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she/her. 22. generally tired and anxious. tol. a pretty big fan of well written women in media & pop culture. basically this blog is 80% jokes, 10% ladies, and 10% yikes. (on a semi-hiatus atm/queued content) (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-71622606-1', 'auto'); ga('send', 'pageview');

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Idris Elba DJ Set at The Arts Club in London

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Remember when you were 12 and attracted to other 12 year olds? What the fuck was that?

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When I was 12 I was attracted to Oded Fehr in The Mummy.

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I’ve seen some people say that Hamilton would have been the worst person to be a second when negotiating an affair of honor because of just how hot-headed he was, and while I get where they’re coming from, consider this: despite being the principal in eleven affairs of honor throughout his lifetime, none of the affairs where Hamilton initiated the challenge ever went to the dueling field. When he gave the men specific charges and they apologized, he was willing to accept it (or if you were John Adams and ignored his challenge, publish career-ruining pamphlets instead of demanding pistols).

Meanwhile, when it came to Burr and his major affairs of honor, with John Church and Hamilton, he escalated the affairs to duels.

Just sayin.

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Burr apologist here: Burr was the one who de-escalated Hamilton and James Monroe’s fight so that it never went to a duel.

Also, Burr presented Hamilton with charges and asked him to apologize several times in the correspondence leading up to their duel, and Hamilton essentially taunted him that he couldn’t prove Hamilton had ever insulted him, and refused to apologize, which would have entirely avoided escalation.

Just sayin.

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Yes but Burr also broke Code Duello and didn’t specify any specific charge for Hamilton to apologize for:

As with other duels in New York City, the timing of Burr’s challenge was more important than the offense that prompted it. Because Cooper’s letter contained no specific insult, Burr later received criticism for challenging a man for an unspecified affront. Hamilton himself objected that Burr’s inquiry was too vague for “a direct avowal or disavowal”; as Hamilton would later explain, Burr was objecting to comments dropped during a dinner at least six months back. But Burr felt such a compelling need to prove himself a man of honor and a political leader that he responded to Hamilton’s protests by broadening his demands: he demanded an apology for any “rumours derogatory to Col: Burr’s honour…inferred from any thing he [Hamilton] has said.” In essence, he called on Hamilton to apologize for any personal abuse that Burr had suffered from throughout their fifteen year political rivalry. Burr demanded this humiliating apology in order to force Hamilton to fight.

- Joanne Freeman, Affairs of Honor

Just like because his duel with John Church landed right at the time his reputation took a hit from a speculation scam, Burr escalated duels around the time he felt his political career was on the line.

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Hamilton had been insulting Burr in the Post for years before Burr wrote him that letter. And basically the guy who Hamilton was talking to at this dinner told Burr he’d been saying devious shit about him, but wouldn’t say what, out of prudence for his own reputation. So Burr actually couldn’t cite a specific grievance. It’s silly to say he was demanding a public apology for years of disagreements. He says in his letters he doesn’t know what precisely was said, but that the disavowal shouldn’t rest on a matter of grammar or technicality that Hamilton was sort of laughingly using as a shield to apologize.

Also, Burr wasn’t the one that wrote that “any rumors derogatory to Col. Burr’s honor” had to be addressed. That was his second, Van Ness, after several letters had already been exchanged.

Burr never spoke ill of Hamilton. Burr said “Political opposition can never absolve gentlemen from the necessity of a rigid adherence to the laws of honor and the rules of decorum.“

Hamilton wrote that “Burr is bankrupt beyond redemption, except by the plunder of his country. His public principles have no other spring or aim than his own aggrandizement.” He called him an “embryo-Caesar.” These public insults were absolutely foundation for a duel in society at the time. Hamilton had already withdrawn his statements twice toward Burr when pressed, so it’s not like he didn’t know what he was getting into, here.

And if we’re talking about who broke Code Duello, deloping was customarily done into the ground, not the air. Perhaps this was a misfire on Hamilton’s part, perhaps not. Either way, Burr was justified in shooting back.

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If Burr was playing the game of Code Duello, he was beholden to its rules, or suffer the consequences to his reputation: which he did. Hamilton had been saying shit for years, but it was Burr’s duty, as the man offended, to give Hamilton an opportunity to explain himself or apologize for the affront to his reputation. And it’s not silly to say he purposely escalated by demanding that Hamilton apologize for every mean thing he said, because that’s exactly what he did. According to Van Ness, Burr’s second, Burr was unwilling to accept anything less:

“No denial or declaration will be satisfactory unless it be general, so as wholly to exclude the idea that rumors derogatory to Col: Burr’s honor have originated with Genl Hamilton as have been fairly inferred from any thing he has said.”

- William Van Ness to Nathaniel Pendleton, June 26, 1804

Burr wasn’t being naive, he knew Hamilton would never accept those terms. 

It was Burr’s job as the offended party to site a specific grievance, and he couldn’t do it. Hamilton knew he had said ton of shit, but it was Burr’s responsibility to point it out if he was going to start an affair of it. But Burr didn’t. Because it wasn’t the grievance that was the problem, it was that Burr was embarrassed at having lost two big political offices (presidency and governorship), and since Hamilton was the biggest Federalist around and had been loud in voicing his criticism, he was the best target to initiate an affair of honor with so Burr could look good again to the Democratic Republicans (or Federalists if he wanted to court them).

Burr never wrote anything down, because he’s Burr, so I’m not willing to believe Burr was a saint in this rivalry. But even if he never uttered an unkind word to Hamilton in his life, look at what he’d done recently in his political career: committed bribery with foreign investors in land schemes, created a bank under false pretenses when he’d said he was putting together a company to bring the city clean water; I’m sorry, but Hamilton was fully justified in not wanting this guy near the highest office in the land.

Deloping in the air was a perfectly acceptable action according to Code Duello. So was shooting at an opponent. But Burr had to accept the responsibility for shooting his opponent on such weak grounds, and since he didn’t have any defense. Other gentlemen saw through his weak excuse, and that’s part of why he got so much shit for it (at least in the North). He wagered that a duel against Hamilton would bring him great honor, but by killing Hamilton without a good reason, he instead opened himself up to accusations of acting without honor.

tl;dr: Burr fucked up.

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all block, do not disturb, mute and blacklist features across all media and devices are so sexy if I had to choose any kink it would be restricting a person’s presence in my life

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Sicario (2015), dir. Denis Villeneuve.

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Nathalie Emmanuel attends the Kari Feinstein’s Style Lounge on January 22, 2016 in Park City, Utah.

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Arden Cho for Kode Magazine

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@otherbully1 😍 😍 😍 😍

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Jack: try this one, and I’ll say it just once. Tell you what: we coulda had a good life together, fuckin’ real good life! Had us a place of our own. But you didn’t want it, Ennis! So what we got now is Brokeback Mountain! Everything’s built on that, that’s all we got boy, fuckin’ all. So I hope you know that, if you don’t never know the rest! You count the damn few times we have been together in nearly twenty years and you measure the short fucking leash you keep me on, and tell me you’ll kill me for needing somethin’ I don’t hardly never get. You have no idea how bad it gets! I’m not you… I can’t make it on a coupla high-altitude fucks once or twice a year! You are too much for me Ennis, you son of a whoreson bitch. I wish I knew how to quit you.” Ennis: well why don’t you? Why don’t you just let me be, huh? Because of you, Jack, that I’m like this. I’m nothing… and nowhere.

Brokeback Mountain (2005)

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the straights can not have poe dameron. 

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Leaves Engagement Ring No. 4 - 14K Gold and Tourmaline engagement ring, engagement ring, leaf ring, filigree, antique, art nouveau, vintage rings

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The new season of HTGAWM looks really good.

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To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.

Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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Idris Elba: Speech on diversity in the media and film

I’m here to talk about diversity. Diversity in the modern world is more than just skin colour. It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and - most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought. Because if you have genuine diversity of thought among people making TV & film, then you won’t accidentally shut out any of the groups I just mentioned.

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@charlotte rampling, @michael caine

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