Currently we're at "Circle of Voltaire RPF", though I still think it's silly that past Yuletides in the last two years signed off on "19th Century German Literature RPF" (which in theory would have encompassed anyone from E.T.A. Hoffmann to Thomas Mann, who did start to publish before the century ended), and "19th Century British Writers RPF" (ditto, and did include Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll as well as Byron and the Shelleys), i.e. an enormous amount of time, and a cast of thousands who don't have anything in common but geography, but "Enlightenment Writers and Scientists" is too broad. Ah well.
Hmph! Yeah, I agree with you :D But Circle of Voltaire will work for our purposes... and seems like the natural title, especially given the nomination of Madame Denis :)
Kind of a moot point now, but would "Natural Philosophers" have fit the bill? I suppose Hervey not so much, but you might be able to make a slant case for Lady Mary given the inoculation stuff... But Circle of Voltaire is nice because we don't have to make a case for every single character being a natural philosopher, which I think we could do but would get tiresome.
...and now that I've read your defense, I think I should just co-opt that for the promo post! Because I think that should get anyone interested in this set of characters :)
I will, and I also want to complete my Hervey trilogy (the Halsband biography and his memoirs being the first wo installments) with the write-up of the excellent Hephaistion essay about him and Fritz of Wales. However, writing up my paperback copy of Lady Mary's Embassy Letters which I'd taken with me on vacation came first, as I hope to interest people in her might get someone (other than us) to sign on in time, hence me posting the write up at my journal.
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Yes, absolutely on board with trying to get other people interested! You probably saw I linked to your writeup in my promo post as well :) (And I'm going to comment on it too, I just haven't gotten around to it -- what with all the Yuletide stuff I'm terribly behind on commenting again :) )
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I can do the LH writeup: I was going to do it when I was on my big Rheinsberg kick recently, but large chunks of new material kept coming in, so I thought I'd hold off a bit. ;)
[ETA: I just went to add the embassy letters to my Trello list of things to add to Rheinsberg, and the only item still there was "Hervey memoirs". See? It really is on my list!]
ETA: I just want to say how AWESOME rheinsberg is. It's pretty amazing to have a central repository of all this stuff that I can just point people at!
IKR? And let's be real, saying rheinsberg is awesome is just another way of saying selenak is AWESOME. *bows*
Edited 2020-09-26 15:36 (UTC)
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Do you want to take the embassy letters too, or should I leave that on my list?
Speaking of letters, LM's 3-volume set of complete letters is arriving in a few days, though of course I neither expect you to read them cover-to-cover, nor is there any deadline. I mostly want them as a reference work, and also I'd like to dip into them sometime myself (probably when German settles down and I can read English without feeling like I'm in danger of losing my German). When I checked them out to scan the Algarotti letters last year, I flipped through and thought she seemed very engaging and having been wanting to spend some time with her ever since. :)
Hervey is up at Rheinsberg. Re:Embassy letters, since that review can go there unchanged, I‘d be glad if you just transferred it, but wait a day or so more.
Tomorrow is our last day on vacation, with one more hiking to be done, and on Monday we return to Bamberg, so that means even less online time for yours truly!
I still think it's silly that past Yuletides in the last two years signed off on "19th Century German Literature RPF" (which in theory would have encompassed anyone from E.T.A. Hoffmann to Thomas Mann, who did start to publish before the century ended), and "19th Century British Writers RPF" (ditto, and did include Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll as well as Byron and the Shelleys), i.e. an enormous amount of time, and a cast of thousands who don't have anything in common but geography, but "Enlightenment Writers and Scientists" is too broad.
I'm not going to pick a fight in the Yuletide admin community, but let's not forget "Historical Royals and Their Favourites RPF", which the mods and a couple of us, myself included, arrived at after much discussion, for which the nominated characters included Alexander the Great (4th century BCE Macedon) and James VI and I (17th century CE Great Britain). 2000 years and an entire continent, and we went with a gender-neutral "royals" specifically to make sure women like Anne could get included if needed. I mean, we could have included Catherine and Poniatowksi for 18th century Russia! Gilgamesh and Enkidu, probably. :P
But all right, Circle of Voltaire it is. :D
Algarotti: *I'm* the one who's six degrees from everyone who even slightly overlaps the 1700-1799 period! Voltaire: Nobody knows who you are. Even in the salon, nobody had heard of you before last year. Algarotti: :(
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Incidentally, I suck at spreadsheet filling - could you add both our Frederician and our Voltaire lot to the confirmed nominations, oh mighty tabulator?
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Happy to, if you point me to the right place. I'm not seeing a post in YT or YT-admin about a different spreadsheet, and I'm not seeing either a column or a sheet in the existing spreadsheet to indicate what's been approved. Help?
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I would have done it myself but I guess you have to ask the administrator for edit access and I have to get back on the VPN before school ends... But if you don't do it by tonight I can do it.
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Thanks! I figured Selena had gone to bed and you would see this and pop in with an answer. :) I've requested edit access and will let you know if I'm successful before tonight.
ETA: Still no edit access, alas. You're on your own!
Edited 2020-10-06 03:13 (UTC)
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OK, it looks like spreadsheeter is asleep; when they wake up, and if they are giving out access, I would expect them to give you edit access then --
-- now, I'm not totally sure whether the spreadsheet editor is letting other random people edit (which is... probably wise). If you haven't got access by the time you wake up, then I expect it's not happening and one or more of us can report in an FFA or coaltide thread. Though honestly, I think it's OK if we don't report it -- we'll get the whole tagset in a few days!
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Currently we're at "Circle of Voltaire RPF", though I still think it's silly that past Yuletides in the last two years signed off on "19th Century German Literature RPF" (which in theory would have encompassed anyone from E.T.A. Hoffmann to Thomas Mann, who did start to publish before the century ended), and "19th Century British Writers RPF" (ditto, and did include Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll as well as Byron and the Shelleys), i.e. an enormous amount of time, and a cast of thousands who don't have anything in common but geography, but "Enlightenment Writers and Scientists" is too broad. Ah well.
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Kind of a moot point now, but would "Natural Philosophers" have fit the bill? I suppose Hervey not so much, but you might be able to make a slant case for Lady Mary given the inoculation stuff... But Circle of Voltaire is nice because we don't have to make a case for every single character being a natural philosopher, which I think we could do but would get tiresome.
...and now that I've read your defense, I think I should just co-opt that for the promo post! Because I think that should get anyone interested in this set of characters :)
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ETA: Morbane approved „Circle of Voltaire RPF“. Can you edit your nominations and our entries on the google spreadsheet accordingly?
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Selena, could you at some point put your Lord Hervey writeups in
ETA: I just want to say how AWESOME
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I can do the LH writeup: I was going to do it when I was on my big Rheinsberg kick recently, but large chunks of new material kept coming in, so I thought I'd hold off a bit. ;)
[ETA: I just went to add the embassy letters to my Trello list of things to add to Rheinsberg, and the only item still there was "Hervey memoirs". See? It really is on my list!]
ETA: I just want to say how AWESOME
IKR? And let's be real, saying
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Rheinsberg coordination
Do you want to take the embassy letters too, or should I leave that on my list?
Speaking of letters, LM's 3-volume set of complete letters is arriving in a few days, though of course I neither expect you to read them cover-to-cover, nor is there any deadline. I mostly want them as a reference work, and also I'd like to dip into them sometime myself (probably when German settles down and I can read English without feeling like I'm in danger of losing my German). When I checked them out to scan the Algarotti letters last year, I flipped through and thought she seemed very engaging and having been wanting to spend some time with her ever since. :)
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Tomorrow is our last day on vacation, with one more hiking to be done, and on Monday we return to Bamberg, so that means even less online time for yours truly!
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The artist formerly known as Enlightenment RPF
I'm not going to pick a fight in the Yuletide admin community, but let's not forget "Historical Royals and Their Favourites RPF", which the mods and a couple of us, myself included, arrived at after much discussion, for which the nominated characters included Alexander the Great (4th century BCE Macedon) and James VI and I (17th century CE Great Britain). 2000 years and an entire continent, and we went with a gender-neutral "royals" specifically to make sure women like Anne could get included if needed. I mean, we could have included Catherine and Poniatowksi for 18th century Russia! Gilgamesh and Enkidu, probably. :P
But all right, Circle of Voltaire it is. :D
Algarotti: *I'm* the one who's six degrees from everyone who even slightly overlaps the 1700-1799 period!
Voltaire: Nobody knows who you are. Even in the salon, nobody had heard of you before last year.
Algarotti: :(
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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XO2D8BbqeafK29a7mB2AARN-r0xcdIxaz_AGdYg5-z0/edit?usp=sharing
I would have done it myself but I guess you have to ask the administrator for edit access and I have to get back on the VPN before school ends... But if you don't do it by tonight I can do it.
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ETA: Still no edit access, alas. You're on your own!
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-- now, I'm not totally sure whether the spreadsheet editor is letting other random people edit (which is... probably wise). If you haven't got access by the time you wake up, then I expect it's not happening and one or more of us can report in an FFA or coaltide thread. Though honestly, I think it's OK if we don't report it -- we'll get the whole tagset in a few days!