iso historical+military (1910s-70s) creators !

Man I have a lot of Ocs from a lot of different eras cos history is just chefs kiss (also I agree Weimar Germany's queer history is super fascinating)

I have quite a few OCs from the 50s/60s (especially East end London's dance with crime) but a big yes for me is Soviet history. While most of them are 20th century, I have the odd Roman as ancient cultures and archaeology are also a huge yes. I don't study history or anything so all of my research is done by tumbling down a rabbit hole to try and get as much info so I can reflect the era properly.

Many of these guys tie in with other fandoms I like (BBC ghosts and What we do in the shadows), so there's a sorta paranormal element, but combining genres is super interesting and I like to do that a lot as I also really enjoy horror. Your story about lycanthropy sounds super cool and I'd love to hear more about it, especially in relation to queerness as well cos those metaphors are always good to get your teeth into.

Historical media wise I'm gonna go down the soviet animation route and recommend Cheburushka. It's just a really sweet and wholesome stop motion short about a little bear creature that accidentally arrives in Russia after falling asleep in a crate of oranges. 

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YESSSS! I love Kaz Rowe's content, they produce some stellar stuff. I'm especially a fan of their videos on the wild west because that era has so much to unpack considering how Hollywood decided it was gonna go and depict it. I'm a big fan of anti-westerns as a result cos it shatters the preconception of what it really was to be a cowboy.

I watched that video the other day and it's a really nice comprehisive guide to animation throughout all the different eras of the USSR. If you like kinda of ominous bleak stories 'There will come soft rains' is a good place to start, everything about it is pretty dire but it's classic nuclear apocalypse scaremongering. Another fave of mine is 'The steadfast tin soldier' It's a kid's animation and it's just very charming with it's animation style

HISTORY NERD RIGHT HERE! I actually have an entire Webtoons / Webcomic series (called Past Blazes Future Path) that is set in the United States during the 1920's and is basically a fanseries for a certain game set in the Meiji Era , presumed early 1900's  . I really am interested in the history that you just described OP , and I would love to be friends and nerd about history and stuff! 1920's is definitely an era that has interested me for a while (especially after I read books like "The Great Gatsby") and how it's sandwiched in between the World Wars and the Great Depression, 1920s in the United States is definitely a cool thing to research.

As for my favorite OC, I think it's Chiyoko (may or may not be obvious of how loved she is,,,lol) , she's a Japanese American (with Chinese ancestry) attorney and lawyer living her life in Los Angeles during the 1920's and really I wanted to focus on her advocating for womens rights, but also rights for marginalized groups as well because the 1920's is this big change when it comes to social , cultural, etc aspects of life. She's my beloved, my blorbo, my babby-

Anyways I think I should stop rambling, definitely up for talking about OCS and history!

I think I'm not so much a history nerd as a roleplay nerd. What that means is that I tend to make historical horror or historical urban fantasy roleplay characters with relatively little preliminary knowledge (beyond skimming through a few wikipedia articles) then research and tweak them as I go along and learn more of the topic at hand. For the duration of that roleplay the culture and time period of that particular character becomes the most best interesting thing I've ever read. I wish I'd known that lifehack in school, would've made 19th-20th century history classes much more fun.

I've got two characters from the 1940s (late 1945 and 1947 respectively). They're actually getting to be quite old and unused by now so I don't share them around as much as I did once upon a time. 

Julia Wright/Henry Newman (colloquially H/J) - A former WW II spy for Great Britain who gets appointed to study why England's got so many cases of demonic possession right after the War is over. I, too, think Weimar Germany's queer history is really fascinating and so is England's, though I couldn't really bring those elements into the roleplay on account of it becoming more fantasy than history not too long after it's inception. Once my OC-obsession around hir died down I started feeling that s/he just...had way too much going on and I saw I'd written an ungodly novel on hir page, but as it's a bit of a memorial page for hir then I don't have the heart to tidy it up. S/He was sort of built around a desire to have a character who could effortlessly switch between genders and personas with everything else to try and facilitate that aspect. I think s/he probably trained with SOE as well, alas I only learned of SOE's existence and training regimen after that particular OC had already died.

Christine Anderson - Second character for that roleplay after H/J succumbed to a werewolf bite. She also has some historical inconsistencies, such as the fact that I realized way too long that shortages and import restrictions in the UK didn't magically disappear with the end of the war. That said she was a really fun motivator to dig into civilian life during WW II, journalistic tactics and - most of all - the state of paranormal research and debunking.

It's not strictly what this thread's about, but right at this moment I'm more into the 1860s due to being in a historical horror roleplaying server that takes place within that time period. So for one character I'm learning about Polish partition and 19th century medicine, for another character I'm learning about the art scene of 1860s London and as I'm trying to write a mystery of my own for that server I've also brushed up on all the things I studied in 8th grade history class about my own country. And I've fallen down the rabbit hole that is 19th century fakelore and pseudomythology. I think I find history interesting, I just need that little bush to really get into it. And it's the kind of thing that gets the more interesting the more you know about it - it helps weave seemingly unconnected events into a well-integrated fabric.

OOOOOOH YEAAAH THIS MY JAM MY STUFF I LOVE THIS, I have some military OC's based in WWII, it was originally historical fiction but I changed it because I wanted to have more creative freedom with the story, my main boy is John he's a reconnaissance pilot, I like drawing him in Leyendecker and Rockwell inspired pieces. I haven't draw him in some time but I hold him very close to my heart, my main characters are 90's based but that's another creature completely.

I adore doing the investigation for military history, have you checked the site for the British National Army Museum? It has so much good stuff from fashion to art, the daily life of soldiers from different eras and details on specific battles, it's great, OH ALSO!!! I find Russian history very interesting too, i'm halfway trough War and Peace and it's been such a good read, as a side note Soviet animation is beautiful and I feel it's very underrated I agree so so much with evilcatapparition that Cheburushka is a good place to start but the 1957 version of the snow queen is also a very good movie and my favorite version of the story, dub is a bit weird but the movie itself still holds up, I highly recommend it, also if you are interested check out the Soviet version of the little mermaid and the wild swans, the animation is gorgeous and most of them are on YouTube.