he totally ships them, not least because "They so thoroughly deserve each other".
Really? OMG, haha! I can totally see where he's coming from and that's hilarious, but my desire to Fix Everything in this fandom means I just want to give them both therapy and Remedial Interpersonal Relations 101 and let them try again. ;)
If you want to watch those first 13 minutes as a kind of silent-to-you movie, here they are.
This is awesome, and thanks so much for your summarizing/translation efforts! That's going way above and beyond for us non-German speakers. <3 I might check it out, even with the heteronormativity. It does sound like it manages to get a lot of things across.
Also, I have to say I laughed out loud at "silent-to-you movie." You know my foibles so well. ;)
sneaks out of his rooms at night, which btw shows that princes don't sleep alone but with household staff present, meets up with Wilhelmine, a book and a candle
Oh, good, yes. The difficulty of sneaking out to read is an important part of Fritz's childhood; he talks irl about how he got caught once, talked fast and gave the usual child-out-of-bed-after-hours excuse of "I needed to relieve myself" and didn't get in trouble, but didn't dare do it again, but then tried to make up for lost reading time in future years at Rheinsberg. Poor woobie teenage Fritz. I also used to sneak reading in at night, but at least my parents approved of my education in general, for the most part, and when they didn't, I only got yelled at, not beaten.
ending with the infamous "you're a coward without honor, if my father had done this to me, I'd have killed him!"
Ooh, interesting. The version I've always heard (aside from "I'd have run away") is "I'd have blown my brains out." FW taunting Fritz into killing *him*? FW, you are playing with fire and you are seriously lucky your son isn't Alexander and your wife is Olympia, not Olympias. ;)
BTW, lol at whoever filed Der Thronfolger under "German fairy tale movies and movies for children"
Uh, lol?
FW: Here are two manly chaps from my army, not long fellows but good Prussian nobility, who are supposed to teach you how to value the militar more, Lieutenant Forget About Him and Lieutenant Katte!
Katte: *as soon as FW has left, casually drops hidden Voltaire volume from his waistcoat*
F: OMG you like Voltaire, too! *heart eyes*
Hahahaha, omg, "Lieutenant Forget About Him" and also I love how FW is always trying to get people to either abuse his son or set a good example or both, and it almost never works, because FW is trying to swim upstream against the norms of his place and time. (I have a WIP where FW is like, "Look, this is Lieutenant Katte, who *used* to like literature and stuff, but now has gone straight and is here to show you the futility of your ways," and Katte is all, "So forbidden books, you acquire the money, I'll smuggle, we'll read together, cool?" Not knowing what's coming, they snicker at FW's obliviousness, because Katte is a very good chameleon, much better than Fritz.)
Re: Alternate universes where everyone is at least incrementally more happy
Really? OMG, haha! I can totally see where he's coming from and that's hilarious, but my desire to Fix Everything in this fandom means I just want to give them both therapy and Remedial Interpersonal Relations 101 and let them try again. ;)
If you want to watch those first 13 minutes as a kind of silent-to-you movie, here they are.
This is awesome, and thanks so much for your summarizing/translation efforts! That's going way above and beyond for us non-German speakers. <3 I might check it out, even with the heteronormativity. It does sound like it manages to get a lot of things across.
Also, I have to say I laughed out loud at "silent-to-you movie." You know my foibles so well. ;)
sneaks out of his rooms at night, which btw shows that princes don't sleep alone but with household staff present, meets up with Wilhelmine, a book and a candle
Oh, good, yes. The difficulty of sneaking out to read is an important part of Fritz's childhood; he talks irl about how he got caught once, talked fast and gave the usual child-out-of-bed-after-hours excuse of "I needed to relieve myself" and didn't get in trouble, but didn't dare do it again, but then tried to make up for lost reading time in future years at Rheinsberg. Poor woobie teenage Fritz. I also used to sneak reading in at night, but at least my parents approved of my education in general, for the most part, and when they didn't, I only got yelled at, not beaten.
ending with the infamous "you're a coward without honor, if my father had done this to me, I'd have killed him!"
Ooh, interesting. The version I've always heard (aside from "I'd have run away") is "I'd have blown my brains out." FW taunting Fritz into killing *him*? FW, you are playing with fire and you are seriously lucky your son isn't Alexander and your wife is Olympia, not Olympias. ;)
BTW, lol at whoever filed Der Thronfolger under "German fairy tale movies and movies for children"
Uh, lol?
FW: Here are two manly chaps from my army, not long fellows but good Prussian nobility, who are supposed to teach you how to value the militar more, Lieutenant Forget About Him and Lieutenant Katte!
Katte: *as soon as FW has left, casually drops hidden Voltaire volume from his waistcoat*
F: OMG you like Voltaire, too! *heart eyes*
Hahahaha, omg, "Lieutenant Forget About Him" and also I love how FW is always trying to get people to either abuse his son or set a good example or both, and it almost never works, because FW is trying to swim upstream against the norms of his place and time. (I have a WIP where FW is like, "Look, this is Lieutenant Katte, who *used* to like literature and stuff, but now has gone straight and is here to show you the futility of your ways," and Katte is all, "So forbidden books, you acquire the money, I'll smuggle, we'll read together, cool?" Not knowing what's coming, they snicker at FW's obliviousness, because Katte is a very good chameleon, much better than Fritz.)