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: More Isabella of Parma

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a celebratory poem is written that begins, "Other nations wage war, you, happy Austria, marry." Comments Tamuissino: "The author couldn't resist the traditional 'bella gerant alii,' and left out the fact that Austria at the time was entangled in a bloody war of high losses."

Hee!

One historian claims MC was heartbroken over a failed romance, and Isabella was engaging in roleplay to cheer her up, pretending to be alternately madly in love and devastatingly heartbroken and distant after a fight. It was all RPG!

RPG! That is... a take. Yeah.

Another says the two women spent so much time talking about each other's bodies because, as women, they spent hours together in front of the mirror getting dressed and undressed. It was all innocent sisterly stuff!

UHHHHH. I mean... I have a sister. I guess we did not spend hours getting dressed and undressed, but still... no.

The chambermaid came in just now, and I thought she was you. Probably a sign how constantly I'm occupied with you, since the resemblance doesn't seem to me to be very great. We won't have any repetition, since I don't want to get heated up.

Aw, that is endearing!

* Tamussino calls the separate interment of the organs, practiced by the Habsburgs, "barbaric" and says that Isabella's smallpox at least spared her that. Strong feelings!

Huh! I thought it was weird but I guess my feelings weren't quite that strong!

* Tamussino is absolutely sure that Pichler is wrong about MC showing Isabella's letters to Joseph. One, she would never have betrayed Isabella like that, two, she wouldn't have been capable of inflicting that kind of cruelty on Joseph, three, she would have been incriminating herself as well.
Also, Pichler is the only source for that anecdote, which is one of the things I wanted to know when I bought this book.

Okay WELL. I DO have strong feelings about this!


* It seems that after Isabella's death, MC asked her mother for all the letters she (MC) had written to Isabella, and destroyed them, but MC hung onto everything she had that Isabella had written, and carried them around with her her whole life, no matter where she was living.

Ohhhhh :(((( <3