I'd imagine at the early point in their lives Katte was the physical as well as emotional top
*nods* With the caveat that I do think Fritz must have been the one to make the first physical overture, i.e. taking that key step, whether it was a kiss or something else. If they had simply been two young officers, then I could see Katte doing it just as as well, but not with Crown Prince Fritz who otherwise has zero control over his own life. I think precisely because Katte is falling in love with him, he'd let Fritz make the first overture, make that decision. Anything physical after, he leads.
I mean, one doesn't casually Pylades oneself in writing without going there in one's head, at least for a moment?
Indeed. I'd imagine young Fritz probably had fantasies about being properly seduced by an experienced older man anyway, fitting the erastes/eromenes set up, and Suhm fits all the criteria.
I would second the call for this tiny mouthy guy to get to top, sexually, and in particular to top Big Brother's sort-of-ex...
Incidentally, since it was several posts ago, here's a link to the letters Fritz wrote to Heinrich about Marwitz in early 1746 (Heinrich is 19, Fritz is 14 years older, and God knows how old Marwitz is because the Marwitz family contains many male members, and we have no idea which one this one was, since neither Fritz nor Lehndorff ever mention the first name!), (translated by me from the Ziebura biography of Heinrich, along with a shortened version of Lehndorff's ten years later diary entry recounting the Marwitz saga; this was before I had read Lehndorff's diaries myself. When I did, I discovered that the full length entry on Fritz-Marwitz-Heinrich story contains a bit more interesting Information, and it's rendered here. I'd be interested as to whether you're drawing different conclusions than we've done so far? Any input is welcome, not least because it seems a key event and it's still something of a puzzle what actually happened!
Re: Toppings of all types, continued
*nods* With the caveat that I do think Fritz must have been the one to make the first physical overture, i.e. taking that key step, whether it was a kiss or something else. If they had simply been two young officers, then I could see Katte doing it just as as well, but not with Crown Prince Fritz who otherwise has zero control over his own life. I think precisely because Katte is falling in love with him, he'd let Fritz make the first overture, make that decision. Anything physical after, he leads.
I mean, one doesn't casually Pylades oneself in writing without going there in one's head, at least for a moment?
Indeed. I'd imagine young Fritz probably had fantasies about being properly seduced by an experienced older man anyway, fitting the erastes/eromenes set up, and Suhm fits all the criteria.
I would second the call for this tiny mouthy guy to get to top, sexually, and in particular to top Big Brother's sort-of-ex...
Incidentally, since it was several posts ago, here's a link to the letters Fritz wrote to Heinrich about Marwitz in early 1746 (Heinrich is 19, Fritz is 14 years older, and God knows how old Marwitz is because the Marwitz family contains many male members, and we have no idea which one this one was, since neither Fritz nor Lehndorff ever mention the first name!), (translated by me from the Ziebura biography of Heinrich, along with a shortened version of Lehndorff's ten years later diary entry recounting the Marwitz saga; this was before I had read Lehndorff's diaries myself. When I did, I discovered that the full length entry on Fritz-Marwitz-Heinrich story contains a bit more interesting Information, and it's rendered here. I'd be interested as to whether you're drawing different conclusions than we've done so far? Any input is welcome, not least because it seems a key event and it's still something of a puzzle what actually happened!