula #char-anneboleyn #char-catherineparr #char-elizabeth #fandom-historical-rpf #fandom-twelvedancingprincesses #focus-gen #length-2-10k #note-downloaded #type-fanfic #➤excellent

9 years ago | View Shared by soph

Dying Old - russian_blue

http://archiveofourown.org/works/598959

<blockquote>Strychnine is bitter, but the most pleasant to work with.</blockquote>

#.to-reread #about-death #by-russian_blue #char-mithridates #fandom-historical-rpf #focus-gen #length-0-2k #note-downloaded #type-fanfic #➤interesting

9 years ago | View Shared by soph

Rattle - emilyenrose

http://archiveofourown.org/works/167279

<blockquote>Cleopatra calculates the odds.</blockquote>

#.to-reread #by-emilyenrose #char-caesar #char-cleopatra #fandom-historical-rpf #focus-gen #length-0-2k #note-downloaded #type-fanfic

10 years ago | View Shared by soph

On a Morning, Bright and Merry - dizzy_fire

http://archiveofourown.org/works/1100065

<blockquote>In a crumbling Pagan empire, two little boys meet each other for the first time.</blockquote> ➤ Lithuanian history

#.to-reread #by-dizzy_fire #char-jogaila #char-vytautas #fandom-historical-rpf #focus-gen #length-2-10k #note-downloaded #type-fanfic

10 years ago | View Shared by soph

Hallowmas, Or Shortest Of Day - skazka

http://archiveofourown.org/works/2791880

<blockquote>Isabella, future girl-queen of England, receives a visit from a predecessor.</blockquote> ➤ Richard II's child-bride

#.to-reread #by-skazka #char-anne #char-isabella #fandom-historical-rpf #focus-gen #length-0-2k #note-downloaded #type-fanfic #➤good

10 years ago | View Shared by soph

A Flourish of Gold - thelittlestbird

http://archiveofourown.org/works/2810786

<blockquote>When a murder disrupts the peace conference that might end the Anarchy, Brother Cadfael must solve one last mystery. Fortunately, he has some very competent people to help him.</blockquote>

#.to-reread #about-rarefandom #by-thelittlestbird #char-cadfael #char-eleanorofaquitaine #char-olivier #fandom-brothercadfael #fandom-historical-rpf #focus-gen #length-10-20k #note-downloaded #type-fanfic #➤good

10 years ago | View Shared by soph

Translation Error - fadeaccompli

http://archiveofourown.org/works/2815577

<blockquote>"'The Institute of Cross-Time Education welcomes you! You have been personally selected to take part in this exciting opportunity for cross-time exchanges of cultural knowledge and entertainment..." And Professor North, the lucky classicist, is responsible for instructing the resulting set of extremely classic students.</blockquote> ➤ I'm quite sure I'm missing a lot of the humour by not knowing most of these people but it's hilarious anyways

#.to-reread #about-rarefandom #by-fadeaccompli #fandom-classics #fandom-historical-rpf #focus-gen #length-0-2k #note-downloaded #type-fanfic #➤funny

10 years ago | View Shared by soph

untitled parisian sewer dinosaurs - carmarthen

http://carmarthenfan.tumblr.com/post/96556025238/hi-melannen-so-while-i-was-trying-to-research

<blockquote>Hi melannen! So while I was trying to research this I actually…kind of came to the conclusion that Haussmann did not actually deserve to be eaten by sewer dinosaurs, but I wrote it anyway. Sorry it’s not very pastiche-y.</blockquote>

#.to-reread #about-dinosaurs #by-carmarthen #char-haussmann #fandom-historical-rpf #focus-gen #length-0-2k #note-downloaded #type-fanfic #➤delightful

10 years ago | View Shared by soph

Fragments from The History of Alishba Gloriana Khatun, as set down by Khewdh-al-Din ibn Shamshoun al-Kamdenni - carmarthen

http://carmarthenfan.tumblr.com/post/94759596008/a-fragment-from-a-yuletide-treat-i-will-never-ever

<blockquote>Being a boring-ass attempt at an alternate Elizabethan history where the Mongol Empire kept expanding, written in the style of a Persian chronicle of some centuries earlier. </blockquote>

#.to-reread #by-carmarthen #fandom-historical-rpf #focus-gen #length-0-2k #note-downloaded #type-fanfic #➤ooh

10 years ago | View Shared by soph

Necromancy Enforcement Agency - tritonvert

http://archiveofourown.org/series/38220

➤ consisting of the fics "Historical Reintegration", "Historical Disintegration", and "The Marat Network". ➤ I will admit to being a little bit lost at times on account to not knowing much about these dudes but on the other hand it is ALARMINGLY DELIGHTFUL OH GOSH WOW

#.to-reread #about-rarefandom #about-timetravel #by-tritonvert #char-danton #char-desmoulins #char-marat #char-robespierre #char-saint-just #fandom-frenchrevolution-rpf #fandom-historical-rpf #focus-gen #length-30-40k #note-downloaded #type-fanfic #➤delightful #➤interesting

11 years ago | View Shared by soph

The Women of Amphissa - Gehayi

http://archiveofourown.org/works/298614

<blockquote>A Mongol woman warrior, a Chinese princess who overthrew the Emperor, a cross-dressing French writer and an Egyptian inventor-mathematician help a city of quasi-Roman lesbians to outwit and defeat a host of aliens who treat humans as toys to be tested to destruction. Also features clockpunk attack robots, lesbian kissage, assorted dinosaurs and a telepathic pteranodon.</blockquote>

#.to-reread #about-dinosaurs #about-rarefandom #about-space #about-telepathy #by-Gehayi #char-georgesand #char-hypatia #char-khutulun #char-pingyang #fandom-almatadema #fandom-historical-rpf #focus-gen #length-10-20k #note-downloaded #type-fanfic #➤delightful #➤excellent #➤interesting

11 years ago | View Shared by soph

The heart speaks distinctly - acaramelmacchiato

http://archiveofourown.org/works/781184

<blockquote>For the kinkmeme, prompt is: "Combeferre/René Laennec - Because, hey, it's totally plausible that 19/20-year-old Combeferre could've studied at Collège de France under this professor, right?" RIGHT. In execution: Combeferre's friends piss him off and he almost explores other options, but then doesn't.</blockquote> ➤ or: <blockquote>#René Laennec invented the stethoscope #Combeferre invented accidentally almost sleeping with guest lecturers</blockquote>

#.to-reread #by-acaramelmacchiato #char-combeferre #char-laennec #fandom-historical-rpf #fandom-lesmiserables #focus-gen #length-0-2k #note-downloaded #type-fanfic #➤feelings

11 years ago | View Shared by soph

The Affair of the Blanched Bibliomane - pendrecarc

http://archiveofourown.org/works/601118

<blockquote>The auction room was crowded with the royalty of the book world, but no-one present claimed any knowledge of Mr. D. Bredon. His sale had appeared out of nowhere, a lightning strike to the bibliophilic heart of London. Most attendees there were eager to buy, all were ready to gossip, and a few were there because they found the timing nothing short of suspicious.</blockquote>

#.to-reread #about-books #about-rarefandom #by-pendrecarc #char-belladacostagreene #char-peterwimsey #char-wimsey #fandom-historical-rpf #fandom-lordpeterwimsey #focus-gen #length-2-10k #note-downloaded #type-fanfic #➤excellent