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 Book Reports: AW bio, Fritz and Heinrich double portrait/lengthy essay

[mildred_of_midgard]

Yes, yes, he's a respectable *king*, as kings go. I think we are all forced to admit that. Even Fritz was. (Well, Fritz had a certain amount of survivor Stockholm Syndrome, but still.) And yes, that father-son combination being responsible for subsequent German history is an argument that I've always found compelling. (Again, agreed that it was not necessarily a good thing--and unlike many, I don't think it depends on the father-son dynamics, just the individual personalities.)

I still hate him, though. :P

BUUUUT, I have to admit that last uniform anecdote is pretty great. I wish it were from someone I actually liked. Ahem.