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: Wilhelmine

[mildred_of_midgard]

*nod* I had the same immediate objection to whether it would work. Although if he *is* wearing a wig when his father sees him, it might work a bit better?

And as for the question of cutting--I *thought* soldiers had to have a long but narrow queue in the back but hair cut shorter in the front and on top (both to keep the queue narrow and to make the wig sit easier)? Certainly judging by the pictures I've seen, and my experience braiding my own hair when I had long hair, if you grow all your hair long and braid it, the result comes out approximately three times as thick as those pictures.

But I could be totally wrong about that. I do know FW objected to Fritz's hairstyle a lot, but I agree this particular anecdote seems rather unsubstantiated. It's in keeping with the theme of "spirit but not letter," though, of which there are numerous substantiated examples.