geeking out on shakespeare's histories

As you (may) know, Collective Bob, nominations for yuletide this year are opening in the not-too-distant future, and there has been a change to the rules: they're reducing the number of fandoms people can nominate from six to three.

Now, of course Yuletide is a fine excuse to get other people to write histories fic for us, or to write it for other people, but since there's a reduction in the number of nominations, I thought it might be nice to figure out who's willing to nominate things so as to minimize repeats and allow people to not lose a space on something that's already been nominated.

I can tell you right now that I basically always nominate Richard II, which is my when-all-is-said-and-done fandom, so that that's covered (in fact, I thought of this post because highfantastical mentioned that she felt no need to include it among her potential nominations on the grounds that I was obviously going to, and she has got me dead to rights).

Obviously nominations aren't going to open for a couple of weeks, but in case you are planning to nominate one of the histories anyway and would like to let us know, or if you want something nominated and don't have space, this is a good place for that sort of thing. :)

Title: These few days' wonder
Author: kerrypolka
Play: 2 Henry VI
Recipient: lareinenoire
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Humphrey Gloucester/Eleanor Cobham; Henry VI, Suffolk and Somerset, Margaret of Anjou
Warnings: swears
Rating: 15+
Summary: Look, you try to run a studio with Henry Junior's name on the deed and Beaufort and Pole breathing down your neck and see how far it gets you. Old Hollywood AU.

( Of all the ladies, Miss Holly was the only one who'd talked to me like I was a person instead of a prop. )

There's just over 24 hours left to sign up for this year's Histories Ficathon! Signups will be due tomorrow (JUNE 21) at MIDNIGHT EDT -- that's the end of tomorrow, not the end of today. Assignments will go out as soon after that as lareinenoire and I can work them out.

If you're on the fence about doing the ficathon, I highly recommend it! It's great fun, and we are only mean to the characters. :D

speak_me_fair and I have a new year's gift -- since that is TOTALLY HOW THEY DID IT BACK THEN -- for histories!fandom, in the form of our first ACTUAL FIC COLLABORATION. Hope you enjoy!

Title: Fugue, Chorale
Author: speak_me_fair and angevin2
Characters/Pairing: Richard/Aumerle
Rating: R
Word Count: 2745
Warnings: Fairly explicit sex, extremely explicit angst, bad poetry, puns, hunting references, unhealthy uses of ink, hypothetical references to sex with John Gower
Notes: Edward of York wrote The Master of Game, the oldest extant English hunting manual, at least partly while in prison on suspicion of treason (he was, obviously, not convicted). It is in large part a translation of Gaston de Foix's Livre de chasse, as Edward himself points out in the story, although there are additions and subtractions to make the work suitable for an English audience. All quotations from the text come from the well-known 1904 edition with an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt, who refers to the text's two authors as "mighty men with their hands." (Fnarr.) There is no evidence that Edward was working on this project as early as 1396-97 (which is when we are assuming this fic takes place), but he could have been, as the original was completed ten years previously.

( Edward looked down at his hands and beneath them he saw not only -- papers-- ink-- words -- )