ahahahaha I loved it! (I also find it hilarious that FW and SD's icons are the zombie people)
I also loved SD and Caroline's feelings about their respective sons becoming king. lol though mildred I was glad you were able to easily decode the last half because once I knew the gist I could get the rest but was having a bit of trouble with that first step :D But then I was also very amused at Grumbkow and Caroline's resolution :)
Well, admittedly I started using the zombie people for SD and FW because the first time I did, it was in the Wusterhausen family reunion tale, when they were, in fact, dead, and yet very much alive in the minds of their children, but once I had done so, I could not stop. Especially since "crowned man" is my default emoji for Fritz, and I didn't want any confusion in the FW vs G2 tale.
Wait, which line did you have trouble with? The only one I couldn't quite figure out was Hervey's first line, with the German flag and the arrow and the vomiting. (He's disgusted at the thought of Germans fighting Germans? Not sure.) Everything else made sense. I particularly enjoyed the pig with the bow-and-arrow, a genius emoji translation of boar-hunting! :D
Re: Hervey - that was my attempt to translate “Germans are the worst”, a feeling that keeps coming up in his memoirs every time he talks about G2 involving himself in continental politics, and “these two are as bad as each other”., which he says about G2 and FW more than once.
Boar hunting was indeed what I had in mind, though belatedly it occured to me that there’s another pig association possible with. FW - the “Fröschlinge”, which as Felis deduced probably translates into “Frischlinge”, i.e. piglets - he released in the castle to amuse the kids that one time according to Stratemann. (I bet SD was very unamused.) However, context is everything, so I was reasonably sure you’d figure out which FW distracting activity was intended. :)
I didn't quite understand that Seckendorff and Caroline were trying to distract their respective monarchs. Once you mentioned that, then I understood what was going on :)
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Re: Unsent Letters?
Date: 2021-02-08 06:10 am (UTC)I also loved SD and Caroline's feelings about their respective sons becoming king. lol though mildred I was glad you were able to easily decode the last half because once I knew the gist I could get the rest but was having a bit of trouble with that first step :D But then I was also very amused at Grumbkow and Caroline's resolution :)
Re: Unsent Letters?
Date: 2021-02-09 09:55 am (UTC)Re: Unsent Letters?
Date: 2021-02-10 12:34 am (UTC)Wait, which line did you have trouble with? The only one I couldn't quite figure out was Hervey's first line, with the German flag and the arrow and the vomiting. (He's disgusted at the thought of Germans fighting Germans? Not sure.) Everything else made sense. I particularly enjoyed the pig with the bow-and-arrow, a genius emoji translation of boar-hunting! :D
Re: Unsent Letters?
Date: 2021-02-10 03:42 am (UTC)Boar hunting was indeed what I had in mind, though belatedly it occured to me that there’s another pig association possible with. FW - the “Fröschlinge”, which as Felis deduced probably translates into “Frischlinge”, i.e. piglets - he released in the castle to amuse the kids that one time according to Stratemann. (I bet SD was very unamused.) However, context is everything, so I was reasonably sure you’d figure out which FW distracting activity was intended. :)
Re: Unsent Letters?
Date: 2021-02-10 06:32 am (UTC)