Yuletide tags are out: Frederician version

[cahn]

Come join us in this crazy Frederick the Great fandom and learn more about all these crazy associated people, like the star-crossed and heartbreaking romance between Maria Theresia's daughter Maria Christina and her daughter-in-law Isabella, wow.

OK, so, there are FOURTEEN characters nominated:
Anna Karolina Orzelska (Frederician RPF)
Elisabeth Christine von Preußen | Elisabeth Christine Queen of Prussia (Frederician RPF)
Francesco Algarotti (Frederician RPF)
François-Marie Arouet | Voltaire (Frederician RPF)
Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great (Frederician RPF)
Hans Hermann Von Katte (Frederician RPF)
Joseph II Holy Roman Emperor (Frederician RPF)
Maria Theresia | Maria Theresa of Austria (Frederician RPF)
Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf (Frederician RPF)
Peter Karl Christoph von Keith (Frederician RPF)
Sophia Dorothea of Hanover (Frederician RPF)
Stanisław August Poniatowski (Frederician RPF)
Wilhelmine von Preußen | Wilhelmine of Prussia (1709-1758) (Frederician RPF)
Yekatarina II Alekseyevna | Catherine the Great of Russia (Frederician RPF)

This means some fourth person kindly nominated Algarotti and -- I think? -- Stanislaw August Poniatowski! YAY! Thank you fourth person! Come be our friend! :D Yuletide is so great!

I am definitely requesting Maria Theresia, Wilhelmine, and Fritz (Put them in a room together. Shake. How big is the explosion?), and thinking about Elisabeth Christine, but maybe not this year.

I am also declaring this post another Frederician post, as the last one was getting out of hand. I think I'll still use that one as the overall index to these, though, to keep all the links in one place.

(seriously, every time I think the wild stories are done there is ANOTHER one)

Comments

Re: requests and offers

[mildred_of_midgard]

Someone offered at the last minute! 3 requests and 2 offers at T - 6 hours.

I was wondering about our chances of an invisible bucket offer, and imagining what kind of guts it would take to offer any combination of characters. You'd probably have to trust your recipient not to be trolling you--some of these people weren't even alive at the same time!

And then I came up with this set of lists:

Birth
Sophia Dorothea of Hanover 1687
Voltaire 1694
Hans Hermann von Katte 1704
Anna Karolina Orzelska 1707
Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf 1708
Wilhelmine von Preußen 1709
Peter Karl Christoph von Keith 1711
Friedrich II von Preußen 1712
Francesco Algarotti 1712
Elisabeth Christine von Preußen 1715
Maria Theresia 1717
Catherine the Great of Russia 1729
Stanisław August Poniatowski 1732
Joseph II Holy Roman Emperor 1741

Death
Hans Hermann von Katte 1730
Peter Karl Christoph von Keith 1756
Sophia Dorothea of Hanover 1757
Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf 1758
Wilhelmine von Preußen 1758
Francesco Algarotti 1764
Anna Karolina Orzelska 1769
Voltaire 1778
Maria Theresia 1780
Friedrich II von Preußen 1786
Joseph II Holy Roman Emperor 1790
Catherine the Great of Russia 1796
Elisabeth Christine von Preußen 1797
Stanisław August Poniatowski 1798

Lifespan
Hans Hermann von Katte 26
Peter Karl Christoph von Keith 45
Joseph II Holy Roman Emperor 48
Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf 49
Wilhelmine von Preußen 49
Francesco Algarotti 51
Anna Karolina Orzelska 61
Maria Theresia 63
Stanisław August Poniatowski 66
Catherine the Great of Russia 67
Sophia Dorothea of Hanover 70
Friedrich II von Preußen 74
Elisabeth Christine von Preußen 81
Voltaire 83

P.S. I'm too sleep-deprived this weekend to do non-mechanical things, but I am thinking about our crackfic RP and have some notes. ;)

Re: requests and offers

[mildred_of_midgard]

A 4th requester at T - 7 minutes! We have 4 requests and 2 offers.

I selfishly hope one of the requesters is the one who asked for 3 years running 2015-2017, and the other is a Fritz/Katte request. :P But we shall soon find out!

ETA: Sign-ups closed! 4 requests and 2 offers.

Conveniently, we're going to need a new post soon, O Gracious Hostess. Maybe we can hold out until requests go public? I can't believe we hit 300 comments (I mean, we haven't, but we will) in just 2 weeks. I haven't even gotten to my promised Chronology of Fritz's Emotional Isolation comment yet! (It's in draft form. I take no responsibility for my crazy. :P)

Re: requests and offers

[cahn]

We've hit 300 now that I'm actually able to reply to everyone's comments :P I'd expect requests to go public in the next couple of days, a good chance even of today, so, yes, let's wait until then :)

ETA: Four requests and 2 offers!! *high-five* SUCCESS!

ETA2: I was reminded that if you end up writing a pinch hit, there is a post that goes up later on with links to requests from pinch hitters. So if one of those four requests goes up on the pinch hit list and you grab it (Yuletide pinch hits go REALLY FAST, especially at the beginning), you may have a chance to upload a request (and at that point you aren't affected by needing four or anything).

Re: requests and offers

[mildred_of_midgard]

ZOMG, I woke up to 11 comment notifications! It was like Christmas!

Re pinch hitting, that's true. I was thinking more in terms of treats, because if that person doesn't sign up again (I checked and they didn't last year), or doesn't request Fritz, than any treats have to go to the NYR collection, which is less exciting. But I'm sure they'd still be happy to receive a NYR treat. :D

We'll find out soon!

Re: requests and offers

[cahn]

LOL, I have been feeling like this (look at all these comment notifications! it's like Christmas!) pretty much every day for the last couple of months :D

Yeah, it looks like that person will be an NYR. But I'm sure they will be happy to receive it! :D And you have a couple of months to think of some Fritz/Voltaire

Re: requests and offers

[mildred_of_midgard]

Hahaha, I'm glad. Today I woke up to *13* comments! :D

Yeah, it looks like they didn't participate in Yuletide this year or last year. NYR it is, then! Hush your mouth, my list of potential treats is already WAY too long! Also, my concentration has been *shot* this week. I open a file, stare at it, cry, and close it.

Re: requests and offers

[mildred_of_midgard]

Also, I was looking at your old Tillerman posts, and for a moment I was convinced I had the wrong ones, because the comment counts were so low and I remembered (what felt like) a lot of discussion! Haha, the bar has been raised. 27 comments? Surely you mean 270!

Re: requests and offers

[cahn]

Hee! Yeah, I am just... kind of amazed by this whole thing! I feel like if it were any two of us it would have died after "a lot of discussion" possibly meaning tens of comments, but somehow there is some magic alchemy here :D

Re: requests and offers

[cahn]

Yes, I've got in both my official request and letter that I only expect all three characters to be mentioned, because in half the prompts they're not actually all alive!