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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Comments

Re: More illustrations - children paintings edition

[mildred_of_midgard]

Re the second one, no citation given, but one of my bios says that, when Fritz was very small, "When one day the king saw his son beating a toy drum, he became so excited at this martial display that he summoned the court painter, Antoine Pesne, to record the scene."

#PolaroidMoment #18thCentury

Also, remember when Thronfolger FW doesn't want his family to fear him? And I quoted an anecdote about him beating up a Jew while shouting, "You should love me! Not fear me!"? A completely different bio says that FW's instructions to young Fritz's governors are still extant, and they contain, "You are to make him afraid of his mother, but of me, never." The biographer describes this as "curious."

Fear--I don't think it works how you think it works, FW.

Re: More illustrations - children paintings edition

[cahn]

"You are to make him afraid of his mother, but of me, never."

I can't decide whether to laugh or cry at this. FW, trying to play good cop and bad cop, and just failing miserably!