18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 36

[cahn]

Starting a couple of comments earlier than usual to mention there are a couple of new salon fics! These probably both need canon knowledge.

felis ficlets on siblings!

Siblings (541 words) by felisnocturna
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: 18th Century CE RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great, Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf, August Wilhelm von Preußen | Augustus William of Prussia (1722-1758), Wilhelmine von Preußen | Wilhelmine of Prussia (1709-1758)
Summary:

Three Fills for the 2022 Three Sentence Ficathon.

Chapter One: Protective Action / Babysitting at Rheinsberg (Frederick/Fredersdorf, William+Henry+Ferdinand)
Chapter Two: Here Be Lions (Wilhelmine)

Unsent Letters fic by me:

Letters for a Dead King (1981 words) by raspberryhunter
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 18th Century CE RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great & Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig von Preußen (1726-1802)
Characters: Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig von Preußen | Henry of Prussia (1726-1802)
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Love/Hate, Talking To Dead People, Canonical Character Death, Dysfunctional Family
Summary:

Just because one's king and brother is dead doesn't mean one has to stop writing to him.

Comments

Re: Backstory!

[selenak]

Back from the weekend of hell, and still intensely grateful and happy over this particular present of yours!

mon très cher frère, but I finally went for "My dear brother"

I think you made the right call. Incidentally, good old Gustav Volz in his German edition of the Fritz/Wilhelmine letters was even more radical by letting them use the "Du" Form towards each other, and the editor of "Solange wir zu zweit sind" did that as well, presumably on the rationale that calling one's dear sibling "Sie" to modern Germans sounds weird as hell and implies a distance that wasn't there. Which made me confused as hell when I started to get into said letters once our salon got going, because it was "du" all the time, many of the biographies used "Du", but then some of the more recent biographies used "Sie". Not until I crosschecked Trier did I realise it was "Sie"/Vous", and Volz had simply made a choice.

I see the etc. question has been cleared up. :)

Also, I owe you, and we're still on for Trick and Treat, aren't we? Because a Heinrich and Fritz ghost story demands to be written...

Re: Backstory!

[mildred_of_midgard]

good old Gustav Volz in his German edition of the Fritz/Wilhelmine letters was even more radical by letting them use the "Du" Form

Oh, right, I remember you telling us that! Thank you for the reminder. (Lol, like Cahn, I sometimes need them.)

Re: Backstory!

[cahn]

<3

Ha! I can see why Volz did that, but that does sound awfully confusing :)

I don't think the computation ever comes out on the side where you could possibly owe me, O Writer of Many and Varied Giftfics, but yes to being on for Trick or Treat! :D