#robert henry lee

[i-like-old-things]

"The First Congress"

"The First Congress" by J. Rogers, 1787.

I found this image from a database my school library has with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. I found this particularly interesting because of the collection of figures it incorporates. They (top to bottom, left to right): Patrick Henry, Charles Thomson, Peyton Randolph, Jacob Duché, and Richard Henry Lee. The author included the President of the First Continental Congress (Randolph), the Secretary (Thomson), the Chaplain (Duché), and two major figures of that body (Henry and Lee) but I want to understand why he believed that these 5 individuals were the ones worthy of representing the entire First Continental Congress. I am also interested in how this piece would change had it been created at a different time -- who would be the major players then?

[queeringclassiclit]

Which adaptation of Sherlock Holmes is the most queer?

*not including House M.D. because it's not really an adaptation, or any overtly queer pastiches like My Dearest Holmes or The Adventure of the Furtive Festivity because that's not really a fair contest

[letterboxd-loggd]

12 Angry Men (1957) Sidney Lumet

February 3rd 2025

[generic-lab-assistant]

The rest of the founding cats are done plus King George cat cauee I couldn’t not make that

[bullet-prooflove]

A quick round up of updates on the blog including new characters added to the ASK LIST and a list of fics that went out last week:

Characters Added To Ask List:

Mike Mclusky

Robert Sawyer

New Fics:

Chicago Fire:

Playing For Keeps - Sam regrets what he said about your first night together.

Big Heart - Sam takes care of you after noticing you're in pain.

Chicago Med:

Winter Blues - Mitch struggles during the winter months.

The Wrong One - A disagreement leads Dean to reconsider his choices.

Zurich (NSFW) - Jack cancels his trip when he realises something is going on with you.

Cobra Kai:

White Roses - Daniel finds out you might not be as single as he thought.

Attention - Terry hasn't been paying you enough attention

The Red Room - Terry takes care of a threat.

Fire Country:

To The Moon & To Saturn - Bode finds a nerdy way to tell you how he feels.

Critical - Manny stays by your bedside after the crash.

Law & Order Criminal Intent - Toronto:

Who I’m Not - You remind Henry he’s not his father.

Fragile Heart - Henry has always believed love wasn't for him.

Mayans:

Home - Felipe knows your pregnant.

Mayor of Kingstown:

Hell or Highwater - You and Mike always find your way back to each other.

Stop Thinking - Robert needs to stop thinking and start doing.

NCIS - New Orleans:

The Fall - Dwayne knows you're heading for a fall.

SEAL Team:

Say it Again - You tell Eric how you feel for the first time.

SOA:

Yours - You and Nero put everything on the table.

Kings & Queens - You and Chibs marry under terrible circumstances.

Ass (NSFW) - Tig has always had a thing about your ass.

Top Gun Maverick:

Moonlight - Beau asks you a question about your wedding.

Yellowstone:

Final Words - Kayce discovers the truth about Lee.

More (NSFW) - Kayce tells you he needs more.

Missing You - You miss Kayce just as much as he misses you.

Until Your Dying Day - You make a promise to Lee.

Every Part of Me (NSFW) - Jamie wants to give you every part of himself.

Everything (NSFW) - Jamie wants everything with you.

Break Free - Jamie decides it's time to break free from Yellowstone.

Touch - After seven years in prison Walker's a little touch starved.

Everything You Dreamed (NSFW) - You are everything Walker could have dreamed and more.

The Other Woman (NSFW) - John was never meant to be with Evelyn.

With Me (NSFW) - Ryan and you send the night together for the first time.

[politicaldilfs]

Vermont Governor DILFs

Peter Shumlin, Jim Douglas, Phil Scott, Howard Dean, Deane C. Davis, George Aiken, F. Ray Keyser Jr., Franklin S. Billings, Charles Manley Smith, Richard A. Snelling, Harold J. Arthur, Horace F. Graham, John A. Mead, Joseph B. Johnson, Lee E. Emerson, Thomas P. Salmon, William Henry Wills, Mortimer R. Proctor, Ernest W. Gibson Jr., Robert Stafford, Philip H. Hoff, Allen M. Fletcher

[mikyapixie]

10 years ago today Big Hero 6 released in theaters!!!

[mlemedt]

☀️Summer Reads ☀️

I'm so happy to have actually completed my goal of reading 10 books this summer. This was mostly just to motivate myself back into reading again but it appears I've gained a taste for fantasy novels (I regret nothing...)

In total I have read 3509 pages. So I'm pretty proud of that. To conclude here's some made up book awards:

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-Psyche & Eros ⭐⭐⭐Luna McNamara

Raised My Standards

-In Memoriam ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Alice Winn

Most Human

-Orphia & Eurydicius ⭐⭐Elyse John

Made Me Cry Most (Sadness + Disappointment)

-Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop ⭐⭐Hwang Bo-Reum

Most Comforting

-The Bell Jar ⭐⭐⭐⭐Sylvia Plath

Most Cutting

-The Virgin Suicides ⭐⭐⭐Jeffrey Eugenides

BEST WORST NARRATOR

-Fake Dates & Mooncakes ⭐⭐⭐Sher Lee

Best Food + Cutest Couple

-Powerless ⭐⭐⭐⭐Lauren Roberts

BEST ROMANCE

-Reckless ⭐⭐⭐Lauren Roberts

Best Sequel

-Six of Crows ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Leigh Bardugo

Best Characters + Best World Building (I will die on this hill)

Average Rating: 3.4

I want to challenge myself like this again but I doubt I can read as much with school around the corner- but hopefully my goal can help remind me to take a break sometimes. I'm going to give myself until the New Year to read just 12 more books. Hopefully evenings, weekends and holidays can add up to give me some time.

[zania85]

I did this list of my 10 favourites actors nearly 10 years ago. ... Time to update it.

[bubbleonice]

New updated list for celebrity readings:

Timothee Chalamet

Alex Turner

Shawn Mendes

Justin Herbert

Cody Fern

Evan Peters (Emma Roberts)

Armie Hammer

Bill Skarsgard

Harry Styles (Taylor Russell)

Wladimir Klitschko

Carloz Sainz

Charles Leclerc

Lee Dong Hae

Yesung

Cillian Murphy/ Tom Hardy / Tom Welling/ Henry Cavill/ Taz Skylar

Joe Burrow

Max Verstappen

Checo Perez

Taylor Swift

Edvin and Omar

Emma Roberts and Garrett Hedlund - Rachel Bilson.

Henry Cavill and Natalie Viscusco

Tom Blyth, Lucky Blue Smith, Nara Aziza Smith

Esteban Ocon

Matty Healy

Robert Pattinson and Suki Waterhouse

Timothee Chalamet

Shawn Mendes 2024

Super junior

Blackpink Jisoo.

[abs0luteb4stard]

W A T C H I N G

[clemsfilmdiary]

12 Angry Men (1957, Sidney Lumet)

3/20/24

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Best Gregory Peck movies and performances:

1. To Kill a Mockingbird - Robert Mulligan (1962)

2. Roman Holiday - William Wyler (1953)

3. The Big Country - William Wyler (1958)

4. Twelve O'Clock High - Henry King (1949)

5. Cape Fear - J. Lee Thompson (1962)

6. Spellbound - Alfred Hitchcock (1945)

7. The Guns of Navarone - J. Lee Thompson (1961)

[blueiscoool]

Foundry Workers Melt Down Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee Statue

Eventually, an artist will be chosen to transform the bronze bars into a public art installation

The controversial bronze statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that stood for nearly a century in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been melted down so that it may someday be transformed into a public art installation.

On Saturday, at a foundry in an undisclosed location in the American South, workers cut the infamous figure into small pieces, then fed those pieces into a 2,250-degree furnace. They poured the metal into molds for ingots, or rectangular bars, imprinted with the words “Swords Into Plowshares.” That’s the name of the project that will transform the divisive monument into a new piece of public art.

Only a small group of people, including a handful of journalists, was allowed to watch the melting. They were invited on the condition that they didn’t disclose the name or location of the foundry—or the identities of its workers—over fears of retaliation.

“The risk is being targeted by people of hate, having my business damaged, having threats to family and friends,” says the foundry’s owner, a Black man, to the Washington Post’s Teo Armus and Hadley Green.

Even so, the man added, “When you are approached with such an honor, especially to destroy hate, you have to do it.”

One particularly poignant moment occurred when foundry workers removed the statue’s face from the rest of the head.

“A man in heat-resistant attire pulled down his gold-plated visor, turned on his plasma torch and sliced into the face of Robert E. Lee,” writes Erin Thompson, an art historian at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and author of Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America’s Public Monuments, in a guest essay for the New York Times. “The hollow bronze head glowed green and purple as the flame burned through layers of patina and wax. Drops of molten red metal cascaded to the ground.”

The 21-foot-tall statue’s journey to this point was a long and complicated one. Commissioned in 1917 and installed in 1924, it loomed over a downtown Charlottesville park for decades.

In 2017, amid a broader national debate over Confederate monuments, white supremacists gathered in Charlottesville to protest the statue’s removal. During the “Unite the Right” rally, a man drove his car into a group of counter-protesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring many others.

After years of legal battles, the statue finally came down in July 2021. The city donated it to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, which has been responsible for it ever since and leads the Swords Into Plowshares project.

Organizers had wanted to melt down the statue sooner, but they waited until a judge dismissed a lawsuit against the plan.

Because of the statue’s size, the melting process will take weeks. Once that work is finished, project organizers will move on to the next phase of their plan: choosing an artist who will transform the metal into something new.

“Humpty Dumpty couldn’t be put back together again,” said Reverend Isaac Collins, a Methodist minister in Charlottesville who spoke at the melting ceremony, per NPR’s Debbie Elliott. “We still have a lot of work to do, but this statue that has cost us so much, so much violence, so much hurt, so much bloodshed—it’s gone. And it’s never going to be put back together the way it was.”

By Sarah Kuta.

[mariocki]

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

"Jane, did you ever stop to think that... if anything happened to me, I mean anything bad, there wouldn't be any money for you? I wouldn't be here to sign the checks. You wouldn't even have pocket money. Did you ever think of that?"

"Yeah, I've thought about that."

[camyfilms]

12 ANGRY MEN 1957

It's always difficult to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And wherever you run into it, prejudice always obscures the truth.