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: MT Marriage Project
Date: 2021-09-16 01:15 pm (UTC)THANK YOU! I was making noises of indignation and was going to come here to say exactly this, when I worked through the set of new comments and got to this one. :P
(Katte did know how awful Fritz' situation had been, for example.)
EXACTLY. :PP
They'd end up as estranged exes who had had an intense year together as young men but can't make it as their mature selves;
You're not wrong, historically speaking, but my headcanon for that AU is that's NOT HOW IT HAPPENED. :PPP
(I have broken my share of other fandoms. This is my fix-it fandom.)
Re: MT Marriage Project
Date: 2021-09-16 03:56 pm (UTC)Yeah, I wrote that comment too fast -- I know that if you wrote it, it would be clearing the air so they could reconcile! (Like Peter and Fritz in your fic -- well, okay, it wasn't at all the same, not least because they didn't end up together really, but it inhabits the same "let's clear the air and fix thing between us" portion of my brain.)
If Selena wrote it, she'd break it :P :) (ETA: Well, not if she wrote it as a present for you! If she wrote it as a present for me she would (which she wouldn't, because I want broken Fritz/Katte much less than you don't want it, lol).
Re: MT Marriage Project
Date: 2021-09-16 04:04 pm (UTC)