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: The War of the Spanish Succession, or "Secret Habsburg" Goldstone
Date: 2021-09-25 05:27 am (UTC)Anyway, thank you!! Reading this is definitely stimulating the correct pathways in my brain -- like, when you told me the first time I didn't actively retain... probably any of it, and who knows if I'll actively retain it this time either, but at least it's at least kind of in my passive memory, as while I was reading it I was like "oh right, yeah, I kinda remember mildred saying that before." And now it's hooked in with the keywords Goldstone, Secret Habsburg, so that's gotta help. :)
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography!
Lol, this is... not wrong.
Re: The War of the Spanish Succession, or "Secret Habsburg" Goldstone
Date: 2021-09-25 07:02 pm (UTC)Good, I did that for you! :)
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography!
Lol, this is... not wrong.
Variants on this quote are attributed to Mark Twain, Ambrose Pierce, [insert famous wit here]. I haven't researched its actual aetiology. I just accept that it's true, because how did I learn about the geography of Saxony, Bohemia, and Silesia? Fritz invading! :D