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[icarusbetide]

wtf was hamilton actually like

yet another long rant about how little i really know about hamilton! this is in regards to his personality because i can't get him down. i can't figure out what he would've been like in everyday life.

for any historical figure, we take explicitly documented traits and build off of them. even if it's clumsy, i'd be confident "predicting" how washington & jefferson usually act, etc. but for some reason, ham's characterization is all over the place. his recorded personality traits, also mixed with his political attitudes, often conflict and authors end up leaning into certain parts. for instance: there's flirty & flamboyant ham. there's prideful, arrogant, standoffish ham. there's bumbling politics ham, obtuse and belligerent 24/7 - aka musical ham, but that was an intentional choice. there's even kind and warm ham, which definitely seems accurate for his family and close friends least.

was he loud and intense 24/7? or was that just him during work, since we also know that he had a habit of mumbling to himself and looking like a daydreamer to spectators?

some people said that his general countenance was serious and austere, but we also know that he could be a charmer in social spaces. he was described as feminine but also as "martial". some have written that there's an "simplicity" in his manners, and a clear openness, but we also speculate that he closed off some part of his emotions after laurens' death. he was constantly worried about his loved ones' health, like him tucking in judge ford, but we also know that he could ghost people mercilessly. was he guarded or was he not?

i guess i can pinpoint how he might have interacted with select people, like eliza, his children, washington. but i don't know which side of him was shown in the majority of his interactions - what the "real" him, or at least common him, would've been.

one of my fav descriptions of him notes how even his speech fluctuated:

“His language is not always equal; sometimes didactic like Bolingbroke’s; at other times light and tripping, like Sterne’s. His eloquence is not so defusive as to trifle with the senses, but he rambles just enough to strike and keep up the attention...His manners are tinctured with stiffness and sometimes with a degree of vanity that is highly disagreeable. “

and i recall another anecdote about how he was serious and made intelligent conversation at dinner, but became more of the flirty charming persona afterwards while socializing.

like all human beings he was multifaceted, but damn. i really can't confidently say "oh if you ran into hamilton in the street he would be really polite/reserved/kind/charming."

i guess all of this goes to say that this guy was insanely complex and i'm not sure if anyone, let alone himself, really figured it out. that's definitely why i'm interested in him as a figure, but ugh. frustrating when i'm writing and can feel myself slipping into a common ham archetype that i don't think is 100% accurate. and we didn't even get into how much of that is "real" or - adams' version.

[stasiaorleanka]

Hamilton and Duel?

What do you think about Hamilton and Burr's duel, there are questions i ask myself constantly such like "Why did he accept the challenge when he was disgusted with duels?" and "why did he wear his glasses if actually did, after he claimed that he wasn't going to shoot? AND THE MOST INTERESTING THING, Did he really want to die? I've read this several times in biographies and on the internet, and the idea that he wanted to win with Burr, dying and making the Vice president the villain in the History seems to be very created in Hamilton's mind.

WHAT DO YOU ALL THINK?

[myfairmaidenx]

Repost from my insta, (@)laurensmylove (the username was taken here so I adopted my main’s username :)

Just some very stylized portrait stuff of mr John Laurens

[dustzvacuumcleaner]

[iluvlaffayette]

[meruant]

“Cold in my professions, warm in ⟨my⟩ friendships,”

[naynokkori]

I did it. Again.

[s3iga]

hi

.. - Based Off Victoria Semykina's art.

[dogzcats]

PERIOD DRAMA APPRECIATION WEEK: Favorite TV series

John Adams (2008)

[river-blue]

Animation practice with John Laurens 👍🏽

Still teaching myself a lot of stuff but I'm pretty proud of the little movement here

[icarusbetide]

my favorite part of the young hamilton by flexner wasn't the actual biography but the note where he explains why he researched hamilton and not franklin, jefferson, or adams. franklin? already covered in the past. jefferson? being covered by a contemporary and friend.

but then he gets to adams:

crying. the man's so unlikable this historian went nahh forget it.

[earlgrey24]

Know the difference.

[nylatrashcan]

demons won sorry 🥇

[xdariox]

Historical Hamilton fanart，includes the plot after Hamilton's death and his childhood in the Caribbean.（and one Historical jamilton（？

I originally planned to draw his entire life, but I was too busy and only drew about 30 drafts before losing my energy, so I gave up（im sorry…………> <

[nothingfrompoland]

every hamilton ship in a nutshell

[dustzvacuumcleaner]

I don’t have to sell my soul

He’s already in me.

I don’t need to sell my soul

He’s already in me.