Frederick the Great discussion post 15

[cahn]

...I have nothing clever to say here, just really pleased this is still going :)
rheinsberg

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Re: Heinrich readthrough!

[mildred_of_midgard]

Yes, thank you! For fictional purposes, I think a week is quite reasonable to fudge. I think one of my criteria for creative license is turning out to be: "Is this going to destroy suspension of disbelief for a knowledgeable reader?" And there's "knowledgeable enough to know that FW wasn't present at Katte's execution," which we all are, and then there's "knowledgeable enough to be thrown out of a story because Peter Keith died on December 27 and Fritz didn't arrive until January 4, and yet they see each other before he dies, zomg the unrealism!"

I mean, "Pulvis et Umbra" took Fritz's February 1747 illness and Algarotti's March 1747 arrival in Berlin, and moved them after the May 1747 acquisition of the Antinous statue (which probably didn't even arrive until at least June), and I don't think that's the reason the story has so few kudos. ;)

That is interesting about the cheek kissing! It's these little day-to-day life details I'm always sure I'm getting wrong and am going to accidentally throw someone out of the story with.