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: Fritz chronological maps, or a labor of love

[selenak]

Now I finally have the chance to watch this, and wow. You're fantastic! So is the map!

ETA: Also, I'm slain by the fact you managed to come up with all the current Czech and Polish names to all the places.

Re: Fritz chronological maps, or a labor of love

[mildred_of_midgard]

Thank you! I'm not a very visually creative person, so the only "fanart" I'm going to come up with is going to involve writing code to do it for me (some code went into the Sanssouci slideshow as well, lol).

Some of us in this fandom make contributions via knowledge of German and French, some of us manage to make contributions via knowledge of bash and R. ;)

Also, I'm slain by the fact you managed to come up with all the current Czech and Polish names to all the places.

Haha, it was definitely the most time-consuming part, but I had to! It was the only way to get latitudes and longitudes so I could plot the locations on the map. Like I said, a lot of the original place names seem to exist in Frederick the Great-related sources and nothing else, according to Teh Googlez.

Also, just checking (since you replied to the first comment) that you saw the revised version(s), not just the far inferior black-and-white first draft?

Re: Fritz chronological maps, or a labor of love

[selenak]

I first saw the black and white and then the complete coloured map covering the entire time from 1730 to 1786!

Re: Fritz chronological maps, or a labor of love

[mildred_of_midgard]

Excellent!

1740, though--unfortunately--not 1730. I do have the data for 1730-1740 and am willing to generate the map if anyone is interested (it'll only take a few minutes), but it's so incredibly sparse that I wanted to make a better quality 1740-1786 map to stand alone. If anyone wanted to make a real map before 1740, they'd have to read through sources and gather the data themselves; there's just not enough extant correspondence to do it programmatically. Before 1730 is even worse.