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: Whom to ship Joseph with...

[mildred_of_midgard]

What cahn said.

Fritz might have gone for it one time if only to annoy MT

Ahahahaha, lol, the mental images here. But yes, you could one-night-stand ship them, but not OTP ship them. Much better to have "kindness, patience, and friendship" for him.

Re: Whom to ship Joseph with...

[selenak]

It cracks me up that Fritz notoriously said about him that Joseph was ambitious, thus dangerous and would set Europe ablaze once he, Fritz, wasn't there anymore to contain him. Um. I mean. He wasn't wrong about "ambitious" and one could argue that Fritz speculated on the lines of "any young man modelling himself on me with MT's stubbornness and power is bound to be trouble!", and of course there was no way Fritz could have predicted the French Revolution and Napoleon being just around the corner, but still.

Joseph: *secretly flattered when Austrian spies get a hold of a Fritzian dispatch, which they occasionally do* OMG Mom, he thinks I'm dangerous. I HAVE IMPRESSED FRITZ!

Re: Whom to ship Joseph with...

[mildred_of_midgard]

#LIFEGOALS

That cracks me up too!

(Hit "reply" too soon)

there was no way Fritz could have predicted the French Revolution

Though I have a vague recollection of him having noticed the same thing Joseph noticed, which was "this is not a happy state and it's not going to be stable much longer at this rate"? I can't remember where I came across it, though, and if the source was reliable. I *don't* think anyone could have predicted Napoleon circa 1780 ("It'll be like another Alexander, but without the dying!"), and certainly not the exact trajectory of the Revolution, hoo boy.

Re: Whom to ship Joseph with...

[cahn]

Um. I mean.

This also cracks me up :D