Making Fritz the one protective one who thinks and acts in time and Katte the one in need of protection instead reminds me of the type of fanfiction which picks one part of the pairing to reduce to helpless woobiedom, no matter how practical that character is in canon. I suspect that since Fritz is future Federick the Great (tm), he gets to act instead of flail on that occasion, but I do begrudge it's on Katte's expense.
I agree on all counts.
This is hilarious, given Salon has established the fanon where Peter is the one who is hopelessly jealous. :)
But Selena, that's only after Katte is solidly established as the romantic hero of the story! Keith came first, and I wouldn't be surprised if Katte did have some jealousy. Especially since we've tentatively come to the conclusion that Katte fell for Fritz before the reverse, contrary to most fictional takes.
And Mildred got on to the Danes in the first place because of that footnote saying according to the Danish envoy, Katte lost it when hearing his sentence for the first time, so there's even canon.
Sort of? I got onto the Danes because there was a Struensee bio by an author with good (easy) prose, and you had gotten me interested enough in Struensee with your summary that he'd been on my list for years.
But I do want that Lovenorn report; now that I have a copy of Hartmann with the footnote, I have observed that the Danish archives also allow you to place online orders. The problem is that they're like the British archives: high minimum up-front costs. The Prussians will just charge per page scanned. (That said, I placed another order with the Prussian archives in January and still haven't heard back with even a confirmation of receipt. In December, it only took them 6 days to confirm receipt! Maybe the beginning of the year everyone is busy, though if more than a month goes by, I might nudge them.)
Anachronism alert, maybe? I mean, guns as a mean to suicide and one Prussian noble handing another one were normal in the 20th century - and much in von Brockdorf's present, see various 20th July 44 conspirators - , but I don't recall right now someone killing themselves in the first third of the 18th century that way, not least because guns aren't that reliable yet.
I wouldn't call it an anachronism, not with Fritz threatening to kill himself with a pistol in early 1732. And suicidal hussar "the king's love could be deadly" Georgii is only about 10 years after Katte, though admittedly that's not the first third of the century.
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Re: A strong case for queercoding
Date: 2023-02-19 01:36 pm (UTC)I agree on all counts.
This is hilarious, given Salon has established the fanon where Peter is the one who is hopelessly jealous. :)
But Selena, that's only after Katte is solidly established as the romantic hero of the story! Keith came first, and I wouldn't be surprised if Katte did have some jealousy. Especially since we've tentatively come to the conclusion that Katte fell for Fritz before the reverse, contrary to most fictional takes.
And Mildred got on to the Danes in the first place because of that footnote saying according to the Danish envoy, Katte lost it when hearing his sentence for the first time, so there's even canon.
Sort of? I got onto the Danes because there was a Struensee bio by an author with good (easy) prose, and you had gotten me interested enough in Struensee with your summary that he'd been on my list for years.
But I do want that Lovenorn report; now that I have a copy of Hartmann with the footnote, I have observed that the Danish archives also allow you to place online orders. The problem is that they're like the British archives: high minimum up-front costs. The Prussians will just charge per page scanned. (That said, I placed another order with the Prussian archives in January and still haven't heard back with even a confirmation of receipt. In December, it only took them 6 days to confirm receipt! Maybe the beginning of the year everyone is busy, though if more than a month goes by, I might nudge them.)
Anachronism alert, maybe? I mean, guns as a mean to suicide and one Prussian noble handing another one were normal in the 20th century - and much in von Brockdorf's present, see various 20th July 44 conspirators - , but I don't recall right now someone killing themselves in the first third of the 18th century that way, not least because guns aren't that reliable yet.
I wouldn't call it an anachronism, not with Fritz threatening to kill himself with a pistol in early 1732. And suicidal hussar "the king's love could be deadly" Georgii is only about 10 years after Katte, though admittedly that's not the first third of the century.