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: Fassmann's life of FW

[mildred_of_midgard]

Thank you for the sympathy. *g* I just think it's unfair to have to deal with a foreign language, an unfamiliar font, *and* poor print quality in the same text. Two out of three, I could deal with, but this is just too much!

selenak continues to be a lifesaver and to have my eternal gratitude.

ETA: Come to think of it, I don't think I've had much trouble with English-language printed material either. Only German. :P Granted, I'm more sensitive to poor print quality in German, since I'm operating with a double handicap there (language and font), and obviously actual German speakers like Selena can handle the above. So maybe the stuff I've run into in English is just as bad and I can just handle it (as noted, I think I can handle any two out of the three obstacles, just not all three).

But maybe 18th century publishers in Britain just went to more trouble, and/or Google scanners have gone to more trouble to clean up where they can. ;)

(Koser's Kronprinz, thank god, has a beautiful crisp black text against a white background that every blackletter font should aspire to.)

Re: Fassmann's life of FW

[(Anonymous)]

I suspect it's mostly a question of the printing material. A book like Fassmann's would be a cheap thing, like the anonymous Katte pamphlet - which also had a horrid quality to decipher -, bad paper, smudgy printing letters - while Koser gets published more than a century later as a quality product. Remaining within the 18th century, I think something like most-likely-Voltaire's anonymous early 1750s pamphlet would presumably have a far worse quality than, say, Voltaire's subscription-paid edition of Corneille's works with Voltairian comment. Though since no German but Roman letters would be used in either case, there's one difficulty spared in any event.