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hamiltrash-thoughts · 1 year

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I just woke up but I felt like writing this anyway.

I was listening to 'One Last Ride' (pAy YoUr FuCkInG tAxEs) and I ended up noticing something: by the end of the song, is that Hamilton saying "History has its eyes on you" to Washington????

Now, I know this song is iconic and stuff, not even nearly as emotional as "One Last Time'. But think about this.

Simply putting Hamilton singing "History has its eyes on you" while Washington is going away can be overlooked so easily, however, could be a detail with so much meaning. Imagine: Washington, during the war, explained to Hamilton how they were going to change the world. By giving him command, Washington was basically saying "Son, everything you're doing in this battlefield will be remembered. The wrong and right choices, both will be used as a way to make the people define what this day will be known as. So, know what you're doing before anything. Define what history will know you for."

Now, years later, Washington is stepping down from presidency. Hamilton has been by his side since the very beginning. They had their differences many times, but in the end, they were still friends, and admired each other very much (Wash. saw a son in Ham., even though the other doesn't like to be seen like that). He sees Washington getting ready to leave, to go home, and before that, Hamilton turns to him and says "Look, mister president. Look around you. Look at all you've done. For the people, for our nation. People will remember this, all of this. You made mistakes, but you also made great things. And now you can rest, because you completed your mission. You'll be marked down in history as the greatest first president our nation could ever have."

Alex remembers what George has told him all those years ago, and decides to repay him for everything he has done for him. To show how grateful he was to be able to be his Right Hand Man, to work by his side, to build their young nation alongside him. George hears this and doesn't know how to show it, but he is just as grateful. That single line said by Alex made his farewell so much more meaningful.

He changed history. History had its eyes on him. And he'll be remembered, for everything he has ever done.

George Washington can go home in peace now.

#hamilton the musical #hamilton #alexander hamilton #george washington #george washingdad #george washingmachine #i'm sorry i just thought these tags were funny lol #i'm not crying you are #lin i understand chris jackson's voice is beautiful and amazing and should be appreciated at all costs #but why couldn't you keep hamilton singing this single line why 😭😭😭#one last time is one of my favourite songs simply by chris' performance yet doing this would make its message way more powerful #remember people i'm not glorifying any historical figures i'm talking about the characters in the musical pls i'm not even american

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hamiltrash-thoughts · 1 year

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Hey, guys, wassup? I'm kinda bored and wanted to interact with some hamilfans, since I don't have anyone else to talk to about Hamilton... So, anything you wanna ask?

#hamilton the musical #hamilton #alexander hamilton #yes i'm bored #i want attention #having no one to talk about hamilton with is so lonely #aaaaaa #send me asks

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hamiltrash-thoughts · 1 year

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"Hey Alex. Long time no see. Finally grew taller than me, huh?"

— John Laurens, right after Alexander Hamilton got on the other side, proceeding to make him have a breakdown.

#hamilton the musical #alexander hamilton #john laurens #hamilton #lams #hamilton incorrect quotes #bc if you think abt it john laurens died at 27 #hamilton died at 47 #its just a reminder that laurens died at a young age #he never really had the chance to grow up and live his life like ham had #and hamilton lived about 20 years without his best friend by his side #hamilton sees he's two centimeters taller than laurens and breaks down crying #ham used to be the shortie of their gang but hAH guess what not anymore #philip washington and ham's mother: hey we're here too

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hamiltrash-thoughts · 1 year

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Thank God Laffy Taffy introduced himself as "Lafayette" in "Aaron Burr, sir". Because imagine how tf would be if he said his full name like the others.

Lafayette: Oui oui, mon ami, je m'appelle Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette!!

Laurens:

Mulligan:

Burr:

Hamilton:

The whole bar:

Lafayette: ... The Lancelot of... the revolutionary set...?

Mulligan: Is it my turn now or what?

#hamilton the musical #hamilton #Lafayette #marie joseph paul yves roch gilbert du motier marquis de lafayette #i always wanted to say his full name lol #like how tf do you spell that #alexander hamilton #aaron burr #john laurens #hercules mulligan #hamilsquad #hamilton incorrect quotes

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hamiltrash-thoughts · 1 year

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Can I be real a second? For just a millisecond? Let down my guard and tell the people how I feel a second?

"The Room Where it happens" has the best choreography of the whole musical, followed by "Yorktown" and "Satisfied". Leslie and the whole ensemble fucking slay, especially towards the end.

#hamilton the musical #the room where it happens #leslie odom jr #you can't change my mind

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hamiltrash-thoughts · 1 year

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You CANNOT convince me that Mulligan is not acting as Hamilton's bodyguard here.

He literally is giving the "If you mess with this little guy, I'm gonna kick your damn ass" vibes.

#hamilton the musical #alexander hamilton #hercules mulligan #bros being bros #herc can and WILL kick your ass if you mess with one of his boys #you won't even see it coming #hamilsquad

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hamiltrash-thoughts · 1 year

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Laurens: Hey, you're okay?

Angelica: Oh, I'm fine! It's just... My crush just married today.

Laurens: Yeah, mine too. It sucks.

Angelica *naively believing Laurens is talking about Eliza*: You know, Eliza seems happy with him. I'm sure he'll make her happy.

Laurens: I know. I just wish I could be in her shoes.

Angelica: what

Laurens: what

#hamilton the musical #hamilton #john laurens #lams #angelica schuyler #hamgelica #hamliza #i believe in laurens and angelica friendship supremacy #they bond over their heartbreak for hamilton #angelica keeps laurens' gayness away from sight #they got each other's back #hamilton incorrect quotes

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hamiltrash-thoughts · 1 year

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Please, someone, p l e a s e make this happen

Justin from 21 Chump Street and Philip from Hamilton

Someone write this encounter pls

Or else I'll have to do it myself

#Hamilton #hamilton the musical #philip hamilton #21 chump street #Philip talking about him striping down to his socks with two girls #while Justin is just 'My girl does drugs but at least I know how to make her happy'#Lin in the background watching like 'I created my boys well'#lin manuel miranda #anthony ramos #Philip literally flirting with death #Justin falling in love with someone who will arrest him #Anthony Ramos' characters don't get any peace

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hamiltrash-thoughts · 1 year

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Eliza: Ohh, let me be a part of the narrative in the story they will write someday.

Me: fanfiction

#hamilton the musical #hamliza #alexander hamilton #elizabeth schuyler #i made a thing #i literally just thought about this #hamilton incorrect quotes

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hamiltrash-thoughts · 1 year

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Random vent here

Guys you don't u n d e r s t a n d what I'm craving for.

I don't know what you think about this, but I am really craving for some John Laurens/Lafayette/Hercules Mulligan content

Like, THEM AS A TRIO before they met Hamilton.

I think they hadn't known each other for long before that, but honestly, I look at those three together and can only think "Look how good friends they are!!! They probably exploded some place together before, and could possibly sink a ship if they wanted to."

Yep, purely and utterly c h a o s.

They most likely met because of the revolution, and bonded over their will of kicking some redcoats' asses.

I like to believe Lafayette was the one to introduce Laurens and Mulligan to each other, and honestly, I think even himself regrets this a little sometimes.

Most of their time together, they'll just hang around, cursing the British and talking about their plans to the future when the US becomes an independent nation. Other times, they'll just get drunk and talk a lot of shit and laugh like there's no tomorrow. At this point, people are just used to how loud they are.

Laurens probably proclaimed himself as the leader of their trio, and sometimes the other two will look at him like "John you are not our leader pls stop" but mostly they leave him be. Ah, and since I got cursed with the Workshop version of the musical, I just now got the headcanon that Laurens is the type of person that will say "shit" at every chance he gets.

Lafayette, you could say, is probably the most sensible one out of the three. I mean, yes, he loves to get into confusion with his friends, and will probably laugh at them if they or someone else do something really stupid. But if he knows when things will get serious, he's just like "hahaha non." He also curses a lot in French when he's irritated. Laurens and Mulligan get the poker face when this happens.

If you thought that Laurens and Hamilton were obnoxious, oh look who we have here, HERCULES MULLIGAN!!! The man likes some fight and confusion, since he's just tired of his life as a tailor's apprentice. He's that one friend who'll make fun of you if you give him the slightest chance, but if someone else even DARES to mess with you, he'll be like "YOU WANNA FIGHT, MAN?! YOU MESS WITH MY BROS, YOU MESS WITH ME!!!!". He basically calls himself the "bodyguard" of the gang. Oh, and since he's the oldest of the three, he also will say he has some authority over them. Laurens most of the time will fight him against it. Lafayette will either stand to the side watching them kill each other and make fun of them, or will join the fight (most of this stuff happens when they're way too drunk).

You can imagine at this point that, by the time Hamilton joins them, things will just get MESSIER. It's difficult to say if they corrupted the poor young man, or if it was him that made them even worse. And poor Burr a lot of times has to deal with these four together and he just wants to disappear.

• Alexander once bet with Lafayette who knew more curses in French. Again, Lafayette. A French native speaker. And Hamilton dared him anyway. Believe it or not, they got in this discussion for hours, and in the end, they decided it ended in a draw. But just because Hamilton was way too stubborn.

• In "Right Hand Man — Workshop ver.", Hamilton clearly says himself to be the "leader of the gang", and all the others answered "Yes, indeed". It was just seconds after that Laurens noticed it and turned to Mulligan and Lafayette saying "Why when he's the one declaring himself as leader, we just agree with it????" and they're like "We dunno, we just want to shoot some redcoats".

• I bet Lafayette and Herc noticed the sexual tension between Laurens and Hamilton even before they two.

• Mulligan must look intimidating, but really, he gives the best and strongest hugs. Once Hamilton got out of breath in a hug with him. Because, compared to Herc, Alex is t i n y.

• Oh, yeah, the three of them won't spare HamHam from the height jokes. Once, Laurens jokingly said he looked cute when angry, because he had a "baby face". Alexander proceeded to lecture, not only him, but Lafayette and Mulligan too, for the next three hours, saying that: 1 — Laurens was barely some centimeters taller than him; 2 — "Get some beard before you talk about 'baby face', bitch"; 3 — He points out that, it doesn't matter his height compared to them, it didn't stop him from fitting his shoe into their asses.

• When drunk, these four get very clingy. And when I say very, it's because it's VERY. It won't be uncommon to see them either hugging each other, singing a drinking song together, patting each other in the back, giving funny nicknames to each other, and stuff like this.

So... yes. Very chaotic group of friends.

I fucking love them.

#hamilton the musical #hamilsquad #alexander hamilton #john laurens #lafayette #hercules mulligan #lams I guess?#just drunk revolutionaries doing shit together and having a good time #rip burr for dealing with them #nobody stops them #the hamilsquad share one braincell #i absolutely live for this #hamilsquad shenanigans

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hamiltrash-thoughts · 1 year

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I literally just created this blog to write about this like I could've written this anywhere else but wanted to talk about this here anyways

Just imagined (actually, it has been on my mind for the past two days) a song between We Know and Hurricane, and it was like----

It's kind of immediate after Burr, Jefferson and Madison exit Hamilton's office, and he's pacing around while having an internal conflict because he doesn't know if he can trust them and be sure they wouldn't try to use his affair with Maria Reynolds against him and his mind is just racing while he's trying to figure out what to do so the situation won't get out of control and his legacy isn't ruined and-

Who appears out of nowhere? BOOM! JOHN LAURENS

(more like his ghost but you get it)

Like, literally in the same spot where he last appeared, in Laurens' Interlude----

They look at each other, Alex kinda shocked like "Laurens????"

And Laurens like "Hamilton.", stoned face while looking at his friend.

Alex is turning away because "You shouldn't be here, you're supposed to be gone."

And John is trying to call his attention because he knows Alex fucked up but by how stressed his friend looked, he had to help him figure out what to do.

And basically most of the song is both of them debating, Alexander saying that he had to do something to guarantee that his enemies wouldn't share his affair with the public and absolutely destroy his legacy, while Laurens is just there trying to convince Ham to leit it go and to not give attention to them because, fuck it, he knew Alex and he knew that, if he were to do anything, he'd end up fucking up everything even more (at least, thinking like this as if Laurens chilled out after his death — after all, it was his own recklessness that got him killed in the first place).

But Hamilton's mind is just so confused that he just shouts to make Laurens shut up, and yells at him how he wasn't there for him when he needed the most.

Then there's like a little pause then Laurens sings:

L: I trusted you like I didn't trust my own mind

I could've never find anyone as astonishing as your kind

And I've lived for you until the last day of my life

So I won't let you ruin yours the way I ruined mine.

((if you got the hint YES Laurens is singing the same way as Angelica in "Satisfied" when she talks about Eliza: just to give a sort of "hint" to how Laurens felt about Hamilton when he was alive)

And probably it's just that part of the song where everything is a mess — Hamilton, more specifically — and then close to the end it's basically

H: I can't let this go, how could I ever go on?

H/L (at the same time): I can't let it gooo/You could let it goooo

And there's a little pause, they look at each other, and then Laurens says/sings:

L: I have to go...

And just when he turns away to get off the stage, Hamilton calls for him.

H: Wait! John. You're the last friend that I got.

L: Alexander. Do not throw away your shot.

(they quoting each other from Stay Alive----)

And then Laurens goes away and Hurricane starts as Hamilton seems to be having an even bigger existencial crisis.

So, I did have some inspirations, since Hamilton has this really interesting element (which I love a lot) of bringing previous songs' lyrics to new songs, as if to "reinforce" their meanings.

First off, I would like to say that, for the concept of the song, I was inspired by a cut song named "I have this friend". Unfortunately, it never made it past the draft. But the premise is pretty much Hamilton getting anxious about the affair and having told about it to TJ, JM and AB, and so he runs to Washing(dad)ton asking advice for "a friend" of his (himself. Because, haha, what friend are you talking about, Alex? They're either dead or kilometers away from you, the only thing that lasted for you was enemies). Even though I like the song, I guess it was for the better it remained at how it is. Or else, the timeline would've been too messy, since, in the song, Washington is still president, and "We Know" happens after he steps down. Unless Hamilton went to Washington on Mount Vernon, but I think Alex would've been too stubborn to do all this to talk about it to someone else he trusted. But yeah, you see where I came from. Hamilton getting advices from his dead friend/lover. ♡

Obviously, I HAD to put a "Satisfied" reference in this song because you can't tell me Laurens didn't drink his ass off so he could avoid thinking of the fact his lover was getting married and there was nothing he could do. So, making Laurens sing to "Satisfied" can imply that, in that time, he had the same heartbreak Angelica had when Alex married Eliza. So yeah, gay sadness, yay.

Also, I'm very obsessed with the song "Let it Go" (no, not from Frozen. The cut song from Hamilton), just listening to Washington and Eliza sing to prevent Alexander from doing anything stupid... it's a really good song. I wish Lin had kept this song alongside the original version of Schuyler Defeated in the Broadway version, they are awesome, and explain a lot about Burr's situation, alongside his family's. But I suppose they were cut because of the time, which is a shame. If they actually were in the musical, I swear I would've made this a "Let it Go (Reprise)" (since I think it would fit way better if these two songs were part of the musical, since it would be, like I said, a "comeback" to them, especially with Laurens saying "You could let it go" to Hamilton).

And finally, a special mention to the workshop version of Hurricane, which has brought me to tears every time I listened to it!!!! I understand that it was cut because of the time between Hurricane and The Reynolds Pamphlet (rip Anthony Ramos for having to play the dead gay lover and the son of Hamilton at the same time), but it was such a shameee. Just that single line put so much depth into Alex and John's relationship, simply by saying that Laurens would be the single person that could stop Hamilton from doing the greatest shit of his life. That, for me, says enough for itself.

(Yes, Laurens' saying "Or you could let it go" inspired me in the same line as Let it Go, but I had to mention it because no one talks about it and it's frustrating).

As for what I thought for the song itself, sure, I had to think on a reason to WHY Laurens would have appeared just now, but then, what I had in mind basically was: The song, more than anything, represents the internal conflict Hamilton is going through. Laurens would be a metaphor for Hamilton's more logical side, while Hamilton himself represent his emotional, impulsive side (which we know he is A LOT). Again, his logic claiming for himself to calm down and think straight (something he isn't ahem sorry I swear I'll take this seriously), while his intiscts are SCREAMING for him to do something, because he just KNOWS TJ, AB and JM could take advantage of their "secret" at any moment.

Now, you might ask: "Why Laurens?". Then I'll tell you.

In "Hurricane Workshop", Hamilton sings "The friend who would tell me not to do it is in the ground.".

Laurens represents Hamilton's logical side because Ham KNEW Laurens would say to him NOT to do something so stupid. They were way too close, they knew each other better than anyone could ever imagine. Hamilton knew Laurens would be the only person who could convince him to not write the Reynolds Pamphlet. Or, perhaps, the only person he would at least try to talk about the affair (that is, probably when he feels way too insecure about anyone else finding out, so he trusts his best friend to vent about everything that's happening). He sees in Laurens someone he can rely on, someone he could count at any time, his ride or die, his closest friend, or even more than just that. Since Hamilton never gave himself time to grieve his friend's death, he still imagines, wonders, practically wishes to know how things would be if Laurens was there for him. And when he has no one else to turn, he just... wonders what would his dear friend do. What would he tell him? Would he smack him in the head for being so ridiculous? Would he make him laugh it off? Would he take him to drink and celebrate the freedom they conquered (the freedom John never got to experience)? Would he embrace him and tell him everything would be okay? Would he tell him he loved him---?

Hamilton never let himself grieve Laurens' death, so Laurens' ghost (whether literally or psychologically, it's up to you) is haunting him to this day. And in a moment of stress like this, when he has no one else to talk to, he just wishes he had Laurens by his side, so he wouldn't have to go through this alone and, ultimately, do something very stupid. Which, guess what, he DID.

And then there's the fact that even if "Laurens" warned him and tried to guide him, Hamilton STILL thought that the only way to get out of this situation was to write about the affair and publish it himself. So you could say Laurens had failed to advise Hamilton, or rather, Ham had interpreted him wrong. I really can imagine John on the other side looking at Alex after he publishes the Reynolds Pamphlet and thinking: "Okay, I told you to not throw away your shot, AND THEN YOU DECIDED TO DO THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF WHAT I TOLD YOU????"

Now, if it's a metaphor involving Laurens, or if it's really his ghost there, it's just something that the public could get their individual interpretations about (if it was in the show). After all, such a complex thing couldn't be simply explained by only visualization. It'd be funny to see people's theories and them catching references from the song. I know this is not even a thing, and it might sound very cliche, but I really liked it :'D

Someone p l e a s e write this song. Or a fanfiction. Idk I just loved this idea for some reason. Maybe because it has been only recently that I've accepted my love for Lams (I have navigated on the "Lams" tag for the past week and I'm obsessed) and I'm finally back to my Hamilton phase.

Yeah, that's my idea, I guess. I know I rambled a lot, but I couldn't hold myself. I hope y'all like it. And English is not my first language, and I'm sure I wrote something wrong, so please, be kind 😅

#hamilton the musical #alexander hamilton #john laurens #lams #hamilton x laurens #yep just rambling #don't mind me #I got way too excited about this #I'm no songwriter so yeah :/#I give ideas not results

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