LAFAYETTE, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?

LAFAYETTE, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?

Text: can't believe Lafayette would chop off all his hair. WHAT!? Marquis, I'll never forgive you. Your actions have an effect on others. So we can't share hair ribbons anymore? No cute updos? It's just Laurens and I alone. We're depressed.

HAHHA I LOVE IT-

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????

When I said "lol maybe Laurens has his cravat up that high to hide hickeys from Hamilton" I was half-joking, but...

ACTUALLY...

And even from the Hamilton musical...

OKAY IM WRITING A FIC ABOUT THIS RIGHT BLOODY NOW.

This is actually so accurate and there are actually so many historical references and also RICHARD HENRY LEE ABSOLUTELY KILLED ME AHSJSJSJSHSHHDDHDB (that's actually me)

1776 characters playing Minecraft:

John Adams: rage quitting when he gets blown up by a creeper

Benjamin Franklin: trolling everyone by becoming invisible and punching them

Thomas Jefferson: builds his own apartment

John Dickinson: thinks minecraft is for babies and doesn’t play

John Hancock: legitimately playing the game in hardcore mode and doing amazing

Edward Rutledge: Keeps killing Adams on purpose

Charles Thomson: plays the tutorial world first

James Wilson: is so scared of the mobs that he cries whenever he sees a zombie in the distance

Richard Henry Lee: only uses creative mode and builds so much shit his computer crashes

Stephen Hopkins: Tries to play but spills rum on his computer and now it’s ruined

Thomas McKean: making all the potions to try to find a cure for Rodney and forgets it’s just a game

Caesar Rodney: too sick to play

George Read: see James Wilson

Roger Sherman: does lots of trades in villages and he doesn’t rob them either

Samuel Chase: collects all the food there is

Lyman Hall: Gets bored not even 5 minutes playing

Lewis Morris: abstains courteously from playing

Josiah Bartlett: screams at Chase for not playing the game properly

Joseph Hewes: the only thing he does in the game is deep sea fishing

Robert Livingston: builds a mansion so his kids could play and live in it

John Witherspoon: thinks the game is sacrilegious and refuses to play

Abigail Adams: Builds the best house and forgets it’s not a competition

Martha Jefferson: plays with TJ and they end up forgetting the game and doing the nasty

Andrew McNair: “Sweet Jesus this Warden is hard to kill…”

Courier: spends the entire time mining for diamonds

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♥️♥️🌎)