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: Letters and Journals of Mrs Calderwood

[cahn]

Oh yay, this is really cool!

and of one of them it is said that he 'failed to give entire satisfaction to either side'.

Heh!

In Brussels, she hears that it is impossible to find and rent a well-furnished apartment, and then takes great satisfaction in telling us of the places she looks at before finally finding an apartment that fits her needs, and how she makes sure to find good furniture at reasonable prices. Meanwhile, her husband rests in bed at the hotel with a cold.

Heh. This sounds a little like my mom too. Though to be fair, when we went on vacations our dad did almost all the childminding. But I suspect he has never arranged the logistics of a family vacation since marrying mom (although he took a number of business trips while working and arranged those)

(whose head, btw, was stolen back from the Tower by his relatives and kept in a bank vault until 1945, when it was buried)

Holy crap. (I always am sort of weirdly fascinated by how body parts get disattached and secreted in various places... it is so weird to my 21st-century mentality!)

I have often observed that the mind and body of folks are mismarrowed, and some men should have been
women, and he, I think, is one.'

Aw, that's kind of neat that she makes that observation.

He bought a great many flutes and other musicall instruments, and when the landlord said to his servant, 'I think your master is very fond of musick,' 'O yes,' says the servant,' he is cheif musician to the King of Poland.'

Ha, this is cool!

This present is keept in a fine carved box, which the landlord sets down on a table, and there he flourishes for a compleat hour in French, so fast and with so many demonstrations, that it is entertaining even to those who do not understand a word of it.

Lol, I just like her turns of phrase here :D

The politicks here is, that the King of Prussia has accused the Empress of designs to destroy him and the protestant religion, that she had made an alliance for that purpose with France, and that he, upon that handel, which he himself contrived, had done what he has done, as he accused the King of Poland of being in the plot ; all which they say is false, and that he behaved very cruelly to the Saxons

:D I get a kick out of seeing things I know about in other sources!

Pardon this degression, and my speaking of cats and kings in the same page ; but when kings turn mice-catchers, it must diminish their dignity.

this is AWESOME :D She sounds really fun.