#betsey <3

[on-partiality]

The best of wives and best of women ♥︎★~

#betsey <3 #I've been reading the biography on her by Tilar J Mazzeo and it is GOOD #18th century #18th century fashion #elizabeth schuyler #18th century america #founding mothers #history #art #eliza schuyler #hamilton fanart #hamilton #amrev #american revolutionary war #american revolution #revwar #leyendecker style #amrev art #small artist #my art #artists on tumblr #revolutionary war #betsey #18c

[charl3ss]

My thesis of The Crows as Taylor Swift Albums because I’m on a long car ride right now and I don’t have anything else to do lol:

Kaz: reputation. This one is self self-explanatory. Reputation fronts as a very dark, edgy, revenge filled album, which it is, BUT under the surface, it’s actually a deeply emotional/romantic album, which is just extremely Kaz. LWYMMD is at the top of my as of now purely hypothetical Kaz magnum opus playlist.

Inej: Speak Now. Speak Now is a album that’s about growing up and picking yourself up after you’ve been wronged, which is definitely Inej. One of her best qualities is her strength, resolve, and ability to maintain her faith and hope. I love her <3

Matthias: This was the hardest because I was torn between Midnights and Fearless, but I’m going to give it to Fearless. As Taylor herself says, it’s an album about the “fearlessness of falling in love” and about entering a new stage in your life, which is literally the thesis of Matthias’ whole arc.

Wylan: folklore. I feel like this is also kind of self-explanatory, but folklore is a very dreamy album that’s filled with lots of depressing things, yes, but it ends on a bit more of a hopeful note. It’s also a very isolated album in vibes which is definitely Wylan. Before he lets himself get close with the other crows, he’s very alone. Wylan Van Eck, army of one and all.

Nina: Red. Red is an album that goes from incredibly upbeat songs to incredibly depressing ones which is very Nina. It’s a fun album that uses these upbeat songs to offset/mask all of the sadness which is definitely Nina.

Jesper: 1989. Besides the fact that 1989 is just a very upbeat album with lots of fun dance songs, it also explores sadder topics like loneliness and feeling like you’re not enough, but it’s not always noticed at first listen because of the fun tempo. That’s very Jesper, who uses his fun loving persona as a kind of deflection.

Also, bonus: Kanej is evermore, Helnik is Midnights, and Wesper is Lover

#feel free to debate but I know in my heart that I’m right <3 #six of crows #betsey rambles #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #wylan van eck #matthias helvar #nina zenik #jesper fahey #kanej #helnik #wesper

[britneyshakespeare]

WE'RE GOING TO BETSEEEEEYYYYY'S

#diana rereads david copperfield #literally started kicking my feet in chapter 12 i form a great resolution #HOW am i supposed to go to bed now. HOW #also that old poetry-model crush is messaging me again asking me stuff #why do i send him a message at 3 in the afternoon and he responds at 11:40 at night #don't you know im under my blankets reading david copperfield? #dont you know im RUNNING AWAY TO MY AUNT BETSEY'S?

[katzmultiverse]

About my Teen Fame Desired Reality ✩

Note: Yeah the amount of things I've been in is unrealistic but it's literally my DR and I literally don't care. Keep in mind in my DR I'm 14 (set in 2022) and most of these are just background characters.

Movies I've been in

The Adam Project - Background character

Secret Headquarters - Kylie Leonard (Original Character)

Deliver Us The Moon (Based on the game) - Kathy

Deliver Us Mars (Based on the game) - Kathy

The Black Phone - Donna

Shows I've been in

Dance Moms - Myself obvi

Yellowjackets - Unrevealed

AlRawabi School For Girls - Unnamed side character

Jane The Virgin - Unnamed babysitter

NCIS - Jane Doe

Percy Jackson and The Olympians - Nancy Bobofit

Companies I've modeled for (Ads and catwalks, amount of time with them)

Miu Miu - 5 months

Vivienne Westwood - 2 years (my favorite - where I meet Emmie)

YSL - 3 months

Adidas - Korn collection - 2 months

Uggs - 7 months

Dior - 6 months

Versace - 1 year

Betsey Johnson - 2.5 years

Okay. I'm happy with this 🥰 If anyone needs to use this as inspiration or even to steal the roles for your own DRs thats fine because I stole most of these too 💕

#shiftblr #desired reality #reality shifting #shifting #fame dr #teen fame dr #shifting motivation #girlblogging #shifters #shifttok #reality shift #shifting community #shifting antis dni #shifting consciousness #manifesting #manifesation #spirituality #quantum jumping

[missgossiper]

#Saturday Polls ✒️

[transparentgentlemenmarker]

Ils parlent de la mode

Yves Saint-Laurent par Jeanloup Sieff, 1971

1. « La mode passe, le style reste » - Yves Saint-Laurent

2. « Etre un pas en avance sur la tendance de la mode n’est pas si important pour moi. Ce qui compte, c’est toujours aller de l’avant » - Sonia Rykiel

3. « Si tu ne peux pas être mieux que la concurrence, il suffit de t’habiller mieux » - Anna Wintour

4. « Ce n’est pas la robe que vous portez qui compte, mais la vie que vous menez en la portant » - Diana Vreelan

5. « La plus grande élégance, c’est la vérité » - Thierry Mugler

Giorgio Armani

6. « L’élégance ce n’est pas se démarquer, mais être mémorable » - Giorgio Armani

7. « Les femmes nulles suivent la mode, les prétentieuses l’exagèrent, mais les femmes de goût pactisent agréablement avec elle » - Marquise du Châtelet

8. « Les vêtements que je préfère sont ceux que j’invente pour une vie qui n’existe pas encore, le monde de demain » - Pierre Cardin

9. « Vaines bagatelles qu’ils semblent être, les vêtements ont, disent-ils, un destin plus important que de nous tenir chaud. Ils changent notre vision du monde et le point de vue du monde sur nous » - Virginia Woolf

10. « La mode me dépasse. Mon imaginaire dépasse les limites normales et m’entraîne où je ne voudrais pas aller » - Yves Saint-Laurent

Jane Birkin

11. « Mon style est comme un cocktail. Je ne suis pas aussi apprêtée qu’une française mais je m’en fiche comme une anglaise » - Jane Birkin

12. « La mode est avant tout un art du changement » - John Galliano

13. « La chose la plus difficile dans la mode n’est pas d’être connu pour un logo, mais d’être connu pour une silhouette » - Giambattista Valli

14. « Donne à une fille les bonnes chaussures et elle peut conquérir le monde » - Marylin Monroe

15. « Pour être irremplaçable, il faut être différente » - Coco Chanel

Coco Chanel

16. « On est jamais trop, ni pas assez habillé avec une Petite Robe Noire» - Karl Lagerfeld

17. « La mode n’est pas quelque chose qui existe uniquement dans les vêtements. La mode est dans l’air, portée par le vent. On la devine. La mode est dans le ciel, dans la rue. » - Coco Chanel

18. « L’élégance est la seule beauté qui ne se fane jamais » - Audrey Hepburn

19. « J’aime être une femme, même dans un monde d’hommes. Après tout, les hommes ne peuvent pas porter de robes, mais nous pouvons porter des pantalons » - Whitney Houston

20. « J’aime mon argent quand il est là où je peux le voir : sur des cintres, dans mon armoire » - Carrie Bradshaw

Carrie Bradshaw dans Sex & The City

21. « La femme à la mode porte le vêtement. Ce n’est pas le vêtement qui la porte » - Mary Quant

22. « Les femmes s'habillent pour elles-mêmes. Si elles s'habillaient pour les hommes, elles seraient tout le temps nues » - Betsey Johnson

23. « La mode est ce que vous offrent les créateurs quatre fois par an. Le style est ce que vous choisissez » - Lauren Hutton

24. « La différence entre le style et la mode est la qualité » - Giorgio Armani

25. « Ne soyez pas dans les tendances. Ne laissez pas la mode s’emparer de vous, mais décidez de ce que vous êtes, de ce que voulez exprimer par ce que vous portez et de la façon dont vous vivez » - Gianni Versace

Gianni et Donatella Versace

26. « La mode doit être une forme d’échappatoire, et non une forme d’emprisonnement » - Alexander McQueen

27. « La moitié de mes créations sont de la fantaisie contrôlée, 15 % de la folie pure, et le reste du terre-à-terre » - Manolo Blahnik

28. « La seule vraie élégance est dans l’esprit; si vous avez ça, le reste vient vraiment de ça » -Diana Vreeland

29. « Je ne crée par des vêtements, je crée des rêves » - Ralph Lauren

30. « Au fil des années j’ai appris que ce qui est important dans une robe, c’est la femme qui la porte » - Yves Saint Laurent

31. « Les hommes me disent que j’ai sauvé leur mariage. Cela leur coûte une fortune en chaussures, mais moins cher qu’un divorce » - Manolo Blahnik

32. « Les vêtements ne vont pas changer le monde, les femmes qui les portent, si » - Anne Klein

33. « Quand vous doutez, portez du rouge » - Bill Blass

34. « La mode est un langage de l’instant » - Miuccia Prada

35. « J’adore et j’admire tous ceux qui sont différents. J’aime ça. Le jet set est banal. Le bon goût est banal. L’excentricité est chic. Le bon goût paralyse. Mais la mode du punk ou de la rue ou un corps couvert de tatouage c’est intéressant pour moi et j’adore » - Jean-Paul Gaultier

36. « Ne jamais dire jamais – dans la mode et dans la vie » -  Ashley Olsen

37. « La seule raison pour laquelle je suis dans la mode est de détruire le mot conformité » - Vivienne Westwood

38. « Il n’y a pas de mode si elle ne descend pas dans la rue » - Coco Chanel

39. «L’élégance est une question de personnalité plus que de vêtements » - Jean-Paul Gaultier

40. «Une belle robe, c’est une comédienne qui parle juste » - Sonia Rykiel

41. « La mode se démode, l’allure est intemporelle » - Coco Chanel

42. « Les gens de la mode n’aiment que ce qu’ils ne comprennent pas. Alors il suffit de faire un truc incompréhensible et ils t’adorent » - Loïc Prigent

43. « La mode est ce que l'on porte. Ce qui est démodé, c'est ce que portent les autres » - Oscar Wilde

44. « Le style est une manière de dire qui vous êtes sans parler » - Rachel Zoe

45. « Le style sait qui vous êtes, ce que vous voulez dire, et ce dont vous vous fichez » - Orson Wells

46. « Effacez le négatif, accentuez le positif. » - Donna Karan

47. « C’est l’attitude qui fait tout. » - Diane von Furstenberg

48. « Une femme doit être deux choses : classe et fabuleuse. » - Coco Chanel

49. « La mode est ce que vous offrent les créateurs quatre fois par an. Le style est ce que vous choisissez. » - Lauren Hutton

50. « La simplicité est l’ultime sophistication » - Léonard de Vinci

#men #women #citation mode #fashion men #fashion women

[kitschy-coquette]

How to make a basic outfit more kitschy and fun? Here are some easy things to add to your outfit (or wardrobe in general).

1. ANYTHING Betsey Johnson. Doesn’t have to be her pricey stuff (although that’s hella cute). I have two Betsey Johnson bags I got from Ross. Easy peasy. And very fun!

2. Hot pink or bright red or blue lipstick or eyeshadow! Makes a world of difference, and doesn’t have to match! Just has to be fun and cute!

3. Plastic kitschy earrings (go look up LaterOperator on Etsy. It’s a Latina owned business with THE coolest and kitschiest affordable jewelry).

4. Animal print. Incorporating a nice leopard or zebra especially is a total vibe. It doesn’t have to be normal leopard or zebra colors!

5. Glitter til ya look like a trashy and hot bitch! Any color!

6. Big bows, jauntily placed.

7. Platform shoes (or if you can’t walk in those, try cute glittery flats with bows)

8. Paint your nails in a pop color or black to contrast the bright shit you’re wearing!

9. False lashes or clumpy good mascara!

10. Last but not least let your hair have that wild or messy effortless look. No super styled looks unless everything else is chaotic!

#coquette #coquette aesthetic #coquette core #coquette community #coquettecore #girlblogging #kitschy coquette

[murder-ballad-ballot]

round 3, match 2: henry lee vs frankie

examples & descriptions

henry lee

(alternate titles: love henry, young hunting)

"getting blackmailed by a bird over killing your lover"

"believing him unfaithful, woman kills her lover"

hedy west, dick justice, betsey palmer & stephen poon (for the podcast "our fair city"), sheila kay adams

frankie

(alternate titles: frankie and johnny, frankie and albert)

"murder is ok if your boyfriend cheats"

mississippi john hurt

#murder ballads #folk music

[melpomeneprose]

⋆ NAME?: Meera, Mina (like the Dracula 1897 novel character), M, my writer name is Melpomene or xxmelpomenexx

⋆ PRONOUNS?: they/them

⋆ MOST ACTIVE MUSE(S)?: ... too many to list them all, see here, on this blog particularly: Benjamin Tallmadge, Banastre Tarleton, Eliza "Betsey" Hamilton, Elphaba Thropp and John André be living rent-free in my head these days.

⋆ RP PET PEEVES?: every "canon" character was once an original character (unless the canon is based on rpf/historical real people) so stop being mean to original characters!! media doesn't exist in a bubble!! besides that, biphobia/queerphobia/queer erasure/canonical bi erasure, fandom racism and fandom misogyny.

⋆ EXPERIENCE / HOW MANY YEARS?: I used to be on the cursed b.ird a.pp, and I've been writing some way since I was 11(ish), I used to L.ARP, I've only been on T.umblr for like 2-4(?) years, but I am comfy here, so... I am staying.

⋆ FLUFF, ANGST, OR S.MUT?: all the above. all is good. My one guidline is: S.mut with plot preferably, unless it is Audrey then she is a bi w.hore (affectionate), she will sleep around across the gender spectrum, oops? That, and my tag is xxmelpomenexx for a reason, so angst with plot and intention. Bonus points if we manage all 3 in a storyline.

⋆ LONG OR SHORT REPLIES?: I say I am medium/match length. I try to be short. It has never ever worked.

⋆ TIME TO WRITE?: every day of the week and weekend except Thursdays and Sundays (for irl obligations reasons), also I am spotty roughly half the year because of school stuff, but, save for that, just send me memes or message and we're good. I am semi-selective for time constraint reasons I am really not picky at all.

Borrowed from: @honorhearted (thanks Maddie <3)

Tagging: @smiletimeisrunningout, @eclipsecrowned, @gentlejack, and @historiavn <3

#ooc / vanquishing scruples #tag games #dash games #mun stuff

[cassieuncaged]

Uneasy Alliance - Chapter 3

Cassie Cage x Nyx (my oc)

Summary: When Kano decides he needs to hunt down a turncoat agent, it's up to Cassie to to protect her.

TW: sexual tension, language, etc.

WC: 1.2 K

A/N: Literally haven't updated this story in a year and half. But don't give up on unfinished fics, folks! Who knows when you'll be inspired again. Also, Cassie realizing she likes girls is very much based on my personal experience of discovering I was pan. So, there's that.

Also, thank you @roofgeese (Echo) and @chadillacboseman (Alex) for letting me borrow your ocs! Hope I did them justice :3

Taglist: @roofgeese, @pinkcatminht

“A truce?” Lavender eyes are unblinking, sharp jaw set hard as steel. “What the hell are talking about?”

Blue eyes rolled dramatically as Commander Cage strode into the meager set up. Her mouth, however, was shut for the longest amount of time since they’d met. Of course, when the turncoat actually wanted to hear the proposition. Instead, the blonde turned gracefully on the toe of her boot, not unlike a ballerina.

Under the right circumstances, Nyx could even imagine herself slipping her a phone number hastily scrawled across a sticky note. Right now, she had to resist the urge to cave Cassie’s skull in.

“Nice place you got here,” a quick nod of her head sent those pink aviators gracefully falling upon that round little nose, “Suppose you’ll be plastering some Echo and the Bunnymen posters up while you watch Eraserhead.”

“What’s your quarters look like, Barbie? Bubblegum pink with a closet full of Betsey Johnson rejects?” Nyx shot back without missing a beat, enjoying how Cage junior was bristling beneath the quick retort. It was clearly a long time since she’d had someone to engage in verbal sparring with.

“Point taken,” Cassie grits, arms crossed tightly across her uniform. “You want to hear what I’ve got up my sleeve or not?”

Mirroring her stance, the pallid woman responded with a sharp:

“I’m listening.” Her voice is terse, unflinching. Nyx had spent a long time guarding herself out of necessity, protecting those she’d cared about the most. So she waited as the blonde’s ponytail bobbed, chin nodding as she began.

“As I’m sure you’ve figured, my image here isn’t…the most respected.” It’s painful to admit, realizing her own mother barely holds any faith in her only child, “In fact, General Blade probably wishes I’d taken an interest in following my father’s footsteps.”

“Poor little princess,” Nyx feigns a pout, pink lips lacquered black. “Why don’t I play Celebrity Skin for you on the world’s tiniest violin?”

“What if you feed me some the intel you’ve got on Kano?” Cassie ignores the quip; with Johnny Cage as a parent, it got old really fast. “I’ll be your consult and use it to get ahead of the game here at Special Forces and we finally bag that greasy bastard.”

“Won’t that piss mommy off?” the hired gun had grown bored, unzipping the measly duffle tossed onto a narrow twin bed. She pulled out a black sports bra and matching thong, eyeing the bathroom situated in the corner. Commander Cage willed the rather delectable image in her mind away, feeling herself falling into a trap. “Sounds like stepping on her toes.”

“Sonya doesn’t give a shit if she finally shuts that cyborg up once and for all. Besides, overheard her and Briggs talking about some Outworld drug trafficking. Could be dangerous. How do you feel about going undercover?”

“Like some Columbo bullshit?” dark lips stretch into a wry grin, obviously amused. “I might be able to shed a little light on the Black Dragon. Where do you want to start?”

“Get some sleep. We’ll assemble in the morning. Jacqui will join us.”

“Afraid to be alone with me?” it’s a harmless joke though Cassie’s heart pounds in her chest. Was she even attracted to women? What a time for such a revelation.

“You’re not in any place to question my actions.” That sharp commanding voice returns, a military woman whose determined to keep the control she’s never had. So the assassin holds her hands up in surrender.

“I’m fucking with you.” She admits, “You’re fun to fuck with.”

Then Cassie’s face turns as red as a tomato as her lungs constrict, breathing impossible as she turns on a booted heel and marches to the sanctuary of the hallway.

……

A week passes since Nyx was at the club last, no shadows slinking through the corridors like a ghost.

“Anyone seen Siouxsie Sioux lately?” Alex’s voice breaks him from his train of thought, boot propped upon the bench as they were laced quickly. He’s still bruised from the last fight, eye swollen, lip split. The man doesn’t react to the pain, tightening the bun at the nape of his neck.

“You mean Nyx?” Kabal hates how her name feels on his tongue, souring their agreement.

“No,” he feigns a haughty laugh, switching boots upon the cracked wood, “I mean Erron. Y’know with all the dark eye makeup. They’re practically the same person. ‘Course I mean Nyx.”

“Don’t have a fucking clue.” He huffs, leaning against the cool steel of the battered lockers. “I’m not her mother.”

“Would that make you a milf?” Time barely passes before Kabal is pulling his cohort into head lock, pressing his fist roughly into the curve of Alex’s skull. “Fuck, it was a joke!”

“Not a fan of noogies?” His knuckles dig into dark hair, playful yet firm before the door to the cage opens. The men pause as the manager’s finger falls on Alex.

“You’re up.” He disappears behind the metal door as the fighter’s straighten themselves out. Straightening his hair, Alex pushes his mask up to his lips before rolling his shoulders and sashaying to the doorway.

A large hand salutes dopily before he’s gone. Then Kabal’s train of thought returns.

He doesn’t think anything of it; she’s been under the boss’s thumb for awhile but still preferred doing her work alone, away from prying eyes. He’d been to her apartment once, a few blocks away from Echo Park, nestled atop a Chinese Restaurant. It wasn’t a secret that she liked to be alone.

But this was fucking ridiculous. She’s always showed back up, like a stray cat that got a lick of cream once. The others in the locker room kept their faces down before the mask was in place, pretending the scars mangling his face didn’t exist. So his mask was pressed to raw, red skin, hooks holstered across his back as the man wandered from the sweat drenched walls down the narrow halls lit by flickering fluorescent lights.

Kano’s  office was unmarked, a black door with chipped paint. Kabal’s fist collided with the hardwood before being granted entry with a gruff ‘In’. Pushing the door open found the man curled over his desk, Echo dutifully stationed in the corner, unflinching and unfeeling.

“Whaddya want?” Kano spat, red eye boring into some document like a laser pointer before meeting the equally dark pair of the metal mask across the room.

“Where’s your gun?” his voice was distant, mechanical as arms crossed over his chest as his gaze fell on the icy blonde hair of his right hand. She didn’t blink, staring the fighter down before clear eyes flickered downwards, falling back on her boss.

“On a job.” He replied with a roll of one good eye, “Taking her fucking time. Why?”

“Been gone for a while.” Kabal added, prying until he earned a sigh.

“Then go fucking find her. Pull her by the hair and bring her back.”

“Just like that?”

“If it’s bothering you so much, find her.”

“Sure thing, boss.” Kabal’s smirk was evident in his voice as he receded back into the hall. The hunt was on.

#otp: bubblegum goth #cassie cage x oc #cassie x nyx #mortal kombat #otp fanfiction #fanfiction

[charl3ss]

This is why Kanej is the greatest love story ever told

#sometimes I like to flip through SOC and reread whatever page I land on #for funsies #anyway. kanej <3 #six of crows #betsey rambles

[prairiies]

just got a 90s betsey johnson dress for $4 at my work <3!!!!

[yr-obedt-cicero]

I know there’s a strong possibility that Laurens’ death may have been suicide but what about Ham’s? There is speculation that Ham’s death may have been suicide, especially since he has a history of feeling suicidal. I could be wrong though. I’m curious of your take.

Not likely. While depression and depressive thoughts did plague Hamilton throughout his life, he was only “suicidal” during his years of early/mid adulthood. Or at least that we know of, it is heavily likely Hamilton may have still had such thoughts later in life especially with all that he went through — but there's no indication of such, especially in regards to the duel.

Hamilton did seem to be going through a depressive phase throughout 1780, where he implies suicide twice, as he writes to confine in Laurens and Elizabeth;

“The truth is I am an unlucky honest man, that speak my sentiments to all and with emphasis. I say this to you because you know it and will not charge me with vanity. 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.”

(source — Alexander Hamilton to John Laurens, [September 12, 1780])

“I am chagrined and unhappy but I submit. 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. ’Tis a weakness; but I feel I am not fit for this terrestreal Country”

(source — Alexander Hamilton to John Laurens, [January 8, 1780])

“What have we to do with any thing but love? Go the world as it will, in each others arms we cannot but be happy. If America were lost we should be happy in some other clime more favourable to human rights. What think you of Geneva as a retreat? ’Tis a charming place; where nature and society are in their greatest perfection. I was once determined to let my existence and American liberty end together. My Betsey has given me a motive to outlive my pride, I had almost said my honor; but America must not be witness to my disgrace. As it is always well to be prepared for the worst, I talk to you in this strain; not that I think it probable we shall fail in the contest; for notwithstanding all our perplexities, I think the chances are without comparison in our favour; and that my Aquileia and I will plant our turnips in her native land.”

(source — Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Schuyler, [September 6, 1780])

But after that he barely wrote like such again, and I don't think it ever reached to the same severity after that. After Philip's death, Hamilton found solace in religion, and the church. As it seemed to comfort the thought of death that he would one day reunite with all his loved ones in the afterlife. But in extension, he became a more pious person, and was more outspoken against dueling and the morals of it.

Hamilton even went as far as to write a whole statement of his reasoning before the duel because he was very reluctant to attend but found that he had to;

“1 My religious and moral principles are strongly opposed to the practice of Duelling, and it would even give me pain to be obliged to shed the blood of a fellow creature in a private combat forbidden by the laws.

2 My wife and Children are extremely dear to me, and my life is of the utmost importance to them, in various views.

3 I feel a sense of obligation towards my creditors; who in case of accident to me, by the forced sale of my property, may be in some degree sufferers. I did not think my self at liberty, as a man of probity, lightly to expose them to this hazard.

4 I am conscious of no ill-will to Col Burr, distinct from political opposition, which, as I trust, has proceeded from pure and upright motives.”

(source — Statement on Impending Duel with Aaron Burr, [28 June–10 July 1804])

He continues;

“To those, who with me abhorring the practice of Duelling may think that I ought on no account to have added to the number of bad examples—I answer that my relative situation, as well in public as private aspects, enforcing all the considerations which constitute what men of the world denominate honor, impressed on me (as I thought) a peculiar necessity not to decline the call. The ability to be in future useful, whether in resisting mischief or effecting good, in those crises of our public affairs, which seem likely to happen, would probably be inseparable from a conformity with public prejudice in this particular.”

Hamilton's consideration was prioritized for future matters, as he refused to decline the challenge because he was worried of being deemed a coward, and thus when a crisis or his public assistance would be needed, the country would refuse him due to his tainted name. Hamilton also had an appointment with Dirck Ten Broeck scheduled, where he was expecting to go over a legal case at his office later in morning on the day of the duel. Hamilton would not care for any of this if his intent was truly not to survive.

In fact, Hamilton was more prepared to die for other duels he partook in; he even had a will prepared during his confrontation with duel James Nicholson in 1795 after they went through a squabble. Five days later after he finalized that he would meet Nicholson in the field, Hamilton wrote a lengthy letter of instructions to Robert Troup;

“Confiding in your integrity and friendship to me, I have made you Executor of my Will. My concerns are not very extensive and of course will not give you much trouble. Indeed I might have dispensed with the ceremony of making a Will as to what I may myself leave had I not wished that my little property may be applied as readily and as fairly as may be to the benefit of my few Creditors. For after a life of labour, I leave my family to the benevolence of others, if my course shall happen to be terminated here.”

(source — Alexander Hamilton to Robert Troup, [July 25, 1795])

Of course though, he survived. Hamilton had been involved in several other duels prior to the one with Burr - none ever even actually occurred on the field, which was a case for many challenges back then - it is important to note that a majority of duels back then didn't even end in death. For instance, Burr had once dueled Hamilton's brother-in-law, John Barker Church, and the two didn't suffer from any injuries or death. I also don't even think Hamilton thought Burr would shoot him, and gave serious thought to what he would do if Burr insisted on exchanging more than one round of fire.

I also don't think he was that insensitive about how his death would affect his family, most importantly. After watching Angelica's mental well-being distort after Philip's death, and how Elizabeth would struggle terribly without his support — he would have obviously known what that would do for them all, and they seemed to be his highest concern from the minute he was shot to the last hour on his deathbed.

#tw: suicide #amrev #american history #alexander hamilton #historical alexander hamilton #aaron burr #the duel #history #queries #sincerely anonymous #cicero's history lessons

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ATNH chap 5 stats

Birds mentioned: 3

Journalism: activated

Other Sarah: debating on giving her a last name

Other Betsey: I haven't forgotten about her!

John Corbin: Drinkin' his Respect Wimmen juice

Also John Corbin: Near to his limit

Folk music: Abused but kind of hot?

Passages left to write: 3? 4?

Nov 13: FINALLY COMING TO A CLOSE

#my writing #liveblogging my writing #along the northern heights

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TONY NOMINATIONS ARE OUT

There's 3 people I want to win in leading actor 😭

Break a leg

Braneon Uranowitz

Christian Borle

Betsey Wolfe

Ben Platt

Brian D'Arcy James

#tony awards #musical theatre #theatre #& juliet #some like it hot #into the woods #leopoldstadt #parade #ben platt #brandon uranowitz #christian borle #Betsey Wolfe

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✨️When you get this ask you have to put 5 songs you listen to, post it, then send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (positive vibes are cool)🎶

1. the deal by mitski

2. rose parade by elliott smith

3. bewitched by laufey

4. loose garment by muna

5. me and mr jones by amy winehouse

thanks for sending this, betsey <3

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