Frederick the Great, discussion post 6

[cahn]

...I think we need another one (seriously, you guys, this is THE BEST) and I'd better make it now before I disappear into the wilds of music performance.

(also, as of this week there are two Frederician fics in the yuletide archive and eeeeeeeeeee)
(huh, only one of them is actually tagged with Frederick the Great even though two with Maria Theresia and Wilhelmine, eeeeeee this is awesome I CAN'T WAIT)

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[cahn]

Hee, you have no idea how much I have been sitting on my hands when you've been making posts on your Yuletide activity. (You haven't been missing much -- a lot of "eeeeeee I WONDER IF I KNOW WHAT THIS MIGHT BE eeeeeeeee" -- but I have been sitting on my hands a lot.) And then I couldn't help myself once seeing those delicious tags!

I promise to shut up now about this so as to retain the smallest shred of plausible deniability!

...but speaking of gifts, one last thing: d'you think we should tell mildred to check her gift tab? That's the one thing that it looks like she hasn't noticed ;) (Maybe it's in her ROT-13, which I am studiously staying clear of until 25 Dec, buuuuuut I think she would have said it unencrypted if she had noticed.)

[mildred_of_midgard]

In my defense, your subject was LOOK AT THESE TAGS so I obediently had to LOOK AT THESE TAGS. It's not my fault I'm such a good looker at tags. :PP

...but speaking of gifts, one last thing: d'you think we should tell mildred to check her gift tab?

WUT. I got excited when you said this, freaked out at the lack of notifications from AO3, and then went and looked at the only gift tab I know about, and it said 0??? I do not see any gifts???

I AM CONFUSE HALP.

hell yes I would have said this unencrypted

[mildred_of_midgard]

It's not my fault I'm such a good looker at tags. :PP

So what I'm saying is...

FW, Fritz, and Heinrich are terriers.

AW is a spaniel.

And I...when I want to know something, I am a freaking bloodhound.

I do sometimes use my powers for good! Like when I hunted down an effective treatment for Rachel's life-destroying, life-threatening condition. But not filtering tags to figure out which story has which plot, or not decrypting text, these are beyond my powers of resistance. :-PP

[cahn]

UM. SORRY. That may have been a mistake! SORRY to anyone else who may be reading this whose cunning plans I may have derailed!

(One of the fics was originally on your gift tab but in retrospect this may actually have been a cunning plan to confuse me which backfired, because of COURSE the next thing I did was to check your gift tab. Or possibly it was a mistake/typo. In any case I now have two on my gift tab.)

(You wouldn't have gotten notifications about this in any case, as the notifications don't go out until the exchange goes live.)

[mildred_of_midgard]

OH I SEE. Thank you for clearing that up.

In any case, fic #1 up there on rot13 I'm considering as much a gift for me as for you, which you'll see why on Dec 25. :P <333 (Basically, one is right up my alley, and the other is clearly in response to your request, so one looks like an assignment and the other looks like a treat.)

[mildred_of_midgard]

NOW I have a Yuletide Madness gift of my very own! OMG

*shakes it*

Crack steampunk 7 Years' War fic with Goethe, Schiller, Peter III, Joseph, and Fritz/other.

But I don't *know* anyone who likes Goethe and Schiller and rational and irrational fanboys and giving them the technology to have chatrooms during the Seven Years' War! Who could this be???

<3333

[cahn]

:D

I also figured out how my Yuletide gifts could both be tagged with Wilhelmine and MT but only one with Fritz! eeeeeeeeeeee

*I think I need a Lehndorff icon for complete cluelessness, like, when I figured it out I was like OH DUH, those are MY TWO FAVORITE PROMPTS*

[mildred_of_midgard]

You would know all this if you had decrypted my spoilers. :-PPPP

(I too was delighted at seeing both those prompts had been filled, like OMG. !!!!)