I was thinking of requesting the Seymour family this year actually, because as overwhelmed as everyone is with Tudor fiction, there‘s nothing good focused on the siblings who after all had a key role in English history - Jane Seymour inevitably only shows up as Anne B.‘s pale rival, and yet she was the same age, she‘d witnessed the entire drama. Her sister Elizabeth, the only sibling to survive all the subsequent changes, was married to Cromwell‘s son (and survived Cromwell‘s fall as well). And the bothers Edward and Thomas (boo, hiss, for the Elizabeth grooming and Katherine Parr betraying) were examples of rise and fall of ambitious courtiers, of course, but how did these siblings relate to each other?
I'm not planning to sign up (too much outstanding academic writing to focus on), but I'm happy to nominate. I would want to nominate Katte (in case someone outside salon feels inspired) and Suhm (in case anyone feels inspired to write a tale of two envoys), and have two free slots I'm happy to take requests for.
Well, Heinrich, Fritz, Voltaire and Catherine plus Katte and Suhm beg for Fredersdorf and Emilie. Just in case. (I mean, if inspiration should strike.)
Mes amies, the mods have asked that in future, we coordinate on the fandom tag when we nominate, because it creates extra work for them to have different variants of the same tag that they have to merge.
In past years, we've nominated under the "18th Century CE Frederician RPF" fandom, which I think is what we should continue doing.
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Date: 2024-09-14 05:12 am (UTC)I can go ahead and nominate my usual Voltaire and Heinrich, and maybe Fritz and Catherine?
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Date: 2024-09-14 08:08 am (UTC)=> me going for the sibling angle again.
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Date: 2024-09-14 09:24 pm (UTC)So what is the verdict -- should I nominate Frederician, or not this year?
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Date: 2024-09-30 12:19 pm (UTC)In past years, we've nominated under the "18th Century CE Frederician RPF" fandom, which I think is what we should continue doing.