Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 30
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cahnIn which, despite the title, I would like to be told about the English Revolution, which is yet another casualty of my extremely poor history education :P :)
Also, this is probably the place to say that RMSE opened with three Fritz-fics, all of which I think are readable with minimum canon knowledge:
The Boy Who Lived - if you knew about the doomed escape-from-Prussia-that-didn't happen and tragic death of Fritz's boyfriend Hans Hermann von Katte, you may not have known about Peter Keith, the third young man who conspired to escape Prussia -- and the only one who actually did. This is his story. I think readable without canon knowledge except what I just said here.
Challenge Yourself to Relax - My gift, I posted about this before! Corporate AU with my problematic fave, Fritz' brother Heinrich, who's still Fritz's l'autre moi-meme even in corporate AU. Readable without canon knowledge if one has familiarity with the corporate world and the dysfunctions thereof.
The Rise and Fall of the RendezvousWithFame Exchange - Fandom AU with BNF fanfic writer Voltaire, exchange mod Fritz, and the inevitable meltdown. (I wrote this one and am quite proud of the terrible physics-adjacent pun contained within.) Readable without canon knowledge if one has familiarity with fandom and the dysfunctions thereof :P
Also, this is probably the place to say that RMSE opened with three Fritz-fics, all of which I think are readable with minimum canon knowledge:
The Boy Who Lived - if you knew about the doomed escape-from-Prussia-that-didn't happen and tragic death of Fritz's boyfriend Hans Hermann von Katte, you may not have known about Peter Keith, the third young man who conspired to escape Prussia -- and the only one who actually did. This is his story. I think readable without canon knowledge except what I just said here.
Challenge Yourself to Relax - My gift, I posted about this before! Corporate AU with my problematic fave, Fritz' brother Heinrich, who's still Fritz's l'autre moi-meme even in corporate AU. Readable without canon knowledge if one has familiarity with the corporate world and the dysfunctions thereof.
The Rise and Fall of the RendezvousWithFame Exchange - Fandom AU with BNF fanfic writer Voltaire, exchange mod Fritz, and the inevitable meltdown. (I wrote this one and am quite proud of the terrible physics-adjacent pun contained within.) Readable without canon knowledge if one has familiarity with fandom and the dysfunctions thereof :P
Re: The English Civil War: C1 - the Prelude
Date: 2021-09-10 05:00 am (UTC)(SD: not the first mother to take it out on her daughter for agreeing to a below rank marriage.)
argh why are all the parents in history fandom so awful
presumably recalling the last Spanish princess who'd done that had been Catherine of Aragon
...I can see how that might have soured her on the deal, indeed :P
Buckingham fell for the young French Queen, Anne of Austria (the one from the Three Musketeers, where this event is highly plot relevant) and romanced her in public, upsetting everyone.
omg. this whole writeup is basically telling me I have to read the Three Musketeers (I actually don't know why I haven't read it -- I read Count of Monte Cristo and loved it! -- but I also admittedly had a bit from Count in my fifth grade reading book, the bit where Dantes has the idea to escape from the Chateau d'If, and was shocked to find that it's a relatively small part of the book) :P
in the England and France constellation of the day, it was C1 plus B1 versus Louis XIII and Richelieu, which meant Buckingham versus Richelieu, which was no contest at all.
LOL, ...yeah. Even I know that :D
(I haven't got a chance to watch the Horrible Histories (or other clips) or read the links, I am excited to though, that really sounds tailor-made for me, lol!)