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: Lehndorff Diaries: 1785

[cahn]

Ahaha! Courtesy of a long layover, I might actually finally be able to reply to these! <3 (I have really been enjoying all the comments!)

Um. Lehndorff, you have written down similar statements from Fritz in earlier years, too.

Aw. But I can see Lehndorff really wanting to believe that Fritz hasn't always been that way.

I finally hear that the whole affair happened far better than I dared to hope, as the King has talked kindly to the child. God bless the King for his kindness! It is so blissful to be able to love one’s souvereign

And on the other hand, those sentences are rather telling... I'm glad Fritz found it in him to be nice to the kid, though!

Januar 18th: Blessed be thou to me! Under your light, my Prince Heinrich was born!

Still hilarious!

Lehndorff, I don’t know how I feel about the fact you’re making your children declaim praise poems about your life long crush in front of your wife.

HAHAHAHAHA omg.

Heinrich is reading Figaro’s Wedding by Beaumarchais to Lehndorff through the winter. (They both like it very much; Lehndorff shows no sign of detecting the social criiticism.

Nice! :D

That’s your choice, Fritz, not your duties. You could, say, make Heinrich Regent for some months and make the trip….

Oh lolololol. I... can't even imagine. Fritz would have to be someone entirely different!

It seems to me that a lot of this bears further investigation.

ahahahaha Lehendorff! (It's pretty cool to read this after reading the Zweig and getting his take on it.)

Re: Lehndorff Diaries: 1785

[mildred_of_midgard]

Courtesy of a long layover, I might actually finally be able to reply to these! <3

Yay long layover! <3 We have missed you!