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It began with me being unsupervised at the Charlottenburg Palace, and posting "I'm in Berlin, and I find myself wondering...if Fritz and EC had somehow conceived a child during the Rheinsberg years, what happens? Other than trauma."

In which we all traumatise hypothetical children )

So, here they are, Sophia Wilhelmine Antoinette of Prussia, b. 1737, and her little brother Friedrich Karl Emil, b. 1739, ready for the horrors of the 18th century. Specifically...marriage.

I wanna marry Friedrich Karl Emil )

Whether SWA marries, I could not say. I feel like either Fritz finds her the most brilliant match possible, or her makes her a lady Abbess so that she can stay with him like Wilhelmine couldn't, and she gets to have an affair with her SIL.

(I also like the idea that, whatever FKE's personality was, he has the reproductive luck of the father of the current King of Sweden, who had four daughters before they managed a son, and died nine months later)

Heinrich, in 1786, made regent for a small child: My time has come.
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Author: [personal profile] selenak
Original discussion: https://cahn.dreamwidth.org/170895.html?thread=2232463#cmt2232463

[personal profile] cahn's prompt: Clearly Verdi should have written an opera about these people

[personal profile] selenak: Clearly, though I guess none of them getting themselves assassinated deterred him. Though I suppose he could have written an opera about poor SD the older and Königsmarck the murdered lover? But then he'd have run into censorship problems again and would have had to transfer the whole action to the colonies.

Sophia Dorothea of Celle and Königsmarck )

Meanwhile, Fritz/Voltaire/Émilie as written by not Verdi, no, their composer is Rossini.

Fritz/Voltaire/Émilie )
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Author: [personal profile] selenak
Original discussion: https://cahn.dreamwidth.org/168804.html?thread=2114660#cmt2114660

[personal profile] mildred_of_midgard's prompt: Fritz, Wilhelmine, and Katte all successfully escape to Count Rottembourg's estate. Man, FW is going to be So. Mad. Does he actually invade Alsace?

selenak's ficlet )
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Author: [personal profile] selenak, [personal profile] mildred_of_midgard
Original discussion: https://cahn.dreamwidth.org/172018.html?thread=2293490#cmt2293490


Article about Bolivian musicians trapped at Rheinsberg and seeing ghosts and wolves.

[personal profile] mildred_of_midgard's prompt: So, Rheinsberg ghosts: Fritz, Heinrich, or both? Heinrich's the one who died and is buried there, but Fritz is more likely to get up to mischief. Both would be interested in having musicians to entertain them after death. Or as mobster author put it, "FRITZ I KNOW YOU LOVE MUSIC BUT LET THOSE BOLIVIANS GO"

[personal profile] selenak: LOL. I say both.

selenak's ficlet )

[personal profile] mildred_of_midgard: The Canadian savages were my second favorite part, after the Italian greyhounds mistaken for wolves!

mildred_of_midgard's ficlet )
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Author: [personal profile] selenak, [personal profile] mildred_of_midgard, [personal profile] cahn
Original discussion: https://cahn.dreamwidth.org/164846.html?thread=1505774#cmt1505774, plus email.

[personal profile] mildred_of_midgard: The AU where Fritz hired Émilie and got inundated with a bunch of numbers. ;)

[personal profile] selenak: 'Tis an AU devoutly to be wished. Though not as much as the one where she gets Prussia in exchange for giving him Voltaire to elope with. (And keeps practicing contraception.)

[personal profile] cahn: I bet she would have got that fountain running :P
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Author: [personal profile] selenak
Original discussion: https://cahn.dreamwidth.org/167303.html?thread=1915015#cmt1915015,

[personal profile] mildred_of_midgard's prompt: So remember when one of Fritz's "brothers" visited him with two companions and they were all more interested in food than learning, leading Fritz to complain to Suhm that he was forced to entertain when would rather be reading? Asprey claims this was...Henry! Who was all of 10 years old.

[personal profile] selenak: LOL. But Mildred, this is the first time I can believe it, for isn't it the classic situation of older sibling forced to babsysit younger sibling when he'd rather be doing something else? Also, if Heinrich was ten, it was the very same year Fritz told Manteuffel he (and Ferdinand) have bad characters already, as opposed to AW who is still salvagable. Immediately, my mind constructs the following scenario:

Ficlet )

Part 2:

[personal profile] mildred_of_midgard's prompt: Fritz doesn't fork over the cost of an expensive salmon to send to just anyone.

selenak's ficlet )

In which [personal profile] selenak translates Rococo babysitting into emojis!

Emoji ficlet )
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Author: [personal profile] selenak, with help from [personal profile] mildred_of_midgard
Original discussion: https://cahn.dreamwidth.org/168804.html?thread=2075236#cmt2075236

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In the past summer, [Fredersdorf's] credit fell suddenly and starkly; for the King threw his favour at a subaltern officer of his personal guard named Georgii, while [Fredersdorf] was told only to enter the King's tent anymore when he'd been called for, when he used to have unlimited access to it at all times before. But after Georgii just a few weeks later intentionally put a bullet in his head, a deed for which so many contradictory and partly extremely impudent causes have been named, which I do not dare to put down here, [Fredersdorf] has reclaimed the former royal favor and grace entirely.

Discussion )
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Author: [personal profile] selenak
Original discussion: https://selenak.dreamwidth.org/1393542.html?thread=11617158#cmt11617158

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