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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Re: Chronicle of a a failed foreign policy venture

[selenak]

Re: biography, can't help you, as the only one I ever read was eons ago and a German one - I was still in school then, and I don't remember the title, the author was Helmut something or the other.

But here are some nice things to look at, from the Doctor Who episode starring her. Basic background info for non-Whovians - the Doctor is an alien time traveller, but in this particular case, the way he keeps running into Reinette (btw that was an actual nickname, the episode didn't make that up, and that her mother nicknamed her "little Queen" already tells you all about her mother) isn't by his usual means of (time) transportation but via a portal in a mysterious space ship he and his friends are stranded on, full of automatons that want something from Reinette and keep showing up at different points in her life via said portal. Our hero follows and thus runs into her as well, first as a child, then as an adult.

first time the Doctor meets an adult Reinette, played by Sophia Myles who manages to radiate intelligence and mischief beautifully.

Rokoko era mindmeld, as the Doctor tries to figure out what the hell the automatons want from Reinette

Versailles under attack, and Reinette shows why she's the first woman of France

Doctor Who

[cahn]

OK, wow, she is awesome :D

(also I have to watch Doctor Who, don't I :P )

Re: Doctor Who

[selenak]

Well, I am a fan, but given the sheer number of seasons, it's very time consuming. You could watch The Girl in the Fireplace, though, it's a pretty self contained episode which wraps up its story at the end.