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: Tiny Terror FW: The Sequel

[mildred_of_midgard]

Oh, man, the gay governor, how could I have forgotten! Well, cahn, if having kids has led you to realize how hard child-raising is, I think you and I both have some sympathy for how hard hiring is. You think you've found a brave Francophobic soldier in the trenches, and then he helps your wretched son buy up a secret library. You think your newest hire will teach your younger sons to hate all things ungodly, and instead one turns out gay and the other an ally! (FW: so glad he didn't live to see that.)

threaten them with their mother, I want to be the good parent!

That will never not be facepalmy.

Re: Tiny Terror FW: The Sequel

[selenak]

FW's "I want to be the fun parent, SD should be the discipline parent!" makes a bit more sense if you recall that his own father while probably not the fun parent (since F1's ideas of fun were so very different from FW's) was definitely not the stern discipline parent, either, Sophie Charlotte had been the one to demand different teachers and better education for her son (not fun!), and that his best buddy the Old Dessauer had his sons raised, well, if not illiterate as Lehndorff heard it, then with a minimum of education and was hugely popular with them for it. So FW's platonic ideal of fatherhood being jolly comrades with his sons who of course would enjoy exactly the same things he did and believe the same things he did is can probably be traced back to this. It's still facepalmy. As his unerring instinct to find governors for his sons who actually didn't transport his own ideals.

(That the teachers he picked were actually beloved by his sons is part of Jochen Klepper's argument in his novel about FW that FW did know his children and did know what he was doing, choosing people like Keyserling and Duhan because he knew they'd be kind and fun for Fritz to be with. (Klepper wrote in the 1930s under Nazi censorship, so gay governors for the younger kids don't make the cut.)

Re: Tiny Terror FW: The Sequel

[cahn]

lolololol! I do have sympathy for how hard hiring is! Though I must say I have never made quite those errors in hiring... :D

Re: Tiny Terror FW: The Sequel

[mildred_of_midgard]

That would make an interesting askamanager post...