Im starting finals in a week and i'm potentially graduating and finishing my degree this year, and i have no idea what i want to do with my life and i'm a stressed potato who knows nothing and can't do anything that's supposed to be done
Happy birthday dear Alex, don't do anything stupid today pls
Here's some fluff extraness from ages ago that wasn't meant for Alex's birthday but that I could conveniently finish for today (Was it a way for me to procrastinate on a university essay? Yes. Do things ever turn out the way i want them to? Nope. Do i still surprise myself with my ability to evade my responsibilities? Perhaps)
Hi! I'm still alive, don't know if people even remember me haha been going through some stuff but the AmericanRev community is still very close to my heart so, idk, today it's my birthday, i'm turning 20 and it's extremely scary and wtf am I supposed to do with my life, mentally I'm 5 years old lol idk, I just felt like sharing bc this always felt like a family :)
feeling pretty nostalgic today so i decided to post a bunch of old laurens family + little john doodles that i'm pretty sure never posted in here :) (i think these are from,,, july/august 2020 approximately?? im not entirely sure)
1. john with a carolina parakeet (patsy called her "iris" :D) note: this is an old hc and its not historically confirmed.
2. eleanor being the best of mothers as always and fixing wild little john's cravat
3. henri (4) and john (3) meeting christopher gadsden jr. (a childhood friend) for the first time + john having an innocent crush on him that's more admiration than anything else
4. an actual wip that never finished skpjpdpjobdld it's eleanor with baby harry looking after john, nelly, patsy and chris gadsden who are spending time playing outside in the gardens
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING?!!! The amount of detail?!! All the small references that add up to that familiar bittersweet feeling... another MASTERPIECE and the Laurens portrait we never had pls this is so great I can't express it with words !!!💖💖💖
laurens family, c. 1775
(+ the ghosts of those who are long gone, because the family would be incomplete without them.)
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its finally here!! let's pretend all of them could at least pose together for the family portrait we never had 😔
OKAY there are a couple of things to unpack here because this may seem like a lot. im gonna pause and explain so nobody gets lost:
• first picture: from left to right: john, henry jr. (harry), james (jemmy), mary eleanor (polly) and martha (patsy). they're the main five siblings who were together for the longest and that were alive until 1775. ( pre-september though, before jemmy's death :( ).
i decided to use gold to symbolize the living, and on top of the painting i included the flowers that represent each sibling. you can find a sunflower (john), plum blossoms (patsy), corianders (harry) a hyacinth (jemmy) and sweet peas (polly).
• second picture: this one includes the ghosts of the family members who passed away before 1775 (i didn't include the babies because that would've been *a lot* of people). so, the kids on the corners are henry jr. the first (henri) on john's side, eleanor jr. (nelly) on patsy's side, elias (eli) on the bottom of the pictuee and eleanor ball in the middle (their mother who passed away in 1770) . elias, even though he was boy, is wearing the dresses infants used to wear during the 18th century. eli died when he was ~3 years old so he would've still worn an infant's dress.
in this case, instead of gold i used white. and now, the flowers in the picture represent the other members, the ghosts. there are morning glories (henri), magnolias (nelly), a daisy (elias) and carnations (eleanor).
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so thats all for now! if you made it til this far, im proud of u oof😔
for more information about birth and death dates, yall can always check out my pinned post🌹🌸 and if anyone has any questions feel free to ask, i'll be glad to answer them <3