#Ancient History RPF

[ao3-anonymous]

Fastest Growing Fandoms on AO3 This Week (03/25/2024)

Every week I pull data on how many fics are in each fandom and compare to the previous week, then calculate the percentage increase to determine fastest growing fandoms.  Since this naturally skews towards smaller fandoms, I have included the same data filtered to Over 1k, 5k, & 10k fics.

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[enlitment]

People who don't read historical RPF will never know the joys and delights of reading through 3+ Wiki pages, 5 JSTOR articles and looking at at least 2 separate family tree diagrams to determine just how problematic their ship is

[llitchilitchi]

there's a series of really niche fics that I want to write and the only thing stopping me is my inability to commit

[damnfandomproblems]

6909

What happened to not involving the creators, actors, actresses, etc in anyway? What happened to keeping it separate?

Also, is not the Bible in some sense an RPF? Is not a lot of writings from ancient history?

Fanfiction has been around for thousands of years, in my experience (Dante’s Inferno comes to mind) of course there’s been RPF around also.

Why is it just fanfics by the way, won’t fanart count also because people do make fanart of RP. How is that any different?

Look, keep it away from celebrities, authors, etc and it should be fine. If you make it just to be an asshole to someone, that isn’t fine.

This is just my opinion and not everyone else’s.

Posting as a response to a previous problem.

[fitzrove]

Tagged by @spghtrbry, thank you !!!!

Last song: Teuvo, maanteiden kuningas (by Leevi and the Leavings). Finnish schlager rock skskks. That's what the holidays will do to you

favorite color: Black and sometimes also gold/dark blue/dark purple

last book: edwin linkomies' "muinaisuuden näköaloja" (ancient history research book from the 1950s that i took from the uni's free shelf 4 years ago and read through a few days back so i could donate it)

last movie: Sisu (gorey and historically inaccurate Finnish war action movie 😭 was on tv on xmas eve for some reason)

last show: Interview with the vampire

sweet/savory/spicy: Sweet all the way !!

relationship status: technically single but very busy skskks

last thing i looked up: a very hungry caterpillar movie

current obsession: awful 19th century rpf

looking forward to: A history conference I learned about online and now desperately want to go to & going to the ballet and theatre over xmas break (3 shows in total lined up so far, 3 diff cities!!!)

Tagging (do NOT reblog and add your own thing skks, make a new post i am begging): @hydromantia @aboutyoutoo @kronprinz-rudolf @kittycattscathy @derrestistschweigen @after-perfect and anyone else so inclined !!

[kebriones]

I had to come home from uni early because of really bad period pain and i wrote this curled up in bed to distract myself asgfhdn.

It takes place in the modern university au

[jpdoingwords]

Hunger, Desire, Anger, Roads

A collection of short pieces of writing and some art associated with characters (including OCs) and events around The Good Spartan, as it's currently published and alternative versions.

These include threads taken from the original version of the fic and reworked; alternative points of view which develop characters who necessarily have no voice in the published fic; and a variety of other exploratory pieces set within this AU. They're all part of the framework around which The Good Spartan grew - and continues to grow.

This collection will be added to over time as I work through what I have and start writing new pieces.

This was intended for the Brasideia and I accidentally published it instead of saving as a draft LOL oh well! May as well mention it today anyway :D

The title is taken from the poem Ars Magnetica by Pablo Neruda , translated by Alastair Reid.

Further specifics under the cut :-)

Rating: Mature Archive Warning: Major Character Death Category: M/M Fandoms: Assassin's Creed - All Media Types; Assassin's Creed RPF; Ancient History RPF Relationship: Alexios (Assassin's Creed)/Brasidas (d. 422 BCE) Characters: Alexios (Assassin's Creed); Brasidas (d. 422 BCE); Original Characters. Additional Tags: Other Additional Tags to Be Added; Shorts; Cut Scenes; Poetry; Additional scenes; Love; Grief/Mourning; Loss; Alternative Perspectives; Alternative Endings; Some pieces address Brasidas' death hence the MCD warning; Art; OCs. Language: English

[brasideios]

The Fire and the Flood

The Alexithenes re-write is finally finished!!! I'm so happy I could do a silly little dance! (Maybe I am doing one, haha!) 🥳🕺🏼

In the year 427 BCE, Alexios allows Socrates to lure him to Athens for the summer. During his stay in the city, his relationship with Demosthenes, not yet a general of Athens, will change significantly… But as the war rages on, will the pressures of the messy world beyond Athens' walls bring the pair together or drive them apart?

Further details under the cut!

The Fire and the Flood (67533 words) by brasideios Chapters: 22/22 Fandom: Assassin's Creed - All Media Types, Ancient History RPF Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Alexios (Assassin's Creed)/Demosthenes General of Athens (d. 413 BCE), Herodianos/Thaletas (Assassin's Creed) Characters: Alexios (Assassin's Creed), Barnabas (Assassin's Creed), Original Characters, Lykinos (Assassin's Creed), Timotheos (Assassin's Creed), Rhexenor (Assassin’s Creed), Hermippos (Assassin's Creed), Alkibiades | Alcibiades (c. 450-404 BCE), Sokrates | Socrates (c. 469-399 BC), Demosthenes General of Athens (d. 413 BCE), Deimos (Assassin's Creed), Thaletas (Assassin's Creed), Herodianos (Assassin's Creed), Kyra (Assassin's Creed), Kleon | Cleon (d. 422 BCE), Nikias (c. 470-413 BCE) Additional Tags: Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Falling In Love, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, One Night Stands, Lust, Smut, Fluff and Smut, Oral Sex, Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, Edging, Developing Relationship, Historical References, Angst with a Happy Ending, Romance, Injury Recovery, Found Family, Meet the Family, Family Issues, survival guilt, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Loss, Grief/Mourning, Lost Love, The power of puppies to provide comfort, Rare Pairings, Domestic Fluff, Healthy Relationships, Not Canon Compliant, Established Relationship, Canon Universe, Kassandra is Deimos (Assassin's Creed) Series: Part 1 of The Fire & The Flood Summary: In the year 427 BCE, Alexios allows Socrates to lure him to Athens for the summer. During his stay in the city, his relationship with Demosthenes, not yet a general of Athens, will change significantly… But as the war rages on, will the pressures of the messy world beyond Athens' walls bring the pair together or drive them apart? This story is not canon compliant. Alexios isn't immortal and his father is Nikolaos.

[marsdeathdefiances]

Was struck with sudden inspiration so have this:

[whatifwekilledgodandwebothgirls]

Wrote this a while ago but the only other thing i have to offer the alcibiades gods is a half written draft that talks about how fucked up greek easter is . Domestic fluff i promise , its a bit sad rn but the rest of the chapters are nice

[ao3-anonymous]

Fastest Growing Fandoms on AO3 This Week (03/27/2024)

Every week I pull data on how many fics are in each fandom and compare to the previous week, then calculate the percentage increase to determine fastest growing fandoms.  Since this naturally skews towards smaller fandoms, I have included the same data filtered to Over 1k, 5k, & 10k fics.

Overall:

Over 1,000 Fics:

Over 5,000 Fics:

Over 10,000 Fics:

Source: AO3 Fandom Dashboard

[the-good-spartan]

If I were to write a piece of Ancient History RPF about Tellis and the battle of Tanagra, and was to post it to AO3, would anyone read it?

Why did this question fall so naturally into the if a tree falls down in the woods, and no one is there to hear it, does it make any sound format?

[llitchilitchi]

hello internet traveller, you've now reached the ancient history rpf zone. tread lightly

[scenetocause]

director's commentary to the logoscar bfu au :)) <3<3

oh this one (do you think it's cute that i'm so fucking stupid?) is funny because it was meant to be just a dumb idea. like i had it after idk, whatever race (miami???? seems about right) and it wasn't even from watching a bfu thing. like my youtube recommendations came up with some ancient thing where the buzzfeed girlies (gn) from ladylike made over ryan and shane to make them dress like attractive people with jobs in video media not some sports bro who doesn't know how his own hair works yet and a poorly proportioned scarecrow that comes alive at night to kill local virgins.

great content and a brave attempt by the girlies (gn) but i think it was still the better part of half a decade before ryan and shane realised they could simply look nice. a core part of the video though was ryan being like "i have 14 basketball jerseys" and them ALL being whatever los angeles team he jerks it for and i was like oh boy i know one guy who would definitely do this.

the emptyhalf thought process doesn't really go all that much deeper than that a lot of the time but i was like alright sweet i'll rewatch the old bfu eps in the mystery house and kinda mash 'em together a bit. job's a good'un. not difficult to project the insecurities of racing to the insecurities of having jobs at buzzfeed, intimately familiar with one via me and the other via some of my friends.

EXCEPT and perhaps this is my shaniac punishment for a flirtation with hauntology but then i'm like. something is bugging me about this. i started having the dreams oscar has in the fic, about the mystery house and i'm like ???? hello ???? it's a dumb tourist trap in a state i've never been to can you chill out up in there.

something about it was playing on my conscience though and i was like hey winchester lady it ain't me selling the main supply of weapons used to murder native americans you leave me out of this. but still, end up looking shit up and being like OH it's not just a dumb tourist trap it's an actively ahistorical tourist trap that covers up extensive parts of its own sad and weird history with a much less interesting version.

so i'm like. very interesting. stupid. hate this for me. but also there is clearly only one course of action because fic oscar would not want to let this lie because fic oscar is a barely disguised projection of me and we've gotta go back to the mystery house. in this fucking fic that barely anyone's read because it's a weird crossover of an obscure pairing and surely no one gives a damn.

obviously spent several days pairing up old photos of the house and finding out what would work as references and then just writing a load of stuff with my brain fully geared into neutral, as always, anyway. but basically this fic probably had the most work i have put into something for fucking ages in it because i was wracked with the guilt i, ao3 user emptyhalf, in a deeply fictional piece of rpf, might mislead the public about the myth a tourist attraction tells about itself.

to paraphrase my own, other, fic: my characters are unhinged but it's not like i'm very hinged, either. clearly.

[wolffyluna]

1, 2, 23 on the questions it would be fun to be asked!

1.what are 3 things you’d say shaped you into who you are?

Ooh, that's a tough one.

1. Once, when I was ten, my mother took me to a local riding school for a trail ride because of the recommendation of a relative. The rest, they say, is history. I had liked horses before, but abstractly, from a distance. After that ride, though... I had fallen in love

2. I was so young, I don't remember how it happened, but baby Wolffy was obsessed with Alexander the Great, and this somehow keeps coming up in my life? My interest in history? all Lexie's fault. My interest in fandom? WANT TO GUESS WHAT MY FIRST FANDOM WAS? ANCIENT GREEK HISTORY RPF.

3. Speaking of fandom: [mumblemumble] years ago, I joined tumblr to post warhammer 40k fanfiction. And so many things in my life flow on from that one decision. It lead me to glowfic which lead me to a bunch of my friends which somehow lead to me trying to learn Mandarin?

2. Show us a picture of your handwriting

23. 3 facts about someone you hate

1. Did you know that CIA ran a polio vaccination campaign in Afghanistan and Pakistan as a cover to collect blood samples from children, in the hope of finding Osama Bin Laden's children and thus finding him.

2. And then when they found Bin Laden, they stopped the vaccination program mid way through, and that meant everyone worked out what it was for, and no longer trusted vaccination programs.

3. AND THIS IS A SIGNIFICANT FACTOR IN POLIO NOT BEING ERADICATED

anyway. Just some facts that might give you strong opinions about certain former cia directors

[kebriones]

Random tiny silly Alcibiades/Socrates thing I wrote a month ago or so.