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

[cahn]

This is super cool, wow!! Though I am probably not appreciating the military maneuvers at all, lol. It would probably be really interesting to watch along with reading about the maneuvers or even his correspondence.

I wouldn't have noticed had you not mentioned it, but because you did mention it I could see how much faster the dates advanced as they got later in his life :(

Re: Fritz chronological maps, or a labor of love

[mildred_of_midgard]

What I meant by that is just that after the Seven Years' War, he spends almost all his time in Berlin/Potsdam, except every so often, you see the dot jump southeast to Silesia for a bit, before coming back to Berlin. When I saw the dates on those Silesia appearances, I realized they were in August/September every year, and I went, "Oh, I know why he was there! It was for the military maneuvers I keep hearing took place in the autumn!" I didn't, in case it wasn't clear, mean anything about his specific locations within Silesia. Just that it's showing him there autumn after autumn, and I know why!

Yeah, the later years are :(

Re: Fritz chronological maps, or a labor of love

[cahn]

Ohhhh! I noticed the jumps and I didn't realize that they were every autumn! That's super cool.

I feel like you should publish this somewhere :P

Re: Fritz chronological maps, or a labor of love

[mildred_of_midgard]

It is super cool if you know what you're looking at!

Me too! But I have no idea where.

Anyway, let's wait and see if I sustain my momentum long enough to get through the political correspondence, and what the resulting product looks like.

Re: Fritz chronological maps, or a labor of love

[mildred_of_midgard]

Almost there! Just need to see if I can figure out the last dozen or so tricky place names that I couldn't figure out the first time through, then start preparing the data for image generation, run through the images in chronological order as a sanity check to make sure he isn't doing anything crazy, like jumping hundreds of miles overnight and then back again, and finally see if I can generate a gif out of this many images without either crashing my computer or needing 50 years for the command to run (it was an interesting exercise not crashing my computer just on the smaller data set).