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...

Master link to Frederick the Great posts and associated online links

Comments

[mildred_of_midgard]

I may or may not add features to my script every time we start a new discussion post. I may or may not have spent my twenties wondering if I might be on the autism spectrum. ;)

~/Downloads/cahn_comments_script$ ./word_counts.sh refresh
Refreshing counts......

User | Words | Comments
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mildred 110119 474
selenak 80117 247
cahn 23352 300
deathsblood 603 2
taelle 582 4

Word Total: 214773
Comment Total: 1027

Maybe next time I'll get it to do some html formatting, so it displays better in DW. It's currently formatted for my terminal (and very nice it looks there indeed).

Now back to trying to figure out if I can do a Yuletide treat. Crackfic will have to wait. :DD

[cahn]

holy cow, you guys could write a book about it. Arguably, you have. :P

[mildred_of_midgard]

Arguably, we have! This is why I said "book-length treatment" in my book recommendations reply. I have given some thought to pulling out a "best of" for people who are not following along in real time. The problem is that, because of our very small audience and the fact that our "canon" is limited to these discussion posts, we've been assuming that you know everything we've talked about so far, which is a lot of knowledge scattered across a lot of comments (1027 comments, to be exact. :P)

So pulling one comment out of context and presenting it in isolation means some background needs to be supplied, as you found when you tried to link to my Austrian Succession chronology, which presupposed an understanding of the Pragmatic Sanction. So editing would be a non-trivial endeavor, and I'm not sure it would be as much fun.

Anyway, we have produced a performance art-style book for you, and I'm glad you've found it so enjoyable. :D

[cahn]

Heh, I would love a "best of" but I'm kind of too lazy to do it :) There are some that are just awesome, like the Pragmatic Sanction/Austrian Succession and the whole crackfic from the last post, but I guess I've linked to those already :)

It really is a performance-art-style book! I keep being totally awed by it.

[mildred_of_midgard]

Also too lazy, given the work involved.

How does D feel about the fact that we're still going? :P

[cahn]

Hee. I don't bring it up that much, although every time I do he seems a little surprised that it's still going. Of course, so am I! (See also: ANOTHER crazy story, every time)