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: Pfeiffer chronology
Date: 2021-09-13 07:22 pm (UTC)That's a definite possibility that did occur to me, but even if it did get to him via that route, we've clearly got a game of telephones at work here that shows how little info Höck has. Which is relevant to him being the apparent source for the claim that Pfeiffer was found innocent.
Mind you, I know I'm sitting in glass houses, because I sure as hell didn't go to the Prussian Secret State Archive, either
Ahahaha, I am painfully aware that I live in a glass house. Number of times I've critiqued other people for not using the archives: countless. Number of times I've consulted archives: ...once if you count FamilySearch? :P Oh, I guess the scanned documents from the Academy of Sciences that had Peter Keith's name, but thank goodness for other people to transcribe, digitize, and organize them for me.
Also, producing something the scope of the the ADB or NDB and expecting every author to have hunted through the archives...will result in a lot less works like the ADB or NDB. Much less other types of works.
I too am grateful for everyone with the skills, access, and dedication to go through the archives so I don't have to. :)
I probably would not be able to decypher anything
Which reminds me, while hunting for Pfeiffer material, I found that the Mainz city archives web page has a video tutorial on paleography, with sample documents to practice on! If I get to the point where I have more time, I might check it out (it looks good), and I encourage all interested parties in salon to do the same! (Especially ones who know German better than I do.)
My plan is still to wait for the pandemic to end so that archive-ordering becomes a thing again and for prinzsorgenfrei to come back, then to start trying to order material from the Prussian archives. I have a wishlist. :D