Random Historical Goodness

Since I have spent most of the last few posts moaning about The White Princess (it's all right; I'm done now, but srsly, if you want to do historical feminism, you might want to consider what you do with the women, because being useless or committing multiple murders which they didn't actually commit plus bonus unhistorical rape is not really the way to go in my book, even without the horror of the costumes *coughs*), here are some much better historical things of various kinds!


1. In almost insulting contrast to TWP in how to do it right, I've been watching Suffragette (2015), which my Mum kindly sent me because I had missed it on the TV and she hadn't, and she'd liked it so much she watched it twice in a row. And then I had a mystery parcel from Amazon, and now I have also sort of watched it twice, as I watched it once and then watched it again for the commentary. (Both because I was curious about things and also because I remembered Abi Morgan, the writer, being interesting from The Hour.)


2. A clever, haunting ficlet about Catherine of Aragon Seven Sevens (which I fell over and was delighted by both because it was clever, and also because it happens to use the chess scene from Shadow of the Tower as a launching point).


3. For those who don't already have a paid account and might find it of use: Ancestry are offering free access to UK and Irish records for the upcoming weekend.


4. And another excellent historical fic (which incidentally wound up making me a new flister, which is always a happy outcome *waves happily*), from the Chocolate Box exchange, for the sadly short-lived WWII ITV show, The Halcyon: Lex Talionis (Richard Garland & Lady Hamilton).

Poetry Randomiser Meme

Because I felt like it:

1: Pick five fandoms. List them in alphabetical order.

2: Visit this site to find your first RANDOM POEM OF POWER. Write down the 5th line (yes, even if it's an E.E. Cummings poem and you wind up with an apostrophe). Repeat five times and - you guessed it - list 'em in alphabetical order! (No cheating, mind! This is a challenge and it's always been about creativity.)

3: I think you can see where this is going. Write a very quick 50-word half-drabble for each fandom (try to do it all in one sitting - make your brain explode!), using the line from the poem as a prompt. You don't have to include it in the half-drabble - it's just inspiration.

4: Bravo! Have a cookie.

( The results under the cut )

I forgot to note down the poets, but I can tell you that, apart from one, they were all Robert Service and Emily Dickinson again. That generator seriously needs to see someone about its literary fixations. Still, they fitted perfectly to the fandoms, so I'm not complaining.