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: FW and predestination

[selenak]

If it was his own deepest childhood fear they accidentally (?) tapped into, no wonder.

I mean, the impression I get is that it went thusly:

*Tiny terror FW beats up future G2, mouths back at M. Rebeur*

R: Good lord, that kid is a handful. How to deal? I know! Predestination! Now, your highness, little boys who are naughty just prove they weren't chosen by God and will go to hell. Let me tell you all about hell. *uses 1700 years of imagery to tap into*

FW *after a lot of nightmares*: That's awful. Screw you, and predestination, and anything French! That all sucks. In MY state, we're going to be good Christians without any of that. MY kids aren't going to learn anything about it.

Posterity: No, your kids are going to afraid of you instead.

Re: FW and predestination

[mildred_of_midgard]

Minus the bit about beating up future G2--which I still haven't run across, to my dismay!--that's my impression too. Man, history is everyone having PTSD at each other. (And specifically, punching down.)

Re: FW and predestination

[selenak]

Bit about beating up future G2: it's in his German language wiki entry, though not in the English version, in the subsection "Am Hannoverschen Hof", and said wiki entry does provide footnotes as to the source of that particular story: Peter Baumgart: Friedrich Wilhelm I. (1713–1740). In: Frank-Lothar Kroll (Hrsg.): Preußens Herrscher. Von den ersten Hohenzollern bis Wilhelm II. 2., ergänzte und erweiterte Auflage. Verlag C.H. Beck, München 2009, S. 135.
Karl Eduard Vehse: Preussens Könige Privat. Berliner Hofgeschichten. Anaconda Verlag, Köln 2006, S. 57.