Yes, that's what I was thinking and why it might be worth waiting.
And haha, yes, that's what I was thinking! I'm helping out with Yuletide. Also, this is *totally* the year for royals and their favorites:
Edward II and Piers Gaveston Richard II and Richard de Vere James VI/I and Robert Carr Alexander and Hephaistion <3 Fritz and Katte, Keith, and Fredersdorf (and I only didn't nominate Algarotti because I ran out of slots)
And those are only the ones we know about! I hope we get some good fic out of this. *gleeful hand-rubby* And man, I wish James' other favorites had been nominated, especially Buckingham.
Oh! You probably don't know this. But James was known for his favorites that contemporaries said he carried on with like a lover with his mistress (the thing someone said about Fritz and Katte while Katte was still alive), and we gossipy sensationalists argue about "did they or didn't they?" :P Well, we'll never know, but it was recently discovered that in one of his palaces, there was a secret passage connecting James' bedroom with Buckhingham's bedroom. Now, men could share a bed in the 17th century without it being assumed to be sexual, but if that's all that's going on, why do you need the secret passage, I ask you???
Also, did you notice we're approaching 700 comments to your Fritz posts? o.O
Also, random Fritz fact time:
In the course of working on one my fics, I was googling "Non soli cedit" just to double check that it was FW who came up with it. It literally means, "he does not yield to the sun" and, as FW's motto for Prussia, was a political statement that "Prussia does not acknowledge any cultural superiority of France aka the Sun King Louis XIV." So my memory was right about that. But then German Wikipedia had more to tell me.
So Fritz comes to power and is slightly more favorably disposed toward the French, at least culturally and linguistically, and he changes the motto to "Pro Gloria et Patria" ("For glory and the fatherland") aka "Let's all invade Silesia so I get famous and Prussia gets rich!"
Then Fritz, who as we all know is not exactly a Francophile in terms of the eighteenth-century political entity, ditches his French allies in the War of the Austrian Succession, then when they get mad at him and join the Seven Years' War coalition against him, he kicks their asses at places like Rossbach1 (which was less of a lost military battle than a really embarrassing rout for the French), and finally wins the war. Then he triumphantly puts "Non soli cedit"2 on one of his palaces, no doubt feeling he's earned it.
Fritz, you magnificent bastard, I read your book! (I did, actually, read two of his books, back in the day. ;) I need to get my hands on translations of his memoirs. Although what I really want is a scan of Heinrich's annotated copies of his brother's memoirs, because apparently his copies are full of "Lies!" and "WTF!" in the margins. :P)
1 After Napoleon kicks the Prussian army's ass, takes Berlin, pays his respects at Fritz's tomb, and takes some Fritz memorabilia home, he, or some other Frenchman, I forget, announces that Rossbach has been avenged, and all of France can finally heave a huge sigh of relief and hold their heads up again, 50 years later.
2 He actually puts "Nec soli cedit," a slight variation which may be best translated "Are you watching, Dad?" ("Are you proud of me yet, Dad?" "Have I surpassed you yet, Dad?" "Are we at the point where you're going to be remembered as Frederick the Great's father and not me as the Soldier King's son yet, Dad?")
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Date: 2019-10-20 04:34 am (UTC)And haha, yes, that's what I was thinking! I'm helping out with Yuletide. Also, this is *totally* the year for royals and their favorites:
Edward II and Piers Gaveston
Richard II and Richard de Vere
James VI/I and Robert Carr
Alexander and Hephaistion <3
Fritz and Katte, Keith, and Fredersdorf (and I only didn't nominate Algarotti because I ran out of slots)
And those are only the ones we know about! I hope we get some good fic out of this. *gleeful hand-rubby* And man, I wish James' other favorites had been nominated, especially Buckingham.
Oh! You probably don't know this. But James was known for his favorites that contemporaries said he carried on with like a lover with his mistress (the thing someone said about Fritz and Katte while Katte was still alive), and we gossipy sensationalists argue about "did they or didn't they?" :P Well, we'll never know, but it was recently discovered that in one of his palaces, there was a secret passage connecting James' bedroom with Buckhingham's bedroom. Now, men could share a bed in the 17th century without it being assumed to be sexual, but if that's all that's going on, why do you need the secret passage, I ask you???
Also, did you notice we're approaching 700 comments to your Fritz posts? o.O
Also, random Fritz fact time:
In the course of working on one my fics, I was googling "Non soli cedit" just to double check that it was FW who came up with it. It literally means, "he does not yield to the sun" and, as FW's motto for Prussia, was a political statement that "Prussia does not acknowledge any cultural superiority of France aka the Sun King Louis XIV." So my memory was right about that. But then German Wikipedia had more to tell me.
So Fritz comes to power and is slightly more favorably disposed toward the French, at least culturally and linguistically, and he changes the motto to "Pro Gloria et Patria" ("For glory and the fatherland") aka "Let's all invade Silesia so I get famous and Prussia gets rich!"
Then Fritz, who as we all know is not exactly a Francophile in terms of the eighteenth-century political entity, ditches his French allies in the War of the Austrian Succession, then when they get mad at him and join the Seven Years' War coalition against him, he kicks their asses at places like Rossbach1 (which was less of a lost military battle than a really embarrassing rout for the French), and finally wins the war. Then he triumphantly puts "Non soli cedit"2 on one of his palaces, no doubt feeling he's earned it.
Fritz, you magnificent bastard, I read your book! (I did, actually, read two of his books, back in the day. ;) I need to get my hands on translations of his memoirs. Although what I really want is a scan of Heinrich's annotated copies of his brother's memoirs, because apparently his copies are full of "Lies!" and "WTF!" in the margins. :P)
1 After Napoleon kicks the Prussian army's ass, takes Berlin, pays his respects at Fritz's tomb, and takes some Fritz memorabilia home, he, or some other Frenchman, I forget, announces that Rossbach has been avenged, and all of France can finally heave a huge sigh of relief and hold their heads up again, 50 years later.
2 He actually puts "Nec soli cedit," a slight variation which may be best translated "Are you watching, Dad?" ("Are you proud of me yet, Dad?" "Have I surpassed you yet, Dad?" "Are we at the point where you're going to be remembered as Frederick the Great's father and not me as the Soldier King's son yet, Dad?")