Nominations are open

[dhampyresa]

Nominations are now open and will run for a week.

The tagset can be found here. You are allowed to nominate up to five historical people. To have your nomination approved, please link in the comments of this post to an Internet page about each of your nominations.

Please fill the "Fandom" field with "Historical RPF". Thank you.

Comments

[senmut]

Aurelia Cotta

Hatshepsut

Thutmose III

Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix

Gaius Marius

Sorry to use wiki; doing this on the fly and can't find my proper bookmarks for my history sites.

[saturnofthemoon]

Oh, I was going to nominate Hapshepsut. :D

[senmut]

Then I freed you up a spot!

[dhampyresa]

Thank you. Your nominations have been approved.

Don't worry about the wiki links. I'm only asking for links to verify if they're Real Historical PeopleTM. This posts also doubles as nomination coordination, if people are so inclined.

[saturnofthemoon]

Harriet Tubman

Catherine de Medici

Margaret of Anjou

Livia Drusilla

Augustus

[senmut]

Funny. I almost nominated Livia's father.

[saturnofthemoon]

We seem to have a few historical interests in common. ;)

[dhampyresa]

Thank you. Your nominations have been approved.

[themisto]

Alexander the Great
Hephaestion
Hadrian
Antinous

(Hephaestion is tagged as Hephaistion on AO3 though, a mispell? A known alternate spelling? The correct spelling is with the 'e' as far as I know.)

[(Anonymous)]

Hephaistion is the transliteration of how his name is spelled in Ancient Greek.

/driveby Classicist

[dhampyresa]

Thank you. I've approved your nominations. I used the canonical ao3 tag of "Hephaistion".

[selenak]

Joanna of Castile

Henry VII of England

Margaret of York

Artemisia Gentileschi

Aphra Behn

[dhampyresa]

Hi, I can't find your nominations on the Ao3 interface. Is this issue on my end or yours?

Your nominations would all be approved, btw.

[selenak]

No, I just misunderstood the procedure - I thought we were to ask for approval here first, then nominate at the AO3. Have nominated now!

[dhampyresa]

Your nominations are now approved.

[thedevilchicken]

Akhenaten

Neferneferuaten

Horemheb

Rameses II

Nefertari Meritmut

I wasn't sure whether to nominate Akhenaten as "Akhenaten of Egypt" or "Amenhotep IV | Akhenaten of Egypt" so I went for the former. If you want to amend that, obviously feel free!

Rameses has umpteen different spellings (Rameses, Ramesses, Ramses, etc.) but the AO3 canonical is Rameses II so I've gone with that.

For Neferneferuaten: it's a complicated situation as the identity of Neferneferuaten and her regnal dates have never been totally resolved. That's sort of why I'm requesting her, however, and she does at least seem to have existed (whatever her true identity was)!

[dhampyresa]

Thank you. Your nominations are approved.

I've gone with "Akhenaten of Egypt", the Ao3 canonical "Rameses II" and since Neferneferuaten did indeed exist (whoever she was) she is also approved.

[redsnake05]

Enheduanna

Sargon of Akkad

Harold Godwinson

Edith Swannesha

Edith of Mercia

This is all very exciting. I've gone for the most common modern English names for my last three nominations as I'm not confident enough in determining the most correct option. I hope that's okay. Harold popped up, when I saved it, as synching to Harold II of England, and I'm totally happy for that to be changed too. I didn't realise there was a canonical, or I would have nominated that.

[dhampyresa]

Thank you. Your nominations were approved. I went with the Ao3 canonical "Harold II of England" instead.

[lirin_lirilla]

Thérésa Cabarrus

Virginia Hall

Grace Hopper

Emmuska Orczy

Elizabeth Zimmermann

This list may look like it's in alphabetical order, but it's actually in the order that I brainstormed this slightly eclectic group. :-)

Multiple versions/spellings of Cabarrus' and Orczy's names exist; I can elaborate further on why I chose the versions I did if necessary.

[dhampyresa]

Thank you. Your nominations have been approved.

[ardyforshort]

Aspasia

Sophia Duleep Singh

Sarah Orne Jewett

Leonardo da Vinci

Joe Carstairs

[dhampyresa]

Thank you. Your nominations have been approved.

[deep_dark_waters]

Clara Schumann
Lillian Gish
Khutulun
Arthur Rimbaud
Paul Verlaine

[dhampyresa]

Thank you. Your nominations have been approved.

[autiotalo]

Sallust https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sallust
Horace https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace
Maecenas https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Maecenas Martial https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial
Lucan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucan

Sorry I can't html on my phone!

[dhampyresa]

Thank you. Your nominations have been approved.

Don't worry about the lack of HTML, it's fine.