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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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The person I reblogged this from deserves to be happy

I tried to scroll past this. I really did

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Little did John Laurens know that one drawing of a turtle would seal his fate

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Lee: You look like someone who knows the zodiac signs

Von Steuben: Yeah, and you look like a fuckin Aquarius.

Lee: ?!?!?!?!?!?

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i joke that rev period america was just 20 people in a circle recycling reusing periodic beef with each other but holy shit the same names every single goddamn time. von steuben wtf were you doing at the doctors' riot of 1788. hercules mulligan you exist in a different stratosphere from the adams family, why is your son involved with john adam's son. von steuben and hamilton why are you involved in this as well. aaron burr why are you maria reynold's lawyer. can i expect jefferson and madison in a trenchcoat to jump out of the bushes or what.

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lams but it’s understudies / swings jon and thayne 😲☝️

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Nature Hike

Happy birthday to James Monroe! Two April birthday boys going out in the woods together.

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1781.2.15 Argument at the stairway.

First time using Tumblr)))

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sometimes the duo have late night arguments chats. This time, Philip forgot to keep his voice down, believing everybody else to be asleep, unbeknownst to him, Alexander was in the hall, walking towards his own bedroom after working late into the night when he overheard his son's one-sided conversation.

He heard him say "John" more than once.

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I still wonder what brush i used for this

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When Washington would call his soldiers, did he say "pack it up skittle squad" while John and Alexander made-out in the corner as Lafayette did splits or did I just make it up

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people born in 24 Are 2000 now

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Ugh...I love this pose. It's just so fancy and gay at the same time. It's like he's looking at those French cookies and he's like: Ooooh!

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adams and ham on stealth mode: washington and burr

if i could be in the room where it happens i'd go to that short 10-day period where burr was part of washington's military family and witness what tf happened to trigger their beef. people argue that hamilton played the dominant part in GW's dislike of burr, and don't get me wrong - it doesn't help that one of his trusted advisors might have been confirming negative opinions of burr (especially since GW apparently wrote to adams that "By all that I have known and heard Colonel Burr is a brave and able Officer: but the question is whether he has not equal Talents at Intrigue") - but i think it's clear that the bad blood started pretty much as soon as they met, before ham even joined the family.

there are a lot of quiet examples of washington not commending burr for his wartime actions or supporting his efforts and i want to know - why?? sure, there's innate dislike and incompatibility but it still strikes me as odd that GW who normally maintained diplomacy, showed his dislike so apparently. the man didn't even mention burr's brave part in a maneuver that might've saved an entire brigade in the next day's general orders and apparently burr thought it was an "intentional slight" - which seems likely.

and the beef lasted for decades! washington refused to make burr brigadier general during the quasi-war, burr said some shady shit about washington's intelligence and reliance on hamilton, etc. etc.

there's that legend that apparently during burr's 10 day stint as potential aide, washington caught burr going through his papers - which sounds too sensational to be true, but all these men were unhinged, who tf knows.

burr's biographer lomask suggests that it might have had to do with burr's manners and "air of superiority", which makes sense. but come on. i'm pretty sure that young, talented, intelligent men from well-to-do families all have some air of superiority, including washington's favorites. did burr do something specific that pushed his buttons?

unfortunately washington did not achieve john adams level of public hating so we don't get a burr-version of "superabundance of secretions" but there's still something juicy here.

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a quick little doodle of betsey <3