I mean, obviously not all the time; he was receptive to tenderness as well
Agreed! The fact that in a sexual context, anger makes him more aroused doesn't mean it's the *only* thing that arouses him. But it does mean he'd better watch out when thinking about Fritz and his boyfriends at the same time. ;)
doesn't mean I wouldn't read it, especially if a skillful author such as yourself manages to make Kaphengst more dimensional.
Thank you for the compliment. I hope that if I ever do write it, you enjoy it, but I won't gift it to you for an exchange.
Dimensional: Yep, he would have to be mostly an OC, but sometimes my favorite characters to write are where we know just enough to give me a starting point, but not so much I feel intimidated trying to produce something that feels in-character (the reason I still haven't been able to write Voltaire).
he's about to move into Rheinsberg with his beloved (and his wife
Lolsob.
Now, why would barely 11 years old Heinrich send cheeses to Fritz? My mind irresistably replies: because he robbed the larder while being babysat, and Mom after learning of this made him do something to apologize.
AHAHAHAAAA, total headcanon!
When's the letter to Suhm about the unnamed brother's visit dated again, and does it say Ruppin or Rheinsberg?
May 6, 1736, and Ruppin. I suspect that's part of why he was so upset: his early letters to Suhm from Ruppin are full of complaining that he's busy with his regiment and his health all day, and he has no tiiiiiime to stuuuuudyy. So he's going to give up sleep!
If you do write 1736, I strongly suspect this is the year of the great coffee experiment where Fritz drank All the CoffeeTM, got sick, and realized he couldn't do entirely without sleep after all. I actually don't know what the source on that is--probably one of those posthumously published anecdotes of dubious provenance, if we haven't run into it in a real source yet.
But it remains my headcanon that he did this, not least because when I was an arrogant workaholic teenager who didn't want to sleep when I could be studying, I read about Fritz trying to live on coffee. Anyone else, and I would have assumed they were a mere mortal, whose failure didn't necessarily apply to me. (People attempting to give me advice at that age generally ran afoul of this tendency of mine.) But if *Frederick the Great*, whose workaholism, determination, and general larger-than-life-ness 16-yo me respected, couldn't pull it off, I didn't think I could either, and so I put it on the list of things I shouldn't try. Apocryphal or not, your sacrifice was not in vain, Fritz. ;)
But anyway, he definitely tells Suhm that he's going to try to give up some sleep for learning, and Suhm replies that this may not be the best idea Fritz has ever had. March 1736, in case you want to work that in.
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Yay, I hoped you would! It was there for you. ;)
I mean, obviously not all the time; he was receptive to tenderness as well
Agreed! The fact that in a sexual context, anger makes him more aroused doesn't mean it's the *only* thing that arouses him. But it does mean he'd better watch out when thinking about Fritz and his boyfriends at the same time. ;)
doesn't mean I wouldn't read it, especially if a skillful author such as yourself manages to make Kaphengst more dimensional.
Thank you for the compliment. I hope that if I ever do write it, you enjoy it, but I won't gift it to you for an exchange.
Dimensional: Yep, he would have to be mostly an OC, but sometimes my favorite characters to write are where we know just enough to give me a starting point, but not so much I feel intimidated trying to produce something that feels in-character (the reason I still haven't been able to write Voltaire).
he's about to move into Rheinsberg with his beloved (and his wife
Lolsob.
Now, why would barely 11 years old Heinrich send cheeses to Fritz? My mind irresistably replies: because he robbed the larder while being babysat, and Mom after learning of this made him do something to apologize.
AHAHAHAAAA, total headcanon!
When's the letter to Suhm about the unnamed brother's visit dated again, and does it say Ruppin or Rheinsberg?
May 6, 1736, and Ruppin. I suspect that's part of why he was so upset: his early letters to Suhm from Ruppin are full of complaining that he's busy with his regiment and his health all day, and he has no tiiiiiime to stuuuuudyy. So he's going to give up sleep!
If you do write 1736, I strongly suspect this is the year of the great coffee experiment where Fritz drank All the CoffeeTM, got sick, and realized he couldn't do entirely without sleep after all. I actually don't know what the source on that is--probably one of those posthumously published anecdotes of dubious provenance, if we haven't run into it in a real source yet.
But it remains my headcanon that he did this, not least because when I was an arrogant workaholic teenager who didn't want to sleep when I could be studying, I read about Fritz trying to live on coffee. Anyone else, and I would have assumed they were a mere mortal, whose failure didn't necessarily apply to me. (People attempting to give me advice at that age generally ran afoul of this tendency of mine.) But if *Frederick the Great*, whose workaholism, determination, and general larger-than-life-ness 16-yo me respected, couldn't pull it off, I didn't think I could either, and so I put it on the list of things I shouldn't try. Apocryphal or not, your sacrifice was not in vain, Fritz. ;)
But anyway, he definitely tells Suhm that he's going to try to give up some sleep for learning, and Suhm replies that this may not be the best idea Fritz has ever had. March 1736, in case you want to work that in.