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: Challenge Yourself to Relax
Date: 2021-09-15 01:58 pm (UTC)Every now and then, I wonder whether I could do a filk of Ex-Wives, the introduction song to the musical Six (about the Queens of Henry VIII.), one version of Fritz' boyfriends and one for Heinrich's. But the problem is that the red thread/emotional beat of that number and the entire musical is Henry VIII's awfulness and the wives' playful competition as to who had it worst, and that doesn't work for either brother and his boyfriends, I'd have to find something else.
Re RPF, I see the mods making a sincere effort to have a constructive discussion about this very problem, so I'm deliberately *not* snarking about how "Alexander the Great + James VI = Historical Royals" is narrow enough one year, but "Enlightenment" is too broad the next year.
Haha, I had forgotten the Alexander the Great + James VI" fandom example, but I, too, kept myself from snarking about "18th Century Enlightenment" being too broad just a year after "19th Century German literature RPF" was fine. (A fandom which would allow you to list both Goethe and Thomas Mann, for example.) Because yes, no point in derailing a constructive effort, and also I don't want to annoy mods who I hope will grant me my 16th Century Habsburg RPF.
Re: Challenge Yourself to Relax
Date: 2021-09-15 07:23 pm (UTC)and had sex with Algarotti tooand it seems like a pity to have to divide up people-Fritz-knows and people-Voltaire-knows as we did last year, and seems like an arbitrary division when "Enlightenment" does connect them more closely. Although I can see why they might think it was too broad as well, and I can also see that they wouldn't want to be litigating "just how broad is Enlightenment anyway?" years down the line (like Historical Royals/19th Century German Lit, lol).(I'll probably post something short like this on the yuletide post, if you guys think that's OK.)
Re: Challenge Yourself to Relax
Date: 2021-09-15 07:34 pm (UTC)Ah, but I thought splitting them up was something we *wanted* to do, to get two fandoms for the price of one! (Given character nomination limits, and request and offer minimums.) It was having to rename it from "18C Enlightenment" to "Circle of Voltaire" that seemed arbitrary.
and had sex with Algarotti too
Ha!
Re: Challenge Yourself to Relax
Date: 2021-09-15 07:58 pm (UTC)Re: Challenge Yourself to Relax
Date: 2021-09-16 04:49 pm (UTC)https://yuletide-admin.dreamwidth.org/84171.html?view=1652939&posted=1#cmt1652939
Re: Challenge Yourself to Relax
Date: 2021-09-16 05:05 pm (UTC)Re: Challenge Yourself to Relax
Date: 2021-09-16 05:42 pm (UTC)If I'd written anything, I would have sounded aggrieved, I bet.
Hard same, and that's why I didn't reply. (I could have made myself be as diplomatic as I intellectually believe the conversation should be, but setting my feelings aside and being objective would have taken a serious investment of time and emotional energy that I wasn't prepared to make.) In this case, it was best that the least emotionally invested of us replied!
Re: Challenge Yourself to Relax
Date: 2021-09-18 05:04 am (UTC)