Every time you post an update from the Hohenzollerns, I have to read it multiple times before I can believe it.
Fritz called Heinrich his other self??!!* Heinrich picked back up a correspondence with him because he needed someone to bicker with?? Heinrich moved to Wusterhausen in 1799 so he could forget about the last twelve years??!!
??!!!???!!!???!!!
Woooow, this just keeps getting better. I guess you need your other-self hateship in your life so you can have someone who will at least argue back. FW2 really *was* committed to doing things differently. :P I mean, I think a key part of the whole Fritz/Voltaire addiction was the fact that both of them would at least argue back.
* This just goes to show that having self-awareness does not equal knowing what to do about it, which is consistent with my experiences with other highly intelligent, self-aware people with severe trauma, even in the twenty-first century.
Also, if the correspondence resumption was post Bavarian Succession, then Voltaire had recently died, and Fritz must have been feeling a void where there was once a hateship. :P More seriously, Maria Antonia died around this time as well, and he cut off Catt, and I can imagine he was desperate for someone to talk to as well.
FW2: Without the most prominent reminder of the old regime I can imagine. I mean, you were his...
Heinrich: Don't say it.
FW2: Other self.
Ferdiand: *counts* Twelve years? Counting back from March 1799? You mean, when...
Heinrich: Don't you dare.
OMG, this is Fritz/Voltaire levels of hateshipping, wow. This may even put them to shame. Wow wow wow.
Heinrich: YES GOD YES. You bastard.
I may have choked on my drink here. You seriously do the best write-ups.
Heinrich: Nephew, please read my memos for once, "he'll make our Fritz look like an amateur"!
He kinda did, yeah. I can't remember if I've mentioned that the epic rap battle perfectly and concisely encapsulates the fact that Alexander, like Napoleon, was a specialist, while Fritz was a polymath.
I brought foes to their knees in Phoenicia/breezed through Gaza to Giza/had the Balkans, Persia, Syria, Iraq, and Pakistan in my expansion pack
I've got creative talents and battle malice/hard as steel on the field, genteel in the palace
Silesia. He conquered Silesia. He couldn't even hold onto Bohemia or Saxony. But he did keep it all from falling apart at his death. And I think everyone agrees his poetry was mediocre, his flute-playing excellent on slower tempos but wobblier on faster tempos, his compositions decent, and so on, such that he wasn't the best at any one thing, but he was good enough at a wide range of things to make people sit up and pay attention. Algarotti and I can relate, Fritz. *hugs*
*German drama starring one Frederick the Great, with the actor personally coached by Tauentzien in Fritz mannerisms and voice intonation*: Ensues Heinrich: *sits frozen in his seat for the rest of the play, but does not run out*
What. Why would you do that to your boyfriend? Do you know him at ALL? I'm with Lehndorff, Heinrich, you need better boyfriends. I'm glad the setting sun cast a final beam of warming light on you, because seriously. Hohenzollern relationships are fucked up. Other self indeed.
She also had a better relationship with Fritz than she does in Mein name ist Bach
Oh, thank goodness. I mean, I knew it wasn't perfect, but that movie had me worried about them.
He'd methodically organized his own funeral and tomb, and unlike Fritze's, his last instructions were obeyed.
Oh, good. Is that like a first in this family? (ETA: rhetorical question)
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Re: Oh Brother! More impressions of the Heinrich bio
Date: 2019-12-02 08:25 pm (UTC)Fritz called Heinrich his other self??!!* Heinrich picked back up a correspondence with him because he needed someone to bicker with?? Heinrich moved to Wusterhausen in 1799 so he could forget about the last twelve years??!!
??!!!???!!!???!!!
Woooow, this just keeps getting better. I guess you need your other-self hateship in your life so you can have someone who will at least argue back. FW2 really *was* committed to doing things differently. :P I mean, I think a key part of the whole Fritz/Voltaire addiction was the fact that both of them would at least argue back.
* This just goes to show that having self-awareness does not equal knowing what to do about it, which is consistent with my experiences with other highly intelligent, self-aware people with severe trauma, even in the twenty-first century.
Also, if the correspondence resumption was post Bavarian Succession, then Voltaire had recently died, and Fritz must have been feeling a void where there was once a hateship. :P More seriously, Maria Antonia died around this time as well, and he cut off Catt, and I can imagine he was desperate for someone to talk to as well.
FW2: Without the most prominent reminder of the old regime I can imagine. I mean, you were his...
Heinrich: Don't say it.
FW2: Other self.
Ferdiand: *counts* Twelve years? Counting back from March 1799? You mean, when...
Heinrich: Don't you dare.
OMG, this is Fritz/Voltaire levels of hateshipping, wow. This may even put them to shame. Wow wow wow.
Heinrich: YES GOD YES. You bastard.
I may have choked on my drink here. You seriously do the best write-ups.
Heinrich: Nephew, please read my memos for once, "he'll make our Fritz look like an amateur"!
He kinda did, yeah. I can't remember if I've mentioned that the epic rap battle perfectly and concisely encapsulates the fact that Alexander, like Napoleon, was a specialist, while Fritz was a polymath.
I brought foes to their knees in Phoenicia/breezed through Gaza to Giza/had the Balkans, Persia, Syria, Iraq, and Pakistan in my expansion pack
I've got creative talents and battle malice/hard as steel on the field, genteel in the palace
Silesia. He conquered Silesia. He couldn't even hold onto Bohemia or Saxony. But he did keep it all from falling apart at his death. And I think everyone agrees his poetry was mediocre, his flute-playing excellent on slower tempos but wobblier on faster tempos, his compositions decent, and so on, such that he wasn't the best at any one thing, but he was good enough at a wide range of things to make people sit up and pay attention. Algarotti and I can relate, Fritz. *hugs*
*German drama starring one Frederick the Great, with the actor personally coached by Tauentzien in Fritz mannerisms and voice intonation*: Ensues
Heinrich: *sits frozen in his seat for the rest of the play, but does not run out*
What. Why would you do that to your boyfriend? Do you know him at ALL? I'm with Lehndorff, Heinrich, you need better boyfriends. I'm glad the setting sun cast a final beam of warming light on you, because seriously. Hohenzollern relationships are fucked up. Other self indeed.
She also had a better relationship with Fritz than she does in Mein name ist Bach
Oh, thank goodness. I mean, I knew it wasn't perfect, but that movie had me worried about them.
He'd methodically organized his own funeral and tomb, and unlike Fritze's, his last instructions were obeyed.
Oh, good. Is that like a first in this family? (ETA: rhetorical question)