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Romanticism Pan-Fandom Week

[Now with 7 times as many dates and slightly better edited prompts.]

Sunday August 28: Be impulsive. Don’t overthink. Write flash fiction or stream-of-conscious poetry, sketch as the spirit moves, improvise a dramatic scene, or reenact your favorite Romantic painting with household objects. Just don’t plan.

Monday, August 29. Crossover Day. Reimagine a scene from one of your favorite Romantic writers in the style of one of their friends. Or enemies. Visual art, drama, music, moodboards, costume/textile projects, etc., are all fair game.

Tuesday, August 30. Science Fiction Day. Happy Birthday to Mary Shelley, mother of modern sci-fi. Channel the spirit of being-stuck-in-a-house-with-Byron-is-making-me-reexamine-the-wisdom-of-human-progress and explore contemporary social problems through science fiction. In your preferred art form and idiom.

Wednesday, August 31. Gothic & Horror Day.  Channel the spirit of  being-stuck-in-a-house-with-Byron-is-making-me-codify-a-staple-gothic-horror-trope and explore contemporary social problems through gothic and/or horror writing.

Thursday, September 1. Historical Fiction Day. Ignore contemporary social problems by blatantly inventing your own version of the past in which there are different social problems.

Friday, September 2. Earth Day. Explore the sublimity and powerful contrasts of nature. Or give all your faves flower crowns, idk.

Saturday, September 3. Author Insert Day. Insert your favorite real-life Romantic figure(s) into your favorite fictional Romantic literature. Or into your daily life. Or play with your favorite authors’ author avatars. Or put yourself and/or your friends into your project. Cameos are a love-language and we are not constrained by time or space.

#Romanticism Pan-Fandom Week#romantic army!#romanticism#fandom challenge week#fanfiction#fanart#fan anything really#original works in the spirit of Romanticism are also highly welcome
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It's not a full week, but...

The 200th anniversary of Lord Byron's death is coming up next month.

April 19, 2024 (your local time), let's take over the Romanticism hashtag. Fic, meta, fanart, memes, forgotten arcane rituals, translations, poetry, research, mood boards, RECOMMENDATIONS for your favorite lesser known Romantic works, etc.

Rules are for classicists, let's have fun!

#romantic army!#romanticism pan-fandom week#sort of
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Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, Caspar David Friedrich.

Rating: NOT CUTE.

To many uneducated people, this is the Romantic "ideal"—but this early 19th century man is dangerously stressed, seeking out a novel perspective because he hasn't been provided with adequate enrichment!

Although he has a walking stick (good), this isn't the proper environment for walking. Instead of letting your early 19th century man wander all the way to the precipice of a cliff (in the fog, no less), try giving him some novels from the circulating library, and appropriate bijouterie!

Much better! The gloves protect his hands (unclear if the "wanderer" has any), and the quizzing glass provides hours of unique visual stimulation. You can see from the neat coiffure that he's well cared for.

#important life lessons for us all#Romantics however are an unusual subclass in that most of them want to be suffering in order to feel fulfilled#their enrichment needs are therefore quite complex and should be undertaken by experienced handlers only
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In Which a Certain Poem by a Certain Englishman Becomes a Piece of Popular Wisdom - poetesmaudits - Les Misérables - All Media Types [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org|Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Les Misérables - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Cosette Fauchelevent & Jean Valjean Characters: Jean Valjean, Cosette Fauchelevent, The Thénardiers (Les Misérables) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon Era, Impromptu Swashbuckling, Pastiche, Romanticism Pan-Fandom Week ‘22 (day 2), alternate timeline: what if dumas had written les misérables, Canonical Child Abuse, Further Dilfification of the Character of Jean Valjean, Tigers, Historical Inaccuracies Summary:

“You know if I like Hugo’s talent, and therefore if I allow myself to be dragged into some bad feeling by criticising what is called his capital work. No, on the contrary, it is with a heavy heart that I say to myself that Les Misérables is both a boring work, ill-conceived in its plan and ill-timed in its result.” - Alexandre Dumas expressing his thoughts on Les Misérables in a letter, 1862.

A rewriting of LM 2.3, Alexandre Dumas père style.

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for the event organised by @romantic-army, my contribution for day 2, only a wee bit late!

Source: archiveofourown.org
#fanfiction#Romanticism Pan-Fandom Week#Romantic Army!
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My first piece for @romantic-army​ ‘s  Romanticism Pan-Fandom Week!

A posthumous collaboration with the late great Célestin Nanteuil for the yet-undiscovered series Immortal Heart of Paris , in which Mary Shelley brings the preserved heart of her husband to Paris , following a legend that the city can grant immortality to those who know how to seek it. But her quest puts her in the middle of a much larger struggle for the city’s own heart! To find what she’s after, Mary will have to deal with revenge plots, warring political dynasties, monsters of myth , a very familiar scientist, and worst of all, Other Romantics. An epic series coming never except in my sketches! 

This cover may be late because of Brain Gnomes, but it’s certainly a crossover, both in subject and form; and if it were not quite so impulsive, it would have been ready much sooner and probably looked a bit sharper XD  So with luck I can catch up with the daily prompts!

The entire thing is mostly built on Nanteuil’s frontispiece for Notre Dame de Paris! Here’s the original :

I think the combination of intense detail and super-sketchy little figures is charming and inspirational! There’s something to study in every little corner of the picture, but the lack of detail almost demands the viewer read the text to understand the full meaning of the images; a very good move for a frontispiece! 

#Romanticism Pan-Fandom Week#Romantic Army!#Fanart
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Six Days Out

We are at T-6 days until our first Romanticism Pan-Fandom theme week. For those of you just joining us: the daily themes can be found in this post. An explanation of what-the-heck-this-is can be found here.

Answers to Questions Unasked:

1. This theme week was originally envisioned for the fandoms of the OG Romantic Movement, but you are welcome to branch out and experiment. It’s the Romantic thing to do.

2. Let your own sensibilities guide your adherence to the daily themes/prompts, and interpret the themes as broadly as you desire. To recap, they are: flash fiction/impulsiveness; crossovers; science fiction; gothic/horror; history; nature; author inserts.

3. This blog will attempt to repost participating works tagged “Romantic Army!” or “Romanticism Pan-Fandom Week”. You can also @ romantic-army since the tag search can be a bit quixotic.

4. Formats are entirely up to you. A non-inclusive list of possibilities include: fiction, poetry, visual art, essays (meta, literary criticism, commentary, context), annotations, film & performance art, collage/moodboards, music, cosplay, and reenacting the Battle of Hernani with your cats.  

#Romantic Army!#Romanticism Pan-Fandom Week
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