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YES i cheated: i used textures for the background… too lazy to draw trees and leaves and trunks (don’t look at me like that!) and it’s a good technique to hide your terrible linearts!

soooooo…. here a request i received for the Burr/Hamilton duel and i was like ‘why not?’. they are supposed to be old and Hamilton a little chubby but my hands hate me and i have another idea of drawing rn. it’s awfull. it’s historically inaccurate. i’m sorry. leave me alone!!!

DevARt link

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Some dueling practice

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happy birthday to rome’s biggest loser

wrote a poem called “the sea god glaucus” at 14, and then continued to write bad poetry for the rest of his life

consistently referenced and quoted the greek epics in his letters to atticus, a lifelong friend 

believed that children were a gift from the gods and that if it wasn’t natural to feel affection for children, then there could be no natural tie between any two humans at all 

cried. a lot. especially during his exile. and probably every time he saw his daughter

became consul in 63 BC and allegedly saved rome from a conspiracy 

was too witty for his own good and didn’t know when to keep his mouth closed

outlasted pompey, caesar, crassus and clodius, as well as his own daughter, brother and nephew (though not by much)

his final surviving letter to atticus ends with ‘adsum igitur’; it means ‘i am present’ 

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I actually managed to color this before Christmas this year. XD

Happy Christmastime, Peeps. <3

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I was skimming through newspapers earlier and saw a July 8, 1799 article in the ‘Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser’ about the launch of the USS John Adams in Charleston, SC.

Which was fine, and then they listed out the toasts made

Pretty normal

…what

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Um. Excuse me? Hamilton was not chief of staff, thank you very much. Robert Hanson Harrison didn’t drag Hamilton out of bed every morning to be blatantly ignored like this.

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svollga:

According to several old books all citing each other, Colonel Benjamin Tallmadge had the reputation of being one of the two handsomest oflicer in the service, the second being one Colonel Livingston.

Ben Tallmage, the fairest of them all.

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Yo~

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Born to die huh

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Happy 4th~

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julius caesar’s assassination was the last time everyone in a group project did their part

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Mr. Laurence [Henry Laurens], poor old Gentleman his Grey hairs will come with sorrow to the Grave. Will he support the loss of his son with the fortitude of Cato when Marcius fell coverd with wounds in defence of his Country? Thus fell the Brave Col. Laurence [Laurens], Lamented by all who knew him. Freedom mourns over his urn, and Honour decks the sod which covers his ashes with unfadeing Laurels.

Abigail Adams to John Thaxter, 26 October 1782

Abigail is probably referencing Joseph Addison’s Cato (1713), wherein Marcus, a son of Cato the Younger, dies while resisting his father’s traitorous ally, Syphax. In act IV, scene IV of the tragedy, Cato views his son’s body, and says:

Welcome, my Son! Here lay him down my Friends,

Full in my Sight, that I may view at Leisure

The bloody Corse, and count those glorious Wounds.

—How beautiful is Death, when earn’d by Virtue!

Who would not be that Youth? What a Pity is it

That we can die but once to serve our Country!

(via iafayettes)

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every time I see a musical fan interpret Hamilton as a socialist a little part of me dies

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There’s a scam going around facebook. Do NOT accept a friend request from Marcus Brutus. You WILL get hacked. 23 times.

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Virtually all other biographers ignore the love between Laurens and Hamilton. One author, for example, mentions every aspect of Washington’s sexual scandals, however untenable, and thereby highlights his virility, but makes no mention of the controversy around how to read the Laurens correspondence or the fact that some historians for decades have been using it as evidence of same-sex love. Indeed, the book, which highlights “intimacy” in the Founders’ lives, limits itself to that shared between men and women, despite the fact that the author’s conceptualization of intimacy is not solely sexual and include bonds between parent and daughter and platonic, if flirtatious, male-female friendships. The decision to leave aside intimate bonds between fathers and sons and also between men leads perhaps to Laurens’s being cast as a participant in a decidedly heterosexual relationship. Indeed, the author quotes from a letter between the two but uses only the passage where Hamilton asks Laurens to find him a suitable wife.

Thomas Foster, Sex and the Founding Fathers (via lafaynoot)

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“The different ways Thaddeus Kosciuszko has been described.”

https://twitter.com/PolishEmbassyUS/status/919595157716131842

Image © Embassy of Poland

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🎶 We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal and when I meet Thomas Jefferson … I’ll compel him to include women in the sequel! 🎶 

🙋🏾🙋🏻🙋🏽✨ i’ll have the girls at oni-con and at the kinokuniya events this weekend!