#Icarus letter

[achillesreborn]

maybe the secret to a happy life is kept in warm hands & soft lighting. maybe it's in you, in earshot of your laugh. i don't know, but that's where i find it most.

[gracehosborn]

Founders Online Search Results for letters written by Alexander Hamilton containing the phrase "my servant". Most of these letters were written during the Revolutionary War, with the results pictured dating between 1778-1781. All of the letters featured here pertain to travel (via horseback) and the need of supplies regarding Hamilton's unnamed "servant".

So uh... are we going to talk about this? Because the amount of questions I have. Especially in the context of writing TAI. As far as I can recall, I haven't seen a biographer explicitly talk about this. But there could just be something out there I have no knowledge of. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[aethergazing]

the fall of icarus.

[eirianerisdar]

You have managed to come up with a fic where you get to play around with as many F1 duos as your heart desires. Which is your favorite? Is it also your favorite to write about?

Anon you've got me there because how am I supposed to choose? As Icarus now stands it has covered platonic Maxiel, Charlos, Brocedes, Slagclaren, Princess Cake, Dando, Carlando, Galex, Yukiel, Sebdan, Martian, Sewis, Valewis, Webbonso, and Buttonso, and that's not to mention dozens of other references to other driver duos.

I think my favourite to write is somewhere in between the top five there but in the end what makes F1 so fun to write about is this:

That is your teammate. That is supposed to be the first guy you beat; your closest enemy. But your closest enemy eats with you; you laugh with them and spend more time with them than your own family. You are one of twenty drivers who can drive the fastest cars in the world. Nobody understands what it is like to drive a current season Formula One car except those nineteen others. But the only one who understands what it is like to drive your car is your teammate. The only one who can understand you is your teammate. But they are supposed to be your enemy. In Icarus Maxiel says I would rather not be your teammate than to hate you. Charlos says I would rather be your teammate even when everyone else says I should hate you. Princess Cake says we might not have been teammates but we understand what it is to have been hurt and loved by Lewis Hamilton. Slagclaren says we were teammates, but I (Jenson) knew I could never be what he was to you. Brocedes is I missed you more than I hated you, and I realised this too late.

So how, Anon, am I supposed to choose?

[noahhawthorneauthor]

According to Goodreads, if you like these then you might like ...

Arlo Rook has decided it’s time to move out of Garren Castle, home for orphans of all races, magical or not, at 100 years old.

It’s not the first time he’s left home, but a setback landed the Hedge Witch in the hospital a year ago, and subsequently back to square one. Now he's ready to strike out on his own, despite his friend’s worries he's not ready.

Thatch Phantom is an immortal, the last of his kind and perpetually bored. When he’s not closing interdimensional rifts and corralling trouble in the universe, he’s visiting his favorite city of all, Levena. No one remembers him, but he's made an everlasting impact on the city nonetheless.

Long ago, he set up an anonymous scavenger hunt for the starving village, providing them with a year’s worth of supplies. He upped the ante each year, providing less practical things, as the village had become a city and was wealthy beyond belief. Festivals are thrown in his honor to this day, or a version of him, that is.

Thatch has decided to throw a wild card into this year’s Game. Whoever discovers his true identity will win one wish of their choice, no restrictions. Aside from the obvious, such as no falling in love, murder or resurrection.

Arlo crashes into the mess of copper curls and bright eyes, who throws apothecary goods and his life into a chaotic mess. It certainly wasn’t the first they met, but Arlo doesn’t remember him. Thatch, however, never forgot the Witch with a familiar soulmark on his face.

What follows is a hilarious and wholesome series of events that teases the immortal with the one thing he wants most.

Someone to call home.

📚🏳️‍🌈🏞️🦉

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[apollos-boyfriend]

how to tell the cute christian boy in class that i am not actually christian and just really fucking autistic about the oh hellos

[how-the-feathers-have-fallen]

@jokeryuri he looks so crackly and crusty I love him <3

@pisshandkerchief thanks 🙏 i’ll cherish it forever

who ever left the destiel ily sm that’s literally them

[darkangelwarrior22]

Who do you think you are? Quit laughing you stupid snowy owl!

[stardust-stains]

You're Icarus, my darling.

I'm not sure how long I've admired you from afar,

You in your ivory tower. But now you're flying,

Soaring across the sky, you're more than a

Concept, you're real, swooping and soaring, and diving,

And climbing. Climbing towards me,

Closer and closer, seeking answers seeking

The Truth. So set on it that you

Don't notice the wax melt and drip,

Don't notice the feathers darken,

Don't notice your skin redden,

So set on the Truth that you

Don't notice how the closer you get,

The faster you burn.

So in my fear, in my cowardice,

I push you away, melting the wax,

Sending you down, down to the water's

Embrace, my darling, I'm sorry.

In my fear, in my cowardice,

I forget how breakable mortals are;

You smash to pieces on the water's

Surface, my darling, I'm sorry.

But tell me;

Is it better for us both to burn slowly

In each other's arms,

Or for one of us to shatter and the other to live

With the guilt, apart forever,

In retrospect, I should've welcomed you.

Should've pulled you to me, and burnt too.

But I was scared, my darling, scared of

The Truth, scared that when

You knew how it felt to

Burn you would refuse.

[exilynn]

Flight Of Icarus Love's Dragons fanfic. The letter write by Lily for Eddie, i just wanna show how this makes my heart melting so. It was written in the period when they were separated by fate, purity and malice, the almost adorable set, his Lilycheer 💘

[as-spring-came-in-october]

Letters Lost

And at once, All the love songs were about you. Hidden glances as they play "uff teri ada" Hoping you'd not see me looking at you. Cause I promised I'd keep my distance. Spending our future in reminiscence. No texts, no calls, no meetups. I see you building a wall I need never trespass. My greatest fear coming alive Oh Helios, am I too close to thy light? Who curses the sun for Icarus' wax wings? So no, I don't blame you for the things you never did. You've always been my yellow, but now I'm colourblind, All the castles I built crumbling in my mind. My letters lost in your wallet, I'm sorry, this is not what I meant. I no longer have the will to write. As my dried flowers quietly die.

By @its-ener

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[gracehosborn]

Super Random Food For Thought:

@icarusbetide’s Edward Stevens AU post earlier got me to reread Stevens’ earliest surviving letter to Hamilton from December of 1777. Every time I reread this letter (and often, which I shall explain), I’m always struck by this one portion:

Why have you not written me a single Line since our Separation? Has your Anxiety for publick Affairs entirely eradicated from your Mind all remembrance of your private Concerns? Or have you forgotten those Vo⟨ws⟩ of eternal Friendship, which we have so often mutually exchanged? I am perfectly at a Loss I assure you, my Dr: Hamilton, to account for your Silence. I have written you frequently, and, as I know that you was at a Distance from New York, enclosed your Letters to some of our common Friends in that City, and requested them to transmit them to you.

“To Alexander Hamilton From Edward Stevens [23 December 1777],” The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, Volume I: 1768-1778 Ed. Harold C. Syrett, Columbia University Press, 1961, pp. 369-371. [Founders Online Link]

All I’m left to always ask is: what happened here? Did Hamilton in fact write to Stevens and his letters just miscarried across the Atlantic? Did Hamilton intentionally not write to Stevens? If so, why? Stevens left for Edinburgh after graduating from King’s College in 1774 to pursue further education, so this places this letter about three years later. That’s a significant amount of time and explains Stevens’ emphasis on Hamilton’s silence as seen above. We have later letters that Stevens wrote to Hamilton, but beyond Hamilton’s initial surviving letter to him (the famous “I wish there was a War” letter), there are no other letters written from Hamilton to Stevens that were printed in The Papers of Alexander Hamilton (see here).

The reason I’ve read this letter so many times is due to TAI which may be a bit silly. This letter is grouped with a couple of others in what I like to personally refer to as the “pillar letters” that have informed my creative decisions for the main arc of Volume I and to that end, part of the larger arc for the rest of the series. A few of these include the previously mentioned war letter, Hamilton’s letter to Laurens of April 1779, a letter Hamilton wrote Robert Troup in 1795, and some others but this is besides the point.

Of course, The American Icarus is fictional and thus I’ve decided that Hamilton simply ignoring Stevens is an interesting take to explore and build part of a character arc from, but historically speaking, I just have too many questions.

The fact that Stevens (more than once) addresses Hamilton as “my dear Hamilton” in this letter I s also interesting to note, but there’s not really much to conclude there. This post in its entirety is inconclusive, but as I said at the top this is just my food for thought.

[violent-backed-starling]

okay so here me out, surviving the applewhites but make it bell’s hells.

in this version of the story i would put ashton in the jake semple role. he is a punk who has been dealt a pretty crappy shake of things and are being treated as more of a problem than a person. i think that he’d still be an orphan and he would still crime as he is wont to do. so then jiana hexum would be his parole officer and fulfill the role of jake’s uncle, just pawning ashton off onto anybody who’ll deal with them so she doesn’t have to.

so hexum drops him off with bertrand bell who is rudolph applewhite in this au so he is running a school/home for ‘problem children’ with his partner liev’tel who is the sybil jameson. he has collected all of the hells throughout the years, even adopting chetney as like a weird ass uncle or whatever. so therefore chetney is the zedediah in this world. he lives in a cottage on the property and spends most of his time woodworking and grumbling about the kids running around. the parrot that zedediah has can be pate and go to laudna. laudna and imogen are gonna be like the lucille and archie of this au, but younger.

laudna, i think is the adopted daughter of bertrand after being on the run after her parents were murdered by the briarwoods. he found her and decided that he liked her and that he might as well take her in. so she was there first and then she befriends imogen at school and notices that neither of their needs are being met at the aforementioned school and imogen has a very distant father, so why not ask her loving adoptive father and his partner to school the both of them. 

so that is how it starts and then they add on dorian as cordelia. he is trying to go further with his more musical and artistic expression and that is why he goes there. the next addition to their motley crew was chetney and he just sets up shop and sells his master crafts-work. orym comes next and he the e. d. as he is the most rational, logical, and level headed. he also is there because his bestie dorian is there.

fearne i think fulfills several roles. she is hal and govindaswami in one as well as being a chaotic force in her own right. she shows up as bit after orym as she just followed her boys to bell’s hellions as they are known colloquially. the last to join them, aside from ashton, is letters who is the destiny of this group. he is the youngest as is dumped on bertrand as he is known for taking in renegades. fcg clings to ashton after he becomes a part of the group.

i think the plot should follow fairly closely to the book. so it mostly would follow our favourite punk rock as he settles in to life with the hells, but he really gets invested in them when he is cast in the musical by bertrand and people start to see him as more that a nuisance. 

thats all folks!

[icaruskeyartist]

I'm going to try and get to page thirty in my script before I go to bed.

There's something going on in my brain that I don't know how to deal with right now. I guess since I'm likely to have a place now out in the 'burbs (commute will be a bitch but it is what it is) until after I graduate the whole getting broken up with thing is hitting me. Like, the relationship is fundamentally not changing, and there's nothing I want in the world more than to live with someone I love and trust. And... I'm aromantic apparently, so that love and trust is something I share with my friends, few though they be.

I really don't want to be alone, but I also kinda. Don't always want someone there either. I don't know how to explain it.

I really, really hope after I graduate I can slowly build a few solid, local friendships. Or drag Tea and Doe up here and wedge myself into their lives and make a tabletop rpg group with them and Ray.

[ghostiicarus]

okay about the star trek post she's not explicitly technically trans but she is HEAVILY trans coded in that she's the reincarnation (it's complicated) of a man and has lived many prior lives as both men and women. and the way it's specifically discussed in show ("used to be a man," etc) is about as subtle as a brick through a window

also she got to kiss another woman onscreen in the nineties bc of that same reincarnation thing so love wins I guess

thats cool tbh!! reminds me of the main character of the series fumetsu no anata e. he starts out as a sort of sentient ball of light (dont ask) and gets the ability to transform into people and animals who made an impact on his life.