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: Fredersdorf

[cahn]

lol, you guys are amazing :D I feel like the two of you should write a book, you're chasing down all the evidence like you are!

Re: Fredersdorf

[mildred_of_midgard]

Heeee. :DD Tbh, I'll be happy if one of us writes that curtain fic. (But seriously, is that not high on the list of sweetest things Fritz has ever come up with??)

Also, I refuse to write a book on Fritz until I can read both French and German, and that might take a while. :P

If we did convert these posts into a book, though, I think we could model it on 1066 and All That. 1740 and All That?

Re: Fredersdorf

[cahn]

Also, I refuse to write a book on Fritz until I can read both French and German, and that might take a while. :P

Heh. There is that. (My French background is sufficiently strong that, as long as I don't have to pronounce anything, I could probably be pretty good at reading fairly quickly, but my German is nonexistent, and more to the point my history and everything else is nonexistent, although as a result of being in this fandom for... four months?? ... I feel like I now know more about it than the average person, at least :P Possibly more than some biographers :PP)

Re: Fredersdorf

[mildred_of_midgard]

Well, you definitely know a lot of things that biographers don't! And I think it's safe to say you've left the average person in the dust. You were the average person four months ago.

I feel like I could get my French reading proficiency up to speed if I were sufficiently motivated and in better health, but German would take ages, and also they're just not high enough on my list that they're likely to happen, alas.