historyfest | Round 1

Welcome to the first ever round of

historyfest, a prompt fest for historical rpf!

Rules, Information and Timeline

Prompting opens March 1.
Prompting closes March 15.
Filling closes April 30.
You may fill as soon as a prompt is posted, but an organised list of prompts will be posted after prompting ends.
All countries and historical periods are welcome. (For the purposes of this fest, history will be defined as pre-1950.)
Gen, het, slash, femslash and poly are all encouraged, as are all genres and ratings.
You may post anonymously if you wish. This includes both prompts and fills.
There is no minimum level of historical significance to be included in this fest. People can be politicians, generals, writers, artists, actors, jesters, monarchs, philosophers, scientists, spouses, parents, siblings, children, or merely someone who once did something odd that happened to be written about.
Don't be an asshole.

Prompts

One prompt per comment, but you may leave as many comments as you like.
You may prompt 'crossovers' between people who never met or weren't alive at the same time.
To allow for easy categorisation, please title the thread in the following format: Country, Century
If the people involved belong to more than one country or century, please list both, e.g. Ancient Egypt/Ancient Rome, 1st Century BCE; China, 2nd-3rd Century; Britain, 1st Century/16th Century

Fills

Fills may consist of fic, art, mixes, or whatever you feel inspired to make.
There is no minimum or maximum length or size.
When posting, leave your fill as a reply to the original prompt. Make sure to change the thread title to "Fill: Title of Work, Medium, Country, Century, People/Ship, Rating" so people know you've posted something.
For fic, you may paste your work into the comment itself, or leave a link to where it's hosted elsewhere.
For art or other multimedia works, please provide a link to where it is hosted rather than embedding it.
You may fill your own prompts.
Multiple fills for the same prompt are allowed.
Please provide suitable warnings.
There is an AO3 collection here if you'd like to use it.

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Leonardo da Vinci, "The Medici made me and the Medici destroyed me."

Caesar/Mark Antony, Egypt has many new delights to offer, some of which require a second person to indulge in.

Guan Yu/Zhang Fei/Liu Bei, the peach garden oath may need a revisit.

Hadrian/Antinous
Hadrian giving Antinous swimming lessons (because as much as I love tragic history, it can be rewritten with fluff, right?)

When Hadrian honoured Alexander the Great's grave, Antinous did likewise to Hephaestion's.

With this in mind - reincarnation! Flashbacks! (Gratuitous sex!)

Or maybe Alexander and Hephaestion are immortal and have taken the names and identities of Hadrian and Antinous... Or maybe they're symbiotic beings and Hadrian and Antinous are their current hosts?

Antinous, unused to such attention, being measured/drawn for a statue. Hadrian watches/teases/encourages.

Napoleon/George IV - hero worship

Aethelflaed of Mercia, from queen consort to queen regnant

Harry Houdini/any, bondage - he could escape, he just chooses not to

Leonardo da Vinci/Francis I, your breath on my skin

Liu Bei/Guan Yu/Zhang Fei, as the blossoms fall

Zhuge Liang/Lady Huang, beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Queen Christina, Hogwarts AU - who can sleep when there's a whole library to read?

Queen Christina/Ebba Sparre, snuggling for warmth on a cold night

Frida Kahlo, some wounds will never heal

Pablo Picasso/Henri Matisse, a colourful life

Shah Jahan/Mumtaz Mahal, you above all others

Isabella I/Ferdinand II, equal opposites in balance

Antoine Lavoisier/Marie-Anne Paulze, we shall make new discoveries together

William II/Duke of Wellington, preparing for battle

Michelangelo/Tommaso dei Cavalieri, beauty beyond the bounds of art

Raphael/Margarita Luti, the pain of being separated

Lord Byron, anything about him keeping a pet bear while studying at Trinity

Francisco Goya, the sleep of reason produces monsters

AO3 fill here!

Edited 2015-05-01 06:14 (UTC)

Rameses II/Nefertari, the reason the sun shines

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Round 1 - Prompt Post

Italy, 15th-16th Century

Ancient Rome, First Century BC

Ancient China, 2nd Century AD

Rome, 2nd Century AD

Ancient Greece/Macedonia 4th Century BC; Ancient Rome 2nd Century AD

Ancient Rome 2nd Century AD

England/France 19th Century AD

England, 10th Century

Hungary/USA, 19th-20th Century

Italy/France, 16th Century

China, 2nd-3rd Century

China, 2nd-3rd Century

Sweden, 17th Century

Sweden, 17th Century

Mexico, 20th Century

Spain/France, 20th Century

India, 17th Century

Spain, 15th Century

France, 18th Century

Netherlands/Britain, 19th Century

Italy, 16th Century

Italy, 16th Century

Britain, 19th Century

Spain, 18th-19th Century

Fill: Modo de volar, Fic, Spain, 19th century, Francisco Goya, T

Ancient Egypt, 13th Century BCE