dr_girlfriend · Historical Fanfics

Historical — Fic set in a real historical period — regency ballrooms, world wars, golden-age piracy, 1980s small towns — either because canon lives there or because the writer relocated the cast. Distinct from historical-au in usage mainly by covering canon-era period fic too.

Period settings raise the stakes on intimacy: letters take weeks, reputations can kill, and a glance across a ballroom carries a novel's worth of meaning. dr_girlfriend has earned 58k kudos across the 4 works tracked in our database, totaling 204k words.

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