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: Reading group: In the Shadow of the Empress - Intro, Ch 1-2, half of Ch 3
Date: 2021-09-24 07:45 pm (UTC)Mildred is waiting for this, Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha.
:D
Re: Reading group: In the Shadow of the Empress - Intro, Ch 1-2, half of Ch 3
Date: 2021-09-25 08:44 am (UTC)HA. Nightmare!
(This also reminded me that the issue came up in his correspondence with AW (1748), and I'm afraid that AW was just as baffled and biased: "there's nothing sadder for a man than being the servant of his wife. I'd prefer the most modest private life to all the crowns in the world, if such were the conditions attached to them. [...] I do not envy the Emperor his position".)
Re: Reading group: In the Shadow of the Empress - Intro, Ch 1-2, half of Ch 3
Date: 2021-09-25 07:19 pm (UTC)Re: Reading group: In the Shadow of the Empress - Intro, Ch 1-2, half of Ch 3
Date: 2021-09-26 05:01 am (UTC)Now while I don't doubt FS, growing up in the era, must have had times where the whole gender reverse status was troubling him both early and later in life - a saint, he was not -, by and large it looks to me as if the men of Europe were busy angsting on his behalf while he was enjoying his life and his unusual marriage.