cahn | Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 44

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Not only are these posts still going, there is now (more) original research going on in them deciphering and translating letters in archives that apparently no one has bothered to look at before?? (Which has now conclusively exonerated Fritz's valet/chamberlain Fredersdorf from the charge that he was dismissed because of financial irregularities and died shortly thereafter "ashamed of his lost honor," as Wikipedia would have it. I'M JUST SAYING.)

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From:

cahn

Why don't you come here and we'll see whether two can console themselves better than one.

I mean... we are all reading this in the Most Shippy Way possible, right?? :D

From:

selenak

Naturally. I immediately had the head canon that another reason why Peter keeps this letter till his death through all the toils and troubles of exile etc. isn't just that it expresses emotional closeness but that after this summons, they had sex for the first time. :)

From:

mildred_of_midgard

Oh, speaking of letters he did and didn't hang on to, it just occurred to me that what we *don't* have are the 1750 nice letter from Fritz and the 1753 one with the invitation to camp. The ones that were presumably in French and read aloud.

Interesting.

Edited Date: 2023-06-24 01:19 am (UTC)

From:

mildred_of_midgard

When I saw your comment, I marked it to reply to with, "Well, Peter certainly is reading it in the Most Shippy Way possible, which is why he hung on to it for so long!"

And then I read further and found Selena had anticipated me. :)

From:

mildred_of_midgard

Okay, headcanon that the reason Fritz has to switch to German is that "Why don't you come here and we'll see whether two can console themselves better than one" was code going all the way back to the 1720s. :P

From:

mildred_of_midgard

Lol, it just occurred to me that when we put together our Frederician pop playlist, the song I chose for teenage Fritz/Peter was "Come Crying to Me."

WELL.

:D

*puts the song on again*

From:

mildred_of_midgard

Oh, if it is King Fritz writing, I hope my headcanon about Peter and Ariane having an understanding about m/m affairs is true!

Or else we have our explanation of why Peter was so discreet that Lehndorff never picked up on it.

Or, you know, Fritz just wanted to talk literature. Darget, Algarotti, and Voltaire are gone, and Catt hasn't come yet.

Still, though. That use of German!

No lie, I'm going to be disappointed if we decide it's 1720s after all. ;)