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redhairedwolfwitch · 2 years
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Batwoman Masterlist
A String of Hearts - Mary Hamilton x Fem!Reader - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9
Halloween Party - Mary Hamilton x Fem!Reader
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silverchainbee · 2 years
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Help I saw Hamilton live and am officially obsessed. Better late than never? Ran out of fanfics pretty quickly though, any recs please?????? Or any Lin-Manuel Miranda character fics will also accept.
Also am realising I have no theatre friends so I need to discuss my love!!!!
Written while watching on Disney plus for the 10th time this week.
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onegayastronaut · 2 years
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Dating Sophie Moore Would Include...
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Requested by @ilovewinter101
Ryan took you out on errands because you kept pestering her about wanting to see the Batmobile 
Running into Sophie and trying to not be obvious about staring at her
Ryan kept teasing you about it later
After your initial meeting, it seemed like you kept running into Sophie wherever you went
Awkwardly looking away when one of you catches the other staring
Eating together at random places and being mistaken for a couple
You didn’t think much of it until Sophie actually went along with it once and held your hand
The warmth of her hand stayed with you for hours after you returned home, but you didn’t know how to talk to her about it
You were sure that she didn’t feel the same way until Mary told you she refused to leave after you were knocked out
After you start dating, you would show up randomly at her apartment to make her food
She is very soft, but denies it to everyone
Likes taking care of you and making sure you’re safe
Ryan loves wiggling her eyebrows at you whenever Sophie isn’t looking
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coconut530 · 6 months
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some songs by The Score that I’ve been coming back to and loving ❤️🖤💙🩵
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germhammy · 6 months
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“Writing class”
Ms Hamilton: today’s prompt is Werewolf lust
Kent: -leaning towards his desk mate Wednesday- what the fuck?
Wednesday: this is uncomfortable and not in a good way
Ms Hamilton: Miss Addams. Do you have something to say? You are one of the best writers in this class. Your writing is let’s just say rather morbid at times. I would like you to express other forms in your writing. I look forward to what you will contribute
Wednesday: -taking a deep breath- this topic makes me rather uncomfortable. Not because emotions and feelings are not my forte. I welcome that challenge in a writer’s sense thus why I enrolled in this class.
Ms Hamilton: I am flattered you chose my class
Wednesday: I was not finished. I will not be participating in this assignment. I will accept a failing mark.
Xavier: what the hell, Wednesday?
Wednesday: since I have newly entered into a relationship with a werewolf, this subject makes me very uncomfortable.
Xavier: always the dramatic one
Ms Hamilton: that is enough, Mr Thorpe. -turning to Wednesday- understood. I’m sure there will be some extra credit you can partake in later. And the extra credit goes for everyone. But don’t expect so much that you think you can slack off the entire semester
Xavier: just write Wednesday maybe imagining me as a werewolf
Wednesday: the very thought of that makes me want to bleach my hair dye it blond and raid Enid’s closet
Kent: oh dear god. Just give it up! Will you please, Xavier?
Xavier: since when have you a friend of Wednesday?
Kent: I’m not. I’m just a pal? A step up from acquaintance? And someone who respects her boundaries. How many times? How many ways does Wednesday have to express it you you? She is not interested in having a relationship with you? Regardless of her relationship with Enid?
Xavier: she will see who is better for her.
Wednesday: thank you, Kent. But Xavier is as dense as it comes. I have yet to write my report for Ms Strode and Mr Meyers about his invasion into my dorm room last night
Kent: oh man. I didn’t know that was Xavier and your dorm room! Mr Tennant brought it up during breakfast this morning! That someone from Montague invaded the room of someone in Ophelia!
Ms Hamilton: quite please. More writing less talking
Kent passed a note to Wednesday
Bet. 20$ Xavier writes you as the werewolf Mary Sue
Wednesday writes response
Not even fair. Dinner at the steakhouse. My treat. You know he’s going to write that (and Enid comes because I will never hear the end of it going to the steakhouse without her)
Kent responds
If he surprises us? And doesn’t write that? Dinner’s on me but at the diner. I can’t father steakhouse
Wednesday
Deal
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annymation · 2 months
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The voices in my Wish Rewrite
I haven’t talked much about it, but in my Wish rewrite some characters would be recasted. I wanted to make this post just to show which actors I’d replace… And it’s pretty much everyone except Magnifico, cause ya know, Chris Pine is Magnifico, and Magnifico is Chris Pine, it’s just how it is.
So let’s get this started!
Asha- Denée Benton
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Im absolutely OBSESSED with this woman’s voice, she sounds like an angel and carries so much personality in her performance, she sounds pure, youthful, hopeful but also strong, everything I imagine Asha as. THIS is what I imagine the 100th anniversary Disney princess sounding like. Not that I didn’t like Ariana DeBose’s singing tho, but I just love Denee Benton more, and hey, it’s my rewrite, so I get to imagine Asha’s voice how I please. Also I can totally see Asha and Aster singing this song.
Aster- Jordan Fisher
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Oooooh this man, I love him so much. His voice has the perfect energy for Aster, sounding youthful and melodic like a prince, it had to be a literally other worldly voice, and I think Jordan’s voice is PRETTY DANG other worldly, like, this example I found on Spotify doesn’t even do him justice, go listen to his other singing chops on YouTube.
If you look up Jordan Fisher you’ll see the guy is DEEPLY connected with Disney in his career, from singing the song “Happily Ever After” 6 years ago, which is the theme song for the Magic Kingdom, to now being the main singer of 4-town in the movie Turning Red. And of course this one time he made a cover of “You’re Welcome”, the guy just lives and breaths Disney so WHY NOT have him as a wishing star? It just makes sense. But besides working with Disney he also has experience in a musicals such as Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, Sweeney Todd and more recently he became the new Orpheus in Hadestown… And by god I need a good quality audio of him singing “Wait For Me” more than I need air because that song fits Aster’s character SO WELL.
Magnifico- Chris Pine
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Yeah no surprises here, you can’t have Magnifico without Chris Pine… But HIS SINGING VOICE IN THIS SONG THOUGH??? ITS SO GOOD!!! I listened to “Any Moment” ONCE and now I constantly go back to listen to it over and over and imagine young Magnus and Amaya meeting in the woods. I still haven’t posted about Amaya’s backstory BECAUSE IM TOO LAZY TO FINISH THE DRAFT I HAVE EXPLAINING IT- But let me just say her hesitating to start a relationship with him is VERY accurate to her character. And Magnus being like “May I kiss you” out of nowhere because he: 1- Sees himself as irresistible so he thinks she’d fall for him with just that and 2- he had 0 social skills before he met Amaya.
And then there’s the line “Life is often so unpleasant, you must know that as a peasant” ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! This is LITERALLY something my Magnifico would say, I’m so freakin lucky!
My point is, my rewrite’s Magnifico sounds like THIS when he sings, with a deep, smooth and honeyed voice that makes you want to trust him… Take that high pitched voice Chris Pine did in “This Is The Thanks I Get” and throw it out the window. Disney wasted the man’s talent. I’m so mad.
Amaya- Emily Blunt
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Do you guys see my vision? Do I even have to say anything? Like really, go watch a scene of the Mary Poppins remake, any scene with her at all, that woman has a voice that DEMANDS respect, while also being motherly, it’s practically perfect in every way. I’m using “Open Up Your Eyes” here as an example though because… Well, it fits her backstory… Ya know, the backstory I’m stalling to talk about 👉👈… But it also just simply fits her personality in general!
And no disrespect for her voice in the movie, Angelique Cabral… BUT ITS EMILY BLUNT AS AN EVIL QUEEN!!! Come ooooon! It’s just meant to be!!!
Also side note, since we’re talking about Queen Amable, THIS design that came from an deleted scene is how I’ve imagined her the whole time:
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Like, I could not STAND her hairstyle in the movie, it simply didn’t fit my vision for her character, see, Amaya is sophisticated but she’s also… Practical and likes to feel comfortable, hence why in my rewrite her dress has no sleeves, she values her own comfort more than conforming to the social norms… AND THAT HAIR LOOKING LIKE HEADPHONES WITH THAT CROWN THAT MADE HER FOREHEAD LOOK LIKE A SQUARE DROVE ME NUTS!
So yeah, this is our Queen Amable, voiced by Emily Blunt, with a British accent, in all her glory, we’re moving on.
Valentino- Gregory Mann
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This is just a bonus mention, since Valentino doesn’t even sing in my rewrite, he just speaks in like 3 scenes… And you guys have only seen one of them so far. But either way, let it be known he sounds like Gregory Mann, because Gregory Mann sounds adorable. That is all.
Thank You For Reading!
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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?
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fryingpan1234567 · 8 months
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let’s talk more about my Hermitcraft SIX au
lmao Doc’s fuckin face when he was sitting dead center in the front row and realized he knew e v e r y s i n g l e person on the stage
some specific lyrics ft. direct eye contact with Doc like they’re singing to him I want y’all to see my VISION for in the first song:
~ “So if you try to dump me-” (EYE CONTACT ON THE BEAT) “You won’t try that again.” Bdubs’ smile drops and so does Doc’s bro was scared for his LIFE
~ Tbh just Grian making eye contact for almost his whole bit but Doc can’t tell if it’s flirting or glaring
~ “I’m not what I seem, or am I?” Somehow the mask makes Etho’s glare even scarier even when he’s literally covered in glitter
~ “Funny how we all discuss that, but never Henry’s little-“ AHAHA DOC’S FACE I CAN’T CAN YOU IMAGINE REN ALMOST BROKE CHARACTER
~ “Lock up your husbands, lock up your sons.” Scar is definitely flirting but mostly he’s just amused because it visibly still works
~ “I’m the survivor,” The POWER in which X SAYS that is INSANE
anyways so just a disclaimer— Doc was not abusive or anything in any of the relationships (duh), it’s just like a thing where you have to take a jab at your ex at every available opportunity yk
it took a lot of rehearsal hours for Etho to not break down laughing during his song every time because “it’s so cringey and who even wants kids this is dumb, Bdubs,” but then Bdubs grabbed his face and went “imagine it’s me instead of some dead British guy, then” and Etho was a lot more sober after that
Scar and Grian’s one direct interaction onstage (“Yeah, same! Nice neck, by the way.”) is great because in those five seconds everyone can tell that they have fantastic chemistry
us pretty much never hearing Etho raise his voice is great because imagining the scene where he goes “OH, YOU DIDN’T GET TO HOLD BABY MARY WHEN SHE HAD THE CHICKEN POCKS? WELL BOOOO HOOOO BECAUSE WHEN I WANTED TO HOLD MY NEWBORN SON I D I E D” is so much funnier
please let’s return to the concept that Ren fits Anna’s character so flawlessly
Scar roasting the SHIT out of everyone before his song is just so✨✨
after the show when the cast goes out to talk to the audience n shit and they see Doc, he’s just grinning sheepishly and goes “I swear you guys were trying to kill me” and they smush him in a group hug and everyone’s chill dw
”Oh well you know what Anne Bo-loser” in Bdubs’ voice 😭😭
On one very specific night X uses Wels’ name instead of Thomas for his monologue— and he sang it right to him in the front row (BF THINGS I CAN’T)
anyways. perhaps I have a Chicago and Hamilton au in the works as well. lmk if you wanna see it lol
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hey, could you go into more detail with what you mean with ‘being precious’ with characters. im curious and i like your writing a lot <3
i think it's difficult to express without it reading as just "mary sue" critique, you know. tvtropes bullshit. but it is kind of a thing that occupies the same space. and atop that, it's a thing that's a little bit difficult to express without context but i think there are three pretty meaningful examples of a character being made worse by the author from which you are smart enough to discern what i mean
the thing which ties them together is this: you are meant to come out of their story with an affection for the character that rivals the author's care for them - the author wants you to feel as much for this character as they do, but is afraid of portraying the character in flawed or even grounded ways, when the character's flaws or ways in which they are a grounded character tend to be what makes them relateable or worth caring about.
example number one is albus dumbledore. the end of harry potter is genuinely one of the worst things i've ever read, even before the terf shit, and this is best expressed through the way characters around him act - he is always right, except when he's wrong, but the ways in which he's wrong are okay because the character archetype that he turns out to be in the last book before he dies is "guy who makes the hard decisions because nobody else will", winston churchill guy. and naturally, jk rowling adores him so much that she made him the protagonist of her flop three-movie pentology even though there was a better protagonist right there with newt. he is a character who is thoroughly adored by the author in a way that ruins the story.
example number two is johnny, from the room. tommy wiseau is by no means a great artist, but i think a lot of people resent analyzing the room as art because it is so obviously bad and i think that takes away from its most compelling fact. johnny is characterized as too good for this world, as though the world itself was closing in on him, ready to take him out. his future wife is cheating with his best friend, lying about him being an abuser to her friends, his boss doesnt give him his promotion for no reason, his mother in law would put aside her cancer diagnosis to further tear apart her daughters marriage, and through this, johnny does nothing wrong. he was always too good for this sinful world. he is a character who is thoroughly adored by the author in a way that ruins the story.
example number three, as mentioned in that last ask, is lin manuel miranda's portrayal of alexander hamilton, which kind of combines the both of the previous examples. throughout hamilton, alexander hamilton is repeatedly portrayed as a tortured artist, a guy who writes like he's running out of time, a guy whose writing is so powerful that he could have meaningfully changed the world, if he were not also, a dipshit idiot who got shot in a duel. and hamilton is interesting, because the story itself bends over backwards to imagine new outs for him. when his wife, who is so upset by his actions that she exempts herself from being in the writings from which hamilton was based, something i am to believe is made up whole cloth for hamilton, the story itself goes out of its way to say "what if the stuff that his wife destroyed would have redeemed him" when the answer is, probably not, he was a shithead, but lin manuel miranda can't help but ask, "what if hamilton was actually just like me fr, a misunderstood dude who just wanted to make great art", he is a character who is thoroughly adored by the author in a way that ruins the story.
i dont really want to use the term "mary sue" or whatever because it is pretty loaded, and honestly, if the story you're telling justifies this feeling, i tend to really enjoy characters who really are just flawless, characters who the authors love and want you to love too. but theyre character studies - half blood prince and deathly hallows are almost entirely about dumbledore and his relationship to the cast, and it's the worst shit i've ever read. the room would be so unbelievably forgettable without johnny. and hamilton is hamilton.
and its the kind of thing i found myself prone to doing too - that kind of feverish, "he would not fucking say that" behavior about a character who would definitely, absolutely do that. i felt this way for a while about jane in post-canon, and i still kind of think post-canon jane deserved a better arc, to make a tragedy out of her existence, but that is a desire i have because i care a lot about jane crocker, you know?
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tipsyjaehyun · 9 months
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My goodness I forgot to mention that I loved Alex's speech and I really hope that it's in the movie the one he gives and he says that he chooses Henry as his partner also I loved how Alex stood up to both Philip and Queen Mary
OMG 😱 the State Dinner is another favorite like Henry was trying to ignore or avoid Alex but Alex wasn't having it so he takes him to the Red Room and makes out with him near a portrait of Alexander Hamilton 🤣 and then poor Henry has to sing God Save the Queen to get rid of his boner 🤣
I KNOW!!! I FUCKING KNOW! GOD, it's way past my bedtime yet I'm squealing here like an idiot because you're getting me in my feels!
I really really want them to have all of these scenes in the movie. Also, Ellen's presentation! That was iconic too! AAAAAAAH! The book is way too good!
Imagine we get the 'God Save The Queen' scene in the movie (it's probably gonna be 'king' now but whatever)! And I really, really want them to have the Don't Stop Me Now song too. I want to see Henry singing 'I wanna make a supersonic man out of you'.
Yes, yes! Also the Wimbledon scene (was it Wimbledon or some other tennis event?). Though Philip was being jackass through and through but I really enjoyed how domestic Alex and Henry were in those scenes.
Anon, I'm gonna be dreaming about these two tonight, just letting you know! Thank you! 🥰😘😘
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devoutjunk · 4 months
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Novel Syllabus 2024
This coming year I think I'm going to be on here more often than I am on twitter or elsewhere, and as part of that, I'm going to start documenting the process of writing my novel more actively. I want to return to/resurrect the momentum and energy I had while writing the first draft and be more intentional about setting aside time to work, even when it's difficult. Below are my writing goals for the coming year as well as my reading list of texts for inspiration, genre/background research, comps, etc. Would welcome any suggestions of texts (any genre/discipline) pertaining to Antigone, death & resurrection, Welsh and Cornish myth and folklore, ecology & environmental crisis, and the Gothic.
Writing Goals
Reach 50k words in draft 2 overall
Finish a draft of Anna's timeline
Finish a draft of Jo's timeline
Polish & submit an excerpt for the Center for Fiction Prize
Reading
* = reread
Sci-Fi, Fantasy, & The Apocalyptic
The Memory Theater (Karin Tidbeck)
Who Fears Death (Nnedi Okorafor)
Urth of The New Sun (Gene Wolfe)
Slow River (Nicola Griffith)
Dream Snake (Vonda McIntyre)
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (Marlon James)
Notes from the Burning Age (Claire North)
Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino)*
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)*
The Last Man (Mary Shelley)
The Drowned World (J.G. Ballard)
Strange Beasts of China (Yan Ge, trans. by Jeremy Tiang)
City of Saints and Madmen (Jeff VanderMeer)
Freshwater (Akweke Emezi)
The Glass Hotel (Emily St. John Mandel)
Pattern Master (Octavia Butler)
Sleep Donation (Karen Russell)
How High We Go in the Dark (Sequoia Nagamatsu)
The Magician's Nephew (C.S. Lewis)*
The Golden Compass (Phillip Pullman)*
The Green Witch (Susan Cooper)
The Tombs of Atuan (Ursula K. Le Guin)
Black Sun (Rebecca Roanhorse)
Gideon the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir)
Lives of the Monster Dogs (Kirsten Bakis)
Brian Evenson
Sofia Samatar
Connie Willis
Samuel Delaney
Jo Walton
Tanith Lee
Retellings
A Wild Swan (Michael Cunningham)
Til We Have Faces (C.S. Lewis)
Gingerbread (Helen Oyeyemi)
Circe (Madeline Miller)
The Owl Service (Alan Garner)
Literary Myth-Making, Mystery, and the Gothic
Nights at the Circus (Angela Carter)
Frenchman's Creek (Daphne Du Maurier)
Possession (A.S. Byatt)*
The Game (A.S. Byatt)*
The Essex Serpent (Sarah Perry)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
The Secret History (Donna Tartt)*
The Wild Hunt (Emma Seckel)
King Nyx (Kirsten Bakis)
The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
The Lottery and Other Stories (Shirley Jackson)
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
The Night Land (William Hope Hodgson)
Interview with a Vampire (Anne Rice)*
Sexing the Cherry (Jeanette Winterson)*
Night Side of the River (Jeanette Winterson)
Bad Heroines (Emily Danforth)
All the Murmuring Bones (A.G. Slatter)
The Path of Thorns (A.G. Slatter)
Gormenghast (Mervyn Peake)
Prose Work, Perspective, and Stream of Consciousness
The Chandelier (Clarice Lispector)
The Waves (Virginia Woolf)*
The Years (Virginia Woolf)
The Intimate Historical Epic / Court Intrigues
Wolf Hall (Hilary Mantel)*
Menewood (Nicola Griffith)
Dark Earth (Rebecca Stott)
A Place of Greater Safety (Hilary Mantel)
Research
The Mabinogion (trans. Sioned Davies)
Le Morte D'Arthur (Thomas Malory)
The Collected Brothers Grimm (Phillip Pullman)
Angela Carter's Collected Fairytales
Mythology (Edith Hamilton)
Underland (Robert Macfarlane)
The Wild Places (Robert Macfarlane)
Wildwood (Roger Deakin)
Vanishing Cornwall (Daphne Du Maurier)
Lonely Planet: Guide to Devon & Cornwall
A Traveler's Guide to the End of the World (David Gessner)
The Lost Boys of Montauk (Amanda M. Fairbanks)
A Cyborg Manifesto (Donna J. Harraway)
A Treasury of British Folklore (Dee Dee Chainey)*
The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination (Eileen M. Hunt)
Antigone's Claim (Judith Butler)
Theories of Desire: Antigone Again (Judith Butler)
Ecology of Fear (Mike Davis)
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gr1d · 6 months
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Hamilton is extremely cursed for all the usual reasons, but, right now, because I am reading a biography of Mary Shelley in which Aaron Burr pops up and I cannot for the life of me imagine him looking as anything but the guy who plays him in Hamilton.
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yr-obedt-cicero · 1 year
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What were the founding fathers’ reaction to the Haitian Revolution?
Due to the Yellow Fever epidemic having a massive toll on the perception of Dominguans, initially Washington was dubious to support it. As it was believed that the Yellow Fever plague was brought to Philadelphia by ships carrying Dominguan refugees. Doctor Benjamin Rush was an eminent physician and abolitionist, but sincerely believed that the black population had immunity to the illness. And so also thought they had an obligation to attend to the afflicted. Which then created the Free African Society. Anyway, Rush was ultimately wrong; as black people died at a rate almost equal to that of the white's population.
So, while Washington was president (Until 1797), he wasn't supportive towards the Dominguans in rebellion. But this would change later on, when John Adams had been elected president. Following Joseph Bunel's arrival in 1798 - Toussaint L'Ouverture's diplomatic representative - Bunel had reportedly met with Adams and other government officials in 1798 or 1799 accompanied by his wife, Marie Bunel, who was a free Black creole.
This soon evolved into a political party dispute though. As - like many Federalists such as Hamilton, Pickering, and Washington - Adams saw supporting the rebellion as an opportunity to fighting against the common enemy, the French. Because the United States had been harassed by the French for years prior, and was then engaged in a Quasi-war with France. It was also seen as a chance to help the American trade, and merchants by gaining a valuable trading partner in the West Indies. Hamilton and Pickering convinced Adams to appoint Edward Stevens as the United States consul-general in Saint-Domingue. He sent Stevens to Haiti with instructions to establish a relationship with Toussaint and express support for his regime. The Federalist administration hoped to incite a movement toward Haitian independence, but Louverture maintained a colonial relationship with France. Stevens's title, “consul”, suggested a diplomat attached to a country, not a colony, reflecting the Adams administration's view of the Haitian situation. But overall, the Federalists rather saw it as an economic investment, and military enhancement.
But many Democratic-Republican's, or southern politicians/farmers, disagreed with the support to the Haitian revolution, particularly Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson was a slave owner with 600 enslaved people at his disposal. A great motive to his so-called “abolitionist” ideals, which was just that he wanted the slave trade system abolished and for black people to get deported, was the fear of the United States one day being faced with a slave rebellion. Especially since Jefferson lived in the south, where slavery was prominent. He believed that the black population should be deported as to protect planation owners. So, you can imagine that Jefferson's largest concern for the Haitian revolution was that it would inspire American slaves to revolt as well. Not to mention, Jefferson had initially urged the US government to support the French revolution for the common ideals of liberty, and patriotism. But the Federalists had argued they shouldn't cause riffs between America and Great Britain again, especially when their developing country and recovering militia was still all very fragile. Jefferson thought the support for the Haitian revolution was hypocritical, and endangering for the United States. This additionally sparked much slander of claiming the Federalists sided with monarchy and Great Britain, instead of more libertarian country's like France.
This also didn't go smoothly either, for soon relations between the two republics soured after Adams left office in 1800, and when Jefferson took charge, he refused to officially recognize Haiti until 1862.
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mariacallous · 9 months
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Dear Subscribers, This month’s Office Hours is a conversation with Sarah Damaske, author of The Tolls of Uncertainty (now available in paperback). Damaske is a professor of sociology and labor and employment relations at Pennsylvania State University. She shares some good reasons to be hopeful about the future of sociology and also reminds us of the potential for profound and surprising moments during interviews.  Enjoy!
What are you reading now?
SD: I am reading two books right now more for leisure.
I’ve just picked up When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore. I’m really looking forward to reading it, as several people recommended it to me. I just finished Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez, which is a spectacular book inspired by a real legal case in which two Black girls in Alabama (with the Southern Poverty Law Center) sued the government after having been sterilized without consent. It tells this awful truth about the history of forced sterilization that was happening during the Civil Rights era and makes very explicit connections between these sterilizations and eugenics and structural racism in the United States. It’s also a beautifully written story about the life of a Black nurse who starts to work for a reproduction clinic in her hometown and how this tragedy unfolds in her life and in the lives of the people around her.
What book has had the most impact on your career?
SD: Trick question! I’m not sure I can pick just one. Julie Bettie’s Women Without Class left a profoundly influential mark on my career, as did Leslie McCall’s Complex Inequality. They are really different books—one is an ethnography of White and Mexican-American girls at a high school in California and the other uses “mesocomparative” statistical analyses to examine wage gaps in local labor markets. But both take explicitly intersectional and feminist perspectives to understanding inequalities. These frameworks have guided my own research and I continue to be inspired by both books to this day (my copies of each are worn on the edges from so many re-readings).
What is your favorite book to teach?
SD: One of the benefits of teaching a Qualitative Methods graduate course, is that I can sneak many of my favorites—or at least parts of my favorites—into the curriculum (and that I can read a lot of terrific new work). If I have to pick, I will say that it’s Miliann Kang’s The Managed Hand. It’s deeply theoretical and also highly accessible. I’ve been teaching it at the undergraduate and graduate levels since it was first published and it’s a book that does a terrific job of sparking students’ sociological imaginations.
What first sparked your interest in sociology?
SD: I took several classes in Sociology as an undergraduate at Hamilton College, but I didn’t major in Sociology, although I really enjoyed my classes. After college, I started working and realized that I was reading sociology books on the subway (the F train) into work every day. I asked Mitchell Stevens (who is at Stanford now but had first introduced Sociology to me when I was an undergrad at Hamilton) if he would have time to chat about the possibility of my returning to grad school. During our conversation, he encouraged me to take a chance and apply to doctoral programs. I’m lucky that he gave me that push, as I never looked back.
Do you have a favorite moment as a researcher, maybe an encounter that unexpectedly changed your way of thinking or the direction of a project?
SD: One of my favorite moments as a researcher was also one of my most challenging. At the end of one of the interviews that I did for my dissertation (which was the foundation of my first book, For the Family?), a participant revealed a secret to me about her life. It was very upsetting news for her that she had not yet shared with any of her family or friends. She was visibly shaken by the news, and I was not entirely sure about what to say or do for her. Her news was not related to the interview topic (which was women’s decisions about work and family). But we talked for a while longer, and I learned that she had agreed to participate in the interview because she had wanted to share this secret with someone. I try to carry this experience with me when I go into any interview—that we can’t know someone’s motivation for participating in our research and that it may not even be related to why we are doing the research. It reminds me to be as generous with them as they are being with me and to honor the trust that they are putting into me.
What is the best career advice you ever received?
SD: To take chances and be persistent. And to do so in a way that allows me to have the life (both professionally and personally) that I want to have. I think taking chances is an important part of academic life—working with new people, trying out new methods, reading new literatures. Being persistent is also key, because most of us fail way more than we succeed (it’s just that we don’t often put the failures on social media). It’s also important to prioritize your life from the beginning of your career. There is an idolatry of hours in the academy that starts in graduate school (with competitions about who spent the most time in the computer lab). I urge our Penn State graduate students not to play this game—it’s a losing one for everyone who plays, and it makes our discipline less inclusive.
What subject do you wish more sociologists would study and write about?
SD: I am not sure I need to wish—I just need to look around and see what people are doing. Jason Park, a PSU graduate student that I work with, did a really cool MA thesis on the roles of institutional and cultural contexts in shaping the occupational segregation of sexual minorities. This past semester in my Qualitative Methods class, students worked on proposals that ranged from climate change induced migration, to incel subculture, to queer joy and substance use, and to Holocaust survivors’ narratives about sexual trauma. There is so much amazing work being done.
If you could have dinner with two sociologists, living or passed, who would you choose, and why?
SD: I would love to have dinner with Anita Garey and Suzanne Bianchi. They both were both important family scholars who we lost way too early. And while I had gotten to know each a tiny bit when I was a graduate student, I didn’t know them well and I would have loved the opportunity to do so. 
What makes you feel hopeful about the future of sociology?
Students, conference sessions, and Twitter. I’ll explain in reverse order. Twitter is really problematic these days—but I can’t find another social media platform that will let me know about what such a wide range of sociologists are doing. And when I see what they are doing—and the reach that their work has on public life—I am amazed and inspired. And really proud to be a sociologist. Conference sessions are also high on my list, as I love hearing about the work people are doing and I love meeting new scholars. Conferences let me do both. Finally, our students—both undergraduate and graduate—are tackling such interesting and important questions. And they are asking questions that I’ve never thought of asking. It’s really an exciting time for our discipline, as I think there is so much about the world that we can help explain.
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lulu-cat-princess · 11 months
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I can totally imagine Isabelle singing Burn from Hamilton. She sings it cos she’s angry and upset that Thomas no longer loves her since he is in love with Mary Shelly now.
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puzzled-pegasus · 8 months
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Songs i listen to when i think about each of the Finches
If anyone is looking for songs to listen to while they're drawing or writing for WROEF and are tired of listening to the game sountrack over and over, here's a few songs I associate with each of the characters.
Edie: Paper Crown by Alec Benjamin
Sven: My Old Man by Zac Brown Band, Dear Theodosia from Hamilton, although my man really needs some more and better ones lol
Molly: Natural by Imagine Dragons, Monster by Imagine Dragons, Control by Halsey, Dollhouse by Melanie Martinez
Calvin: Oh My God by Alec Benjamin, Talking To The Moon by Bruno Mars (either with him grieving Barbara's death or Sam grieving his or maybe both)
Sam: In Color by Jamey Johnson, House Of Memories by P!ATD, Photograph by Ed Sheeran, weirdly enough also Natural by Imagine Dragons, Traveling Soldier by Dixie Chicks (imperfect)(note: the band's official name has recently been changed to The Chicks, however it's still the same song so dw)
Barbara: All-American Girl by Carrie Underwood, Paparazzi by Lady Gaga, maybe Pity Party by Melanie Martinez
Walter: Mind Is A Prison by Alec Benjamin, Panic Room by Au/Ra
Gus: Blown Away by Carrie Underwood, Boys Will Be Bugs by Cavetown
Gregory: Soap by Melanie Martinez
Dawn: DNA by Lia Marie Johnson
Lewis: Castle On The Hill (sorta), I also have a mental animation/storyboard thing with A Million Dreams where he and Milton and Edith are all involved so I listen to that for him too, oh and Surface Pressure from Encanto
Milton: A Million Dreams, You Should See Me In A Crown is awesome for him as well, Soldier, Poet, King with Sam, Dawn and Milton respectively as the surviving and procreating members of each generation
Edith: If I Die Young by The Band Perry, Hurricane by Halsey, More by Halsey...Hurricane is not a perfect one but I think it sort of fits?
Anyhoo, some songs that are good for the Finch family in general are Two Birds by Regina Spektor (Calvin flies away from Sam first verse, Gus complains to Dawn about the sky being overcast in the second, and Milton leaves Lewis in the third), Merry Go Round by Kacey Musgraves, Dollhouse of course, and the above interpretation of Soldier, Poet, King.
I hope at least some of y'all have a similar music taste!
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