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: Salon original discoveries
Date: 2021-09-14 05:05 am (UTC)But also all the other ones too. Particularly Fritz lying to Katte was the sort of !! moment that I feel like should be more widely disseminated!
Re: Salon original discoveries
Date: 2021-09-14 11:22 pm (UTC)Can you tell the book digitizing project is almost done? Ha.
although I don't suppose I can contribute much except cheerleading
Look, guys. Given the sheer difficulty of these projects even compared to my normal research, nothing except maaaybe Peter Keith is happening without serious cheerleading and possibly fake-angry yelling. :P So this is a *major* contribution.
It's also great that of the top 3 priorities, 1 is the one I'm motivated to work on on my own, and the other 2 are the ones you're motivated to cheer me on about! Alchemy may come through for us again. :D
as a contributor to the Fredersdorf Defense Fund
Lol, well, I've been meaning to say that if you hadn't brought this up repeatedly and had Strong Indignant Feelings, I would never have gotten interested and would have just headcanoned the fake news of his dismissal! It was only you mentioning it over and over again that made it into an itch that I couldn't scratch.
Which I then, uh, scratched. :P (Emailed Buwert, emailed Fahlenkamp, emailed random dude named Fredersdorf, spent hours trying to trace down possible Wiki sources, bought random book sight unseen (aided by your contribution to the fund), got the address where Selena's currently staying...I went above and beyond, is what I'm saying.)
I also have been laughing ever since you sent me the Amazon gift card about what your face would have looked like if someone had asked you to contribute to the Fredersdorf Defense Fund in early 2019. "Fredersdorf who?" And now you're like "TAKE MY MONEY!" :DD
Salon is so great. I can't get over how great salon is.
Re: Salon original discoveries
Date: 2021-09-16 04:44 am (UTC)...which fic was written at least in part because we knew that Selena had written us both fics and felt that she should get one as well :D (I mean, we thought so anyway, Selena! But that sort of tipped me over into emailing mildred and being all "hey, let's do this thing!")
Salon!! <3