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i LOVE LOVE LOVE edna st vincent millay

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i love love love edna st. vincent millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a letter featured in The Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay

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romanticizing your life is such a powerful tool and it’s a shame that it’s mostly used by people on tiktok to justify the purchase of expensive breakfast smoothies when there are few better ways to force oneself through unpleasant shit than imagining a cinematic backstory for your extremely quotidian suffering

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i was so fucking sad when i was 14 and now when i fold my laundry or see a pool of moonlight on the floor of my bedroom i know that miracles exist. i see love in everything. love sees everything in me too

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Another AO3 thing I’m curious about, how do yall decide if something is good enough to read? Usually I follow a rule of 1 kudos for every 10 hits. One because it’s easy math and two it’s yet to fail me. Thoughts? Do you just go for it and pray it’s good?

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this, and from somebody with so much trauma from religion, who personally doesn't believe in any, and whose knee-jerk reaction is contempt for any and all of it. we still all have a responsibility to be good to people.

idk who needs to hear this but if someone is religious, it is their business. you aren't funny or edgy for expressing your hatred for all religions on earth (which i doubt anyway, because i dont think you know all roughly 4000 religions on earth). if you have your own gripes with it, that's fine. whatever. but also don't generalize, and don't make it anyone else's problem. i do not care what religion it is. just keep your lovely mouth shut.

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On this day of mourning, I present to you a little piece of happiness.

This is an excerpt from a draft of the August 16, 1777 letter from Washington to General Clinton.  Alexander Hamilton actually wrote this draft - except for the postscript you see at the bottom.  The postscript was written by none other than John Laurens.  This draft is one of only a few letters, to my knowledge, that was written in both Hamilton’s and Laurens’s hands.

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Gouverneur Morris’ obituary of Alexander Hamilton, 1804

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Laurens isn’t a stupid man, but (though he wouldn’t admit this) he is lonely and he is weak. A handsome civilian farmer sees this in him and offers his company, an exchange for information to which Laurens is blind. As if their love being illegal wasn’t enough, these two lovers are truly star-crossed, pitted on either end of the battlefield.

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: 18th Century CE RPF, American Revolution RPF Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Alexander Hamilton/John Laurens Characters: Alexander Hamilton, John Laurens, Benjamin Tallmadge, John André Additional Tags: Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Redcoat Hamilton, Spies & Secret Agents, Fictionalized account of AmRev War, lots of historical inaccuracies, probably a little bit out of character, Turn AMC - Freeform, turn: washington’s spies - Freeform, Past Nathan Hale/Benjamin Tallmadge, and yet the nature of that relationship is ambiguous, friends to lovers to enemies to…

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i'm addicted to reading tvtropes.org. It is a constantly open window underneath all of my other work. it is always there and if i see it, i relapse, i cannot continue until i've had a couple hits of those sweet sweet in-text links that take me to a new literary trope i knew existed but never knew the name for. in which a trope is described? little did i know? the walrus was paul? i must know these things. i can't close out of the tab or i'll have withdrawals.

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textbook henry laurens mention 😮

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making an aesthetic for my dad <3