Mes amies, new problem: I jiust woke up to see Morbane is okay with the Eurpean Enlightenment Fandom per se,but not with thei title and wants it narrowed down as the current title „covers an extreme swathe of geography and time“.
So, seeing as the characters we nominated, except for Algarotti, are French and English, what do you say to „Franco-British Enlightenment“? „French.Enlightenment“ won‘t cover Lady Mary and Hervey, and I do want the title to reflect it‘s more than France as a location.
ETA: Hang on, we could narrow it down by profession: How about "European Scientists and Writers of the Enlightenment RPF"? (With Mme de Pompadour and Richelieu qualifying as patrons of same.)
Oh! I quite like "European scientists and writers." (I suppose that if we HAD to we could even just say "writers" or maybe "authors," since Emilie and Algarotti also wrote books... but that might be pushing it.)
I like it better than Franco-British, as I would love for it to be open to scientists/writers of other countries, like say Euler! :D
Last year deathsblood nominated and requested Poniatowski, which at the time none of us were equipped to write. This year you have read his memoirs and summarized them for us, and I could probably read them too if necessary.
I'd like to mention to them that we'd be more equipped this year to write something if they nominated Poniatowski again (they seem to request him pretty consistently), but I don't want to do this if there's no chance that anyone will write anything. (I think this mainly means selenak, since you've read the memoirs and you write quickly -- I should be able to read them, but the chance I can write anything in a historical fandom this year is kind of small given my time constraints and slow writing speed, but I could maybe pull off something short if I had substantial beta help :) And I guess the good thing about me writing something is that I would be less stressed about getting everything historically correct since I don't know what the correct things are :PP ) I do want to strongly encourage other people to hang out in our fandom, though! :D
(I would also read the heck out of a Poniatowski fic, he is hilarious!)
I feel up to Poniatowski as a supporting character, though not necessarily as a main character. Mind you, that may change! (BTW, Mildred, he has a chapter of his own in Horowitz, titled "Poniatowski keeps his locks".) In any event, deathsblood should nominate him, by all means.
OK! Maybe I won't say anything specifically to deathsblood -- but they will be able to see it in the nomination spreadsheet, and they'll also know we're nominating Catherine. :)
BTW, Mildred, he has a chapter of his own in Horowitz, titled "Poniatowski keeps his locks"
Oh, good! Horowski (at least in part--I'm not committing to reading cover-to-cover) is on my list, either after or concurrently with Lehndorff (who in turns comes after the remaining Wilhelmine material and the very short Krockow volume on Heinrich and Fritz).
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Re: Yuletide nominations are OPEN!
Date: 2020-09-24 04:52 am (UTC)So, seeing as the characters we nominated, except for Algarotti, are French and English, what do you say to „Franco-British Enlightenment“? „French.Enlightenment“ won‘t cover Lady Mary and Hervey, and I do want the title to reflect it‘s more than France as a location.
ETA: Hang on, we could narrow it down by profession: How about "European Scientists and Writers of the Enlightenment RPF"? (With Mme de Pompadour and Richelieu qualifying as patrons of same.)
Re: Yuletide nominations are OPEN!
Date: 2020-09-24 03:38 pm (UTC)I like it better than Franco-British, as I would love for it to be open to scientists/writers of other countries, like say Euler! :D
Re: Yuletide nominations are OPEN!
Date: 2020-09-24 03:39 pm (UTC)Re: Yuletide nominations are OPEN!
Date: 2020-09-25 05:17 pm (UTC)Last year
I'd like to mention to them that we'd be more equipped this year to write something if they nominated Poniatowski again (they seem to request him pretty consistently), but I don't want to do this if there's no chance that anyone will write anything. (I think this mainly means
(I would also read the heck out of a Poniatowski fic, he is hilarious!)
Re: Yuletide nominations are OPEN!
Date: 2020-09-25 05:29 pm (UTC)Re: Yuletide nominations are OPEN!
Date: 2020-09-25 06:39 pm (UTC)Re: Yuletide nominations are OPEN!
Date: 2020-09-26 05:45 am (UTC)Re: Yuletide nominations are OPEN!
Date: 2020-09-26 03:59 pm (UTC)Oh, good! Horowski (at least in part--I'm not committing to reading cover-to-cover) is on my list, either after or concurrently with Lehndorff (who in turns comes after the remaining Wilhelmine material and the very short Krockow volume on Heinrich and Fritz).