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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Re: Fredersdorf letters

[mildred_of_midgard]

Editor does not mention any homoerotic poetry, if you‘re wondering. Otoh he‘s with you on the doctor declaring Fritz was impotent due to STD as a young man...He thinks Fritz had het urges and probably did something as a young man but never ever thereafter, channelling it all into Prussia and stoic masculinity.

Ha. So remember when I summarized the different approaches historians have taken to explaining Fritz's sexuality? Our editor is evidently Historian 4:

Historian 4: Idk about any operation, but I promise you, dear readers, there was nothing "unnatural" about Fritz's sex drive, it was just "underdeveloped." It's MANLY to not be into women and only like waging war, k? If he wrote poetry at all, much less erotic poetry, you will not find any mention of it in my incredibly manly book.