Frederick the Great discussion post 12

[cahn]

Every time I am amazed and enchanted that this is still going on! Truly DW is the Earthly Paradise!

All the good stuff continues to be archived at rheinsberg :)

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Re: The Lehndorff Report: 1777 - B

[mildred_of_midgard]

Oh God. Lehndorff’s favourite niece, the one who married a Schlieben, turns out to have married a bad egg. He‘s a money wasting spendthrift and lothario.

Wait, so you mean Lehndorff's favorite niece is attracted to the same kind of person as Lehndorff's favorite prince? Poor Lehndorff.

If I ponder how many men have been enjoying the Prince’s greatest favour and how many during the last thirty years of my relationship with the Prince have tried their best to blacken my name with him, to get rid of me and how this was all in vain and didn’t change anything regarding my relationship with the Prince, I come to the conclusion that honest behavior does pay off, and that a balance will be achieved.

<3 Lehndorff, you don't have the right personality flaws to be my problematic fave, but objectively speaking, you're a better person than all of them. (Fritz, you're still my from-a-safe-distance fave, but the only person I've ever met who was anything like you, I've never wanted to strangle someone so much, OMFG. :P)

better to think everything through ten times and especially never leave a position, even if it seems unbearable, without knowing you are exchanging it for a much better one.

You mean like moving to England with someone you just met?

Re: The Lehndorff Report: 1777 - B

[cahn]

<3 Lehndorff, you don't have the right personality flaws to be my problematic fave, but objectively speaking, you're a better person than all of them.

Yeah, absolutely -- I don't know that he's dysfunctional enough to be the person I'd want to write or read fic about except the Fontane bodyswap one which would be totally hilarious but he's so great <3

You mean like moving to England with someone you just met?

LOLOLOLOL!

Re: The Lehndorff Report: 1777 - B

[selenak]

Wait, so you mean Lehndorff's favorite niece is attracted to the same kind of person as Lehndorff's favorite prince? Poor Lehndorff.

Quite. In the next installment, she nearly gets arrested for those guy's debts.


You mean like moving to England with someone you just met?

A hit, a palpable hit! I mean, it's of course entirely possible that he'd have truly been happy with Hotham there, and wouldn't have regreted his choice, but, you know: it's 1756, the war starts, and England explodes into Fritzmania. Also Heinrich transforms into a war hero. Somehow I can't imagine AU!Lehndorff in England thinking "yeah, good thing I got out of in time" , as opposed to "OMG! The Russians are at Steinort, is my mother alright, hope my siblings have told her to move to Berlin in time! And ZOMG what about Prince Heinrich!!!!"

Re: The Lehndorff Report: 1777 - B

[mildred_of_midgard]

Quite. In the next installment, she nearly gets arrested for those guy's debts.

OMG. Now where have we seen that before.

Somehow I can't imagine AU!Lehndorff in England thinking "yeah, good thing I got out of in time" , as opposed to "OMG! The Russians are at Steinort, is my mother alright, hope my siblings have told her to move to Berlin in time! And ZOMG what about Prince Heinrich!!!!"

Somehow, I agree with you.

Fritz must drive everyone crazy with his eye for "You'll regret this, which is why I'm not letting you do it."

Everyone: *cough* Voltaire *cough* beam in your eye *cough*

Re: The Lehndorff Report: 1777 - B

[selenak]

Fritz must drive everyone crazy with his eye for "You'll regret this, which is why I'm not letting you do it."

Everyone: *cough* Voltaire *cough* beam in your eye *cough*

Quite. It still must have been galling that he kept being proven right post facto.

Fritz: Well, in all modesty, one doesn't have to be a genius to be right about Heinrich's boytoys. One can just work from the general assumption that they all suck.

Heinrich: You might want to rephrase that or I'll be forced to go for a pun. Also, speaking as someone whose boyfriends never tried to kill him, nor published trashy tell alls in repeated editions...

Re: The Lehndorff Report: 1777 - B

[mildred_of_midgard]

Fritz: Well, in all modesty, one doesn't have to be a genius to be right about Heinrich's boytoys. One can just work from the general assumption that they all suck.

Heinrich: You might want to rephrase that or I'll be forced to go for a pun. Also, speaking as someone whose boyfriends never tried to kill him, nor published trashy tell alls in repeated editions...

Ahahahahaaaa, you two. :P Stop being each other's other selves.

Fritz: At least it was a witty trashy tell all which I secretly reread every night while rolling my eyes and furiously annotating the margins. Not my fault your boyfriends aren't literary geniuses like mine.