Ensmakksjshhajakw he smol frogi babie

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BFFR Which one in your OTP deserves Anxious and Brave AF and who gave it to them?!

New Crow Time 🎀🏅

Anyone who doesn't know exactly what you're talking about hasn't been cringe on the internet long enough 😭😭

#that sounds rough buddy ARE YOU GOOD

Today felt like one those Hamilton college AU days where Alexander was two itches tall with a greasy ponytail sleeping with everyone on campus (especially the "hamilsquad") but then John dies from turtles and Alex marries Eliza isn't that just wild

AH AH AH, CORRECTION, HE'S NO BARON, because he's a Freiherr. Different country.

:>

AS THE CURRENT TOP POSTER IN #VON STEUBEN, I GET A SAY IN THIS. TEEHEE MOMENT.

-a nerd

A little bit of marching music inspired by Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand von Steuben. He’s no baron, but George Washington was OK with that.

100%. I FEEL LIKE HE'D BE REALLY GOOD IN BED BUT THEN WHEN YALL ARE ABOUT TO CLIMAX HE SAYS SOME GOOFY DUMB SHIT AND RUINS THE WHOLE MOOD

✿ Von Steuben

ohM Y GOD OK

sex hc- Steub is 100% the person who thinks of something silly during sex and can’t stop laughing and no one can convince me otherwise. (but other than that he’s pretty classy and has nice pickup lines)

BUT ALSO HE FLIRTS WITH ALL THESE STRAIGHT GUYS AND BEN WALKER’S LIKE STEUB STOP YOU’RE NOT GETTING ANYWHERE- BUT HE IS AND HE ENDS UP SLEEPING W/ LIKE EVERY STRAIGHT GUY AT THE PARTY JUST FOR KICKS

thanks!

send me one of these

I'm sorry in case you can't tell I love him but let's be frank he was SKETCHY.

“The Baron watched over me with a father’s care. He well knew the dangers, to which an inexperienced young man was exposed to in this land of liberty, and took pains to guard me against them. “If,” said he once to me, (not long after our arrival in this country,) “if you write in the newspapers, or get married I will renounce you.” This fatherly advice made a strong impression on my mind, and was a salutary check to me on more than one occasion.”

— Autobiographical Letters of Peter S. Duponceau  So, apparently, Steuben explicitly told Duponceau he wasn’t allowed to get married. Which is… interesting. And that Duponceau regarded it as ‘beneficial’ “advice” instead of what it really sounds like………. I don’t know how I feel about this quote overall honestly. Keep in mind, Duponceau was only 17 when he came to America with Steuben as his military secretary. (And Duponceau would actually marry twice.)

HELP

IM SENDING THIS TO MY MOM

Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben was just 18th century queer eye for the American army

I really don't think we talk about him enough bc I LOVE HIM SMMM HE WAS GREATTTT

"Une silhouette d'homme, pas de mollusque."

THÉODORE PELLERIN as GILBERT DU MOTIER, THE MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

1x01, FRANKLIN (2024)

Du Ponceau: I'm nearsighted, which basically means I can only see objects right in front of my face.

Von Steuben: Oh! *Bucks hips* Good to know.

Du Ponceau: oh mah GAWD I look so pwetty rn!!

Von Steuben: YEAH YOU DO. YEAH YOU DO.

Du Ponceau: :o I should go kiss the first girl I see because I just look that pwetty1!1!1!1

Von Steuben: I- I mean- I- okay man.. That's- okay man, calm down...

Laurens: what are you thinking 'bout?

Du Ponceau: mmm, strawberries and shirtless barons

Laurens: HUH!?

Du Ponceau: HUH?!

hear me out the sword was their engagement ring

“I shall never forget my leaving at an inn in France the beautiful sword which Baron Steuben had presented me with at Paris. He took it from his side telling me ‘my dear Duponceau, please to accept this sword, I shall teach you how to make use of it.’ The sword was silver hiked, damasked with gold. On my way to Marseilles to embark for this country, I left it at the inn at Macon in Burgundy, and never perceived it until it was too late to retrace my steps. Eighteen months afterwards it was brought to me in this city, while I was at work with Mr. De Francy by a gentleman just arrived from France who knew the Baron, and who also knew the sword, had seen it at the inn and claimed it. The landlord, a conscientious man, had left it in the very place where I had deposited it. You may suppose I was very glad to recover it; I kept it several years: at last, after the peace, it was stolen, during my absence from the boarding-house where I lodged. All my efforts to recover it were in vain.”

— The Autobiography of Pierre du Ponceau

fuck I'd probably just freak out and fall to the floor and then say "WHO CONFESSED FIRST" Or some stupid stuff that would get me arrested😭😭👍

In the spirit of the last anon, if you could say one thing to Pierre, the Baron, and the 2 aides, what would you say to them?

Ooh, more opportunity to be Verbose ™! I think I would say…

“Monsieur du Ponceau, thank you so much for your work, but please always remember that the languages you study are much more than dictionaries, grammars, and translations. They are spoken and sung and they record things of great cultural importance, so if you truly care for them, you will care as well for those that speak them, and not sit idly by while they are mistreated.”

“Monsieur le Baron, thank you for your bravery. Remember as well that pride will only get you so far in this world. Your friends’ admonishing you is because they care about you, and perhaps, just perhaps, it is worth listening to.”

“Mister Benjamin Walker, thank you for your confidence, but remember well that not everyone will always listen to what you have to say. It is important to keep fighting the good fight even when they cannot hear you doing so.”

“Mister William North, thank you for your kindness. I must remind you too that although this world often forces one to choose between the reasoning of one’s head and the emotions of one’s heart, no one is complete without both.”

HELL YEAH HE IS. THANK YOU.

He’s looking at the Baron.

yes.

Laurens: Hey so-

Von Steuben, whispering to Du Ponceau: He’s saying something but all I can hear is G A Y

N-n-not the ankles?!😰😰

SCANDALOUS! SIGN US UP FOR O.F. NEXT THEN!?

Anyone wanna get matching handmaids dresses? Like maybe show a little ankle too for some spicy.

YOU GUYS DONT EVEN KNOW HOW MANY ALPHA BOYS ON QUORA IVE BROKEN THE NEWS TO

You know what's funny. The fact that there are homophobic people in the military being like, "Gays don't belong in the military" not realizing that the reason the military is "the military" is because of Baron Von Steuben. A gay man.

I hope they find out.