Um. I kind of did this intro to our fandom, in what was an extremely on-brand moment for me. :D :P
Recruitment into the Fritzian fandom is more friendly and more consensual than recruitment into the Fritzian army, but it's not much less organized and high-octane!
how he was king In Prussia for a while, but anyway...
On which I turned out to have been possibly chronologically wrong! I still have a bookmark from a Potsdam or Berlin gift shop that says that he became King of Prussia only with the first Polish Partition, but then Selenak found evidence (I forget what evidence) that he started calling himself that already in the 1740s and eventually just wore everyone down, Fritz-style, so...
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Recruitment into the Fritzian fandom is more friendly and more consensual than recruitment into the Fritzian army, but it's not much less organized and high-octane!
how he was king In Prussia for a while, but anyway...
On which I turned out to have been possibly chronologically wrong! I still have a bookmark from a Potsdam or Berlin gift shop that says that he became King of Prussia only with the first Polish Partition, but then Selenak found evidence (I forget what evidence) that he started calling himself that already in the 1740s and eventually just wore everyone down, Fritz-style, so...
The Queen of Hungary: *clears throat*