Frederick the Great, discussion post 5: or: Yuletide requests are out!

[cahn]

All Yuletide requests are out!

Yuletide related:
-it is sad that I can't watch opera quickly enough these days to have offered any of them, these requests are delightful!

-That is... sure a lot of prompts for MCS/Jingyan. But happily some that are not :D (I like MCS/Jingyan! But there are So Many Other characters!)

Frederician-specific:
-I am so excited someone requested Fritz/Voltaire, please someone write it!!

-I also really want someone to write that request for Poniatowski, although that is... definitely a niche request, even for this niche fandom. But he has memoirs?? apparently they are translated from Polish into French

-But while we are waiting/writing/etc., check out this crack commentfic where Heinrich and Franz Stefan are drinking together while Maria Theresia and Frederick the Great have their secret summit, which turns into a plot to marry the future Emperor Joseph to Fritz...

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Icilius

[mildred_of_midgard]

The Icilius mentioned by Casanova, btw, is Karl Guichard, a military historian who was nicknamed Quintus Icilius by Fritz because of the following anecdote. Fritz and Guichard were having an argument about the name of some Roman general. Fritz was insisting it was Quintus Icilius, Guichard was insisting it was Quintus Caecilius. Well, the professional Greco-Roman historian was, um, right, as you might expect, and Fritz lost that argument. And then he announced that Guichard would be called Quintus Icilius henceforth, and so he was. [I've also read a less interesting variation on this anecdote, but I choose to believe this one.]

They had another argument at some point, which Fritz won. Guichard insisted that the Roman soldier carried more weight on a march than the Prussian soldier and that therefore the Romans were superior. Well, you can imagine how Fritz reacted to that. He made Guichard put on the full kit of a Prussian soldier and stand at attention for an hour. Guichard found the task so difficult that he had to take back what he'd said. He was furious with Fritz, but, really, what did he expect?

Re: Icilius

[cahn]

Memo to Guichard: You're not going to win. Even if you win you aren't winning :P

Re: Icilius

[mildred_of_midgard]

From one of my WIPs: "Katte wants to argue, but when you argue with Fritz, you lose even when you win."