This is a post I've been mentally planning for the better part of a week, mostly trying to crystallize thoughts in a meaningful way, but also getting postponed because of travel and political outrage. So here, have some messy unvarnished thoughts:

I saw Hamilton last week. Like other art I partook of during Herr Gropenfuhrer's ascendance and first ( Read more... )

More pics forthcoming later, but today was Hamilton day! First we did the full pilgrimage, going to Trinity Church to see the Hamilton family and Hercules Mulligan's graves, then going to Federal Hall (the site where George Washington was sworn in; the original building is no more but they had the surviving stone balcony where he took the oath and ( Read more... )

Aaron Burr visited William Godwin and his daughters when they were young. He was in disgrace and his own daughter Theodosia had just died, so he was enrapt with these brilliant children. Young Mary (who would be Mary Shelley one day) had written a political speech to be performed by her little brother, while her sister Jane (who would change her ( Read more... )

I KNOW I CAN'T BELIEVE IT EITHER ( Read more... )

Because there's only, like, THREE fics for that in AO3. >_Reasons ALEXANDRA Hamilton would be the best ( Read more... )

High winds here, which means that the only one getting any sleep in the house is Rey. (Rey is our new puppy we adopted a month ago.) Bilbo has been going nuts so I've decided to camp out with him in our interior bathroom where the whistling isn't noticeable. The alert expires at 5am. Yep, I'll be productive later today ( Read more... )