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
Hervey/Algarotti/Mary (Re: Catherine the Great: smallpox)
Date: 2021-09-22 04:37 am (UTC)<3 Yes! My headcanon is that, love triangle aside, he does super think she's cool, and this is evidence for it :D (Although, man. HERVEY.)
I do have some sympathy for Algarotti in that situation ... he at the very least shouldn't have done things like letting her pay for his (second) journey to England anymore.
Yes on both counts! My headcanon for Algarotti is that he's a nice guy who just... can't say no. (...I know someone like this at work, and yeah, sometimes it would Really be better if he just said no to begin with.)
Re: Hervey/Algarotti/Mary (Re: Catherine the Great: smallpox)
Date: 2021-09-22 08:31 pm (UTC)please people who weren't Fritzbe everything to everyone?Re: Hervey/Algarotti/Mary (Re: Catherine the Great: smallpox)
Date: 2021-09-23 06:26 am (UTC)Re: Hervey/Algarotti/Mary (Re: Catherine the Great: smallpox)
Date: 2021-09-23 04:00 pm (UTC)