Heh, I did read the Aeneid and I had no idea who they were! (Though it was a while ago now.)
I had a semester in college on the Aeneid, in which I read it in its entirety in English and about a third of it in Latin...twenty years ago. So I too had to look up Nisus and Euryalus last year. ;)
There is some satisfaction in reading about things the way they ought to have happened like Wilhelmine saying to FW "But it is better for you to die than for justice to leave this world."
And for that as well as FW's stroke I am forever indebted to our wonderful author! Seriously, I sat up straight when I read that and started yelling out loud. I still call it differently broken, though. ;)
yessssss like everyone else is saying, all hail [personal profile] selenak and getting us all into the siblings! <3333333 Honestly this is when I started to get really emotionally involved -- I was having fun before, but the dysfunctional and complicated sibling dynamics really sold the whole thing to me.
I'm still trying to figure out why I'm not more emotionally invested in them. Intellectually, they're very interesting, but for some reason, my feels haven't latched on. I wondered if it might be that I prefer functional to dysfunctional sibling relationships? But then I remembered exceptions, and so idek. I definitely wouldn't want to do without the glorious Hohenzollern dynamics in this fandom, regardless. I have to say that when selenak started fleshing out the whole family for me, that's when Fritz and company started to feel like three-dimensional people with an actual context.
I KNOWWWWWW. I feel like when these guys tell me stories, I spend 1/3 of the time feeling sorry for him, 1/3 of the time impressed by him, and the rest of the time shaking my head and going, "Oh Fritz." (And not in a good way.)
That sounds about right. Though in my case, I have to admit "Oh, Fritz" is said with a lot of sympathy. Like, "Oh, Fritz, you put the 'problematic' in 'problematic fave'," or, "Oh, Fritz, I'm sorry everything was so terrible. Please get therapy." But maybe that's just because I'm a Fritz stan of old. ;)
Re: Early Fritz letter to Voltaire / Random Thoughts
I had a semester in college on the Aeneid, in which I read it in its entirety in English and about a third of it in Latin...twenty years ago. So I too had to look up Nisus and Euryalus last year. ;)
There is some satisfaction in reading about things the way they ought to have happened like Wilhelmine saying to FW "But it is better for you to die than for justice to leave this world."
And for that as well as FW's stroke I am forever indebted to our wonderful author! Seriously, I sat up straight when I read that and started yelling out loud. I still call it differently broken, though. ;)
yessssss like everyone else is saying, all hail [personal profile] selenak and getting us all into the siblings! <3333333 Honestly this is when I started to get really emotionally involved -- I was having fun before, but the dysfunctional and complicated sibling dynamics really sold the whole thing to me.
I'm still trying to figure out why I'm not more emotionally invested in them. Intellectually, they're very interesting, but for some reason, my feels haven't latched on. I wondered if it might be that I prefer functional to dysfunctional sibling relationships? But then I remembered exceptions, and so idek. I definitely wouldn't want to do without the glorious Hohenzollern dynamics in this fandom, regardless. I have to say that when
I KNOWWWWWW. I feel like when these guys tell me stories, I spend 1/3 of the time feeling sorry for him, 1/3 of the time impressed by him, and the rest of the time shaking my head and going, "Oh Fritz." (And not in a good way.)
That sounds about right. Though in my case, I have to admit "Oh, Fritz" is said with a lot of sympathy. Like, "Oh, Fritz, you put the 'problematic' in 'problematic fave'," or, "Oh, Fritz, I'm sorry everything was so terrible. Please get therapy." But maybe that's just because I'm a Fritz stan of old. ;)