This Is Literally Everything I Do...

This is literally everything I do...

YEAH NO THIS IS A WEIRD FANDOM, HUH?

Once again, I heartily agree with you, mah friend. HUZZAH!

Think about it

If you think about it… AmRev is really a messed up fandom.

We hyper fixate on dead dudes, sometimes simp for them even, and adopt some as our children.

We even ship them and research a crap ton out of their personal lives. I mean- do you get how creepy that is??? Imagine 200 years from now a bunch of people going crazy over something stupid we wrote on Tumblr and citing it proof on our sexuality or something! Like what if we’re wrong and two guys were actually just really close bros?? Imagine how awkward they’re feeling in heaven then!

And we make memes about them.

And we make accounts pretending to be them.

And we bully them affectionately and care about them more than some people that are actually living.

We give them nicknames. We want to love and protect some and beat the crap out of others.

And we draw fan art of them. Sometimes really suggestive fan art. 

We also write stories about them. Some really explicit, some just really weird, and some even in the modern world.

On top of all that, we go batshit crazy whenever we find a twenty year old movie that takes place in our time frame. And we’re geeks over a kid’s cartoon, an AMC tv show of dubious accuracy, and are pretty much the backbone for a fifty year old musical fandom.

Like bros - wtf even is this fandom????

Oh yeah, just bought 300 alcohol markets because maybe I could try colouring my art for the first time in 2 literal years. Could you guess who I drew first!? Could you- could you guess!? Was it obvious?! Is it obvious because you can clearly see the art and see who it is? Yup. Pretty boi Hammie!!

baby laurens

(again ISTG LOOKS BETTER IN PERSON OWKSJSJWJHEBD)

I'm so obsessed what

I did it

as the #1 von steuben fan, can you reccomend me some good sources on his life? (would be great if they acknowledged his sexuality but im pretty desperate at this point)

love ya <3

AYYYY OKAY

First of all I'm so honored

So here's some book recommendations first:

Washington's Gay General

Okay, I admit, at first I wasn't sure about this, but it was actually pretty accurate. It did miss out some details that disappointed me, but overall an actually good source, so I recommend! (About 1-2 hour read)

The drillmaster of Valley Forge

This is a 352 page biography by Paul Lockhart. It's pretty standard and DOES mention his sexuality, think the style of John Laurens' biography if it wasn't written by a southern conservative. So yeah, I recommend! (About a day or two, if you have enough time.)

Du Ponceau's autobiography

Look, I KNOW everyone is talking about this. I KNOW everyone is hyping this up, but try it. Just- I- try it. Its mostly pretty boy trying to find out how America works, but Von Steuben is nonetheless prominent.

AND YUH!

EDIT: I AM BACKK!!!!

I also recommend "General Von Steuben" by John Palmer! It's actually great, but it does, unfortunately, dismiss his sexuality. This is, however, by far the best biography I've found so far.

(I'm also thinking of submitting some short little biography to some website or whatever, if you want more than lemme know, I am SO HONOURED to help. If you want more concise sources besides books, OF COURSE. I AM HERE TO HELP OMFG I LOVE YALL♥️♥️🌎)

I think Von Steuben would like pride month