ALICE ROOSEVELT WAS HARDCORE. “She was known as a rule-breaker in an era when women were under great pressure to conform. The American public noticed many of her exploits. She smoked cigarettes in public, swore at officials, rode in cars with men, stayed out late partying, kept a pet snake named Emily Spinach (Emily as in her spinster aunt and Spinach for its green color) in the White House, and was seen placing bets with a bookie.
So what I’m reading here is, she was a Roosevelt?
Well I have a new hero.
Her whole wikipedia article is gold
“When her father was governor of New York, he and his wife proposed that Alice attend a conservative school for girls in New York City. Pulling out all the stops, Alice wrote, ‘If you send me I will humiliate you. I will do something that will shame you. I tell you I will.’”
“Her father took office in 1901 following the assassination of President William McKinley, Jr. in Buffalo (an event that she greeted with “sheer rapture.”)“
“During the cruise to Japan, Alice jumped into the ship’s pool fully clothed, and coaxed a congressman to join her in the water. (Years later Bobby Kennedy would chide her about the incident, saying it was outrageous for the time, to which the by-then-octogenarian Alice replied that it would only have been outrageous had she removed her clothes.”
“She was dressed in a blue wedding dress and dramatically cut the wedding cake with a sword (borrowed from a military aide attending the reception)”
“When it came time for the Roosevelt family to move out of the White House, Alice buried a Voodoo doll of the new First Lady, Nellie Taft, in the front yard.”
“Later, the Taft White House banned her from her former residence—the first but not the last administration to do so. During Woodrow Wilson’s administration (from which she was banned in 1916 for a bawdy joke at Wilson’s expense)…”
“As an example of her attitudes on race, in 1965 her African-American chauffeur and one of her best friends, Turner, was driving Alice to an appointment. During the trip, he pulled out in front of a taxi, and the driver got out and demanded to know of him, “What do you think you’re doing, you black bastard?” Turner took the insult calmly, but Alice did not and told the taxi driver, “He’s taking me to my destination, you white son of a bitch!”
“To Senator Joseph McCarthy, who had jokingly remarked at a party “Here’s my blind date. I am going to call you Alice”, she sarcastically said “Senator McCarthy, you are not going to call me Alice. The trashman and the policeman on my block call me Alice, but you may not.”
I love this woman.
WOMEN WHO NEED FUCKEN MOVIES.
This is Alice as an older lady. The pillow says “If you can’t say something good about someone, sit right here by me.”
She is my absolute favorite.
me: treat yo self
my bank account, my gpa, my body: UM
the worst part about being at work at 4am is that my dash is fucking dead
Okay, you ready for some headcanons from someone who knows NOTHING ABOUT ART?? Cause here it comes:
The thing is, Lardo doesn’t set out to be some sort of “patron of the arts.” But she goes to the Olympics at 16 as a Gymnast and wins 4 Gold Medals and then she goes again at 20 to win 5 and, sure, she only wins 2 when she is 24 but the end result is this: She is rich. She has sponsors on sponsors and is famous even aside from the two weeks every four years that people really care about her sport and–
She has too much money, is the point. She has too much and so she decides that she might as well go support some of the arts. she can’t draw a stick figure but she likes art. More specifically, she likes artists. They are very different from the people in the gymnast world. They are chill. Sure, they get stressed but that is like only right before a deadline. The rest of the time they are totally awesome. At least, the ones she’s collected are. You have:
Jack Zimmermann, son of world famous artists, Bad Bob Zimmermann and model, Alicia Zimmermann. Bad Bob is known for his paintings but try as he might, Jack could never quite manage to paint particularly well. For a while he put away all artistic pursuits and figured he would just go into like… accounting. Something boring. Then he discovers photography. And he loves photography and suddenly everything that his parents had tried to teach him makes sense. Angles, lighting, coloring, it all clicks. He is known for taking stunning photographs of historical sites, but also loves nature photography (and once he meets a certain someone, will realize the beauty of love and volunteer his time to do wedding photography…)
Shitty is classically trained. Like, he was put in an art school at age 4 because his parents are those parents (aka they wanted him to be artistic but didn’t want to deal with him making noise as he learned an instrument) and to his personal disappointment, he was very good. He was privately tutored throughout grade school and then sent to an Art Academy for High School and it wasn’t until college that he finally found an art form he truly likes: Web Comics. Shitty put away his paint brushes and pencils and classical training and now writes the webcomic “Fucking Shit, bro.”
Ransom didn’t set out to be an artist but his anxiety constantly had him swiping his pencil back and forth in his notebook and then it also made him realize that the smudges looked terrible on his notes and so it made sense to make them look nice and then suddenly that became a calming mechanism to get everything just so and long story short: Ransom does incredibly realistic pencil drawings. Each drawing takes hours and hours but he doesn’t mind. He calms down when he’s drawing.
EVERYONE KEEPS GOIN ON ABOUT HOW THEY HAVE A FAVORITE MAGNUS LOOK AND IF U DONT UR LYING BUT I DONT HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO CH OO S E DOMT DO THAT TO ME HE LOOKS SO GOOD ALL THE TIME LIKE WTF HAVE U SEEN HIM LIKE his outfit in 1×04 was so good I wanted to cRY AND THEN WHEN HE ASKED ALEC OUT ON THE PHONE WAS 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻 AND EVERYTHING ABOUT WHEN HE WAS IN THE FORENSICS LAB WITH IZZY AND EVERY S I N G L E O U T F I T IN 1×12 FUCKS ME UP AND IN MORNING STAR LIKE EVERYTHINF I DIE I CANT PICK ONE I DONT HAVE A FAVORITE ONE HE IS MY FAVORITE ONE
this might be a controversial opinion in this fandom but like magnus has never looked bad a day in his entire life… i don’t care what he’s wearing, colourful outfit or not, with a beard or without one , with short or long hair, in his pyjamas, in a suit… my point is magnus has never looked bad in his entire immortal life because he is magnus bane and he does whatever the fuck he wants!!!!
