historical AUs—send all recs!

[jlh]

So there's been an avalanche of fail recently, regarding historical AUs, both RPF and "FPF." I've been thinking about writing a post, a kind of "how to write one and avoid horrible fail!" But to do that, I need your recs!

Please rec historical AUs that you really love, that you feel avoided these kinds of fails but still managed to deal with the historical issues. Many of us have written the equivalent of a costume drama—like, putting the characters in a Regency Romance—that completely avoids the issues of the time. That's totally fine! But those AUs are not the ones I wanted to look at for this project.

I'd love to have AUs from a wide range of fandoms, and various time periods! Feel free to pimp this out to your own flist, and if you have suggestions for things I should think about to include in the eventual post please let me know! (Or, if you'd like to read it over—I think I'll definitely need some "betas" on this one, and I can't force sistermagpie and ali_wildgoose to do all of it!)

Thanks!!

Comments

[sistermagpie]

Yay! This sounds great! I haven't read that many AUs, but ones that were historical that I remember liking were--well, obviously yours but I assume you tried to be doing it right! I loved that Star Trek fic where they were in the old west. That seemed like a great example of how much you can say about the character with the way you transform them.

There was also an ATLA fic that I was really loving but I don't think it was finished...damn, who wrote it? Rawles! It's unfinished, but it was called "A Certain Fondness." An Avatar Regency fic.

Those are the ones I remember feeling were really taking place in those times. A Certain Fondness didn't get very far, but iirc it was already dealing with the some of the social pressures etc.

[jlh]

I did try, it's true!

I'm also going to crawl through the AU big bang fics; there weren't many blow ups over those so I presume the historical ones got it close enough.

I remember that fic of hers and I really hope she continues it, as it had a very interesting start!