Frederick the Great and Other 18th-C Characters, Discussion Post 31

[cahn]

And in this post:

-luzula is going to tell us about the Jacobites and the '45!

-I'm going to finish reading Nancy Goldstone's book about Maria Theresia and (some of) her children Maria Christina, Maria Carolina, and Marie Antoinette, In the Shadow of the Empress, and selenak is going to tell us all the things wrong with the last four chapters (spoiler: in the first twenty chapters there have been many, MANY things wrong)!

-mildred_of_midgard is going to tell us about Charles XII of Sweden and the Great Northern War

(seriously, how did I get so lucky to have all these people Telling Me Things, this is AWESOME)

-oh, and also there will be Yuletide signups :D

Comments

Re: Yuletide surprise

[mildred_of_midgard]

Oh, hey, it's v_v_lala! I hadn't noticed! She's the one who requested Fritz/Katte in Yuletide 2018 and got these two fics. She may be a newbie in terms of her letter's "I have read some about Friedrich II, but I am certainly not an expert of any sort; I am not terribly picky about historical accuracy, since my own knowledge is limited," but she's been requesting Fritz/Katte at Yuletide since 2015! (It's really too bad she took a break during what were precisely salon's 2 most productive years, although considering what I inflicted on myself and cahn last Yuletide, perhaps for the best that I wasn't also tempted to write Fritz/Katte. ;))

Well, I shouldn't try to write a new fic this year, but I have something lying in my drafts folder that I might pull out and polish for her. It's not like I'm ever going to write the fix-it fic WIP that it's part of.

Thank you for bringing this to my attention, and we'll see what happens!

Speaking of Yuletide surprises, may I remind you that I didn't sign up for Yuletide 2019, and I nonetheless got a wonderful Madness gift that still makes me laugh, so any Roman emperors, or sugar daddies, or others that anyone might feel inspired to write about, will find a good home in Yuletide Madness 2021. hint hint There's precedent, is what I'm saying. ;)

Re: Yuletide surprise

[cahn]

Oh yaaaaay I knew there had been someone who requested Fritz/Katte in previous years and was wondering what had happened to them!

Yeah definitely do this! :D I'm still sticking to my resolution to read awesome historical RPF fic instead of writing it this year, but I will volunteer to beta (although there is a distinct possibility that I'll be traveling the week before Christmas, so, yeah, not up for betaing 30k this year at the last minute probably)

BTW, for, um, anyone who might be interested, the Madness solution is not just precedented but also mod-approved :) From https://yuletide-admin.dreamwidth.org/89653.html :

Works in Madness do not have to precisely fit the fandoms and characters requested by a person in 2021. They do not have to be for a person who was signed up or pinch hitting this year. However, each work must be a gift for a specific person (or people) and you must have reason to believe it would be an appropriate gift for that person, as well as appropriate for a rare fandoms exchange.

Re: Yuletide surprise

[mildred_of_midgard]

BTW, for, um, anyone who might be interested, the Madness solution is not just precedented but also mod-approved :) From https://yuletide-admin.dreamwidth.org/89653.html :

I saw, and it jogged my memory to remind Selena!

Yeah definitely do this! :D

Stop enabling me! Why do people not want me to learn German and publish articles?! :PP

I'm still sticking to my resolution to read awesome historical RPF fic instead of writing it this year, but I will volunteer to beta (although there is a distinct possibility that I'll be traveling the week before Christmas, so, yeah, not up for betaing 30k this year at the last minute probably)

I was definitely planning to rope you in as beta if this happens. And fortunately for both of us, the draft scene I have is closer to 1k than 30k. :P