due to FW following St. Paul's "better to marry than to burn" advice, i.e. needed to channel his sexual urges in the only way permissable to a good Christian King (tm).
Agree.
But he'd have to figure out which position furthers the cause of Seckendorff more first!
LOL. How tall is he? Because if tall, then probably top. :P
I mean, he was only 51 when he died, which is easy to forget
The reason I don't forget is that I think, painfully, of just how *many* years Fritz had to imagine Dad potentially living when he was trying to run away at 18. 10 is a lot, but Fritz couldn't have known it wouldn't be 40.
given one Imagines him born middle aged.
But he *was* born middle-aged! Even his parents knew that. :P
For those who don't know young FW as well as Selena, here's an account of his youth from a biographer:
The new king, Frederick William, had manifested from childhood a violent aversion for ceremonies and luxury. One day, when quite a small child, curled, powdered, clad in a gala costume, he hid himself in a chimney, whence he was pulled out, black as a chimney-sweep. He threw a brocaded night-robe into the fire, soon after it was tried on him. The sight of the big perukes made him furious. Finding some courtiers in his father's antechamber, warming them selves, with their heads thrown back, so as not to scorch their beautiful periwigs, which had cost them 200 thalers, he forced them to throw their wigs into the fire. Another time, they picked up at the foot of the staircase a maitre de la cour whom he had kicked to the bottom. He was extremely parsimonious, and kept an exact account of his receipts and expenditures, in a faultless register, on the first page of which he had written: “Rechnung fiber meine Ducaten,--Account of my Ducats.” “Miser,” exclaimed his mother, “and at so tender an age!"
I shall never understand why people take a potentially interesting pairing and then promptly remove anything that would make it interesting, making it into a generic Any Two Guys instead.
It's true, a lot of AUs devolve into of generic Any Two Guys. I can see the appeal, but for myself, I generally want there to be *something* of the original dynamic retained, and not just the names.
Why on earth would you change that when pairing him with a brilliant paranoid snarky control freak?
Long ago, I tried skimming some of the earlier Fritz/Casanova material by the same author, the one where Casanova *is* a generation younger, and the impression I got was of a sweet, somewhat naive, almost childlike, stereotypical sub, and I was like...this is his twin brother who was given away at birth and ended up with the same name, right?
Anyway, the most prolific AO3 author in this fandom is far from my favorite, and the rampant cliches that I found just lightly skimming her work reconciled me to her unwillingness to use the enter key to put spaces between paragraphs, making her works into one thoroughly unreadable run-on wall of text for me. Space your paragraphs, people! (It's a pet peeve of mine.) Anyway, the unreadability doesn't matter because it's not something I want to read, which is too bad, because there's so much of it, haha.
I'm still raging at the part where a character, probably Casanova but I wasn't inspired to find out, was waiting, with evident author approval, for Fritz to get up the "courage" to visit Katte's* grave. Not everyone grieves the same way! Rituals around death are for the comfort of the living, not something owed to the dead! "Fuck you," is all I can think.
* Yes, most of my skimming took the form of "ctrl-f Katte". ;)
Re: Toppings of all types, continued
Agree.
But he'd have to figure out which position furthers the cause of Seckendorff more first!
LOL. How tall is he? Because if tall, then probably top. :P
I mean, he was only 51 when he died, which is easy to forget
The reason I don't forget is that I think, painfully, of just how *many* years Fritz had to imagine Dad potentially living when he was trying to run away at 18. 10 is a lot, but Fritz couldn't have known it wouldn't be 40.
given one Imagines him born middle aged.
But he *was* born middle-aged! Even his parents knew that. :P
For those who don't know young FW as well as Selena, here's an account of his youth from a biographer:
The new king, Frederick William, had manifested from childhood a violent aversion for ceremonies and luxury. One day, when quite a small child, curled, powdered, clad in a gala costume, he hid himself in a chimney, whence he was pulled out, black as a chimney-sweep. He threw a brocaded night-robe into the fire, soon after it was tried on him. The sight of the big perukes made him furious. Finding some courtiers in his father's antechamber, warming them selves, with their heads thrown back, so as not to scorch their beautiful periwigs, which had cost them 200 thalers, he forced them to throw their wigs into the fire. Another time, they picked up at the foot of the staircase a maitre de la cour whom he had kicked to the bottom. He was extremely parsimonious, and kept an exact account of his receipts and expenditures, in a faultless register, on the first page of which he had written: “Rechnung fiber meine Ducaten,--Account of my Ducats.” “Miser,” exclaimed his mother, “and at so tender an age!"
I shall never understand why people take a potentially interesting pairing and then promptly remove anything that would make it interesting, making it into a generic Any Two Guys instead.
It's true, a lot of AUs devolve into of generic Any Two Guys. I can see the appeal, but for myself, I generally want there to be *something* of the original dynamic retained, and not just the names.
Why on earth would you change that when pairing him with a brilliant paranoid snarky control freak?
Long ago, I tried skimming some of the earlier Fritz/Casanova material by the same author, the one where Casanova *is* a generation younger, and the impression I got was of a sweet, somewhat naive, almost childlike, stereotypical sub, and I was like...this is his twin brother who was given away at birth and ended up with the same name, right?
Anyway, the most prolific AO3 author in this fandom is far from my favorite, and the rampant cliches that I found just lightly skimming her work reconciled me to her unwillingness to use the enter key to put spaces between paragraphs, making her works into one thoroughly unreadable run-on wall of text for me. Space your paragraphs, people! (It's a pet peeve of mine.) Anyway, the unreadability doesn't matter because it's not something I want to read, which is too bad, because there's so much of it, haha.
I'm still raging at the part where a character, probably Casanova but I wasn't inspired to find out, was waiting, with evident author approval, for Fritz to get up the "courage" to visit Katte's* grave. Not everyone grieves the same way! Rituals around death are for the comfort of the living, not something owed to the dead! "Fuck you," is all I can think.
* Yes, most of my skimming took the form of "ctrl-f Katte". ;)