ALL RIGHT, big fan of this procrastinating thing, who needs to study physics.
16: (truth) What is your dream job? (dare) Post the four most recent pictures in your camera roll.
So, I’ll do truth because my camera roll has nothing but pictures of IR spectra on it right now and I love y’all too much to do that to you. My dream job if I really had my pick would be “make lots of money as an author, open ACTUALLY FREE clinic for people who can’t afford the hospital, work as ER doctor and have free rein to yell at my friends for being dumbasses.” Also I would like to make enough money to foster LGBT kids who get kicked out of their house. Barring a financial miracle, though, I’d like to work as a doctor in the emergency department of a Trauma 1 hospital in a big city. Wow, that makes me sound like a great person. Don’t let it fool you, I’m an asshole.
24: (truth) If you could only own five material objects (not counting life necessities like food/water/a house/etc) what would they be? (dare) Put your music player on shuffle. Post what the first three songs are, and for each one, tag a blog that the song reminds you of.
I’m gonna do the dare because…my books. I could not pick only five. (Do books count as life necessities? That would be a tidy cop out.) I’m listening to Hamilton, so…I’m gonna put it on shuffle. Fucking pray for me.
Aaron Burr, Sir: My wife @twistedangelsays, because I am the smol, loudmouthed, opinionated, angry Hamilton to her patient, manipulative Burr. We have no intentions to murder each other. Also because she and I call each other Hamilton and Laurens, because every-damn-body thinks we’re sleeping together. (WE’RE NOT.)
Wait for It: Uh…oh, god, I don’t know. I kinda want to say notbecauseofvictories because IT IS GORGEOUS AND HER WRITING IS GORGEOUS and because they give me that same gut-punch of beauty. But I’m too shy to tag her, because she is very impressive. So. Instead, @im-lost-but-not-gone, because my mom has NOT HEARD THIS SONG YET and she is going to LOVE IT and she is JUST LIKE THIS SONG and guys, she’s so cool, for real.
Best of Wives and Best of Women: Well, in other news I am dead, but whatever. I can’t see through my TEARS to pick a blog, this is why we don’t fucking shuffle Hamilton, fuck this, I’m going back to listening to Shinedown and Fall Out Boy. I’m just lucky it didn’t whip out fucking Hurricane or some shit.
26: (truth) What’s the last movie you watched? (dare) Reblog the most recent of your own selfies posted on tumblr, and in the tags say two things you like about your appearance in it?
Gonna do truth because I don’t really…do selfies? Like, I don’t have an issue with them, it just never occurs to me to take them. The last movie I watched was…ah, I think it was The Thirteenth Warrior. Might have been The Mummy. Don’t think it was Labyrinth. There’s a trend, I guess.
Anonymous asked: the fact that the parks and recs quote about alex hating most things but not hating laurens wasn't even that far off from an actual quote....
“You know the opinion I entertain of mankind, and how much it is my desire to preserve myself free from particular attachments, and to keep my happiness independent of the caprice of others. You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.” -alex hamilton, in an April 1779 letter to john laurens (chernow pg. 123)
hamilspeak for “i hate most things but i never seem to hate you”
i can’t even make this stuff up, man. goddamn. lams is the realest.
No you don’t understand there are two Hamilton quotes where he literally says “I hate everything except Laurens” in almost those exact words:
“In short Laurens I am disgusted with every thing in this world but yourself and very few more honest fellows and I have no other wish than as soon as possible to make a brilliant exit.” - AH to JL, January 8, 1780
“I hate Congress—I hate the army—I hate the world—I hate myself. The whole is a mass of fools and knaves; I could almost except you and Meade.” - AH to JL, September 12, 1780
Philip Schuyler was a general in the Continental Army as well as a businessman. He was actually pretty good at it, and the British wanted to take him out of commission. One night, a raiding party broke into the Schuyler house looking for him. The family (Philip included) hid in an upstairs bedroom – when they realized that the baby was still in her cradle downstairs.
So, who volunteered to sneak through a house of armed men to get her? Who got grabbed on the way back up and, still holding the baby, lied to their leader when he stuck a gun in her face and demanded to know where General Schuyler was?
Peggy.
*and
When they asked her where he was, she responded something like “He has gone to get help.” which scared them all so much that they left the home before the back-up could arrive.
Peggy had her baby sister in her arms, her pregnant sisters and mother upstairs hiding, and a gun in her face and she managed to stay calm enough to save her family.
The Hamilton posts on my dash left me with a vague desire to see the show if the opportunity ever arose. But this. I pressed play, and at a minute and 20 seconds into this video, I paused it, opened iTunes, and downloaded the soundtrack. What the fuck is this. I didn’t ask for this.
THIS IS EXACTLY HOW IT HAPPENED.
I can’t put words to just how much the orchestra loses their collective shit during Yorktown – specifically during Oak’s rap + right after it. Their volume skyrockets, the conductor was headbanging…it felt like my seat was rattling off its hinges with the energy of it.
Yep, this is what sucked me in too. Listen with headphones. Every single time I get goosebumps when they get to “The world turned upside down…”
This grad cap my friend Nicole and I made for her graduation @linmanuel. We worked really hard on it and it would mean so much for everyone to try and get lin to see it!
