Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

danrdarrenc:

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thehumantrampoline:

graintaire:

I want a revolution. 

I’ll call the Les Mis fandom.

I want a successful revolution. 

Call the Hamilton fandom.

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john-laurens:

Since Charles Lee is played as a pretty young guy in Hamilton, I’m not sure how many people are aware of the full context and hilarity of Laurens’s roast of Lee at Lee’s court-martial

Laurens was a 23-year-old aide-de-camp when he testified at the court-martial.  Charles Lee was 46 and a general.  Lee was twice Laurens’s age and outranked him, but Laurens had no reservations about completely dragging him.

Laurens and his sass were a gift to this world.

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Anonymous asked: Why is Thomas Jefferson getting a ton of heat lately? He's my problematic fav

kaylapocalypse:

falsedetective:

philtippett:

falsedetective:

falsedetective:

i mean, lately, it’s presumably because the hit broadway musical hamilton is out there reminding everyone that tjeff was The Worst. but i’m gonna take this opportunity to give you a run-down of every historic reason why tjeff was The Worst

1. i could end the list at “slave owner”
2. furthermore, he was even more racist than most 18th century racists. i don’t have the time or energy to list all the racists things he did, but there are a lot, just google it
   
3. like when his pal tadeusz kosciuszko died he stipulated that the money from his american estate should be used to free and educate jefferson’s slaves and in response he was like. “i can’t read suddenly. i don’t know”
   
4. he was a huge hypocrite who claimed to support the ~small independent farmers when the only interests he really cared about looking out for were - you guessed it - the interests of wealthy plantation owners, which is probably his biggest contribution to the legacy of american politics tbh
   
5. also, remember how he wrote the declaration of independence - including the original draft where he waxed philosophical about how slavery is an abomination - even though #1-3
6. sally hemings
7. he had no idea how the economy works. a good deal of his political career was spent arguing with the federalists about why taxes are bad and banks are scary. one time he tried to ban exports, like, entirely, because he just didn’t foresee any negative consequences to that brilliant idea, apparently
   
8. he was a generally obnoxious person who not only spewed baseless accusations against his enemies every time he was challenged on all his horrible ideology, but he didn’t even have the balls to do it himself, he usually employed a whole gang of followers to do his public shit-talking for him
   
9. he actually kept a burn book where he collected rumors about people he didn’t like. i wish i was making this up lmao this actually happened!!!
10. a big fan of indian removal and/or forced assimilation
11. there’s gotta be a lot else i’m forgetting right now, i’m just thinking off the top of my head

basically he sat around at monticello spinning around in his swivel chair while his slave-concubine brought him bowl after bowl of mac and cheese, meditating on liberty and equality with so much moral myopia he could’ve been the antihero protagonist of an amc prestige drama

i’m too tired to source any of this hate right now but i can and will elaborate if anyone deems it necessary

tj loved mac and cheese so much that he had a macaroni machine shipped over from naples. he often served mac and cheese to his dinner guests, some of whom called it “very strong and not agreeable“ because this man can’t even do mac and cheese right

i just want to add my personal favorite obnoxious jefferson story to this beautiful post (co-starring - surprise!! - alexander hamilton):

jefferson had alexander hamilton over at his house for dinner parties quite a bit (hamilton, for his part, often entertained at his own house but never invited jefferson, i can’t possibly imagine why). and on the wall in his house, jefferson had portraits - actual portraits, hanging, on the wall of his home - of isaac newton, john locke, and francis bacon, bc jefferson was the most pretentious fuck of his time. anyway, at one of these dinners, alexander asked tj who these men in the portraits were (altho no one can ever convince me that he didn’t already know) and jefferson was basically like “these are my personal holy trinity! the greatest men who ever lived!” and then went on about each of their great accomplishments and influences on the world and all. after he finally finishes his spiel, alexander is quiet for some time, looking pensive, and then he says, “well, no, julius caesar was the greatest man who ever lived.”

now, nobody knows exactly why hamilton said this. in general tho there are two theories. for one thing, it’s possible that he just genuinely admired julius caesar as a statesman. that wouldn’t particularly surprise me, knowing what we know about hamilton’s political beliefs (which is a lot). however, even if that is true, i’m more inclined to believe the other prevailing thought, which is that alexander hamilton was a little shit who just liked to say things that he knew would upset thomas jefferson.

and it worked! (it often worked. teej took the bait all the time, so it never lost its appeal.) jefferson, in all his ~enlightened~ capital-r Reasoning and nominal love of small government and rule by “the people,” was shocked into sputtering speechlessness. he could not believe that someone would say such a thing!! to the point where he told this story to other people for decades, like “hey can you believe this? a real person actually said that!!!!” dude was so bothered.

(fwiw, jefferson also used this story as evidence that hamilton was a dangerous man who should never be given political power bc clearly he would take over the country as emperor, and it became yet another thing that came back to bite hamilton in the ass. but based on jefferson’s response, tbh it sounds like it was worth it.)

Thank You for contributing this wonderful story. i’d just like to add: hamilton hated julius caesar, and he frequently insulted people and policies he disliked by comparing them to caesar, so he was 100% definitely trolling tjeffies for his own personal amusement. the fact that his dumb joke was used against him for decades is, from every angle, the funniest part of this whole story

Mac and cheese. I’m weak

hamilton au where Lafayette is the only roommate who ever gets groceries

inordinatelyarticulate:

Lafayette: I go to the store with more funds

I come back with more gum

and chips

and soda, bread, and dips

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fun facts about marquis de lafayette

john-andre:

• came to america illegally, against the rules of the king, disguised as a pregnant woman
• didn’t tell his wife that he was gone until after he was sailing away
• got captured and brought back to france again, escaped on a cargo ship and bought all of the cargo to keep the ship from stopping
• was raised on a farm because after his father died his mom fucked off to paris without him
• got laughed off the dance floor by marie antoinette once
• after the revolution he came to america and people were making gloves with his face on them
• he refused to kiss the hands of ladies wearing these gloves because he didn’t want to kiss himself
• named his only son georges washington de lafayette
• named his daughter marie antoinette virginie de lafayette and called her virginie after washington’s home state
• fought in the revolution for free because he loved america that much
• napped with george washington under a tree once while using washington’s coat as a blanket
• he was super tall especially for the time, like 5'11"
• became fluent in english within a year of arriving in america
• found out about the revolution from king george’s cousin, who was complaining about the revolts at a dinner party
• is buried under american soil and a little american flag flies over his grave to this day because he had it imported from bunker hill
• he didn’t have to help us but he did it that was nice
• and then we went and fucked up the country anyway
• we need to fix it for him

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I Saw Hamilton Today (UPDATED)

tw11ngem11n11:

Heres a little list of shit I loved live: 

• Alexander is completely nonchalant and remorseless when he informs Burr that he punched someone, like he literally couldn’t care less. Burr is less so.
• In “Shot”, Burr is literally just sitting in the back reading and ignoring everything else like its not even happening.
• Burr buys the whole gang literal shots that they’re going clubbing
• Hamilton and Laurens keep staring each other in the eye
• Lafayette is a dirty enabler and so is Mulligans
  
• When Burr convinces Hamilton to let Seabury be, Lafayette pushes Hamilton forwards again to tear Seabury down while Mulligan cheers. Laurens does not encourage Hamilton forwards but does also cheer.
• Hamilton gets up on Seabury’s box with him and gets right in his face while Seabury tries to ignore him.
• Angelica is so tired of these men and wants them to stop. Every time someone says anything misogynistic or offensive she just stares into the crowd like she’s staring into the camera on The Office.
  
• After Alexander has gotten permission to marry Eliza, he starts doing a heavily hip-based dance similar to moves from Shot. When Phillip Schuyler sees, he just looks horrified.
• When Hamilton says the line, “Angelica tried to take a bite of me”, Eliza despite being held lovingly by Alexander, briefly backwards, suddenly worried and looking for Angelica
• At the wedding, Laurens and Angelica walked together and Peggy and Lafayette. While walking, Lafayette leans over and whispers something that is clearly dirty and Peggy walks away offended
• Mulligans is a great flower girl
• When under stress, Hamilton wears glasses. In Stay Alive, he’s wearing them at the beginning. 
• In King George’s second song, he wanders onto the stage as everyone from Battle of Yorktown is still on stage and looks really disgusted as he does his best to avoid touching anybody else while walking to the front.
• Hamilton loves his son so much, you can see it so clearly if Lin’s acting and singing. Holy shit, he loves Phillip.
• The complete 180 and shock in Hamilton from “Dear Theodosia” to Eliza telling him that Laurens is dead broke me a little inside for good
  
• Jefferson, when first introduced, starts calling for more applause from the audience
• Hamilton just cuts in front of Washington when introducing himself to Jefferson in “What Did I Miss” to shake Jefferson’s hand and Washington takes him aside to scold him like a tired dad who just can’t seem to teach their kid manners
• Jefferson, at the end of his part of Cabinet Battle 1, literally drops the mic, but into Madison’s waiting hands as if they fucking rehearsed it before hand. Either that or Madison just knows Jefferson too well. Either way, I’m glad they didn’t actually drop the mic bc that shit is delicate and expensive.
• In Jefferson’s part of Cabinet Battle 1, everyone is laughing and during Hamilton’s shit got real
• In the beginning of Hamilton’s part in Cabinet Battle 1, Washington looks proud and occasionally leans over to the guy next to him, as if he was a proud parent at his kids recital going, “That’s my kid!”. By the end he is horrified and so very tired.
• How tired Washington looked when Hamilton said that “Jefferson started it”
• When practicing piano, Phillaps keeps slouching and when they get to the end he shouts done and pouts
  
• After giving his rap he cheers and then runs off (presumably to dinner)
• Someone in sound forgot to open Phillip’s mic in Schuyler Defeated but I could still hear the line, though faint. Broadway stars are good at projecting their voices and it makes me bitter that high schoolers don’t project well or take good care of microphones. 
• The parallel between when Washington first hires Hamilton by handing him a quill and then in “One Last Time” where he hands Hamilton a quill again, but with their sides reversed as he asks Hamilton to help him write his farewell address.
• When Madison yells the line “Which I wrote!”, he’s looking back at the direction where Hamilton and Washington walked offstage and looking really offended.
• When Burr is reading the letter and gets to the point where it says “Ghat was my wife you decided to (fuck)”, Jefferson runs over to see.
• Jefferson started bouncing up and down on the desk in Reynolds Pamphlets as if by the power of his ass alone. I’m still not sure how he did it without his hands.
• Jefferson started making it rain with Reynolds pamphlets and King George joined in 
• The stage manager accidentally popped out a little too much from the hole he has at the front of the stage while handing prop pamphlets to Jefferson and immediately ducked back under when he noticed
• In Blow Us All Away, when Phillip says the line, “The ladies say that’s not where the resemblance stops”, he thrusts his hips forward and motions downwards with him hands and raises his eyebrows with a shit-eating grin.
• When Phillip goes to Alexander for dueling advice, Hamilton is wearing his glasses. 
• Never does Hamilton think that his son is going to die, not even once despite going off to a duel. Never once could Alexander imagine his son dying despite thinking about his own demise all the time.
• Phillip dies stroking his mother’s hair and holding his father’s hand.
  
• Eliza screaming “No!” and sobbing over her dead son’s body
  
• Alexander breaking down into senseless sobbing when Eliza holds his hand and forgives him is heartbreaking and beautiful. The fucking raw emotion Miranda manages to get is incredible and I don’t know how he does it, let alone twice a day most days a week.
  
• Alexander just trying to fucking mind his own business as everyone asks for his opinion. He keeps repeating, “it’s quiet uptown” and walking off with his head down but they keep following the poor man who just wants peace. All throughout this scene, he’s wearing his glasses.
• As they all sing, “If you had to choose…choose, choose,” Alexander is alone on the second level, leaning over the railing with his glass looking between Burr and Jefferson who are in spotlights on either side of the stage.
• When Alexander says he supports Jefferson, Burr’s smile doesn’t drop immediately. Instead he freezes, like he can’t believe what he’s heard.
• As the ensemble is complaining about Jefferson and complimenting Burr, the man in question is just hunched over listening and punches the air like an excited child at the end when they voice their approval of him
• Jefferson shaking his head, offended by the very idea when Madison proposes getting Hamilton;s support.
• In Obedient Servant, Alexander and Burr are exchanging letters and when it comes to Hamilton, he just keep writing and writing and Burr stares at the growing pile of letters in his hand tiredly. Ensemble members keep handing Burr page after page and, a cast member dances and pretends to flutter wings with the last two pages as Burr waits with soulless eyes. Burr is so tired but Hamilton just keeps writing. By the end he has a stack at least half a foot thick and he doesn’t even read them, he just throws them behind him.
• Burr just looks dead inside at the line, “Here’s an itemized list of thirty years of disagreements.” 
  
• Hamilton, in the end is wearing his glasses when he dies. The same glasses he survived Fort Knox with, the same glasses that he wore when he had an affair, the same glasses he had on as he worked nonstop to try to block out John Lauren’s death, the same glasses he wore when he sent his son off to the duel, and the same glasses he wore in the aftermath.
• Eliza, at the end of the musical, gives this loud gasp as she’s facing the audience. Either its symbolic of her dying and joining Hamilton as thats the first time she sees his face again despite dancing around him for half the song or she’s seeing the audience and realizing that she did enough.

Other Things:

• Burr’s lighting is squares and Hamilton’s is circles
  
• The orchestral backtrack to this musical is fucking amazing
• Broadway drinks are always expensive as hell but they come with a nice souvenir cup to keep, even the small alcoholic glasses were souvenir cups with the same design and everything
• The woman next to me was full on sobbing and so was I. We laughed about it afterwards.
• If you bought merch at the begining, your bag said “Good luck after the show” on it which says a lot.
• Everyone, and I mean literally every fucking cast member in this goddamn show has nice ass arms and I’m weak.

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purelintrash:

IN ALL MEDIA NOW KNOWN OR HEREAFTER INVENTED THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE

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thefederalistfreestyle:

raindropsonroses123:

So apparently at one point during the American Revolution Alexander Hamilton, Lee and a bunch of troops were all across the Hudson River from the rest of the army, and Hamilton and a few other men were destroying bags of flour so the British wouldn’t get to them (since the British were supposed to arrive soon) and anyway the troops saw the British coming and began to retreat by marching off, but Hamilton and the other few men were left by the shore of the river with a heck of a lot of redcoats approaching. Luckily they had a boat and fled back across the river (under British gunfire), but one man died, another was wounded, and they all bailed and began to swim but made it out ok. However, Lee assumed Hamilton was dead and reported thus to Washington and his aides, and they were apparently all mourning him and drinking to his memory when he appeared in the doorway, dripping wet.

SURPRISE, BITCH

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