Historical Fiction

[sweetnpetite]

Who writes Historical Erotica? Would you use this thread to post links?

Also, what kind of reserch do you do? How much?

Do you think it would make a good category or do you think we have too many/enough cats as it is?

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Who writes Historical Erotica? Would you use this thread to post links?

My favourite authors of fiction with and historical flavour are, hands down, MlledeLaPlumeBleu (literotica link and www.charminglycarnal.com) and BlackShanglan (literotica link). Dr_mabeuse also has some very good pieces.

 

[sweetnpetite]

My favourite authors of fiction with and historical flavour are, hands down, MlledeLaPlumeBleu (literotica link and www.charminglycarnal.com) and BlackShanglan (literotica link). Dr_mabeuse also has some very good pieces.

Thanks Lauren. cool!

 

[BlackShanglan]

Thanks awfully, Lauren. Let me put in a good word for MlledeLaPlumeBleu as well. I'll also mention "To Tempt the Devil," which was thoroughly entertaining and well researched. I don't read as much as I should here or I would be more help on writes it!

I very much wish that they would make it a category. It's the sort of thing I really like to read, and as it stands it's hard to find. But then, I rather wish they'd go the multiple-identifier route anyway and give each story a number of tags - so you could have a "nonhuman romance historical" or "letters gay historical" or what have you.

Shanglan

 

[Alex De Kok]

The 'Talisman' Chain stories start in the Roman era with Killermuffin's piece and move through the centuries to the present. My contribution to the chain, Lucy McFey is set around 1810 or thereabouts. Comment invited if you read it!

Alex

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Sabledrake also writes a good deal of historical fition. Good stuff too.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Yes! I had forgotten both Sabledrake and The Talisman series - among which are several of my favourite period pieces - but they definitely deserve a place on my list.

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

But then, I rather wish they'd go the multiple-identifier route anyway and give each story a number of tags - so you could have a "nonhuman romance historical" or "letters gay historical" or what have you.

Shanglan

That would make the survivor contest a nightmare, lol. I think it might deserve its own category, but please let's wait until the end of the year cause I suck at those, and if it were added during this year's contest, I'd have to write one. (yes, I'm being totally selfish, lol)

 

[oggbashan]

I have written some:

Brobdingnag parts 1-5 (and more pending) with Gulliver in Lilliput set in Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

Harold Plays The Hero set in mid-19th Century India. Sequel well advanced.

Squirrel Valentine set in the 1950s (That doesn't feel historic to me because I lived through them)

And a couple as jeanne_d_artois - Burghers, and Merlin and Nimue although the latter is really in a fairy tale world.

All links can be found by following my signature.

Og

 

[BlackShanglan]

Ogg, you're now top of my reading list. Can't wait.

Although, naturally, one thinks you might have given the Houhynhms first attention ...

 

[MlledeLaPlumeBleu]

I would love it if they made a separate category for historical pieces- but then you'd want subsets for proclivity.

Since I generally write male/male homoerotica, I wouldn't want to give anyone a phobic seizure...

 

[ABSTRUSE]

I would love it if they made a separate category for historical pieces- but then you'd want subsets for proclivity.

Since I generally write male/male homoerotica, I wouldn't want to give anyone a phobic seizure...

HOLYFUCKINSHIT....are you still alive???

Seeing you at this particular time has made my day.

 

[wishfulthinking]

I write erotica with historical backgrounds, rather than historical erotica. My stories lack the research!

I don't think I would want a separate cat for this, because you would get more bad than good. Only a select number of authors would do the research which would justify the inclusion in such a cat.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Since I generally write male/male homoerotica, I wouldn't want to give anyone a phobic seizure...

Oh, 'fess up. You'd love to give them phobic seizures.

 

[nushu2]

My first and only submitted work of historical fiction turned out to be disappointing afterward. I thought I had researched it well enough for a piece of fiction only to stumble on more info after it had been posted. Now, I feel it not only treated George Banks unfairly, it missed some of the best parts of the story. It just goes to show that you have to research from every possible keyword and angle. The story wasn't really about him. He was just a side character whose name popped up in the research and I potrayed him as it fit the story.

The main character was entirely fictional. There were plenty of other innacuracies, including that "The captain" was a lieutenant at the time and Tahiti was ruled by a Queen, instead of a King. Somehow, the details of the sexual relations got lost on the historical record. The story was called "Shadow of Venus" inspired by last spring's transit of Venus.

For the record, George Banks was a young, handsome man at the time and in the beginning of a distinguished career as a botanist. But he was a fop.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Still sounds worth a read, Nushu. I too was embarassed to discover an error in an historical piece of mine; fortunately it was only a date and I was able to change that relatively easily. I'll put yours on the list after Og's.

Shanglan

 

[Sabledrake]

Thanks for the kind words!

I don't do a lot of research -- hell, I typically do as little as I think I can get away with. Most of the time, too, I go first to my shelf of roleplaying game sourcebooks. For "Emma," for instance, I flipped through a couple of books (Everyday Life in the Old West and GURPS Old West). For "Temple of the Bat God," I went to GURPS Cliffhangers. Gaming books are great for this because they distill the info and present it in a clear format.

-- Sabledrake

 

[OhMissScarlett]

If this idea takes off, I'll need a category for my mmf bi historic erotica.

oh, and also a gay pre-historic category since I'm tossing the idea around of writing gay caveman porn.

p.s. Mlle, it's damn good to see you here!

 

[oggbashan]

My first

My first erotic story, intended for a Yahoo Group/Club now long defunct, was set in the Balkans in the 1870s.

I included a lot of authentic detail such as the drill for infantry using smoothbore flintlock muskets, firing muzzle-loading cannon, using hydraulic power to aid farming, the importance of detailed folk costume variation in identifying strangers - all very useful to set the scene for the incidental sex.

The last two revisions wrecked the story and I couldn't save it. I think the historical detail was accurate just that the overall premise of story was impossible given the time and place.

I have used parts of the research as colour in later stories e.g. May Pole. That is 'historic' in that it is set in the Cold War era.

Historic detail can be overdone. If the characters speak and behave as they would actually have done at the time of the story the modern reader is likely to think they are fake or if not, turn off before the end of the first page.

I beg to remain your most humble &c

Og, Rex Bashan

 

[Sabledrake]

It might just be me, Og, but I find your use of the phrases "smoothbore flintlock musket" and "muzzle-loading cannon" to be incredibly erotic

-- Sabledrake

 

[PAUL C]

spanish civil war

I set part of my story Another June Wedding, in the Paul and Jenny series, in 1937 alternating with 1972. My story, An hour before Mass, which I read in the text with audio section, is set in main during the 1914-18 war.

The Nile Cruise of Paul and Jenny contains a part set in ancient Egypt. Then there is a part of College Days set during the Roman invasion of Britain.

I didn't research anything in particular, just half remembering things I saw on the History channel.