LINKDING

Summary: Rebecca Heminges has never liked watching Othello. She thinks she'll like the King's Men's new tragedy even less. ➤ historical rpf about 17th century theatre actors associated with shakespeare ➤ I've never heard of these characters before or the play they're putting on that's central to the themes of the fic but the the fic does a good enough job introducing it all that it works nonetheless ➤ a really interesting and thoughtful work about life vs fiction, and acting, and finding a new life, and the realities and ramifications of abusive relationships ➤ I loved it, and I see the author has written other fics about this group of characters and I want to read them too! ➤ 5k words in length

<blockquote>Théo travels in time (mostly by accident), meets a new friend, has a one-night stand, goes to see a play. A fairly ordinary day in the life of a young Romantic poet, really.</blockquote>

<blockquote>'I am a mere secretary, unwise in the matters of war,' Xiao He said to Xiahou Ying over wine a few nights later, 'but am I to understand that you've not only spared a man who broke our law but also made him a commissary colonel?'</blockquote>

<blockquote>Who really wrote the works of Voltaire? In a highly controversial panel, three major candidates emerge.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Mary Shelley is the final girl.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Starving artists will do anything to achieve greatness.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Saladin visits Richard's sickbed with fruit, and a question in his eyes.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Tell Nanni: Ea-Nasir sends the following message: You owe more to me than one trifling mina of silver. / The world's first known customer service complaint turns into a different sort of first.</blockquote> ➤ a scholar finds some ancient clay tablets in an eccentric gentleman's attic

<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

<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>

<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>

<blockquote>She thought that these horrible sights and accursed thoughts were delicious to her against her will. --The Book of Margery Kempe, chapter 59</blockquote>

<blockquote>Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud spend a romantic winter in London together. The screamy, stabby, drunken sort of romantic. “Do it then!” Rimbaud yelled, tearing at his undershirt, baring his chest. “Stop it!” Paul screamed back. “Why cannot you understand? Selfish little fucking…I should stab you through the heart, if you had one.” “If I had one? What do you have in place of one, you pathetic drunk? An empty gin bottle?” Rimbaud started to laugh.</blockquote> ➤ prior to today I knew nothing about these horrible disasters of human beings but I was riveted by this fic about them being horrible with each other

<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

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

<blockquote>It's not uncommon for young 18th/19th century Englishmen, fresh out of Cambridge, to go on a tour of the continent. It is pretty unusual for one of them to eventually get an epic poem out of the experience. Of course, Lord Byron got a lot more out of his travels than poetry alone (if you know what I mean), but what his buddy John Cam Hobhouse got out of it was another matter...</blockquote> ➤ notes: <blockquote>I figured there was already a large body of fanfic about Byron and the Shelleys (and occasionally Polidori), so I decided to write something set a bit earlier--1809, to be precise. Byron had yet to "wake up and find himself famous", but the work that really sparked his fame--Childe Harold's Pilgrimage--was begun while he was on this particular epic road trip.</blockquote> ➤ one of the tags is "byron being byron" and...yup

<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

<blockquote>Before I tell you the story he told me about his encounter with Count Stanislas August Poniatowski, the last King of Poland, I need to explain a thing or two about my father.</blockquote> ➤ I really enjoyed the vast majority of the story, but I think the ending is supposed to be heartwarming and I didn't find it so. If you have the power to maybe stop wwii from happening, isn't that more important than the fact that in the new world created from altering history, your daughter won't exist?

<blockquote>The greatest treat of all was sitting on his father’s lap to add his signature to the bottom of a letter to Atticus while his father corrected his spelling: kappa iota kappa epsilon, the pen slipping in his chubby hand, rho omega nu. Cicero the younger sends his greetings to Titus the Athenian.</blockquote> ➤ political and personal all mixed up in each other: awww yeah ➤ but now I get to figure out how to tag roman names. goddamnit what do I call people.

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

<blockquote>Really, it's bad enough that you have to deal with these sorts of people in the cooler months. In summer I wish they'd just take themselves off to the provinces and all be disagreeable at each other, and leave us alone.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Rating: OMG, SO NC-17, where the 'N' stands for 'NOBODY READ THIS'. Contains humiliation, suggestions of bestiality, general wrongness. Cicero, I'm so sorry. Summary: Mark Antony/Cicero, 1900 words. The toga hides a multitude of evils.</blockquote>

<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>

<blockquote>On Elephantine Island, a young Egyptian girl is sold to a Jewish officer of the military garrison.</blockquote> ➤ series consists of: From the Sun to the Shade I From the Sun to the Shade II From the Sun to the Shade III

<blockquote>The cast and crew of Horrible Histories CBBC takes the piss out of Gay and Lesbian history. Sketches include: “Internatyonal Man of Myfterie”, “The Lesbians who Don’t Do Anything”, “Henry Bollingbroke Doesn’t Like Dick”, and three new Savage Songs!</blockquote>

<blockquote>A brief glimpse of the life of Sir Richard F. Burton, as seen by his manager at the "English Breakfast."</blockquote> ➤ written just for meeeee and it is just as epic as it sounds!

<blockquote>These are the lessons which Richard Burton did not learn, these are the ways in which he applied them.</blockquote> ➤ written just for meeeee and it is GREAT.

<blockquote>Martin Luther is really curious about Jean Calvin the man.</blockquote>

➤ A series of gorgeous and depressing looks at their relationship and at Kierkegaard. The fourth one got me a bit teary.

➤ Atticus and Cicero's friendship in its early years