new in your blog but what's your favorite Hamilton song? What's your 2nd favorite musical? ( mine is Guns and ships, Nonstop) and (Heather)
Today? Today it’s Non Stop because i just sent my friend an entire essay about just the argument between Eliza and Alex. The motifs, the symbolism, the callbacks, the apotheosis, the appeal of humanity vs the allure of hubris *chefs kiss*. Honestly? One of my friends doesn’t think Hamilton is sad. And yet i’ve spent most of the morning obsessing over just how sad this one little conversation is. And the implications it has to say about Eliza! Incredible. This song, this argument, is the first time Eliza says his name in the play. Period. Hardstop. And the implications are insane!!! You know what? I’ve been debating writing essays about Hamilton, but a this point i’m seriously considering it because there is so much to talk about 😭
Omggg it’s soooo The Fiddler on the Roof. The history. The motifs. The comedy. The tragedy. It’s all soooooo sublime.
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The marauders give the same vibes as Hamilton, Laurens, Lafayette, and Mulligan.
Ergo, imagine the marauders during seventh year singing The Story of Tonight. Sirius starting the toast, (“I may not live to see our glory, but I will gladly join the fight.”) James would stand with him, (“Raise a glass to freedom, something they can never take away, no matter what they tell you.”) Remus would look at these two with hope only his best friends could inspire, (“Raise a glass to the four of us,) and Peter would close the night with the hope and excitement they all feel for a better future,(“Tomorrow, there’ll be more of us telling the story of tonight.”)
Burn would be a twisted version of James finding out about Regulus joining the DE… (“do you know what Remus said when we saw your first letter arrive? Be careful of that one, Prongs, he will do what it takes to survive.”)(do you know what Remus said when he read what you had done? He said, “you’ve fallen for an Icarus, he has flown too close to the sun.”)(“you and your words obsessed with your legacy, your sentences border on senseless and you are paranoid in every paragraph, how they perceive you, you, you, you.”)
Stay Alive would be if James and Sirius were there for Regulus’ last moments. (“Stay alive, stay alive”) Kreacher would send for James and Sirius after Regulus called for them in a daze from the potion, (“Where is my star?”)(“Lord Potter, come in, we apparited here half an hour ago, he lost a lot of blood on the way over-“)(“Is he alive?!”) and James would rush to his side, (“Regulus,”)(“Mon Soleil..”) James would reach for his star, hands over of the gashes from the inferni,(“I did as you said, Mon Soleil, I was going to leave..”)(“I know, I know, shh, you did everything just right.”) Sirius would show up after James, (“Sirius”) (“Is he breathing? Is he going to survive this? What happened, James, did you know?”) he cradle his brother’s hand to his chest, (“Siri, I’m so sorry for forgetting what you taught me..)(“Petit étoile…”)(“We played piano..”)(“I taught you piano.”)(“You would put your hands on mine.”)(“You changed the melody everytime.”)(“I would always change the line-“)(“Shh, I know, I know”) They’d all have tears falling, hearts breaking for wasted time and time they’d never get to have. (“Un, deux, trois, quatre…”)(“Un, deux, trois, quatre… ”)(“Cinq, six, sept, huit, neuf.”)(“Cinq, six, sept, huit, neuf…“) Sirius would give a water smile while clutching Regulus’ hand tighter, (“Good, Un, deux, trois, quatre…”)(“Huit, neut…..”) Suddenly, James could hear nothing but the sound of raw pain that escaped from Sirius’ lips, James could only hold his star’s hand as it burned out, wondering when the sun would follow in its wake.
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Happy birthday to Philip Hamilton the second born June 1st or 2nd 1802 !
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Help I saw Hamilton live and am officially obsessed. Better late than never? Ran out of fanfics pretty quickly though, any recs please?????? Or any Lin-Manuel Miranda character fics will also accept.
Also am realising I have no theatre friends so I need to discuss my love!!!!
Written while watching on Disney plus for the 10th time this week.
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Why do people say Alexander Hamilton Jr (Alexander's second son) was an asshole? I know he often left the family behind without consideration, but was there anything really else he did that was so terrible?
this is a really good question, and i honestly had trouble answering it. thank you @yr-obedt-cicero for basically doing my job for me GEJSBWMWV
still, there really isn’t much outside of the family that he did that was shitty. he was a divorce attorney so there was that
essentially the gist of everything cicero told me (imma cite the sources they gave me in case you want to do further reading) was that alex jr in general left his family in times of financial hardship to fend for themselves, putting all the responsibility on james to be basically the eldest son (cicero also has a good post on this). he also stole his father’s papers and tried to get an unreasonable amount of money out of e. holly’s will.
tl;dr outside of being a shitty brother, he wasn’t the worst person, but was a really shitty brother
https://deadbishop-blog.tumblr.com/post/86053680832/my-dear-philip-i-hope-you-have-taken-measures-to
As Phil II was writing a calendar and description of every letter and on one he wrote; “… taken by my brother Alexr Hamilton from the House of my sister E[liza] H Holly immediately after her death without any colour of right or authority …,” dated, December 30, 1859 (from my dms with @yr-obedt-cicero bc the link didn’t work)
https://books.google.com/books?id=KL9cAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA65&lpg=PA65&dq=It+was+my+good+fortune+to+have+almost+the+entire+care+and+management+of+her+affairs.+The+elder+son#v=onepage&q=It%20was%20my%20good%20fortune%20to%20have%20almost%20the%20entire%20care%20and%20management%20of%20her%20affairs.%20The%20elder%20son&f=false
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You and your words they floded my senses
Your sentences left me defenseless
You built me palaces out of paragraphs
You built cathedrals
How? How!? Oh my ficking goodness like how! And her voice 😭. It makes me wanna murder a man! My god, i swear I’d kill for this woman!
Also like am I the only one that relates a little too hard to these lyrics like 😭
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