cahn | Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 45

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Unfortunately, there was then at Berlin a King who pursued one policy only, who deceived his enemies, but not his servants, and who lied without scruple, but never without necessity.

(from The King's Secret - by Duke de Broglie, grand-nephew of the subject of the book, Comte de Broglie, and grandfather of the physicist) )

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From:

selenak

Firstly:

felis earlier said they'd nominate whatever we can't, so maybe these could be the ladies? (Cosimo is kind of the FW here in that he's almost inevitable in any scenario that involves either GG's pre-rulership time (i.e. most of his life) or most of Marguerite Louise's life, but unless you want to write about Cosimo's own childhood and/or his Grand Tour when everyone embarasses him by congratulating him on what the Medici did for Galilei, I don't think he needs to be nominated on his own.)

Secondly, yes, Fredersdorf will be among my requested characters, given all the transcribing you did and the translating I did this year involving his correspondence during the last year of his life which introduced us to new people and scenarios, and I'll go for any combination again.

From:

mildred_of_midgard

Firstly: felis earlier said they'd nominate whatever we can't, so maybe these could be the ladies?

Yes, I might ask.

(Cosimo is kind of the FW here in that he's almost inevitable in any scenario that involves either GG's pre-rulership time (i.e. most of his life) or most of Marguerite Louise's life, but unless you want to write about Cosimo's own childhood and/or his Grand Tour when everyone embarasses him by congratulating him on what the Medici did for Galilei, I don't think he needs to be nominated on his own.)

I disagree, in that I haven't written a single Fritz fic in which FW got tagged, and I think it would be incredibly easy to write a GG fic that didn't include Cosimo. Cosimo was *influential*, but that's not the same thing as "appearing in the fic." GG spent most of his life avoiding his father to the best of his ability! So if someone specifically wanted to request "GG and Cosimo" or "ML and Cosimo" or "Ferdinando and Cosimo", they would want him nominated. You could, for instance, write the story of the time GG left Prague, after his marriage failed, and went to Paris to visit ML, and ML didn't particularly want to see him. (One of those cases where I understand 100% how the forced marriage and probable marital rape affected her, and also how the total parental rejection affected GG. I love fandoms where everyone's dysfunction is understandable!)

That said, what are the odds that anyone other than me and maybe you are going to request in this fandom? Slim, so we couuld certainly do without Cosimo in nominations.

Secondly, yes, Fredersdorf will be among my requested characters, given all the transcribing you did and the translating I did this year involving his correspondence during the last year of his life which introduced us to new people and scenarios, and I'll go for any combination again.

Excellent, excellent. My friend will be pleased.

From:

cahn

I haven't written a single Fritz fic in which FW got tagged

Me: oh, huh, I did!

Oh, question: if someone requests Fritz/Katte, and if you were participating in Yuletide, you could conceivably write this, yes?