Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 23

[cahn]

aaaaaand it's time for a new discussion post! :D (you guys are so fast!)

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Re: Austrian marriage plans

[mildred_of_midgard]

Not gonna lie, I read this sentence and my brain was like VOLTAIRE!

Not gonna lie, I had Voltaire on the brain when I wrote this! He went to Mass any number of times.

sometimes piety can be interesting.

I agree that it can be, but it's *generally* less interesting to me than cunning plans and ulterior motives, and certainly in this case. Which is why I'm disappointed and leaning toward ignoring the Hans Heinrich letters wherever possible. :P Or at least working around them.

Though in MT's case I think a large part of why I glommed onto her was not particularly her piety but because it was such a relief to find someone in this fandom who was from a vaguely-functional family (although I suppose she had her own problems, and she managed to mess up her kids a fair amount, at least they weren't... Hohenzollern problems).

What MT feels I do have are largely focused on her being a TERRIER. She has many other good traits, such as correcting her husband' spelling and snarking at Fritz's dirty laundry, total respect there. :P

Yeah, I know we talked about this before a bit... But it just breaks my heart that FW was like "what a lazy kid I have" and, like, NO!

I KNOW, RIGHT? He didn't know his kids, like, at all. Not even AW, clearly. :/