#Richard Mead

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Isle of Dogs (2018, Wes Anderson)

14/12/2024

[asoftepiloguemylove]

DO I EXIST?

Jody Chan aubade for the BPD subreddit user who wrote can people with BPD love? // 鉄男 Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) dir. Shinya Tsukamoto // The Mountain Goats Birth of Serpents // Dorothea Lasky Love Poems for Bathsheba // Zen Cho The Four Generations of Chang E // atlas a conversation about identity // Silent Hill 3 (2003) cr. Konami // Richard Siken You Are Jeff // unknown // Roe Gardner Requiem // Teki Yatsuda Sleeping on Paper Boats // Jane Mead World of Made and Unmade

[ixis-stuff]

a boy who’s jacked and kind - sabrina carpenter

[a-loose-collection-of-ants]

I'm sure he'll be fine

[livelaughlovelams]

Why did the headcanon generator decide to get so fucking personal today!? hello!?

AND WE HAVE TWO (ABSOLUTELY CANON) ONES FOR LAFAYETTE...

[on-partiality]

Some Aide boys <3

( I start high school in 3 days btw so if anyone has any advice that'd be great, fyi: Australian high school starts at year 7. Americans do not give me advice for year 10)

[pub-lius]

Hyper niche question for my autism warrior: What was the perception of aide-de-camps during the AmRev like? I assume it would be viewed as a softer position - though of course, the extent would vary depending who your CO was - but many did see action and a few were reassigned so they could fight

Hey y’all… how y’all doing… i know its been yet another period of many moons since ive posted or answered (i hope this information is still relevant btw), but ive had a lot going on with getting a job, finding colleges, my mommy issues, travel, etc. anyway, im back, and im here to tell you about my main men

It actually was not viewed as a softer position at all! The station of aide-de-camp was highly desirable for several reasons, which i will describe approximately right now

1) people had to compliment you a LOT to get in

Most of the results I got from my research on this ask were letters of recommendation for potential aides-de-camp. Letters of recommendation were high honors for any station, especially for that of a military capacity. According to my favorite source on the American Revolution (which you should know by now), George Washington’s Indispensable Men by Arthur S. Lefkowitz, it was practically impossible to get a job as an aide-de-camp if you did not have a widely positive reputation or a letter of recommendation from someone reputable (or both if you wanted to clerk for the Commander-in-Chief).

I found one letter of recommendation from j*hn ad*ms that i think serves as a very good example of the sort of statements that could land you a seat at a Continental officer’s writing desk:

“There is another Gentleman of liberal Education and real Genius, as well as great Activity, who I find is a Major in the Army; his Name is Jonathan Williams Austin. I mention him, sir, not for the Sake of recommending him to any particular Favour, as to give the General an opportunity of observing a youth of great abilities, and of reclaiming him from certain Follies, which have hitherto, in other Departments of Life obscurd him.”

-John Adams to George Washington, June 19-20, 1775, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Founders Online, Washington Papers)

Those are my italics btw. These compliments are carefully chosen to suit the honor culture that was so pervasive throughout the 18th century and first half of the 19th century. A liberal education at the time was very hard to come by, and would be of great importance in a clerical position. Great activity also helps, because you dont want some lazy ass writing to Congress under your name, or god forbid George Washington himself, you might get hung (not really). The mention of youth is also intentional, since young men have always been preyed upon by the military. I think it’s especially noteworthy the final phrase of “reclaiming him from certain Follies”, which indicates that he might have previously had a negative reputation- whether it was warranted or not, im not sure.

2) the pay was fucking fire

For this we’re going to be utilizing my super amazing math scores that im renown for throughout the math community (yall dont know about my math tumblr), and we’re going to be using Alexander Hamilton as our lab rat, as per usual.

Alexander Hamilton joined Washington’s staff in early 1777 where a regular aide-de-camp (not a military secretary) made $33 dollars a month, which averages to about $1.10 a day. Meanwhile, according to the University of Missouri, the highest paid laborer in Massachusetts in the same year made $0.50 a day, which is about $15 a month, others making as little as about $0.22 a day, so around $7 a month. If you’re looking for ratios, by the end of the war, a pound of raisins was around $0.30. So, the highest paid Massachusetts laborer could save up every paycheck from 1777 to 1782 and buy 324 pounds of raisins, and Alexander fucking Hamilton could waltz up next to him and buy 712.8 pounds of raisins and rub it in his sad, poor face. And he wouldn’t even share because he was a congressman by that time and congressmen HATE THE POOR.

Disclaimer: Hamilton’s numbers dont include the time he quit the office bc I didn’t feel like googling how long he was away for and also i dont care. And yeah he probably would share his raisins with the guy, Hamilton was pretty nice, but i dont think he’d buy 712.8 pounds of raisins in Massachusetts anyway. Or maybe he would, I dont fucking know, stop asking me questions

3) it gave you a lot of street cred

There are many instances of aides-de-camps rising to higher status after their service, but i dont give a fuck about those nerds going into politics and law and stuff.

Most people now only know about Washington’s aides (or if you’re really autistic you know Lafayette’s too), but at the time, being an ADC to any general would get you fairly well known in society. General Sullivan’s aides seem to have been pretty well known and admired, as they are frequently mentioned in John Adams’ correspondence with other congressmen, as well as that of Benjamin Franklin with French diplomats all the way across the Atlantic.

But I imagine you’re also wondering (or at least i am) about what the everyday enlisted man thought of the ADCs, and that answer doesn’t really change. Of course, the men sitting out in the rain and mud without food for the past week are going to be envious of the guys who get to sleep in a house, but their quarters weren’t the most comfortable either. Aides-de-camp were probably the most connected out of the disconnected officers, if that makes sense. They weren’t fraternizing with the enlisted, but they were seen by them more frequently than the generals, and they were the ones advocating for the needs of the enlisted men. Even if they didn’t have any battle experience whatsoever (which really was never the case, i cant think of an aide who WOULDNT have seen battle), they would still be respected by the men as hardworkers and the only people who might actually get them food and clothes.

Thank you for the ask! I really enjoyed researching it and my family had a great time joking about me hunched over my ipad reading through the national archives while we all watched jeopardy, misspelling like every other word because its hard to type on an ipad. Im going to try to be more active, so please feel free to send further questions! I forgot how cathartic research is for me so id be very happy to do more. I have one more ask in my inbox i’ll try to get done sometime in the next few days. Love yall!

[rain-on-wax-feathers]

wooo !!! okay so for meade and tilgham i tried my hardest to be historically accurate.

giles belongs to @papers-pamphlet , zephyr to @cacaobeans , jacques to @almaprincess66 , & conan to @half-eaten-baguetteee

uhm some other requests that didnt make it under the cut </3

(eliza was suggested by two people so she gets color :D )

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Isle of Dogs (2018, Wes Anderson)

04/12/2024

[toastytrusty]

it's finally me and you and you and me just us and your friend

MEADE

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[ixis-stuff]

hi i thought i’d dump post my lams art (laureloch, just laurens + jemmy, and washington aides art there too)

@nerenight ‘s washington aide one shot fic inspired art for the one with their writing in it and the sketch of hamilton asking if du ponceau wants to try on his glasses lololl!

oh my god i need to draw some of their other chapters, i personally think they capture the aides as a whole in my favorite way of all time (i can ramble for hours but well..)

[a-loose-collection-of-ants]

Wait, hold on, I still have more sketches to get out of my system

[kwilooo]

It was decided that I would assign [a few] quotes from my quote book to characters, so lets start with my characterization of these ones :3

John-

“I’ve run out of bones to break.”

“I was a very gay child.”

“We have already established this, I am dying at 24.”

“You’re grabbing them with a hook and dragging them across the bridge, whether they’re kicking and screaming or going willingly.”

“I’m bored, lets to kidnap and murder someone.” (+ Alex)

“I was wishing death upon my child to cardiac arrest.”

“You either give your pain to your grandmother, or tap dance.”

“I hate myself.” -John, “High five!” -Meade

Alex-

“The weight of mars is 69 litres.”

“I suck on the youngest form, I like them before they’re ripe.”

“We’re celebrating the death of our mental states.”

“If the labour isn’t producing, get rid of it.”

“You can be burning at the stake and I’ll be laughing!”

“It’s like a mental asylum, we pass notes and then I eat it to get rid of the evidence. I’ve eaten every note you’ve given me.”

“I’ve been torturing kids since I was 16. I torture them 5 to 7 daily.”

“You go girl. I booted that bitch a long time ago.”

“Can I take your nail bones real quick?”

“Look at a founding father and say ‘fuck off!’” (to Washington ;))

“Math puts me in the mood for war crimes.”

“I dont have a strangling kink! I swear!”

Lafayette-

“Imagine being an egg yolk. - Lafayette

“JESUS IS SPICY???”

“I apologize for your deformities but i will do nothing about it.”

“How do you know what grandmas taste like?”

“My arms are my legs. neigh.”

“Spontaneous combustion is my favourite type.”

“When im ready, you’ll come out of the closet.”

“I’m going to periodically feed you starbust.”

“I have a sudden urge to log roll everywhere and knock everyone over.”

“Time to go marinate. think of yourself as teriyaki.”

Meade-

“When the lesbians jump, you know the beans are good.”

“If you had a coconut, would you use it on the soap?”

‘good enough. its beautiful right?’ “that’s what i say about my life.”

“A few dozen microbes in the atlantic ocean need your help.”

“Kindly, shut up.”

“I don’t particularly enjoy being growled at.”

“If you’re depressed, don’t be.”

“We’ll exterminate your bitches.”

“Traditionally, bullying doesn’t require consent.”

“Don’t kill yourself that would be ironic.”

Washington-

“By the looks of it, essays [correspondence] is traumatizing for all of you. i will look into bringing in a therapist, we will have family therapy.”

“Stop throwing the emotional support pickles!!”

[furorsopher]

hey I wanna test smth, this is gonna real interesting…

pls I need statistics-

also @transmascmarypoppins Ur getting tagged for the hell of it :3