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Sortinghatschats Comparison with MBTI and Enneagram - List Pt 2

Based on a post by @arisruby I decided to compare the sortinghatchats system with MBTI and enneagram types and see if there's any correlation. The summary post is here and the analysis post is here.

Below is the full list of sortings and enneagram types. For the list of sortings and MBTI types see here.

ENNEAGRAM:

One:

George Knightley ESFJ 1w2 Emma. — Snake/Badger

Albus Dumbledore INFJ 1w9 Harry Potter — Lion/Snake

Galadriel INFJ 1w9 The Lord of the Rings — Snake/Lion

Elrond INTJ 1w2 The Lord of the Rings — Bird/Bird

Anthony Bridgerton ESTJ 1w2 Bridgerton — Badger/Lion

Bree Van De Kamp ESTJ 1w2 Desperate Housewives — Badger/Bird

Hermione Granger ESTJ 1w2 Harry Potter — Lion/Bird

Matthew Crawley INFP 1w2 Downton Abbey — Bird/Bird

Luke Skywalker ISFP 1w2 Star Wars — Bird/Lion

Mary Margaret Blanchard ISFP 2w1 Once Upon a Time — Badger/Lion

William Turner ISFP 1w9 The Pirates of the Caribbean — Badger/Lion

Robb Sark ESFP 1w2 Game of Thrones — Badger/Lion

Steve Rogers ISFJ 1w2 Avengers — Lion/Badger

Catelyn Stark ISTJ 1w2 Game of Thrones — Snake/Badger

Chris Argent ISTJ 1w9 Teen Wolf — Badger/Bird

Eddard Stark ISTJ 1w9 Game of Thrones — Badger/Lion

George Washington ISTJ 1w9 (Hamilton) — Badger/Badger

Harry Greenwood ISTJ 1w2 Charmed — Badger/Bird

Richard Gilmore ISTJ 1w9 Gilmore Girls — Snake/Badger

Inspector Javert ISTJ 1w2 Les Miserables — Bird/Lion

Chloe Decker ISTJ 1w9 Lucifer — Lion/Lion

LP: 4

BiP: 4

SP: 4

BaP: 9

LS: 9

SS: 1

BiS: 6

BaS: 5

Badger/Lion = 5

Snake/Badger = 3

Badger/Bird = 3

Bird/Bird = 2

Bird/Lion = 2

Lion/Snake = 1

Snake/Lion = 1

Lion/Bird = 1

Lion/Badger = 1

Badger/Badger = 1

Lion/Lion = 1

Two:

Bonnie Bennett ENFJ 2w1 The Vampire Diaries — Lion/Lion

Charles Xavier ENFJ 2w1 X-Men — Badger/Badger

Jasmine ENFJ 2w1 Aladdin — Lion/Snake

Emma Woodhouse ENFJ 2w3 Emma (2016) — Lion/Lion

Regina Mills ENFJ 2w3 Once Upon a Time — Snake/Bird

Alice Cullen ESFJ 2w3 The Twilight Saga — Snake/Bird

Boromir ESFJ 2w3 The Lord of the Rings — Snake/Lion

Clark Kent ESFJ 2w1 Smallville — Snake/Snake

Daphne Bridgerton ESFJ 2w1 Bridgerton — Badger/Snake

Emily Gilmore ESFJ 2w3 Gilmore Girls — Lion/Lion

Esme Cullen ESFJ 2w1 The Twilight Saga — Snake/Badger

Gwen Pendragon ESFJ 2w1 Merlin — Badger/Badger

Margaery Tyrell ESFJ 2w3 Game of Thrones — Snake/Badger

Peter Pevensie ESFJ 2w3 The Chronicles of Narnia — Badger/Lion

Sam Gamgee ESFJ 2w1 The Lord of the Rings — Snake/Badger

Sam Wilson ESFJ 2w1 The Falcon and the Winter Soldier — Badger/Lion

Hope Mikaelson ISFP 2w1 Legacies / The Originals — Snake/Lion

Scott McCall ISFP 2w1 Teen Wolf — Badger/Badger

Cosette ISFJ 2w3 Les Miserables — Lion/Snake

Eliza Schuyler Hamilton ISFJ 2w1 Hamilton — Snake/Badger

Padme Amidala ISFJ 2w1 Star Wars — Lion/Snake

Robert Crawley ISFJ 2w1 Downton Abbey — Bird/Badger

Molly Weasley ESFJ 2w3 — Snake/Lion

LP: 7

BiP: 1

SP: 10

BaP: 6

LS: 8

SS: 5

BiS: 2

BaS: 9

Snake/Badger = 4

Lion/Lion = 3

Badger/Badger = 3

Lion/Snake = 3

Snake/Lion = 3

Snake/Bird = 2

Badger/Lion = 2

Snake/Snake = 1

Badger/Snake = 1

Lion/Badger = 1

Bird/Badger = 1

Three:

Aleskander Kirigan ENFJ 3w4 Shadow & Bone — Badger/Badger

Maggie Vera ENFJ 3w2 Charmed — Badger/Badger

Marcel Gerard ENFJ 3w2 The Originals — Lion/Badger

Marisa Coulter ENFJ 3w2 The Golden Compass — Snake/Snake

Gertrude ESFJ 3w2 Ophelia — Snake/Lion

Georgiana ESFJ 3w2 The Great — Snake/Snake

Petyr Baelish INTJ 3w4 Game of Thrones — Snake/Snake

Tom Riddle INTJ 3w4 Harry Potter — Lion/Bird

Denethor ENTJ 3w4 The Lord of the Rings — Snake/Bird

Mary Crawley ENTJ 3w4 Downton Abbey — Snake/Snake

Palpatine ENTJ 3w4 Star Wars — Snake/Bird

Blair Waldorf ESTJ 3w4 Gossip Girl — Snake/Badger

Cordelia Chase ESTJ 3w2 Buffy the Vampire Slayer — Lion/Lion

James Norrington ESTJ 3w2 The Pirates of the Caribbean — Bird/Badger

Lydia Martin ESTJ 3w2 Teen Wolf — Bird/Bird

Paris Gellar ESTJ 3w2 Gilmore Girls — Lion/Lion

Percy Weasley ESTJ 3w2 Harry Potter — Lion/Bird

Catherine the Great ENFP 3w2 The Great — Lion/Bird

Joffrey Baratheon ESFP 3w2 Game of Thrones — Lion/Lion

Draco Malfoy ESTP 3w4 Harry Potter — Badger/Snake

Jackson Whittemore ESTP 3w4 Teen Wolf — Bird/Lion

Napoleon Solo ESTP 3w2 The Man From UNCLE — Lion/Snake

Scarlett O’Hara ESTP 3w2 Gone With the Wind — Snake/Lion

LP: 8

BiP: 3

SP: 9

BaP: 3

LS: 6

SS: 6

BiS: 6

BaS: 5

Snake/Snake = 4

Lion/Lion = 3

Lion/Bird = 3

Badger/Badger = 2

Snake/Lion = 2

Snake/Bird = 2

Snake/Badger = 1

Lion/Badger = 1

Bird/Badger = 1

Bird/Bird = 1

Bird/Lion = 1

Badger/Snake = 1

Lion/Snake = 1

Four:

Loki ENFJ 4w3 The Avengers — Snake/Bird

Morgana Pendragon ENFJ 4w3 Merlin — Snake/Snake

Elphaba Thropp INTJ 4w5 sp/sx Wicked! — Lion/Lion

Edith Crawley ISFP 4w3 Downton Abbey — Bird/Badger

Edmund Pevensie ISFP 4w3 The Chronicles of Narnia — Bird/Snake

Jess Marino ISFP 4w5 Gilmore Girls — Bird/Snake

Rosalie Hale ISFP 4w3 The Twilight Saga — Snake/Lion

Ron Weasley ESFP 4w3 Harry Potter — Lion/Lion

LP: 2

BiP: 3

SP: 3

BaP: 0

LS: 3

SS: 3

BiS: 1

BaS: 1

Bird/Snake = 2

Snake/Bird = 1

Snake/Snake = 1

Bird/Badger = 1

Snake/Lion = 1

Lion/Lion = 1

Five:

Obi-Wan Kenobi INFJ 5w6 Star Wars — Badger/Snake

Varys INFJ 5w6 Game of Thrones — Snake/Snake

Alec Hardy INTJ 5w6 Broadchurch — Snake/Bird

Brandon Stark INTJ 5w4 Game of Thrones — Bird/Badger

Mr. Darcy INTJ 5w4 Pride & Prejudice — Snake/Badger

Mr. Gold / Rumple INTJ 5w4 Once Upon a Time — Snake/Bird

Michael Corleone INTJ 5w6 The Godfather — Badger/Bird

Mycroft Holmes INTJ 5w4 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes — Lion/Bird

Victor Frankenstein INTJ 5w4 Victor Frankenstein — Bird/Bird

Milena INTP 5w6 Black Widow — Bird/Bird

Milo J. Thatch INTP 5w6 Atlantis: The Lost Empire — Bird/Bird

Twelve INTP 5w4 Doctor Who — Snake/Bird

Dan Humphrey ISTp 5w4 Gossip Girl — Lion/Badger

Evie Carnahan ISTP 5w4 The Mummy — Bird/Lion

Sherlock Holmes ISTP 5w4 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes — Badger/Snake

LP: 2

BiP: 4

SP: 5

BaP: 2

LS: 1

SS: 3

BiS: 8

BaS: 3

Snake/Bird = 3

Bird/Bird = 3

Badger/Snake = 2

Bird/Badger = 1

Snake/Snake = 1

Snake/Badger = 1

Badger/Bird = 1

Lion/Bird 1

Lion/Badger = 1

Bird/Lion = 1

Six:

Gandalf INFJ 6w7 The Lord of the Rings — Bird/Bird

Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto INTJ 6w5 X-Men — Lion/Lion

Violet Crawley ESTJ 6w5 Downton Abbey — Snake/Snake

Veronica Mars ENFP cp 6w7 Veronica Mars — Badger/Snake

Stiles Stilinksi ENTP 6w7 Teen Wolf — Snake/Bird

Hamlet INFP 6w7 Hamlet — Bird/Lion

Hamlet INFP 6w7 Ophelia — Bird/Lion

Susan Mayer INFP 6w7 Desperate Housewives — Snake/Lion

Alina Starkov ISFP 6w7 Shadow & Bone — Snake/Lion

Dean Forester ISFP 6w7 Gilmore Girls — Snake/Badger

Éowyn ISFP cp6w7 The Lord of the Rings — Snake/Lion

Jon Snow ISFP 6w5 Game of Thrones — Lion/Lion

Anakin Skywalker ESFP cp6w7 Star Wars — Snake/Lion

Arya Stark ESFP cp6w7 Game of Thrones — Snake/Lion

Xander Harris ESFP 6w7 Buffy the Vampire Slayer — Lion/Badger

Malyen Oretsev ESTP 6w7 Shadow & Bone — Snake/Badger

Ygritte ESTP cp6w7 Game of Thrones — Badger/Lion

Macy Vaugn INTP 6w5 Charmed — Bird/Bird

Bucky Barnes ISTP 6w7 The Falcon and the Winter Soldier — Bird/Bird

Emma Swann ISTP cp6w5 Once Upon a Time — Snake/Lion

Montgomery Scott ISTP 6w7 Star Trek (New) — Bird/Snake

Mulan ISTP 6w7 Mulan — Lion/Bird

Natasha Romanoff ISTP cp6w5 Black Widow — Badger/Snake

Adalind Schade ISFJ 6w7 Grimm — Snake/Snake

Allison Argent ISFJ 6w7 Teen Wolf — Bird/Lion

C-3PO ISFJ 6w7 Star Wars — Bird/Bird

Edward Cullen ISFJ 6w5 The Twilight Saga — Snake/Snake

Neville Longbottom ISFJ 6w5 Harry Potter — Lion/Badger

Peter Pettigrew ISFJ 6w7 Harry Potter — Lion/Badger

Aragorn ISTJ 6w5 The Lord of the Rings — Snake/Lion

Brienne of Tarth ISTJ 6w5 Game of Thrones — Badger/Lion

Illya ISTJ cp6w5 The Man From UNCLE — Snake/Lion

Katniss Everdeen ISTJ 6w5 The Hunger Games — Snake/Lion

Luke Danes ISTJ 6w5 Gilmore Girls — Lion/Badger

Rupert Giles ISTJ 6w5 Buffy the Vampire Slayer — Badger/Lion

Susan Pevensie ISTJ 6w5 The Chronicles of Narnia — Bird/Bird

Théoden ISTJ 6w5 The Lord of the Rings — Badger/Lion

Jacob Black ESTP 6w7 Twilight — Snake/Lion

LP: 7

BiP: 9

SP: 16

BaP: 6

LS: 19

SS: 6

BiS: 6

BaS: 5

Snake/Lion = 10

Bird/Bird = 4

Lion/Badger = 4

Badger/Lion = 4

Snake/Snake = 3

Bird/Lion = 3

Lion/Lion = 2

Badger/Snake = 2

Snake/Badger = 2

Snake/Bird = 1

Bird/Snake = 1

Lion/Bird = 1

Bird/Bird = 1

Seven:

Elizabeth Bennet ENFP 7w6 Pride & Prejudice — Snake/Lion

Henry Mills ENFP 7w6 Once Upon a Time — Lion/Lion

Lorelai Gilmore ENFP 7w6 Gilmore Girls — Lion/Snake

Tenth Doctor ENFP 7w8 Doctor Who — Lion/Lion

Darcy Lewis ENTP 7w6 WandaVision — Bird/Lion

Eleven ENTP 7w6 Doctor Who — Snake/Snake

Jonathan Carnahan ENTP 7w6 The Mummy — Bird/Snake

Lyra ENTP 7w8 The Golden Compass — Lion/Snake

Merry Brandybuck ENTP 7w6 The Lord of the Rings — Badger/Bird

Moist von Lipwig ENTP 7w6 Going Postal — Snake/Snake

Tyrion Lannister ENTP 7w6 Game of Thrones — Bird/Snake

Logan Echolls ISFP 7wcp6 Veronica Mars — Snake/Lion

Amelia Pond ESFP 7w8 Doctor Who — Lion/Lion

Jesper Fahey ESFP 7w6 Shadow & Bone — Snake/Snake

Pippin Took 7w6 The Lord of the Rings — Lion/Snake

Rose Tyler ESFP 7w8 Doctor Who — Snake/Lion

Serena Van Der Woodsen ESFP 7w8 Gossip Girl — Bird/Lion

Sirius Black ESFP 7w8 Harry Potter — Lion/Lion

Tony Stark ESFP 7w8 Avengers — Snake/Lion

Emmett Cullen ESTP 7w8 The Twilight Saga — Badger/Lion

Gabrielle Solis ESTP 7w8 Desperate Housewives — Bird/Snake

Han Solo ESTP 7w8 Star Wars — Snake/Lion

Jack Sparrow ESTP 7w6 Pirates of the Caribbean — Lion/Snake

Peter ESTP 7w8 The Great — Snake/Lion

Rhett Butler ESTP 7w8 Gone With the Wind — Lion/Snake

Rick O’Connell ESTP 7w8 The Mummy — Snake/Lion

Scott Lang ESTP 7w6 Ant Man & the Wasp — Snake/Bird

Selena Kyle ESTP 7w6 The Dark Knight Trilogy — Badger/Snake

Thor ESTP 7w8 The Avengers — Lion/Lion

Gaby ISTP 7w8 The Man From UNCLE — Lion/Bird

Spike ISTP 7w8 Angel / Buffy the Vampire Slayer — Snake/Snake

Fred Weasley ENTP 7w8 — Lion/Snake

George Weasley ENFP 7w6 — Snake/Bird

James Kirk ESTP 7w8 Star Trek — Lion/Snake

Lucifer Morningstar ESTP 7w8 so/sx Lucifer — Badger/Snake

Eve ESFP 7w6 Lucifer — Lion/Badger

LP: 14

BiP: 5

SP: 13

BaP: 4

LS: 15

SS: 16

BiS: 3

BaS: 1

Snake/Lion = 7

Lion/Snake = 7

Lion/Lion = 5

Snake/Snake = 4

Bird/Snake = 3

Bird/Lion = 2

Snake/Bird = 2

Badger/Snake = 2

Badger/Bird = 1

Badger/Lion = 1

Lion/Badger = 1

Eight:

Alexander Hamilton ENTJ 8w7 Hamilton — Snake/Lion

Gale Hawthorne ENTJ 8w9 The Hunger Games — Lion/Lion

Kaz Brekker ENTJ 8w9 Shadow & Bone — Snake/Snake

Leia Organa ENTJ 8w9 Star Wars — Lion/Lion

Lynette Scavo ENTJ 8w9 Desperate Housewives — Snake/Snake

Adora Belle Dearheart ESTJ 8w9 Going Postal — Snake/Snake

Angelica Schulyer ESTJ 8w7 Hamilton — Snake/Snake

Cersei Lannister ESTJ 8w9 Game of Thrones — Snake/Lion

Donna Noble ESTJ 8w7 Doctor Who — Lion/Lion

Éomer ESTJ 8w9 The Lord of the Rings — Lion/Lion

Hector Barbossa ESTJ 8w7 The Pirates of the Caribbean — Snake/Badger

Marial ESTJ 8w9 The Great — Snake/Lion

Tywin Lannister ESTJ 8w9 Game of Thrones — Lion/Bird

Victoria Argent ESTJ 8w9 Teen Wolf — Lion/Lion

Elizabeth Swann ESFP 8w7 The Pirates of the Caribbean — Lion/Snake

Imhotep ESFP 8w9 The Mummy — Snake/Bird

Mel Vera ESFP 8w7 Charmed — Lion/Lion

Yelena Belova ESFP 8w7 Black Widow — Snake/Lion

Chuck Bass ESTP 8w7 Gossip Girl — Snake/Bird

Dean Winchester ESTP 8w7 Supernatural — Badger/Bird

Ginny Weasley ESTP 8w7 Harry Potter — Snake/Lion

Kate Argent ESTP 8w7 Teen Wolf — Lion/Snake

Derek Hale ISTP 8w9 Teen Wolf — Snake/Bird

Ginny Weasley ESTP 8w7 — Snake/Lion

Jean Valjean ISTJ 8w9 Les Miserables — Lion/Snake

Mazikeen Smith ESTJ 8w7 Lucifer — Snake/Lion

LP: 10

BiP: 0

SP: 15

BaP: 1

LS: 13

SS: 7

BiS: 5

BaS: 1

Snake/Lion = 7

Lion/Lion = 6

Snake/Snake = 4

Snake/Bird = 3

Lion/Snake = 3

Snake/Badger = 1

Lion/Bird = 1

Badger/Bird = 1

Nine:

Carlisle Cullen ENFJ 9w1 The Twilight Saga — Badger/Badger

Mr. Bingley ESFJ 9w1 Pride & Prejudice — Badger/Badger

Cora Crawley ESFJ 9w1 Downton Abbey — Snake/Bird

Nate Archibald ESFJ 9w1 Gossip Girl — Badger/Lion

Peeta Mellark ESFJ 9w1 The Hunger Games — Snake/Badger

Aaron Burr INFJ 9w1 Hamilton — Snake/Snake

Drusilla INFJ 9w1 Buffy the Vampire Slayer — Lion/Snake

Faramir INFJ 9w1 The Lord of the Rings — Bird/Bird

Samwell Tarly ENFP 9w1 Game of Thrones — Bird/Bird

Frodo Baggins INFP 9w1 The Lord of the Rings — Bird/Snake

Lucy Pevensie INFP 9w1 The Chronicles of Narnia — Lion/Badger

Sybil Crawley INFP 9w8 Downton Abbey — Badger/Lion

Wanda Maximoff INFP 9w8 WandaVision — Snake/Lion

Bella Swan ISFP 9w8 The Twilight Saga — Snake/Bird

Fantine ISFP 9w1 Les Miserables — Snake/Lion

Gregor ISFP 9w8 The Great — Snake/Lion

Harry Potter ISFP 9w8 Harry Potter — Bird/Lion

Inej Ghafa ISFP 9w8 Shadow & Bone — Bird/Bird

Jaime Lannister ESFP 9w8 Game of Thrones — Lion/Snake

Jasmine ESFP 9w8 Aladdin (2019) — Lion/Snake

Aladdin ESTP 9w8 Aladdin (2019) — Snake/Snake

Luna Lovegood INTP 9w1 Harry Potter — Bird/Badger

Vision INTP 9w1 WandaVision — Badger/Bird

Jasper Hale ISTP 9w1 The Twilight Saga — Snake/Badger

Nick Burkhardt ISTP 9w1 Grimm — Bird/Lion

Jane Bennet ISFJ 9w1 Pride & Prejudice — Badger/Badger

Melanie Wilkes ISFJ 9w1 Gone With the Wind — Badger/Snake

Rory Gilmore ISFJ 9w1 Gilmore Girls — Bird/Bird

Mando ISTJ 9w8 The Mandalorian — Badger/Lion

Arthur Weasley INTP 9w8 — Lion/Bird

LP: 5

BiP: 8

SP: 9

BaP: 8

LS: 8

SS: 7

BiS: 8

BaS: 7

Bird/Bird = 4

Badger/Badger = 3

Lion/Snake = 3

Badger/Lion = 3

Snake/Lion = 3

Snake/Bird = 2

Snake/Badger = 2

Snake/Snake = 2

Bird/Lion = 2

Bird/Snake = 1

Lion/Badger = 1

Bird/Badger = 1

Bird/Lion = 1

Badger/Snake = 1

Lion/Bird = 1

So:

Aleskander Kirigan ENFJ 3w4 so/sx [Shadow & Bone] — Badger/Badger

Charles Xavier ENFJ 2w1 [X-Men] so — Badger/Badger

Emma Woodhouse ENFJ 2w3 [Emma] so — Lion/Lion

Jasmine ENFJ 2w1 [Aladdin] so/sp — Lion/Snake

Loki ENFJ 4w3 [The Avengers] so/sp — Snake/Bird

Maggie Vera ENFJ 3w2 [Charmed] so — Badger/Badger

Marcel Gerard ENFJ 3w2 [The Originals] so — Lion/Badger

Mr. Bingley ESFJ 9w1 Pride & Prejudice so — Badger/Badger

Boromir ESFJ 2w3 The Lord of the Rings so/sp — Snake/Lion

Clark Kent ESFJ 2w1 Smallville so/sp — Snake/Snake

Cora Crawley ESFJ 9w1 Downton Abbey so — Snake/Bird

Daphne Bridgerton ESFJ 2w1 Bridgerton so/sp — Badger/Snake

Gertrude ESFJ 3w2 Ophelia so — Snake/Lion

George Knightley ESFJ 1w2 Emma so/sp — Snake/Badger

Georgiana ESFJ 3w2 The Great so — Snake/Snake

Guenevere Pendragon ESFJ 2w1 Merlin so — Badger/Badger

Peter Pevensie ESFJ 2w3 The Chronicles of Narnia so — Badger/Lion

Sam Wilson ESFJ 2w1 The Falcon and the Winter Soldier so/sp — Badger/Lion

Molly Weasley ESFJ 2w3 so — Snake/Lion

Aaron Burr INFJ 9w1 [Hamilton] so/sp — Snake/Snake

Faramir INFJ 9w1 The Lord of the Rings so/sx — Bird/Bird

Gandalf INFJ 6w7 The Lord of the Rings so/sp — Bird/Bird

Brandon Stark INTJ 5w4 Game of Thrones so — Bird/Badger

Elrond INTJ 1w2 The Lord of the Rings so/sp — Bird/Bird

Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto INTJ 6w5 X-Men so — Lion/Lion

Alexander Hamilton ENTJ 8w7 Hamilton so/sp — Snake/Lion

Denethor ENTJ 3w4 The Lord of the Rings so/sp — Snake/Bird

Gale Hawthorne ENTJ 8w9 The Hunger Games so/sp — Lion/Lion

Leia Organa ENTJ 8w9 Star Wars so — Lion/Lion

Mary Crawley ENTJ 3w4 Downton Abbey so — Snake/Snake

Adora Belle Dearheart ESTJ 8w9 Going Postal so/sp — Snake/Snake

Angelica Schulyer ESTJ 8w7 Hamilton so — Snake/Snake

Anthony Bridgerton ESTJ 1w2 Bridgerton so/sx — Badger/Lion

Blair Waldorf ESTJ 3w4 Gossip Girl so — Snake/Badger

Bree Van De Kamp ESTJ 1w2 Desperate Housewives so/sp — Badger/Bird

Cersei Lannister ESTJ 8w9 Game of Thrones so/sp — Snake/Lion

Cordelia Chase 3 ESTJ w2 Buffy the Vampire Slayer so/sp — Lion/Lion

Donna Noble ESTJ 8w7 Doctor Who so — Lion/Lion

Éomer ESTJ 8w9 The Lord of the Rings so/sp — Lion/Lion

James Norrington ESTJ 3w2 The Pirates of the Caribbean so — Bird/Badger

Lydia Martin ESTJ 3w2 Teen Wolf so/sx — Bird/Bird

Paris Gellar ESTJ 3w2 Gilmore Girls so/sp — Lion/Lion

Percy Weasley ESTJ 3w2 Harry Potter so — Lion/Bird

Violet Crawley ESTJ 6w5 Downton Abbey so — Snake/Snake

Catherine the Great ENFP 3w2 The Great so — Lion/Bird

Elizabeth Bennet ENFP 7w6 Pride & Prejudice so — Snake/Lion

Tenth Doctor ENFP 7w8 Doctor Who so — Lion/Lion

George Weasley ENFP 7w6 so — Snake/Bird

Darcy Lewis ENTP 7w6 WandaVision so/sx — Bird/Lion

Merry Brandybuck ENTP 7w6 The Lord of the Rings so/sp — Badger/Bird

Frodo Baggins INFP 9w1 The Lord of the Rings so/sp — Bird/Snake

Lucy Pevensie INFP 9w1 The Chronicles of Narnia so/sp — Lion/Badger

Susan Mayer INFP 6w7 Desperate Housewives so/sp — Snake/Lion

Sybil Crawley INFP 9w8 Downton Abbey so/sp — Badger/Lion

Edith Crawley ISFP 4w3 Downton Abbey so — Bird/Badger

Edmund Pevensie ISFP 4w3 The Chronicles of Narnia so — Bird/Snake

Harry Potter ISFP 9w8 Harry Potter so — Bird/Lion

Hope Mikaelson ISFP 2w1 Legacies / The Originals so — Snake/Lion

Inej Ghafa ISFP 9w8 Shadow & Bone so/sp — Bird/Bird

Arya Stark ESFP cp6w7 Game of Thrones so — Snake/Lion

Elizabeth Swann ESFP 8w7 The Pirates of the Caribbean so — Lion/Snake

Jasmine ESFP 9w8 Aladdin (2019) so/sp — Lion/Snake

Jesper Fahey ESFP 7w6 Shadow & Bone so/sx — Snake/Snake

Robb Sark ESFP 1w2 Game of Thrones so/sx — Badger/Lion

Serena Van Der Woodsen ESFP 7w8 Gossip Girl so — Bird/Lion

Sirius Black ESFP 7w8 Harry Potter so — Lion/Lion

Tony Stark ESFP 7w8 Avengers so/sx — Snake/Lion

Draco Malfoy ESTP 3w4 Harry Potter so/sp — Badger/Snake

Ginny Weasley ESTP 8w7 Harry Potter so — Snake/Lion

Jackson Whittemore ESTP 3w4 Teen Wolf so/sp — Bird/Lion

Malyen Oretsev ESTP 6w7 Shadow & Bone so/sx — Snake/Badger

Napoleon Solo ESTP 3w2 The Man From UNCLE so/sx — Lion/Snake

Scott Lang ESTP 7w6 Ant Man & the Wasp so/sp — Snake/Bird

Ygritte ESTP cp6w7 Game of Thrones so — Badger/Lion

James Kirk ESTP 7w8 Star Trek so — Lion/Snake

Luna Lovegood INTP 9w1 Harry Potter so/sp — Bird/Badger

Milo J. Thatch INTP 5w6 Atlantis: The Lost Empire so/sx — Bird/Bird

Arthur Weasley INTP 9w8 so/sp — Lion/Bird

Bucky Barnes ISTP 6w7 The Falcon and the Winter Soldier so/sp — Bird/Bird

Derek Hale ISTP 8w9 Teen Wolf so/sx — Snake/Bird

Evie Carnahan ISTP 5w4 The Mummy so — Bird/Lion

Nick Burkhardt ISTP 9w1 Grimm so/sp — Bird/Lion

Allison Argent ISFJ 6w7 Teen Wolf sp/sx — Bird/Lion

C-3PO ISFJ 6w7 Star Wars sp — Bird/Bird

Jane Bennet ISFJ 9w1 Pride & Prejudice so — Badger/Badger

Melanie Wilkes ISFJ 9w1 Gone With the Wind so — Badger/Snake

Padme Amidala ISFJ 2w1 Star Wars so — Lion/Snake

Robert Crawley ISFJ 2w1 Downton Abbey so — Bird/Badger

Steve Rogers ISFJ 1w2 Avengers so/sp — Lion/Badger

Catelyn Stark ISTJ 1w2 Game of Thrones so — Snake/Badger

Susan Pevensie ISTJ 6w5 The Chronicles of Narnia so/sp — Bird/Bird

Théoden ISTJ 6w5 The Lord of the Rings so/sp — Badger/Lion

Jean Valjean ISTJ 8w9 Les Miserables so — Lion/Snake

Inspector Javert ISTJ 1w2 Les Miserables so — Bird/Lion

LP: 23

BiP: 24

SP: 29

BaP: 19

LS: 34

SS: 20

BiS: 19

BaS: 18

Snake/Lion = 11

Lion/Lion = 10

Snake/Snake = 8

Bird/Bird = 8

Bird/Lion = 8

Lion/Snake = 7

Badger/Lion = 7

Snake/Bird = 6

Badger/Badger = 5

Snake/Badger = 4

Bird/Badger = 4

Lion/Badger = 3

Badger/Snake = 3

Lion/Bird = 3

Badger/Bird = 2

Bird/Snake = 2

Sx:

Regina Mills ENFJ 2w3 [Once Upon a Time] sx/so — Snake/Bird

Margaery Tyrell ESFJ 2w3 Game of Thrones sx — Snake/Badger

Nate Archibald ESFJ 9w1 Gossip Girl sx — Badger/Lion

Peeta Mellark ESFJ 9w1 The Hunger Games sx — Snake/Badger

Drusilla INFJ 9w1 Buffy the Vampire Slayer sx/so — Lion/Snake

Galadriel INFJ 1w9 The Lord of the Rings sp/so — Snake/Lion

Varys INFJ 5w6 Game of Thrones sp — Snake/Snake

Mr. Darcy INTJ 5w4 Pride & Prejudice sp/sx — Snake/Badger

Elphaba Thropp INTJ 4w5 sp/sx Wicked! sp — Lion/Lion

Veronica Mars cp ENFP 6w7 Veronica Mars sx — Badger/Snake

Eleven 7w6 Doctor Who ENTP sx — Snake/Snake

Ophelia 6w7 Hamlet INFP sx — Bird/Lion

Alina Starkov ISFP 6w7 Shadow & Bone sx/sp — Snake/Lion

Éowyn ISFP cp6w7 The Lord of the Rings sx/so — Snake/Lion

Fantine ISFP 9w1 Les Miserables sx — Snake/Lion

Logan Echolls ISFP 7wcp6 Veronica Mars so — Snake/Lion

Mary Margaret Blanchard ISFP 2w1 Once Upon a Time so/sx — Badger/Lion

Scott McCall ISFP 2w1 Teen Wolf so/sx — Badger/Badger

William Turner ISFP 1w9 The Pirates of the Caribbean so/sx — Badger/Lion

Anakin Skywalker ESFP cp6w7 Star Wars sx — Snake/Lion

Imhotep ESFP 8w9 The Mummy sx — Snake/Bird

Jaime Lannister ESFP 9w8 Game of Thrones sx — Lion/Snake

Rose Tyler ESFP 7w8 Doctor Who sx — Snake/Lion

Kate Argent ESTP 8w7 Teen Wolf sx/so — Lion/Snake

Scarlett O’Hara ESTP 3w2 Gone With the Wind sx — Snake/Lion

Dan Humphrey ISTP 5w4 Gossip Girl sx — Lion/Badger

Adalind Schade ISFJ 6w7 Grimm sx/sp — Snake/Snake

Cosette ISFJ 2w3 Les Miserables sx — Lion/Snake

LP: 6

BiP: 1

SP: 16

BaP: 5

LS: 13

SS: 8

BiS: 2

BaS: 5

Snake/Lion = 8

Lion/Snake = 4

Snake/Badger = 3

Badger/Lion = 3

Snake/Snake = 3

Snake/Bird = 2

Badger/Badger = 1

Lion/Badger = 1

Lion/Lion = 1

Badger/Snake = 1

Bird/Lion = 1

Sp:

Sam Gamgee ESFJ 2w1 The Lord of the Rings sp/so — Snake/Badger

Alec Hardy INTJ 5w6 Broadchurch sp — Snake/Bird

Mr. Gold / Rumple INTJ 5w4 Once Upon a Time sp/sx — Snake/Bird

Michael Corleone INTJ 5w6 The Godfather sp — Badger/Bird

Mycroft Holmes INTJ 5w4 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes sp/so — Lion/Bird

Petyr Baelish INTJ 3w4 Game of Thrones sp/so — Snake/Snake

Tom Riddle INTJ 3w4 Harry Potter sp/so — Lion/Bird

Victor Frankenstein INTJ 5w4 Victor Frankenstein sp/sx — Bird/Bird

Gerard Argent ENTJ 8w9 [Teen Wolf] sp/so — Lion/Bird

Kaz Brekker ENTJ 8w9 Shadow & Bone sp/so — Snake/Snake

Lynette Scavo ENTJ 8w9 Desperate Housewives sp/so — Snake/Snake

Palpatine ENTJ 3w4 Star Wars sp — Snake/Bird

Hector Barbossa ESTJ 8w7 The Pirates of the Caribbean sp — Snake/Badger

Hermione Granger ESTJ 1w2 Harry Potter sp — Lion/Bird

Marial ESTJ 8w9 The Great sp — Snake/Lion

Tywin Lannister ESTJ 8w9 Game of Thrones sp/so — Lion/Bird

Victoria Argent ESTJ 8w9 Teen Wolf sp/so — Lion/Lion

Samwell Tarly ENFP 9w1 Game of Thrones sp — Bird/Bird

Jonathan Carnahan ENTP 7w6 The Mummy sp — Bird/Snake

Moist von Lipwig ENTP 7w6 Going Postal sp — Snake/Snake

Stiles Stilinksi ENTP 6w7 Teen Wolf sp/sx — Snake/Bird

Tyrion Lannister ENTP 7w6 Game of Thrones sp/so — Bird/Snake

Fred Weasley ENTP 7w8 sp — Lion/Snake

Gregor ISFP 9w8 The Great sp — Snake/Lion

Jon Snow ISFP 6w5 Game of Thrones sp — Lion/Lion

Luke Skywalker ISFP 1w2 Star Wars sp/so — Bird/Lion

Amelia Pond ESFP 7w8 Doctor Who sp — Lion/Lion

Joffrey Baratheon ESFP 3w2 Game of Thrones sp — Lion/Lion

Pippin Took ESFP 7w6 The Lord of the Rings sp/so — Lion/Snake

Ron Weasley ESFP 4w3 Harry Potter sp/so — Lion/Lion

Xander Harris ESFP 6w7 Buffy the Vampire Slayer sp/so — Lion/Badger

Yelena Belova ESFP 8w7 Black Widow sp/sx — Snake/Lion

Aladdin ESTP 9w8 Aladdin (2019) sp/so — Snake/Snake

Chuck Bass ESTP 8w7 Gossip Girl sp — Snake/Bird

Dean Winchester ESTP 8w7 Supernatural sp/so — Badger/Bird

Emmett Cullen ESTP 7w8 The Twilight Saga sp/sx — Badger/Lion

Gabrielle Solis ESTP 7w8 Desperate Housewives sp/sx — Bird/Snake

Han Solo ESTP 7w8 Star Wars sp — Snake/Lion

Jack Sparrow ESTP 7w6 Pirates of the Caribbean sp — Lion/Snake

Peter ESTP 7w8 The Great sp — Snake/Lion

Rhett Butler ESTP 7w8 Gone With the Wind sp — Lion/Snake

Rick O’Connell ESTP 7w8 The Mummy sp — Snake/Lion

Selena Kyle ESTP 7w6 The Dark Knight Trilogy sp/so — Badger/Snake

Macy Vaugn INTP 6w5 Charmed sp — Bird/Bird

Milena INTP 5w6 Black Widow sp/so — Bird/Bird

Twelve INTP 5w4 Doctor Who sp/so — Snake/Bird

Emma Swann ISTP cp6w5 Once Upon a Time sp/sx — Snake/Lion

Gaby ISTP 7w8 The Man From UNCLE sp/so — Lion/Bird

Montgomery Scott ISTP 6w7 Star Trek (New) sp — Bird/Snake

Mulan ISTP 6w7 Mulan sp — Lion/Bird

Natasha Romanoff ISTP cp6w5 Black Widow sp/so — Badger/Snake

Sherlock Holmes ISTP 5w4 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes sp/so — Badger/Snake

Spike ISTP 7w8 Angel / Buffy the Vampire Slayer sp/sx — Snake/Snake

Allison Argent ISFJ 6w7 Teen Wolf sp/sx — Bird/Lion

C-3PO ISFJ 6w7 Star Wars sp — Bird/Bird

Eliza Schuyler Hamilton ISFJ 2w1 Hamilton sp — Snake/Badger

Neville Longbottom ISFJ 6w5 Harry Potter sp — Lion/Badger

Aragorn ISTJ 6w5 The Lord of the Rings sp/so — Snake/Lion

Brienne of Tarth ISTJ 6w5 Game of Thrones sp — Badger/Lion

Chris Argent ISTJ 1w9 Teen Wolf sp/so — Badger/Bird

Eddard Stark ISTJ 1w9 Game of Thrones sp — Badger/Lion

George Washington ISTJ 1w9 (Hamilton) sp — Badger/Badger

Harry Greenwood ISTJ 1w2 Charmed sp — Badger/Bird

Katniss Everdeen ISTJ 6w5 The Hunger Games sp/so — Snake/Lion

Luke Danes ISTJ 6w5 Gilmore Girls sp/so — Lion/Badger

Mando ISTJ 9w8 The Mandalorian sp/so — Badger/Lion

Rupert Giles ISTJ 6w5 Buffy the Vampire Slayer sp/so — Badger/Lion

LP: 19

BiP: 11

SP: 24

BaP: 13

LS: 21

SS: 16

BiS: 22

BaS: 7

Snake/Lion = 9

Lion/Bird = 7

Snake/Bird = 6

Snake/Snake = 6

Badger/Lion = 6

Bird/Bird = 5

Lion/Lion = 5

Bird/Snake = 4

Lion/Snake = 4

Badger/Bird = 4

Lion/Badger = 3

Snake/Badger = 3

Badger/Snake = 3

Bird/Lion = 2

Badger/Badger = 1

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1823 July, Mon. 28

8 50/60

11 1/2

See the last line of yesterday. Masturbation at twelve thinking of Tib. Slept uncomfortably and awoke at two and alas masturbation again, having just had a rigmarole dream of being in bed with Miss Lloyd of York, Miss Susan L[loyd]’s sister, and of pretending to be asleep while I had been grubbling her, she liking it exceedingly –

Disturbed rest from a little after 2 to 4 then awoke with a pretty severe bilious pain in my stomach – Tossed and tumbled about – Sick but not enough to give me much relief – Heard every clock struck – Merely dozed a little – Had been much heated and perhaps throwing the quilt off had brought on the pain – I had felt too suddenly cold, and pulled the clothes on again –

1/4 hour in the stable speaking to Charles Howarth – 3 pages very kind letter from Mrs. Norcliffe Langton – (the ends from Marianne Dalton to say she will write soon) – Mrs. N– [Norcliffe] is glad she can give me “a tent-bed” at the festival a room to myself “tho’ not too large and a most hearty welcome” – The party Mrs. N– [Norcliffe] I[sabella] N[orcliffe] and Charlotte and the 3 oldest girls from Croft –

No quarrel between Dr. Camidge and Greatorex – Speaking of Miss Fawkes, “one has often heard of “wedding haste,” but seldom sun such an instance as Miss Fawkes’s – A letter from York says they had met very often in town, but my information from Scarbro’ says, and that from a near relative, they had only met once, and that at dinner at her uncle Brandlings – Proposals the day following, and post haste down to York to learn his fate – Papa objected as too slight an acquaintance but the young lady was determined and lucky, for it is for her that he is a most worthy man, tho’ so would think “too much old” –

Went down to breakfast at 9 55/60 – Very bilious – Would not have got up but wished to go to H–x [Halifax] to see Marian etc. At 11 1/2 took George in the gig, and drove to Northgate – Marian well again or nearly so – Sat with her 10 minutes –

Called at Whitley’s, Mrs. N– [Norcliffe]’s Shakespeare gallery not arrived – The prints to be bound in 2 volumes 31/6 each volume – The gig waited at Mr. Banson’s door whole I walked a little with Mrs. R– [Rawson] of Stony Royde – Called on Mrs. William Rawson and Mrs. Saltmarshe, not admitted – Sat above 1/2 hour with Mrs. Stansfield R– [Rawson] and her daughter Catherine – Called on Mrs. C[hristopher] Saltmarshe and Mrs. Catherine R– [Rawson] who is staying with her, not admitted –

Called again at Northgate to speak to Thomas Greenwood about a black gig horse price 50 guineas to be bought of Illingworth of the anchor public house – The horse to come here at 4 this afternoon – Thomas had heard from several and Sugden, the horse breaker, said he used to see George galloping and tashing the horses thro the town and on the moor last winter, and people said we must have a very bad groo[m] at Shibden Hall. Thomas did not wish to injure any poor man, any servant, but our horses had looked like ketall this year. I said I would not bring his name into the business –

Ushered in Miss Elizabeth Prescott at Northgate, staid a few minutes and got home at 1 50/60 – My aunt and I sauntered down the lane into the hay fields – I told her the black mare had gone lame this morning – and I should send for Blamire this afternoon (George rode her yesterday to Huddersfield to see his friends at Lascelles hall) – She never went lame before – Did not hint at what I had heard, but said as I have often said before, I was dissatisfied with George as a groom and much wished my uncle would let me hire one myself and have him entirely of my own ordering, them perhaps we might have our horses as we ought to have –

Came upstairs at 2 10/60 – Wrote all the above of today – Read from page 104 to 211 Dr. Paris’s Pharmacologia. Blamire came at 6, the black mare’s off fore-foot a little gravelled – Took off the shoe pared down the crust, in 1 little place down to the sensible foot, filled it up with adhesive plaister (vide plaister adhesive volume 2 white) put a ledger of tow over it, and then the shoe on again – May use the mare again in a few days –

Blamire had brought a bottle of stuff to take down Hotspur’s splint on his near foreleg – Equal parts spirit turpentine and ammonia, (vide White volume 2 liquid blister and vide ammonia) and soap liniment to make it adhere – Blamire rubbed on about a tea-or dessert spoonful – This rubbing to be repeated several times at first every day then every other day – The horse turned out again within the hour (kept up a little for fear he should bite or rub the part while it smarted) and I observed in the field that the hair was brought off –

Finish day Came in to dinner at 6 1/2 – In the evening went into the field to the horses, and gave Hotspur oat-cake – Then sauntered along the new road and in the garden with my aunt and did not come in till 8 50/60 p.m. – Got some strawberries in the garden, I hope not too many –

Finish day – Barometer 1 1/2 degree below changeable Fahrenheit 57º at 8 50/60 p.m. E [two dots, treating venereal complaint] O [two dots, signifying discharge] Not so much as yesterday, yet Blamires coming prevented my washing before dinner –

Came upstairs at 10 55/60. Warm soap lather, as last night, of the hot water brought to bathe my eyes with –

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Monday 24 March 1834

Fine morning Fahrenheit 49 1/2 at 7 5/.. a.m. went to Charles Howarth’s to tell him at 8 1/4 it was time to come to his work – breakfast at 9 with Marian and stayed talking 3/4 hour – Parcel from Miss Walker with note 3 pages of 1/2 sheet – one or 2 more [communications]

But to say she had had letter from Miss Atkinson that Mr Edwards wanted a letter to be written to Messers John Edwards and Sons ordering the payment of the two hundred pounds she asked how to do it bade her write to Miss Atkinson as usual saying she had reserved the first half her sheet for the order as requested which she Miss Atkinson was to present when she thought proper -York 24 March.18 hundred and thirty four pay to Miss Ann Atkinson and to Miss - - or their order on demand on their joint and equal account the sum of two hundred pounds sterling with interest there on at five percent from the thirty first day of December eighteen hundred and thirty four which place to account of Ann Walker, Messers John Edwards and Sons, Pye Nest near Halifax –

Wrote nearly 3 hurried pages to ‘Miss Walker’ and sent them in parcel to ‘Miss Walker, Heworth Grange, York’ at 12 40/.. 12 25/.. by Halifax church clock by Thomas to the Stump Cross turnpike there to wait for the mail and give the parcel in charge to the guard - Told Miss Walker I had just written to Mrs Lawton saying I should be able to give her a more distinct answer by and by – On Thomas’s return, he asked if he could be at liberty in a month as he was going to be married but would wait till I had got another servant –

Out with Mallinson’s 2 masons and boy putting coping stone on to the garden wall again, and with Pickles and his 5 men – they bared the pipes this afternoon and took up the troughs (stone water conduit) – Mr Sunderland came at 5 1/2 – my aunt better and has been so these last few days –

Dinner at 6 3/4 – and coffee – added a few lines dated today under the seal of my letter 3 pages and ends to Mariana written yesterday to tell her Thomas is going to be married but will stay till I get another servant – sent her the address of her Paris staymaker – Madame Calès, rue des Vieux Augustins, no.18 sent off the letter (to ‘Mrs Lawton, Claremont House, Leamington, Warwickshire’) at 8 50/.. and wrote the whole of today till now 9 20/.. –

Greenwood was to have come this evening – but has not been – making out occupiers of land for settling about the taxes – with my aunt 25 minutes till 10 3/4 – fine day, though a hail shower or 2 in the afternoon Fahrenheit 49˚ now at 10 3/4 p.m. at plan of the estate till 11 1/2 –

#anne lister #anne lister code breaker #ann walker #1834

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Lionel Hampton

Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, and bandleader. Hampton worked with jazz musicians from Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman, and Buddy Rich to Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, and Quincy Jones. In 1992, he was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, and was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1996.

Biography

Early life

Lionel Hampton was born in 1908 in Louisville, Kentucky, and was raised by his mother. Shortly after he was born, he and his mother moved to her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. He spent his early childhood in Kenosha, Wisconsin, before he and his family moved to Chicago, Illinois, in 1916. As a youth, Hampton was a member of the Bud Billiken Club, an alternative to the Boy Scouts of America, which was off-limits because of racial segregation. During the 1920s, while still a teenager, Hampton took xylophone lessons from Jimmy Bertrand and began to play drums. Hampton was raised Roman Catholic, and started out playing fife and drum at the Holy Rosary Academy near Chicago.

Early career

Lionel Hampton began his career playing drums for the Chicago Defender Newsboys' Band (led by Major N. Clark Smith) while still a teenager in Chicago. He moved to California in 1927 or 1928, playing drums for the Dixieland Blues-Blowers. He made his recording debut with The Quality Serenaders led by Paul Howard, then left for Culver City and drummed for the Les Hite band at Sebastian's Cotton Club. One of his trademarks as a drummer was his ability to do stunts with multiple pairs of sticks such as twirling and juggling without missing a beat. During this period he began practicing on the vibraphone. In 1930 Louis Armstrong came to California and hired the Les Hite band, asking Hampton if he would play vibes on two songs. So began his career as a vibraphonist, popularizing the use of the instrument in the process. Invented ten years earlier, the vibraphone is essentially a xylophone with metal bars, a sustain pedal, and resonators equipped with electric-powered fans that add tremolo.

While working with the Les Hite band, Hampton also occasionally did some performing with Nat Shilkret and his orchestra. During the early 1930s, he studied music at the University of Southern California. In 1934 he led his own orchestra, and then appeared in the Bing Crosby film Pennies From Heaven (1936) alongside Louis Armstrong (wearing a mask in a scene while playing drums).

With Benny Goodman

Also in November 1936, the Benny Goodman Orchestra came to Los Angeles to play the Palomar Ballroom. When John Hammond brought Goodman to see Hampton perform, Goodman invited him to join his trio, which soon became the Benny Goodman Quartet with Teddy Wilson and Gene Krupa completing the lineup. The Trio and Quartet were among the first racially integrated jazz groups to perform before audiences, and were a leading small-group of the day.

Lionel Hampton Orchestra

While Hampton worked for Goodman in New York, he recorded with several different small groups known as the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, as well as assorted small groups within the Goodman band. In 1940 Hampton left the Goodman organization under amicable circumstances to form his own big band.

Hampton's orchestra developed a high-profile during the 1940s and early 1950s. His third recording with them in 1942 produced the version of "Flying Home", featuring a solo by Illinois Jacquet that anticipated rhythm & blues. Although Hampton first recorded "Flying Home" under his own name with a small group in 1940 for Victor, the best known version is the big band version recorded for Decca on May 26, 1942, in a new arrangement by Hampton's pianist Milt Buckner. The 78pm disc became successful enough for Hampton to record "Flyin' Home #2" in 1944, this time a feature for Arnett Cobb. The song went on to become the theme song for all three men. Guitarist Billy Mackel first joined Hampton in 1944, and would perform and record with him almost continuously through to the late 1970s. In 1947, Hamp performed "Stardust" at a "Just Jazz" concert for producer Gene Norman, also featuring Charlie Shavers and Slam Stewart; the recording was issued by Decca. Later, Norman's GNP Crescendo label issued the remaining tracks from the concert.

Hampton was a featured artist at numerous Cavalcade of Jazz concerts held at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles and produced by Leon Hefflin Sr. His first performance was at the second Cavalcade of Jazz concert held on October 12, 1946 and also featured Jack McVea, Slim Gaillard, T-Bone Walker, the Honeydrippers and Louis Armstrong. The fifth Cavalcade of Jazz concert was held in two locations, Wrigley Field in Los Angeles and Lane Field in San Diego, July 10, 1949 and September 3, 1949 respectively. Betty Carter, Jimmy Witherspoon, Buddy Banks, Smiley Turner and Big Jay McNeely also played with Hampton. It was at the sixth Cavalcade of Jazz, June 25, 1950 that precipitated the closest thing to a riot in the show’s eventful history. Lionel and his band paraded around the ball park’s infield playing ‘Flying High’. The huge crowd, around 14,000 went berserk, tossed cushions, coats, hats, programs, and just about anything else they could lay hands on and swarmed on the field. Dinah Washington, Roy Milton, PeeWee Crayton, Lillie Greenwood, Tiny Davis an Her Hell Divers were also featured. His final Cavalcade of Jazz concert held on July 24, 1955 (Eleventh) also featured Big Jay McNeely, The Medallions, The Penguins and James Moody and his Orchestra.

From the mid-1940s until the early 1950s, Hampton led a lively rhythm & blues band whose Decca Records recordings included numerous young performers who later had significant careers. They included bassist Charles Mingus, saxophonist Johnny Griffin, guitarist Wes Montgomery, and vocalist Dinah Washington. Other noteworthy band members were trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie, Cat Anderson, Kenny Dorham, and Snooky Young; trombonist Jimmy Cleveland, and saxophonists Jerome Richardson and Curtis Lowe.

The Hampton orchestra that toured Europe in 1953 included Clifford Brown, Gigi Gryce, Anthony Ortega, Monk Montgomery, George Wallington, Art Farmer, Quincy Jones, and singer Annie Ross. Hampton continued to record with small groups and jam sessions during the 1940s and 1950s, with Oscar Peterson, Buddy DeFranco, and others. In 1955, while in California working on The Benny Goodman Story he recorded with Stan Getz and made two albums with Art Tatum for Norman Granz as well as with his own big band.

Hampton performed with Louis Armstrong and Italian singer Lara Saint Paul at the 1968 Sanremo Music Festival in Italy. The performance created a sensation with Italian audiences, as it broke into a real jazz session. That same year, Hampton received a Papal Medal from Pope Paul VI.

Later career

During the 1960s, Hampton's groups were in decline; he was still performing what had succeeded for him earlier in his career. He did not fare much better in the 1970s, though he recorded actively for his Who's Who in Jazz record label, which he founded in 1977/1978.

Beginning in February 1984, Hampton and his band played at the University of Idaho's annual jazz festival, which was renamed the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival the following year. In 1987 the UI's school of music was renamed for Hampton, the first university music school named for a jazz musician.

Hampton remained active until a stroke in Paris in 1991 led to a collapse on stage. That incident, combined with years of chronic arthritis, forced him to cut back drastically on performances. However, he did play at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in 2001 shortly before his death.

Hampton died from congestive heart failure at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City, on August 31, 2002. He was interred at the Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York. His funeral was held on September 7, 2002, and featured a performance by Wynton Marsalis and David Ostwald's Gully Low Jazz Band at Riverside Church in Manhattan; the procession began at The Cotton Club in Harlem.

Personal life

On November 11, 1936, in Yuma, Arizona, Lionel Hampton married Gladys Riddle (1913–1971). Gladys was Lionel's business manager throughout much of his career. Many musicians recall that Lionel ran the music and Gladys ran the business.

During the 1950s he had a strong interest in Judaism and raised money for Israel. In 1953 he composed a King David suite and performed it in Israel with the Boston Pops Orchestra. Later in life Hampton became a Christian Scientist. Hampton was also a Thirty-third degree Prince Hall freemason. In January 1997, his apartment caught fire and destroyed his awards and belongings; Hampton escaped uninjured.

On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Lionel Hampton among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.

Charity

Hampton was deeply involved in the construction of various public housing projects, and founded the Lionel Hampton Development Corporation. Construction began with the Lionel Hampton Houses in Harlem, New York in the 1960s, with the help of then Republican governor Nelson Rockefeller. Hampton's wife, Gladys Hampton, also was involved in construction of a housing project in her name, the Gladys Hampton Houses. Gladys died in 1971. In the 1980s, Hampton built another housing project called Hampton Hills in Newark, New Jersey.

Hampton was a staunch Republican and served as a delegate to several Republican National Conventions. He served as Vice-Chairman of the New York Republican County Committee for some years and also was a member of the New York City Human Rights Commission. Hampton donated almost $300,000 to Republican campaigns and committees throughout his lifetime.

Awards

2001 – Harlem Jazz and Music Festival's Legend Award

1996 – International Jazz Hall of Fame Induction and Award (performed "Flying Home" with Illinois Jacquet and the Count Basie Orchestra)

1996 – National Medal of Arts presented by President Bill Clinton

1995 – Honorary Commissioner of Civil Rights by George Pataki

1995 – Honorary Doctorate from the New England Conservatory of Music

1993 – Honorary Doctorate from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore

1992 – Inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame

1992 - "Contributions To The Cultural Life of the Nation" award from John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

1988 – The National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Fellowship

1988 – The National Association of Jazz Educators Hall of Fame Award

1987 – Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from the University of Idaho – UI's School of Music renamed "Lionel Hampton School of Music."

1987 – The Roy Wilkins Memorial Award from the NAACP

1986 – The "One of a Kind" Award from Broadcast Music, Inc.

1984 – Jazz Hall of Fame Award from the Institute of Jazz Studies

1984 – Honorary Doctorate of Music from USC

1983 – The International Film and Television Festival of New York City Award

1983 – Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the State University of New York

1982 – Hollywood Walk of Fame Star

1981 – Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from Glassboro State College

1979 – Honorary Doctorate of Music from Howard University

1978 – Bronze Medallion from New York City

1976 – Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from Daniel Hale Williams University

1975 – Honorary Doctorate of Music from Xavier University of Louisiana

1974 – Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Pepperdine University

1968 – Papal Medal from Pope Paul VI

1966 – Handel Medallion

1957 – American Goodwill Ambassador by President Dwight D. Eisenhower

1954 – Israel's Statehood Award

Discography

Compilations of noteThe Chronological ... Classics series

note: every recording by Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra is included in this 12 volume series from the CLASSICS reissue label ...

The Chronological Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra 1937–1938 (#524) - RCA Victor recordings

The Chronological Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra 1938–1939 (#534) - RCA Victor recordings

The Chronological Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra 1939–1940 (#562) - RCA Victor recordings

The Chronological Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra 1940–1941 (#624) - RCA Victor recordings; first Decca session

The Chronological Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra 1942–1944 (#803) - Decca recordings

The Chronological Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra 1945–1946 (#922) - Decca recordings

The Chronological Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra 1946 (#946) - Decca recordings

The Chronological Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra 1947 (#994) - Decca recordings

The Chronological Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra 1949–1950 (#1161) - Decca recordings

The Chronological Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra 1950 (#1193) - Decca recordings

The Chronological Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra 1950–1951 (#1262) - last two Decca sessions; MGM recordings

The Chronological Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra 1951–1953 (#1429) - includes Hamp's first Norman Granz-produced quartet session (September 2, 1953) with Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, and Buddy Rich.

Glad-Hamp Records

GHLP-1001 (1961) The Many Sides Of Hamp

GHLP-3050 (1962) All That Twist'n Jazz

GHLP-1003 (1962) The Exciting Hamp In Europe

GHLP-1004 (1963) Bossa Nova Jazz

GHLP-1005 (1963) Recorded Live On Tour

GHLP-1006 (1964) Hamp In Japan/Live

GHLP-1007 (1965) East Meets West (Introducing Miyoko Hoshino)

GHLP-1009 (1965) A Taste Of Hamp

GHS-1011 (1967) Hamp Stamps [includes "Greasy Greens"]

GHS-1012 (1966) Hamp's Portrait Of A Woman

GHS-1020 (1979) Hamp's Big Band Live!

GHS-1021 (1980) Chameleon

GHS-1022 (1982) Outrageous

GHS-1023 (1983) Live In Japan

GHS-1024 (1984) Ambassador At Large

GHS-1025 (1985) Sentimental Journey (Featuring Sylvia Bennett)

GHS-1026 (1988) One Of A Kind

GHS-1027 (1987) Midnight Blues - with Dexter Gordon

GHCD-1028 (1990) Cookin' In The Kitchen

As sidemanWith Frank Sinatra

L.A. Is My Lady (Qwest/Warner Bros., 1984)

Filmography

Hampton appeared as himself in the films listed below.

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dull morning but fair till 9 ½ and then beginning to rain and F58° - had A- a few minutes at 8 ½ before she set off to walk to church – sat reading till 10 ½ the article in the last Quarterly on the 16th and 17th centuries a critic very favourable of [?] Popes of Rome 2nd and 3rd volumes Berlin 1836. breakfast in ½ hour till 11 then walked on the flags in front of the house for ¼ hour till a few drops of rain sent me in – then a little while dusting in my study when Greenwood (Thomas) came about 11 ½ or nearer 12 and staid till 1 ¼ - going tomorrow to the little watering place Askern near Doncaster not far from the Red house and Owston – talked about the mill and Northgate etc. Mr. Garlick the surgeon would give anything for a house up to Keighleys’ – shops to let for £50 per annum would pay 15p.c. – that ground there worth £5 a yard – worth more than the sheep croft – said I should not sell either for less – Mr. Carr not likely to take the White Swan at a £100 a year advance – which now since the Northgate hotel is worth a £100 a year less – G- saw that I would not say much about Carr except that, when an influential person here had spoken, I had asked if this parson would give security for the rent – G- said there would be no fear of getting the rent – there would always be plenty for that – However, I said I was not in despair about getting a tenant – should have plenty of applicants – the only thing was to choose the right one – said I had not yet reckoned up but thought the wheel race, wheel, meer-drift, and meer, and the whole water business compete would cost £2000, Mr. Harpers’ estimate of the mill building above £1100 say £1200 and Mr. Bates for the machinery above £1100 say £1200 and extras - .:. the mill about £2500 G- said it ought to pay 12p.c. yes! said I it ought, but I should throw off the 2p.c. on account of the colliery – G- owned it would be worth £400 a year – it now seems that Aquilla has no likelihood of keeping Mr. Hodgson’s mill long – Mr. Samuel Hodgson had told him the good will of the mill was worth £100 and that he AG- had robbed his brother of that – came up to my blue room and wrote the above of today – off to church at 2 ½ - A- thought me late and was waiting at Hinscliffes’ opposite the Crownest gates – Mr. Wilkinson did all the duty – preached 20 minutes from 2 Tim. 1. 12 – found Mr. Rawdon Briggs at Cliff hill – 1 ½ hour there – home at 6 20 – then wrote and set my letter to ‘Monsieur Cùsinberche Rue St. Victor °27 Faubourg St. Victor à Paris affranchie’ – Mr. Briggs spoke much on the subject of the navigation – receipts up to last Saturday for the year £66000 – dividends at 18p.c. = £30,000 and there is besides a Debt = £25,000 but we have done the late improvements without borrowing more and by and by when the necessary works are done shall pay off the debt and divide the profits of the concern so that only a small balance will be left in the hands of the treasurer Mr. Waterhouse who has lately had as much as £32000 in his hands on which the bank will allow him 3p.c. on the deposit – thus we shall by and by receive more than 9p.c. ½ yearly – no better investment – agrees with me the railroad will not hurt the canal – the former will never pay – mentioned to Stephenson a better line but he would not listen to it, his theory being to follow the water – (the courses of the rivers) – Mr. Charles Norris not a fit person to succeed his brother – best to have somebody out of business who will give his whole time to the navigation concerns – salary = £400 a year – Mr. N- gives a clerk who keeps the books £100 a year ( and .:. has a sinecure of the rest) – his canvass a private one (underhand, and, as I felt persuaded a job) – said A- and I were not pledged (said as to ourselves we came home we should vote against him) his canvass private or not was so active, I thought he would get the promise of the votes of the general subscribers – I had at 1st told Mr. B- I should sell my stock as soon as I could do it well, but, of course, had no thought of attempting it now – sealed and set off my letter (vide above) changed my pelisse – dinner at 6 ¾ - coffee at 8 – A- asleep on the sofa while I read the paper - saw Mr. SW- too at Cliff hill – Hardcastle wants £30 for a road 6 yards wide and merely a right of road at the bottom part – SW- bade him £10 thinking it £50 too much – said I would not be pothered with wood or road if H- could not make up his mind to be reasonable – SW- too had had an offer of the 4 Godley cottages – thought them worth 17 years purchase – no! said I, 16 enough – they are in bad repair - £250 quite enough for them – SW- had thought perhaps £300 – told him to offer £250 and let me know the result – I would not buy them too dear – came upstairs at 9 35 at which hour F58° - fine day, tho’ a few drops of rain during the afternoon service – had just written the last 23 lines at 10 pm

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Spring 2019 Honor List

NATCHITOCHES – One thousand forty-three undergraduates were named to Northwestern State University’s Honor List for the Spring 2019 semester. Students on the Honor List must be enrolled full-time and have a grade point average of between 3.0 and 3.49. Students listed by hometown are as follows.

Abbeville – Annemarie Broussard, MaKayla Lewis, Zabrinia Spates;

Aimwell – Jonathan Poole;

Alexandria – Markeyla Anderson, Gavin Arabie, Sharenthia Chew, Angel Christophe, Josyf Das Neves, Joshua Dorsey, Alexis Flowers, Kelvina Ford, Zuleika Fountain, Vanity Givens, Kyle Guillory, Khloe Jasper, Whitney Joffrion, Gustov Johnson, Martavius King, Ashley Koestler, Kasey Lacombe, Taylar Lee, Kelli Leone, Jimmie Magee, Dean Mayeux, Jason McDaniel, Jalyn Mcneal, Ashley Mitchell, John O’Dell, Madison Ogorek, Tiffany Ore, Sadae Polk, Alyssa Rivers, Mart Sampson, Brandy Sayer, Shakera Shorts, Kizzy Slaughter, Kiaijah Thomas, Hailey Urena, Jenna Wade, Alysha Walker, Aalyiah Williams;

Amelia – Renwick McPherson;

Anacoco – Rachel Fournier, Angela Guy, Andrea Halladay, Tristan Harvey, Madeleine Hensley, Aaron Norris, Jason Ortiz, Ireland Slocum, Amanda Sorg, Tyler Stephens, Emily Williams, Rhonda Perry,

Arlington, Texas -- Mariah Denson, Devin Gipson, O’Shea Jackson;

Arnaudville – Macey Boyd, Bailey Dautreuil, Maddison Janice;

Athens – Jacob Ellis;

Atlanta – Ashley Mitchell, Jackson Teal, Jamie Wagley;

Aurora, Colorado – William Mccullough;

Avondale – Mikala Clark;

Bastrop – Alisha Bolton;

Baton Rouge – Jordan Hall, Melvin Hudson;

Belcher – Loriann Long;

Boyce – Lane Robinson

Baker – Devante George, Cherish Netter;

Ball – Angel Chavez, Christopher Constance, Bryan Sayes, Vanessa Toney, Alice Wilson;

Bastrop – Allenicia Arbet;

Baton Rouge – Mark Alexander, Chloe Castello, Ricky Chatman, Shelby Christian, Briyonna Collins, Madison Harris, Mckane Kinchen, Griffin Lundin, Cydni Millican, Rachel Monsour, Katie Pham, James Steelman, Jharon Whitfield;

Beacon Falls, Connecticut – Stacey Brown;

Bedford, Texas – Katina Booker;

Belle Chasse – Hayley Barbazon, Denim Reeves;

Belmont – Kelly Bass, Ashley Hill;

Bentley – Heather Jones,

Benton – Bryanna Cooper, Steven Gardner, Milla Gonzales, Grayson Isom, Colby Ponder, Blaine Reeder, Hannah Schott, Jackson Mathews, Megan Russell;

Bermuda – Michael Vienne;

Bienville – Sarah Macynski;

Big Spring, Texas – Kristin Wilson;

Birmingham, Alabama – Emma Wallace;

Bogalusa – Amanda Crawford, Taylor Johnson;

Bossier City – Yetunde Adegbovega, Austin Averitt, Abigail Castillo, Kendall Corkern, Cameron Davis, Daniel Dial, Kimberly Eloby, Ri’Kaela England, Khairig Frost, Hannah Gaspard, Margaret Gates, Jacob Guest, Tangy Heilbling, Ashlynn Henderson, Jordan Hunter, Shane Kaiser, Alyssa Kidd, Seth Lowery, Jordan Markle, Rebecca Markle, Jennifer Martinez, Rance Mason, Coby McGee, Alexa Montgomery, Yuridia Olea, Sabri Parks, Shelby Peebles, Brittani Phillips, Rachael Pierce, Cierra Rachal, Litzy Rivera, Gabriela Rodriguez, Madison Rowland, Rheagan Rowland, Dakota Schudalla, Makayla Strother, Trevor Tackett, Kellie Toms, Bobby Trichel, Madalyn Watson, Pamula Whicker, Elizabeth Zanca, Nour Zeidan;

Boutte – Jose Del Rio;

Boyce – Savanna Budnik, Timothy Glass, Kaitlyn Miller, Jessie Turner, Julia Watson;

Brownsboro, Texas – Brice Borgeson;

Buffalo, New York – LeTerrance Reed;

Bunkie – Izola Williams;

Bush – Serena Bonnette;

Calhoun – Marissa Barentine;

Campti – Paige Cason, Damarte Fisher, Kourtney Horton, Malachi Lester, Pepper Lloyd, Madison McLaren;

Canton, Texas – Tiffany Cayson, Jack Dyre;

Cape Coral, Florida – Karleigh Acosta;

Carencro – Malik Babin, Chaney Dodge, Harold Williams;

Cartagena, Colombia – Samantha Arellano Chavz, Edwin Castro Frias, Jalima Dias, Miledys Jiminez Vasquez, Daniel Racero Rocha, Gabriela Forero Salcedo, Sadoc Silva Calderon;

Cartagena Bolivar, Colombia – Alejandro Dager Carrasquilla;

Castor – Loxlie Dodd, Hogan Nealy;

Center, Texas – John Harrington;

Chalmette – Isaiah Carpenter, Gabriel Ernest, Sara Mendoza;

Chatham – Jonathan Gill;

Cincinnati, Ohio – Terry Brewer;

Clarence – Quintarous Coleman, Kimberly Reliford;

Clinton – Arianna Parrish;

Cloutierville – Alexia Gistarb;

Colfax – Camren Bell, Kensey Knight, Paidin Luneau, Kaitlyn Slalyter, Ontavius Williams;

Colorado Springs, Colorado – Sarah Wagner;

Columbia – Jackson McCann;

Columbus, Mississippi – William Taylor;

Converse – Zachary Faircloth, Nicolas Farmer, Victoria Gasper, Wade Hicks, Jared Jagneaux, Skyler Laroux, Ashley Sims, Delia Smith, Triston Waldon;

Coppell, Texas – Jada Freeman;

Cottonport – Jacob Harris, Joneshia Jacobs, Christine Lemoine;

Coushatta – Journi Brown, Faith Cason, La’Zaria Clark, Jon Hester, Tawanda Johnson, Amey Sepulvado;

Covington – Madison Blanks, Sarah Shiflett, Jennifer Vo;

Coyolilla Veracruz, Mexico – Guadalupe de Jesus Mendez Zaragoza;

Crowley – Mc’Kayleen Milson;

Cullen – D’Agurelle Epps;

Cut Off – Zachary Breaux, Kaelyn Musgrave;

Dallas – Nadia Carney;

De Berry, Texas – Sarah Britt;

DeQuincy – Hayden Robertson;

DeRidder – Carson Brown, Lauren Callis, Maygin Chesson, Sheridan Douglas, Sarah Fulford, Katherine Goodman, Michelle Green, Alexis Holland, Elliott Jones, Ethel Jones, Jordan Mack-McNair, Presley Phelps, Richard-Jayson Puzon, Morgan Smith, Heather Sorton, Madison Tilley, Tyler Wright, Airiuna Satchell;

Delhi – KeDiejah Cooper;

Denham Springs – Samantha Burgess, Joni Burlew, Caleb Callender, Zyneshia Jennings;

Deville – Emily Bonial, Courtney DeVille, Amy Henderson, Ashtyn Knapp, Karlee Littleton, Morgan McCrory, Caleb Rhodes, Marcia Rogers, Garrett Sellers;

Dodson – Nolan Griffin, Brendan Thomas;

Donaldsonville – Jermaine Collier, Natalie Landry;

Doyle – Mackensie Ulrich;

Doyline – Carmesia Russell;

Dry Prong – Ethan Lewis, Shian Murrell, Lindsey Weatherford, Ashley Webb;

Dubach – Oilvia Hancock, Kayla Loyd;

Dubberly – Audrie Dison;

Duson – Alexandra Broussard, Desmond Prejean;

Edmond, Oklahoma – Ravon Nero;

Elizabeth – Hannah LaCaze;

Elmer – Victoria Coleman

Elton – Maia Lacomb;

Eunice – Tanner Thibodeaux, Emily Deshotel;

Falfurrias, Texas – Marco Arevalo;

Farmerville – Adrianna Loyd, Jalissa Loyd;

Fayetteville, Arkansas – Cody Coleman;

Ferriday – Dalenesha Wimley;

Fisher – Hayden Courtney;

Flatwoods – Lindsey Willis;

Florien – Katelynn Alford, Danielle Anthony, Gabrielle Bryant, Braelyn Calhoun, Magon Lester, Ashton Remedies, Jordan Weldon;

Flower Mound, Texas – Randall Ruffner;

Folsom – Monique Basse, Shaylee Laird;

Forest Hill – Adrianne Dore;

Forney, Texas – Kaymi Wheeler;

Fort Polk – Brittany Chadwick, Mara Eifolla, Jayla Hart, Andrea Marquez, Madison Popp, Amanda. Ridenhour, Shiela May Tabonares, Whitney Tipton, Kiara Turner, TeKweena Wilson, Alexie Sarabia;

Fort Riley, Kansas – Breanna Bryan;

Fort Worth, Texas – Charles Gregory Meade;

Franklin – Zachary McEndree;

Franklinton – Randy Garza, Brittany Sanders;

Frierson – Mason Barnes;

Frisco, Texas – Hallie McCarroll;

Geisman – Rylee Leglue;

Guin, Alabama – Taylor Porter;

Garland, Texas – Joseph Goodson, Kobe Poole, Nia Randall;

Geismar – Elijah John-Baptiste;

Georgetown – Kaleb Hudson;

Glenmora – Reagan Humphries, Abbie Johnson, Kerstyn Johnson;

Gloster – Caitlyn Burford, Paris Gillum;

Goldonna – Brianna Calhoun;

Gonzales – Julie Breaux, Chaquera Caldwell, Ashlyn Chenevert;

Grand Cane – Sandra Kimble, Ciana Mcintyre, Emily Miller;

Grand Isle – Abigail Frazier;

Grand Prairie, Texas – Stephen Garrett;

Greenwell Springs – Morgan Bellot;

Greenwood – Leah Evans, Tamera Harris, Trenton Starks;

Gretna – Braxton Brown, Leroy Holmes, Nadia Johnson, Michael Wilson;

Gueydan – Hannah Sedatol;

Hackberry – Lexie Stine;

Hahnville – Cierra Puryear, Colin Vedros;

Hammond – Kaylon Wiloughby;

Harlengen – Frances Knight;

Harvey – Destiny Johnson;

Haughton – Deitric Alexander, Shakayla Bell, Katelynn Edwards, Anitra Fayad, Camry Heath, Kylee Jackson, Timothy Newell, Angie Nguyen, Makenezie Rains, Licentra Randolph, Bailee Rattanachai, Kaylee Sanford, Joshua Steele, Megan Tilley, Laura Waldroup, Katherine Weeks, Kacie Wilkinson, Chases Woltz, India Wright;

Haynesville – Jmarquiez Robinson, Sabrina Sowell, Michael Turner, Allysa Dodds;

Heflin – Kendall Brunson, Simiuna Cook, Kyle Smith;

Henderson – Andrew Blackmon;

Hessmer – Daren Dauzat;

Hineston – Victoria Carroll;

Homer – Francene Ferguson, Keyana Mccoy, Mariah West;

Hornbeck – Lane Alford, Ariel Rodgers;

Houma -- Courtney Chancellor, Rhiannon Dean, Venessa McKinley;

Houston – Rafael Bonilla, Jennifer Hitt, Casey Irvin, Natashia Jackson;

Humble, Texas – Toiquisha Johnson, Furquan Shorts;

Independence – Maria Thomas-Alfaro, Chloe Whiddon;

Iowa – Keiona Guy;

Jasper, Texas – Linsey Guthrie;

Jeanerette – David Blakesley;

Jefferson – Emily Ricalde;

Jena – Tiara Brown, Braegan Burlew, Candace Decker, Madison Erwin, Jasmine Furlow, Chelsea Redd, Tyler Thomas;

Jennings – Destiny Brown, Anayah Joseph;

Jonesboro – Ashlyn Gaines, JaVonna Lawrence, Alex Toms;

Kaplan – Chris Hebert;

Katy, Texas – Brittnay Cecil, Floyd Turner;

Keatchie – Sarah Plaisance;

Keithville – Germany Jones, Shelby Loftin, Cara Lorenen, Maya Porter;

Kenner – Emily Bennett, Willie Soniat, Parul Sharma;

Kentwood – Iris Travis;

Kernen – Antonia Blattner;

Kinder – Teralyn Plumber;

Konarskie, Poland – Elzbieta Iwaniuk;

Labadieville – Jacellynn LeBlanc, Logan Simoneaux;

Lacombe – Amy Schneider;

Lafayette – Taylor Aucoin, Ashanti Alfred, LaToya Bellard, Emma Burlet, Jared Dore, Reagan Guillory, Jacob Hawkins, Qualantre Jackson, Michele Kramer, JaKayle Lee, Paul Martin, Skylar Mccoy, Robert Middleton, Sarah Palmintier, Aishwarya Patel, Tylar Senegal, John Touchet, Ireland Williams, China Young;

Lafitte – Helen Kassahun;

Lake Charles – Landon Dore, Camren Green, Joel Moreaux, Jordan Mulsow, Destany Washington;

LaPlace – Caitlyn Turnbull;

Las Vegas, Nevada – Caitlin Schweighart;

Le Mars, Iowa – Shannon Smith;

League City, Texas – Lacee Savage, Blake Tessitore;

Leander – Karissa Boswell;

Lebeau – Sharissa Tanner;

Lecompte – Logan Cheek;

Leesville – Dakota Abrams, Cecilia Alfaya, Kimberly Alwell, Jebediah Barrett, Hailey Brantley, Kaylee Buby, Victoria Butler, Anthony Cantrell, Charlotte Cassin, Joseph Cryer, Cameron Davis, Marlee Dowden, Payton Gordy, Caleb Hillman, Hanna Johnson, Zachary Keeton, Lauren Kreyenbuhl, Mahala Lewis, Christina Lluvera, Gerard Lord, Brianna Maricle, Billy McGhee, Amy McKellar, Ashley McKellar, Kaitlyn Pajinag, Chloe Rouleau, Destiny Sanders, Cesar Santos, Dalton Schulte, Erin Schwartz, Megan Trask, Tabitha Vasquez, Marissa Weldon, Lana West, Cheyene Wise, Mikayla Zills;

Lena – Dillon Guin, Courtnee Hamberlin, Cortland Smith;

Lettsworth – Landon Benton;

Little Elm, Texas – Daniel Larin;

Little Rock, Arkansas – Whitney Jinks;

Livingston – Jay Gentry-Pace;

Livonia – Ryann Bizette, Shanyia Haynes;

Lockport – Malaina Falgout;

Logansport – Rebecca Tomlin, Shelby Woods, Kendoyle Cox;

Loranger – Cambree Bailey;

Lubbock, Texas – Miranda Stroud;

Mansfield – Tremeon Allen, Latyeauna Goodwin, Nicolette Hogan, Canessia Johnson, Demetric Preston, Madylin Sullivan, Kyah Wilson,

Madisonville – Zoe Almaraz, Bailey Perrilloux;

Mandeville -- Mya Holmes, Jalen Willis;

Many – Jocelyn Cannon, Patrick Colston, Sarah Cross, Timothy Early, Sydni Easley, Kyle Elliott, Tiarra Frazier, Brittney Garcie, Moses Gonzales, Jessie Johnson, Clayton Kelley, Lathan Meyers, Darion Miller, Matthew Peace, Andrew Penfield, Tanner Rains, Madison Rutherford, Aubrey Sepulvado, Mallary Veuleman;

Maringouin – Laura Scronce;

Marksville – Regan Balius, Nichole Dauzat, Leah Dupuy, Kayle Gaspard, Olivia Johnson, Victoria Lucas;

Marrero – Kelsey Brooks, Lius Escobar;

Marshall, Texas – Alexis Balbuena, Abagale Godrey;

Marthaville – Dylan Daniels, Veronica James, Thomas Lirette;

Meraux – Sophie Stechmann;

Merryville – Kyleah Franks;

Mesquite, Texas – Eric Renova, Curtis Williams;

Metairie – Kathryn Bancroft, Madysen Norra;

Midland, Texas – Channing Burleson;

Minden – Erin Dotson, Layla Easley, Abby Greene, Karasha Harris, Kiara Jenkins, Donna Law, Asata Sylvas, Jorge Zaldivar;

Missouri City, Texas – Cayla Jones;

Monroe – Demonta Brown, Kennedy Butler, Jansen Chisley, Kiara Drumgo, Taylor Edwards, Jaronda Griffin, Prettyunje Hunter, Diamond Knox-Jackson, Ashley Murphy, Keldrick Ward;

Montegut – Stephanie Cohen;

Monterey – Rebecca Womack;

Montgomery – Tabatha Bowlin, Payton Carroll, Gerald Chelette, Hailee Skains, Laryn Graves;

Monticello, Arkansas – Kamilah Kelley;

Mora – Gracy Rowell;

Moreauville – Reginea Alexander, Ashley Dunnam;

Natchitoches – Jeremy Aaron, Cass Arnold, Aaron Averett, Thomas Balthazar, Adam Barnes, Blake Bechtel, Terrius Bell, Kacy Bonds, Matthew Brown, Charles Bouchie, Santaurus Burr,Ladiamond Burrell, Dominitra Charles, Kaleb Chesser, Lane Clevenger, Jessica Coleman, Kaia Collins, Christian Cunningham, Sean Day, Moises Florez-Perez, Hannah Forsythe, Eric Fredieu, Abbie Garner, Peyton Graham, Denetria Green, Pamela Gross, Thomas Hadzeriga, Jalen Hall, Jasmine Hall, Samantha Hall, Deshon Hayes, Jett Hayes, Saul Hernandez, David Holmes, Jasmine Howard, Kanika Irchirl, Rachel Jeane, Emily Johnson, Karlee Laurence, Robert Lee, Emily Leone, Christopher Lewis, Helen-Lois Mancil, Wesley Manuel, Savannah Maricle, Brooklyn Martin, Tyler McCain, Lamarr McGaskey, Kristin McQuillin, Joshua Minor, Jair Morelos Castilla, Jakori Morris, Katelyn Murphy, Tori Neitte, Matthew Nelson, Donovan Ohnoutka, Christian Owens, Leilani Padilla, Kenneth Penrod, Eryn Percle, Veronica Pikes, Kenneth Poleman, Katherine Rachal, Michael Raymond, Jeffrey Remo, Devin Reyes, Kayla Rokett, Taylor Rutledge, Shelbi Ryan, Jalon Sangster, Chandler Sarpy, Gabrielle Scarborough, Natalie Sers, Anna Sibley, Athena Smith, Blake Teekell, Joseph Thibodaux, Margaret Thompson, Lantz Vercher, Elizabeth Vienne, Garrett Vienne, Huey Virece, Laurin Waldrip, Jacob Ware, Brianna Watermolen, Anna Waxley, Emma-Leigh Webster, Ellen Wells, Deondra White, Nicholas Wiggins, Leah Wilkins, Shavon Williams,

Natchez – Victoria Bradford, James Rougeou, Lauren Seawood;

Navasota, Texas – Shelton Eppler;

New Iberia – Mia Bashay, Dainell Ledet, Alex Romero;

New Llano – Deja Castille, Laura Cowell, Kendra Jones, Earnesta Riggins, Gabriel Vargas, Caden Wheeler;

New Milford, Connecticut – Lisa Rosenberg;

New Orleans – Demetrius Boulieu, Nyasha Brown, Damon Carter, Jeron Duplantier, Darlene Fairley, Matthew Gonzales, Omar Hall, RyShaneka Kirsh, Maxwell Martello, Phallon Robinson, Jonae Skinner, Rishard Winford;

Newellton – Chasity Glasspoole;

Noble – Shelby Etheridge, Tiffany McMillion, Krista Rivers, Thomas Rivers;

North Richland Hills, Texas – Cody Germany;

North York, Ontario – Alexander Comanita;

Oak Ridge – Kelly Futch;

Oakdale – Clayton Ashworth, JaQuanda Evins, Dylan Hamblin, Destani Johnson;

Olla – Morgan Barbo, Amanda Fenoli, Savannah Kirl;

Omro, Wisconsin – Jason Kralovetz;

Opelousas – Keylee Boone, Jordan Brisco, Kenya Gradnigo, Kayla Pitre, Lashante Richard, Kallie Zeringue;

Paris, Texas – Cody Vorwerk;

Pelican – Tyler Howard;

Pensacola, Florida – Mallory McClain;

Pierre Part – Blaise Crochet;

Pineville – Savannah Hope Andries, Melissa Barnhill, April Cain, Erika Carter, Korey Cleveland, Luke Conway, Sydney Duhon, Selena Ferguson, Ameera Ghannam, Ollie Gossett, Leia Graham, Megan Jacks, Trey Joseph, Ethan Lachney, Brooke Leger, Rodney Lonix, Sierra Matney, Sonya McClellan, Autumn McSwain, Abby Nichols, James Perry, Hannah Pusateri, Christina Rachal, Amaria Sapp, Elizabeth Shuler, Laikyn Slusher, Robert Tabor, Emily Wiley, Sarah-Elizabeth Wilkes;

Pitkin – Braydon Doyle, Jayce Doyle, Jessica Jones;

Plain Dealing – Nicholas Cason;

Plano, Texas – Asher Van Meter;

Plaucheville – Alexis Casarez;

Pleasant Hill – Makenzi Patrik;

Pollock – Krystal Bennett, Sarah Hunt, Dalton Kopp, Allyssa Zemp;

Ponchatoula – Keyadda Brim, Kaitlyn Hawkins;

Pontotoc, Mississippi – Elizabeth Murrah;

Port Allen – Evan Daigle, Kaleb Gauthier;

Port Barre – Danielle Schexnayder, Kristen Sonnier;

Prairieville – Hannah Beason, Donesha Blount, Lauren Breaux, Claire Credeur, Kristen Prettelt, Lysia Varisco, Elllise Vice, Brady Wilson, Faith Wilson;

Pride – Ashlyn Johnson;

Princeton – Katelyn Nattin, Ariell Shield;

Provencal – Taylor Craft;

Puyallup, Washington – Aine Oh;

Quitman – Cindy Crawford;

Raceland – Emily Adams;

Ragley – Katherine Greenmun;

Rayne – Bishop Breaux;

Reno, Nevada – Sydney Oren;

Richardson, Texas – Riley Cantrell;

Richfield, Minnesota – Leah Barnes;

Richmond, Texas – Ebonie Francis;

Ridgecrest – Melissa Kelly;

Ringgold – McKenzie Davidson, Autumn McCoy, Olivia Prado;

River Ridge – Rachel Chimeno;

Robeline – Chad Berly, Patricia Goodwin, Hannah Hennigan, Kristal Lachney, Kacy Morae, Ember O’Bannon, Laura Olguin, Morgan Rachal, Hannah Schoth;

Rosepine -- Emilee Johnson;

Ruston – Paul Bryant, Tekiren Evans, Jalen Garrison, Seth Hartsfield, Christopher Letendre, Aujani Richburg;

St. Amant – Larson Fontenot;

St. Bernard – Ashlie Kieff, Emily Snyder;

St. Francisville – Emeria Jones;

St. Martinville – Belinda Alexander, Jacoby Fontenette, Destiny Simon, Maleik White, Cassandra Zenon;

St. Rose – Crystal Jones;

Saline – Makayla Jackson, Isabella Jones, Malayna Poche, Aaron Savell;

San Antonio, Texas – Matthew Aguilera, Anthony Renteria;

Sarepta – Katie Ingle;

Scott – Hannah Durgin, Tayla Soileau;

Shreveport – Aubrey Allen, Katelynn Benge, Frances Boggs, Leta Broome, Makayla Bryant, Shatericka Christor, Kesherion Collins, Naterria Davis, Reonia Davis, Hailey Deaton, Miya Douglas, Daja Easter, Deadrian Egans, Meghan Fry, Cassidy Giddens, Savon Gipson, Ellen Grappe, MIzzani Grigsby, Lindsey Hagan, Adrianne Hampton, Katelyn Householder, Shelby Hunter, Jazzmine Jackson, John Jefferson, Drake Johnson, Korynthia Johnson, Zachary Johnson, Nathan Jones, Summer Jones, Alicia King, Lauren Lee, Samantha Lyons, Tiffany Mack, Caitlyn Malloy, Christopher Markham, Andria Mason, Ashley Mason, Tifphany McClinton, Rici McDonald, Claire McMillan, Samantha Metoyer, Najah Mitchell, Brittney Nicleso-Rayfus, Megan Osborn, Tara Pair, Tierry Perry, Christina Peterson, Kalyn Phillips, Hayden Pilcher, Sierra Prelow, Shelby Reddy, Grayson Roberts, Jalisa Roberts, Savonya Robinson, Madelyn Ruiz, Amanda Rushing, Breanna Samuel, Angelica Satcher, Shermaine Shorter, Jackiesha Simmons, Ciara Sipes, Richard Sloan, Kendria Smith, Jessica Sowers, Jamie Stewart, Somer Stratton, Lindsey Stroud, Khalil Sumlin, Destini Sweet, Hailey Thomas, Anne Tibbit, Katerina Vargas, Khamaria Vaughn, De’Andra Washington, Lakayla Whitaker, Gaylin White, Jamisa Williams, Lajayda Williams, Tre’Darius Williams, Kristy Wilson, India Wright;

Sibley – Madison Mouser;

Sieper – Emily George;

Simmesport – Lexi Gremillion, Elise Normand;

Simpson – Katelynn Martin;

Slidell – Terran Cole, Noah Glass, Tristan Johnson, Rachel Reed, Maci Walgamotte, Thomas Garner;

Sondheimer – Anna Marsh;

Springfield – Tyler Pigott;

Sterlington – Catherine Trichell;

Stonewall – Bessie Cable, Dawson Cranford, Emma Delafield, Emmy Hinds, Robert McAllen, Mackenzie Panther, Maguire Parker, Heather Schiller, Tehya McDonald, Chassidy Sutton;

Sugar Land, Texas – Jake Gore;

Sulphur – Andrew Stephens;

Sunset – Zachary Linville, Lauren Pope;

Tallahassee, Florida – Edward Clarke;

Tallulah – Anna Boney;

Taylor, Texas – Jake English;

Texarkana, Texas – Daphne Hammett, Kristin McDuffie, Jasmine Neal;

Thibodaux – Beth Olin, Cierra Winch

Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania – Brianna Morosco;

Tomball, Texas – Natalee Henry;

Toms River, New Jersey – Jacqueline Manza;

Toronto, Ontario – Rhea Verma;

Trout – Makayla King, Haley Lisenby, Kalee Mcguffee, Andrea Walters;

Troy, New York – Kasey Whitmore;

Tupelo, Mississippi – Bailey Griffin;

Ville Platte – Gabrielle Chapman, Nicholas Blood, Andrea Bradley;

Vinton – Shae Cramer, Toby Stanley, Alayna Zaunbrecher;

Violet – Callie Maschmeyer;

Vivian – Kaylee Scott, Chase Lewis;

Vossburg, Mississippi – Chequira Bonner;

Walker – Madison Arnold;

Walworth, New York – Devonne Seelig;

Washington – Kyeishia Evans, Catherine Stevens;

Waskom, Texas – Blakely Canfield, Zink Kiper, Laken Thompson;

Welsh – Autumn Hanks;

West Helena, Arkansas – Brittani Arana;

West Monroe – Abigail Beck, Austin Dodson, Brianna Fife, Kennedy Ford, Allison Freeman, Aubrey Gamble, Jasmyn Johnson, Eva Sanford, Madison Shidiskis, Melissa Taylor, Christopher Wynn;

Westwego – Tja’h Edwards;

Wilmington, Delaware – Amy Bourett;

Winnfield – Annalise Austin, Harli Austin, Rhonda Duff, Kara Grantadams, Rakeen Williams, Caroline Womack;

Winnsboro – A’Lexus Johnson;

Woodworth – Lexus Weston;

Youngsville – Devin Forestier, Devyn Shores, Sophia Toranto;

Zachary – Laney Davis;

Zwolle – Kierstyn Cartinez, Dayton Craig, Trenton Malmay, Ariana Martinez, Treveon Perry, Autumn Wyatt.

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“For years, I described myself as someone who wasn’t prone to anger. “I don’t get angry,” I said. “I get sad.” I believed this inclination was mainly about my personality — that sadness was a more natural emotion for me than anger, that I was somehow built this way. It’s easy to misunderstand the self as private, when it’s rarely private at all: It’s always a public artifact, never fixed, perpetually sculpted by social forces. In truth, I was proud to describe myself in terms of sadness rather than anger. Why? Sadness seemed more refined and also more selfless — as if you were holding the pain inside yourself, rather than making someone else deal with its blunt-force trauma.

But a few years ago, I started to get a knot in my gut at the canned cadences of my own refrain: I don’t get angry. I get sad. At the shrillest moments of our own self-declarations — I am X, I am not Y — we often hear in that tinny register another truth, lurking expectantly, and begin to realize there are things about ourselves we don’t yet know. By which I mean that at a certain point, I started to suspect I was angrier than I thought.

Of course it wasn’t anger when I was 4 years old and took a pair of scissors to my parents’ couch — wanting so badly to destroy something, whatever I could. Of course it wasn’t anger when I was 16 and my boyfriend broke up with me, and I cut up the inside of my own ankle — wanting so badly to destroy something, whatever I could. Of course it wasn’t anger when I was 34 and fighting with my husband, when I screamed into a pillow after he left the house so our daughter wouldn’t hear, then threw my cellphone across the room and spent the next 10 minutes searching for it under the bed, and finally found it in a small pile of cat vomit. Of course it wasn’t anger when, during a faculty meeting early in my teaching days, I distributed statistics about how many female students in our department had reported instances of sexual harassment the year before: more than half of them.

A faculty member grew indignant and insisted that most of those claims probably didn’t have any basis at all. I clenched my fists. I struggled to speak. It wasn’t that I could say for sure what had happened in each of those cases — of course I couldn’t, they were just anonymous numbers on the page — but their sheer volume seemed horrifying. It demanded attention. I honestly hadn’t expected that anyone would resist these numbers or force me to account for why it was important to look at them. The scrutiny of the room made me struggle for words just when I needed them most. It made me dig my nails into my palm. What was that emotion? It was not sadness. It was rage.

The phenomenon of female anger has often been turned against itself, the figure of the angry woman reframed as threat — not the one who has been harmed, but the one bent on harming. She conjures a lineage of threatening archetypes: the harpy and her talons, the witch and her spells, the medusa and her writhing locks. The notion that female anger is unnatural or destructive is learned young; children report perceiving displays of anger as more acceptable from boys than from girls. According to a review of studies of gender and anger written in 2000 by Ann M. Kring, a psychology professor at the University of California, Berkeley, men and women self-report “anger episodes” with comparable degrees of frequency, but women report experiencing more shame and embarrassment in their aftermath. People are more likely to use words like “bitchy” and “hostile” to describe female anger, while male anger is more likely to be described as “strong.” Kring reported that men are more likely to express their anger by physically assaulting objects or verbally attacking other people, while women are more likely to cry when they get angry, as if their bodies are forcibly returning them to the appearance of the emotion — sadness — with which they are most commonly associated.

A 2016 study found that it took longer for people to correctly identify the gender of female faces displaying an angry expression, as if the emotion had wandered out of its natural habitat by finding its way to their features. A 1990 study conducted by the psychologists Ulf Dimberg and L.O. Lundquist found that when female faces are recognized as angry, their expressions are rated as more hostile than comparable expressions on the faces of men — as if their violation of social expectations had already made their anger seem more extreme, increasing its volume beyond what could be tolerated.

In “What Happened,” her account of the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton describes the pressure not to come across as angry during the course of her entire political career — “a lot of people recoil from an angry woman,” she writes — as well as her own desire not to be consumed by anger after she lost the race, “so that the rest of my life wouldn’t be spent like Miss Havisham from Charles Dickens’s ‘Great Expectations,’ rattling around my house obsessing over what might have been.” The specter of Dickens’s ranting spinster — spurned and embittered in her crumbling wedding dress, plotting her elaborate revenge — casts a long shadow over every woman who dares to get mad.

If an angry woman makes people uneasy, then her more palatable counterpart, the sad woman, summons sympathy more readily. She often looks beautiful in her suffering: ennobled, transfigured, elegant. Angry women are messier. Their pain threatens to cause more collateral damage. It’s as if the prospect of a woman’s anger harming other people threatens to rob her of the social capital she has gained by being wronged. We are most comfortable with female anger when it promises to regulate itself, to refrain from recklessness, to stay civilized.

Consider the red-carpet clip of Uma Thurman that went viral in November, during the initial swell of sexual-harassment accusations. The clip doesn’t actually show Thurman’s getting angry. It shows her very conspicuously refusing to get angry. After commending the Hollywood women who had spoken out about their experiences of sexual assault, she said that she was “waiting to feel less angry” before she spoke herself. It was curious that Thurman’s public declarations were lauded as a triumphant vision of female anger, because the clip offered precisely the version of female anger that we’ve long been socialized to produce and accept: not the spectacle of female anger unleashed, but the spectacle of female anger restrained, sharpened to a photogenic point. By withholding the specific story of whatever made her angry, Thurman made her anger itself the story — and the raw force of her struggle not to get angry on that red carpet summoned the force of her anger even more powerfully than its full explosion would have, just as the monster in a movie is most frightening when it only appears offscreen.

This was a question I began to consider quite frequently as the slew of news stories accrued last fall: How much female anger has been lurking offscreen? How much anger has been biding its time and biting its tongue, wary of being pathologized as hysteria or dismissed as paranoia? And what of my own vexed feelings about all this female anger? Why were they even vexed? It seemed a failure of moral sentiment or a betrayal of feminism, as if I were somehow siding with the patriarchy, or had internalized it so thoroughly I couldn’t even spot the edges of its toxic residue. I intuitively embraced and supported other women’s anger but struggled to claim my own. Some of this had to do with the ways I’d been lucky — I had experienced all kinds of gendered aggression, but nothing equivalent to the horror stories so many other women have lived through. But it also had to do with an abiding aversion to anger that still festered like rot inside me. In what I had always understood as self-awareness — I don’t get angry. I get sad — I came to see my own complicity in the same logic that has trained women to bury their anger or perform its absence.

For a long time, I was drawn to “sad lady” icons: the scribes and bards of loneliness and melancholy. As a certain kind of slightly morbid, slightly depressive, slightly self-intoxicated, deeply predictable, pre-emptively apologetic literary fan-girl, I loved Sylvia Plath. I was obsessed with her own obsession with her own blood (“What a thrill ... that red plush”) and drawn to her suffering silhouette: a woman abandoned by her cheating husband and ensnared by the gendered double standards of domesticity. I attached myself to the mantra of her autobiographical avatar Esther Greenwood, who lies in a bathtub in “The Bell Jar,” bleeding during a rehearsal of a suicide attempt, and later stands at a funeral listening “to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.” Her attachment to pain — her own and others’ — was also a declaration of identity. I wanted to get it tattooed on my arm.

Whenever I listened to my favorite female singers, it was easier for me to sing along to their sad lyrics than their angry ones. It was easier to play Ani DiFranco on repeat, crooning about heartbreak — “Did I ever tell you how I stopped eating/when you stopped calling me?” — than it was to hear her fury, and her irritation at the ones who stayed sad and quiet in her shadow: “Some chick says/Thank you for saying all the things I never do/I say, you know/The thanks I get is to take all the [expletive] for you.”

I kept returning to the early novels of Jean Rhys, whose wounded heroines flopped around dingy rented rooms in various European capitals, seeking solace from their heartbreak, staining cheap comforters with their wine. Sasha, the heroine of “Good Morning, Midnight” — the most famous of these early picaresques of pain — resolves to drink herself to death and manages, mainly, to cry her way across Paris. She cries at cafes, at bars, in her lousy hotel room. She cries at work. She cries in a fitting room. She cries on the street. She cries near the Seine. The closing scene of the novel is a scene of terrifying passivity: She lets a wraithlike man into her bed because she can’t summon the energy to stop him, as if she has finally lost touch with her willpower entirely. In life, Rhys was infamous for her sadness, what one friend called “her gramophone-needle-stuck-in-a-groove thing of going over and over miseries of one sort and another.” Even her biographer called her one of the greatest self-pity artists in the history of English fiction.

It took me years to understand how deeply I had misunderstood these women. I’d missed the rage that fueled Plath’s poetry like a ferocious gasoline, lifting her speakers (sometimes literally) into flight: “Now she is flying/More terrible than she ever was, red/Scar in the sky, red comet/Over the engine that killed her — the mausoleum, the wax house.” The speaker becomes a scar — this irrefutable evidence of her own pain — but this scar, in turn, becomes a comet: terrible and determined, soaring triumphant over the instruments of her own supposed destruction. I’d always been preoccupied with the pained disintegration of Plath’s speakers, but once I started looking, I saw the comet trails of their angry resurrections everywhere, delivering their unapologetic fantasies of retribution: “Out of the ash/I rise with my red hair/And I eat men like air.”

I’d loved Rhys for nearly a decade before I read her final novel, “Wide Sargasso Sea,” a reimagining of Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre” whose whole plot leads inexorably toward an act of destructive anger: The mad first wife of Mr. Rochester burns down the English country manor where she has been imprisoned in the attic for years. In this late masterpiece, the heroines of Rhys’s early novels — heartbroken, drunk, caught in complicated choreographies of passivity — are replaced by an angry woman with a torch, ready to use the master’s tools to destroy his house.

It wasn’t that these authors were writing exclusively about female anger rather than female sorrow; their writing holds both states of feeling. “Wide Sargasso Sea” excavates the deep veins of sadness running beneath an otherwise opaque act of angry destruction, and Plath’s poems are invested in articulating the complicated affective braids of bitterness, irony, anger, pride and sorrow that others often misread as monolithic sadness. “They explain people like that by saying that their minds are in watertight compartments, but it never seemed so to me,” Rhys herself once wrote. “It’s all washing about, like the bilge in the hold of a ship.”

It has always been easier to shunt female sadness and female anger into the “watertight compartments” of opposing archetypes, rather than acknowledging the ways they run together in the cargo hold of every female psyche. Near the end of the new biopic “I, Tonya,” Tonya Harding’s character explains: “America, they want someone to love, but they want someone to hate.” The timing of the film’s release, in late 2017, seemed cosmically apt. It resurrected a definitional prototype of female anger — at least for many women like me, who came of age during the 1990s — at the precise moment that so many women were starting to get publicly, explicitly, unapologetically angry.

Harding was an object of fascination not just because of the soap opera she dangled before the public gaze — supposedly conspiring with her ex-husband and an associate to plan an attack on her rival figure skater Nancy Kerrigan — but also because she and Kerrigan provided a yin and yang of primal female archetypes. As a vision of anger — uncouth and unrestrained, the woman everyone loved to hate, exploding at the judges when they didn’t give her the scores she felt she deserved — Harding was the perfect foil for the elegant suffering of Kerrigan, sobbing in her lacy white leotard. Together they were an impossible duo to turn away from: the sad girl and the mad girl. Wounded and wicked. Their binary segregated one vision of femininity we adored (rule-abiding, delicate, hurting) from another we despised (trashy, whiny, angry). Harding was strong; she was poor; she was pissed off; and eventually, in the narrative embraced by the public, she turned those feelings into violence. But “I, Tonya” illuminates what so little press coverage at the time paid attention to: the perfect storm of violence that produced Harding’s anger in the first place — her mother’s abuse and her husband’s. Which is to say: No woman’s anger is an island.

When the Harding and Kerrigan controversy swept the media, I was 10 years old. Their story was imprinted onto me as a series of reductive but indelible brush strokes: one woman shouting at the media, another woman weeping just beyond the ice rink. But after watching “I, Tonya” and realizing how much these two women had existed to me as ideas, rather than as women, I did what any reasonable person would do: I Googled “Tonya and Nancy” obsessively. I Googled: “Did Tonya ever apologize to Nancy?” I Googled: “Tonya Harding boxing career?” and discovered that it effectively began with her 2002 “Celebrity Boxing” match against Paula Jones — two women paid to perform the absurd caricatures of vengeful femininity the public had projected onto them, the woman who cried harassment versus the woman who bashed kneecaps.

In the documentaries I watched, I found Harding difficult to like. She comes off as a self-deluded liar with a robust victim complex, focused on her own misfortune to the exclusion of anyone else’s. But what does the fact that I found Harding “difficult to like” say about the kind of women I’m comfortable liking? Did I want the plotline in which the woman who has survived her own hard life — abusive mother, abusive husband, enduring poverty — also emerges with a “likable” personality: a plucky spirit, a determined work ethic and a graceful, self-effacing relationship to her own suffering?

The vision of Harding in “I, Tonya” is something close to the opposite of self-effacing. The film even includes a fantastical re-enactment of the crime, which became popularly known as the “whack heard round the world,” in which Harding stands over Kerrigan’s cowering body, baton raised high above her head, striking her bloody knee until Harding turns back toward the camera — her face defiant and splattered with Kerrigan’s blood. Even though the attack was actually carried out by a hired hit man, this imagined scene distills the version of the story that America became obsessed with, in which one woman’s anger leaves another woman traumatized.

But America’s obsession with these two women wasn’t that simple. There was another story that rose up in opposition. In this shadow story, Harding wasn’t a monster but a victim, an underdog unfairly vilified, and Kerrigan was a crybaby who made too much of her pain. In a 2014 Deadspin essay, “Confessions of a Tonya Harding Apologist,” Lucy Madison wrote: “She represented the fulfillment of an adolescent revenge fantasy — my adolescent revenge fantasy, the one where the girl who doesn’t quite fit in manages to soar over everyone’s [expletive] without giving up a fraction of her prerogative — and I could not have loved her more.” When Kerrigan crouched sobbing on the floor near the training rink, right after the attack (Newsweek described it as “the sound of one dream breaking”), she famously cried out: “Why? Why? Why?” But when Newsweek ran the story on its cover, it printed the quote as: “Why Me?” The single added word turned her shock into keening self-pity.

These two seemingly contradictory versions of Harding and Kerrigan — raging bitch and innocent victim, or bad-girl hero and whiny crybaby — offered the same cutout dolls dressed in different costumes. The entitled weeper was the unacceptable version of a stoic victim; the scrappy underdog was the acceptable version of a raging bitch. At first glance, they seemed like opposite stories, betraying our conflicted collective relationship to female anger — that it’s either heroic or uncontrollably destructive — and our love-hate relationship with victimhood itself: We love a victim to hurt for but grow irritated by one who hurts too much. Both stories, however, insisted upon the same segregation: A woman couldn’t hurt and be hurt at once. She could be either angry or sad. It was easier to outsource those emotions to the bodies of separate women than it was to acknowledge that they reside together in the body of every woman.

Ten years ago in Nicaragua, a man punched me in the face on a dark street. As I sat on a curb afterward — covered in my own blood, holding a cold bottle of beer against my broken nose — a cop asked me for a physical description of the man who had just mugged me. Maybe 20 minutes later, a police vehicle pulled up: a pickup truck outfitted with a barred cage in the back. There was a man in the cage.

“Is this him?” the cop asked. I shook my head, horrified, acutely aware of my own power — realizing, in that moment, that simply saying I was hurt could take away a stranger’s liberty. I was a white woman, a foreigner volunteering at a local school, and I felt ashamed of my own familiar silhouette: a vulnerable white woman crying danger at anonymous men lurking in the shadows. I felt scared and embarrassed to be scared. I felt embarrassed that everyone was making such a fuss. One thing I did not feel was anger.

That night, my sense of guilt — my shame at being someone deemed worthy of protection, and at the ways that protection might endanger others — effectively blocked my awareness of my own anger. It was as if my privilege outweighed my vulnerability, and that meant I wasn’t entitled to any anger at all. But if I struggled to feel entitled to anger that night in Nicaragua, I have since come to realize that the real entitlement has never been anger; it has always been its absence. The aversion to anger I had understood in terms of temperament or intention was, in all honesty, also a luxury. When the black feminist writer and activist Audre Lorde described her anger as a lifelong response to systemic racism, she insisted upon it as a product of the larger social landscape rather than private emotional ecology: “I have lived with that anger, on that anger, beneath that anger, on top of that anger ... for most of my life.”

After the Uma Thurman clip went viral, the Trinidadian journalist Stacy-Marie Ishmael tweeted: “*interesting* which kinds of women are praised for public anger. I’ve spent my whole career reassuring people this is just my face.” Michelle Obama was dogged by the label of “angry black woman” for the duration of her husband’s time in office. Scientific research has suggested that the experience of racism leads African-Americans to suffer from higher blood pressure than white Americans and has hypothesized that this disparity arises from the fact that they accordingly experience more anger and are simultaneously expected to suppress it. The tennis superstar Serena Williams was fined over $80,000 for an angry outburst against a lineswoman at the U.S. Open in 2009: “I swear to God, I’ll [expletive] take this ball and shove it down your [expletive] throat.” Gretchen Carlson, a Fox anchor at the time, called another one of Williams’s angry outbursts in 2011 a symbol of “what’s wrong with our society today.” Carlson, of course, has since come to embody a certain brand of female empowerment: One of the leading voices accusing the late Fox News chairman Roger Ailes of sexual harassment, she recently published a book called “Be Fierce: Stop Harassment and Take Your Power Back.” But the portrait on its cover — of a fair-skinned, blond-haired woman smiling slightly in a dark turtleneck — reminds us that fierceness has always been more palatable from some women than from others.

What good is anger, anyway? The philosopher Martha Nussbaum invokes Aristotle’s definition of anger as “a response to a significant damage” that “contains within itself a hope for payback” to argue that anger is not only “a stupid way to run one’s life” but also a corrosive public force, predicated on the false belief that payback can redress the wrongdoing that inspired it. She points out that women have often embraced the right to their own anger as a “vindication of equality,” part of a larger project of empowerment, but that its promise as a barometer of equality shouldn’t obscure our vision of its dangers. In this current moment of ascendant female anger, are we taking too much for granted about its value? What if we could make space for both anger and a reckoning with its price?

In her seminal 1981 essay, “The Uses of Anger,” Audre Lorde weighs the value of anger differently than Nussbaum: not in terms of retribution, but in terms of connection and survival. It’s not just a byproduct of systemic evils, she argues, but a catalyst for useful discomfort and clearer dialogue. “I have suckled the wolf’s lip of anger,” she writes, “and I have used it for illumination, laughter, protection, fire in places where there was no light, no food, no sisters, no quarter.” Anger isn’t just a blaze burning structures to the ground; it also casts a glow, generates heat and brings bodies into communion. “Every woman has a well-stocked arsenal of anger potentially useful against those oppressions,” Lorde writes, “which brought that anger into being.”

Confronting my own aversion to anger asked me to shift from seeing it simply as an emotion to be felt, and toward understanding it as a tool to be used: part of a well-stocked arsenal. When I walked in the Women’s March in Washington a year ago — one body among thousands — the act of marching didn’t just mean claiming the right to a voice; it meant publicly declaring my resolve to use it. I’ve come to think of anger in similar terms: not as a claiming of victimhood but as an owning of accountability. As I write this essay eight months pregnant, I don’t hope that my daughter never gets angry. I hope that she lives in a world that can recognize the ways anger and sadness live together, and the ways rage and responsibility, so often seen as natural enemies, can live together as well.

“Once upon a time/I had enough anger in me to crack crystal,” the poet Kiki Petrosino writes in her 2011 poem “At the Teahouse.” “I boiled up from bed/in my enormous nightdress, with my lungs full of burning/chrysanthemums.” This is a vision of anger as fuel and fire, as a powerful inoculation against passivity, as strange but holy milk suckled from the wolf. This anger is more like an itch than a wound. It demands that something happen. It’s my own rage at that faculty meeting, when the voices of students who had become statistics at our fingertips were being asked to hush up, to step back into their tidy columns. This anger isn’t about deserving. It’s about necessity: what needs to boil us out of bed and billow our dresses, what needs to burn in our voices, glowing and fearsome, fully aware of its own heat.”

— LESLIE JAMISON, “I USED TO INSISIT I DIDN’T GET ANGRY. NOT ANYMORE.”

#leslie jamison #word recs #female anger #feminsim #literature #nytimes #truly is worth the read if you have time

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thewatchau · 3 years

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Ripe Fruit

Author’s Note: Have something cute after the horror I’ve put you through.

Bard’s Note: Thanks to @theshapeshifter100 for Day 16 of Inktober 2020!

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Ma was grinning when she came back inside.

It was late and the rest of the Greenwood-Paris’s had finished eating, with Yarra keeping an eye on the last of the stew in the pot. Pa was upstairs with Ed, and Yarra frowned curiously as Ma came in, holding something behind her back.

Aswulf perked up from by the fire as Blue came over to say hello, wagging his tail a bit.

“What have you got?” Yarra asked before grabbing a bowl for her.

Her grin widening, Ma pulled her hands out from behind her and dropped something on the table. A couple of plums and a pear.

Yarra stared, only glancing up as Mags signed.

“They were trying to sell the last of them in Fionport, so I got them cheap,” she explained as she went over to the cauldron, helping herself to the stew as Yarra carefully walked around the table, poking the plum carefully like it might disappear. It rolled gently on the table.

“You, you didn’t have… How much did they cost?” Yarra fumbled on his signing.

“Don’t worry about it. Call it an early Name Day present, or late Welcome to the Family anniversary.”

Yarra smiled and plucked a plum from the table. He couldn’t quite feel the skin through his gloves, but he still thought it was a little soft. Still, these must have come all the way from Tandeli, he couldn’t complain.

He put it down again and signed. “I think Ed would like the pear, if it’s an anniversary present.”

“If you want,” talk was halted as Mags began to eat. She put her spoon down to chew on a large chunk of carrot and signed. “I did get him some metal marbles though, so if you want the pear…”

Yarra picked up the pear. Unlike the plum this pear was firm, and when he clenched his hand slightly he could feel his claws pricking the crisp skin through his gloves. He raised an eyebrow and shoved it in his mouth, breaking through the skin and into the somewhat sweet flesh. Not as sweet as a plum, and slightly gritty, but not in a bad way.

“Ed doesn’t have to know,” he signed mischievously, and Ma grinned right back. Although he probably was going to tell him later. If he could restrain himself, Ed could have the other plum.

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Author’s Note: 1614, Sept/Oct. Yarra’s Name Day being late October and the ‘Welcome to the Family’ thing (inspired by Em telling me about 'Gotcha Days’, if that is the right term) is early August. I’ve also never eaten a pear that wasn’t cooked, so the description is entirely based on what someone told me

Bard’s Note: Yep, ‘Gotcha Day’ is the right term! For those who haven’t heard of this type of celebration, I give an explanation at the bottom of the wiki page about Duilinintinn’s Name Day celebrations.

ALSO ALSO ALSO You know what is REALLY sweet that I just realized?!?!? I was logging this fic in my big huge story record document, where I keep individual lists of every story involving each individual character for the sake of knowing who is where and when and what headspace they’re at. And idk if you did this on purpose Holly, but the context for this story is SO SWEET.

Sometime in September, while Mags was at the Iolla Beacon Outpost, we got last year’s Inktober Day 25 prompt Tasty, featuring Yarra reminiscing about how much he misses the fruit from Tandeli. We know Mags was at Iolla until at least the 16th, because there was a raid while she was there, as seen in the Day 28 prompt Unconfirmed Rumors. At the earliest, Mags would have gotten home around the 18th if she left immediately the day of the raid. This story would take place fairly soon after that scare, maybe a week or two after Mags got home. Which means that, maybe a month after Yarra was saying to himself “I miss Tandeli fruit”, Mags comes home with Tandeli fruit. And idk just alkjfdajsdflkjsf THAT’S SO SWEET I’M SO HAPPY FOR THIS BOY

#House Schneeplestein #submission #Mags Greenwood-Paris #Mags Greenwood Paris #Yarra Greenwood-Paris #Yarra Greenwood Paris #Charles Greenwood Paris #Charles Greenwood-Paris #Ed Greenwood-Paris #Ed Greenwood Paris #September 1614 #Tales From The Watch #Inktober 2020 #10/16/2020

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theshapeshifter100 · 4 years

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Holiday Celebrations

(Day 25 of @thewatchau‘s Annual prompts, and for those celebrate it, Happy Christmas! If you don’t, have a wonderful Wednesday!

This is the longest prompt yet, nearly 4,000 words, so there will be a cut. Under the cut will also be messy eating and alcohol)

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Ivy had timed it almost perfectly, and couldn’t quite believe her luck. Iolla Beacon to Loburn, about a day’s ride since she had to cross the Aircaenn bridge and almost double back on herself. As the raven flies it would take a few hours, which would make delivering messages so much easier!

The frosty ground cracked under Firefly’s hooves, and both horse and rider could see their breath puffing out in front of them. Otto was huddled on the saddle, hiding under Ivy’s cloak. She didn’t blame him, she was wondering if she would be able to dismount when they stopped, her fingers had to be frozen to the reins by now.

She could see Loburn appearing over the horizon. The main road cut right through it, on either end was an inn. Both of them knew Ivy, as she would leave Firefly with the one she got to first that had an empty stall.

She passed the farm on the way up, and could see that the old yew just outside the village was decorated with brightly coloured ornaments hanging from its branches. Ivy’s mother had loved doing that, she’d take spare materials from her work and help shape them into suns, moons and stars.

Those were still there, Ivy’s father had a box full of them at home and brought them out to decorate the yews and box trees around the village. Among those ones were those made of wood and brightly painted, and some shaped like fruit and small dolls.

Ivy rode past it, eyes lingering on the gold and silver decorations before flicking ahead. The inn was coming up, time to see if they had a free stall.

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With Firefly safely stabled and Otto huddled on her shoulder instead and her saddlebags over the other shoulder, Ivy walked to her old home. It was just a bit further down the main road, and hadn’t changed since she was last here.

On the door hung a wreath made of holly and ivy, with the knocker just above it. Ivy reached for it, and paused. Should she knock? She used to live here, and it wasn’t like strangers had moved in.

She had the same thoughts every time, and so just shook her head and rapped the knocker against the door.

It took a second for the door to open, but when it did open it was flung open and Ivy was tackled. Otto squawked and took over to land on the roof as Ivy recovered her balance.

“Well hi Ed,” she chuckled, and the small blonde boy grinned up at her, body vibrating with excitement. He took her hand and began to pull her into the house, and she let him drag her inside. Otto followed before the door shut, wanting to be in the warm.

The front door led to an open space that usually received patients, but Ed took her back into the residentially part of the home, where everyone else was.

The kitchen was full of people. Her father Cyril was there, of course, but there was Charles, Mags, Yarra, her uncle Dennis, her aunt Abby, cousin Layla, grandpa Blane and grandma Elisa.

Ed ran over to Yarra and jumped up at him, fully expecting him to catch him. Yarra panicked and dropped the mug he was holding to catch him, while Charles dove to catch the mug before it spilt on the floor.

“Nice catch!” Layla laughed, although Ivy wasn’t sure if she meant Yarra or Charles.

“This isn’t the first time,” Charles dryly, before putting the cup on the table and quickly translating for Mags. Rena was draped over her shoulders, and Otto croaked upon seeing him, trying to land on the table.

Ivy shooed him off. “We eat there!”

With an annoyed croak he landed back on my Ivy’s shoulder and sulked.

“Hello Ivy,” her father was the only one to say hello. “You drop your bags off upstairs, although I’m afraid you’ll have to pick between sharing with either me, the boys or Mags and Charles.”

“I can just camp downstairs somewhere,” none of the above options appealed. “I’ve got a bed roll and sleep sack.”

“Wherever you feel collapsing tonight,” Cyril shrugged.

Ivy shrugged in return and left the kitchen. There was a small room next to the kitchen that wasn’t often used, somewhere quite with a small fireplace and some chairs which her parents had used when they wanted somewhere quiet.

Ivy went in there now, pushing the chairs against the wall and finally heaving her bag from her shoulders. She unbuckled the sleeping roll and laid it out on the floor and put the sleeping sack on top. She also left her riding gloves and cloak there for the time being, to be collected when it was time to go.

Back in the kitchen, Mags was giving the other side of the family some sign lessons. Cyril just smiled as Ivy came in and wordlessly handed her a mug of warm wine, which was currently over a low fire with herbs floating and seeping in their flavour.

“Ahhhhh,” Ivy sighed as the cup came into contact with her cold fingers. “So good.”

Otto croaked in jealousy, but Cyril was prepared for that as well, and held out a piece of meat for him. He took it gratefully and was soon occupied by it.

Ivy now leaned against a counter, looking around the room. It was easily one of the bigger rooms on the ground floor, excluding the area by the front door and the overnight patient room. Holly and ivy were draped around the room, and it was always a little strange for Ivy to see her namesake hung over the doorways.

Candles were also dotted everywhere, mostly on the table in the middle, but also on the countertops. Once was currently warming her back.

A few of them had bundles of herbs next to them, burning and smoking gently. The filled the room with a sweet, calming scent.

“Are you just going to hide over there dear?” Grandma Elisa asked. Her blonde hair had turned grey over the years, and a pair of glasses were permanently perched on the end of her nose.

“Just recovering from the ride,” Ivy took a sip of the mulled wine.

“Of course, you must have come a long way.”

“Just from the Beacon. Iolla,” Ivy added for clarification.

“Oh. Not so far then.”

“Still a full day’s ride. It was dark when I left and it’s getting dark now,” Ivy watched Ed get his cup filled up, a small bit of wine from the pot and the rest was water from the kettle.

Elisa made a noncommittal noise before beginning the topic she really came over to talk about.

“Did you hear about Layla?”

“That she graduated? Yes. I should offer her congratulations in person,” Ivy began to push herself off the counter, but Elisa wasn’t done.

“So glad to finally see the next generation of Dr Paris. I was worried you know, after all Charles never completed his studies.”

“For someone who likes to scoff at old traditions, you seem determined to hold onto this one.”

“It’s a useful tradition,” Elisa squared her shoulders. “Unlike the old marriage ceremonies please dear the two aren’t comparable.”

Ivy just took a long sip of her drink.

“Now, the young one, Ed, if he ever regains his voice he might become mature enough to be a doctor. Yarra might as well, if he could find a spine.”

“Grandmother,” Ivy looked over her glass. “Not everyone’s going to be a doctor, and Layla has plenty of life to live. Anyway, tonight is the night to let loose and have some fun.”

“Layla’s not the only one with plenty of life to live,” Elisa raised her eyebrow at Ivy, and Ivy almost choked on her drink.

“I, no, um.”

“You meet a lot of people, surely there’s someone. Wasn’t there that blacksmith’s boy you mentioned? Or the shepherd? The only ones to keep up with you huh?”

Ivy’s face went beet red, especially has Otto made a croaking cackle behind her, warming his feathers on the candles.

“No need to be shy dear. They sound like fine men, unless of course you’ve found that men don’t strike your fancy?”

Ivy caught Charles’s eye, and he came over, hopefully to save her from this conversation.

“Are you teasing my sister over her lack of love life?”

Or maybe not.

Ivy mouthed ‘I hate you’ to Charles, who just grinned as Elisa spoke.

“She’s getting older now, you can’t ride around Duilintinn forever you know,” she aimed that last bit at Ivy.

“Watch me,” she responded. “I don’t intend to start a family.”

“No need to close yourself off. You might change your mind.”

“Might is the key word,” Ivy narrowed her eyes. “Now, I should congratulate my cousin on her graduation.”

She moved away from the counter and approached Layla, who was in a halting conversation with Mags. Mags stood out quite a bit in the Paris household, being tall and a brunette.

“Ivy!” Mags signed, and Ivy tried to sign back, a little out of practice.

“Hi Mags!” Ivy also tried to greet Layla, but had to spell her name out. Given how Mags grinned, Ivy had spelt it wrong. “Well how do you spell it then?”

Mags spelled it correctly, and Ivy copied.

“Anyway, L A Y L A, you’re a doctor now?”

“Yeah!” Layla smiled nervously. “I’m still assisting, but, yeah. I’m a doctor…”

“You’ll be fine,” Ivy assured.

“Yeah, Uncle Cyril’s been good. Although, Grandma’s been on my back.”

“I just escaped from her,” Ivy commiserated. “It’s fine.”

Layla hummed. “Don’t you get lonely?”

Ivy resisted the urge to roll her eyes. “You’re sounding like Grandma.”

“Honest question,” Layla held her hands up for a second before continuing to try and sign. “I know I get lonely sometimes.”

Ivy thought about it for a second. “Sometimes, yeah. But I’m rarely too far from an Outpost and I know a lot of people in the Watch. So, it doesn’t bother me too much.”

“You’re a little young to settling down yet,” Mags interjected. “I was older than Ivy when I married, and I’d known Charles for seven years before that.”

“Thanks,” Layla looked a little uncomfortable now. “Still it’s, weird. I’m done studying, and now…”

“Now there’s an unending abyss of terror because everything’s been structured by others for so long and now you have to structure it and you don’t know how to do that?” Ivy took a nonchalant sip of her wine while Mags and Layla stared.

“Yes. That,” Layla agreed.

“Baby steps,” Ivy shrugged. “Try not to look too far ahead. Things go wrong, things go right. Things happen when they happen.”

“Ivy, do you need a hug?” Mags asked.

“No, I’m past that. But thanks.”

Thankfully now, the conversations fell quiet as Cyril clapped his hands. Mags didn’t hear obviously but noticed every else’s reactions. Charles came over to her as Cyril talked, translating even though Cyril tried to sign clumsily.

“Now that we’re all here and warmed up from the cold, let’s get wrapped up and head back out. I can see the glow of the bonfire from here!”

There was some good natured grumbling as people finished their drinks and went to collect their cold weather clothes. Ivy collected her thicker gloves from inside her saddle bags, an overshirt and her fur lined cloak with a hood.

She met everyone else in the front area, and found Yarra, who also stood out like a sore thumb among the Paris’s, was bundled up more than anyone else.

“I’ve not heard of anyone getting frostbite this far south,” Ivy raised an eyebrow at the scarf over his face and what looked like a second pair of gloves.

“I don’t like the cold,” Yarra responded, muffled behind his scarf.

“You don’t say,” Ivy smirked as Ed tugged on Yarra’s hand.

Otto flew in from the kitchen and landed on Ivy’s shoulder, feather preened and glossy and looking for all the world like he wasn’t going to make a nuisance of himself tonight.

Cyril collected the lantern he kept by the door and lit it before holding it up, looking over the group.

“Yarra! You’re a tall lad. How about you lead the way and I’ll point you in the right direction?”

Yarra looked terrified at the prospect. At least Ivy thought so, his eyes had gone wide.

“Don’t be shy, we’re all family here, c’mon on!” Cyril held the lantern up, and Yarra made his way towards him, Ed clamped at his side. Cyril handed him the lantern and turned to the rest of the group.

“Alright, stick together, don’t get lost, don’t drift off until we reach the amphitheatre alright? I don’t want to have to send out a rescue party tonight!”

Everyone chuckled good naturedly at the warning, and then they were off, Yarra at the head with Ed on one side and Cyril on the other.

Night had fallen over Loburn, and the temperature had fallen with it. Ivy drew her hood up and wrapped her cloak around her as the family marched towards the amphitheatre.

Not everyone had left to go there yet. As they passed some houses were still lit with candles, although nearly all of them had a wreath against the door, with entryways fringed with holly, ivy and fallen yew boughs.

Looking towards the amphitheatre, Ivy could see the smoke of several fires billowing up into the sky. As they got closer, music and chattering could be heard.

The amphitheatre wasn’t sunken like many in the west of Duilintinn, instead it was more or less level with the ground. A subtle reminder of the age of this village.

Inside was busy, but not packed, yet. In the centre a massive bonfire burned, chasing away the winter cold. A giant stew pot bubbled on the far side, full of vegetables and herbs, while two pigs were being roasted at either end of the amphitheatre, where they no doubt had been turning and roasting all day. Above them in the smoke were the legs of the pigs, being smoked as a sort of payment to the people who had volunteered to cook since before dawn.

There were stalls set up on the ground level, most handing out warmed wine, mead and beer, with tea and diluted alcohol for the youngsters. A few were selling bottles of wine and mead, others last minute crafts as gifts. Finally stalls selling herbed bread, frozen and hardened tree syrups from House Marvin, and chilled or frozen forest fruits.

Musicians and singers had taken residence higher up in the theatre, right up on the hewn rows. Old songs no one knew the meaning off anymore mixed in with more modern songs, while bells, hand drums, lutes and flutes all played together, adding to the cacophony.

Once inside Yarra handed the lantern back to Cyril, and without a word, the group scattered.

Ivy was starving, so got in line at one of the hog roasts. The line was already long, but the folks doing the roasting were moving quickly. Someone was going down the line, collecting payment and handing out slabs of bread for plates so that you didn’t have to faff about when you got to the front of the line.

Otto peered curiously from her shoulder, and slowly, clearly thinking Ivy wouldn’t notice, stretched his neck to grab the bread. His squawk of surprise was muffled when Ivy grabbed his beak.

“No,” was all she said, and he let out an over dejected croak.

“No,” she spoked more firmly, still holding his beak. “You need to behave, not everyone is so forgiving of your behaviour.”

She slowly let go of his beak, when he let out a half hearted hiss at her and settled on her shoulder, sulking.

They made it to the front of the line, where town butcher carved off a chunk of the hog before plopping it on Ivy’s bread plate. She shuffled a little further across for some stewed crab apple to top it, and then walked away from the roast. The smoke was starting to make her eyes sting.

She tore off a bit of hog to give to Otto and held it in front of his beak, wiggling it a little bit to catch his attention. He tilted his head at her before carefully reaching his beak out and snatching it out of her grip.

She ate the pork and crab apple mixture with her fingers, making a bit of a mess, but this was a night when no one cared. Last was the bread, which had soaked up the juices from the meat and still had smears of apple on it.

The result left Ivy full, even as she licked her fingers clean. She’d have to go home to properly wash her hands, and she really couldn’t be bothered.

She checked the money she had left and had a look at the other stalls. She didn’t need gifts; she’d brought everything she needed and her family wouldn’t exchange them until tomorrow.

She paused by the sap sweets with a familiar weight in her chest. Her mother had loved these, and even though they were expensive, had always bought a ton. The plan had been for them to last the year, but they never did.

Ivy ended up buying a couple for old times sake. She popped one in her mouth straight away and intended to give the others to Ed and Yarra.

She bought a cup of mead, spiced and mixed with a potion from House Marvin that made it swirling lilac colour and added a lavender taste into the mix. She then wandered over to the massive bonfire, looking for the boys.

The bonfire was being manned by the local Guard, in case it got of hand. Around it people were selling dried herbs for a low price to throw on the fire, as such it was impossible to place the smell coming from the fire, but it smelt good.

She found Yarra arguing with Ed about buying these herbs.

“You’ve bout five already!” Ed signed, “I want to see what else is here!”

Yarra looked sheepish, having removed his scarf this close to the fire. “I just like the smell.”

“Evening,” Ivy called over.

“Aunt Ivy! Tell Yarra to stop buying herbs!”

Yarra spluttered in protest and Ivy laughed.

“He’s got a point,” she agreed, still rolling the hard sweet around her mouth, “here,” she held out the sweets she’d bought. “Give these a try.”

The boys looked at the amber/golden coloured sweets before popping them in their mouths. In unison their eyes went wide.

“Good?” Ivy knew the answer before both of them bobbed their heads in agreement. Ed eyed her drink too, fascinated by the colour.

“Can I try that?” he asked.

“It might be a strong for you. It’s mead.”

“Please?”

Ivy ended up caving the puppy look the green eyed boy sent her way.

“Fine,” she sighed and held the cup out, not letting go. “Small sip though.”

Ed took his sweet out and held it in a sticky hand before trying a bit of the mead. He seemed to like it, until the alcohol hit and he began to splutter.

“Put your sweet back in your mouth, should help.”

Ed did as Ivy suggested, and relief came over his face. Ivy raised an eyebrow and held her cup out to Yarra.

“I don’t suppose you want to try?”

Yarra shook his head, stepped away and signed “No thanks!”

Ivy just laughed. “More for me then!” she took a swig. “The stall should sell a diluted version though, it’s just that way, purple mead,” she pointed in the rough direction of the stall. The boys looked at each, and headed for it, and Ivy felt a small pang of urgency when she realised that they were going to have a hard time ordering.

Since Ed didn’t talk and Yarra had a hard time talking to strangers, in any capacity.

She spent a minute wrestling with herself before going to check on them.

Ed was too short to see over the counter, and Yarra, as expected, was looking through his fringe, half signing and possibly mumbling. There was a line forming behind them, which only served to stress Yarra out further.

Ivy started to walk over to intervene, but either the stall holder took pity or Yarra made himself understood. Either way, the two of them got their hot diluted mead.

Ivy just smiled to herself and wandered off. Otto was looking around, searching for more food to steal. They got the attention of some children, and Ivy managed to cajole Otto into being stroked by small hands by promising some more pork.

Since she wasn’t hungry, she rounded Ed and Yarra up and got them their share of the hog roast. She told them the deal she’d made with Otto first, and they were fine giving up a little bit of their food.

At this point Otto was falling asleep on her shoulder, so she just wandered around a bit, wondering whether she should head back yet.

The musicians would keep going until the small hours, at some point dancing would start around the massive bonfire. She’d gotten an earful from her grandma for missing that last year. People would hold hands and dance around it, almost mocking winter because, it’s dark and cold and easy to be lonely, so we’re not going to be any of those things!

It was annoying when she was in school. Crushes were rife and everyone made a big deal about who held hands with who. It was exhausting then and not worth the headache now. It was mostly random anyway!

Like Ivy’s thoughts were a cue. All the musicians went silent for long enough to attract attention to the silence. Then they started again in unison.

Everyone around Ivy downed and abandoned their cups before making their way to large bonfire. She sighed, downed hers too, and walked over.

Otto perked up a little bit, enough to balance himself as Ivy stood next to people she hadn’t seen since last year probably. There wasn’t much time to dwell on it as the music swelled, hands were held, and the dancing began.

The heat of the fire was right in her face, blisteringly hot as the ring of people skipped and jumped around it. More rings formed behind them as more joined in, and now Ivy was just focused on not bringing her line down.

There wasn’t much rhyme or reason to it. Organised chaos would be the best description. They’d go one way, and then there’d be a serious of whoops as the ring changed direction, the whooping continuing regardless.

It was silly, disorganised and even potentially dangerous given how close they were to the fire. That was the point.

The rings would slowly switch, so that everyone got a change to be right up against the bonfire. It was a slow process, people swapping places at random. Further back people linked arms instead of holding hands, so more of them stayed warm.

Ivy eventually escaped, sweaty and panting. Otto let out a small croak and nestled down her shoulder again as she looked for another mug of alcohol.

Mead again, it was her drink of choice. This time it was an almost glowing amber colour, and whatever potion was in it mingled with the herbs and spices to make her feel warm everywhere. Although she was warned if she drank it too fast her fingers would start glowing.

That sounded like a challenge.

She found out much, much later that evening, or, really early the next morning, that glowing fingers were a terrible idea when you’re trying to sleep.

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(So, bit to go over. First, this is December 1613, so Yarra and Ed’s first Winter Celebration with with the Paris’s.

Second, so much of this is based on information from @shamrockace about Pagan and Celtic traditions this time of year. I haven’t got everything, I mostly picked and choosed what I wanted for this and I imagine everywhere in Duilintinn does it slightly differently anyway.

The dancing was off the top of my head. A large pig can feed a few hundred people and there will probably be leftovers. The stew would go in a bread bowl because those things are cool.

The sap sweets and the ‘spiked’ mead would be expensive, but Ivy’s income mostly goes on Watch and Guild membership fees, and the rare times she has to use an inn. Plus she’d have been saving up for today.

I think that’s it, have a good day everyone!)

#The Watch AU #The Paris's #The Greenwood Paris's #Ivy #Cyril #Charles #Mags #Yarra #Ed #Loburn #House Schneep #Holiday Celebrations #Layla #Watch Prompts

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