Zimmermann is a shipper! Shippers know no mercy with the canon love interest! He also says in "Fragments" that the only thing the FS/MT marriage ever produced was Joseph, and she should have married Fritz, dammit! (The idea of gloating Franzl at the engagement party still makes me chortle.)
Zimmermann's legacy: causing multiple people to give signed testimonies on the state of Fritz' penis. I mean. Congrats? :P
It's one way to achieve immortality, to be sure. And hey - other monarchs didn't get signed testimonies on the state of their penis, and after their death, too! Here, too, he is der Einzige.
And of course it's Voltaire's fault in the end.
One thing the feuding publishing Fritz fans always agree on: Voltaire was an ungrateful son of a bitch who broke their guy's heart and is to blame for his bad reputation ever since.
(A late carrier on of this tradition is Charlotte Pangels with her 1970s book on Fritz' siblings, which features completely straight Fritz, because she says Voltaire's totally unfounded slander is the only "proof" ever that Fritz had a non-straight thought in his life, and other than Voltaire no one believed it of him while Fritz was alive, either, so there. A few chapters later, we get to here about completely straight Heinrich and his heterosexual affairs, too.)
Barbarina: well, sort of. To quote German wiki: Nicht lange danach errichtete die nunmehrige Gräfin ein Stift zum Unterhalt 18 adeliger lediger Damen und einer Supriorin. Diese mussten aus dem schlesischen Adel stammen; zudem musste eine Hälfte der evangelischen, die andere Hälfte der katholischen Religion angehören. Barberina, die inzwischen 68 Jahre alt geworden war, hielt ein Jahrzehnt strengste Ordnung unter ihren Stiftsdamen, bis sie 1799 urplötzlich auf ihrem Gut in Barschau an einem Herzschlag verstarb. Die von ihr gegründete Stiftung für arme adelige Fräulein bestand noch mehr als 100 Jahre bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg.
ZOMG Neumann, what a find! Congrats. This is priceless. A true gem. And ah, job rivalries never change.
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Re: Nicolai vs Zimmermann: En garde!
Date: 2021-03-03 05:01 pm (UTC)Zimmermann is a shipper! Shippers know no mercy with the canon love interest! He also says in "Fragments" that the only thing the FS/MT marriage ever produced was Joseph, and she should have married Fritz, dammit! (The idea of gloating Franzl at the engagement party still makes me chortle.)
Zimmermann's legacy: causing multiple people to give signed testimonies on the state of Fritz' penis. I mean. Congrats? :P
It's one way to achieve immortality, to be sure. And hey - other monarchs didn't get signed testimonies on the state of their penis, and after their death, too! Here, too, he is der Einzige.
And of course it's Voltaire's fault in the end.
One thing the feuding publishing Fritz fans always agree on: Voltaire was an ungrateful son of a bitch who broke their guy's heart and is to blame for his bad reputation ever since.
(A late carrier on of this tradition is Charlotte Pangels with her 1970s book on Fritz' siblings, which features completely straight Fritz, because she says Voltaire's totally unfounded slander is the only "proof" ever that Fritz had a non-straight thought in his life, and other than Voltaire no one believed it of him while Fritz was alive, either, so there. A few chapters later, we get to here about completely straight Heinrich and his heterosexual affairs, too.)
Barbarina: well, sort of. To quote German wiki: Nicht lange danach errichtete die nunmehrige Gräfin ein Stift zum Unterhalt 18 adeliger lediger Damen und einer Supriorin. Diese mussten aus dem schlesischen Adel stammen; zudem musste eine Hälfte der evangelischen, die andere Hälfte der katholischen Religion angehören. Barberina, die inzwischen 68 Jahre alt geworden war, hielt ein Jahrzehnt strengste Ordnung unter ihren Stiftsdamen, bis sie 1799 urplötzlich auf ihrem Gut in Barschau an einem Herzschlag verstarb. Die von ihr gegründete Stiftung für arme adelige Fräulein bestand noch mehr als 100 Jahre bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg.
ZOMG Neumann, what a find! Congrats. This is priceless. A true gem. And ah, job rivalries never change.