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:

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. ;)