Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 30

[cahn]

In 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

Comments

Re: Stuarts escaping the British government, reprised

[selenak]

Let's face it, even all moral considerations about warfare aside, in a generation where you have Frederick the Great and his brother Henry, both of whom were able to win in scenarios where their opponents were the ones with bigger numbers and better arms, first cousin Cumberland looks terrible. Having read his mother's biography now in addition of other Hannover-related stuff, I suspect it was a classic case of parental projecting. G2 always was nostalgic about those six months in his youth he spent in the War of the Spanish Succession where he got commended for his bravery (and ever after clung to that bit of poetry calling him "young Hanover brave"). Cumberland was the son he and Caroline got to raise themselves, unlike Fritz of Wales the unfave, G2 and he were together at Dettingen, so clearly, young William was a military genius who'd do all his father didn't get to do on account of G1 never letting him back with the army again after those six months.

Re: Stuarts escaping the British government, reprised

[cahn]

I suspect it was a classic case of parental projecting.

OMG, that makes SO much sense.

Re: Stuarts escaping the British government, reprised

[mildred_of_midgard]

It does!