You're welcome! Your journal is beautiful ♥

I'm glad to have made un_amico as well, as there are fans out there who felt nervous about liking Shosanna/Fredrick because the general fandom doesn't take the time to understand Fredrick, so he's viewed as an evil Nazi. I wrote the manifesto to further explain Fredrick, the subtlely powerful romance of Shosanna/Fredrick, and explainTarantino's intent; there's been so much said by all of them in interviews, their performances, and in the script that I wanted to make all of that information more easily accessable for others.

I love being to talk about Shosanna/Fredrick with other fans and I've met some wonderful people through it, so making the community and all of the other creative endeavors has been extremely worth it. There's plenty of fic, fanmixes, discussions, and even a stunning piece of fanart posted there, so there's plenty to enjoy (and we're a small, friendly group of people). Along with all of that, I look foward to your fanfiction and I love your enthusiasm for Shosanna and Fredrick!

the general fandom doesn't take the time to understand Fredrick, so he's viewed as an evil Nazi

I know! So many people just quickly write him off. I mean, I love Landa, but you could fit him into that stereotype. But with Fredrick, we see so many actions and gestures that show us he's a genuinely nice man. I think people feel funny about even liking someone on the other side of the War, and Fredrick makes them feel weird. How can this German be so nice, but on the wrong side? I think by nature people hate and write off people that make them think outside of the box. :/

The fanfiction oneshot I'm writing is Daniel/Melanie, (real life, yay!) and then I intend to write Fredrick/Shoshana once I get more used to the couple and fandom.

Yes, exactly! Both Shosanna and Fredrick were damaged by this war, and his trauma is just as valid as hers; it's just hard for people to deal with a character like Fredrick when the film is based off of a very real, horrific time in history. That is understandable, but not every German who served in the war was a monster. For someone very young like Fredrick, he was most likely forced into it (Hitler Youth was mandatory by 1936, which then led to military training); so many young people were indoctrinated/enlisted to fight for a future that would never come, and by the end of the war, they were dead or damaged. Tarantino stated in an interview that he wanted to make the film hard on viewers as we have to be able to see the characters from their perspective; so yes, there are awful, irredeemable characters and even ones that can be called heroes, but there are also the shades of gray, the ones who were forced to try and survive a situation larger than them, which is where Fredrick and Shosanna fall. Everything about Shosanna and Fredrick, including the way Daniel and Mélanie portrayed them, is realistic, subtle, and powerful. I suppose it's far too easy for many to view the world simplistically and in black and white, when it just isn't so.

Daniel/Mélanie is so wonderful and so very welcome, as there's not enough of it in the fandom! It also took me some time before I wrote Shosanna/Fredrick, too; the fandom was very new, I was very nervous, and so I requested a prompt for one of my friends instead. I've found, too, that they require a little more special care than the others when writing them.