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cahnFrederician fandom is the best! 3 stories in main archive and 2 stories in Madness, eeeeeeee and I have only managed to read my own gifts so far (well, I guess Madness isn't open yet either, but even if it had been I wouldn't have managed to have read them) but they are so goooooood
Also, I would like to apologize on behalf of the fandom that none of us apparently managed any Fritz/Voltaire. Some of us, uh, didn't know enough about Voltaire, and we are Taking Steps to attempt to rectify this in the future if anyone requests it, say, next year. Just saying.
I'm making this post because the last one has an insane number of comments, but I still owe SO many comments on the last post and I kiiiinda would like to read and comment on Yuletide stories for the next week as time permits so I almost hope this post doesn't get much action and then we resume in the new year? (Especially since there is a limited amount of discussion we can do on the fics right now!) :D I was thinking of making another post anyway for reveals.
(*) My husband D came up with this :P :)
Also, I would like to apologize on behalf of the fandom that none of us apparently managed any Fritz/Voltaire. Some of us, uh, didn't know enough about Voltaire, and we are Taking Steps to attempt to rectify this in the future if anyone requests it, say, next year. Just saying.
I'm making this post because the last one has an insane number of comments, but I still owe SO many comments on the last post and I kiiiinda would like to read and comment on Yuletide stories for the next week as time permits so I almost hope this post doesn't get much action and then we resume in the new year? (Especially since there is a limited amount of discussion we can do on the fics right now!) :D I was thinking of making another post anyway for reveals.
(*) My husband D came up with this :P :)
Re: Voltaire
Date: 2019-12-30 02:36 pm (UTC)So I also saw that she did the wife/mother thing, but my book said there was relatively little for her *to* do as mother, since she was nobility and therefore supposed to leave the day-to-day of child-raising to the kids. Household management is another matter, and my book said she did it, but was starting to go stir-crazy after marriage, because it wasn't stimulating enough. And then she started to get back into science, met Voltaire, and *really* got into science and philosophy. So she must have been good at delegating, and would have done an A+ job of no Prussian expansionism, lots of optics and astronomy.
Also, you can say that she would have had less time as Prussian monarch, but as Voltaire's partner, she had to help him with his projects during the day and work on her own while she pretended to be asleep to avoid hurting his ego, and not do experimental science but limit herself to theoretical for her Academy competition submission. So honestly, the trade-offs might have worked in her favor.
I... what would chill Fritz even look like?
This is an excellent and unanswerable question. It is difficult to imagine, and I expect it depends a lot on why he's more chill. It was a bit of an idle question as posed, and would require a lot of work to develop as a proper AU. As it is, I just think we should have a crack AU where Émilie runs Prussia and Fritz and Voltaire elope. :P
ETA: Oh, and the fencing seems to have been a one-time episode (though obviously she must have practiced a lot in her youth), so I can see leaving it out, depending on your focus. Looking forward to the rest of your book report!