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: Goldstone Ch 5-6

[mildred_of_midgard]

And porcelain snuffboxes! (Which I'm not likely to forget, after watching Mildred figure out how to structure the reveal of her fic around that porcelain snuffbox ;) )

Well! So while I know that Fritz was big into giving out snuffboxes, and he was Mister Porcelain, so at some point he surely gave out porcelain snuffboxes, I don't know that for sure. Chekov's porcelain snuffbox happened because I was looking at 18C snuffboxes on Google images for inspiration, and when I saw that they made snuffboxes out of porcelain, I had to use it, because Fritz had *just* occupied Meissen and helped himself to everything he could get his hands on.

So that was actually creative license that's probably historically accurate, not a fact I know to be true! (But I will not be surprised if felis promptly pops in to tell me about some letter or document that mentions a porcelain snuffbox. ;))

Re: Goldstone Ch 5-6

[felis]

;) He did indeed send some from Meissen during the war and Countess Camas got two, one painted with forget-me-nots and one with a dog.