18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 38

[cahn]

Gonna go ahead and make this post even though Yuletide is coming...

But in the meantime, there has been some fic in the fandom posted!

Holding His Space (2503 words) by felisnocturna
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 18th Century CE RPF, 18th Century CE Frederician RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf/Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great
Characters: Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf, Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great
Additional Tags: Protectiveness, Domestic, Character Study
Summary:

Five times Fredersdorf has to stay behind - and one time Friedrich doesn't leave.

Using People (3392 words) by prinzsorgenfrei
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 18th Century CE RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great/Hans Hermann von Katte
Characters: Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great, Hans Hermann von Katte
Additional Tags: Fluff, Idiots in Love, reading plays aloud while gazing into each others eyes
Summary:

Friedrich had started to talk to him because he had thought of him as a bit of a ditz.
And now here he was. Here he was months later, bundled up in this very same man’s blankets with a cup of hot coffee in front of him, its scent mixing with that of Katte’s French perfume.
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Fluffy One Shot about one traitorous Crown Prince and the sycophant he accidentally fell for.

Comments

Re: Unspeakable Acts discussed

[mildred_of_midgard]

Thank you! I should report that despite lack of sleep and consulting busy-ness, I have been doing some German (not as much as I want, but keeping steadily at it), and have not only kept up my French streak, have now gone from 1 paragraph a day minimum to 2 paragraphs a day, and am 20% of the way through this bio of Louis XI! Thank you for your promises to yell at me, v. v. helpful. :)

Re: Unspeakable Acts discussed

[cahn]

I have entirely given up on French. This was actually due to having to teach a couple of weeks, because I can't do detailed reading in French even when it's the Bible. But maybe this will inspire me to start back up again :P

Re: Unspeakable Acts discussed

[mildred_of_midgard]

Yes, French, do more French! It kind of drives me crazy to know that I could have picked French instead of German to start with, when that would have been faster as well as infinitely more useful to salon. (We still have no one who can read French! How is this possible!) Blame/praise Selena again, for reading and reccing all those books that made German so much more appealing. :)

Also Katte. I have to admit, German was more relevant to my Katte interests, and that played a really significant role. (Which is silly, because our German readers had read me literally everything having to do with Katte, and even went and talked to Wust local historians, so there was no need, and also French doesn't have this RIDICULOUS FONT I still can only sort of read, but what can I say. I just always liked German better, even before salon.)

At some point, I swear, my German reading will be fast enough that I can give French some proper focus time, and then I hope it will go faster than German. But for now, even 2 paragraphs a day is really helping.

And I'm staying strictly away from fic writing this Yuletide season to focus on languages, even though some of your prompts and Selena's are so tempting it should be illegal. :P (Only for very long fics, though, which is helping me resist temptation.)

Re: Unspeakable Acts discussed

[cahn]

Heh. Okay, yeah, I will try to be at least a bit better about French; I should really take advantage of this year (or what' sleft of it, anyway) and next year when it's scriptures that I'm actually comfortable with and interested in reading. I feel like my focus has just been all over the place lately, probably ToT's fault. I'm sure it's good for your focus that you're not doing Yuletide!

Though I still want someone to write all my prompts! On the other hand, you guys know that I'm just going to keep asking for them, so I suppose there's no real urgency to writing them right this second...