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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Re: Trenck, or: My Sister's Possible Boyfriend

[mildred_of_midgard]

Oh, right, the crazy Trenck affair was Amalie! See, I know all these stories in isolation, but summoning them all up in connection with the right person all at the same time is a bit harder. ;) Yeah, the Trenck affair (double entendre totally intended) is confusing, more confusing than the two cousin Count Rothenburgs who supported Fritz, largely because we're all WTF actually happened there???

At the very least, it's one of the cases where Fritz gets finger wagging from historians for locking someone up with so little transparency, no trial, no formal charges, etc. Bad enlightened monarch!

But in 2008, they found a letter from me to her, written in 1787, the year of her death, which "at least indicates great familiarity", which is their way of phrasing I totally scored!

Ahahahaha, love it.

I could never figure that family out.

Join the club, Trenck. Every day, I wake up to new developments from this family to stare at in disbelief.