Rules of the game: link a song for each letter of your username
Thank you for the tag @ty-loves I love these kinda tags 💜
D Disturbia - Rihanna
E Energy - Tommy Lee Sparta
A Alright - Kendrick Lamar
R Ring The Alarm - Beyonce
D Don't Touch My Hair - Solange
I It's Over - Cheetah Girls
A Angela - Aya Nakamura
R Rose In Harlem - Teyana Taylor
Y Yeh Ladka Hai Allah - Alka Yagnik (KG3 Movie)
The letter I took me the longest -_- Hella fun to do, tagging @weirdosalikewhims @happy-lemon @simplysimmingaway @cantseemtohide@sharona-sims Feel free to opt out or opt in, up to you :D
3. screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr
The award simply must go to the "John Laurens was transphobic" post, which of course also requires honourable mention of the "Polly Laurens was trans" claim, all because of a teasing letter John wrote saying that Polly (who was five or six years old at the time) wanted to wear breeches and take on a boy's name, in order to have as much freedom as her brothers.
Now, of course we can never 100% certainly say what someone's gender identity was if they didn't expressly define it, but this is a case of taking tissue-paper-thin "evidence" down the Tumblr spiral.
7. what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?
Okay, bear with me, but Samuel Seabury?? Literally just a funny lil guy in the musical who, for some reason unfathomable to me, has developed an entire fandom persona, and then gets shipped with KG3. Usually in some kind of rancid abusive dynamic too. Nooope.
13 was answered here, and 16 & 18 here!
23. ship you've unwillingly come around to
Jeffmads (thanks to @cyanspica). It initially struck me as one of those "the leftover men get shipped" deals (my behated - mulette I'm looking at you), but once I got my head around the dynamic it really started to resonate.
This one comes down to how you define what counts as a step, so this is a two-parter.
If we mean "were present together in the same place, no interaction needed", then the connection is direct. Laurens saw King George III in person on 9 April 1772.
I had the Honour last Thursday, of seeing the King in all his Glory on the Throne in the House of Peers_ and just afterwards in his State Coach_ attended by his Guards_
John Laurens to James Laurens, 17 April 1772
If, however, we insist that the parties involved must have interacted at least in some way, then the most fun answer is Lafayette (courtesy of @nordleuchten).
Lafayette, who had already decided to travel to America and made considerable preparations for his trip, was presented to King George III by his great-uncle, Ambassador Noailles, when he visited London in February 1777. In his memoir, Lafayette recounts that:
J'arrivai donc à Londres avec M. de Poix et vis d'abord l'Américain Bancroft, et ensuite Sa Majesté britannique. A dix-neuf ans, on aime peut-être trop à persifler un peu le roi qu'on va combattre.
Thus I arrived in London with Mr de Poix and saw first the American, Bancroft, and then his britannic Majesty. At nineteen years old, one enjoys, perhaps too much, mocking the king one is going to fight.
Lafayette set off for America soon after, and met Laurens in August 1777, when they both joined the war effort.