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Ha one of my FOG snippets got reblogged by apparently someone famous (and I saw it several times in the wild on my dash, which, like, blew my MIND, some people I am a total fangirl over thought it was funny, I am in transports of rhapsody I tell you what) at the same time as Hamilton tag-surfers reblogged my observations on Hercules Mulligan and his slave Cato, so that was an entertaining evening in my notifications.
The FOG snippet, hilariously, is the one where Clint discovers that Bucky doesn’t know about Bucky Bears? I was writing that and it turned into Bucky realizing that HYDRA had infiltrated the leadership of the corporation that oversaw the expanded market of children’s cartoons right in that era where they figured out that you literally could not make a children’s cartoon too cheaply; kids will watch anything. And the HYDRA guy was the one who came up with the Bucky Bear idea. Because he knew about Bucky, and at that point in the Winter Soldier project they’d effectively removed his ability to speak. And it swerved and went way dark, so I cut it off right there and posted it because shit, I did not have time to put that in FOG with the other shit I was working on right there.
So that’s kind of hilarious to me, to have that be possibly my most successful snippet to date. [I should collect snippets on AO3 or at least have a good consistent tag but I’ve literally never successfully searched for anything by tags on this fucking website so I don’t know how to do that correctly.]
As far as Hamilton goes, I really really really really want to do a post unpacking the “your debts are paid ‘cuz you don’t pay for labor” line in relation to Hamilton’s in-laws; he married into some old Dutch money, the patroons of a government-granted estate, and it was not until 1839 that a revolt in upstate NY freed the Hamilton’s in-laws tenants who were operating under an old-school actual-feudal kind of deal that made their landlords the richest men in America [including a man who remains in the top ten TO DATE, adjusted, suck on that, Trump]. (I’m not saying it was anything like chattel slavery, but I am saying, Hamilton’s people didn’t pay for labor either. This was not free-market capitalism.)
I want to do this post, but I probably won’t, so– but take that into account. This isn’t advanced research, which my mother could certainly do, this is just a basic Wikipedia surf, but you gotta know to look for it.
(Also the Van Rennselaers and Schuylers were hella inbred which makes me feel better because I know enough of my family tree to know my genetics are similar, only the sides of those families with no money, so. At least the rich folks were doing it too? Seriously tho I can’t figure out the exact relationship of Hamilton and Stevie Rensselaer because… Philip Schuyler married Catherine Van Rensselaer and then his daughter Margarita married Stephen Van Rennselaer whose mother’s mother had been a Schuyler, so like, how many times are they connected? This is my brother-in-law-by-blood? What? Oh, how I used to laugh at the Hapsburgs, but guess whose adult molars never all grew in. Don’t laugh about inbreeding, any of you, I promise if you do enough research you are too. There’s a reason they made laws about it.)
Ha one of my FOG snippets got reblogged by apparently someone famous (and I saw it several times in the wild on my dash, which, like, blew my MIND, some people I am a total fangirl over thought it was funny, I am in transports of rhapsody I tell you what) at the same time as Hamilton tag-surfers reblogged my observations on Hercules Mulligan and his slave Cato, so that was an entertaining evening in my notifications.
The FOG snippet, hilariously, is the one where Clint discovers that Bucky doesn’t know about Bucky Bears? I was writing that and it turned into Bucky realizing that HYDRA had infiltrated the leadership of the corporation that oversaw the expanded market of children’s cartoons right in that era where they figured out that you literally could not make a children’s cartoon too cheaply; kids will watch anything. And the HYDRA guy was the one who came up with the Bucky Bear idea. Because he knew about Bucky, and at that point in the Winter Soldier project they’d effectively removed his ability to speak. And it swerved and went way dark, so I cut it off right there and posted it because shit, I did not have time to put that in FOG with the other shit I was working on right there.
So that’s kind of hilarious to me, to have that be possibly my most successful snippet to date. [I should collect snippets on AO3 or at least have a good consistent tag but I’ve literally never successfully searched for anything by tags on this fucking website so I don’t know how to do that correctly.]
As far as Hamilton goes, I really really really really want to do a post unpacking the “your debts are paid ‘cuz you don’t pay for labor” line in relation to Hamilton’s in-laws; he married into some old Dutch money, the patroons of a government-granted estate, and it was not until 1839 that a revolt in upstate NY freed the Hamilton’s in-laws tenants who were operating under an old-school actual-feudal kind of deal that made their landlords the richest men in America [including a man who remains in the top ten TO DATE, adjusted, suck on that, Trump]. (I’m not saying it was anything like chattel slavery, but I am saying, Hamilton’s people didn’t pay for labor either. This was not free-market capitalism.)
I want to do this post, but I probably won’t, so– but take that into account. This isn’t advanced research, which my mother could certainly do, this is just a basic Wikipedia surf, but you gotta know to look for it.
(Also the Van Rennselaers and Schuylers were hella inbred which makes me feel better because I know enough of my family tree to know my genetics are similar, only the sides of those families with no money, so. At least the rich folks were doing it too? Seriously tho I can’t figure out the exact relationship of Hamilton and Stevie Rensselaer because… Philip Schuyler married Catherine Van Rensselaer and then his daughter Margarita married Stephen Van Rennselaer whose mother’s mother had been a Schuyler, so like, how many times are they connected? This is my brother-in-law-by-blood? What? Oh, how I used to laugh at the Hapsburgs, but guess whose adult molars never all grew in. Don’t laugh about inbreeding, any of you, I promise if you do enough research you are too. There’s a reason they made laws about it.)
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Date: 2015-12-20 04:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-12-20 04:15 am (UTC)We're not *severely* inbred, but my mother has great-grandparents who were first cousins, and back when all the white people first showed up in the New World, pickings were slim so the family trees are full of little first-cousin boxes. And that happened both on the English side and the Dutch side. (A *lot* of my ancestors were here before 1700, it turns out.)