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 Family and the Execution
Date: 2021-09-12 05:24 am (UTC)His mom refusing to see him thing is COLD. :(
Henrietta Maria retorts that clearly, her sainted late husband either didn't say that or if he did he meant the CATHOLIC religion he'd surely have converted to in his heart.
Heh, that rings true as lame justifications go :P
Which in terms of sheer contrast to how his father died sort of sums up their different lives and mentality. :)
Lol! I did watch the Horrible Histories with the kids today (we all enjoyed it, although I seem somehow to have raised kids who aren't into musicals?? so they were mostly politely confused by the musical part -- well, okay, also because they had not read your writeups -- but we all really enjoyed the rapid-fire war "forecast" part) and, well, I hadn't gotten "Charles II party boy" out of your writeups, but I have now :D
"Young man, I forgive you, for I know you make your living this way."
Loooool! I had forgotten that was C2, probably because I didn't know anything about him then! This is great, now I feel like I have this missing puzzle piece :D
"This is very true: for my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers'...."
Heh.
When especially annoyed with brother James, on an occasion when James told him not to be too familiar with people, because of assassination plots: "I am sure no man in England will take away my life to make you King."
Lolololol, this is my favorite.
James: Dad was totally in the right, and if anything too much of a gentleman, too soft! That's what got him killed! If you give the rabble an inch, they'll take a mile! Royal pride forever! We're the champions of the uuuuuuuuniverse!
Charles: Never let yourself caught in a position without a bolthole, when in company, put people at ease, no matter whether they're nobles or commoners, even if you can't stand them, and above all, never let anyone know what you truly think. Proud declarations are for martyrs, and I have no intention of becoming one.
Oh man. and... a quick look at wikipedia looks like it didn't work out too well for him, whoops. Gotta admire the political survivors :)