#Dutch Elizabeth jr

[momosartgalaxy]

NEXT CHRISTMAS CARD

Is for the irl homie, that i've been friends with since I was a wee bab.

We'll start with the two Transformers. I gave into the demon and made a 'pinup' of Sentinel Prime as he is my friends 'here me out'. I also drew his oc, Choom. Who is most like a bullet/more modern train - no alt mode specific he's just a white train. The Jester got dropped by the other as a 'fny' prank. And an homage to our long friendship and the many ocs we've made together, who have the same bond as we do.

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[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 8.30

Beer Birthdays

Samuel Whitbread (1720)

Johan Van Dyck (1975)

Stacy Marie Fuson; St. Pauli Girl 2005 (1978)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Lewis Black; comedian (1948)

Molly Ivins; writer (1944)

Fred MacMurray; actor (1908)

John Swigert Jr.; astronaut (1931)

Ted Williams; Boston Red Sox LF (1918)

Famous Birthdays

Elizabeth Ashley; actor (1939)

Geoffrey Beene; fashion designer (1927)

Joan Blondell; actor (1909)

Shirley Booth; actor (1898)

Timothy Bottoms; actor (1951)

Warren Buffett; gazillionaire (1930)

Michael Chiklis; actor (1963)

Robert Crumb; cartoonist (1943)

Jacques-Louis David; French artist (1748)

Agoston Haraszthy de Mokcsa; vineyard importer (1812)

Cameron Diaz; actor (1972)

John Gunther; writer (1901)

Jean-Claude Killy; French skier (1943)

Peggy Lipton; actor (1947)

Huey Long; politician (1893)

Raymond Massey; actor (1896)

Tug McGraw; NY Mets/Philadelphia Phillies P (1944)

John Phillips; singer, songwriter (1935)

Andy Roddick; tennis player (1982)

Ernest Lord Rutherford; New Zealand physicist (1871)

Theodor Svedberg; Swedish chemist (1884)

Frederique van der Wal (1967)

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff; Dutch physicist (1852)

J. Alden Weir; artist (1852)

Kitty Wells; country singer (1919)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; English writer (1797)

[melpomeneprose]

CHARACTER QUESTIONNAIRE !!

Tagged by: myself.

Tagging: @general-lafayette, @honorhearted, @lauraroleplayss, @the-summer-of-73, @pagetreader, and @washingtonsxalphaxwolf. 💙

✧･ﾟ   𝐃𝐀𝐒𝐇 𝐆𝐀𝐌𝐄.

► ELIZABETH SCHUYLER-HAMILTON.

Name: Elizabeth Schuyler-Hamilton.

Alias(es): Betsey & Eliza.

Gender: female (she/her).

Orientation: bi (male lean) (Protestant and quiet about it). 
Age: I have her at 24-26 during the American Revolution, after that, 30+, or timeline/verse dependent.

Date of birth: August 9th, 1757

Place of birth: Albany, NYC

Spoken language(s): English, French, Dutch & German.

Occupation(s): socialite, Dutch old money, philanthropist, advocate, wife and mother. Sometimes nurse during the American Revolution -> aiding her father General Phillip Schuyler.

★  ⸻   APPEARANCE

Eye colour: green-brown.

Hair colour: brunette.

Height: 5’2”

Other: values modesty as well as strength and dressing well. She pretty much always is wearing a fichu.

18th century ladies fashion.

18th century fashion glossary.

★  ⸻   FAVORITE

Colour: blue, cream, light pink and white.

Song: Eliza playlist.

Hamliza playlist.

Food: Apple turnover.

Drink: wine.

★  ⸻   HAVE THEY...

Passed university: by 18th century standards.

Had sex: yes.

Had sex in public: no.

Gotten pregnant/someone else pregnant: yes.

Kissed a boy: yes.

Kissed a girl: yes.

Gotten tattoos: no.

Gotten piercings: yes, ears.

Been in love: yes.

Stayed up 24+ hours: yes.

★  ⸻   ARE THEY...

A virgin: no.

A cuddler: yes.

A kisser: yes.

Scared easily: subjective.

Jealous easily: yes.

Submissive: yes.

Dominant: no.

In love: verse/thread dependant.

Relationship status: verse/thread dependant.

★  ⸻   RANDOM QUESTIONS

TW for self-harm/suicide mention.

Have they harmed themselves: no.

Thought of suicide/ideated: once, as a teenager.

Attempted suicide: no.

Wanted to kill someone: Briefly, in a moment of rage and betrayal. (Alexander following The Reynold’s Pamphlet).

Have/had a job: she wants to, but her father won’t let her.

Fears: not being enough.

Sibling(s): Angelica Schuyler-Church, Margarita “Peggy” Schuyler, all of Philip Schuyler’s sons.

Parent(s): Catherine “Kitty” Van Rensselaer/Phillip Schuyler.

Children:

Philip Hamilton

Angelica Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton Jr.

James Alexander Hamilton

John Church Hamilton

William S. Hamilton

Eliza Hamilton Holly

Philip Hamilton II

Significant other: Alexander Hamilton (1780 to 1804).

Or: thread/verse dependant.

Pet(s): the feral tomcat. (affectionate) /j

Eliza’s Wikipedia.

The Dutch in NYC.

Hot take: why Eliza deserves a musical.

The Orphanage Eliza founded.

[creativepup]

It's OK if y'all didn't originally recognize her name, but here's some Louise Brooks propaganda from my mom (courtesy of https://www.pandorasbox.com/tributes/):

"Aside from Charlie Chaplin, no silent film star — and few actors or actresses of today — have received so much cultural and creative recognition. Arguably, Brooks has become a 20th century icon, even something of a muse."

In Dangerous Female (1931), the first film version of The Maltese Falcon, Brooks or someone who looks a lot like her, is pictured as Sam Spade’s girlfriend.

The femme fatale played by Cyd Charisse in Singin in the Rain (1952) was modeled after Brooks.

Over the years, many actresses have stated in print their desire to play Brooks on the big screen, including Shirley MacLaine, Julie Roberts, Dana Delaney, Winona Ryder and Neve Campbell, to name a few.

Performers who have sported bobbed hair and name checked Brooks include Siouxsie Sioux of Siouxsie and The Banshees, country music star Lorrie Morgan, singers Linda Rondstadt and Kylie Minogue, and pop superstar Madonna.

In Jonathan Demme’s Something Wild (1986), Melanie Griffith plays a femme fatale who calls herself “Lulu” and adopts a bobbed haircut like Brooks.

The Eddie Muller short The Grand Inquisitor (2008) features a Brooks’ inspired character named Lulu.

Images of Brooks are seen a number of times in the French film Blue is the Warmest Color (2013).

Brooks was the inspiration behind Show Girl (1928) and Hollywood Girl (1929), two bestselling comedic novels by J.P. McEvoy. Each was serialized in Liberty magazine and later widely syndicated in dozens of American newspapers.

According to the Argentine author Adolfo Bioy Casares, the character of Faustine in his 1940 novel The Invention of Morel was inspired by Brooks.One of the very first works of magic realism, The Invention of Morel reportedly influenced both Alain Resnais’ film Last Year at Marienbad (1961) as well as the popular American television show, Lost.

A character named Louise Brooks, who happens to resemble the actress, plays an important role in Willem Frederik Hermans’ The Saint of the Clockmakers (1987), a philosophical novel considered one of the finest works by one of the most important Dutch novelists of the post WWII era.

Brooks is mentioned or a minor character in a number of genre novels or novels by genre writers including Kim Newman’s Anno Dracula (1992), Nancy Baker’s Kiss of the Vampire (1995), and Neil Gaiman’s American Gods (2001). In the latter novel, the character named Czernobog refers to Brooks as the greatest movie star of all time. In Houdini Heart (2011), a novel of supernatural horror, author Ki Longfellow uses Brooks as a character in the lead character’s visions. Brooks is also referenced in works by Fritz Leiber, Jr., Clive Barker, Peter Straub, Elizabeth Hand, and Lemony Snicket.

Riffing on the Brooks’ film, Frank O’Hara wrote a poem titled “F.Y.I.(PRIX DE BEAUTE)” (1961). Another poet associated with the New York School, Bill Berkson, also wrote a poem inspired by Brooks, “Bubbles” (early 1960’s). Additionally, Brooks is pictured in a book of 1978 film-inspired poems by Edward Field.

Brooks was the inspiration behind Dixie Dugan, the comic strip by J.P. McEvoy and John H. Striebel which ran from 1929 to 1966.

Brooks is popular among European comix artists. Hugo Pratt, another celebrated Italian artist, found inspiration in Brooks and drew her likeness into various works and named characters after her. Two French graphic novels, Olivia Sturgess 1914-2004 (2005) by Floc’h, and Louise et les loups (2012), by Marion Mousse, were each inspired by Brooks and her look.

The character of Death in the Sandman books by Neil Gaiman was originally based on Brooks.

Brooks is a character and appears on the cover of a Dr. Who comic, Silver Scream (2009). [The eighth Doctor, actor Paul McGann, is also a big fan of the actress.]

Brooks’ likeness is incorporated into a 1929 photo-montage by the Bauhaus associated artist Herbert Bayer. She can also be found in a collage (c. 1930) by the English artist Edward Burra.

Famed caricaturist David Levine drew a likeness of Brooks which appeared in the New York Review of Books (1982), and has been subsequently reproduced on calendars, postcards and other print media.

The first rock music nod to Brooks may be from The Freeze, a Scottish punk band. In 1980, they released a 7″ EP featuring the song “Celebration”, which the back cover notes is “dedicated to Louise Brooks who inspired this song.” Composer Gordon Sharp reportedly sent the recording to the actress. The earliest rock music video featuring footage of Brooks may be “It Hurts” by the Lotus Eaters, from 1985.

Singer songwriter Mike Doughty sports a Brooks’ tattoo, which he has worn since the 1990s. More recently on social media sites, fans have posted images of their own Brooks’ tattoos.

Rufus Wainwright’s 2010 recording, All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu, is an acknowledged tribute to Brooks. The Lou Reed / Metallica collaboration, Lulu (2011), can also be regarded as a more oblique homage to Brooks.

The British new wave group Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) released a hit single called “Pandora’s Box” (1991) as a Brooks tribute.The lyrics are about the actress, and the video for the song uses footage of Brooks.

International songs referencing Brooks include Jen Anderson’s “Lulu the song” (1993) from her Australian Pandora’s Box soundtrack; “Lulu” (1995) from the Canadian singer- songwriter Ron Hawkins; and “Interior Lulu” (1999) by the British prog-rock band Marillion. Another prog-rock band, TIMELOCK, from The Netherlands, released two songs about the actress, “Louise Brooks” from their 1994 album Louise Brooks, and “Louise Brooks Revisited” from a 2002 album. In 2014, Scottish singer songwriter Louise Rutkowski released Diary of a Lost Girl.That same year, the Tiger Lillies released Lulu – A Murder Ballad. In 2015, Wurlitza, a five piece band from the UK, released their original soundtrack to the Brooks’ film, Diary of a Lost Girl. And on a different note, there’s “Louise Brooks: Lulu’s Ragtime” (2007) by the Vienna Art Orchestra. As well, Brooks appears on the cover of Eliogabablus (1990), by the Italian-Slovenian experimental rock band Devil Doll. While a few images of Brooks appear in the video of Caro Emerald’s “Tangled Up” (2013).

Brooks may be more popular in France than just about anywhere. Among the French acts that have recorded tributes to the actress is the musette revival band Les Primitifs Du Futur (whose line-up includes famed cartoonist Robert Crumb); in 2006, they reworked the theme song from Prix de Beauté into “Chanson pour Louise Brooks”. Among other French recordings there is “Louise Brooks” by Lady Godiva, from their 1999 release Louise Brooks Avenue, “Actress (Louise Brooks theme)” by Nouvelle Culture from 2005, and Olivia Louvel’s “Lulu a Hollywood” from her 2007 album, Lulu in Suspension.

A French perfume, “LouLou”, from 1987, was inspired by Brooks.

“Impasse Louise Brooks”, a street named after the actress, is located in Bois d’Arcy, a village outside of Paris.

((My mom also had a coworker who styled her hair like Louise Brooks.))

Y'all are doing a cultural disservice not to vote for Louise.

Propaganda

Louise Brooks (Pandora's Box, Diary of a Lost Girl)—Louise Brooks started off as a dancer and went to work in the Follies before going to Hollywood. Disappointed with her roles there, she went to Germany and proceeded to make Pandora's Box, the first film to show a lesbian on-screen (not her but one of her many doomed admirers in the film), and Diary of a Lost Girl, both of which are considered two of the greatest films of the 20th century. She helped popularize the bob and natural acting, acting far more subtly than her contemporaries who treated the camera as a stage audience. After the collapse of her film career and a remarkably rough patch as a high-end sex worker, she was rediscovered and did film criticism, notably "Lulu in Hollywood," which Rodger Ebert called "indispensable." Also, christ. Look at her.

Vilma Bánky (The Son of the Sheik, The Eagle)—She's famous now for being a silent star ruined by the transition to talkies, unlike her frequent co-star Ronald Colman. I think that's a shame, as she has a real vivaciousness and charm in The Winning of Barbara Worth. In this *checks notes* western about environmental engineering, she rides around the desert and gets wooed by both Colman and a young Gary Cooper (good for her dot gif.) Even in stills from films that are sadly lost, I think there is a distinctive warmth and individuality to her. Also she is extremely hot in her extremely pre-Code dress in The Magic Flame.

This is round 2 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut.]

Louise Brooks:

"Defined the style of the modern flapper. A gaze that could make a stone fall in love."

"Louise Brooks left a legend far greater than her real achievement as an actress, but even today few people have seen her films. In our own time, the fascination with Brooks seems to have begun in 1979 with a profile by Kenneth Tynan in the New Yorker, which revealed that the actress who made her last movie in 1938 was alive and living in Rochester, N.Y. Such was the power of Tynan's prose that people began to seek out her existing films, primarily this one, to discover what the fuss was about. What we see here is a healthy young woman -- she was 23 when the film was released -- with whom the camera, under G.W. Pabst's influence, is fascinated. There is a deep paradox in Brooks and her career: the American girl who found success in the troubled Europe between two wars; the vivid personality who briefly dazzled two continents but faded into obscurity; the liberated woman who had affairs with such prominent men as CBS founder William S. Paley as well as with women including (by her account) Greta Garbo but wound up a solitary recluse. And all of this seems perfectly in keeping with her most celebrated role in Pandora's Box. For despite her bright vitality, her flashing dark eyes and brilliant smile, Brooks's Lulu becomes the ultimate femme fatale, careering her way toward destruction, not only of her lovers but eventually of herself."

"She invented having bangs to indicate that you have borderline personality disorder"

"chances are if youve ever seen a "flapper girl" character or even just art of a generic flapper type made after the 20s it was based on her appearance - particularly the bob hairstyle! she had some pretty rough experiences through her life before during and after her tumultuous acting career which ended in 1938 but she made it to the 80s, wrote an autobiography and did a lot of interviews that she was never afraid of being honest in about her own life or peers of the age, and apparently was unabashed about some affairs she had with well known women (including greta garbo!!)"

"She read Proust and Schopenhauer on set between sets. She was one of the original flappers/new women of the 1920s. She had a one night stand with Garbo and was the inspiration for Sally Bowles in Cabaret. Truly a stone cold fox."

"on her wikipedia page it says her biographer said she "loved women as a homosexual man, rather than as a lesbian, would love them" and while i have no idea if this is true or not i thought that was very gender of her"

"despite being american she was big in german expressionist films and thus her aesthetic was unmatched!!"

So far ahead of her time in regard to portraying complicated women. Timeless elegance. "I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.” - Louise Brooks

Vilma Bánky:

I love Vilma Bánky! She was called "the Hungarian Rhapsody" and apparently had a thick Hungarian accent which I think is cute. Several men fighting over the same women can be very cliche but when I saw her in The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926) I got it because my god she really is that drop dead gorgeous. She's also a wonderful actress though, expressive yet natural. I read once that seeing her in The Dark Angel (1925)—a film now seemingly lost—inspired Merle Oberon to become an actress :)

This is more of a factoid but she was apparently the women's golf champion at Wilshire Country Club through the 1940s. [link] I just think she's neat.

I love herrrrr she’s my everything. Watching her kiss Rudolph Valentino in Son of the Sheik made me so flustered I had to pause the movie to cool down. She’s the prettiest the most beautiful the most incredible woman I’ve ever seen. I could look at a picture of her for hours

[brookston]

Holidays 1.4

Holidays

Amnesty For Polygamists Day

Appendectomy Day

Carnaval Blancos Negros begins (Colombia) [Ends 1.6]

Chona-Hajimeshiki (Kamakura, Japan)

Colonial Martyrs Repression Day (Angola)

Crucian Christmas Festival (US Virgin Islands)

Day of King Amador (São Tomé and Principe)

Day of the Martyrs (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Day to Mourn Racism

Dia del Periodista (National Journalist Day; Mexico)

Dimpled Chad Day (a.k.a. Hanging Chad Day)

Extra Humiliation Day

Flower Basket Day

Get Out Your Boxer Shorts Day

Hit Parade Day

Hwinukan Mukee (Ryukyuan; Okinawa, Japan)

International Jewish Book Day

International Unsolicited Duck Pic Day

Martyr’s Day (Dem. Republic of Congo)

National Clara Day

National Emotional Eating Awareness Day

National Missouri Day

National Rachel Day

National Ribbon Skirt Day (Canada)

National Trivia Day

Newtons Day

Ogoni Day

Perchtenläufe (Festival to Frighten Away Winter; Austria)

Perihelion (Earth closest to the Sun)

Pop Music Chart Day

Rabbit Day (French Republic)

Short People Day

Tom Thumb Day

World Braille Day (UN)

World Hypnotism Day

Zero Gravity Day [Hoax]

Food & Drink Celebrations

Blender Day

Eat an Oreo Cookie, Look at Your Teeth, and Remember to Floss Day

National Grape Day

National Kraft Mac & Cheese Day

National Spaghetti Carbonara Day

National Spaghetti Day

1st Thursday in January

Kid Lit Art Postcard Day [1st Thursday]

Wintersköl (Aspen, Colorado) [Begins Thursday before 2nd Sunday]

Independence & Related Days

Axonbazl (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]

Burma (a.k.a. Myanmar; from UK, 1948)

Martyrs of Independence Day (Zaire)

Utah Statehood Day (#45; 1890)

Feast Days

Albert Camus (Existentialism)

André Masson (Artology)

Angela of Foligno (Christian; Saint)

Arthur Villeneuve (Artology)

Carmen (Muppetism)

Charles Darwin Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Day of Setting Boundaries (Pagan)

Day to Honor Freyja (Norse)

Eleventh Day of Christmas

Elizabeth Ann Seton (Christian; Saint)

Evergreen Day (Pagan)

Ferréol of Uzès (Christian; Saint)

Festival of Fufluns (Etruscan God of Wine)

Forefeast of the Theophany (Bulgaria)

Marsden Hartley (Artology)

Mavilus (Christian; Saint)

Pharaildis of Ghent (Christian; Saint)

Rigobert (Christian; Saint)

Spaghetti Day (Pastafarian)

Terminalia: Janus’s Day (Pagan)

Twelve Holy Days #10 (Capricorn, the knees; Esoteric Christianity)

Twelvetide, Day #11 (a.k.a. the Twelve Days of Christmas or Christmastide) [until 1.5]

Ulysses (Positivist; Saint)

Yoshitomo Nara (Artology)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Lucky Day (Philippines) [3 of 71]

Perilous Day (13th Century England) [3 of 32]

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [3 of 37]

Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [2 of 57]

Unglückstage (Unlucky Day; Pennsylvania Dutch) [4 of 30]

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [3 of 60]

Premieres

Between Two Ferns (TV Talk Show; 2008)

Billboard’s Hit Parade (Popular Song List; 1936)

Bullwinkle’s Testimonial Dinner (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 333; 1965)

The Carnation Contended Hour (TV Musical Variety Show; 1932)

Cheese in the Trap (South Korean TV Series; 2016)

Derry Girls (UK TV Series; 2018)

Don’t Axe Me (WB MM Cartoon; 1958)

The Doors, by The Doors (Album; 1967)

Father’s Lion (Disney Cartoon; 1952)

Hello, Orient or That’s Some Dandy-Looking China You Have There (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 334; 1965)

The Library of Babel, Jorge Luis Borges (Short Story; 1941)

A Man Lay Dead, by Ngaio Marsh (Novel; 1934) [Roderick Alleyn #1]

Mickey’s Polo Team (Disney Cartoon; 1936)

Night Court (TV Series; 1984)

Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out, recorded by Louis Jordan (Song; 1957)

Roundabout, by Yes (Song; 1972)

The Saint (Radio Series; 1945)

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (a.k.a. The Big Trip Up Yonder), by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (Short Story; 1954)

Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray (Novel; 1847)

Today’s Name Days

Angela, Marius, Rüdiger, Titus (Austria)

Tihomir (Bulgaria)

Anđela, Borislava, Emanuel (Croatia)

Diana (Czech Republic)

Metusalem (Denmark)

Ruth, Rutt (Estonia)

Ruut, Tiitus (Finland)

Odilon (France)

Angelika, Christiane (Germany)

Leóna, Titusz (Hungary)

Angela, Cristiana, Elsa, Ermete, Fausta (Italy)

Ilva, Spodra (Latvia)

Arimantas, Arimantė, Benedikta, Titas (Lithuania)

Roar, Roger (Norway)

Angelika, Aniela, Benedykta, Benita, Dobromir, Dobrymir, Eugeniusz, Grzegorz, Izabela, Leonia, Rygobert, Tytus (Poland)

Teoctist (Romania)

Anastasia (Russia)

Drahoslav (Slovakia)

Ángela, Rigoberto (Spain)

Rut (Sweden)

Conrad (Ukraine)

Angel, Angela, Angelica, Angelina, Angeline, Angelique, Angelo, Angie, Dangelo, Deangelo, Lewis, Lou, Louie, Louis, Luis (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 4 of 2024; 362 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 1 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Beth (Birch) [Day 10 of 28]

Chinese: Month 12 (Jia-Zi), Day 23 (Ding-Mao)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 23 Teveth 5784

Islamic: 22 Jumada II 1445

J Cal: 4 White; Fourthday [4 of 30]

Julian: 22 December 2023

Moon: 44%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 4 Moses (1st Month) [Ulysses]

Runic Half Month: Eihwaz or Eoh (Yew Tree) [Day 10 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 15 of 89)

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 14 of 31)

[yr-obedt-cicero]

What's the mystery with Philip Hamilton's middle name?

There's speculation Philip Hamilton had a middle name, which was either possibly Alexander or Schuyler. And while nothing entirely official really confirms this, we have very little information in general to completely disregard the possibility. Overall, take it with a grain of salt.

There is the few time Founders Archive for some unknown reason gave him “A” as his middle name, probably meaning to refer to “Alexander”. The only other place I've seen this, is on Philip's baptist records at Dutch Reformed Church shows Philip Hamilton, baptized on Feb 11, 1782;

Maybe because Philip was the first born, Hamilton wanted a little namesake too and added the middle name; Alexander. (Philip was his highest pride, so it's not unlikely)

But more often, and more believably so, he has also been referred to by Philip Schuyler Hamilton. John Pintard to Eliza Noel Pintard Davidson, dated; the 15th March, 1819, briefly mentions Philip as “Philip Schuyler H.”;

“General Hamiltons eldest son Philip Schuyler H. was killed in a political duel some years before his fathers unhappy fate.”

Once again, not entirely official, but I find it to be considerable. If you may have noticed, the Hamilton children are all named after relatives of the family. And all of them decently match the people they are named after. (Alexander Hamilton Jr - Alexander Hamilton, Angelica Hamilton - Angelica Schuyler, James Alexander Hamilton - James Hamilton, John Church Hamilton - John Church Baker, William Stephen Hamilton - William Hamilton) And obviously, their firstborn son was named after Elizabeth's father; Philip Schuyler. Like his younger brother, John Church, who had his Uncle's middle name, Philip could have had the middle name Schuyler from his grandfather.

It's especially considerable when the one remaining letter from Philip, himself, does not have his signed signature, and Hamilton's letters to his son do not mention him by full name. Some things still make me doubt this theory, like him never being called Philip, Schuyler or Alexander, Hamilton in neither John Church's biography of their father, nor his nephew's, Allan McLane's. But then again, he's barely mentioned at all in those books because Philip played a very small role in their lives.

Either way, both are likely because there are mentions of it and nothing really confirms it being false, but it's so unlikely due to have not being seen too often.

[mangora]

I like seeing people’s headcanons for the characters’ full names so here’s my post (+ my hc ethnicities bc why not.)

Note: I’m mostly basing last names on like online research and not all last names correlate with ethnicity for a variety of reasons, so sorry if they’re not like accurate. And I didn’t have super strong opinions on some characters. Also nonwhite people can live in and originate from predominantly white countries for reasons like immigration or carriers of recessive traits for skin color, so when I say things like Alejandro and Mike are from Europe I’m not saying they’re white swearsies)

Gen 1:

Gwen: Gwendolyn Addams (German/British)

Duncan: Duncan O’Doherty (Scottish)

Courtney: Courtney Barbosa-Gonzales (Filipino/Puerto Rican)

Lindsay: Lindsay Beaudrie (French)

Heather: Heather Himura (Japanese)

Beth: Elizabeth Blaine (German/Polish)

Leshawna: Leshawna Ndiaye (African Canadian, family mostly has roots from Senegal)

DJ: Devon Joseph* Wright (Jamaican)

Cody: Cody Emmett Jameson Anderson (...duh)* (Idk British or something)

Noah: Noah Mudaliar (Tamil)

Harold: Harold Norbert Cheever Doris McGrady V* (Irish/Japanese)

Eva: Eva Bortsov (Siberian)

Izzy: Isabella Kennedy (Greek/Irish)

Owen: Owen Ellis (Mixed Western European)

Tyler: Tyler Cain (German [Hebrew])

Justin: Justin Alika (Hawaiian)

Ezekiel: Ezekiel Rudd (Norse/Dutch)

Sadie: Sadie Byun (Korean)

Katie: Katelynn Pakhrin (Nepali)

Geoff: Geoffrey Sawyer (Mixed Americanized Western European, mostly British)

Bridgette: Bridgette Langley (Same as Geoff)

Trent: Trenton Loveridge (Greek/Romani & Israeli)

Sierra: Sierra Wilde (Métis/Angolan)

Alejandro: Alejandro Burromuerto* (Spanish, ancestors are from various parts of Latin America)

Gen 2:

Mike: Michael Chiarelli (Italian [Sicilian with Western Asian ancestors]/Peruvian)

Mal: Mal Grimoire (Mixed indigenous Mexican, chose his own last name)

Svetlana: Svetlana Berezovsky (Russian)

Vito: Vito Valentino (Italian)

Manitoba: Manitoba Smith* (Murri/Koori)

Chester: Chester Young (Lithuanian/Mexican)

Zoey: Zoey Ahn (Korean)

Cameron: Cameron Corduroy Wilkins* (Mixed African Canadian, no clear roots)

Lightning: Rudolph “Lightning” Jackson* (Same case as Cameron)

Brick: Brick McArthur* (Scottish/Mexican)

Jo: Joanna Gryffon (Welsh)

Sam: Samuel Croft (Mixed Western European)

Dakota: Dakota Milton* (Venezuelan/British/French)

Staci: Staci Sweet (British & Swedish/German)

Scott: Scott Baur (Austrian/Scottish)

Dawn: Dawn Orion (Norse/Greek)

B: B. Keen (Egyptian/Ethiopian & Sudanese)(Adopted, canon dead name omitted)

Anne Maria: Anne Maria Ortega (Argentinian)

Gen 3:

Sky: Sky Oxendine (Cree)

Shawn: Shawn Torres-Vidal (Mexican)

Jasmine: Jasmine Maguire (Wangkatha)

Sammy: Samantha Lafitte (French)

Amy: Amy Lafitte (French)

Dave: Dave Shukla (Indian)

Max: Maxwell Delaney (Chinese/Welsh)(Adopted)

Sugar: Reese “Sugar” Houston (Mixed Western European)

Topher: Christopher Fitzroy (Mostly French and British)

Scarlett: Scarlett Fernsby (British)

Beardo: Badru “Beardo” Mohamed (Kenyan)

Leonard: Leonard Hart (Mixed African Canadian)

Ella: Eleanor Darling (British/Scottish)

Rodney: Rodney Feldman (German/Irish)

Gen 4:

Sanders: Jasper Elizabeth Sanders (Mixed African Canadian/Angolan)

MacArthur: Marsha MacArthur (I think the Valentina Escobar thing was total BS that’s just her mom’s name)(Scottish & Irish/Colombian & Mexican)

Dwayne: Dwayne Turner (Mixed Western European)

Junior: Dwayne “Junior” Turner Jr. (Same as Dwayne)

Brody: Brody García-Santos (Mixed Latino)

Mary: Maryam Yitzhaki (Israeli/Afghan)

Ellody: Ellody Mahir (Maldivian)

Emma: Emma Ozaki (Japanese)

Kitty: Kit Ozaki (Japanese)

Josee: Josee Lachance (French Canadian)

Jacques: Jacques Laurent (French Canadian)

Carrie: Caroline Lubomir (Bulgarian/Swedish)

Devin: Devin Linyang (Taiwanese)

Tammy: Tamara Burnside (Scottish)

Jay: Jason Durand (French Canadian)

Mickey: Michael Durand (French Canadian)

Crimson: Sarah “Crimson” Murphy (Mixed Eastern European)

Ennui: Simon “Ennui” Mayer (Romanian)

Miles: Miles Deniz (Turkish)

Laurie: Lauren “Laurie” Soleil (Turkish & French/Dominican)

Stephanie: Stephanie Armstrong (Mixed African Canadian)

Ryan: Ryan Mathura (Trinidadian)

Gerry: Gerald LaPointe (French Canadian)

Pete: Peter Manh (Vietnamese)

Lorenzo: Lorenzo Bandara-Whitaker (Sri Lankan/British)

Chet: Chet Frances (French/British)

Rock: Evan “Rock” Manson (Mixed Western European)

Spud: Andrew “Spud” Cooper (Mixed Western European)

Kelly: Kelly Fournier (French Canadian)

Taylor: Taylor Fournier (French Canadian)

Tom: Thomas Hemingway (British/French)

Jen: Jennifer Carrillo (Chilean/Laotian)

Notes: Chet and Lorenzo keep their last names the same, B and Max's last names are based on that of their adopted parents. Also, my headcanons change a lot. Also also, I'm really interested in world cultures but mostly self-taught on them so if you disagree for some reason or see something inaccurate/stereotypical lmk. Also depending on the character, they either use a nickname or chose their name themselves, in which case I don't want to give out their dead name/s. Also before someone corrects me on Bridgette and Geoff the creators have said they are both from California and came to Canada.

Edit 2: Edited recently because I realized I got some of the canon ethnicities wrong, also I’ve just changed some opinions or learned more about the etymology of names.

[thelibraryghost]

Medieval Arthurian Literature: A Resource List

Alliterative Morte Arthure Adler, Gillian. "'Ȝit þat traytour alls tite teris lete he fall': Arthur, Mordred, and Tragedy in the Alliterative Morte Arthure." Arthuriana, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Fall 2015), pp. 3-21. Benson, Larry D. ed. King Arthur's Death: The Middle English Stanzaic Morte Arthur and the Alliterative Morte Arthure. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1994. Crofts, Thomas H. "Perverse and Contrary Deeds: The Giant of Mont Saint Michel and the Alliterative Morte Arthure." In The Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain, edited by Amanda Hopkins and Cory James Rushton. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2007, pp. 116-131. Jefferson, Judith A. and Putter, Ad. "Alliterative Patterning in the Morte Arthure." Studies in Philology, Vol. 102, No. 4 (Autumn, 2005), pp. 415-433. Schray, Kateryna A. Rudnytzky. "The Plot in Miniature: Arthur's Battle on Mont St. Michel in the Alliterative Morte Arthure." Studies in Philology, Vol. 101, No. 1 (Winter, 2004), pp. 1-19.

Chrétien de Troyes Hinton, Thomas. "The Aesthetics of Communication: Sterility and Fertility in the Conte del Graal Cycle." In Arthurian Literature XXVI, edited by Elizabeth Archibald and David F. Johnson. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2009, pp. 97-108. Holmes, Jr., Urban T. "A New Interpretation of Chrétien's Conte del Graal." Studies in Philology, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Jul., 1947), pp. 453-476. Kelly, Douglas. "Gauvain and Fin' Amors in the Poems of Chrétien de Troyes." Studies in Philology, Vol. 67, No. 4 (Oct., 1970), pp. 453-460. Newby, Rebecca. "Illusory Ends in Chretien de Troyes' Erec et Enide." In Arthurian Literature XXXIV, edited by Elizabeth Archibald and David F. Johnson. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2018, pp. 1-21. Oliver, Lisi. "Spilled Wine and Lost Sovereignty in Chrétien's Perceval." Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, Vol. 97, No. 1 (1996), pp. 91-102. Poppe, Erich. "Chrétien's British Yvain in England and Wales." In Arthurian Literature XXXIII, edited by Elizabeth Archibald and David F. Johnson. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2016, pp. 29-69. Spensley, Ronald M. "Gauvain's Castle of Marvels Adventure in the Conte del Graal." Medium Ævum, Vol. 42, No. 1 (1973), pp. 32-37. Woods, William S. "The Plot Structure in Four Romances of Chrestien de Troyes." Studies in Philology, Vol. 50, No. 1 (Jan., 1953), pp. 1-15.

Geoffrey of Monmouth Echard, Siân. "'Whyche thyng semeth not to agree with other histories...': Rome in Geoffrey of Monmouth and His Early Readers." In Arthurian Literature XXVI, edited by Elizabeth Archibald and David F. Johnson. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2009, pp. 109-130. Flood, Victoria. "Arthur's Return from Avalon: Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Development of the Legend." Arthuriana, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Summer 2015), pp. 84-110. Henley, Georgia. "From 'The Matter of Britain' to 'The Matter of Rome': Latin Literary Culture and the Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth in Wales." In Arthurian Literature XXXIII, edited by Elizabeth Archibald and David F. Johnson. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2016, pp. 1-28. Padel, O. J. "The Matter of Britain." In Arthur in Medieval Welsh Literature. University of Wales Press, 2013, pp. 56-71. Tolstoy, Nikolai. "Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Merlin Legend." In Arthurian Literature XXV, edited by Elizabeth Archibald and David F. Johnson. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2008, pp. 1-42. Lancelot Compilation Besamuca, Bart. "The Medieval Dutch Arthurian Material." In The Arthur of the Germans: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval German and Dutch Literature, edited by W. H. Jackson and S. A. Ranawake. Cardiff: 2000, pp. 187-228. Besamuca, Bart. "The Prevalence of Verse in Medieval Dutch and English Arthurian Fiction." Arthuriana, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Summer 2005), pp. 3-12. Johnson, David F. "Questing in the Middle Dutch Lancelot Compilation." In The Grail, the Quest, and the World of Arthur, edited by Norris J. Lacy. Rochester, NY: 2008, pp. 92-108. Hogenbirk, Marjolein. "A Comical Villain: Arthur's Seneschal in a Section of the Middle Dutch Lancelot Compilation." In Arthurian Literature XIX: Comedy in Arthurian Literature, edited by Keith Busby and Roger Dalrymple. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2003, pp. 165-176. Lacy, Norris J. "The Uses of Middle Dutch Arthuriana." Arthuriana, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Summer 2005), pp. 3-12.

Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur Clifton, Nicole. "Sir Gawain's Death and Prophecy in Malory's Morte Darthur." In Arthurian Literature XXXIV, edited by Elizabeth Archibald and David F. Johnson. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2018, pp. 52-68. Coleman, Dwayne C. "Murder, Manslaughter and Reputation: Killing in Malory's Le Morte Darthur." In Medieval and Early Modern Murder: Legal, Literary and Historical Contexts, edited by Larissa Tracy. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2018, pp. 206-226. Hoffman, Donald L. "Malory and the English Comic Tradition." In Arthurian Literature XIX: Comedy in Arthurian Literature, edited by Keith Busby and Roger Dalrymple. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2003, pp.177-188. Moss, Rachel E. "'And much more I am soryat for my good knyghts': Fainting, Homosociality, and Elite Male Culture in Middle English Romance." Historical Reflections, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Spring 2016), pp. 101-113. Radulescu, Raluca L. "Malory's Lancelot and the Key to Salvation." In Arthurian Literature XXV, edited by Elizabeth Archibald and David F. Johnson. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2008, pp. 93-118. Rushton, Cory J. "The Ladies' Man: Gawain as Lover in Middle English Literature." In The Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain, edited by Amanda Hopkins and Cory James Rushton. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2007, pp. 27-37. Rushton, Cory James. "The Tomb of the Kings: Imperial Space in Arthur's Camelot." In Arthurian Literature XXXVI: Sacred Space and Place in Arthurian Romance, edited by Sarah Bowden et al. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2021, pp. 175-192. Sklar, Elizabeth S. "'Laughyng and Smylyng': Comic Modalities in Malory's Tale of Sir Launcelot du Lake." In Arthurian Literature XIX: Comedy in Arthurian Literature, edited by Keith Busby and Roger Dalrymple. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2003, pp.189-198.

Prose Merlin Conlee, John. ed. Prose Merlin. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1998. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Ashe, Laura. "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Limits of Chivalry." In The Exploitations of Medieval Romance, edited by Laura Ashe et al. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2010, pp. 159-172. Ashton, Gail. "The Perverse Dynamics of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Arthuriana, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Fall 2005), pp. 51-74. Boyd, David L. "Sodomy , Misogyny, and Displacement: Occluding Queer Desire in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Arthuriana, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Summer 1998), pp. 77-113. Brewer, Derek. "Romance Traditions and Christian Values in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." In Christianity and Romance in Medieval England, edited by Rosalind Field et al. Rochester, NY: 2010, pp. 150-158. Cartlidge, Neil. "Who Is the Traitor at the Beginning of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?" In Arthurian Literature XXXIV, edited by Elizabeth Archibald and David F. Johnson. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2018, pp. 22-51. Clark, Cecily. "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Its Artistry and Its Audience." Medium Ævum, Vol. 40, No. 1 (1971), pp. 10-20. Cox, Catherine S. "Genesis and Gender in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." The Chaucer Review, Vol. 35, No. 4 (2001), pp. 378-390. Dinshaw, Carolyn. "A Kiss Is Just a Kiss: Heterosexuality and Its Consolations in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Diacritics, Vol. 24, No. 2/3 (Summer - Autumn, 1994), pp. 204-226. Field, P. J. C. "A Rereading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Studies in Philology, Vol. 68, No. 3 (Jul., 1971), pp. 255-269. Flood, Victoria. "'Fantoum and FayryȜe': Visions of the End of Arthurian Britain." In Arthurian Literature XXXVI: Sacred Space and Place in Arthurian Romance, edited by Sarah Bowden et al. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2021, pp. 149-174. Hardman, Philippa. "Gawain's Practice of Piety in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Medium Ævum, Vol. 68, No. 2 (1999), pp. 247-267. Henry, Avril. "Temptation and Hunt in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Medium Ævum, Vol. 45, No. 2 (1976), pp. 187-200. Puhvel, Martin. "Pride and Fall in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, Vol. 97, No. 1 (1996), pp. 57-70. Sweeney, Michelle. "Questioning Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Teaching the Text Through Its Medieval English Christian Context." In Christianity and Romance in Medieval England, edited by Rosalind Field et al. Rochester, NY: 2010, pp. 161-175. Wadiak, Walter. "Gawain's 'Nirt' and the Sign of Chivalry." In Savage Economy: The Returns of Middle English Romance. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2017, pp. 88-118. Whiteford, Peter. "Rereading Gawain's Five Wits." Medium Ævum, Vol. 73, No. 2 (2004), pp. 225-234.

Vulgate Cycle Jefferson, Lisa. "The Keys to the Enchantments of Dolorous Guard." Medium Ævum, Vol. 58, No. 1 (1989), pp. 59-79. Maloney, Kara Larson. "Evadeam, The Dwarf Knight from the Lancelot-Grail Cycle (ca. 1220-30)." In Medieval Disability Sourcebook: Western Europe, edited by Cameron Hunt McNabb. Punctum Books, 2020, pp. 365-378. Wood, Lucas. "'Chevaliers ocirre': Manslaughter, Morality and Meaning in the Queste del Saint Graal." In Medieval and Early Modern Murder: Legal, Literary and Historical Contexts, edited by Larissa Tracy. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2018, pp. 179-205. Welsh sources Padel, O. J. "The Earliest Texts." In Arthur in Medieval Welsh Literature. University of Wales Press, 2013, pp. 3-10.

[dear-indies]

Hi! I'm looking for FCs (aged 20-25, any gender/race) that could pass as Stranger Things characters. To be more specific: FC suggestions with resources that look they're from the 80s. Hopefully my request isn't too vague. Thank you so much in advance!

https://dear-indies.tumblr.com/post/665857761044824064/hey-there-would-you-know-of-a-fc-who-could-play - previous ask, I’ve listed people here not mentioned there! 

Justice Smith (The Get Down) African-American / Italian, French-Canadian - is queer. 

Tanner Buchanan (Cobra Kai) Filipino, Scottish, English.

Mary Mouser (Cobra Kai)

Ryan Jamaal Swain (Pose) African-American - is queer. 

Britt Baron (GLOW) 

Damson Idris (Snowfall) Nigerian. 

Elizabeth Lail ( Dead of Summer)

Ronen Rubinstein (Dead of Summer) Ashkenazi Jewish - is bisexual. 

Paulina Singer (Dead of Summer) African American / Ukrainian. 

Svenja Jung (Deutschland 89)

Taissa Farmiga (American Horror Story: 1984)

Billie Lourd (American Horror Story: 1984) Ashkenazi Jewish (maternal grandfather), English, Scottish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Welsh, German, Cajun/French.

Dominique Fishback (The Deuce Season 3) African-American. 

Taylor Hickson (Deadly Class)

Sam Vartholomeos (Bridge and Tunnel)

Caleb Emery (Summer of ‘84)

Tiera Skovbye (Summer of ‘84)

O'Shea Jackson Jr. (Straight Outta Compton) African-American.

Olly Alexander (It’s a Sin) - nonbinary and gay - he/him.

Nathaniel Curtis (It’s a Sin) Indian / English - queer.

Omari Douglas (It’s a Sin) Nigerian - queer. 

Lydia West (It's a Sin) Black British.

Sasha Luss (Anna)

Joy Delima (Dirty Lines) Black Dutch.

Lee Do Hyun (Youth of May) Korean.

Go Min Si (Youth of May) Korean.

Asa Butterfield (Choose or Die) - not set in the 80′s but his character likes games from that era so there is resources / scenes of him with 80′s objects. 

Can I please ask for people not to use my suggestions if they’re going to write them associated / involved in the Kamchatka prison plot line! 

[oneboxofmatches]

All You Need to Know About Matchups!

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Hi y'all!

This account is solely for matchups for several different fandoms. That means requests for imagines, oneshots, headcanons, etc. will NOT be taken.

Here are some basic things to know about requesting a matchup!

Unless otherwise specified for a certain fandom, a request yields one romantic pairing AND one friendship pairing as well as information on why I think you work well with the individuals I choose. Of course, if you only wish to receive either just the romantic matchup or just the friendship matchup, just let me know!

You can request matchups for several different fandoms at once! For each fandom you request, I will match you up with one romantic partner and one friend unless you request differently.

You can ask to exclude any character(s)!

Where can I request a matchup?

Requests can be made in the MATCHUP REQUESTS/ASK ME ANYTHING tab.

What do I need to include in my request?

Required

Fandom(s)

Your gender and/or pronouns

Your sexual orientation and/or preferences

Description of personality

Optional (but definitely helps me out!)

Description of appearance

Hobbies

Personality alignment (Myers-Briggs, Enneagram, Hogwarts House, etc.)

What you would look for in a partner and/or friend

Any other information you think would be helpful – the more you provide, the more I can work with!

Now with that out of the way, onto the fandoms!

Listed directly below is a shortlist of all the fandoms I take requests for as well as some extra information as needed.

Disclaimers

If a title is in italics, it means that while I feel comfortable providing matchups for this show, I have not watched every season. If a character drastically changes after a certain point, I may not be aware. The last season I watched of these shows will be included in parentheses.

All movies/shows based on novels will most likely focus on the on-screen adaptations of characters.

SHOWS

The 100 (6)

Good Omens

The Good Place (3)

Lucifer (4)

On My Block

Parks and Recreation (4)

Prodigal Son (1)

Sherlock

Space Force

Supernatural (14)

The Walking Dead (8)

MOVIES

Clueless

The Greatest Showman

Harry Potter -- Unless specified in request, will entail 2 sets of matchups as a student (Golden Trio and Marauders eras respectively)

The Hunger Games

Marvel Cinematic Universe -- Unless age is specified, underage characters will NOT be available for romantic matchups

BROADWAY

Anastasia

Beetlejuice

Carrie (2012 Off-Broadway)

Hadestown

Hamilton

Les Misérables

The Phantom of the Opera

Six

VIDEO GAMES

Detroit: Become Human

Red Dead Redemption 2

What’s below the cut?

A masterlist of characters in each fandom that will be considered for each request (unless marked with an asterisk (*), all characters are assumed to be available for both romantic AND friendly matchups while names marked with an asterisk are only available for friendly matchups). Listed alphabetically by first name.

Don’t be afraid to tell me about a typo!

Any questions? Just want to talk? You can also use the  MATCHUP REQUESTS/ASK ME ANYTHING tab to get ahold of me!

SHOWS

Bellamy Blake

Clarke Griffin

Echo

Finn Collins

Harper McIntyre

Jasper Jordan

Johnathan “John” Murphy

Jordan Green

Lexa

Lincoln

Marcus Kane

Monty Green

Octavia Blake

Raven Reyes

Roan

Wells Jaha

Aziraphale

Anathema Device

Crowley

Newton Pulsifer

Mme. Tracy*

Witchfinder Sgt. Shadwell*

Chidi Anagonye

Eleanor Shellstrop

Jason Mendoza

Michael*

Tahani Al-Jamil

Amenadiel

Det. Chloe Decker

Det. Daniel “Dan” Espinoza

Ella Lopez

Eve

Dr. Linda Martin*

Lucifer Morningstar

Mazikeen “Maze”

Cesar Diaz

Jamal Turner

Jasmine Flores

Monsé Finnie

Oscar “Spooky” Diaz

Ruben “Ruby” Martinez Jr.

Andrew “Andy” Dwyer

Ann Perkins

April Ludgate

Benjamin “Ben” Wyatt

Christopher “Chris” Traeger

Donna Meagle*

Gerald “Jerry” Gergich*

Jean-Ralphio Saperstein*

Leslie Knope

Ronald “Ron” Swanson*

Ainsley Whitly

Det. Dani Powell

Edrisa Tanaka

Lt. Gil Arroyo

Det. James “JT” Tarmel

Jessica Whitly

Malcolm Bright

DI Greg Lestrade

Mrs. Hudson*

James “Jim” Moriarty

Dr. John Watson

Mary Morstan*

Molly Hooper

Mycroft Holmes

Sherlock Holmes

Dr. Adrian Mallory*

Capt. Angela Ali

Brig. Gen. Bradley Gregory*

Dr. Chan Kaifang

Duncan Tabner

Erin Naird

F. Tony Scarapiducci

Kelly King

Maggie Naird*

Gen. Mark Naird*

Abbie “Bela” Talbot*

Adam Milligan

Alex Jones

Balthazar

Benjamin “Benny” Lafitte

Castiel

Charlene “Charlie” Bradbury

Claire Novak

Crowley

Dean Winchester

Sheriff Donna Hanscum

Eileen Leahy

Ellen Harvelle*

Gabriel

Garth Fitzgerald IV

Jack Kline

Jessica “Jess” Moore*

Joanna “Jo” Harvelle

Sheriff Jody Mills*

John Winchester

Kaia Nieves

Kevin Tran

Lucifer

Meg Masters

Michael “Mick” Davies

Patience Turner

Robert “Bobby” Singer*

Rowena MacLeod

Rufus Turner*

Samuel “Sam” Winchester

Aaron

Abraham Ford

Andrea*

Beth Greene

Carl Grimes*

Carol Peletier*

Dale Horvath*

Daryl Dixon

Dwight

Enid*

Eugene Porter*

King Ezekiel*

Father Gabriel Stokes

Glenn Rhee

Hershel Greene*

Maggie Greene

Michonne

Morgan Jones*

Negan Smith

Paul “Jesus” Rovia

Rick Grimes

Rosita Espinosa

Sasha Williams

Tara Chambler

Tyreese Williams

MOVIES

Cher Horowitz

Dionne Davenport

Josh Lucas

Tai Frasier

Travis Birkenstock

Anne Wheeler

Charity Barnum

Jenny Lind

Lettie Lutz*

Phillip Carlyle

Phineas “P.T.” Barnum

W.D. Wheeler

Alastor “Mad-Eye” Moody*

Albus Dumbledore*

Arthur Weasley*

Cedric Diggory

Cho Chang

Draco Malfoy

Fleur Delacour

Fred Weasley

George Weasley

Ginevra “Ginny” Weasley

Harry Potter

Hermione Granger

James Potter

Lily Evans

Luna Lovegood

Minerva McGonagall*

Molly Weasley*

Neville Longbottom

Nymphadora Tonks*

Oliver Wood

Remus Lupin

Ronald “Ron” Weasley

Rubeus Hagrid*

Severus Snape

Sirius Black

Viktor Krum

Cinna

Effie Trinket*

Finnick Odair

Gale Hawthorne

Haymitch Abernathy*

Johanna Mason

Katniss Everdeen

Peeta Mellark

Anthony “Tony” Stark -- Iron Man

Dr. Bruce Banner -- Hulk

Carol Danvers -- Captain Marvel

Dr. Christine Palmer*

Clint Barton -- Hawkeye

Drax the Destroyer*

Edward “Ned” Leeds

Gamora

Groot*

Harold “Happy” Hogan*

Dr. Henry “Hank” Pym*\

Hope van Dyne -- Wasp

Sgt. James “Bucky” Barnes -- Winter Soldier

Col. James “Rhodey” Rhodes -- War Machine

Loki Laufeyson

Luis*

Mantis*

Dr. Margaret “Peggy” Carter*

Cdr. Maria Hill*

May Parker*

Lord M’Baku

Michelle “MJ” Jones

Nakia

Natasha Romanoff -- Black Widow

Nebula*

Col. Nicholas “Nick” Fury*

Okoye

Peter Parker -- Spider-Man

Peter Quill -- Star-Lord

Agt. Phillip “Phil” Coulson*

Pietro Maximoff -- Quicksilver

Rocket*

Samuel “Sam” Wilson -- Falcon

Scott Lang -- Ant-Man

Shuri

Dr. Stephen Strange

Steven “Steve” Rogers -- Captain America

King T’Challa -- Black Panther

Thor Odinson

Valkyrie

Virginia “Pepper” Potts

Vision

Wanda Maximoff -- Scarlet Witch

W’Kabi

Wong*

Yelena Belova

Yondu Udonta*

BROADWAY

Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov

Dimitri Sudayev

Gleb Vaganov

Countess Lily Malevsky-Malevitch*

Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna*

Vladimir “Vlad” Popov*

Adam Maitland

Barbara Maitland

Beetlejuice*

Delia Schlimmer

Lydia Deetz*

Carrie White

Christine “Chris” Hargensen

Susan “Sue” Snell

Thomas “Tommy” Ross

Eurydice

Hades

Hermes*

Orpheus

Persephone

Aaron Burr

Alexander Hamilton

Angelica Schuyler

Elizabeth “Eliza” Schuyler

George Washington

Hercules Mulligan

James Madison

John Laurens

Margarita “Peggy” Schuyler

Maria Reynolds

Marquis de Lafayette

Philip Hamilton

Thomas Jefferson

Cosette

Enjolras

Éponine Thénardier

Fantine

Insp. Javert

Jean Valjean

Marius Pontmercy

Carlotta Giudicelli*

Christine Daaé

Erik “The Phantom”

Mme. Giry*

Meg Giry

Raoul de Chagny

Anna of Cleves

Anne Boleyn

Catherine of Aragon

Catherine Parr

Jane Seymour

Katherine Howard

VIDEO GAMES

Carl Manfred*

Chloe

Det. Chris Miller*

Connor

Elijah Kamski

Lt. Hank Anderson*

Capt. Jeffrey Fowler*

Josh

Kara

Leo Manfred

Lucy*

Luther

Markus

North

Rose Chapman*

Simon

Abigail Roberts

Arthur Morgan

Beau Gray*

Charles Smith

Daniël “Dutch” Van der Linde

Eagle Flies

Hosea Matthews*

Javier Escuella

Johnathan “John” Marston Sr.

Josiah Trelawny

Karen Jones

Kieran Duffy

Leonard “Lenny” Summers

Marion “Bill” Williamson

Mary-Beth Gaskill

Micah Bell

Molly O’Shea

Penelope Braithwaite*

Rev. Orville Swanson*

Sadie Adler

Sean MacGuire

Simon Pearson*

Tilly Jackson

[dewitty1]

What Happened on April 4

(some..highlights)

1581 Francis Drake knighted by Queen Elizabeth I aboard Golden Hind at Deptford

1655 The miraculous statue entitled the Infant of Prague is solemnly crowned by command of Cardinal Harrach

1789 1st US Congress begins regular sessions during George Washington's presidency at Federal Hall, NYC (ending 1791)

1814 Napoleon abdicates for the first time in favour of his son

1818 Congress decides on the US flag: 13 red & white stripes & 20 stars

1832 Charles Darwin aboard the HMS Beagle reaches Rio de Janeiro

1841 Vice President John Tyler becomes the 10th President of the United States after the death of President William Henry Harrison

1850 City of Los Angeles incorporated

1865 General Robert E. Lee's Confederate army arrives at Amelia Courthouse, Amelia County, Virginia

1866 Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Dmitry Karakozov in the city of St. Petersburg

1896 Announcement of gold discovery in Yukon

1900 Assassination attempt on Prince of Wales, later British King Edward VII when shot by Jean-Baptiste Sipido in protest over Boer war

1902 Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund forms with $10 million

1912 Chinese republic proclaimed in Tibet

1917 US Senate agrees (82-6) to participate in WWI

1944 French General Charles de Gaulle forms new regime in exile, with communists

1945 World War II: Soviet forces liberate Hungary from German occupation, establishing their own communist satellite state. This was celebrated as Liberation Day until 1989.

1945 The Holocaust: US forces liberate the Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany, the first such camp to be liberated by the US Army

1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed in Washington, D.C.

1951 Dutch Prince Bernhard visits Argentine President Juan & Eva Perón in Buenos Aires

1958 1st march against nuclear weapons from London to Aldermaston, England, home of the Defence Ministry's Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE)

1958 Cheryl Crane (14), daughter of actress Lana Turner, stabs to death organized crime figure Johnny Stompanato, her mother's boyfriend, in self-defense; crime later ruled a "justifiable homicide"

1960 Senegal declares independence from France

1964 Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks

1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1968 US civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee

1969 - @dewitty1 is born!

1971 Stephen Sondheim's "Follies" opens at Winter Garden Theater, NYC; runs for 524 performances, then most expensive Broadway musical at the time

1973 World Trade Center, then the world's tallest building, opens in New York (110 stories). Later destroyed in 9/11 terrorist attacks.

1974 Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth's home-run record by hitting his 714th in Cincinnati, facing Jack Billingham

1975 Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800

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[sleepy-stories]

Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton story (in the best i can but many of this is on wiki)

This story isn't based on the musical itself. Since the musical is inaccurate to the bone with some stuff to make it into a drama or soap opera.

Eliza Schuyler or what people call her Betsey or Elizabeth Schuyler. Elizabeth was born on August 9th, 1757, to a powerful and rich family in New york. Eliza was the second child to 15 children which would downgrade to 8 children. She had 4 sisters and 3 brothers that lived up to adulthood.

The Schuyler family is a dutch family from the Netherlands during the 1600s.

Eliza in her youth met famous people, Benjamin Franklin and more. She was also described as being a tomboy.

Now older, (this part is still unsure about her first meeting with her future husband) there are many parts to like, his visit to her home with Washington, her being a nurse with her aunt in the colonies base, during their free time where she played the piano and he chills next to her, or the famous one at the ball) Eliza stayed with her aunt during the war as a nurse to the soldiers. Schuyler would end up meeting Hamilton during the winter. (you know I remember this funny story about their relationship that involved Washington and Washington had to stop them from falling in love with each other. And in today's standard words he was being a dad and telling Philip to control his daughter.)

During that time, she became close with Martha Washington who Eliza idealized her as a true woman.

After returning home from her meeting with Alexander, Hamilton had forgotten his password to the army headquarters. (which made me laugh a lot about) their relationship grew, even apart from each other. They wrote letters and planned what could be a secret wedding. But they ask for Philip's blessing to be engaged and married. Which was successful. Eliza learned that John Andre was captured. Eliza and even Alex were head over heels over John Andre.

John Andre was hanged for his crimes.

Eliza and Alex were married by December 14, 1780. The newlywed couple went to Eliza’s childhood home as a honeymoon at Pastures for a short time. But returned in early January of 1781. Eliza resumed her friendship with Martha until their husbands had a falling out. And Hamilton had to move into her father’s home, to a new house that’s across the river from Windsor headquarters. Eliza planned the ideas of a newly built home while helping Hamilton with his political writings. Some of the papers were written in her handwriting. They moved again to Albany with her parents.

Not so long ago, Eliza discovered she was pregnant with her first child and by next January, it would be a son named Philip. Alexander wrote letters to Eliza to make her calm about his safety.

While the war was coming close to home, the Schuyler didn’t have any losses with a quick-thinking Peggy saving their youngest sister from death or kidnap. While their father was away.

After Yorktown, Alex returned to her safely. Even if the war wasn’t fully over until 1783. Her eldest sister, angelica, and her husband john church moved to Britain which was claimed for business reasons. By Sept 25, 1784, Eliza gave birth to their second child, a daughter named Angelica.

By 1787, Eliza sat for a portrait that was painted by a prisoner. By 1786, she gave birth to their third child, a son named Alexander (jr). 2 years later, by 1788, she gave birth to their fourth son named James Alexander.

In 1787, Hamiltons took in a daughter by a soldier friend of Hamilton, who had already lost his wife and couldn’t take care of their daughter, Fanny, or Frances Antill, the youngest child of one sister. (who she will live with after 10 years with the hamiltons)

Through the years, Hamiltons were active socially to everyone, tending to balls and parties. Eliza even danced with George Washington. Both Eliza and Alex hosted a dinner party with Thomas Jefferson. When Hamilton became the treasury secretary, Eliza, Sarah Jay, Lucy Knox became leaders of the official society.

Eliza became an aid for Alexander and all of his Political work and even his idea for the Bank of United States and even he read out the Washington Farewell Address to her. She continued raising the children, until the time when John Church Hamilton was born in 1792.

2 years later, Eliza suffered a miscarriage that almost taken her life. Their youngest child became ill and Eliza became worried over her missing husband. This was the point of Alex resigning from public office. He resumed his law practice to be close to his family.

But then by 1797, things went downhill through the couple’s marriage where an affair was brought to light to everyone’s eye. Alexander has written a pamphlet that talks about his affair with a fair woman named Maria Reynolds. And the tale of his blackmail with her and her husband.

This causes Eliza to not believe at first but later did when Alexander confirmed it. At the time, Eliza was pregnant with their sixth child. (with many people not knowing if Eliza reacted or said anything besides not believing it at first, is still a mystery) Eliza left Alex back home and went to live with her father for a bit. She only returned because of a sickness that their eldest son had, which was incurable to him.

Eliza only forgave Alex when dying or thought they were gonna die of yellow fever. Not the death of Philip hamilton. They reconnected and fixed their marriage. The couple had two more kids, a daughter named Eliza in 1799 and a son who wouldn’t meet his eldest brother and namesake, Philip II in 1801. Philip Hamilton ended up dying in a duel at the hands of George Eacker. The couple changed by Philip’s death but they finished the first and only built home called the Hamilton Grange, named after Alexander’s father’s homeland in Scotland. Eliza and Alex became close again and wrote letters to each other when one was away, like when Eliza attended her mother’s funeral in 1803.

The couple lived there for 2 years until Alexander Hamilton died in a duel at the hands of Aaron Burr.

Within the years after and before Alex's death, her mother, her sister Peggy and her son Philip died before Alexander in 1803 and 1801. After, her father died months after and her siblings followed. Eliza had to pay her husband's debt and even sell the house to live with family or her children.

In 1798, Eliza accepted the invitation of a friend of the Society for the Relief of Poor Widows with Small Children. But now after 2 years after her husband’s death, she joins in and resumes with them. She met other women, including Joanna Bethune, the founder of Orphan Asylum Society. Eliza, herself counted as second vice president.

Throughout the rest of her life, she defended her Husband from critics, support his claim as authorship to the Washington Farewell Address, and requested an apology from James Monroe which refused multiple times until he gave in, when they met in person, talking about alexander shortly before his death (monroe). Eliza collects all the letters and papers of her husbands and helps her son, John Church hamilton.

Schuyler had a small package around her neck that had a sonnet that Alexander wrote to her, himself.

By her 90s, she made an effort to congress to buy and publish her husband’s work. Which they accepted by august. Still during her 90s, she did charity work, and helped out with dolley madison, and louisa adams who are both widows to james madison and john q. Adams.

Even so, she grew and helped out with everything she could. Eliza had suffered with short term memory loss which only allowed her to remember her husband by 1846.

By 1854 of November 9, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton had left the world by the age of 97, in Washington D.C and moved to New York to be buried by her husband.

Eliza outlived all of her family except the Youngest that survived to British attack. By 50 years.

Happy Birthday Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, and Happy 264th Birthday.

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 5.16

Beer Birthdays

John Schneider (1833)

Maria Best (1842)

Gary Spedding (1959)

Roger Lind (1961)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Pierce Brosnan; actor (1953)

Meagan Fox; actress (1986)

Robert Fripp; rock guitarist (1946)

Woody Herman; jazz clarinetist, bandleader (1913)

Tamara de Lempicka; Polish-American artist (1898)

Famous Birthdays

Donny Anderson; Green Bay Packers RB (1943)

Olga Bergholz; Russian poet (1910)

David Boreanaz; actor (1969)

Harry Carey, Jr.; actor (1921)

Tucker Carlson; right-wing nutjob (1969)

Betty Carter; blues singer (1929)

Billy Cobham; jazz drummer (1944)

Yvonne Craig; actor (1937)

Pierre Cuypers; Dutch architect (1827)

Henry Fonda; actor (1905)

Pierre Gilliard; Swiss author (1879)

Tracey Gold; actor (1969)

Edward T. Hall; anthropologist (1914)

David Edward Hughes; Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone (1831)

Janet Jackson; pop singer (1966)

Olga Korbut; gymnast (1955)

Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov; Russian painter (1910)

McKenzie Lee; porn actor (1979)

Liberace; pop pianist, showman (1919)

Billy Martin; New York Yankees 2B, Manager (1928)

Kevin McDonald; comedian, actor (1961)

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody; educator, founded 1st U.S. kindergarten (1804)

Adrienne Rich; poet (1929)

Nancy Roman; astronomer (1925)

William Seward; politician (1801)

Tori Spelling; actress (1975)

Jim Sturgess; actor (1981)

Margaret Sullavan; actor (1909)

Studs Terkel; writer (1912)

Debra Winger; actress (1955)

Mare Winningham; actress (1959)

[seattlesea]

Just thinking about how Riordan shortened Samirah’s Arabian name to Sam- a Hebrew name- to make it ‘easier’ for his readers to read even though the name Samirah isn’t exactly gibberish and he literally had an index for pronouncing things and names, including Samirah, in the back of each Magnus Chase book. All the while- Sam-i-rah: three syllables Ann-a-beth: three syllables I didn’t see him shortening Annabeth’s name to ‘Anne’ or ‘Annie’ to make it ‘easier to read’. And he clearly has no problem using long names after always calling Rachel by her full name- Rachel Elizabeth Dare- instead of just Rachel Dare. 

And the fact that he had a Nigerian character named Olujime and made him go by Jamie- like honey if you can’t write names normally don’t take up writing as a career-

Also- Frank: Germanic Hazel: English Levesque: French Leo/Leonidas: Latin and Greek Piper: Germanic McLean: Gaelic Nico: Greek Ethan: Hebrew Charles: English and French Beckendorf: Germanic Alex: Greek Blitzen: Dutch Josephine: English Paolo: Italian (despite being Brazilian) Drew: Germanic

???

Anyone else bothered that ‘Zhang’, ‘di Angelo’, ‘Valdez’, ‘Fierro’, ‘Tanaka’, ‘Montes’, and ‘Nakamura’ are the only names that correspond to the characters’ cultures, and all of them are last names those characters aren’t regularly called while they have white first names? And some POC characters aren’t even given a last name? And how Thomas Jefferson Jr.- a black character- was literally named after a racist slave-owner? And how ‘Reyna Avila Ramirez-Arellano’ and ‘Bianca di Angelo’ are the only POC characters with a full name that are actually relevant to their culture, and one of those characters are now dead and reborn as someone else and the other’s full name wasn’t revealed until The House of Hades and she hates using it? 

It’s bad enough to think that physical features of different POC cultures like First Nation tribes and Africans aren’t ‘desirable’ or ‘attractive’ so giving those characters- who were both in a love triangle/drooled over by more than one male character- eurocentric features to make them seem more special and unique and to portray them as more ‘magical’ and super attractive while giving one of them rivals also of POC cultures like East Asian and Puerto Rican but giving them the common, basic features of their races and portraying them as a cruel, bitchy dictator and a cold-hearted, workaholic robot- but whitewashing the names, too? 

[fanfics-andstuff]

Un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq, six, sept, huit, neuf

1755-01-11: Olivia and Alexander Hamilton’s Birth - Olivia and Alexander were born in Charlestown, St. Kitts, and Nevis.

 1765-01-16: Hamilton’s Father Left - James Hamilton, Olivia and Alexander Hamilton's father, and a Scottish Laird, left Hamilton and his family, most likely due to the fact, Olivia, Alexander, and James Jr. were his illegitimate children. It was a relief for the children because he would always beat up James Jr. and Olivia, trying to protect their youngest sibling.

1766-02-17: Hamilton’s Mother Dies - Rachel Faucette Buck, Hamilton's mother, died on February 19, 1768. Cause of death: Yellow Fever. After her death, Alexander and Olivia moved to live with their cousin for a year. Before she died, she gave Olivia the Hamilton ring (gold ring, amethyst pearl-shaped center, and small emerald cut emeralds) that was said to be passed down from generation to generation and a navy blue and dark purple diary, she gave Alexander her necklace from George (5 sapphire petals, a red ruby center, and a thin gold chain).

 1766-02-20: Hamiltons In Court - John Lavien (Rachel’s husband) arrived wanting a divorce decree. He wanted the court to reward the entire estate to his son, Peter because the twins were illegitimate. Alexander and Olivia had their uncle, James Lytton, sign a false birth year for court documents that had them add two years their senior. The only thing they got was books taken from Peter, thanks to their uncle.

 1767-02-17: Hamilton’s Cousin Committed Suicide and James Jr. Left to Become a Carpenter- Peter Lytton committed suicide over the death of his wife. Alexander and Olivia are now, with no money and family, or destitute orphans. James Jr had to leave the twins behind to become an apprentice of a carpenter.

 1771-01-16: Alexander In Charge Of A Trading Charter - Since girls couldn’t work, Alexander had to. Turns out, that Alexander had the perfect “age” for jobs.

 1772-08-31: Hurricane Maria Hits - Hurricane Maria hit St. Croix, where Alexander was working and Olivia was nearby to look out for her younger brother.

 1772-09-06: Alexander Writes About Hurricane Maria - Alexander wrote to his father describing the storm and gained the attention of the island’s elite. He “wrote his way out”.

 1772-12-01: Olivia Receives a Letter That Alexander Died - Somewhere between these months, Olivia gets a letter that the ship Alexander was on sunk and there were no survivors. She was then sold to a family in Setauket, Long Island as a slave, where she meets Benjamin Tallmadge, Anna Smith, Abraham Woodhull, and Caleb Brewster.

 1776-09-15: Olivia Gets Freed - Thankfully Olivia was considered white, so she was taught how to improve her grammar, writing, healing, cooking, etc. She still had her Nevis accent, but Olivia could play it off by saying Spanish was her native language. Speaking of languages, Olivia was fluent in French, Latin, Greek, Italian, Danish, and Hebrew. 4 or so years later, Olivia was a free woman.

 1777-04-27: Olivia Reunites With Alexander - Olivia gets assigned as a spy for the continental army. The rest of the army gets word that she had the same last name as Alexander’s. After being reintroduced to each other, Olivia forces Alexander to take more care of himself (eating, sleeping).

 1777-09-11: Olivia gets shot in the side during the Battle of Brandywine.

 1777-10-18: Olivia And Alexander Presumed Dead - Both Hamilton twins jumped in the Schuylkill River and swam deeper, hoping the British Cavalry presumed them dead. They were washed down miles going with the current of the river. Alexander carried her unconscious body to the Patriot camp. Hercules Mulligan found the twins and helped them get to their destination quicker.

 1777-10-19: Washington Finds Out The Twins Are His - Olivia woke first and told Washington to read her diary for answers because she was too tired. He found out about Olivia’s life story and found out Olivia Rachel and Alexander James Hamilton were his biological children. Washington then found out about the Hamilton family ring and Rachel’s flower necklace. Olivia and Washington swore to never tell this to Alexander and to any human being (not a certain diary written in code that no one, but Olivia and Alexander can understand).

 1777-10-20: Olivia sneaks off to the Battle of Paoli, instead of resting.

 1777-10-21: The Locket - Washington gave Olivia a gold locket engraved with ‘Together In Mount Vernon, Virginia’ complete with a gold chain. Inside was a portrait of the Hamilsiblings (Alex, Olivia, Ben, and Laf) on the right and a portrait of the Washington couple on the left.

 1778-05-25: Olivia Comes Back - After disguising herself as a black-haired, Dutch woman, named Denise Melody, she returned to Washington about the British army. Olivia resigned as a spy because she didn’t want to come back to England ever again. But mostly, she was afraid that King George III would force her to marry him.

 1778-05-26: Olivia Becomes The First Woman General - After listening from every soldier in the Continental Army, General George Washington makes Olivia a General. The only difference is that she would be traveling with the main camp because she doesn't have enough experience to lead her own army. She helped train the under-trained soldiers, sewed clothes for those who were practically naked, negotiated with wealthy families to give the army food, helped with the battle plans because of her knowledge as a spy, and her overall kindness and empathy to everyone helped her rise to the top to not only the soldiers but to the rest of the people in the Colonies.

 1778-06-28: The Battle of Monmouth - Olivia saves Benjamin Tallmadge from William Bradford when Charles Lee ordered him to. The rest of the army arrives behind Washington. Olivia participates in the Battle of Monmouth. 

 1778-09-15: Olivia And Lafayette’s Relationship - In Olivia’s diary, she didn’t specify the date because she wrote “I believe it is the 15th of September 1778”. In the entry, she wrote about her and Lafayette’s relationship began as platonic but over time, it became romantic.

 1778-11-01: Olivia Joins The Culper Ring - After begging and pleading to her father and Commander in Chief, Olivia joins the Culper Spy Ring with the rest of the members: Benjamin Tallmadge, Caleb Brewster, Anna Strong, Abigail, Abraham Woodhull, and Robert Townsend. Olivia gets a golden band from Apollo that helps disguise her appearance with the use of the mist, she gives the other rings to the other members. They created a cover that the golden rings were from their deceased family member. In reality, they used it to signal the others when they need help or have information about the British.

 1778-12-15: Olivia As a Maid - Olivia disguises herself as a beaten and branded girl as a Caribbean slave, even though she was white by the Continental Army to John André's home to spy on him. She later resigns from her post before her next battle.

 1779-07-16: Stony Point - Olivia helps capture Stony Point, New York with the army.

 1779-11-17: Olivia And John Get Married - To keep the relationship between John and Alexander less suspicious, Olivia proposed a marriage proposal to John’s father; Henry, who knew about their secret relationship, agreed. Even though both adults were married, they had no love for the other than familial love. They agreed that their marriage was only public and behind closed doors, they would seek out their paramour (John-Alexander and Olivia-Lafayette).

 1780-06-17: Olivia’s Quadruplets - 9 months later, Olivia gave birth to 4 children: Rachel Olivia, Alexander John, George Benjamin, and Elizabeth Gilberta Laurens from oldest to youngest. The godparents of each child were Olivia-Martha Washington, Alexander-George Washington, George-Benjamin Tallmadge, and Elizabeth-Lafayette. Because of this, Olivia took a break from the army for a while.

 1780-09-23: Caleb Brewster and Olivia Find Out Arnold's A Traitor - After talking with Anna Strong, Brewster and Olivia ride full speed towards West Point, NY to deliver the message to George Washington. Ben and Olivia tried to shoot Arnold, but due to their closeness, they couldn't.

 1780-10-02: John André Hanged - André was born a child of Athena and knew about the Greek Gods. He knew that Olivia was spying on him, but didn't comment on it until they were in private before his execution. The Fates had cut his string in front of him when Olivia posed as a maid and had demigod dreams of his death. John knew that Olivia was a legacy of Apollo and Athena, he didn't want to hurt his family.

 1780-12-14: Alexander and Eliza Get Married - Eliza accepted John’s relationship with her husband as long as Alexander doesn’t cheat on her with other women.

 1780-12-15: Olivia Boards L'Hermione - Olivia joins Lafayette to bring down turncoat Benedict Arnold. They join 1, 200 troops and sail south to Virginia.

 1781-05-20: Abraham Boards L'Hermione - Abraham gets captured by the French and gave information to Lafayette, but before anything else happens, the ship gets attacked by cannons. When Brewster and Olivia identify Abraham as a spy for the Culper Ring named Samuel Culper Sr, they sail to Yorktown, Virginia.

 1781-09-28: The Battle Of Yorktown - Olivia gets shot 3 times during the battle but recovered soon after. Lafayette soon bid Olivia farewell to sail back to France. Olivia gives him her very long lock of braided hair inside a portrait locket necklace of her for him to remember her by. He also gives her a braided lock of his hair and a portrait locket of himself.

 1782-01-22: Olivia Becomes An Aunt - Phillip Hamilton was born.

 1782-08-27: John Laurens Dies - Olivia, Alexander, Hercules, and Lafayette get letters from Henry Laurens that John died in South Carolina. In her letter, Olivia receives her husband’s wedding ring. Heartbroken, Olivia vows to never marry again.

 1782-09-01: Olivia And Alexander Return To New York - Olivia gets a house in Harlem near her brother and his family. She led a quiet life with her children, unlike Alexander, for a while.

 1783-01-01: Olivia Bids Angelica Farewell - Over the course of the years, Olivia and Angelica became best friends. She hated the fact that Angelica and her family would go back to the same country they fought for years.

 1783-06-20: Pennsylvania Mutiny - Olivia watches the 10 leaders of the Pennsylvania Mutiny be gunned down by their own men beside Alexander and Ben.

 1783-09-03: The End Of The Revolution - The Treaty of Paris was finally signed which negotiated between America and Great Britain, ended the revolution, and recognized America as an independent.

 1787-10-?: Alexander Asks Olivia To Co-Write The Federalist Papers - Sometime before the writing of the Federalist Papers, Alexander asks Olivia to co-write it with John Jay, James Madison, and himself. Olivia politely declined because she believed that the three men could do it without her.

 1787-05-25: The Twins Go To The Constitutional Convention - Olivia Hamilton Laurens and Alexander Hamilton were one-half of the New York delegates. The former was the only woman to go to the Constitutional Convention. Though the twins did little in writing the Constitution, they signed the paper anyway.

 1789-02-04: Olivia Becomes The First Woman Vice President - Olivia ran for President all in good fun. The results were unanimous because she was one of the contributing factors that helped America become independent, only second to George Washington, and became the Vice President of the United States.

 1790-03-22: Olivia Meets Thomas Jefferson - When Jefferson and Olivia met, let’s just say that they will forever be enemies. This is partly the reason why Alexander and Jefferson were also enemies.

 1790-06-20: Olivia Refuses To Go To The Jefferson Dinner - Olivia doesn’t go to the dinner with Jefferson, Madison, Alexander, and a few others saying she had other things to do. But she doesn’t go because she didn’t want to be caught in the middle of a verbal fight between Alexander and Jefferson, again.

 1791-07-05: Olivia Finds Out About Alexander’s Affair - Alexander needed to speak to someone about his affair with Maria Reynolds, so he went to Olivia (naturally). Olivia slaps him and tells him about his promise to Eliza when he married her. She tells him if her husband finds out and tells/writes you to give him money to keep the affair a secret, he himself would pay entirely.

 1792-?-?: Olivia Receives Word About Lafayette’s Capture - Historians would never know the date when Olivia gets a letter that Lafayette fled from France and in prison because she only wrote the year and stopped writing in her diary for the rest of that year. They figured that she was extremely heartbroken to write.

 1793-02-25: Un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq, six, sept, huit, neuf -  Olivia was poisoned by a loyalist named Micheal Key. Thankfully the poison was expired and went on to sit in Mount Vernon for hours talking about the establishment of the first U.S. bank. But due to Olivia’s frail and weak body for not eating and sleeping at the correct times, she became gravely ill. She sent her four children to Setauket with Abraham Woodhull. the week before. The four mentioned people came to her room in Mount Vernon. minutes before Olivia died. She gave Washington the locket he gave her all those years ago, gave Benjamin her sun hair comb he gave her when the war was over and her golden spy ring, gave Eliza her and John’s wedding rings and gave Alexander the Hamilton family ring and her diary (she instructed him to only read the entry about their true heritage when he is on his deathbed). She then instructed Ben to give Lafayette, her one true love, to give the gift he gave her when they started their relationship, a sapphire bracelet when he visits America once more. Olivia told the three to forgive her for leaving too early, she remembered the time she gave Washington piano lessons (which failed), the time where she forced Alexander to eat and sleep more regularly, and the time where she helped Eliza with her pregnancy with Phillip and her other children. She sang, “Un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq, six, sept, huit, neuf,” which she does when she tries to reassure those around her. Olivia’s last words were, “I’ll see all of you on the other side, John, my love, I’m coming.” She was buried in Trinity Church Cemetery with a large monument. When the States learned of her death, the nation stopped working for days. Everyone who knew her (which was a lot) attended the funeral ceremony. Washington placed a bronze statue of Olivia depicting her holding a gun in her right hand and her diary in her left hand with the four rings on her fingers to show that women too, can be powerful.

 1793-02-26: Micheal Key Hanged - Because he assassinated the Vice President, Micheal John Key was hanged the next day at noon.

 1867-01-11: Olivia On Currency - In memory of Olivia, they put her face on the $20 on her birthday. However, in 1928, she was briefly replaced by Andrew Jackson but quickly regained her place after much controversy. 

 1999-12-15: Olivia Becomes Lyria - Olivia Rachel Hamilton Laurens, rebirthed to Lyria Eclair Graham de Vanily, the most powerful demigoddess of her century.

[moonmeg]

what are the hamilwives like?

Oh! Good question! The answer here are my own headcanons so don't take it as historical accuracy. I doubt it is hahah

Long text ahead!!

Mary Morris Hamilton (25th December 1790-24th May 1869) is a very kind and generous person. Benevolent and charming. She has a good relationship with her parents and her seven siblings and she is quite close to her grandparents. Her two years older sister Julia and she also are very close. They can tell each other everything and act like best friends even after both married. When Mary met James, for example, Julia was the first one to find out. When James had asked her to marry him, Julia read Mary like a book and noticed there's something up with her little sister and was the first one in Mary's family to find out Mary said 'yes'.

She loves her husband and her five children, Elizabeth, Frances, Alexander, Mary and Angelica, with all her heart and is a very affectionate mother and wife. She thinks it's amusing to get attention from other men, just to mess with James and his jealousy a little, but she is absolutely devoted to James and could never be as intimate with someone else than with him. As a couple, they lay priority on honesty, loyalty (especially James, since he experienced the aftermath of affairs himself as a child) and communication. They talk to each other about everything and are both upset when the other one lied about something.

When they fight, she's the one to keep the fight rather calm, telling James to be quieter when she thinks he's too loud or telling him to calm down a little in general. She can't stay mad at people for long. Especially not people that she loves, so after every fight she has with her husband, she tries to solve things quietly again and it ends in "I love you"-s and either an embrace, a kiss or... well you can think your part here.

Mary is intelligent and humorous. She is social and supportive.

(TW// next section contains mentions of child death)

Maria Eliza van den Heuvel Hamilton (4th January 1795-13th September 1873) too, is a caring and devoted mother and wife. She's a joyous person for most of her life and her laughter is the most contagious and the loudest. She's proud of her Dutch heritage and is glad to have found a Dutch speaking "friend" in Betsey.

Her children are the dearest thing to her, she'd do anything for them and will never truly accept they're grown adults that go their own path of life. She's quite talented musically wise but would never admit it. She's fragile. The deaths of two of her children in childhood break her. Especially baby James' death about a year after his birth makes her blame herself that she wasn't a good enough and caring enough mother. The morning she notices he isn't alive anymore she wakes John in hectic and in panic and collapses in his arms, full of tears. Ever since she grew more and more caring and almost overprotective of her other children and especially of the newborns she'd have afterwards.

John and Maria have a v e r y intimate relationship and are always by the other's side. To comfort the other one an embrace is not necessary; holding hands tightly is enough. They get each other gifts whenever they can, especially John does and Maria always meets him with a genuine smile and gratitude. When they fight, and she believes she is in the right, she ruthlessly gives him the cold shoulder and won't give him attention anymore until he apologized. She stands for her beliefs and it's hard to break them from her. Sometimes, when neither wants to give in, they both give each other the cold shoulder and John purposely is even harder to soften because he doesn't like it that he always to make the move to forget the fight and apologize. He's basically making Maria take a taste of her own medicine.

She grows attached to people quickly and sees the wives of her brothers-in-law like sisters. When other men flirt with her, she accepts but complaints about it to John later how much she actually hates it.

Eliza P. Knox Hamilton (?? ?? ????-21st July 1873) is a literarl sunshine. She always wears a smile on her face and is sure to have found her one true love in Alexander Jr.. She doesn't mind the age gap at all. She loves him and that's enough for her. She's an astonishing dancer and very active. If she could, she would travel the world. She always drags Alex away from his study, desk and law cases just to take a walk with him or have a snowball fight in winter. She loves teasing her husband and messing around with him. Putting or shoving snow on his neck or into his coat, reorganize his desk and entire study so he just stands in front of his desk and groans her name in annoyance with a little smile on his lips. Her rather childish behavior is what he loves about her. It makes him feel like a child again and remember the carefree days. They balance each other out.

She gets sick quickly and adores it when Alex nurses her, although she doesn't like to admit it. She has a wish for children but with a heavy heart gives up hope more and more with the years as it just doesn't work out for some reason. To compensate that she doesn't have her own children, she likes to spend extra time with her nephews and nieces. They are like her own children to her and she gladly watches them or takes care of them when the exhausted parents need a break and a little time for themselves again. She doesn't spoil them, however.

Alex and Eliza don't exactly "fight". They talk about it in a calm but mad tone and if it doesn't come to an agreement or they don't find a midway, they continue their days as if never having married each other, which upsets both but both also are too stubborn to make the first move.

(TW// next section contains mentions of death)

Rebecca McLane Hamilton (?? ?? 1813-1st April 1893) just seeks for an equal in her life. Someone who understands her, supports her and loves her for herself. In Little Phil she found her equal. They are both pretty much similar personality wise. They both have a heart of gold and only seek for the best. She's rather quiet and passive when around others. In a circle of ladies, she just stands or sits uninterested in the conversation, but if it's a topic she is passionate about, she gladly participates in the conversation. She cares about fashion and always wears and shines in what is currently in. When she noticed Phil took a liking in her, and she in him and she felt like there'll be more than just an acquaintance or a friendship, she amused herself with playing hard to get. Although she played hard to get, she also was the one to make the first advanced step with an affectionate kiss to the cheek.

She loves her two sons more than anything in the world and is indescribably proud of both and unbelievably heart broken when she gets the report of her firstborn Louis having fallen in the Civil War at only 24. After that she was extremely caring of her second son Allan, who was 20 at that time.

She doesn't like to cry and always tries to hold her tears back. The only place she feels comfortable with crying is in her husband's arms. Phil and her barely fight. And if they do, it's easily and almost immediately forgiven.

When Phil died, she grieved and mourned for the rest of her life. It felt to her like a part of her died.

She, like Mary, has a very good relationship with her parents and her siblings and is always a very adored person.