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

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Re: Reading group: In the Shadow of the Empress - second half of ch 3

[mildred_of_midgard]

he negotiated with the emphasis he would have for harangues in the lower house. The King, rather inclined to grasp the ridiculous, adopted the same tone, and replied [... with a rousing speech about honor and his Protestant citizens in Silesia :P]. Robinson was stunned by this speech, which he did not expect.

This is so, so great. Fritz was totally in his element here--really wish I could have been a fly on the wall. :P I need to work this into a fic!

Re: Reading group: In the Shadow of the Empress - second half of ch 3

[felis]

Ah, yes, I remember a comment conversation about his lack of opportunity for giving speeches... Now I'm wondering if he included more of those in the Histoire. Maybe I should read the thing one of these days - giving this excerpt, he seems to have opinions.

Re: Reading group: In the Shadow of the Empress - second half of ch 3

[mildred_of_midgard]

Oh, thank you for reminding me! Man, this would make a great fic. Frustrated Fritz wants to give speeches. Monologues a lot to his entourage. Finally, an ambassador gives him the chance to do a rousing tongue-in-cheek speech, and he takes it! Ambassador is confused. Fredersdorf nearly dies laughing that evening when Fritz acts out for him how it went.

giving this excerpt, he seems to have opinions.

Oh, if there's one thing I trust Fritz to do, it's to have opinions. (One of my modern AU OCs likes to joke that if a chemical engineer walked into the room, Fritz would suddenly have opinions on chemical engineering and be Fritzplaining away. :P)

And yeah, it's kind of funny that we've made it this far without reading Fritz's memoirs and histories. :D