#@buck yyyy

[uglygirlprettyboy]

HI SPOOPY ILY!!!!!!! (/p)

HI BUCK ILYT!! (/p)

whats up?

[uglygirlprettyboy]

mutuals to get lost in the woods with

(@buck-yyyy @wilburstars2 @kazldazl-2 this is abt u btw)

[uglygirlprettyboy]

SPOOPY HELP I WAS NOT MADE TO WRITE MAJOR CHARACTER DEATH I WAS MADE FOR MISCOMMUNICATION AND MUTUAL PINING H E L P I AM SO SO SAD

OMG NONONONO NOT A DEATH FIC

i cant help you cuz ive never written fic buttt

if u need a beta reader…

(all im saying is i once took my schools newspaper and edited it with a red pen)

[uglygirlprettyboy]

HIYA SPOOPY THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME TALK ABOUT THIS MWAH

okay okay okay so garfield was only in office for six months before he was shot and killed (though he would end up dying nearly two months after the actual wound) by charles j. guiteau, a disgruntled office seeker who felt he was owed a position as ambassador to france after giving a couple speeches in support of garfield’s campaign—and when he was denied the position by someone working for garfield, he supposedly had a vision from god, who told him he needed to kill garfield in order to reunite the republican party and save the country.

but what’s particularly neat about garfield is that he never has explicit political ambitions. he grew up incredibly poor, as his father died when he was 2, and dreamt of becoming a seaman—until, i believe, he fell into the water while at his job at the docks, and those dreams kinda went away lmao.

he was a classics professor (amongst other things) for a long time, which is how he met his wife, lucretia, and he worked on the beginnings of the pythagorean theorem.

he served in the civil war, and eventually was asked by lincoln himself to serve in the ohio state senate, which he did for nine terms—until he was nominated for president at the republican convention.

but here’s the fun part—he never signed up for it. he was giving a speech at the convention in support of another candidate, and when he finished, the crowd was so impressed that they chose to nominate garfield instead of the other dude, despite the fact that he was never even in the running. (on the podium, he actually laughed off the suggestion after someone in the crowd yelled out that they should just vote for garfield)

he barely did any campaigning, and still managed to win by a sliver of the vote as a dark horse candidate.

frederick douglass, a huge abolitionist leader and an escaped slave, was a massive supporter of garfield throughout his campaign, telling black americans that garfield was the man to support. he would later lead the procession at garfield’s inauguration.

he was a truly genius man, and was amazingly well-liked by the entire country, considering the fact that it was only twenty years after the end of the civil war. he was actually considered the first president to really feel like the president of the entire country again, as opposed to just the north :)

when he was on his deathbed, and was being taken to a home on the coast of new jersey (if i remember that correctly) for his final days, people lined up along the railroad for miles, tossing hay onto the tracks to soften his way. volunteers actually extended the train tracks all the way up to the house to make his journey easier on him.

his funeral was one of the largest presidential funerals in american history, if not the largest.

he was a genuinely good man, who, i’m his brief term, worked to end the spoils system and improve civil service reform in the country—and also happens to be my biggest special interest EVER. love talking about him.

oh, and charles guiteau, the man who killed him (and who later said at his trial that “the doctors killed garfield, i only shot him”, which is actually really true but i can’t go into it because my phone is rapidly dying lmao)? he got kicked out of a “free love” colony (ie. sex colony) because no one liked him or wanted to sleep with him, which is just insanely funny to me.

ONG THATS SO COOL I DIDNT KNWO ANY OF THAT SHIT

(also i may have voted for the shitty guy in the assassination vs president thing my bad)

[uglygirlprettyboy]

hi okay random question and last post/ask before i go to bed- do you have a name you go by online, like something from a username to call you? and if not, am i allowed to call you spoopy-

hmmmm....

idk honestly haha

cuz like im not comfy with sharing my real name cuz I'm not a major and i don't really like my name anyways lol

but i havent come up with like a fake online name and idk if I want to

o is what i mostly use tho haha cuz its an initial and I like it more than my name

but yesssss u can call me spoopy that's so silly

[uglygirlprettyboy]

i just found out my school has a harry styles club and there’s like 20 members 😭

WHAT THATS SO FUNNY

someone at our school put up flyers for a michael cera fan club and we tried to find it but it was fake 😔😔😔

[uglygirlprettyboy]

@buck-yyyy NEW LOVEJOY EP!!!!

[uglygirlprettyboy]

SPOOPY I HAVE AN 86 IN PHYSICS!!!!!!! THATS THE BEST GRADE IVE HAD IN THE CLASS ALL YEAR AAAAAAAAAAA

OH EM GEE SO HAPPY FOR U!!!!