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

[cahn]

This just all makes me very sad :(

Although, I dunno, at least according to her memoirs she seems to have been ill kind of on a regular basis starting in childhood, often around the time someone was horribly abusing her (which of coures doesn't narrow it down a whole lot), so I was at least partially chalking it down to reactions to childhood physical abuse and/or mental-becoming-physical pushback to PTSD problems due to all the abuse.

Re: Wilhelmine

[mildred_of_midgard]

often around the time someone was horribly abusing her (which of coures doesn't narrow it down a whole lot)

Lolsob.

Agreed, I've been attributing Wilhelmine's physical issues to some combination of shallow royal gene pool with lots of recessive conditions, 18th century medical care, and stress. Ongoing sex she didn't want may have formed some part of the stress, but, with all that trauma, probably not the whole of it.

ETA: Also, practically every time I open a letter from Fritz, and I've opened a lot in the last few days for my mapping project, no matter who the recipient is, there's some line where Fritz is commenting on the other person's health, whether it's "Please get better," or "I'm sorry you're feeling worse," or "Oh, thank God you're better!" or "Do you have any updates on so-and-so? I'm worried." It's gotten to the point where I'm surprised if someone in the 18th century is healthy.

Re: Wilhelmine

[cahn]

Yeah, I agree, I imagine that recessive gene pool wasn't doing her any favors! Even with all the stress and trauma, at least according to her memoirs she seems to have been seriously sick a lot, even as a kid. (I mean, who knows how well she remembers all that, and there is probably some bias if she was sick while she wrote them, but still!)