junk drawer.

Atheist italian child: death is an inescapable and irreversible process so no one could possibly be above the Angel of Death upon the butcher that slaughtered the bull that drank the water that put off the fire that burnt the stick that hit the dog that bit the cat that ate the mouse that my father bought at the market.

Agnostic italian child: no one knows if someone or something was above the Angel of Death upon the butcher that slaughtered the bull that drank the water that put off the fire that burnt the stick that hit the dog that bit the cat that ate the mouse that my father bought at the market.

Saint Thomas Aquinas: the perfect chain of dependency on each other of animals and elements, exemplified by the Angel of Death upon the butcher that slaughtered the bull that drank the water that put off the fire that burnt the stick that hit the dog that bit the cat that ate the mouse that my father bought at the market, is an example of an efficient cause that regulates the world and could be understood as an a posteriori proof of the existence of God.

The Wicked Child: What right does Italy now have to sing Chad Gad Yah, when one of the animals has always represented the Roman occupation of Judea?

The Simple Child: What is this? Why is it sung? Pesach isn’t for another month, right?

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in my mind, Laurens wants people to see from the moment they lay eyes on him that he has no intention of fulfilling the expectations one might have when they think of a member of the Laurens family. That was the reason at first, at least. at some point he got more of them because he actually wanted them not 'cause he wanted to distance himself from his upbringing/father/family. also: his teenage brain vastly overestimated Henry's response to him getting a tattoo while studying in Europe (a very small one on his upper thigh thats visible exactly never). Though he was angry at first, Henry eventually grew indifferent to his son's antics, and when John realised that he started getting them because it made him happy.

Hamilton is a whole other story, he prioritises people liking him. he wants to be able to get in the good graces of everybody he comes across, that includes very conservative/religious people, every single employer ever, political figures, etc. he's careful about not having any possible disadvantage in getting literally any person on the street on his side. he's deeply insecure about his physical (and mental) "flaws" and "doesn't want to add to them" (John and he have arguments about this regularly). he doesn't actually believe that tattoos are "flaws", "sins" or "ruin a person", but he's very aware of how tattoos are seen in some circles. in fact he loves them on John and has a page in his notebook dedicated to motives he'd consider getting some day but that day is dimensions away.

I think his adrenaline junkie stuff starts as a child in approved and supervised spaces by Henry - swimming, sailing, equestrian sportsmanship, etc. (it really doesn’t matter what you pick. But they are rich people sports, and he is good at them. It’s important that he’s rich, he’s the golden boy, and he is good at them), and as he enters teenage hood it becomes rock climbing, driving his car too fast on South Carolina’s backroads when his dad pisses him off etc. by the time he’s an adult it can either go two ways- he join militant leftist spaces, or he’s joining the army, or both, or both but successively. There is no version of John that wouldn’t have some type of service arc, and that’s what I think makes modern aus hard. There is no version of these people that isn’t thorny and political. They do not need to exist in a revolution to be thorny and political. I partially headcanon his final political orientation doesn’t solidify from his time in Europe, but rather culture shock from joining the army (people of lots of different backgrounds and incomes etc.) and dissolution and dissatisfaction from what he THOUGHT he was there to do v. What they’re actually doing. TDLR, “not just a rich boy” John or “not that kind of officer John ™” gets a tattoo, or multiple to fit in , this time with more enlisted men. Maybe one is an eagle and it’s embarrassing lmao. I don’t care what they actually are- This insecurity just serves a through line to actual 18th century John having what I imagine to be dissatisfaction with relying on his father for military rank. “When does the uniform stop feeling like a costume,” etc.

Credits from top to bottom, left to right:

American Type Founders Company (1897), https://picryl.com/media/specimens-of-type-borders-ornaments-brass-rules-and-cuts-etc-catalogue-of-printing-b4ebae

Heather L. Young, Gateway Oak Tree Ford Plantation. It's a spanish moss from Georgia, but it could just as easily be found in SC. I feel like John has mixed feelings about home (...and climbing trees specifically), but he has at least one tattoo in homage to it. If he gets this tattoo early on enough that its in the phase of 'all my tattoos must mean something' this one is prob in honor of Jemmy.

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ngl, couldn't find the artist. Its an excerpt from this Russian textbook on birds. it says these are eagles (? they look more like Gyrfalcons to me) mid-death spiral, a mating ritual among some birds of prey. i'd like to imagine he picked a bird of prey with distinguishing sex characteristics, and john is the only one that knows these are two male mid-mating dance: https://studfile.net/preview/5254006/

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