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: Casanova

[cahn]

This is just all pure gold.

Thank God the king did not trouble to test my knowledge of the science of hydraulics, with which I was totally unacquainted.

HAHAHAHA

This also all sounds completely Fritzian, blaming everyone else for his fountains and so on,and pop quizzing him, and...

Casanova also sounds like a hilarious writer in general. I should look up his memoirs.

Re: Casanova

[mildred_of_midgard]

I mean, to be fair, it may not be his fault that Euler et al. were unable to get water there. I mean, it may be! He may have underfunded the endeavor and micromanaged and argued with them until they threw up their hands. But it took so long to get solved after his death that the location may actually have made it difficult.

The pop quiz is total Fritz, though. You see it over and over again when people meet with him.

Yeah, Casanova sounds great. He's on my list now.