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cahn ([personal profile] cahn) wrote2019-11-06 08:48 am

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

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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Re: Emotional isolation

[personal profile] selenak 2019-11-14 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes; my paternal grandmother reacted very similarly when my grandfather died, she withdrew from her friends, stopped doing so many things she'd enjoyed doing together with my grandfather - they'd been in a bowling club together, they'd travelled a lot, they had had favourite restaurants etc - , and then felt her friends were deserting her when after a while, they didn't try anymore to coax her back. But the social conditions around her were widely different.