Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 30

[cahn]

In 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

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Re: The English Civil War: C2 - Most Famous Escape Story of the War

[selenak]

Brushing up on the escape tale again, I found myself wondering why no one ever did a grand action movie based on it, because it does have every ingredient. I know Georgette Heyer wrote a novel focused on Jane Lane - "The Royal Escape" or something like that - and googling tells me independent from this there's a movie "The Moonraker" from 1958, but there the main character is a fictional guy who in yet another version of the Zorro/Scarlet Pimpernel/Bruce Wayne ploy is a foolish nobleman by day, daring highyway man by night and singlehandedly manages Charles' escape. But a film based on the escape without such a fictional character insert does not seem to exist.

Re: The English Civil War: C2 - Most Famous Escape Story of the War

[cahn]

It really does seem like it has everything! IDK either why there's no action movie of this.