#the aides de camp

[icarusbetide]

i know washingdad jokes are more of a fanon, musical thing but really. i genuinely believe in my soul that historical washington was the type of guy to hear his aides chant "we want mcdonalds we want mcdonalds" and silently enter the drive-through just to order one black coffee, no cream no sugar and leave.

[turnwashingtonsbaddies]

happy pride month!!!!! george doesn’t really understand what pride month is, but where would he be without his gaggle of gays following him around?

[on-partiality]

Some Aide boys <3

( I start high school in 3 days btw so if anyone has any advice that'd be great, fyi: Australian high school starts at year 7. Americans do not give me advice for year 10)

[kaiowut99]

this is how that conversation about O'Brien and Cobra went right

[murillo-enthusiast]

Here are some wings for you too you little demon

*Soult is trying so very hard to look dignified as he examines the batlike wings on his back, but you can’t really look very dignified as you’re twisting and turning to look behind you. He is scowling.*

I did not want the moniker of “Devil King Nicolas” to be so literal.

Saint-Chamans: You should try flying!

Bory: Those wings wouldn’t be able to lift your body weight, but this is a fantastical place. I agree, you should try flying!

No. It is beneath me.

Lameth: *unable to contain himself and having just been freed from being grounded* No, the ground will be beneath you when you start flying!

… Correct. But I will not be attempting to do so in front of so many… onlookers.

… Are these horns on my head.

[aidede-camp]

Soldier, Poet, King~

Already posted this on Insta! I don’t always post my art here but always will on Insta! If you want to see more, that’s the best place!

[perdicinae-observer]

Hey, Louis - good to have you back with us.

@your-staff-wizard and @chicksncash send their regards;

Mme DuQuay, ADC to both of those old bastards...

Much obliged, Mm DuQuay...it has been a while, yes.

Kindly thank your marshals for me for their regards, I'm sure they are quite busy...whatever it is that they do now.

Praying For your sanity and health,

L Davout.

[yr-martyr]

Washington: I’m telling you, my aides are perfectly competent.

Lafayette, rushing in: Mon General! Laurens tried to make pasta in the coffee pot and now it's broken!

[icarusbetide]

yes we can have historical accuracy or we can have the scene in george washington (1984) where washington shakes his soldiers' hands and embraces them- but gets to hamilton and ignores the offered hand to pull him into a tight hug with tears in his eyes.

so i don't know what you want from me.

btw the curly haired dude before hamilton is tench tilghman. my aides de camp.

[ettelenethelien]

Trying to write something...

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It all started with Elros wanting a cavalry. The Edain did not have any larger, or even moderately sized horseback regiment and the lack irked him. Truth be told, there was more of them that did not know how to ride, than those who knew, and there was not enough of the latter among any single people to make up one - but there was plenty enough between the three Houses, and the House of Bor, and the many disparate mortal groups that had wandered into Beleriand at some point or another.

The other indisputable fact is that, among the members of the high command, Elros was The Baby, and the general consensus was that if Elros wanted a cavalry he should have one.

In hindsight, this may have been the begining of a nation.

[unicornsaures]

yapping about the outsiders x amrev

Okay so first off, not replacing any characters, obviously. Im thinking the aides are their own seperate little group that just hang around one another. Not an actual gang like the shepard gang but more how the main characters run; just a group thats independent, but willing to stick up for one another. Ive decided that if i ever do something with this god forsaken AU its genuinely just gonna be mostly seperate from the main plot because none of the aides themselves would be socs and so the plot wouldnt even be relevant until the very end.(I have been thinking of making Lafayette a soc or something. Just for the fuck of it to test some limits to hamilton, laurens, and laf's friendship with the whole bob thing ehe!)

But for the sake of this AU, theyre all aged into their 20s except for Washington. Its just easier than having 60 year olds street fighting.

Right, so characters! I havent thought much on other aides BUT i have thought VERY heavily on Laurens and Hamilton, obviously. So, starting with Laurens. Hes literally the same. Hes just as impulsive as he is during his time period if not worse. Hes given more opportunities to fight and he takes every. single. one. I would say hes similar to Dally but really he isnt. He'll get in a fistfight every week or so but nothing serious enough he ends up in jail. His relationship with HL is kind if rocky, too. They moved from SC to fucking oklahoma and John is not too happy about the move, for one, and his father isnt happy that Laurens turned into a 'hood.' Mainly, he just wont sleep at his own house. He'll crash at Meade's place or maybe Hamilton's run down, abandoned little house if he has to. HL isnt abusive or anything he just doesnt like living with so many siblings while his father goes on and on about how hes a bad influence. Not helping that he has a new bruise or cut every time he vists but i digress, John is basically a 'watered down' dally.

Righttt, Hamilton! Yeah, born in NYC, mom died, got too expensive, so he moved to good ol Oklahoma without his dad. I may just say he works at DX with Soda and whatnot because while the aides arent needed for the plot, i want them to feel a lil somethin somethin when everything goes down in the book and having a relation to both Soda and Steve would at least make Hamilton feel a bit bad and maybe even convince him to fight in the rumble at the end. Laurens and him arent really officially dating either. Theyre technically exclusive, but they never really talked about it and kind of just say theyre there to keep each other in check. Neither of them really want to confront any of their emotions towards anything so they settle for hamilton lovingly scolding laurens every time he gets in a fight and sharing 'no homo' kisses. Yeah and he lives in this run down house that he doesnt pay for and he has to drop by Meade's place whenever cops come searching for anyone living in there because i need him to be a little bit pathetic.

The rest of the aides are primarily undecided, if im being honest. Meade's parents are still alive from what I know and the other aides either stay at their own house or crash at Meade's, but Laurens is usually taking up the couch on most nights as does Hamilton. Most of the other aides arent big fighters really, theyre just trying to make it through college/day to day jobs. Washington kind of watches over all of them, like an unofficial father to their lil gang. They just hang around him and he frequently scolds them all for misbehaving. Hes like darry but older i guess. (Hes like, in his late 40's in this AU.)

Oh, and kinloch is there because i said so! If anything, he gives me major soc vibes and i primarily think he is why Laurens has such a knack for starting fights with socs for no reason. They were some weird ass situationship and they had an unofficial breakup that Laurens is still extremely salty over. Francis totally went for his neck during the rumble btw and they hate each other and laurens still tries to start fights with him whenever he sees him.

Though, Lafayette is also pretty undecided. I want him to be a greaser but at the same time i think him being a soc would test the limits of him and laurens' friendship while also he and hamilton's friendship. Laurens because obviously, francis. Hamilton because he saw how the socs affected soda, steve, etc and he feels bad for them, but also Lafayette would be dead set that Johnny is a murderer because he needs to stick up for the socs to stay loyal.

Now lets talk about the rumble! I think only some of the aides would get involved, really. Hamilton would because he saw how johnny affected steve and soda, Laurens because he just wants to fight, and the two dragged along Tilghman and Harrison because theyre strong enough to do some genuine damage. The rest of them just dont want to be involved in all of that and think its easier to just not get hurt.(Meade tags along but stands off to the side just to make sure no one gets seriously injured. He has change ready for a pay phone in case he needs to call up washington.)

Now, what i think would be interesting is their reaction to Dally's death. Im saying Laurens wouldve heard his name, as would all of the greasers, really. So their entire gang would know his name, but im mainly thinking about Laurens for this one because id like to think that he kind of looked up to him in some fucked up way? Not really looked up to, but more so respected. I feel like with Ham telling him about how Soda and Steve reacted and how they act at the DX afterwards would really fuck with him too and id like to think hed drop by the curtis house or some shit to say that he thought dally was a cool guy or something.

Yeah, anyway this is all pretty rough in terms of what the fuck im yapping about i just spat out every word that came to mind.

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1948 – Death of Gearóid O’Sullivan. He had the honour of raising the Tricolour over the GPO as fighting raged the streets of Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising.

Gearóid O’Sullivan, then 25, was the youngest IRB officer fighting in the GPO (three months younger than his cousin Michael Collins). He had been personally chosen by leader Seán Mac Diarmada to serve as his aide-de-camp. He was an Irish teacher, Irish language scholar, army officer, barrister and Sinn Féin and Fine Gael politician. Following the Rising, he was interned in Frongoch in Wales with…

[murillo-enthusiast]

Continuing on from here... With @le-brave-des-braves on his back, the great drake Soult approaches the plants that are menacing @your-staff-wizard and have turned his place into a veritable jungle and...

with a roar and a burst of mighty flame, sets the plants ablaze! Possibly including the carnivorous one! And probably the house! Sorry. But what's this?

Why, it's ADC Bory de Saint-Vincent, who hasn't noticed that the world around him has just gotten a whole lot hotter! And that one little spark can set him... alight. Like the one that's currently merrily eating his tailcoat uniform.

[revoltedstates]

Lt. Frank N. Sheets, of Madison, Indiana, was killed in action at the Battle of Chickamauga on September 20th, 1863. My article on Sheets' life was recently published in the Autumn 2023 issue of Military Images magazine: https://militaryimagesmagazine.com/2023/09/17/finding-aid-autumn-2023/

[nordleuchten]

24 Days of La Fayette 2022 - La Fayette's aide-de-camps

Day 1 - Edmund Brice • Day 2 - Louis Cloquet de Vrigny • Day 3 - Pierre, Chevalier Du Rousseau de Fayolle • Day 4 - Louis-Pierre, Marquis de Vienne • Day 5 - John E. Hagey • Day 6 - Carter Page • Day 7 - Cadwallader Jones • Day 8 - William Constable • Day 9 - Comte de Charlus • Day 10 - George Augustine Washington • Day 11 - Jean-Louis and Alexandre Romeuf • Day 12 - André Toussaint Delarûe • Day 13 - Gabriel de Queyssat • Day 14 - Joseph-Léonard Poirey • Day 15 - William Langborn • Day 16 - François-Louis Teissèdre de Fleury, Marquis de Fleury • Day 17 - Joseph-Pierre-Charles, Baron de Frey • Day 18 - Charles-Albert, comte de Moré de Pontgibaud • Day 19 - Jean-Joseph Soubadère de Gimat • Day 20 - Louis-Saint-Ange, chevalier Morel de La Colombe • Day 21 - Michel Capitaine du Chesnoy • Day 22 - Jean-Baptiste, Chevalier de Gouvion • Day 23 - Presley Neville • Day 24 - James McHenry

[thesoupiestbowl]

Reflections, American Revolution RPF

I've posted a new fanfic to my AO3! And it's NOT my mermaid au (SHOCKER). I've been working on this for a hot second, usually in tandem with worse than sharks. I would regularly sit with both tabs open, writing both fics at the same time. Enjoy the fruits of my madness!