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!!

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[jlh]

Thanks so much for this! I'm excited to read it. I know what you mean about the All Brown People Are Interchangeable, and having to kind of let that go. I think you are working to keep people accurate, but you also want to avoid the Buffy the Vampire Slayer in England syndrome, where the cast would never have met.

Even if you have things that are only at 80 or 75 or even 50% but have interesting aspects that could be used as examples, that would be really great too.

Thanks again!!