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What is it about the air in Europe what makes Misha Collins act like that edition. Yes those are quotes of his.

[Image ID: The Destiel confession meme edited so that Cas asks 'I fucked you hard and raised you from perdition.' and Dean answers 'If the CW had not been so homophobic we would have been balls deep for sure'. /End ID]

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But if your favorite character isn't on the floor panting and dying and in horrible pain in a terrible situation then what's even the point

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You guys really liked my last poll so

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they hate me for my slutty waist and my ability to see the good in everything

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I like how you draw Ghost Laurens and Philip interacting, because most of the time when I see other people drawing it they are like best friends, but yours is realistic, like you have a teenager and a dead war hero and they are basically tethered to eachother unwillingly, theres gonna be some arguments, especially if the dead guy used to date the teenager's dad

thanks! While I do enjoy the usual ghost laurens stuff myself. making them historically accurate, I wanted to lean into Laurens's jealousy and pettiness and have that influence Philip as he grows older.

Laurens is just 'living' in his own personal hell. He has to watch his lover be all lovey-dovey with his wife and spend time with his kids, unable to interact with him at all and is just stuck at the hip to the child Alex seems to dote on the most and sent letters to him about up until his death.

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Paul Gavarni, L'Artiste: Far-Niente ("the artist doing nothing"), 1835.

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Imagine your favorite historical figure getting caught by their boss pretend sword-fighting with their best friend at work

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Laurens breaks himself physically and is happy to do so, but he doesn't realise the toll that takes on his mind. That's part of it.

And while George is quick to praise Lafayette and quick to challenge Hamilton, he just assumes Laurens is fine and on board and never checks on him. So Laurens never gets the chance to be weak; his successes are expected, his failures disappointing surprises. He doesn't fall twice.

It's fine, because he believes.

But then Alex keeps pestering him. "How do you know this is right, Jack? Who said this was the best way to do things? What about the collateral damage? Have you even looked into Washington's past? Don't you think it's kind of fucked up that he runs around in a mask and makes his kids do--"

It's briefly a relief when Alex finally leaves, but the seeds of doubt have already been planted. John can't help looking more closely, if only to prove that Alex is wrong. But being that physically and mentally fragile, now more isolated than ever, questioning everything he's devoted his life to... it really only takes something small to push him over the edge.

Even Washington has moments of weakness he can't hide, shortcuts he starts to take as he gets older and more bitter - a bribe to smooth things over, looking the other way because it's convenient. Laurens witnesses one little lapse of justice and it's like knocking the base out of a house of cards.

Washington as cynical-old-man-Batman and Hamilton, Lafayette and Laurens as the boys desperately looking for a father figure that he adopts, trains, traumatises and spits out again in the name of justice.

Surely this has been done?

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We need to change the angle from which we approach queer historical figures.

Considering d'Eon's Amazonian gender presentation would she identify as nonbinary if she was alive today?

Bad question! Focuses on the unknowable and teaches us nothing about queer history.

What is the cultural significance of the social role of the Amazon and what does it tell us about how gender was understood in 18th century France and England? Does it suggest that gender wasn't seen as a strict binary and was in fact a spectrum? If so how did d'Eon fit into this gender spectrum and what do her writings on gender reveal about 18th century gender?

Good questions! Actually asks us to think about queer history!

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hi👁️👁️

Remember my account again

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when ur reading fanfic and one character was cooking and the other comes up to them and they start making out and everyones like starting to take their shirts off and the author STILL hasnt mentioned anyone turning off the stove

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Laurens is easy to bring on because he believes in the mission. He'd put his life on the line for it, and he's disciplined, focused, single-minded, already talented from a childhood of privilege. It takes him the longest to break, because belief is a powerful crutch, but he breaks the hardest.

Lafayette is easy because he just wants to make someone proud. Washington also goes easiest on him, and he tells himself it's because Gilbert is the most fragile, but perhaps it's just because he likes the uncomplicated adoration.

Hamilton is easy (but doesn't think he is) because he'll fucking die before he admits to something he can't do. Washington plays him like a fiddle. His grit is endless, his effort to make up for the advantages the others had growing up tireless. He's the first one who sees through the bullshit. He tries to pull the curtain away for the others, but they're too invested, got their identities too tangled up in the mission.

Washington as cynical-old-man-Batman and Hamilton, Lafayette and Laurens as the boys desperately looking for a father figure that he adopts, trains, traumatises and spits out again in the name of justice.

Surely this has been done?

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Washington as cynical-old-man-Batman and Hamilton, Lafayette and Laurens as the boys desperately looking for a father figure that he adopts, trains, traumatises and spits out again in the name of justice.

Surely this has been done?

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Kings

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Reading about Bonstetten's supposed suicide attempt and thinking "damn this guy invented being Young Werther before that was a thing" only to read in the next paragraph that Thomas Gray's editor had the literal same thought – "de Bonstetten was a Wertherian before Werther was invented".

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