Veni, vidi, vici-ing since 100 B.C.E

I imagined many things he might have thought of in the last ten seconds. I drew them all. And yet, when I finished, I began to feel that perhaps, in those ten seconds, he thought of nothing but the sun was too bright.

I LIKE it

someone else might LIKE it

it is FUN to do

I get those THOUGHTS out of my head

it's fun to look BACK on

have I mentioned it's FUN?

it's CATHARTIC

it's nice to see what I CAN DO

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

ham: hi i'm daddy issues. don't you dare insinuate that you care for me on a personal level because i sure as hell don't. btw you're an overrated, shitty boss. give me a promotion right now.

BURR IS LITERALLY MASTER MANIPULATOR TO US IN THE MUSICAL WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT!

he opens up the musical with, as the narrator, "hey, this is the guy this musical is about, I shot him." the audience is already ready for The World Was Wide Enough, because he literally said "I shot him". No, specifically, I'm "the damn fool" that shot him. He is self-depracatingly saying that he shot Hamilton. In the first song. Did he actually regret it? No.

His two songs that are his main songs are wait for IT, and the room where IT happened. IT. He is not being specific. It tends to let other people fill in the blank of what 'It' is.

A lot of the songs he opens, he opens with "how", a question. "How does a bastard..." "how does Hamilton..." "how does a ragtag volunteer..." . He is asking then answering.

He is constantly talking to the audience, which correlates to the above thing. He says "you" often, referring to us behind the screen/stage. Examples being, "Now I'm the villain in your history," "They won't teach you this in your classes, but look it up, Hamilton was wearing his glasses." He also indirectly talks to US, such as "like I said..." "Welcome, folks, to the Adams' Administration!" "Everyone give it up for America's favorite fighting Frenchman!" and the entire opening of the Schuyler Sisters, "there's nothin' rich folks love more, than comin' down town and slummin' it with the poor! They pull up in the carriaged and gawk at the students in the common just to watch em' talk! Take Philip Schuyler, the man is LOADED! uh-oh, but little does he know that his daughters Peggy, Angelica, Eliza slip into the city just to watch all the guys at.."

He has a lot of lines that put pity on him and makes people feel sympathy for him, such as "this man will not make an orphan of my daughter!" "WAIT!" "now I'm the villain in your history/the world was wide enough for both Hamilton and me!" "what is it like in his shoes?"

The only time we see this mask slip in his narration is in your obedient servant, where the 'wholesome' insulting is "how does Hamilton, an arrogant, immigrant, orphan, bastard, whoreson, somehow endorse Thomas Jefferson, HIS ENEMY? a man he's despised from the beginning, just to keep ME from winning? I wanna be in the room where it happens, the room where it happens, the room where it happens! You've kept me from the room where it happens, for the last time.."

Burr also gives us the first perspective on most songs, which usually changes how people perceive things. Sometimes, he's praising, sometimes, he's insulting. "You simply must meet Thomas, Thomas!" is very different from "how does a bastard..."

Whenever someone else animates, they rarely, if ever, mention us in the audience. Angelica, in satisfied, speaks to us, but not directly. She keeps talking to herself, such as, "nice going, Angelica, he was right! You will never be satisfied!" to herself, not to us. Eliza is talking about/to hamilton in helpless and burn, "I'm rereading the letters you wrote me..." and "look into your eyes, and the sky's the limit!" Hamilton is talking to the hamilgang in my shot, and I don't think he ever uses the pronoun "you". The only person who may be speaking to us specifically is Washington in Right Hand Man, "Can I be real a second? For just a millisecond? Let down my guard and tell the people how I feel a second? / are these the men with which I am to defend America!?"

Burr consistently interrupts songs with his opinions, most seen in Non-Stop and The Room Where It Happens," every proclamation guaranteed, free ammunition for your enemies / Hamilton joined forces with John Jay and James Madison.. / why do you assume you're the smartest in the room?" for a few examples in Non-Stop, "BUT! no one else was in the room where it happens... / no! [What else was in the room where it happens?] / Madison is grapplin' with the fact that not every issue can be settled by committee.." for a few from the room where it happens.

Not to mention that, since he's the narrator, he also theoretically gets to choose what is shown...

I have so much more to say but this is already so long---

I still love Burr tho grrrr

My unfinished draft of TAI: Volume I is 131,590 words (not including front or back matter).

Seen this one? (reblogged)

Pretty good of an analysis. And well...

“Aaron Burr was one of the most controversial men of his time, as renowned for wickedness in his later years as Washington always for probity or Jefferson for patriotic fervor.”

“Murderer of Alexander Hamilton, corrupt deal-maker in the election of 1800, and would-be emperor of the American West in the eyes of his peers, Burr had earned a reputation that even the most authentic evidence could not overcome.”

Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic by Joanne B. Freeman

It's about yearning, the kind you won't meet in straight ships, because they were never seen as a crime to begin with. It's about bravery to hold their hand in public knowing you will be judged, and being overjoyed when that doesn't happen.

And in times where being queer is a crime, it's about finding comfort in each other, learning to bypass the system and keep on loving each other, in secret but still true.

The problem is that for some of you, if you don't see an actual moment like that then you will keep calling the two people in question best friends and continue to erase queer history.

Some of you need to be spoon fed, and yap how "implied isn't the same as actually happened" "it's just a speculation" and completely ignore everything else.

That being said I'll die on this hill: John Laurens and Alexander Hamilton were queer and in love.

The reason you won't find pictures of them kissing, or "solid evidence" as you call it (as if their letters aren't filled with affection and hidden confessions of love and you're not just too blind to see) is because I repeat myself they lived in a time where loving another man was a capital crime. (It was also the 1770 so photography didn't fucking exit but I think that's comon sense. At least I hope it is)

"The stars fight against us, my friend"