#book of nile ww1 au

[nevermindirah]

Bookernile’s Book of Nile WW1/1920s AU

@bookernile​ wrote just the GREATEST tags on a miles-long meta post I contributed to the the Nile Marine Discourse and they deserve their own post, copypasta’ed with permission:

#long post #tog meta #nile freeman #booker | sebastien le livre #im seriously in love with this and so im writng an essay in the tags #i think nile should also read said #in a lot of ways modern military members are 'progressive' #in their understanding of terrorism and extremsim #never making the connection that their place in these countries adds to more people becoming radicalized and more terrorists #so she needs to read said as well #but legit i love this #I have like 5 paragraphs written in my ww1 au im never going to finish #where nile as a black american 2 generations removed from slavery #talks to booker about what it was like living through pogroms against french jewish people #while they talk about antiblack pogroms in the united states at the time #spurred by the resurgence of the kkk #in the early 1920s #aka post war nile coming home to watch as americans inflict more violence #threatened by black soldiers with guns #and talking to booker about it #and connecting through that #and them murdering some klan when they try to form in chicago #antisemitism #racism #writing ref

First of all, in the fic I’m writing where Booker eventually becomes team therapist after spending a century hyperfocused on decolonial trauma studies, he’s going to loan Nile his copy of Orientalism and they’re both going to Learn Things and also it’s gonna get super sexy thank you very much for your Very Correct assessment of how badly Nile needs to read Said you will receive a credit in my fic for this Very Correct idea

But more importantly YOUR WW1 AU OH MY GOD

If Nile were 26 in 1920 she would’ve been born in 1894, 29 years after abolition, her parents would have been Reconstruction babies and her grandparents former slaves. Reconstruction turned into Jim Crow lightning-fast and Nile’s family were trendsetters in the Great Migration. There’s a devastating version of this where Nile’s father is killed by a lynch mob, but it’s your AU, maybe her father’s alive and well and she doesn’t have to lose any of her family to lynchings or the war or ye olde coronavirus (so many parallels to 2020 oh my GOD)

Nile would probably definitely be throwing hands at the 1919 Chicago Race Riot, maybe she meets Booker out on the streets fighting white supremacists or he pulls her into the Chicago Hebrew Institute to patch her up. Or maybe Nile doesn’t have to suffer and fight all the damn time and she meets this pretty white boy at a jazz club and she notices his accent and they get to talking about why he left France and how stupid he feels for thinking the US would be any less antisemitic (Chicago was way more antisemitic than France in the 1920s but Booker wouldn’t have known that 10 years previously when he immigrated in the wake of the Dreyfus affair).

Chicago had the largest Klan membership of any urban area in the early 1920s, and this Encyclopedia of Chicago article claims that a Catholic newspaper doxxing Klansmen is what caused the Klan to disappear / go underground in Chicago by 1925. Seems, uh, unlikely that white Catholics deserve all the credit for that in real life, and in your au it can TOTALLY be Nile and Booker absolutely DESTROYING the Klan. Murdering Klansmen is the MOST ROMANTIC first date idea for a Black-Jewish couple in 1920 or really any time (anyone who wants to date me take note I guess, except I have no violence related skills?)

I was Today Years Old when I learned about the Chicago Black Renaissance, which wikipedia says hit its peak in the ‘30s but Black art was definitely exploding in Chicago from the start of the Great Migration.

Maybe Nile collaborates with muralist William Edouard Scott who "who refused to portray Black people as slaves+laborers". Maybe Nile sits for a portrait with Eldzier Cortor, who created gorgeous nudes of Black women that celebrated their power and humanity alongside their beauty.

Maybe Booker proposes to Nile on the dance floor at a club where Louis Armstrong is playing.

If all you ever want to share with this fandom of your WW1 au is these tags, I will cherish them always. But if you want to share those 5 paragraphs, or write bullet point brain dump fic-outline fic, or call out sick from all your responsibilities and write 10k or 50k or however long fic that will almost certainly become one of the defining pieces of Nile Freeman fandom, ENCOURAGEMENT I ENCOURAGE YOU IF YOU WANT TO DO IT OH MY GOD DO IT

#nile freeman #book of nile #the old guard #sebastien le livre #jewish booker #slavery cw #lynching cw #kkk cw #antisemitism #chicago #book of nile ww1 au #punch that klansman #ficlet recs #fic ideas #fandom friends #i'm so overwhelmed

[kajaono]

Book shelf tour

Because @agenttrying asked I thought I give a short summary of the books I can recommend to read 😊

I will not explain all books but only those I think are worth reading

Shelf 1: Gays in space

Bonds of Brass: gay space adventure (openly gay, based on Finn and Poe. I have not read it yet)

Star Wars Resistance Reborn: Really well written Star Wars book with a lot of FinnPoe action

Star Wars Before the awakening: A easy read about what Finn, Rey and Poe did before Star Wars TFA

Star Trek Dead Endless: Highy recommend! A book full of Hugh/Paul romance

The Loki comics from Kibblesmith

Shelf 2: Victorian Crime

The Sherlock books. Especially “Valley of fear”. It is ACD’s last Sherlock Holmes novel and my favorite

Enola Holmes: The books are really good and an easy read with around 200 pages

AJ Raffles: You should find them as eBooks. It is written by the brother-in-law of ACD and is based on his Sherlock Holmes novel  but as a gentleman thief AU. (I have the orginial german versions from 1900). Book 1 was not my cup of tea but it gets better

Murder as a fine art: Abolsut love it. Clever murder in 1850, London. With a heavy OT3 energy. I am just not sure if you get them anymore. The first book was published 2016 and is not avaiable anymore here in germany, hopefully still in english....

The Mangle Street Murders: Have not read it yet. But also set in 1850, London with a female detective. The old lady in the shop said she really likes it

Agatha Christie: The Murder at the Vicarage is hilarious (Miss Marple) and Death on the Nile and Murder on the Orient Express are also really good.  Don’t read The Mysterious Affair at Styles. This book is so annyoying, i swear

Shelf 3: Victorian horror, Victorian romance

Camilla - Sheridan Le Fanu: Appearntly Dracula is based on that book. Lesbian vampire action written 1872.

Dracula: Allways an amazing read

Frankenstein: well.... if you can stand charcaters having crisis every second page for 20 pages, then read that, i guess? (I am not a fan)

Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey is a good start. As well as Pride and Prejudice. Emma is a little bit long but also a good read. Mansfield Park.... only if you want to (also not a fan of that one). I have not read the others yet

Shelf 4: Teenage romance

Host: The first 100 pages are shit but then it gets really good imo

Children of Blood and Bone: The structure of the story is really typcial but it is refreshing to finally have a woman of color as the main lead, written by a woman of color, who (i hope i am not wrong) wanted to show the impact of racism with that book

Shelf 5: „We are all a little bit crazy here“

Leviathan triology: My favorite books! YA but also for asults. Re-tells WW1 with steam punk elements and a lot of queer energy. the main character is heavily trans coded, their best friend bisexual-coded and their best friend is canon lesbian. 

Good Omens: The book is hilarious

I am not the biggest Pratchett fan but I guess there you can also find something for you

Colin Cotterill: Thailand crime novels. Also amazing! The charcaters and the setting are a fresh new take. Set In thailand, the main characters is a chubby female journalist (but really extroverted), the mother is a tiny bit crazy, the brother is a body builder but starts crying at any giving moments, the sister is trans and a hacker, and the best friend is one of the best police officers in Thailand but has to solves cases in a tiny village because the other police officers can not accept that he is gay. But in the tiny village noone cares and he is fabolous af!

So that’s it. I hope there is something for you. If not, I still have another shelf

#book recommendations #my bookshelf #bookself #books #reading recommendations