#franklin 2024

[haveyouseenthisseries-poll]

[macaron-n-cheese]

THIS SCENE PLAYS LIKE AN I MADE AMERICA SKIT OF A BETRAYAL

IT FEELS LIKE SATIRE

JOHN ADAMS SEEMS SO EVIL

WHERE WAS THIS IN 1776?!?!?

[meerawrites]

Franklin (Apple TV): a poignant reminder 

Franklin is based on the 2005 book A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America by Stacy Schiff, which I would also recommend to history lovers as I would recommend La Chevaliere d’Eon’s papers. Franklin is out on Apple TV now and even if you aren’t a history buff it rounds itself out as a compelling story about power, deception, identity and family.

[annecoulmanross]

So it's been a while. But I couldn't let James Fitzjames Finding Day pass without some celebration—thank you Doug Stenton, Stephen Fratpietro, and Robert W. Park for giving us this wonderful and terrible knowledge. I've made an emotional playlist of all of us currently experiencing whatever emotion this is:

Selected lyrics for each song included below the cut!

Strange Ships | PHILDEL

Strange ships won’t let me sail out Passed by the ice and stone now

2. I, Carrion (Icarian) | Hozier

If the wind turns, if I hit a squall Allow the ground to find its brutal way to me

3. Howling | Wild Rivers

Howling out here for the morning light I can’t sing no more

4. The Yawning Grave | Lord Huron

I tried to warn you when you were a child I told you not to get lost in the wild I sent omens and all kinds of signs I taught you melodies, poems, and rhymes

5. Sax Rohmer #1 | The Mountain Goats

Ships loose from their grins, capsize and then they’re gone Sailors with no captains watch a while and then move on

6. Long Wave | Dessa

Starve the guard dog And see what hunger does It’s easy when we’re well fed To talk of love

7. Achilles Come Down | Gang of Youths

Throw yourself into the unknown, With pace and a fury defiant Clothe yourself in beauty untold, And see life as a means to a triumph

8. Eat You Alive | The Oh Hellos

I’ve seen the true face of the things you call life The song of the siren that holds your desire Death, she is cunning and clever as hell And she’ll eat you alive

9. My Ego Dies At The End | Jensen McRae

Leave my body and my ego early Kill it kind with a surgeon’s mercy Claim I put it out of its misery

10. Who We Are | Hozier

Darling, we sacrificed We gave our time to something undefined This phantom life sharpens like an image But it sharpens like a knife

11. Devourer | Aidoneus

Beams of light, show me how to feel Light the gloam, find my Achilles heel I will welcome my mortality—let me go

12. Sound the Bells | Dessa

Go lift your sails up For one last swell Go lift yourselves up To sound the bells

13. Your Bones | Of Monsters and Men

Said goodbye to you my friend As the fire spread All that’s left are your bones That will soon sink like stones

14. Wildflower and Barley | Hozier, Allison Russell

This year, I swear it will be buried in actions This year, I swear it will be buried in words Some close to the surface, some close to the casket I feel as useful as dirt, put my body to work

15. These Bones | Azrai, Momo O’brien

It’s a savage sea we’re made to roam Every tide can turn to haunt us But the ocean reaches past these ghosts And I will always sail for more

16. By Way Of Sorrow | Cry Cry Cry

You have come by way of sorrow You have come by way of tears You’ll reach your destiny Meant to find you all these years

17. Gracestone | PHILDEL

When I open my final door I’m gonna sail much wilder seas than your ships were built for I’m turning into dust across that cove You know, I have known enough to not feel owed

18. Glowing | The Oh Hellos

You’ll rise, like land, pulled up at the sound of some strange commandment A moon alight, reflecting fully And I guess it would feel like rebirth, out of some kind of dying To see yourself so glowing

[juuyeah]

Happy ending 🌅

[grif-hawaiian-rolls]

STANDARD OP FOR NIGHTMARES: - 1 - FIND YOUR REDS - 2 - GET THEM YAPPING - 3 - GET BACK TO SLEEP

RVB Rarepair week day 6: THE MORE THE MERRIER

I love polyam ships so much, i love the diversity that having multiple ppl in one messy relationship (healthy or otherwise) gives for dynamics and situations and just! its fun!!! i had a hard time picking the poly ship for this

Locpeznut x Tuckingnut (god thats,, certainly a name isnt it)

Sometimes you gotta share your Reds

[sulphuric-onyx]

@redvsbluesecretsanta gift for my lovely mutual @agentoli ! I really loved getting to draw your design of South for this, (it's absolutely gorgeous) and energy sword's a big favorite of mine to draw so this prompt was a pleasure. bonus docnutkai piece bc they're adorable + an alt without the lighting effect below. Merry Christmas everyone :D

[slow-burn-sally]

Terror Camp 2024 Saturday Keynote Spoilers

We could have had a second and third season!!!!! Season 2 would have been Lady Jane's rescue attempts, and Season 3 would have been the modern day Franklin search! As the interviewer so poignantly put it, "What we could have had".

I'm sobbing uncontrollably.

On the other hand, Liam and Jared were precious angels. Jared seemed a bit tipsy, and a touch tired, and he talked a lot and all of it was fascinating, and he cracked me and my roommate up really hard several times. Liam was the sweetest, handsomest, most insightful, lovely human being. I am so full of dopamine right now, you have no idea.

And then! Right after the interview, Liam and Jared started chatting! Like about how they should get together and about stuff they both know about, and the audio just stayed on, and they're just warmly chatting together, while my soul leaves my body.

It was so good ya'll. Terror Camp is the actual best thing. Thank you so much to the event coordinators and producers, and the presenters for this amazing day of education and connection! I am heart eyes. I am full of love.

[photographybears]

Chappell Roan at Firstbank Ampitheater in Franklin, TN.

10/01/24

[thou-babbling-brook]

AC Unity jumpscare of Benjamin Franklin canonically witnessing Arno Dorian’s father’s death. What the fuck Ubisoft.

[macaron-n-cheese]

AUGH THE REENACTED DANCE OF LAFAYETTE AND MARIE ANTOINETTE IS SO FUNNY POOR LAFAYETTE 😭😭😭

[x-heesy]

L o v e

Evening dress, 1913-1915, Franklin Simon Co., Canadian Museum of History 🇨🇦

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White Lilies by Peder, Anne Trolle 🎵

[juuyeah]

Two pieces, two parts of a story for Anya’s week!

[grif-hawaiian-rolls]

RARE PAIR WEEK DAY 3: "...and they were roommates!"

Normal Fantasy Dude Tucker x Divine Donut for the alt universe prompt :3c

Writing for the au below the cut!

Lavernius Tucker was not entirely sure how he got here, but he couldn’t be mad about it. He wasn’t a pious man. He wasn’t exactly the most devout follower of the gods. Honestly, he suspected the only reason he was allowed into the temples, into the inner chambers, was because of the sword he carried. Just his luck he found the damn thing, right? Right. Luck.

“Tucker? Is everything okay?” The Oracle asks, and Tucker grins. He may not be a religious man, but he is a damn lucky one. Evidence? Right here- the Oracle himself, divine figure of fate and fortune, the one who strikes true and sees through time itself. One of the fucking gods.

“I’m good, Donut,” Tucker answers, because fuck yeah he was on a casual name basis with a fucking god. Then he leans in, and presses a warm kiss to the side of Donut’s mouth, because he was also the god’s lover. Suck on that, everyone who said he’d never amount to anything. 

“You sure? If we need to stop-” Donut fusses, because that’s what he does. Over ten feet of pure divine power, and he worries like a sheepdog over kittens.

“I know our watchword, Donut,” Tucker says, stealing another kiss. Donut’s hands are warm around him, and they’re not really doing much (this time, at this moment, at least) but the gentle brush of Donut’s fingers against Tucker’s hair make it really hard to focus on anything except relaxing into that touch. Donut hums with a pout on his lips and Tucker shifts his weight so he’s kneeling as he leans up to wrap an arm around the back of Donut’s neck. If he asked, Tucker had the excuse of playing with the long hair that floated around Donut like a halo. But it turns out, the god of fate and fortune had a hard time reading people. All of time and space? Sure, no biggie, like reciting a story you’ve heard your entire life. But people? Their expressions, their body language? Donut was utterly blind to it. It was endearing, in a very strange surreal way. It made him so…well. Human. Tucker runs his fingers through the thick locks of Donut’s hair, watching the small motion ripple out to the ends where it faded to soft gold. 

“I was just thinkin’, ya know? About how lucky I am,” Tucker grins wider, and Donut looked some awkward mix between curious and embarrassed. He thought he was sooo subtle. “Lucky to survive some of the shit I’ve seen, lucky to find this sword, lucky to be assigned to your temples…” 

Tucker pauses and lets his other hand slide down Donut’s shoulder, over the soft silk-like fabric of his tunic. Donut’s good eye, the one that witnesses the present world around him, follows the motion as best it can. When he can’t watch Tucker’s hand, Donut turns his attention to watching his face.

“Right…lucky,” Donut repeats, and Tucker loves watching the blush creep up into the god’s pointed ears. He just makes it so easy!

“Mhm,” Tucker is leaning in again, Donut watching him intently, but he isn’t done talking just yet. “If I didn’t know better, I’d think someone with some strings to pull was watching out for me. Nudging things to go just so, yeah? Making sure I’d end up in the right place, at the right time,”

“Would it bother you? If that were the case? Cau-cause I’m sure if it was- and I’m not saying that it is- I’m sure he-I-they’d only have your best interests at heart. But if you wanted them-him-them to stop-” Donut stumbles over his words, and Tucker lets him, for a beat, before he laughs.

“I don’t mind. I like having luck on my side, after all. Best kind of company there is, from what I heard. Besides, Luck is pretty damn cute, especially when he gets all flustered,”

“I- you- Tucker!”

Lavernius Tucker was not a devout or pious man. He was, however, a damn lucky one.

[sulphuric-onyx]

Day 3 of @rvbrarepairweekdos ! : …and they were roommates (aus, cannon divergence, what ifs)

Some designs for a Docnut apocalypse AU! I was a little hesitant to draw these two for this event bc I’m not entirely sure on their rare pair status but it’s Doc, so I’m sure he s forgotten about enough for this to count.

Donuts long hair was inspired by @grif-hawaiian-rolls’s face cannon for him (which is amazing btw, go check it out if you haven’t seen it already, their art is stunning) and in this universe is because he hasn’t had access to scissors recently, hence the grown out blond and pink dye. I’m also a huge fan of getting to draw Donut as the corn feed tall farm boy he is, and making Doc look short next to him was very fun, and giving the guy his big fuck off hammer back was great. The background was something a bit different for me, and only a little inspired by imagery of the eye-poclypse from the Magnus archives, but I’m very happy with how it turned out in the end :]

Docs outfit was really satisfying to put together, and the camo pants were much easier to draw than I thought they’d be, although I forgot to add the mask until later so i still drew his face beneath it so here’s the gas mask-less version under the cut lmao

[tomorrowusa]

No, this election was not a landslide any more than the 2020 election was. Because California is still counting votes, Donald Trump could still end up with under 50% of the popular vote.

Now 1936 was a genuine LANDSLIDE.

To me, a landslide in a presidential election is +60% of the popular votes and +75% of the electoral votes.