Yuletide tag set is out!!

-Not much opera this year (I did nominate Pelleas et Melisande), although one of the ones that is there is Der Rosenkavalier, which I have been intending to watch for some time, so I'd better get on that

-Someone(s) who is not me nominated Cordwainer Smith AND Zenna Henderson!! Who are you mysterious person/people so we can be friends???? <3

-Every year I'm all "I just don't know if I'll be excited about offering anything in the tag set" and every year it turns out this is not going to be a problem roughly thirty seconds into looking at it

-should I go for the "easy to write will be able to dash off in an hour and it will be great" offers or the "will inevitably get sucked into a morass which I have no time for and may not even turn out that well" offers. Why am I even asking, I know which one I'm going to pick

-I waffled a LOT but ended up using my third slot for Charles Williams' Arthurian poetry; I made a promo post here.

-Making a separate Yuletide tag post for Fredericians :)

Yuletide tags are out: Frederician version

Come join us in this crazy Frederick the Great fandom and learn more about all these crazy associated people, like the star-crossed and heartbreaking romance between Maria Theresia's daughter Maria Christina and her daughter-in-law Isabella, wow.

OK, so, there are FOURTEEN characters nominated:
Anna Karolina Orzelska (Frederician RPF)
Elisabeth Christine von Preußen | Elisabeth Christine Queen of Prussia (Frederician RPF)
Francesco Algarotti (Frederician RPF)
François-Marie Arouet | Voltaire (Frederician RPF)
Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great (Frederician RPF)
Hans Hermann Von Katte (Frederician RPF)
Joseph II Holy Roman Emperor (Frederician RPF)
Maria Theresia | Maria Theresa of Austria (Frederician RPF)
Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf (Frederician RPF)
Peter Karl Christoph von Keith (Frederician RPF)
Sophia Dorothea of Hanover (Frederician RPF)
Stanisław August Poniatowski (Frederician RPF)
Wilhelmine von Preußen | Wilhelmine of Prussia (1709-1758) (Frederician RPF)
Yekatarina II Alekseyevna | Catherine the Great of Russia (Frederician RPF)

This means some fourth person kindly nominated Algarotti and -- I think? -- Stanislaw August Poniatowski! YAY! Thank you fourth person! Come be our friend! :D Yuletide is so great!

I am definitely requesting Maria Theresia, Wilhelmine, and Fritz (Put them in a room together. Shake. How big is the explosion?), and thinking about Elisabeth Christine, but maybe not this year.

I am also declaring this post another Frederician post, as the last one was getting out of hand. I think I'll still use that one as the overall index to these, though, to keep all the links in one place.

(seriously, every time I think the wild stories are done there is ANOTHER one)