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Lincoln (2012) - dir. Steven Spielberg

Sally Field as First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, the fiercely ambitious and high-spirited woman who made Abraham Lincoln President of the United States.

“In her bearing she was proud, but handsome and vivacious; she was a good conversationalist, using with equal fluency the French and English languages. When she used a pen, its point was sure to be sharp, and she wrote with wit and ability. She not only had a quick intellect but an intuitive judgment of men and their motives. Ordinarily she was affable and even charming in her manners; but when offended or antagonized she could be very bitter and sarcastic. In her figure and physical proportions, in education, bearing, temperament, history — in everything she was the exact reverse of Lincoln.” — Alexander K. McClure, Lincoln’s Own Yarns and Stories

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manhunt (2024-) dir. carl franklin

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Lincoln (2012) - Dir. Steven Spielberg

I couldn’t tolerate you grieving so for Willie because I couldn’t permit it in myself. Though I wanted to, Mary. I wanted to crawl under the earth, enter the vault with his coffin, and I still do. Every day I do. Don’t speak to me about grief.

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Lincoln (2012)- dir. Steven Spielberg

Trust? I’m sorry, I was under the misapprehension your chosen profession was politics. I’ve never trusted the president. I never trust anyone. But hasn’t he surprised you?

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List 5 topics you could talk about for an hour without preparing any material.

With Malice Toward None: a Musical of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. I’ve been developing this musical since summer 2020. With Malice Toward None focuses on exploring the mental health struggles that Lincoln experienced during his presidency. The musical is narrated by Robert Todd Lincoln, who recalls the storyline’s events with complete omniscience while at the 1922 Lincoln Memorial dedication. Relevant themes for the show include mental health, public history, teams that become brotherhoods, compassion, the stages of grief, leadership, and a bunch of other concepts that I’ll probably end up yapping about on here at some point. Orchestrally, the show can be described as “if Les Misérables, Hello Dolly, and Evita decided to have a threesome in my brain”.

all of my original characters. seriously. I have SO MANY OF THEM that I’ve developed over the years, mostly for historical fiction. 😭 the ones that are living rent free in my head the most right now are Anastasia Andrews-Ismay (the human personification of the Titanic), Lieutenant General Ethan Clay, and Dr. Constance Pierpont Morgan. Honorable mention goes to my Star Wars OC Shi’al Valorum 💅 if any of these muses seem familiar to you then we’ve probably either been in a discord server together or you’ve somehow stumbled across one of my roleplay blogs.

the rms titanic. literally EVERYTHING about this ship and her sinking is my Roman Empire. I’m particularly fond of yapping about Captain Smith, Thomas Andrews, Wallace Hartley, William Pirrie, J.P. Morgan, or any of the officers — but if you get me talking about the vilification of Bruce Ismay by the sensationalist yellow press in the aftermath of the sinking, then I WILL NEVER SHUT UP.

star wars. my first exposure to the Star Wars franchise was when I was a sophomore in high school and I got to see a screening of A New Hope where the soundtrack was played by a live orchestra. suffice to say, this altered my brain chemistry and I’ve never been the same since. I’m a Prequels girlie and Jedi apologist to my CORE; my favorite characters are probably Yoda, Dooku, Mace Windu, and Bail Organa.

film and tv soundtracks. …the fact that I once did a TWENTY FIVE MINUTE LONG presentation on the film score for Titanic (1997) should tell you everything that you need to know about this silly fixation of mine.

HONORABLE MENTIONS: ghost hunting, tarot cards, classical music, Taylor Swift, creative liberties taken by Lin Manuel Miranda for Hamilton, historical fiction as a genre in an era where media literacy is on the decline, Antebellum America, the Great Triumvirate (Henry Clay, John Calhoun, Daniel Webster), the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, and public history.

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APRIL 15TH 1912 - TITANIC SINKS

Captain Smith demands that an emergency request for assistance be broadcast to all ships within range. However the nearest ship, the Californian, has turned off her wireless for the evening after receiving Phillips’ curt response earlier in the evening. Tragically, the ship was a mere 20 miles away and could have reached Titanic before she sank. Captain Smith gives the order to start loading the lifeboats on the Titanic, women and children first. 

At 12.45am the first lifeboat is launched. She leaves with just 28 of a possible 65 people on board. The first of eight emergency distress rockets is fired. At 2.20am Titanic slips beneath the surface of the water. At 8.30am The last of the lifeboats is rescued by the Carpathia. The Californian arrives at the scene and navigates the disaster area looking for survivors. The Carpathia sets sail for New York, with 705 survivors aboard. In total around 1,522 victims are believed lost at sea. Aboard Carpathia, Bruce Ismay sends a telegram to the White Star Line’s New York office - it read "Deeply regret advise you Titanic sank this morning after collision with iceberg, resulting in serious loss of life. Full particulars later."

More than 1,500 people died during the sinking of the Titanic. Of the ship's crew members, approximately 700 died. Another high fatality rate was among third class passengers. Of approximately 710 passengers in third class, around 174 people survived.

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David Strathairn as William Seward

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"C.Q.D. Help! Help! We are sinking." The RMS Titanic sank in the early morning hours of 15 April 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean, four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City 14th-15th April 1912

At 11:40 pm on 14 April, lookout Frederick Fleet spotted an iceberg immediately ahead of Titanic and alerted the bridge. First Officer William Murdoch ordered the ship to be steered around the obstacle and the engines to be reversed, but it was too late; the starboard side of Titanic struck the iceberg, creating a series of holes below the waterline.

The hull was not punctured by the iceberg, but rather dented such that the hull's seams buckled and separated, allowing water to rush in. Five of the ship's watertight compartments were breached. It soon became clear that the ship was doomed, as she could not survive more than four compartments being flooded.

Titanic began sinking bow-first, with water spilling from compartment to compartment as her angle in the water became steeper. Between 2:10 and 2:15 a.m., a little over two and a half hours after Titanic struck the iceberg, her rate of sinking suddenly increased as the boat deck dipped underwater, and the sea poured in through open hatches and grates. As her unsupported stern rose out of the water, exposing the propellers, the ship broke in two main pieces between the second and third funnels, due to the immense forces on the keel. With the bow underwater, and air trapped in the stern, the stern remained afloat and buoyant for a few minutes longer, rising to a nearly vertical angle with hundreds of people still clinging to it, before foundering at 2:20 am.

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You Can't Keep Running

Manhunt (2024)

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April 15th, 1912 - RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. In total, 1,496 people are believed to have perished in the sinking while 712 survived, rescued by the RMS Carpathia of the Cunard Line.

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I’m lowkey obsessed with drawing Ethan in full Union military regalia OOPS

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❝ In Confederate General Robert E. Lee and his wayward brother, Union Lieutenant General Ethan Clay, the heart of the Civil War found its human personifications. It was, after all, a war between brothers — and here were the biblical Moses and Rameses reborn for a new, modern era. ❞

I smell a civil war tumblr revival in the works … and I’ve been meaning to draw the Lee siblings in honor of this year’s Appomattox anniversary… so I made this instead of working on an essay that’s due tomorrow 😜

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1776 (1972)

— COLOR PSYCHOLOGY AND SYMBOLISM

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does anybody see what i see?

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──── MR. ISMAY IN THE YELLOW PRESS

❝ By Tuesday 16 April, the whole world knew who J. Bruce Ismay was. [ … ] The most serious accusation against Ismay was that he put profit before lives, dictating the ship’s speed to the Captain in order to get to New York in record time. ❞

- How to Survive the Sinking of the Titanic

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“J. BRUCE ISMAY died on the night of 14-15 April 1912, and died again in his bedroom twenty-five years later. He was mired in the moment of his jump; his life was defined by a decision he made in an instant. Other survivors of the Titanic were able, in varying degrees, to pick themselves up and move on, but Ismay was not. His was now a posthumous existence.” — Frances Wilson, How to Survive the Titanic: or, The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay

Although the societal consequences wrought upon Ismay by his survival of the Titanic - namely the destruction of his reputation and career — are well known, few pause to consider the mental and emotional impact suffered by the man himself in the wake of this infamous maritime tragedy. Ismay returned home to Liverpool an understandably " sea-changed " man, and was never quite able to return to the individual he once had been. A newspaper headline dubbed him " The Most Talked of Man in All the World", but J. Bruce Ismay also became the loneliest man in the world. His sleep was plagued by nightmares that “woke the house”. The damage to his reputation forced Ismay into a life of " being rather than doing ", resulting in a near-crippling anxiety about the future. Ironically, his family remained oblivious to an extent regarding this; in their eyes, Ismay was shouldering the blame with the stoicism and firm resolve of a soldier. It was only in later years that the younger generation of Ismays realized the sheer devastation that Bruce experienced during his life — his granddaughter Evelyn later admitted that " my grandfather Ismay was a corpse himself. "