Haha, I was just glancing at selenak's tv series post again when reccing it, and saw, "'Bring back Katte!' would still be the overwhelming cry."
Look, this trope is written in the stars, nothing I can do. 1000 5 ways "Katte/Fritz 4ever" happens, and no ways that it doesn't. :-P Bring back Katte! (Oh, man, my 15-yo self cannot believe my 36-yo self's priorities and vice versa. "Forget Katte! Why can't Fritz have Bohemia and Saxony too? Write *that* AU!")
Also, "Fritz/Voltaire snark-and-sex stories would outstrip Fritz/Fredersdorff h/c and curtain fic in number, though neither would ever gain the popularity of Fritz/Katte," hahaha, this is so true. I'm now imagining curtain fic, that's hilarious. So many opportunities! Rheinsberg and Sanssouci being the big two, of course.
I'm kind of torn on whether to hope this happens. On the one hand, I used to look in vain for Thorin fic, and now it's everywhere. On the other hand, the film got Thorin terribly wrong, and also as a result of the film, all fic is now Thorin/Bilbo and very wrong. At least Fritz/Katte (and to a lesser extent, Fritz/Voltaire, Fritz/Fredersdorf) would be the right ship, but who knows what the show and fanon would actually do with it. (The show might do what I'm told that recent musical did and ship Katte with Wilhelmine, like really, wtf. At least we could be sure fandom would quickly straighten that out, but I'm sure it would have a lasting impact on the kind of fic produced, namely that there would be good chunks of Wilhelmine-hating, love triangles, and incestuous threesomes.)
Re: Alternate universes where everyone is at least incrementally more happy
Look, this trope is written in the stars, nothing I can do.
10005 ways "Katte/Fritz 4ever" happens, and no ways that it doesn't. :-P Bring back Katte! (Oh, man, my 15-yo self cannot believe my 36-yo self's priorities and vice versa. "Forget Katte! Why can't Fritz have Bohemia and Saxony too? Write *that* AU!")Also, "Fritz/Voltaire snark-and-sex stories would outstrip Fritz/Fredersdorff h/c and curtain fic in number, though neither would ever gain the popularity of Fritz/Katte," hahaha, this is so true. I'm now imagining curtain fic, that's hilarious. So many opportunities! Rheinsberg and Sanssouci being the big two, of course.
I'm kind of torn on whether to hope this happens. On the one hand, I used to look in vain for Thorin fic, and now it's everywhere. On the other hand, the film got Thorin terribly wrong, and also as a result of the film, all fic is now Thorin/Bilbo and very wrong. At least Fritz/Katte (and to a lesser extent, Fritz/Voltaire, Fritz/Fredersdorf) would be the right ship, but who knows what the show and fanon would actually do with it. (The show might do what I'm told that recent musical did and ship Katte with Wilhelmine, like really, wtf. At least we could be sure fandom would quickly straighten that out, but I'm sure it would have a lasting impact on the kind of fic produced, namely that there would be good chunks of Wilhelmine-hating, love triangles, and incestuous threesomes.)