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the way I just Know Hamilton was a Gemini rising

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This morning I discovered an AI online site where you could basically mix faces and retouch genes until you got the character you wanted and obviously, I had to do Alex and John the way I imagine them (had to do a few things with my drawing program too)… It’s not perfect but I’m actually really happy with the result! They’re really close to how I picture them :) What do you guys think?

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GirlBoss Eliza Schuyler and MaleWife Alexander Hamilton

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Real talk.

Big frustrated that the Amrev fandom- specifically the Hamilton fandom became as cringy as it did. Because now, this second wave is mostly kids that were too young to know or too young/bold to care what kind of crazy shit half this fandom’s gotten down to over the last 5 years. Anyone with any sense steers clear of this hellhole because they know we’re particularly unhinged here.

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I become less and less impressed by every one of the “founding fathers” every day. real people are just so much cooler and smarter and thoughtful

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I love how we can talk about American history like this. Like you can't do this with any other country it just doesn't have the same effect.. like saying the duke of wellington had a huge man crush on napoleon because he kept a massive naked statue of him in his foyer and had portraits of his sister and fucked every woman napoleon fucked... just doesn't feel the same. American history is just objectively funnier

this country is a joke literally from day one lmfao

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im pitching my blog to TownandCountrymag now

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what does this mean

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Bruh okay so I was looking up quotes from Aaron burr, and one of the recommendations was a quote by Richard Brookhiser that said “Aaron Burr was like a new refrigerator. He was bright, cold and empty.” I feel like you would have something to say about that.

ON god that quote is SO stupid so like.

He’s talking about Burr’s preference for superficial conversation and not talking about himself personally, and his tendency to have more casual acquaintances than close bonds with other people. Anybody who knows literally anything about Aaron Burr knows these preferences almost definitely stemmed from being abused as a child, but a lot of people like to try and twist literally everything Burr did into Evidence That He Was Evil. And this twisting almost always targets Burr’s trauma symptoms.

He maintained casual acquaintances because he thought everyone was beneath him (as opposed to because he grew up learning that vulnerability led to pain). He stuck to small talk because he was just That shallow (as opposed to because superficial topics were Safe and wouldn’t get him in trouble). He sucked up to authority because he wanted favors (not because sucking up might pacify them). He was an atheist because he was a narcissist and hated the idea of a power higher than himself (not because he was viciously abused by religious fanatics).

It’s incredibly stupid but people have decided that The Guy Who Shot Alexander Hamilton (which of course is the only thing Burr was) must have been Literal Satan with zero personality traits besides Evil.

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One of the founding fathers knock on your windows who is it and what do they do

alexander hamilton and he's begging for toilet paper

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Real talk, for John Laurens to say that he isn’t good at drawing faces, then he’d had to have drawn a few before. What if they were as bad as that one that Hamilton did

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william shakespeare listened to shawty wanna fuck before writing whatever it was that he wrote idk

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on the topic of whether or not white people could conceptualize racial slavery as wrong at the time of the writing of the declaration of independence and constitution– they definitely knew it was and that’s why it wasn’t even mentioned in either. it was an embarrassment for the lofty, intellectual class that wrote these documents even as they owned slaves themselves. they knew they were not practicing what they preached and that’s why they tried to downplay it.

for example, george washington willed his slaves to be freed upon the death of his wife (who he presumed, correctly, would outlive him). clearly he knew the enslaved people he held as property wanted and deserved to be free. he just wouldn’t allow it as long as he and his wife lived and benefited from their labor. he also attempted to have formerly enslaved people re-captured when they ran away from him in the free capital city of philadelphia.

By the 1780s, Washington’s feelings about slavery had changed, and he expressed his uneasiness with the institution to close friends, including his Revolutionary War comrade the Marquis de Lafayette. But as his reaction to Judge’s escape made clear, Washington was not ready to give up on the bound labor on which his Virginia plantation—and his life—was built. Far from a passive bystander in the perpetuation of slavery, Washington at this point was actively engaged in returning Judge to his (or his wife’s) possession.

thomas jefferson freed five of the ~200 enslaved people owned by his estate at the time of his death. he freed two people, robert and james hemings, during his lifetime. three other hemings were “allowed” to leave with what monticello.org calls his “tacit consent.” this website also has a page dedicated to jefferson’s attitude towards slavery. here is a brief and contradictory section from that page:

Thomas Jefferson wrote that “all men are created equal,” and yet enslaved more than six-hundred people over the course of his life.  Although he made some legislative attempts against slavery and at times bemoaned its existence, he also profited directly from the institution of slavery and wrote that he suspected black people to be inferior to white people in his Notes on the State of Virginia.

Throughout his entire life, Thomas Jefferson was publicly a consistent opponent of slavery. Calling it a “moral depravity” and a “hideous blot,” he believed that slavery presented the greatest threat to the survival of the new American nation. Jefferson also thought that slavery was contrary to the laws of nature, which decreed that everyone had a right to personal liberty. These views were radical in a world where unfree labor was the norm.

based on his studies of laws, writings, and publications contemporary to the period, theodore w allen theorized in his book “the invention of the white race” (full text available here) that the founding fathers assumed that while during their lifetime they could continue to benefit from enslaved black labor, the institution of slavery would naturally lose popularity over time and become a relic of an illiberal past. 

In the beginning, however, the Emancipationist mood had been in the

ascendant; slavery was such a shameful thing that the Founders resorted to

elaborate circumlocution to avoid the use of the word “slave” in the

Constitution. There was a sense that both lifetime and limited-term bond-servitude would die a natural economic death with the development of the reserve army of unemployed labor normal to the capitalist social system. In earnest of that belief, they enacted a ban on the “importation” of African bond-laborers after 1807. Events, however, took a turn as tragic as it was unexpected.

the tragic turn he is referring to in the end of this passage was the invention of the cotton gin, which dramatically increased labor productivity in the processing of cotton, turned cotton into a highly profitable cash crop, launched the industrial revolution in england, and made the labor of enslaved black workers all the more valuable to the plantation-owning class. 

people knew that slavery was wrong. the founding fathers knew. they just valued its monetary benefits to the ruling class more than they valued their supposed lofty principles of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” 

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me: I really like history

what some ppl think I mean, and understandably so: eheheh I like military history

what I mean: people are and have always been fucking crazy and it's very entertaining to find out what they were up to. it's like drama but like three centuries old.

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A concept: One of those exercise bikes/treadmills/other workout programs with trainers and simulated scenery except the trainer is Baron von Steuben and the setting is Valley Forge