4th Dec: Regency AUs

[bluflamingo]

taliahale asked me to talk about regency AUs...

...And I have to start by saying that I'm not entirely sure I've ever read one. I'm not a huge fan of historical AUs, though I'm not entirely sure why - maybe because the focus tends to be on historical accuracy to a degree that I'm not interested in? Plus, I mainly read slash and femslash, which fits a little awkwardly into regency period stuff (not that it didn't happen in reality then, obviously), and includes a little more hiding and sneaking and societal disapproval than I really want to read about in my fiction.

So, yeah, not so much my cup of tea - well, unless they're a bit either magical or steam-punk, because then those two things outweigh the historical detail for me.

Comments

[taliahale]

Hurray! Thanks for posting even though it's something you're not jazzed about.

I'm fairly certain Hockey RPF isn't your fandom, but twentysomething posted a brilliant magical regency fic recently that you could read like original fiction. It's called Thou and You and the universe is based on the world of Patricia C. Wrede's Sorcery and Cecelia novels. More in your wheelhouse, foxxcub wrote a Steve/Tony marriage of convenience Regency AU with background Clint/Coulson called Looking for Heaven.