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modern au hamfamily but it's just alexander trying to be a cool dad™  and suffering through an entire bowl of buldak ramen in front of sparkly eyed pip & angelica only to be carted off to the hospital due to stomach pain and a kidney flare up

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I’m pretty sure Ben only ever slept in this series when he was physically incapable of being awake due to severe bodily injury.

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me trying to engage my late-night obsessed friend with amrev:

if the american government is nbc and washington is johnny carson and alexander hamilton is david letterman - favored by carson, wins over the critics but not always the ratings, sharp, antagonistic, got blackmailed because of a sex scandal and publicly admitted it - then who would jay leno, the man who gets the ratings and the tonight show with his down-to-earth honest guy persona, be?

more importantly who is jimmy fallon and why is it james monroe discuss

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Kings

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The best genre of family portrait is and will always be Husband With Multiple Kids Making Come Hither Eyes At His Wife

Barbara Krafft, Die Familie Anton von Marx 1803

Marie-Geneviève Bouliard,Monsieur Olive & family 1791

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shinji ikari

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he could if he got over himself but he never does 🤷‍♂️

"could John Adams eat pussy like god" twotter thread shut down by musk himself after, like, a vagillion replies of debate, 72 blockings, 22 bannings and 8 doxxings

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the phrases "college AU" "alex with a greasy ponytail" and "John...turtles" just jolted me awake like a sleeper agent hello is this 2017 where is my hamilsquad group chat fic

Today felt like one those Hamilton college AU days where Alexander was two itches tall with a greasy ponytail sleeping with everyone on campus (especially the "hamilsquad") but then John dies from turtles and Alex marries Eliza isn't that just wild

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washington: ugh! i hate people who have political parties! also washington: shhhhhh. i. have. a. political. party. here is a federalist newspaper. do not tell anyone-

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I still think that naming your John Adams biography "Party of One" is the most fucked up thing you could do to your subject. We get it, nobody liked the guy, but I thought you wanted to help his case dawg 😭😭

James Grant did not give a fuck he gagged Adams so bad and we didn't even have to open the book I can't

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this was for ME 😭😭😭

Rome!Wham

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ahdf i'm glad my message didn't come off the wrong way, your writing is beautiful and i'm always hyped to read anything you write 💞 - i think we have a similar preference in terms of elams, i usually avoid it because i just don't see john and eliza having a sexual relationship. but i'm very much open to the platonic/romantic connection the trio has in this fic. maybe i'll try some other elams fics i've passed over!

those headcanons sound really intriguing 👀 lewis & laurens expedition is unhinged in the best way, john and alex pulled the "it would be funny tho" card and eliza agreed. also fulfills the requirement for all laurens-lives aus which it to even out the scale between ham and jeffmads by giving ham a southern ally. here john can annoy jefferson in his own pet project and passion: nature. hahaha

also apologies for taking your wonderful au and corrupting it but hear me out: imagine a crack scenario in which alex constantly says "wait until my exploring naturalist boyfriend hears about this!" after his scuffles with jefferson, who assumes he's either crazy and/or lying. until one day the son of henry laurens marches up to him and goes "i heard you were talking shit about my bae" 😭 i'm sorry

i just finished "behind, only meadows" and i?? you have somehow converted me to elams. i'm generally not it's biggest fan but i had a feeling you'd give it justice and you definitely did.

you dared to ask the question: what if they all had a chance at happiness? i love it for giving us this trio dynamic while remaining grounded enough to feel like a genuine possibility. also loved exploring-naturalist john, it fits him so well and i think he'd be happier doing that than being a politician, which is the general course of action in any laurens lives au (for good reason!) imagine if years later he was the best choice for the lewis & clark expeditions and jefferson is forced to work with a non-cooperating, salty laurens getting payback for ham

did i tell you that i loved your fics even before i made a tumblr account? this ask is probably way too overbearing but genuinely loved it!!

Friend, thank you for this lovely message 😭💕 Please continue to be overbearing wonderful and sweet and kind forever!

Elams... it's one of those places I don't usually go, because my preference is for gay!Laurens and I just can't see him having a sexual relationship with Eliza (which is sometimes how those stories go). But as friends who love each other, in a caring and even romantic way?? Because of their common adoration of Alex??? Yes.

Also YES to the Lewis & Laurens expedition! (Sorry, Clark.) Now I'm thinking of Laurens in his late 40s, by then settled at home with the Hamiltons, getting pulled out of adventuring retirement because, per Alex, "Wouldn't that be sooooo funny?" Laurens would have so many ways to get on Jefferson's nerves, from calling out his slavery hypocrisy to insisting that Jeffs calls him "General Laurens" (after he gets shot at Combahee and survives, he gets a field promotion to brigadier mostly to keep him out of further trouble). (Yes I have lots of headcanons for he-lives!Laurens.)

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my master plan is to waste all my time on tumblr doing this shit and thennnn a decade or two later, finally enter historical academia right when research about online communities is fully flourishing so that all of this converts into golden experience. i'll have the inside scoops i'll be the first-hand witness i'll be the primary source i was there when it was written-

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omfg the lack of correspondence insanity is so real. this is me with so many people - nicholas, some of the aide de camps like meade, and eliza. my literal library of alexandria.

if i had a time machine i would go back and plead "i get that y'all are owed autonomy and privacy as human beings but pls maybe you could take some scans of your letters and only send them to me, i promise i won't share them with anyone else :("

also: have i told you how interested and hyped i am about the american icarus? so excited that someone's working on a historically-based work from alex's pov! (alex & eliza claims to be "historically accurate" and just ended up traumatizing me so i'm not taking anyone's word for it lol)

nicholas fish is my daily reminder that letters aren't everything and we lack a whole bunch of context and interactions. he had a lifelong friendship with hamilton we don't know much about due to lack of correspondence (fish might've burned them for privacy, especially since he and morris got their hands on ham's papers after his death, i believe).

but i think it must have been a steady and deep 30 yr long friendship: they were college frat bros together (debate club actually but i bet they acted like frat bros), members of the hearts of oak in the 1770s - and he was later involved in hamfamily matters, referenced at times in letters between ham and betsey. he was even the second for a potential duel between ham and nicholson in 1795.

and of course, his son born in 1808 was named hamilton fish.

unfortunately i find the name "hamilton fish" hilarious, moreso because hamilton fish named his son hamilton fish II, who named his son hamilton fish III, who named his son hamilton fish IV. somebody named hamilton fish IV was walking around on this earth up to 1996.

i just get all emotional when i think about how family names often reflect close loved ones. even if the names end up being ridiculous. hamilton lasting in the fish family names until the literal 1990s, laurens slipping into the hamilton family names.

also, for my hamilton musical enthusiasts: the cellist for the west end run of hamilton was chris fish, a direct discendant of nicholas fish!

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Loser submissive omega take: Washington was a unifying, noble, non-partisan leader to his very last breath.

Chad sigma male take: Like most people, Washington did not live up to his ideals and by the end of his life was a disgruntled, visibly Federalist peepaw shaking his cane in the air because he didn't like the state of the country or the Democratic Republicans people running it. Joanne Freeman did this great impression of late-life Washington clenching his fist going "We gotta get Federalists into the Virginian legislature" and it's canon in my book. The man learned that James Madison was backing James Monroe for Governor of Virginia a literal day before his death and got so pissed that his secretary Tobias Lear went "pls chill".

He requested me to read to him the debates of the Virginia Assembly on the election of a Senator and a Governor; and on hearing Mr Madison’s observations respecting Mr Monroe, he appeared much affected and spoke with some degree of asperity on the subject; which I endeavoured to moderate, as I always did on such occasions. the "as I always did on such occasions" makes me think that this wasn't a one-time thing and washington frequently went on rants about monroe and the jeffersonians.

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my parents got into a screaming match yesterday and last night i told my dad privately that my mom's been having headaches so she's a bit on edge, in hopes that it would make him more forgiving and they could make up. today my mom ended up screaming at me and right in the middle of it she says "i heard you told your dad to be smart about provoking me, why don't you take your own advice?"

apparently first thing my dad told my mom after they reconciled was that i had told him that she was on edge. jesus christ.

new achievement unlocked: venting about my personal life on my public blog about historical figures!