#Hamilton vs. Burr

[deadpresidents]

Did Alexander Hamilton really endorse Jefferson over Burr as portrayed in the Hamilton musical?

Yes, Hamilton absolutely did endorse Thomas Jefferson over Aaron Burr for the Presidency in 1800 -- and pretty much in language as direct as we hear in the play. In a December 24, 1800 letter to Gouverneur Morris, Hamilton wrote:

"Jefferson or Burr? -- the former without all doubt. The latter in my judgment has no principle public or private -- could be bound by no agreement -- will listen to no monitor but his ambition; & for this purpose will use the worst part of the community as a ladder to climb to perman[en]t power & an instrument to crush the better part. He is bankrupt beyond redemption except by the resources that grow out of war and disorder or by a sale to a foreign power or by great peculation. War with Great Brita[i]n would be the immediate instrument. He is sanguine enough to hope every thing -- daring enough to attempt every thing -- wicked enough to scruple nothing. From the elevation of such a man heaven preserve the Country!"

Ever the shit-stirrer, Hamilton helpfully closed his letter to Morris by adding, "Make any discreet use you think fit of this letter."

And, just in case that letter got lost in the mail or Gouverneur Morris didn't get the point, Hamilton wrote another letter to Morris two days later (December 26, 1800), emphasizing that:

"...as the least of the two evils...Jefferson ought to be preferred to Burr.

I trust the Federalists will not finally be so mad as to vote for the latter [Burr]. I speak with an intimate & accurate knowledge of character. His elevation can only promote the purposes of the desperate and proflicate. If there be (a man) in the world I ought to hate it is Jefferson. With Burr I have always been personally well. But the public good must be paramount to every private consideration. My opinion may be freely used with such reserves as you shall think discreet"

So, yeah, that definitely happened and you can see why Burr might have felt disrespected.

[ourtalechara]

Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson are the kinds of forces of nature that will tear up anything in their path. Trees by the roots are ripped from the ground and flung into nearby houses, obliterating them and throwing their remains into the whirlwind. Chaos and destruction reign over whatever unlucky souls happen to be in the way of their goal.

George Washington and James Madison are the kinds of forces of nature that will stand unflinchingly in the center of it all and refuse to budge.

[riri-loves-cats]

GUYS so I was watching Hamilton the other day, and I noticed this really cool detail:

In Lauren’s duel with Lee, Burr is Lee’s second as we all know

and later, in Burr’s duel with Hamilton, The guy who was playing Lee is now playing William P Vanness (Burr’s 2nd)

I js thought that was a really cool detail

[birdstooth]

Omg whhyyyy tho 😫😫😫

I truly felt for Burr in this moment lmao

[truck-senpai]

Girl side of the wedding : Sadly giving up her first love to her sister as she accepts she'll never be satisfied even if she meets her 'equal'

Boys' side : d r u n k s i n g i n g

Also 'YoU'rE tHe WoRsT bUrRr'😂

[samanthajameswriter]

Duel At Dawn╽The Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Rivarly: July 11th, 1804

“Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.” ― Alexander Hamilton Continue reading Untitled

[dragoninahumancostume]

85 things I love in Hamilton:

When a line of a song repeats on another song but slightly different or the exact same in a slightly different context or the exact same with the same context ("Look around look around" by Eliza vs by Alex, "I'm helpless" in Helpless vs Non-stop vs Say no to this)

The way it sounds like Lin is spitting on the P's in "My time's uP, wise uP, eyes uP"

How everyone agrees that Lafayette let his hair loose after Yorktown and that if he put it on a ponytail again Hamilton would react the same way Doofenschmirtz does with Perry and his hat

Everyone seems to agree Laurens should go running to be with Angelica, Eliza and Maria when they sing "Me? I loved him"

Daveed Diggs

The historical inaccuracy making songs even better (example: "How the sausage gets made" sung in 1790's when sausages were brought in the 1800's. Philip dying before the election of 1800 and in July when he actually died in November of 1801. Burr being Charles' second.)

Being able to tell which song is which even when they start off the same (alexander hamilton, guns and ships and winter's ball) by slight differences

"Can we agree that duels are dumb and immature?" *sends a letter wanting to duel* "All he had to do was die. We ought give it a try." *kills Alex*

"I was chosen for the constitutional convention! :D"

Aaron's voice and expressions

"Wheeeee!" -Charles Lee

Animatics vs The actual musical (example: the king dancing in the animatic, him standing with a death stare in the musical)

Hamilton being happy he finally has friends

The dance in My Shot

Lafayette and Hercules dancing

Hercules showing off his pants

Lafayette flexing his muscles

John Laurens screaming passionately in the "shout it from the rooftops" part

Angelica's voice and expressions

John looking like he's checking Ham out

The difference between the musical and the studio recording, specifically the pauses that for me sound like they're trying to regain some breath to continue singing

Hercules as the flower girl

The foreshadowing (?) ("I may not live to see our glory" *dies*/ *doesn't count to ten in French* *dies because his opponent didn't count to ten*)

Peggy getting distracted by John in Schuyler Sisters

"my dog speaks more eloquently than thee"

"You don't have the votes ha-ha-ha"

Ham stopping his dance and fixing his jacket when Philip enters in Helpless

King George literally spitting in You'll be back

*Philip dies, Ham is mourning* "Can we get back to politics 🙄. Who you gon' vote for?"

When they're waiting for their turn on the song (Ham behind the king before Right Hand Man. John and Laf on the stairs behind Washington in "Your excellency, sir")

Washington's voice

The backup dancers they're literally so good

Ham: making a plan. Hercules: BRAH

Ham pushing Laf away so he could talk with Angelica

HAMILTON WROTE THE OTHER 51

[thebreakfastgenie]

wait does Dick Cheney shooting a man count? it was an accident and the guy lived and everything. but the guy did apologize. to Dick Cheney. who shot him. in the face.

Sarah I humbly request ur top 5 funniest US political scandals -ypq

okay so caveat that there are niche scandals that are funnier I'm just drunk and don't remember

Watergate - everything about it is so fucking stupid

Clinton impeachment - also a lot of stupid decisions here, the president saying "it depends on what the meaning of is is," the Republicans having to can Newt as speaker because he was having an affair with a staffer too and it looked bad, having to ditch one candidate to replace him because he was also having an affair, and finally landing on Hastert (who is an actual pedophile), just the part where Republicans were so sure public opinion would come around but people mostly wanted to stop hearing explicit details about the president's sex life.

idk if this counts as a scandal but the Army McCarthy hearings - if for no other reason than opposing counsel forcing the word "fairy" into the conversation as a microaggression against Roy Cohn

Iran-Contra - the guy who set the whole thing up was an insane grifter/arms dealer and no one even knows for sure who he really was. He took a polygraph and failed everything including his name which might be because polygraphs are bullshit but also he could totally have been lying about his name. might have been lying about his nationality. probably was lying about everything else. definitely was lying about how he could totally get those hostages out of Lebanon by selling weapons to Iran. we sold the weapons through Israel (they wanted to prolong a war between Iran and Iraq so both would be too busy to attack them, they were fine with people dying) and one time they showed up in Iran with a giant Star of David on them. this only got linked to the Contras in Nicaragua when Ollie North and company realized this operation which rescued net zero hostages (one guy did get released but someone else got taken hostage immediately) was turning a profit and used it to solve the problem of "we want to fund a right-wing paramilitary but Congress won't let us :(" also one of the other arms dealers involved was Adnan Kashoggi, uncle of murdered journalist Jamal Kashoggi, and he owned a yacht that was a notorious party boat and where Queen once attended a party. they wrote a song about it called Kashoggi's ship. there were rumors that it was an orgy but it probably wasn't. several people have owned the yacht since including, for a while, Donald Trump.

Alger Hiss and the secret pumpkin - some people thought Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers were gay and these people included Richard Nixon. also there was a pumpkin involved (used to hide microfilm)

honorable mention to Obama wearing a tan suit

whatever Trump has going on - it's gonna be even funnier in like 20 years when we all have some distance also maybe he'll have died in prison by then

[gyubby99]

@disneyanddisneyships oh i just thought of a VERY angsty idea

What if there was another time Mal confronted Alastor in the au where he cheated? But this time, it was for him letting Theo go to a duel at nineteen??

Like what if Mal, during that, turned into her full demon form and she was almost unrecognizable because of it? Like she was a fucking wild animal because she lost control of everything? Like my characterization of Mal is that she is holding back a lot of grudge in her life. She was a murderer in life so if she gets angry, she forgets control of herself and just loses it. She has a lot of pent up anger to those men she killed that was probably sent down there.

And she loved Theo. Emma was hurt as well. (In this au i think they are dating ok im changing things in my head) and Theo was too sweet for hell. He deserved to be in heaven. But he died before he got to do that.

Not to mention aponi..

A mother's heartbreak is one thing i wouldn't even wish upon my worst enemy.

Aponi was so, SO broken. That boy was all she had after al cheated.

So mal, knowing all of this, had a lot of rage in her.

She was determined to dethrone him.

She could stand a chance, but Alastor has more experience. She knows that.

But she's still willing to try

So she transforms in this demon form, her eyes glowing. She forgot about how she used to be friends with him. She set that aside because he's nothing but a prick to her now.

And there's a fight scene in my head where Mal in her full demon form just flies towards him, pinning him against the wall as she basically drools, and then alastor pushes her off, still trying to reason with her because he still loves aponi and knows that mal is her friend.

Then yk that Ray vs. Dr. Facilier's shadows scene before he died?

Al charges his shadows at her only for her to kick them or some sort of thing like that because her legs glow and stuff (also she fights them off with her eyes)

Then she charges against Alastor again.

Alastor then pulled the whole tentacles thing but she was quick as a bug. One tentacle caught her, but she cut it off, still focusing on Alastor.

Alastor felt a little.. nervous around her for the first time. Her rage was.. interesting.

Entertaining, even.

He was done reasoning with her and decided to just turn into his demon form as well.

Now Mal would've been scared, but in her mind was aponi's face when she collapsed on the ground crying, Emma locking herself up in the room, and more importantly, Theodore.

She knew once he was serious she wouldn't stand a chance

But she felt like for those three, she could atleast try.

Then another fight sequence. Mal does the "eye trick" but it never blinded him, it just sent him tumbling back a little. So, quick as a bug she took a chance

But Alastor was quicker and summoned a holy knife in his hands, but it wasn't to kill her. It was to scare her. She can heal from HIS attacks, so she was fearless. She's a sinner. Dead alone can't kill the dead. But with a holy equipment, you can.

.....but mal was too blinded by her anger like a wild animal lost in control and still drove straight to him, and Al, holding the knife, had stabbed her. In the gut, I think. She shrieks in pain, but still wrapped her hand around his neck. But it was no use. It was holy.

But Alastor still was in his full form, grinning as he'd won.

...not until Aponi walked into the scene. Then Al realized what he'd done.

He caused her another heartbreak.

But what was he meant to do?

Like, not completely hamilton but kinda following the story but with a very angsty twist i made up in my head lmfao

Also to add: this is one of the main parts of the reason why Vox killed Alastor. Cause Vox as both burr and jefferson... would be a lil weird because alastor endorsed vox to win against.. vox! So i think Your Obedient Servant would be very more interesting if this is what drove vox to kill alastor >:)

To each their own, though but this is my own lol

[deadpresidents]

On July 11, 1804 (exactly 220 years ago today), Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel in Weehawken, New Jersey.

While the Burr-Hamilton Duel is obviously one of the most famous incidents in American history, it's important to take a moment and realize just how insane this event actually was. Burr -- the incumbent Vice President of the United States -- shot and killed Hamilton -- a fellow Founding Father, former Treasury Secretary, and architect of the American financial system. The Vice President of the United States was charged with murder in New Jersey and his home state of New York and avoided being arrested and put on trial because he went back to Washington, D.C. so that he could perform his Constitutionally-prescribed duty to preside over the U.S. Senate for the remainder of his term. While Vice President Burr was under indictment for MURDER, he calmly and efficiently presided over the only impeachment trial of a Supreme Court Justice in American history! Don't let anyone ever convince you that American politics hasn't always been batshit crazy.

[presidentkittycherk]

70s AU CHRISTMAS SUPRISE FOR EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!! merry christmas i really do appreciate everyone ive met here and who likes and supports me and my nation! i love you all.

also johns really mad cuz he thought he was going to be the baby he MADDDDDD Aasl he also though santa miiight be there and him NOT being there did NOTTT help his terrible attitude. something something burr vs herc queen off something something gold(angelica), francensinse(eliza) AND MHYRR(AND PEGGY GET IT!) something something lafayetter is confused as how madison got pregnant?and had a cat??

sat through midnight mass and had feverish visions of this untill i could draw it........... part of me wishes it were better but i really wanted to get it to you all to schedule to post in the moring! but alas, it is 4:30 and im sleepy! i hope yoy like <3

sigh als for lore this is the baby they have its their cat named philip schuyler madison (after they found out hamiltons babys future name sigh as referenced in my omegaverse asks comics) also eliza dont get the joke, its no secret she thought it was kindhearted.... doesnt she know shes tussling with the bad boys!

your loving and good spirited president,

Kitty!

[sapphic-agent]

You know what Hazbin needs more of musical wise? More serious Vs Duets, cause it's less gag songs had been either solos (Poison and All for Love) assemble pieces (You didn't Know, Finale) or amicable solos (both versions of More than Anything and Whatever it takes)

Like don't get me wrong- I love the more gag-focused Vs, I think they are alot of fun, but GOD one of the most beautiful part about musicals is when two characters with completely opposite beliefs argue via singing, the melody intensifying or completely shifting between the parts (that is why the best part of You didn't Know was Lute and Adam's arguing back. And of course in Respectless the way Carmilla sings that "you and the Vees are unmain and uniform!" With the melody shifting as she gets more desesperate- that is some good stuff)

Imagine Lute and Vaggie fighting once again but this time having a hate filled duet! Emily and Sera's extension of You didn't Know but this time with even more tension cause Em saw that Sinners ARE salvable?? A more serious reprise of Stayed Gone as Vox starts to be an actual threat for Alastor's plans- omg a sadder version of More than Anything between Charlie and Lilith that slowly becomes am escalating argument?? But I think my favorite option on a twisted way (and one actually proposed by the VAs) would be a Heathers'-esque duet between Angel and Valentino, like "you were meant to be mine" from the mentioned Heathers that constantly changes tones depending of whenever Val is trying to manipulate/love bomb Angel or showing his true colors as Angel's part is just filled with hurt and anger. Kind of like how Poison is deceivingly Pop-like till the end to demonstrate the way Angel (don't) copes with his reality, this could also sounds initially as a regular love ballad that slowly morphs until something much more sinister.

First of all, let me just say I'd LOVE a You Didn't Know reprise between Sera and Emily where they're arguing. This NEEDS to happen.

(I'm not kidding when I saw Emily has the potential to be the best written character in the show. Viv don't fuck this up for me)

Second of all, you're right about opposing views being great in songs/musicals. One of the best parts of Hamilton was how Hamilton and Burr were complete opposites. So whenever they interacted, their parts always clashed with one another. One of my favorite parts of Nonstop was when they were arguing over the Constitution (yes I was a Hamilton girlie I have no shame). Hazbin Hotel has a lot of opportunities to do this and really take their songs to the next level

[stillness-in-green]

On Directionality of Movement in BNHA (and the Neat Reversals)

(Take 2 on this post, which gave me fits trying to post it. Fingers crossed it works this time, and sorry for any vanishing posts, people who reblogged the original.)

This post was initially conceived back in December, when I first saw the home release covers for HeroAca’s Season 6.  They look like pretty standard stuff at first glance, but there was something about them that was very, very interesting: the direction the characters were moving.

(Hit the jump for an explanation spiced up with lots and lots of images from first American and then Japanese media.)

So, this is something that’s absolutely ubiquitous in visual media that a reader/viewer is probably never going to consciously register (at least without being told about it, as in, for example, film class or art school) because the emotional cues in play are intrinsically tied to a culture’s written language.[1]  To wit, because written English progresses from the left to the right, the subconscious association with rightward movement is forward progress.  Thus, in American media, be it stage, screen, or graphic panel when a character is moving from the left to the right, that directionality expresses forward movement, progress, agency, empowerment, righteousness, clear-mindedness, healthy ambition, heroism, and so forth.  Progress is towards the unturned page.

[1] The broader term to use to research this further is “linguistic relativity.”

The chase Furiosa initiates in Mad Max Fury Road spends most of the movie heading to the right, before Max convinces Furiosa to return to the Citadel, at which point, naturally enough, the chase reverses directions, spending the rest of the film heading left.   

Heroically smashing up cars in a rightward-facing direction, while people with less agency flee leftward.   

Elsa spends most of this number moving to the left, the same direction she fled out of Arendelle, but as her resolve grows, the choreography stars reversing, moving her on the z-axis more, and when she declares her resolve to never go back, donning her ice queen dress, her directionality immediately shifts to right-facing.  Even her turn at the end of the sequence, as she spins to walk back inside, is to the audience’s right.

Conversely, when a character is moving from the right to the left—against the flow of written English—that expresses return, backsliding, a lack of agency, powerlessness, wickedness, unhealthy ambition, difficulty, turmoil, and a generally dark or conflicted mentality.  Regression and turmoil lie in the direction of the page that’s already been turned.

Nina’s grasp on reality is beginning to fracture due to the multifaceted stresses she’s facing.   

Jean Grey is classically a heroic character, but you don’t get hero layouts when you’re giving in to dark urges and consuming suns.   

Scar will start trending rightward when Be Prepared really gets underway, that song being all about his future plans and proactive evil, but for the introductory bits, he’s firmly left-facing—as is also the case when he hurls Mufasa to his death.   

Of course, this doesn’t have to be a huge production!  Even something as simple as Charlie Brown walking rightward out to the doghouse to feed Snoopy then leftward to go back inside fits this idea of forward vs. backward motion.  (Compare this to, say, Dagwood, who runs leftward out his door to crash into the mailman every time he’s late for work.)

Naturally, you see this idea of directionality in confrontations as well.

In Hamilton, the title character is reflecting back on his past, the loved ones lost, his actions and the sort of legacy he will leave behind; he "throws away his shot" and dies.  Burr, conversely, is thinking of his living daughter, of his determination to survive; he fires, bullet moving from left to right, and will go on to survive the duel.   

Steven Q. Universe, facing the future despite the embodied wall of stasis and indifference standing in his way.   

The Wicked Witch, facing leftward, attempts to scare the Tin Woodsman and Scarecrow from progressing any further with Dorothy towards her destination, which they would do by following the yellow brick road extending rightward off the screen.   

You can see the reverse positioning—hero facing left, villain facing right—in cases like this, where the hero is making a dramatic defense against a villain in an attempt to stop their progression.   

This isn’t a hard and fast rule, obviously—visual dynamism alone will mean characters move around and change position!  It also doesn’t address movement on the y- and z-axes, nor does it necessarily account for e.g. mixed group compositions or romance scenes.  Also, more intangible things like power dynamics, command of the scene, and shifting character motivations can change who’s moving/facing what direction.  It’s not as basic as good-right, bad-left.  Nonetheless, it’s an interesting thing to watch for.

However, all of the above is reversed in Japanese media.  Written Japanese moves from the right to the left,[2] and therefore the mental association with forward progress/positivity versus regression/negativity is likewise with leftward versus rightward movement.  Following are some obvious examples from works other than BNHA (no live action films because I don’t have the familiarity to be comfortable picking individual shots from them):

[2] In its normal vertical orientation, which is what you’ll find in books and manga.  When arranged horizontally, as in scrolling marquees or banners or the like, usually it reads left-to-right, though this was not the case historically.

Anthy leaves her allegorical coffin, Ohtori Academy, in the final episode of Revolutionary Girl Utena.   

A twist on Sena’s signature move, the Devil Bat Ghost, in Eyeshield 21.  Check any sports manga you read and I would bet you good money that the protagonist team’s goal is on the left in most instances.   

Mima, pictured here Really Going Through It.  Note that Perfect Blue is the inspiration (to say the least) for Black Swan, above, but the psychological break is facing the other direction.   

Cure Dream shows us the mixed feelings of being the leader of the last PreCure team that regularly killed their enemies.   

So, that all laid out, let’s talk about how that looks in BNHA!

Like my other examples, the series is chock-full of examples, both of the usual forward-leftward, regression-rightward directionality, as well as a number of interesting plays against type.  Below, have a pile of examples!

BNHA, manga and anime both, gets piles of face-off shots like this, and in every one of them that I’ve seen, it’s the same general layout: heroes moving leftward, villains rightward.   

Deku attacks towards the turning page, while Muscular attacks against it.  Tokoyami, mired in turmoil and a dangerous loss of control over his power, also faces rightward.   

The specter of the past and the emblem of the future facing in the expected directions.   

Here’s a telling group composition: the Stoplight trio working hard for their futures, ditto the man who moves too fast, while Endeavor and Fuyumi face forward, still somewhat unsure of their current situation, while Natsuo is actively going against the flow.

Of course, it holds in the single character images as well, like so:

   Likewise, you can see the contrast even between images, like these two, announcing the anime adaptation of the Joint Training Arc and My Villain Academia, respectively:

Notice Shinsou, who's a major character in the arc but not quite a Hero Course classmate just yet, has his face turned away, back in the rightward direction.

You can see it more generally in the action itself, as well, not just the promo art.  Think of moments like Shigaraki emerging from the warp at USJ, the race during the Sports Festival, the direction of All Might’s final punch—as well as Shouto’s later victory over Dabi—at Kamino, the direction Gentle Criminal (and thus Deku following him) is heading when trying to reach UA, and so forth.

And then there are the interesting subversions.

Usually, in the days of their most pitched rivalry, the forward-moving Deku is moving left, while the tumultuous, stuck in the past Bakugou is moving right, but he drifts more leftward-facing as he gradually begins to get his head on straight, as in their fight post-Kamino.   

Shigaraki would be on the left if he were facing down Deku, but against All Might?  Not so much.  That makes this less a good versus evil stare-down and more a past versus future one.   

This incredibly fucking telling composition, which I’ll let speak for itself:

   Shigaraki, having the protagonist slot on loan for the duration of My Villain Academia, spends most of the Deika fight facing in the direction of the future, though Re-Destro interrupts this to take the left-facing when he’s challenging Shigaraki about having no vision.  Shigaraki’s pseudo-apotheosis has his facing right as he destroys everything around him (Re-Destro facing left as he sees his future rewritten and his burden removed), but by the time we come to the aftermath in the crater, Shigaraki is moving forward again.

   Interestingly, that does not necessarily follow for the rest of the League!  Dabi and Geten trade off facings through the whole arc, while Toga is mostly rightward facing against Curious, only getting the leftward advancement at the very tail end, once she transforms into Uraraka.  Twice’s doubles are often fairly leftward-aimed, as they’re driving the action forward, but Jin himself spends his big confrontation mostly facing outward, towards the reader, only getting much leftward-facing when he’s helping the unconscious Toga afterward.  Mr. Compress, not having a dedicated match-up, is all over the place.

Spinner, though?  Spinner is following Shigaraki both literally and in the sense that he spends the arc coming into his own.  Thus, even when Shigaraki’s gotten ahead of him, Spinner maintains the leftward aim.

   This can get more complicated than simple inversion, too!

For example,  Gigantomachia is leftward moving in, really, virtually every scene he’s in.  It really adds to how much he feels like a complete force of nature that, all throughout his earliest introduction, Kirishima’s flashback, MVA, and both war arcs, there are literally two (2) sequences in which he’s anything other than leftward-oriented for the bulk of his appearances, and both of them occur when he’s significantly struggling to make forward progress.

The first comes  when he’s trying to leave the Gunga Villa and facing steep resistance; this conveniently lets the kids  facing him (+Mount Lady, when she can get out ahead of him) heroically face left, like they usually do.  Once Machia clears the Villa battleground, however, the rest of his route to Jakku is smooth, even sailing, and shows him returned to his usual leftward orientation.

The second is once he’s actually reached Jakku and the sedative has started kicking in.  While he still gets a good number of leftward orientations, he’s tied down in a lot of them, and they’re mixed with more rightward and a considerable number of outward facings.

And that’s it, really.  Even escaping from the holding facility built around him and confronting AFO, he gets leftward facing, with that only reversing in the moment AFO strikes him down.

Unlike Machia, Deku facing stiff opposition gets to keep a leftward progression when he comes up against heroic opposition in his fight against his classmates.

Shigaraki and Overhaul, appropriately for their vying for control of the villainous future,  are constantly vying for the leftward facing position in their scenes/art spreads.

And then there’s the example that prompted this whole post—the home release covers of Season 6:

In other circumstances, I might chalk this up to the heroes being in the defending position—like Gandalf against the Balrog—but BNHA has not tended to do much with that visual; the heroes usually get to keep their heroic leftward facing even when they’re on the defense, as indeed is the case for all of Jakku that comes to mind!  Yet just this once, for the anime art, we can see the futility the heroes are up against, trying to stop, as Dabi so aptly put it, the future coming down the pipeline, where all the heroes’ lip service will be blown away by chaos.

Thanks for reading through this, all, and my apologies if I mixed up my right and my left anywhere! I hope you enjoyed the pictures, and that you have fun spotting the patterns in your future media intake!

[askkingerthings]

I’m thinking of animation

I’m not good at animation, I can make touch sketches on traditional then onto digital, but it would be rough and incomplete, and it would take me forever to conplete anyway! But the main songs I wanna do here, and before I go one I’m using songs I know and enjoy, some of them are MLP, some are Hamilton and some are from different musicals! Here are a few keys:

the MLP series-

Battle (of the bands)- equestria girls, rainbow rocks - bubble, Caine and Kinger from game master AU by @chez-cinnamon

What my cutie mark is telling me- MLP - extra’s au

Under our spell- equestria girls, rainbow rocks - the other universe AU

unleash the magic- frienship games - Caroline

Open up your eyes- the MLP movie - Zooble

This day Aria- friendship is magic - remixed- Queenie

welcome to the show - Coraline and Jax

Acadeca - maybe a tumblr user vs Caine

danger, danger- MLP movie - W3ll

tricks up my sleeve - Ragatha

stand for everfree - [[open slot vs super light au]]

Hamilton-

Alexander Hamilton - intro to the extra’s au

non-stop - Caine, Bubble and Coraline (extra’s au)

you’ll be back - Jax

what comes next? - Ragatha (if I can, if I can’t I’ll change it to another extra’s au character-)

Aaron burr, sir - Caine and Coraline (extra’s AU)

your obedient servant - Bubble and Caine

guns and ships - Jax and Kinger

Yorktown (the worlds turns upside down) - Kinger solo

Washington’s on your side - Vex from the extra’s au and well from exra’s au

the room where it happens - gummigoo (I’ll try- I’ll probably make him human for that-)

history has its eyes on you - jax and Kinger, again-

hurricane - Kinger (human au)

The schuyler sisters - Ragatha, pomni and blog owner

Farmer Refuted - hate!Anon (I’m sure there a few bitches like that out there… especially to @shortmomma1993 , she rlly doesn’t deserve it tho so guys FUCKING STOP, anyway-) and blog owner

death note

where is the justice - this seems like an argument between JD (guy from unleash the magic) and the AI’s of the circus

the Heathers

candy store- Jax

seventeen - queenie x kinger animation

Dead girl walking (reprise) - a Caroline and ________ romance

Dead girl walking - Zooble x Gangle

I am damaged - queenie’s abstraction

Freeze your brain - Jax and pomni

Hazbin hotel

whatever it takes -

out for love - Vex and W3ll’s brother to sister bonding-

Respectless - bubble and Caine

loser, baby -

hell is forver - Jax

Desendance

what’s my name - Caine

it’s goin’ down - intro to toy industry au

rotten to the core - Vex and Jax (they have a lot in common-)

Other songs

monster high fright song - W3ll

ready as I’ll ever be - blog owner +[[open slot]]

More..? Coming soon..

so…. Which one should I start? Of course there will be more to the list, maybe several more! Also most of the characters will be made into humans, like Kinger, Queenie, gummigoo, zooble and Jax, not sure abt Jax though-

here’s the order I will go in,:

I

unleash the magic

under our spell

Yorktown

Washington on your side

out for love

seventeen

open up your eyes

since this is a pinned post here’s the intro post

[homestuckconfession]

Every time I get interest in a musical, the first thing I do is apply it to homestuck

For example, when I liked Hamilton:

Hamilton: Rose

Eliza: Kanaya

Burr: Dave

Washington: Dirk

And now that I like Epic: the Musical:

Odysseus: Dirk

Penelope: Jake by default

Eurylochus: Jane

Athena: Rose

I love applying everything to Homestuck it’s so fun :D

And also I could go a lot into detail how Dirk and Rose would be similar but than differ as both the protagonist and the mentor

Like Dirk taking a more personal approach vs. Rose being more professional

Rose being a general would address her solders as what they are, soldiers, and doesn’t focus on how many die but rather the ending result, meanwhile Dirk calls his soldiers “my brothers”, clearly very loyal to each other, and he has a crisis over every death that occurs and the guilt is just eating at him until he decides to shut down emotion and do whatever he needs to do if it means his friends get to stay alive and go home

I JUST

LOVE MUSICALS SO MUCH

AGH

.

[jaggedwolf]

I watched Lawrence of Arabia last night, and man, that was an experience

- yes, I watched it because of Uncharted. Now I'm just surprised there were no camels in Uncharted 3! More annoying to animate?

- I knew nothing about this front of the war before watching the film

- Forever have very mixed feelings about biopics. There's a socially accepted leeway with the facts that only sometimes works for me. (E.g. I still quite like Hamilton and think it's well-constructed, even if it plays with the timing of Angelica's marriage or his son's death vs Burr's election. Whereas even the description of the changes in that Cumberbatch Turing film enraged me.)

- when it comes to accuracy of individual portrayals, as expected, it fell on the dislike side. I don't know, I will always think it unfair to take a guy who sobbed after having to execute someone to resolve a dispute between two tribes, and make his movie version be bloodthirsty and say "I enjoyed it."

- it works better when you take each person as a generic representation of the forces at play. Lawrence is all the British officers involved directly in the Arab Revolt, Allenby is British High command, Faisal is all higher Arab leaders. Feels unfair when you use their real names though. (Apparently the real Allenby's family was quite upset with his depiction.)

- maybe that's why the one character who is not a real specific person was my favorite, Ali, who never forgets (and never will forget) Lawrence's words on the Arabs as a people. With the power of Omar Sharif's sad eyes, he really works as someone for Lawrence to bounce off of and to bitterly disappoint.

- it is a very pretty movie - the scene where Ali appears first as a speck in the distance before resolving into detail is gorgeous, and you get a real sense of how vast the desert is compared to people

- lmao the only sound a woman makes in this film is ululating

- RIP those poor kids

- Lawrence the character is baller. There's the moment you realize that his dorky affect within the British base in the first scenes isn't someone who is only book smart, but is someone whose focus is very limited, and the things that don't matter to him, really don't matter

- probably will end up reading Seven Pillars of Wisdom and some other history book about the revolts, would take a rec on the latter