Excellent. Then, if you nominate Émilie and Heinrich, you could add FW and SD. This with an eye to two Mildred-favored plots - Murder on the Wusterhausen Express and FW Steals Fredersdorf -; but I admit I also have an idea I may or may not write as a treat, depending on what my time schedule in late autumn is, for which they'd come in handy.
re: Catherine, yes, the historical Peter fandom is, well, into Peter. There also seems now to be a new fandom around the new series The Great, where people are into both Catherine and Peter, but that series' versions of Catherine and Peter don't seem to resemble their historical analogues at all, given that I've osmosed Peter is already Czar when Catherine marries him, and his aunt Elizabeth is collecting butterflies (?) as opposed to being the all powerful ruler, and Peter is the entirely Russia son (!) of Peter the Great as opposed to being a German grandkid. (I don't mean this as a put down, since the trailer I've seen already cheerfully confesses they're "only rarely inspired by a real story" and going full blown AU. Fair! Only when fiction pretends to be historically accurate and then provides howlers do I complain.) Which does mean they're basically entirely different people.
My own problem is that I've written my historical Catherine story already and can't, right now, think of another one I'd really want to write the way I wanted to write that one, so even if Catherine got nominated, I would not offer to write her as a character. Though Mildred might, since she's reading up on her!
My current thought is that I will probably request Fritz, Voltaire, Heinrich, maybe Emilie, and I will put in my signup that it's OR-ish and that I'm totally up for other characters -- so you could definitely write the Pompadour bodyswitch, does that make sense?
Absolutely, it does! Now I'm off to read your tale!
Re: Yuletide
Excellent. Then, if you nominate Émilie and Heinrich, you could add FW and SD. This with an eye to two Mildred-favored plots - Murder on the Wusterhausen Express and FW Steals Fredersdorf -; but I admit I also have an idea I may or may not write as a treat, depending on what my time schedule in late autumn is, for which they'd come in handy.
re: Catherine, yes, the historical Peter fandom is, well, into Peter. There also seems now to be a new fandom around the new series The Great, where people are into both Catherine and Peter, but that series' versions of Catherine and Peter don't seem to resemble their historical analogues at all, given that I've osmosed Peter is already Czar when Catherine marries him, and his aunt Elizabeth is collecting butterflies (?) as opposed to being the all powerful ruler, and Peter is the entirely Russia son (!) of Peter the Great as opposed to being a German grandkid. (I don't mean this as a put down, since the trailer I've seen already cheerfully confesses they're "only rarely inspired by a real story" and going full blown AU. Fair! Only when fiction pretends to be historically accurate and then provides howlers do I complain.) Which does mean they're basically entirely different people.
My own problem is that I've written my historical Catherine story already and can't, right now, think of another one I'd really want to write the way I wanted to write that one, so even if Catherine got nominated, I would not offer to write her as a character. Though Mildred might, since she's reading up on her!
My current thought is that I will probably request Fritz, Voltaire, Heinrich, maybe Emilie, and I will put in my signup that it's OR-ish and that I'm totally up for other characters -- so you could definitely write the Pompadour bodyswitch, does that make sense?
Absolutely, it does! Now I'm off to read your tale!