Happy Fritzmas! (*) / Frederician discussion post 7

[cahn]

Frederician 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 :)

Comments

Re: Glasow

[selenak]

Given Burgdorf declared the Countess Orzelska a life Long platonic pen pal of Fritz (without any letters to show for it), declared any 19th and 20th century historians who were stating Fritz had some romantic interest in her, let alone sex, invented this entirely out of the blue, and stated Wilhelmine fancied Katte herself and was jealous Fritz got him without anything to back that up, either, it would be entirely in character for him to take the Deesen story and embellish it with added sex and dumping reasons.

Fredersdorf died on good terms with Fritz; that's my headcanon and I'm sticking to it!

Same here, until someone finally provides us with a direct credible citation as to where the embezzlement story comes from and why it was so successfully hushed up that one else seems to report on it. It wouldn't be the first wiki article to make a mistake, of course.

Re: Glasow

[mildred_of_midgard]

Agreed. The only offline source I've found so far who mentions Fredersdorf and embezzlement is MacDonogh, the notorious "source? what source?" biographer. In this case, no source given.

Re: Glasow

[cahn]

Fredersdorf died on good terms with Fritz; that's my headcanon and I'm sticking to it!

Same here, until someone finally provides us with a direct credible citation as to where the embezzlement story comes from and why it was so successfully hushed up that one else seems to report on it.

Me too!