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: Challenge Yourself to Relax

[mildred_of_midgard]

omg, I reread that sentence a couple of times (before reading the rest of your text) and I had NO IDEA. Lol!

Hee, called it! :D

Hans Brinker (which is later -- 1968)

?? Hans Brinker was published in 1865, and the language very much fits that period. Also, I don't think Gutenberg should have anything from 1968--that's well after the public domain cutoff.

interestingly, people writing about historical figures

So people who've recently been reading a whole lot of archaic English, I see, I see. :D It reminds me of how, after I'd hung out with my dissertation advisor for about 3 years, I started catching myself saying "One does this" and "One does that," which is not something I would ever say on my own! (I quickly lost that linguistic ruboff after leaving grad school.)

But, yeah, I think I see why it didn't code to me as a weird LDS thing -- even though I guess it is! -- given that I did see it other places -- it just never occurred to me (since we use it as a normal modern construction) that all those non-LDS occurrences had a common factor, that they were concerned with the past.

I had no idea you guys had kept "resolve to" alive either, so this was very educational! (This is what happens when you get your fic betaed by someone who got their PhD in the history of the English language--you have these conversations. :D)

Re: Challenge Yourself to Relax

[cahn]

Ha, lol, where did I get 1968 from?? I must have seen some sort of later US publishing date on google or amazon and picked it up without thinking about it too closely. And of course the language IS much more 1800's :)