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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Copernicus, space AU

Beethoven/Mozart, let me study under you

Charlotte + Emily + Anne Bronte, running wild across the moors

Julius Caesar/Cleopatra VII, Rome will never truly conquer Egypt

Cicero/Atticus, all my deepest secrets... except one

Henry VII/Elizabeth of York, a walk in the rose garden

Nicholas II/Alexandra Feodorovna, a thousand dreams of you

Catherine the Great, to tempt and to be tempted

Lord Byron/Percy Shelley/Mary Shelley, unconventional spirits

Hannibal Barca/Scipio Africanus, The desert is calling, the emptiness of space / The hunger of a lion is written on your face

Boudicca, nothing left but the will to fight

Catherine the Great, the single-minded pursuit of a goal

James I/George Villiers, public displays of affection

William IV/Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, a quiet evening by the fire

Mark Antony/Julius Caesar, reuniting after a long time apart

William Shakespeare/Christopher Marlowe, the touch of ink-stained fingers

George IV/Beau Brummell, they met when Beau joined the prince's regiment, so how about some uniform kink?

Henry VIII/Anne Boleyn, a dangerous seduction

Horatio Nelson/Thomas Hardy, Hardy comforts Nelson during a bout of seasickness.

Ludwig II/Richard Wagner, the things we try to deny

Liu Bei/Zhuge Liang, like a fish that has found water

Mark Antony/Julius Caesar, what if Antony had been with Caesar on the Ides of March?

Charlotte + Emily + Anne Bronte, telling stories by the fire

Filled! (sorry about the accidental porn) A source of little visible delight (http://archiveofourown.org/works/3854812)

Hannibal Barca/Scipio Africanus, Forgive my thoughts when I'm asleep / Forgive these words I'm yet to speak

Mark Antony/Gaius Scribonius Curio, scandalous indulgence

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Round 1 - Prompt Post

Poland, 15th-16th Century

Germany/Austria, 18th Century

Britain, 19th Century

Ancient Egypt/Ancient Rome, 1st Century BC

Ancient Rome, 1st Century BC

England, 15th Century

Russia, 19th-20th Century

Russia, 18th Century

Britain, 19th Century

Ancient Carthage/Ancient Rome, 3rd-2nd Century BC

England, 1st Century

Russia, 18th Century

England, 17th Century

Britain, 19th Century

Ancient Rome, 1st Century BC

England, 16th Century

Britain, 18th-19th Century

England, 16th Century

Britain, 18th-19th Century

Germany, 19th Century

China, 2nd-3rd Century

Ancient Rome, 1st Century BCE

Britain, 19th Century

Re: Britain, 19th Century

Ancient Carthage/Ancient Rome, 3rd-2nd Century BC

Ancient Rome, 1st Century BC