Frederick the Great discussion post 15

[cahn]

...I have nothing clever to say here, just really pleased this is still going :)
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Re: Heinrich readthrough!

[cahn]

I thought the military terminology for the feast was hilarious. (I'm assuming "left wing" isn't normal tablesetting terminology.)

Ahahahaha I read that but totally missed the implication! Hee, glad we are doing this as a joint effort.

I know this is supposed to be the sibling thread, but some of us have boyfriend fic to write, or at least dream of writing. :P

Lol! Nah, this isn't the sibling thread, this is the thread where we talk about the book. Talking about applications of the book to boyfriend fic totally counts!

Re: Heinrich readthrough!

[mildred_of_midgard]

Ahahahaha I read that but totally missed the implication! Hee, glad we are doing this as a joint effort.

Well, it definitely helps that I have to stop and think about what each word means as I encounter it. "Flügel, Flügel...I know this one...right, that's the word for 'wing' that I've encountered a few times before in military and architectural contexts. Oh, haha, he's being funny!"

In general, I'm glad the salon is a joint effort, not least for when I confuse the Marwitzes and omit multiple Stuarts, or selenak confuses the Polish partitions and Count Rottembourgs. Having someone to cross-check your work definitely helps. And of course, the general building on each other's slightly different knowledge backgrounds is just earthly paradise.

I still think the time selenak and I made a collaborative joke was the best.

selenak: Noteworthy as well: you’d think Fritz would be cast as David in this scenario, given that it’s Jonathan who dies. But no. Katte is David, Fritz is Jonathan.

Me: I always cast Fritz as Jonathan in my fic, because then you get all the FW-Saul parallels.

selenak: FW as Saul works very well, though I guess the Potsdam Giants are standing in for David‘s original purpose of distracting the King from his gloom in that case.

Me: I guess this Saul sent for Goliath instead of David!

One of our finest moments, imo. :D

Talking about applications of the book to boyfriend fic totally counts!

You're so nice. <3

I did figure out a way to preserve most of my plot, btw, while adhering to the chronology. We lose the final Fritz/Peter interaction (*sob*), but in the process of trying to rework the scene, I managed to remember some historical details that make it even more canonically plausible, so there's that. And I might still fudge the chronology. It's only a few days, and I don't think we even have certainty about how many!