#Brandywine Christmas

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[sunnyrea]

Hello there! I wanted to ask, if one were to read your book along with the stories from “The War” universe you have published on ao3, where would those stories come in?

Ah, that is a quality question! I would like at the front to note that with the edits to the book those side stories might not fit perfectly anymore within the overall plot. Just to mention!

BUT. If you're feeling the extended edition of my already lengthy book (hee)

'The Schuylkill River Mill' takes place right after the Battle of Brandywine.

'Sewing Lesson' and 'Ball Game' can really fit anywhere during Valley Forge. The Garret would also be Valley Forge, but I always had it a little later, after McHenry arrived. I think all 3 took place before Enslin and the court martial.

'A Philadelphia Christmas' takes place after Laurens' duel when the family is in Philadelphia staying with his father.

Enjoy and thank you for reading ❤️

[gracehosborn]

Welp in light of receiving some Christmas gifts, I had to add to Mt. Research Overflow. Brandywine by Michael C. Harris to use in writing the lead up to, and the battle of, Brandywine, as well as Joseph Plumb Martin’s memoir for reference of the average solider’s conditions throughout the war, for Hamilton led and interacted with many lower ranking soldiers and their conditions during his own service. And that information is kinda important, considering this story of mine is written from Hamilton’s first person perspective and all. 😂 Somehow Volume I of this trilogy covers all of his upbringing and the entire American Revolution. You can imagine how long that’ll be when I finish.

When this research will end I have no idea but like seeing only half of the material here is a little crazy.

[sweetchristine]

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“This” Week

2009: Sanibel Island. 2010: Nashville. 2011: Chicago. 2012: Sedona and The Grand Canyon. 2014: Brandywine Valley and Longwood Gardens. New Mexico 2016.

We have a pretty good track record of traveling this particular week. We celebrate the anniversary of our relationship on Thanksgiving. This year was our 35th! For many of those years, we have gone to Williamsburg on Black Friday. This year was no exception but this year we also returned to our sporadic tradition [is it really a tradition if it is sporadic?] of taking a trip the week after Thanksgiving. It is the perfect time to for us to travel. Kids are back in school, adults are back at work, holiday decorations are up and holiday events kick off.

So here we are, on Pawley’s Island in South Carolina, getting to know — thanks to the pandemic — yet another “new beach town to us.” (Other pandemic destinations were Emerald Isle and Topsail Island, both in North Carolina.) We ventured further this trip, traveling 350 miles. Not until the Friday before Thanksgiving was I granted the week off from work so we were lucky to find a small, dog-friendly rental house. Our main view west faces Pawley’s Island Creek and we can walk to the public beach access in about a minute.

And why Pawley’s Island? Well, we can blame that on Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. On Facebook, LGBG has been soliciting votes in a USA Today Readers Choice poll on Best Botanical Garden Holiday Lights. Our beloved LGBG has been solidly in third place. Longwood Gardens, which we visited in 2014 at Christmas, is second to Brookgreen Garden’s Nights of a Thousand Candles and guess what’s five miles away? Yup, you guessed it: Brookgreen Gardens. But that will come later in the week. Meanwhile, we have other things to discover, other places to explore and other delicious food to enjoy.

We have had no problem getting Cokie to walk on the beach here. Well, almost no problem. There was the morning we had to take the truck to the public beach access about 30 feet down the road in order to get her past the workmen at the end of the driveway. Oh Cokie. But the beach here is very wide with hard, easy to walk on sand. The ocean has been lake-like this week, too, so no loud crashing waves to scare her. She cries when she sees other dogs on the horizon and wants to meet them. Lastly, we never have to second-guess ourselves about where to turn up as Cokie’s internal homing pigeon gene never fails.

Starfish!

Monday we spent the afternoon in the lovely historic district of Georgetown. Just 14 miles south, it is the third oldest city in South Carolina, behind Charleston and Beaufort. With a quick stop at the Visitors Center, we picked up a lunch recommendation, a walking tour brochure and museum tips. A few hours and a delicious lunch along the waterfront later, we had visited two museums (South Carolina Maritime Museum and The Gullah Museum), enjoyed a docent-led tour of the Kaminski House Museum and bought two goats.

Goats? Yes, goats. Fund-raising goats. And goats raising money for a festival? Even better! The sale of these goats benefits the Wooden Boat Show, 32 years old this year. The Maritime Museum read: “If you look across the river, you’ll see an island named Goat Island. There are no goats on the island but we like to think they once roamed around over there. Every year we host a Wooden Boat Show and our sponsor group is known as the Goat Island Yacht Club. There’s no actual yacht club, just a group of supportive people who help keep us going. The goats have become our unofficial mascot and we love them.”

On Tuesday, we went six miles north to Huntington Beach State Park. Shortly after the entrance, we saw birders along the road, watching a cluster of white pelicans in Mullet Pond. Unfortunately, we couldn’t stop in the middle of the road and later when we went back to view them safely, they had moved further away. Although we often see brown pelicans along the mid-Atlantic coast, neither of us could recall ever seeing the white ones so that was cool.

Lots of beautiful live oaks in this Park.

We hiked on a nice maritime forest trail with Cokie and then visited the Nature Center. A long boardwalk behind it granted us close-up views of a great blue heron, a great egret and a roseate spoonbill; the latter two stayed in the shadow of the boardwalk. It must have been a good fishing spot with all three species there together.

Our day in the Park concluded with another docent-led tour of a historic home. Atalaya, a National Historic Landmark, was the winter home of Archer (a scholar and philanthropist who inherited his wealth from family who owned several railroads) and sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington. The house was built in 1931 and is in pretty poor condition. The Huntingtons donated a huge chunk of land — 9000 acres — to the State: the side along the Atlantic which is now home to the State Park and the Brookgreen Gardens side across Highway 17.

Amassed by the purchase of four rice plantations and designed by Anna, it contains “the largest and most comprehensive collection of American figurative sculpture in the country,” many of which she made in her studio in Atalaya. Brookgreen is a beautiful place with flowers, trees, Spanish moss, sculptures, fountains, poetry and in December, “Nights of a Thousand Candles.”

Learning more about this couple made sense and led us us full circle back to the very reason we came here during our customary week of adventure.

[mybookof-you]

Mayling Mack Holm, A Forest Christmas

vi@ Pinterest and Brandywine River Museum of Art on FB

The daughter of Chinese father and an American mother, Holm was born in Manila, the Philippines, in 1940. During World War II, she went with her mother and sister to her mother’s hometown of Greencastle, Indiana. Her family was reunited in Canton, China, where she grew up and her father served in the Chinese military. In 1949, the family fled to Hong Kong when the Chinese mainland was overtaken by Mao Tse Tung. ⁣

After graduating from high school, Holm came back to the U.S. and studied at Indiana University and DePauw University—where her mother taught. Leaving college to raise her own family of three children, Holm returned to school at Goddard College, graduating at age 35. As with many women artists over the centuries, Holm balanced raising a family with her work as an artist.⁣

As a self-taught artist, Holm did not begin making art until she was in her mid-30s when her children were young. She referred to her art as “doodles,” the result of “nervous energy.” Those doodles culminated in a contract with Harper & Row to write and illustrate her own children’s book. “A Forest Christmas,” a children’s holiday story, was published in 1978 and met with great success. It was her first and only published work, taking her two years to complete. ⁣

Holm worked in the unusual medium of ballpoint pen, a very time-consuming process, with each drawing taking two to three weeks ⁣to complete—even though she did not make sketches or preliminary drawings. She collected antique miniature furniture which she used to create her detailed drawings of the homes of the humanized woodland creatures in the story. Some of her drawings were shown in 1978 in Tokyo at an exhibition of children’s illustration. This work shown here will soon be on view at the Brandywine when it reopens in June 2021. ⁣

📷: Mayling Mack Holm (b. ca. 1940), At the Rat Household, 1976, illustration for A Forest Christmas by Mayling Mack Holm, ballpoint pen on paper, 8 x 6 3/4 in. Gift of Lawrence and Barbara Seeborg, 2021. © Mayling Mack Holm⁣

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Thirsty Thursday

A little something different for this week’s Thirsty Thursday. Featuring some familiar officers who are about to be very, very drunk.

“Nix," Dick said, eyeing the table of bottles and the waiting punch bowl, and feeling he was somehow going to regret this. "What is this?"

"Army Punch!" Nixon said proudly.  "We're going to have a Toast."

"Punch is usually lemons, brandy, and tea, Lew," Harry supplied. "Mostly brandy. My aunt makes it at Christmas-time  -- stuff will knock you on your ass. This is - " he surveyed the table, "-none of those things."

"Ahh, but that is your garden variety punch, and this is an Army Punch - specific to the unit for which it is made, and specifically for the purpose of making the unit toast! Now, gather round, you heathens, there’s an art to this."

He waited until they were all listening, and, with all the panache of a practiced showman, began. "This unit was first fielded in 1942, in Georgia, and it was there that several hundred men transformed themselves into paratroopers. In honor of the Peach State, we begin our punch with peach schnapps." He selected a bottle - one of the many on the table - and passed it to Harry. "Light Horse, please."

Harry shrugged and tipped it into the bowl, letting the entire bottle slowly chug out.

"Tested and tried by field exercises and under-strength commanders, we were sent to England to wait for orders, and gather our courage. To commemorate the good times had at the Blue Boar, and the strength of our English allies, a London Gin. Ron, if you would." In went a bottle of Gordon's, the mixture bubbling up promisingly.

"On June the sixth, we jumped into France, and the war. For the hedges, fields and orchards of Normandy,  in which so many of our brothers and sisters fought and died - calvados, a strong drink for strong soldiers." Lewis poured this one, an unmarked bottle that had probably been smuggled out of France in a pack that wasn't his.

"Trusted and ready, we undertook our second jump as liberators and friends of the Dutch, ready to free them from the Nazi yoke. For the dikes and bridges of Holland, Genever, the national liquor, distilled from junipers. Lip? " Lipton took the bottle, a tall strange thing with an antique looking label that smelled strongly of forests, and in it went.

"We then went to the Ardennes, remaining on the line in conditions that would have terrified lesser men. For the Bois Jacques, and the bitter cold, we add ice. Frosty, if you could do the honors? " Dick put a few heaping shovelfuls from the ice bucket into the bowl, which Lew stirred experimentally with the ladle before continuing.

"Our accomplishments are long, but our final objective is here at hand - and so, finally, for Germany, and to complete our Punch, we add Asbach Uralt, the famous brandywine of Unterberg. And with that - "

"It's not done," Joan interrupted, shaking her head. Heads turned as she went to the sideboard, and came back with another bottle, unwiring the top of the champagne and easing the cork off the bottle with surprising flair, the bottle only foaming a little.  "Before we serve it and raise our glasses in toast, we here add champagne, for the sweetness of victory - and to the health of the unit's officers and men." She raised the bottle, looked around the room and emptied it, meeting Lewis' eye with a smile. "This is not my first Punch. If you're going to do it, do it right."

Lewis, surprised, gestured to the bowl indicating that she was free to take over if she so desired, which she did, taking the ladle and stirring carefully.  "As we mix this," she said, with all the solemnity of an ancient priestess, "we remember the actions and battles that have made us who we are, and as we drink it, we remember the names of the men who are no longer with us to partake. We say their names now, in silence, and drink in their memory."

She paused, and bowed her head as if at prayer, and around the table the others did the same, going over the silent litany of the dead. 

Prayers and invocations complete, Joan ladled out a cup, the liquid now dark and vicious-looking, and offered it, not to Lewis, but to Dick. "Senior-most officer drinks first -- no exceptions."

Dick eyed the punch glass dubiously, and raised it to his lips, watching Joan over the rim of the glass as he took one long sip  - and almost immediately sputtered. "God, that's strong."

"As it should be," Joan said with a smile. "Gentleman, your glasses, please." They lined up and let her fill each one, each one looking at the mixture with a mix of excitement and fear.

"This is going to make your Aunt's punch look like a cakewalk," Buck murmured with a grin, but Harry only raised his eyebrows and indicated that Joan could fill his glass up just a little more.

-

The tradition here is actually more in line with a Cavalry Punch, although it’s also sometimes called Grog instead. I have drunk something similar to the mixture described here - and yes, it will knock you on your butt.

The names given here are from the officer’s Drinking Club, whose sign is still prominenently displayed in the Blue Boar pub to this day.

[jack-the-sol]

John Laurens and the Theory of Malaria

In late December 2019, I read over a piece of a book I'd gotten for Christmas. In this book, "The Heart of Everything that is Valley Forge" by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin, they mention John Laurens having had Malaria the night/early morning of his death.

This began the theory: knowing about John Laurens, and knowing his attitude towards life, would this presumed stroke of Malaria pressure him from his sickbed into the final battle where he died?

Laurens was a man who was very focused on honor and, as he said in a letter to his father, "Glorious Death, or the Triumph of the Cause in which I am engaged." This quote along with many of his actions leads me to believe that Laurens had no intention of surviving the war, and I believe he may have been reckless and perhaps even mentally ill to the point of suicide. Of course, Suicide at the time was a very poor and dishonorable way to die, therefore, committing oneself to the military during the war could be a death sentence in itself, especially in 1777. 

Well, Laurens was officially appointed an Aide-de-Camp to Washington on October 6, 1777, two days after the Battle of Germantown which occurred on the fourth. This battle is key in this argument because not only was Laurens under General Sullivan's command at the time, requested there by an old friend of Laurens and aide to Sullivan, John White, his actions throughout the battle back up the idea of what I will refer to as "Military Suicide" (when someone kills themselves intentionally in the military but not through their own hands; through a dangerous and fatal opportunity they saw).

Throughout the battle, Laurens showed immense bravery, but he was struck through, according to Massey's Biography of Laurens, "the fleshy part of his right shoulder" sometime when he was fighting. He wrapped his shoulder in his Aide-de-Camp riband (a sash) and continued fighting until he was pulled aside by John White.

White took John to a house a few British soldiers were using as shelter. The Chew Mansion, aka, Cliveden. General Henry Knox had taken a cannon and tried to blow holes in the house, but it didn't work. Laurens was told to help, and it was suggested that they burn the house down and smoke the redcoats out. They attempted to, ending with Laurens and White charging the house together in an attempt to make firewood catch at the door, but Laurens was stabbed in the side, and White bayonetted through the head. Major John White died, Laurens did not.

But the point of Germantown was that Laurens did not stop fighting until he was forced to due to the extent of his injuries finally taking their toll. Brandywine is another example of this. Laurens was struck by a cannonball in the ankle and continued fighting to whatever degree he could.

In fact, in every major battle except Yorktown where Laurens fought, he was injured. The Sieges of Charlestown and Savannah in 1780 are excluded because there were numerous battles, sieges, not a singular occurrence as the others were. To anyone else, it would appear that Laurens was suicidal. However, at the time, suicide was an incredibly frowned-upon and cowardly ( (and dishonorable) act. So, I believe that Laurens saw chances present themselves as battles to him so that he could die honorably on the battlefield, which he seemed to be striving for during the entire course of the war. He never expected to live through the war, never intended to, and wished to die honorably in battle over any other death. 

Unfortunately, in August of 1782, Laurens caught some form of illness, which, according to “The Heart of Everything That is Valley Forge”, was malaria. On page 344 in the second paragraph, it states, “On August 27, 1782, mere weeks before the British withdrew from Charleston for good, Laurens—who had malaria—dragged himself from his sickbed to lead a platoon of light infantry against a British foraging party.” (A source is never cited for where the authors retrieved the information about Laurens having malaria.)

Before then, I hadn’t heard of Laurens having malaria specifically. So, I researched more. In Gregory D. Massey’s biography of Laurens, he writes, “In 1782, the sickly season proved especially severe, and both armies were racked with illness. Despite a fever that occasionally confined Laurens to his bed, he continued to gather intelligence... From his sickbed, Laurens learned of Gist’s orders... Laurens recognized the potential for action... He hurried to Combahee River, announcing “that he would return with all possible expedition” to his post... He sensed a last chance to demonstrate his public virtue and win military fame.” 

According to ThoughtCo.com, “In August 1782, during the Battle of Combahee in South Carolina's Lowcountry, John Laurens was shot from his horse and killed. He was twenty-seven years old. He had been ill prior to the battle, most likely suffering from malaria, but still insisted on fighting alongside his battalion.” 

These three pieces of information lead me to believe that Laurens was possibly suffering from malaria at the time of his death, which was not uncommon since the Lowcountry of South Carolina is filled with swampland and mosquitos, which would certainly be capable to spreading the sickness easily. Laurens would have known how dangerous malaria is (especially in 1782 when vaccinations were a new idea and if you got sick of such a fatal illness, there was little likelihood of bouncing back) and he would have known he had little chance to live much longer. So, an action at Combahee River possibly leading to death was surely a chance for the “Glorious Death” he wrote to his father about before. 

So, in the middle of a supposed bout of malaria, Laurens charged into battle despite the odds being against him, which he surely knew well, and was killed in action, in a “frolicking skirmish”, honorably, just as he wished. 

I wrote an email regarding this theory to Gregory Massey, who wrote Laurens’ biography, and he responded saying, “...your idea that he sought a military death rather than one wasting away from illness is very intriguing. It can't be definitely proven, but it is a fascinating possibility. While I don't endorse your idea, I don't entirely dismiss it either.” Therefore, it could be a theory to be considered. It could be entirely speculation, but with the facts gathered, I am beginning to see Laurens’ attempt at military suicide unfold. 

I would like to know what you all think about this and if you could help me build on it, so if you could, please spreading this around and let me know what you think. This is absolutely an idea open to debate. Thank you. 

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Christmas carolers at Longwood Gardens in the Brandywine Region © Karen Rubin/goingplacesfarandnear.com

by Karen Rubin, Travel Features Syndicate, goingplacesfarandnear.com

The best thing about Christmas is that the festivities that brighten and warm all the days of the holiday season go on from Thanksgiving to New Year’s. And the best part is you don’t have to wait for Christmas week –…

[catharticscream]

I was tagged by @justfornowokaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa so here goes

1. Birthday: 8/23/89 I'm old

2. Zodiac: Virgo (leo cusp) idk I was born at noon whatever the hell that means.

3. Height: 5'10

4. Last song I listened to: banana phone by Raffi

5. Hobbies: music, painting, art in general idk dude I hate this question. I hate the concept of "hobbies"

6. Favorite color: I hate this question too like idk dude, Fire Engine Red, or maybe Tickle Me Pink or Robin's Egg Blue or Barcelona Red or maybe Brandywine or Oxblood or oh oh maybe Macaroni and Cheese or something.

7. Last movie I watched: all the way through? Probably the fx Christmas Carol with Guy Pierce I thought parts of it were good but a few scenes we're kinda over the top. It was really pretty to watch though.

8. Favorite book: I don't read as much as I should especially fiction and maybe this is a boring answer but I really love the Goldfinch because that shit is right up my alley. I haven't seen the movie yet I don't want to be disappointed.

9. Dream job this is a depressing question. I don't want a job I just want to be happy and healthy and have time to do the things I want without having to make a "career" out of it.

10. Meaning behind url: screaming can be very cathartic try it out.

Anyway thanks this was fun I tag @declanmacmanus @mermaidbones @hausrework @totsandpears @calvinsraccoon @bittertwee idk I can't remember all of your urls off the top of my head so just do this if you see it and want to.

I love you.

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I figured it out!! Hooray!! Though it doesn't look all that good...mmm...meh I wont mess with it anymore it's fine...I'm not deleting the old one through #traditionalart #color #pencilart #cute #lineart #pencilcbolor #oc #mycharacters #kawaii #monster #digitalart #love #baby #homestuck #friend #originalcharacter #originalcharacters #anime #merrysolstice #merrychristmas #happynewyear #happyhanukkah #happykwanzaa #christmas #endsocs (at Brandywine, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6nqGbPg3Co/?igshid=1mibdnomd3gmv

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Sunday reading recap (11-Nov-2018)

so looking forward to this short work week and then spending 4 whole days in solitude (plus cats of course)

due to the whole ‘five days of 10-hour work days full of *people*’ the reading was very light. by the time the day was over i just wanted to play mindless puzzle games

Family Matters: Brandywine Investigations #4-5 (Angel Martinez) - this series continued to kick ass.I loved the crossovers of different mythologies so much! I’m so sad it’s over!!!!!

Bulls & Bacchanals: Brandywine Investigations #4 - The Minotaur is the head librarian at the Eternal Library (where *all* the gods come to research) and Dionysus falls for him.

"I know every beast of field and forest. The only one that's ever ugly is man. Making you feel less. Making you feel unloved. That's ugly.”

Midwinter Dancing: Brandywine Investigations #4.5 - Artemis finds a buff gf at christmas time; Ingebord gets an unexpected holiday gift - this was so sweet & cute

Pack Up the Moon: Brandywine Investigations #5 - this couple is Charon (who’s ace) + the raccoon trickster god Azeban. There's a trickster god cabal, featuring Loki, Set, Coyote, Anansi, Laverna. Contains the only manifestation of the Rainbow Bridge that do not loathe. Also, Charon, ferryman of the undead, has a Cali King bed full of Pusheen stuffies. 

Loki could be a great fuck buddy when he wasn't being all morose about his family.

This might be the stupidest thing I've ever done. Kissing the very-private-about-his-life ferryman in front of a bunch of trickster gods who'll be thinking how to use it later. But I'm probably dying soon. Seize those carps.

Scents and Sensibility: The Working Assassin's Guide to Supersoldier Seduction (galwednesday, silentwalrus, skellerbvvt) - 93K, stucky, a ‘clownfish AU’ variation on ABO, featuring 'instituionalized softism', meaning lots of blankets and hair braiding. Cannot stress how much I fucking adored everything in this fic; this rec/review post has more detail. 

shorter misc fanfic all over the place

so grateful for amazing writing helping me de-stress during a high-stress week 😘😘😘

[combeferres-mothematics]

I posted 238 times in 2021

22 posts created (9%)

216 posts reblogged (91%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 9.8 posts.

I added 13 tags in 2021

#amrev - 3 posts

#american revolution - 2 posts

#travelingwithkids - 1 posts

#wtf - 1 posts

#he would do that though - 1 posts

#but i cant't draw to save my life :( - 1 posts

#can you guess the letters i know? - 1 posts

#still leanic to type - 1 posts

#but trying to kill a child wtf. - 1 posts

#if anyone was kicked out of cracker barrel i honestly would've guessed hamilton - 1 posts

Longest Tag: 80 characters

#if you haven't already guessed my favorite historical figure is thomas jefferson

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#5

So, I’ve been feeling a little off latly, and I thougt if was just stress, but my fiance broght up the fact that I haven’t had my period lately. Soo, I may be pregnant and I don’t know what to think. I go to the doctor on Monday, so I’ll ask about it then I guess....

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#4

INTRODUCTION

Hello, my name is Abigail, but pretty much everyone just calls me Abby (Unless you’re my twin brother, then you call me Kiwi...) 

MY FAMILY:

I have two older half brothers, 

a twin brother,

 and eight younger brothers,

 and a little unknown arriving January 2022, (Will update when they’re born).

 And three neices and two nephews.

Oh. And My Fiance,  Ben. we’re planning to get married next February if everything goes according to plan (We were originally plaaning to get married this December, but then Mom got pregnant.)

And five kitties! Aaron Purr, Alexander Hamilcat, John Clawrens, Hercules Purrigin, and Gilbert du Meowteir, Meowquis de Pawfayette.

MY HOBBIES

I like learning about anything history related, but exspecially American Revolution.

Archeology.

Writing.

Reading.

Anything science related.

AND CATS!

MY FANDOMS

Amrev. (Just found out this existed recently and am super excited!

Liberty’s Kids.

and I think thats all so far...

SOME FACTS ABOUT ME

I am autistic.

I was named after Abigail Adams.

I was born on the 11th of September in 2001. (9/11)

My very first memory is going to Colonial Williamsburg when I was five.

I can’t cook. Like, at all. If I’m cooking something usually ends up on fire...

My favorite battle is the battle of Brandywine.

My Favorite historical figure (as of now.) is Thomas Jefferson.

I have recently started writing fanfiction. I am on Archive of Our Own right now but may expand later. I currently have only one WIP my account is Jeffersonfan if anyone wants to check me out.

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250th anniversary of the American Revolution

Is anyone else super excited for the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution that’s coming up in a couple of years? Well, the 250th anniversary of the Boston Massacre was last year, so I guess it has kinda already started if you think about it. but the Revolution part officially starts April 19th, 2025!  

3 notes • Posted 2021-11-02 03:29:13 GMT

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Okay Kiwi, Fic prompt! This will be in modern times, you can figure out how they got there. So Washington's aides, they all decide to recreate the croosing of the Delaware in George's pool for christmas, and they freeze big blocks of ice, get those huge inflatable rafts, etc, but they don't tell George what they're doing and they accidentally wake him up, and when he comes out to see what the hell they're doing he scares them so much that at least one falls in the water and has to be rescued.

Oh, this is good! I'll start working on it now!

4 notes • Posted 2021-11-07 03:36:16 GMT

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So, I was given permition to share this with y’all, this dicord is alive and you’re welcome to chek us out!

@pub-lius @lams-tallmadge @coldinmyproffesions @floatyteabag @harrison-the-dilf-friend 

And anyone else I don’t know to tag, I may have frgotten someone on accident, and I don’t know a lot of people here yet, so tag anyone else you think might like to join!

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[iafayettes]

If you’ve run out of Christmas present ideas, just know that there’s an oddly specific collection plate of Lafayette rallying troops at Brandywine whilst wounded that’s selling for around $20 on Amazon… if that’s your type of thing