Historical Big Bang
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| Name: | Historical Big Bang |
| Date(s): | 2011-2014 |
| Moderator(s): | queenmidalah |
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| Type: | Big Bang |
| Fandom: | Multifandom |
| Associated Community: | https://history-bigbang.livejournal.com/ |
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The Historical Big Bang ran for three rounds between 2011 and 2014. It allowed original fiction as well as fanworks.
About
This historical big bang covers a variety of fandoms and a variety of histories, be it fantasy or reality. If a show is set with a "historical" theme or set in history, this big bang is for you. If you want to write a crossover or a historical flashback, this big bang is for you. The sky is the limit.
Masterlist
Round 1 (2012)
Title: Tails of the Captain's Daughter
Fandom: American Idol 8 RPF/Husbands
Story by deannawol
Art by queenmidalah
Title: Lights
Fandom: Indiana Jones/Transformers
Story by sparrowshellcat
Art by mella68
Title: North of India, West of Cathay
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Highlander
Story by morgynleri_fic/auberus
Art by rubystandish
Title: Sacrifice
Fandom: Public Enemies
Story by bradygirl_12
Art by mella68
Title: A New Life or Something Like It
Fandom: Highlander
Story by bearshorty
Art by viviantanner
Title: Reforged
Fandom: American Idol 8 RPF
Story by shakespearsgrl2
Art by queenmidalah
Title: Manifest Destiny
Fandom: Jericho
Story by tanaquific
Art by queenmidalah
Title: Joyous Gard
Fandom: Original Fiction
Story by tegels
Art by lferion
Title: You and Me and Those Between Us
Fandom: War and Peace
Story by alley_skywalker
Art by queenmidalah
Round 2 (2013)
Title: You and Me and How It Ends
Author: alley_skywalker
Artist: looneyngilo2
Fandom: War and Peace
Characters/Parings: Theodore Dolokhov/Anatole Kuragin; Helene Kuragin, Pierre Bezukhov, Galina Dolokhov, others in cameos
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Character Death
Word Count: ~12,300
Summary: After his unsuccessful elopement attempt with Natasha, Anatole has to leave Moscow without getting a chance to make things right with Theodore. They struggle through the rift, pride and confusion battling love and a need to be together. And just when it seems their love might pull through after all, the war starts and makes its own claims.
Title: A Trickster's Children
Author: Morgyn Leri (morgynleri_fic)
Artist: amber1960
Disclaimer: I own none of them, only the plot.
Fandom & Time Period: Avengers/Norse Mythology; some post-canon, a lot sometime at least a thousand years ago
Characters: Fenrir, Angrboða, Phil Coulson, Loki, Clint Barton, Fandral, Sif, Volstagg, Hogun, Sleipnir, Odin, Jörmungandr, Vali, Tony Stark, Nari, Sigyn, Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Laufey
Word Count: 10,920
Rating & Warnings: Adult; for violence, child abuse, and mentions of character death
Story Title: Requiem for a Queen
Author: tryfanstone
Artist: amber1960
Fandom: Dorothy Dunnett - Lymond Chronicles post canon AU
Period: Elizabethan England (1587)
Rating: R
Pairing: Philippa/Marthe
Story Summary: A Crawford, a fair Crawford, unmistakable as a parakeet among pigeons. Contains several hats, the Thames with associated sloops, wherries and barges, older women, maps, a farmhouse on the Scottish borders. PLEASE NOTE massive spoilers for the series.
Story Title: Had we but world enough, and time
Author: amber1960
Artist: mella68
Fandom: Supernatural RPF (AU)
Period: World War II
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Jensen/Jared though there is no actual sex.
Warnings: It’s war, folks. Major character deaths (but with a hopeful, positive ending). Jensen has permanent injuries (amputated legs). Passing mentions of war related things; Nazis, Bolsheviks, internment camps, homophobia, etc.
Story Summary: Jensen Ackles had only fallen in love once in his life, and that was with someone he’d never met. Now in his twilight years, he tells the story of how he fell in love with Polish bomber pilot, Jared Padalecki. It is a tale of courage, loss, supressed desires and ultimately, redemption
Round 3 (2014)
Title: One Summer (To Define Forever)
Author: alley_skywalker
Fandom: War and Peace
Paring(s): Pierre/Anatole, Dolokhov/Anatole
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: ~10,000
Warning: Canon character death
Summary: Pierre fell in love with Anatole when he was 17. They were still boys then, living a warm, Parisian dream. It was wild and confusing and beautiful. Pierre has changed since then, but the memories haven't.
Title: And not one stick stand by another
Fandom: Supernatural
Wordcount: 20,200
Rating: Gen
Warnings: brief depictions of show-level violence. Set post-9.13.
Summary: In late 16th century Scotland, Mary Winchester disappears from the market near her Dalkeith home. Frantic, her husband John scours the countryside for word of her whereabouts, but all he can find are increasingly-disturbing signs that Mary's capture is related to her family's history as Border raiders. Meanwhile, in present-day America, something is targeting and killing hunters. Sheriff Jody Mills knows that Dean Winchester hates witches, but she's running out of people to call.
Title: True Heart of Wexford
Author: rotrude
Artist: mella68
Fandom: Merlin
Pairings: Merlin/Arthur
Word Count: 21,000
Warnings: War, violence, mention of off-scene massacres, sex while feverish with pre-established partner.
Summary: Wexford, 1798, Merlin is the Catholic groundskeeper on the manor belonging to Anglo-Irish aristocrat Arthur Pendragon, scion of a generation of absentee lords. While Merlin's day job entails looking after Arthur's property, he's also involved with the United Irishmen, whose object is to unite the people of Ireland against the English. Political upheaval is about to plunge the country into turmoil. In the midst of all this stands Arthur Pendragon, who's become Merlin's staunch friend in spite of everything that divides them: faith, class, position, and obligation.
Title: What They Deem Thee to Be
Author: cerch
Fandom: Merlin
Pairings: (pre-)Merlin/Arthur
Word Count: 31,901
Warnings: Canon typical violence
Summary: When the Old Religion refuses to acknowledge Arthur as the crown prince, his only choice is to go on to a quest to prove his worth. The Lady of the Lake sends him to retrieve the Grail from the legendary castle of the Fisher king, and with him comes Merlin, both a guide and a judge, full of secrets, past hurts and blinding smiles.
Title: Lonely Rivers Flow To The Sea
Author: ekishou
Fandom: Merlin
Pairing(s): Arthur/Merlin
Word Count: 14,677
Summary: When Arthur Pendragon, Earl of Winchester, offers to send his cook to London for much-needed medical treatment, it brings her son Merlin back into his life after ten long years apart. It has been ten years of regret, loss, and pining over what might’ve been had Arthur not chosen to end their relationship with the best of intentions -- intentions that paved the way to terrible heartbreak.
Thinking back to their painful final parting has Arthur resolved to avoid Merlin, but fate has other ideas...