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
Pamela
Date: 2021-09-19 06:24 pm (UTC)But hey, at least it's there now.
Re: Pamela
Date: 2021-09-21 05:11 am (UTC)“My dear child, I will confide my pain to you. I don't want to babysit any more. You know Jeanne , that brave Maid of Orleans , who amused us so much, and whom I sang in a taste other than that of Chapelain. This Maid , made to be locked up under a hundred keys, was stolen from me. This great hulking from Tinois did not resist the prayers and presents of Prince Henri, who was dying to have Jeanne and Agnes in his possession. He transcribed the poem, he delivered my seraglio to Prince Henry for a few ducats. I chased Tinois; I sent him back to his country.I went to complain to Prince Henri; he swore to me that she would never get out of his hands. It is, in truth, only a prince's oath, but he is an honest man. Finally, he is amiable, he seduced me; I am weak, I left Jeanne to him ; but if something bad happens, if a second copy is made, where can I hide? my beard becomes very gray, the poem of the Maid swears with my age and the Century of Louis XIV .”
Cahn, Agnes is Agnes Sorel, who was the most famous mistress of the Dauphin, later King, whom Jeanne d’Arc crowned. Am ever so amused l’autre moi-meme wanted the Pucelle as well and succeeded where Fritz did not by bribing the right people to copy it and buttering up Voltaire afterwards. “He seduced me” indeed.
Re: Pamela
Date: 2021-09-22 05:38 am (UTC)...hmm, should I also be shipping Heinrich and Voltaire! It's just hard to do when Fritz/Voltaire is sucking all the air out of the room :D
Re: Pamela
Date: 2021-09-22 06:41 pm (UTC)Re: Pamela
Date: 2021-09-23 03:57 am (UTC)He had his own constant Fritz drama. He did not need another triangle, or even a Voltaire solo drama!
This totally made me laugh :D
Re: Pamela
Date: 2021-09-26 11:49 pm (UTC)