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Author: [personal profile] selenak, [personal profile] cahn
Original discussion: https://cahn.dreamwidth.org/221655.html?thread=5432535#cmt5432535

[personal profile] selenak: I mean, I can't imagine a more stressful position than having to fulfill both Fritz' and Heinrich's sexual and emotional needs at the same time, honestly. Which is probably why it never happened - I mean, real Marwitz may very well have been Heinrich's first love, i.e. before Heinrich got into the poly habit, but he definitely was never Fritz' sole pretty distraction. (Also, in the relevant era, post Silesia 2, Fredersdorf was of course alive and (relatively) well.) Meanwhile, even boastful Kalckreuth who is convinced he could have had Fritz (and that Heinrich should have been more grateful) doesn't imply he could have managed Fritz and Heinrich at the same time, let alone without any other boytoys. And Fritz loathed Kaphengst, who might have had the self confidence and lack of common sense to try such a mighty feat.

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

Envoy report:

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.

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Author: [personal profile] selenak
Original discussion: https://cahn.dreamwidth.org/177087.html?thread=2665663#cmt2665663

[personal profile] mildred_of_midgard's prompt: William of Orange wanted to take Tiny Terror FW (okay, 12-yo FW) home and adopt him as his heir and future king of England?!

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Original discussion: https://cahn.dreamwidth.org/172018.html?thread=2302450#cmt2302450

[personal profile] mildred_of_midgard's prompt: What do you think AW would have gotten up to as king? And how would Heinrich the influential adviser affect that?

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