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 - Ch 4
Date: 2021-09-26 06:17 pm (UTC)Yeah, Rödenbeck records one single instance of Fritz at Schönhausen, pre-Lehndorff, in July 1744, when Fritz apparently attended a party there. My speculation is that it was related to Ulrike's marriage and departure, which was around that time. Otherwise my impression was that they mostly met in Berlin.
Re: Reading group: In the Shadow of the Empress - Ch 4
Date: 2021-09-26 08:13 pm (UTC)So yes, the author of that bio manages to pack in 2 factual mistakes and 2 flawed interpretations into a single sentence: Monbijou instead of Schönhausen, Fritz visiting her at her palace from time to time, the implication that EC initiated the separation, and the implication that Fritz initiated the get-togethers! That's why I was impressed by that sentence enough to still remember it a month later. ;) And why Goldstone is far from the only offender. (I think it's a combination of the letdown given the high expectations, and the 2021 publication date. I mean, I expect mythologizing from my 1960s and older books, but if we amateurs in salon can do better after just 2 years of casual research...!)