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Yuletide nominations:

18th Century CE Federician RPF
Maria Theresia | Maria Theresa of Austria
Voltaire
Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great
Ernst Ahasverus von Lehndorff
Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig von Preußen | Henry of Prussia (1726-1802)
Wilhelmine von Preußen | Wilhelmine of Prussia (1709-1758)
Anna Amalie von Preußen | Anna Amalia of Prussia (1723-1787)
Catherine II of Russia
Hans Hermann von Katte
Peter Karl Christoph von Keith
Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf
August Wilhelm von Preußen | Augustus William of Prussia (1722-1758)

Circle of Voltaire RPF
Emilie du Chatelet
Jeanne Antoinette Poisson (Madame de Pompadour)
John Hervey (1696-1743)
Marie Louise Mignot Denis
Lady Mary Wortley-Montagu
Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
Armand de Vignerot du Plessis de Richelieu (1696-1788)
Francesco Algarotti

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From:

mildred_of_midgard

Lol, I may be forsworn on my promise to finish Oster by the time you finish the memoirs

Hee, weeelll, I'm still not caught up on Oster comments! I'm also so far behind on salon comments that idk when I'm going to finish Wilhelmine. Selena continues to be a firehose of information and entertainment to read and respond to, and now that my concentration is coming back, I've been reading in English some more, which means I have way more things I want to share with you guys, and also German studies and detective findings and Lehndorff formatting/translation and Yuletide coming up and

felis leaving comments on my fics that I want to reply to and tigers and bears oh my!

Lehndorff! Speaking of Lehndorff, I'm hoping to finish Wilhelmine this week, so I've started work on converting it, in hopes of having it ready this weekend.

cahn, do you want shorter paragraphs? Because if so, given my computer limitations this week, the sheer number of comments I'm behind on, and the fact that I don't need shorter paragraphs any more (woot!), this is going to have to count as a translation favor, sorry. :/

I... have to say that I'm not at all interested in reading Catt :P

Didn't think you were!

I need to go meet my German quota before bed, and I'm waaaaay behind on things I want to say *weep* and it's going to be worse when I wake up, and I'm nowhere near being read to start French readalongs (2021 at this rate), so let us plan our French campaign some other time! But I'm looking forward to it!

From:

cahn

...yeah, there's no way I'd be ready to do French before 2021. November and December are historically just really really busy times for me, even laying aside that I plan to do a loooooot less for Yuletide than I did last year (and just enjoy all the fic that other people in our fandom write) :P :)

From:

mildred_of_midgard

Very important question buried in that wall of text: do you want shorter Lehndorff paragraphs, and are you willing to have that count as your translation favor?

From:

cahn

Lol, whoops, I started that comment meaning to reply to it, too :P No, that's OK, I'm not going to be reading it in German anyway so longer paragraphs are fine.

From:

mildred_of_midgard

Update: Lehndorff on Friday, if all goes well tomorrow. :D

Where "all" means both "I finish reading the last 20 or so pages of Wilhelmine's memoirs" (woot) and "I finish formatting the Lehndorff volume, which I'm about halfway done with."

ETA: And I'm also successfully chipping away at comments, but if you read a bunch of books recently and did lengthy write-ups and left me questions involving detective work (you know who you are ;)), I might not get to them until this weekend, just be warned.

And if you replied to my comment on reading pedagogy in a non-Fritz post (you know who you are), I have a reply in my head, but don't hold your breath waiting for it. ;)

Edited Date: 2020-10-15 03:29 am (UTC)

From:

cahn

Yeah, and meanwhile I'm getting farther and farther behind :P And I won't get caught up tonight as I have to do some work this evening, though I'll try to at least make a start. Maybe this weekend :)

(On the other hand, I have finished all the Thief books now, so I will be able to read other things :PP )