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: Hohenzollern Family Reunion

[mildred_of_midgard]

They can't have been from the memoirs, because she wrote the memoirs ten to fifteen years before the Seven Years' War. I suspect it's a letter.

is it possible that she's talking about FW's character (I mean, he seems to have been at least as stubborn as Fritz!) rather than the abuse in particular

I absolutely parsed this as FW's rather impressive and extremely Fritz-like endurance in the face of crippling pain/illness and other hardships, though I suppose it's also possible she saw her abusive childhood as the fire that tempered the steel? But yes, context might make it clear one way or the other.

Re: Hohenzollern Family Reunion

[selenak]

Yes, it's from a late letter, but alas I'm currently separated from my physical books due to being not at home, so I can't provide you with the exact quote.