HIstorical Shipper Manifesto Alert!

[selenak]

Because shipping is often a part of fandom, mildred_of_midgard and yours truly have now finished a fanfriendly overview of just about everyone you (well, we) can ship Frederick the Great with, handily ordered by the following criteria:

Do they thave a trope?

The story in short: (And we do mean short, this is an A03 fic type of summary.)

Key quote(s):

Tell me more: (This one links anyone curious to more exposition):

Since we aim this everyone, including and especially newbies who don't know their Katte from their Keith, have a look, hopefully enjoy and tell me if something strikes you as utterly incomprehensible. The post is here.

Comments

[aella_irene]

He finished every comment with 'No offense intended'.

[mildred_of_midgard]

Oh, god.

I still think the best slam-dunk argument for Fritz being at the VERY least bisexual (we of salon think he went through a questioning/experimentation phase in his teens and early twenties, before deciding he wasn't really into women) is that Zimmermmann, who met Fritz and wrote a polemic after Fritz's death on how extremely straight he was, had to couch his argument thus:

"I too used to think Fritz was into Greek love, but now I realize he was just pretending!"

If you're going to argue that Fritz wasn't gay, you have to engage with the fact that he was so far out of the closet that the strongest argument his contemporary could come up with was that he was PRETENDING to be gay. Only once you've engaged with his EXTREMELY GAY presentation and explained it away, can I even begin to take your argument seriously.

[cahn]

OMG. *facepalm*