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 - the end

[cahn]

He's also the source for the pages and the royal kids getting plenty of food. Not the exotic expensive stuff like when F1 was king, but good, season appropriate food, with lots of meat and meat soups for the royal kids! So there, doubters.

Uhhhh. Okay.

Also, FW so can be merciful! Why, there was this husband who killed his slut of a wife, and he'd have gotten the death penalty for that, but when FW heard what a slut the wife was, he pardoned the guy!

Argh, FW! And Fassmann!

(Which would explain how Gundling survived being locked in a room with young bears and firecrackers to frighten them.)

...I never thought to wonder about that! But okay, yeah!

b) Poor bears. Teeth knocked out, forelegs tied to the back? Ugh.

THIS WAS MY REACTION

Okay. Bear in mind: this is 1731. Fritz is still in Küstrin

oh. OH. OMG. Poor Heinrich! (and poor Fritz, of course!)

Fontane, when commenting on Heinrich's pretending to have forgotten his German in his old age: "One is tempted to call this the logical consequence of a childhood where German was rammed down one's throat."

...yeah, fair.

Re: Fassmann's life of FW - the end

[mildred_of_midgard]

(Which would explain how Gundling survived being locked in a room with young bears and firecrackers to frighten them.)

...I never thought to wonder about that! But okay, yeah!

I wondered about that from the beginning! Possibly because I used to sit next to a coworker who was obsessed with bears and bear maulings, so my first thought whenever Gundling or someone has an encounter with a bear is "Why aren't you dead?"

No teeth and front legs tied would do it, poor bears.

oh. OH. OMG. Poor Heinrich! (and poor Fritz, of course!)

Right? RIGHT?!