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: Book treatments

[mildred_of_midgard]

Hahaha, well, as for me, all I can say is I was a weird teenager. I can't even claim I either knew most of these stories or cared about the ones I did.

At the time, I kind of used the Enlightenment as my excuse for being obsessed with the 18th century, but while I did like the *idea* of the Enlightenment, was I actually studying Diderot and Lavoisier and that bunch? No, what I was obsessed with was military history, military history, military history.

I pored over battle plans and surprisingly detailed historical atlases. I drew up my own battle plans and campaign plans! I was all "expansionist warfare FTW!" I checked out muster rolls from the university library and found them fascinating. I was the weirdest kid ever. Even to this day, when I've gotten rid of most of my high school book collection over the course of several moves, one category of books I hung onto over the years was 18th century military history. Cause yeah.

I regret nothing. :D

Re: Book treatments

[nineveh_uk]

I bet you actually knew how to win Campaign instead of just shoving all bombs round your flag!