confess your sins

this blog is in direct response to the original confession blog's mod turning out to be a twat

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so. hello and welcome!

to start with, i have two main reasons for making this:

a) i know of a great many confession blogs, and every single one of them has at some point made me go "i would do this differently". as a result, for the past few months i've been wanting to try my hand at modding a confession blog myself

b) the old hamilton blog was a disaster, and the new blog's moderation so far leaves much to be desired. there are several things i would change about it and its rules, hence why i decided to start this project

an overview of the events surrounding the old hamilton confessions blog + proof that @\hamiltonconfessions was instrumental in its destruction

now. rules:

no sharing of usernames. vague descriptions are allowed. if you reblog/reply with a name, you will be blocked. this is to prevent harassment. clarification 1 clarification 2

nothing that breaks tumblr's tos and guidelines. meaning no bigotry or hate speech of any kind, threats of violence or harm, doxxing, etc. this goes for replies as well.

no nsfw and kink content. mild mentions of nsfw are allowed insofar as you may hear them in normal conversation, and will be tagged #topic.suggestive.

all confessions must be at least tangentially related to either the hamilton fandom or a conversation happening on this blog. to that end, confessions that are solely about amrev/the historical side of things with no mention of the musical will not be posted.

opinions confessed do not reflect my own. confessions will not be removed for any reason other than infringement of the rules.

to have a poll attached to your confession, use the following format: 🗳️ [question] ([option 1] / [option 2] / [...]). e.g.: 🗳️ do you like cats? ( yes / no / what a stupid question). a "see results" option will be included by default. as such, you may request a maximum of 11 options of your own. all other rules of this blog also apply.

faq: why your confession may not have been posted

tags:

#c.[character]

#s.[ship]

#[topic].neg - negativity about a character, ship, etc.

#topic.[topic] - topic tag, e.g. topic.ship wars

#mod response

masterlist of tags currently in use

if you have any suggestions regarding the tags, rules, blog layout, or anything at all to say, really, feel free to send an ask!

other than that, happy confessing!

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god ugh I love Alexander Hamilton so much he’s my baby he wasn’t a villain he wasn’t a monster he was flawed and people need to stop villainising him he’s he isn’t amazing but you can’t say you hate him then love burr or Jefferson they both cheated on there wife’s and worse things then Hamilton would’ve ever thought of doing

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jeffmads is better than jamilton or any other propaganda jefferson ship.

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i get instantaneous whiplash whenever i hear the "tell her that i love him" part of Satisfied.

sure it was practical in terms of writing, & i get that there was NOWHERE near enough time or space to properly convey angelicas feelings towards alex, but immediately falling in love with and fantasising at night(??) about a guy you spoke 1-on-1 with for 3 minutes isn't exactly believable 😭

and eliza is NOT off the hook either 😓. the "one week later..." verse is the only thing that saves Helpless from the same problem, and even then it's still on thin ice 💔

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Same anon who was filtering lams fics but anyways guys i js rlly rlly rlly need a lams fic with redcoat john pls speed i NEED this. Out of the 7.8 k fanfics of them on ao3 ive only found ONE fanfic with him as a redcoat.

Its its its not even completed but by the heavens is it one of the best pieces of literature ive personally read. Like there r a lot ive encountered with hamilton being the redcoat and theyre wonderful yes but guys the potential of redcoat john please please please.....

And u could say i could write it myself but i HAVE been putting my mind into it which i would say is equivalent to writing except its all in my head

So far ive only read 1 fic of redcoat john on ao3 and another that was a fic inspired by one of my drawings,,,, i still think of that fic but anyways plsplspls if uve found a redcoat john fic that isnt named dear redcoat.... Dont dont dont gatekeep it from me i lowkirkenuinely need this... Sincerely urs, nilly

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One time I had to write a surprise paper in class with the prompt (something like) “What’s a famous example of a good leadership decision?” and I panicked and remembered One Last Time and wrote it on Washington stepping down as president. I think I got an A, this was in high school though, I don’t remember.

The real sin here is that I’m American and already knew this about washington but the only reason I remembered it here was from a rap musical 😔

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We need to talk about lafburr more

Such an underrated ship 😭

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WashingLee is a good ship

IM SORRY OKAY ITS GOOD

especially that one bill eggpher washinglee animation on tiktok

🤤🤤🤤

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for the entire span of my first hamilton phase i had no idea charles lee had lines in the ten duel commandments because i didnt look up the lyrics or watch bootlegs. i thought it was all laurens/ham/burr (with lee's lines being laurens) until i watched the movie proshot in 2025. i honestly might just be stupid

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whenever someone refers to a lams fan as "insufferable" i get terribly confused because never in my life have i been harassed or annoyed by a lams shipper??? curate your for you page, people

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I was filtering lams fics on ao3 and i saw one that had the tag donald trump/donald trump and i have zero idea how that could get into a lams fic but ok

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if the "in that BIG ol' room" line from RWIH has no haters, i am DEAD. the sheer tonal whiplash of the line completely breaks any immersion i felt in the song and immediately has me rolling over and guffawing on the floor. yeah yeah the large, spacious, well-acquainted room, we've all seen it. lin could you not have come up with something more fitting

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lets rename lams to TURLEQUILL 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Okay so this isn’t necessarily traditional confession, but I was in England for a semester abroad when Hamilton had the anniversary and was put in cinemas, and I went and honestly like 😬🇺🇸✌️ when the king george bits came on lmaoo but a large amount of the audience laughed out loud!

Not that I expected anything else, but I had so many negative interactions where brits only wanted to talk bad about american politics (which me too but I didn’t even bring it up! seeing an american just I guess triggers an unskippable ‘fuck the US’ cutscene lmao) meanwhile got genuinely offended and defensive when I joked back mildly about the monarchy (even though it’s not like they voted for him)

anyway, it seems that “You’ll Be Back” is a hit worldwide!

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I think that hamburr is better than lams...

And hot take: SOME (maybe most) Lam shippers can be very rude and insufferable to be around, the chill ones are the best.

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I've seen people ship Eliza and Maria as a way to make a statement like "Neither of them needed hamilton!" or "You're going to cheat on your wife? Well, screw you *ships your wife with your mistress*" and I feel like. It is fine to ship literally anything, to start, I am so for shipping anything for literally 0 reason. Ship John Laurens with the fucking wizards of waverly place dad for all I care, I literally am all for it. but if the *goal* is to make some sort of statement? I don't know. I don't see how shipping them is any more progressive or feminist than shipping other characters.

We've kind of all got to accept that there's going to be a bit of inherent disrespect to shipping characters based on real historical figures, so I don't see why we gotta pretend like one ship is morally superior? if anything, I feel like the real historical figures might find it more disrespectful to ship a woman with her husband's affair partner than to ship other things lmao. again, I couldn't care less about the 'inherent disrespect' that they were real people; they're dead, and were public figures anyway, but that also means I don't see a need to make moral judgements of ships. This is something I've actually seen by the way, people explicitly saying they ship eliza/maria just for the principal of it.

In summary: I don't even dislike this ship, but I don't get seeing yourself as morally superior for shipping it (or anything. shipping isn't, like, activism?)

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I really don't get people saying lin's a bad singer. I like his voice. but also, the role of hamilton (or usnavi, 0 hate to anthony ramos or any other usnavi, but lin was just perfect for him imo) does not require, like, ramin karimloo-level vocals, you know? In fact, i feel like it would be off if he sounded like a heavenly choir. this may be a hot take but I feel like it's as important to match the voice to the character as it is to be a traditionally good singer. and like I said, I do think he's a good singer personally

also, one simply can't claim the man can't act. like every single cast member in OBC hamilton, his performance was just phenomenal. in other things, too! has anyone seen that 2013 NBC show Do No Harm that got cancelled after 1 season? Terrible show, but Lin was even great in that! (he plays a pharmacologist btw- I was gonna mention House but his character there is pretty similar to other things he's done and my point is he has range! if you haven't seen the show, NBC will probably pay you to watch it/j)

I'm sure I do not need to glaze lin manuel miranda on the hamilton confessions account lmao but I honestly feel like people say he's a bad actor/singer just because it's a popular thing to say for whatever reason

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