#Aly Oswald Smith

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Getting the hang of things: 12, Clara and the kids try to take a normal human family vacation together and things don’t go as planned.

Happy Twelve Day, everyone! It’s still 12.12 where I am, so meh this is going up.

2190 words; one of my favorite inconsequential personal headcanons for Coal Hill if Clara continues teaching there is that the Eleven expy coworker eventually becomes headmaster, because why the fuck not; makes mention of the very angsty ch.33 (tumblr/FFN/AO3); sorry I’ve had severe OP brain rot the past half year please take this in penance (though I’ve got a lot more for it than DW coming sorry not sorry); friendly reminder to not interact with wildlife unless you are with an expert and the Doctor does not count as an expert; not really thoroughly beta’d, but if I find something egregious I’ll fix it for now I’m just tired

-_-_-_-_-_-_-

All Clara really wanted was to go to the seaside. Just a seaside holiday with her husband and children… was that too much to ask?

The first reason it was deemed unattainable, it was because she had her time off request denied. She went directly to the headmaster’s office, as she was not in the mood to do anything else, and confronted him directly. She had the available time, there was no testing or other things going on then, her husband already had his time approved at his work (though, she did not mention that his time was automatically approved being as one saved the ability to tell a minor cosmic deity “no” for special occasions), so what was the problem…?

“Sorry, Clara,” the headmaster apologized. “I thought you knew.”

“…knew what, Adrian?”

“That’s the week of the Year Sevens’ class trip.”

Everything came rushing back to her in a rush of mortification. Yes, the Thursday and Friday she requested was when the Grade Sevens were going to Loch Lomond for a camping and culture excursion. She even was going to chaperone, since her “step-children” were on the trip this year. How in the bloody hell did she forget…? Wracking her brain quick as she could, she tried to think about when she could have possibly volunteer and then immediately forget the entire thing…?

Oh.

“Did you get me to agree to this… say… late September, early October…?”

“October 3rd, actually. I’ve got the paperwork here.”

“Adrian… you know I’m out of sorts around then,” she groaned.

“I had to get the list of adults ready, you know that,” the headmaster defended gently. He was one of the few who knew of her… particular family situation and all the intergalactic implications involved, and had known from the start. “Any other empty long weekend is yours, no questions.”

“Then I guess I’ll talk with the Doctor when I get home,” she sighed. She rubbed her temples as she felt a headache coming on, her attention stolen when the headmaster placed a couple stacks of papers on his desk. “Adrian Thomas Davies, what the bloody hell is that?”

“Not much,” he shrugged. “Since you mentioned him, we do need to discuss the Doctor…”

-_-_-_-_-_-_-

The second reason that a regular family holiday was perfectly unattainable was due to the fact that… well… screw it, there was a lot of reasons, and they all kept piling up at a rapid pace.

Missing his tobacco habit for the first time in nearly two millennia, the Doctor stood surrounded by five dozen tweens who were wound up and excited for the fact they were on a trip away from home. He looked over at a pair of fathers who had also come along, envious at their excuse for a smoke break, the act of which brought them more than a few yards away at a designated stand at the edge of the carpark. It wasn’t even something he could magically pick up again for the duration of the trip, because one puff and Clara would be absolutely livid. Instead, he was surrounded by his children’s classmates, nearly all exuding a sort of energy he was not used to encountering, all because Clara accidentally volunteered him.

“Dad?” He glanced over and saw Alison staring up at him. “What's wrong?”

“I don’t know,” he lied. What was wrong was that he was currently risking a lot in order to be there for the trip. He was still taking the time off at the end of the week, but at the same time, he was also currently at the office, helping disassemble some extraplanar tech thanks to the scientific wonder that was the TARDIS. “How’re you holding up, Aly? You and Jim alright?”

“Yeah—he’s over with Auntie Nellie and Mum,” the girl said, pointing vaguely behind him. He turned and saw Clara and an Osgood—the only reason he was able to get away with a normally-contract-breaching use of time travel—as they attempted to corral some of the more energetic students. Although there were still other adults there to help out, there was not much being done to help the general chaos of sixty London-raised children getting ready to spend a week camping in Scotland. James was almost clung to Clara, which made his father chuckle. There was so much happening that it was a bit scary even for him.

“Dr. Oswald-Smith?” The Doctor looked and saw one of the wee terrors staring at him curiously. “When did you move to London from Scotland?”

“I moved to London from Gallifrey about two thousand years ago, in 1963,” he grunted. The tween scowled and looked at Alison.

“Is he going to be like this the whole trip?”

“He gets better,” Alison assured. The student shrugged and went off to another cluster, allowing the girl to glare at her father. “Don’t ruin this for us!”

“Ruin what?”

“Friends!” At that, he knew precisely what it was she meant: they needed to be able to interact with their new peers with little judgement. They had not yet been with these classmates for a year—as “transfer students”, they were on thin ice. That explained her outburst and irritation.

“Don’t worry, kiddo—I’m not looking to ruin anything,” he assured. The Doctor watched as she stormed off and joined her classmates. A pang of guilt struck through him—she was embarrassed by him.

“I see that look on your face.” He glanced over and saw Clara standing there, having abandoned Osgood to be devoured by rabid tweens or whatever was going on over on the other side of the carpark. “Don’t act like you’re surprised or anything.”

“Some normal family holiday this is turning out to be,” he noted. She just shook her head and sighed. “That’s what we wanted, right?” He bent down and they pecked their lips together—can’t show too much affection, after all.

“For the time being, anyhow,” she replied. She handed him a copy of the itinerary; it was decidedly packed with activities for the kids, which meant few breaks for the adults. “Think you can handle our group for the time being?”

“If our group isn’t stolen by the meme master over there,” he said, gesturing over towards Osgood. She and a small child looked like they were having a dance-off, with other adults watching carefully on from a distance. Clara made a note to invite Osgood back if they were running short on chaperones in the future—she was surprisingly good with the kids. “Let’s just get this over with, and then we can go on as normal. It’s only fair.”

“…to whom…?”

“Neither of us, I can tell you that.” Something over on the other side of the carpark caught his eye and he groaned internally. “None of these pudding-brains should know what the mechanics for trimonoclyde fusion is, correct?”

“Considering I have no idea what you just said…?”

“I’ll be right back—watch Osgood’s pockets. I think we’ve got thieves in our midst.” The Doctor went off to where there were some children huddled around a rock in order to confiscate something.

This was going to be a ride, that was for certain.

-_-_-_-_-_-_-

As it turned out, camping with so many tweens was not a wise idea, both the Doctor and Clara found out. Their children? They weren’t being the best, but they were manageable. It was many of the rest of the children—not to mention a couple of the adults—that grated on their nerves. Between students attempting to run off into the woods and the adults’ inane banter and members of both groups attempting to wander off at different points to find a town (and therefore, wifi), things were beginning to get complicated.

“Remind me to throw your boss into a supernova when we get back,” the Doctor groused as he sat down next to Clara. The pair of them were taking the early watch in their half of the camp, making sure that no one decided to sneak off. All of the tents opened towards them, which admittedly was a big help, but it was still a two-person job at the very least. With the loch to their backs and the other watch pair further off, it could have nearly been considered private.

“You will not be doing anything to Adrian… and no calling in favors on him,” she warned. She poked the fire in front of them with a stick, agitating the logs so more could catch fire properly. “This part’s nice, at least.”

“I thought you hated bonfires.”

“I do—I’m talking about the quiet.” She leaned back and looked up at the stars, the fact they were even there an incredible thing to see for someone who normally lived in London. Smiling, Clara continued to stare as she leaned against the Doctor’s shoulder.

“What are you looking at?” he asked.

“Stars.”

“You see them all the time when we’re out in the TARDIS.”

“True, but I don’t often get to see them while on Earth,” she reasoned. “Even now, the village is close enough that we don’t really see everything.”

“It’s a shame, because everything looks amazing from here.” She turned her head to see that he was looking directly at her, without any regard for the sky above or the tents they were supposed to be minding. He leaned down and kissed her tenderly before wrapping an arm around her and tucking her head under his chin. “We’ll have to do this on our own when we’re feeling up to camping.”

“A camping permit for just the four of us?”

“I was thinking a little something pre-permits.” Clara could then feel the Doctor tense. “Did you see that?”

“See what?”

“I think I saw something over by the back tents.”

“A wildcat, I bet.”

“Possibly, but let me see.” He grabbed a torch and stood, heading back over towards the rear of the encampment. Shining the torch around, he didn’t catch anything. “Huh. Nothing. I guess it was my imagin—”

At that, a wildcat did indeed jump out from behind a tent and hissed at the Doctor. The Time Lord stared at it, unimpressed.

“I’d change your attitude if I were you,” he said. “No one’s here to steal your kills.”

A yowl and a hiss escaped the cat, the hairs on its back standing on-end.

“They’re a bunch of kids—kittens, if you will—and although yes I admit some of them are losing that thing that makes them cool, most of them are rather brilliant.” The wildcat did not yield. “Aren’t you the pleasant one?”

“Doctor? Should I get Osgood?”

“Naw—it’s just a cat,” he said.

Soon as the words left his lips, the wildcat attacked. The feline jumped at him, meowing loudly. Other cats then started popping out from the wood, all of them attempting to climb at him and bite or swipe at his ankles and knees. He tried to shoo them away to no avail; they kept coming, somehow all swarming him. Students and other chaperones alike began poking their heads out of their tents to see what all the commotion was about.

“Dr. Oswald-Smith, are you alright?” one of the chaperones asked blearily. The wildcat nearest her hissed violently, forcing her to retreat back into the tent.

“It’s always you getting into trouble like this,” Clara groaned. She suddenly appeared at his side with the broom left to them by the parks people, trying to bat the wildcats away without hurting them. A few got the hint, but most kept attacking. The Doctor made a run for the loch, wading into the shallow bit before the cats began to rethink leaving him alone. One, however, lunged up and at him, knocking him fully over into the water. By now their entire side of the camp was awake and staring at the scene, along with some from the other half, with James and Alison looking on in horror.

“This is an absolute disaster,” James squeaked. The cat that knocked over his father jumped back to shore and bounded through camp and into the wood, disappearing as silently as it appeared.

“Disaster doesn’t even cover it,” Alison groaned. She looked at the three girls that she was sharing a tent with and scowled. “Would you believe me if I said this wasn’t the weirdest thing I’ve seen happen to him?”

“I believe it, Ozsmith,” one of them replied. They watched as the Doctor dragged himself out of the loch, absolutely sopping wet. “Maybe that’s the story behind the monster up in Ness?”

“Knowing Dad? Probably had something to do with it.”

If they asked, then yes, of course he had something to do with the sensation up in Loch Ness. To be honest, he’d had Victoria and Jamie take turns recording the whole thing. Yet right now? In front of most of his children’s Human classmates? In the cold? Under the scrutiny of half a dozen torches? He was just lucky that the TARDIS was able to tone down his cursing over such a long distance.

[antigonick]

Hi!! Would you happen to have any recs for good retellings of Greek myths? A lot of books I've seen recommended are usually not up to the mark and I trust your taste!

In terms of contemporary fiction retellings, I don't have much to offer; the few I've picked up were always a let-down, and some older ones too (I goddamn hated Mary Renault's). I do have some favourites in poetry or in older books, but they're usually fairly transformative; and I like picking up different translations of the same ancient texts (especially with plays); they offer a new eye on the text every time, and it's usually a more interesting eye than what's huh... going on with the chain-making of Greek retellings going on these days. What I'm interested in is seeing the same story being spun differently again and again. Oh, okay, there are two that I'm excited to pick up though I haven't: Ali Smith's Girl Meets Boy and Chigozie Oboma's An Orchestra of Minorities; but I can't say anything on them yet. Anyway, a short list of options! Alice Oswald, Memorial Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus Anne Carson, Bakkhai (verging on adaptation translation) Anne Carson, Antigonick Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red Anne Carson and Rosanna Bruno, The Trojan Women Jean Anouilh, Antigone Jean Giraudoux, The Trojan War Won't Happen Jean Giraudoux, Electra Sarah Kane, Phaedra's Love Jean Racine, Phèdre Jean Paul Sartre, The Flies Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion Seamus Heaney, The Spirit Level C. S. Lewis, 'Till We Have Faces Christa Wolf, Cassandra Louise Glück, Meadowlands Louise Glück, Averno Gregory Orr, Orpheus and Eurydice: a Lyric Sequence

I hope you enjoy these!

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Fandom/Character List

(Updated November 12, 2024)

this is a list of all the fandoms and characters I write for, if you don’t see a character you’re looking for on here, feel free to ask about them! (some i forget, some are too obscure to add, but not too obscure to write for, and some i actually don’t write for. i’ll let you know!)

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American Horror Story

Murder House, Asylum, Coven

Batfamily/DCAU

Batfamily (based on comics, fanon, and animated movies)

Barbara Gordon/Oracle, Bruce Wayne/Batman, Cassandra Cain/Black Bat, Dick Grayson/Nightwing, Jason Todd/Red Hood, Stephanie Brown/Spoiler, Tim Drake/Red Robin

*i currently do not write for Damian Wayne/Robin romantically

Harley Quinn (Show)

Harleen Quinzel/Harley Quinn, Pamela Isley/Poison Ivy

Young Justice

Artemis Crock/Tigress, Bart Allen/Impulse, Conner Kent/Superboy, Dick Grayson/Nightwing, Garfield Logan/Beast Boy, Jade Nguyen/Cheshire, Jaime Reyes/Blue Beetle, Kaldur’ahm/Aqualad, M’gann M’orzz/Miss Martian, Roy Harper/Arsenal, Violet Harper/Halo, Wally West/Kid Flash, Will Harper/Red Arrow, Zatanna Zatara

Cobra Kai/Karate Kid

Aisha Robinson, Ali Mills, Amanda LaRusso, Carmen Diaz, Daniel LaRusso, Demetri Alexopoulos, Devon Lee, Eli Moskowitz/Hawk, Johnny Lawrence, Miguel Diaz, Moon, Piper Elswith, Robby Keene, Tory Nichols

DC Extended Universe

Abner Krill/Polka-Dot Man, Adrian Chase/Vigilante, Arthur Curry/Aquaman, Barbara Minerva/Cheetah, Barry Allen/Flash, Billy Batson/Shazam, Bruce Wayne/Batman, Cassandra Cain, Cleo Cazo/Ratcatcher 2, Christopher Smith/Peacemaker, Diana Prince/Wonder Woman, Dinah Lance/Black Canary, Emilia Harcourt, Floyd Lawton/Deadshot, Harleen Quinzel/Harley Quinn, Helena Bertinelli/Huntress, June Moon/Enchantress, Leota Adebayo, Max Lord, Renee Montoya, Rick Flag, Robert DuBois/Bloodsport, Steve Trevor, Victor Stone/Cyborg

DCTV

Gotham

Barbara Kean, Edward Nygma/Riddler, Ivy Pepper/Poison Ivy, Jerome Valeska/Joker, Jim Gordon, Leslie Thompkins, Selina Kyle/Catwoman, Tabitha Galavan, Oswald Cobblepot/Penguin

Titans

Conner Kent/Superboy, Dawn Granger/Dove, Dick Grayson/Nightwing, Donna Troy/Wonder Girl, Garfield Logan/Beast Boy, Hank Hall/Hawk, Jason Todd/Red Hood, Jericho Wilson, Komand’r/Blackfire, Kory Anders/Starfire, Rachel Roth/Raven, Rose Wilson/Ravager, Tim Drake/Robin

DC Movies (Non-DCEU/Animation)

Batman (Keaton) - Bruce Wayne/Batman, Selina Kyle/Catwoman, Vicki Vale

Batman (Kilmer) - Bruce Wayne/Batman, Dick Grayson/Robin, Edward Nygma/Riddler, Harvey Dent/Two-Face

Batman (Clooney) - Barbara Wilson/Batgirl, Bruce Wayne/Batman, Dick Grayson/Robin, Pamela Isley/Poison Ivy, Victor Fries/Mr. Freeze

Batman (Bale) - Bruce Wayne/Batman, Harvey Dent/Two-Face, Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow

Batman (Pattinson) - Bruce Wayne/Batman, Edward Nashton/Riddler, Selina Kyle/Catwoman, Sofia Falcone (Gigante)/Hangman

Joker - Arthur Fleck/Joker*, Harleen Quinzel/Lee

*I will not write for Arthur Fleck/Joker romantically!

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Rodrick Heffley

Disney Animation

Aladdin, Alice in Wonderland, Beauty and the Beast, Brave, Frozen, The Little Mermaid, Moana, Peter Pan, Princess and the Frog, Tangled

*this list is organized by movie as of right now, but I can write for most of the main characters. If you have a question, please ask!

Disney Channel Original Movies

Descendants (might make a comeback pending new content)

Audrey Rose, Ben Florian, Carlos De Vil, Evie Grimhilde, Harry Hook, Jay Max, Mal Bertha, Uma

Teen Beach Movie

Brady Derulo, Butchy Dean, Giggles, Lela Dean, Mckenzie Fox/Mack, Seacat, Tanner Lewis

Euphoria

Cassie Howard, Chris McKay, Elliot, Fezco, Jules Vaughn, Kat Hernandez, Lexi Howard, Maddy Perez, Rue Bennett

Fallout

Cooper Howard/The Ghoul, Lucy MacLean, Maximus

Fallout 3, 4, 76, NV (I know the lore but not all characters/storylines)

Fear Street

Cindy Berman, Christine Berman/Ziggy, Deena Johnson, Josh Johnson, Kate Schmidt, Samantha Fraser, Simon Kalivoda

Friends

Chandler Bing, Joey Tribbiani, Monica Geller, Phoebe Buffay, Rachel Green

The Good Place

Chidi Anagonye, Eleanor Shellstrop, Janet, Jason Mendoza, Michael, Tahani Al-Jamil

Harry Potter/Fantastic Beasts

Bellatrix Lestrange, Bunty Broadacre, Cedric Diggory, Credence Barebone, Eulalie Hicks, Fred Weasley, George Weasley, Ginny Weasley, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Jacob Kowalski, Leta Lestrange, Luna Lovegood, Newt Scamander, Porpentina Goldstein, Queenie Goldstein, Ron Weasley, Theseus Scamander

*If the character you are looking for is barely in the movies, I don’t write for them. I haven’t read the books so beyond the movies, I have no way of knowing what they’re like.

I Am Not Okay with This

Stanley Barber, Sydney Novak

Indiana Jones

Indiana Jones, Helena Shaw, Marion Ravenwood, Mutt Williams, Willie Scott

It

Ben Hanscom, Beverly Marsh, Bill Denbrough, Eddie Kaspbrak, Mike Hanlon, Richie Tozier, Stanley Uris

*Please specify older or younger characters

*I do not write for Bower’s Gang romatically

*IT kids will not be written for romantically, crushes are acceptable

The Last of Us

Ellie Williams, Joel Miller

*this is recently added (Nov. 12, 2024) so I’m just making sure it gets added to the list. More to come? Especially with season 2 coming!

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Marvel Movies

Adam Warlock, Ajak, Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian, Bruce Banner/Hulk, Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier, Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel, Clint Barton/Hawkeye, Darcy Lewis, Druig, Gamora, Gilgamesh, Hela Odinsdottir, Helmut Zemo, Hope Van Dyne/Wasp, Jane Foster, Jimmy Woo, Katy Chen, Kingo, Liz Allan, Loki Laufeyson, Makkari, Maria Rambeau, Maria Hill, May Parker, Melina Vostokoff/Black Widow, Michelle Jones, Mobius, Monica Rambeau, Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow, Peggy Carter, Pepper Potts/Rescue, Peter Parker/Spider-Man, Peter Quill/Star Lord, Phastos, Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver, Sam Wilson/Falcon, Scott Lang/Ant-Man, Sersi, Xu Shang-Chi, Sharon Carter/Agent 13, Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange, Steve Rogers/Captain America, Thena, Thor Odinson, Tony Stark/Iron Man, Valkyrie, Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch, Xu Xialing, Yelena Belova/Black Widow*

*I currently don’t write for Yelena Belova romantically!

Disney+ Originals*

Agatha Harkness/Agnes, Alice Wu-Gulliver, Billy Kaplan/Wiccan, Jennifer Kale, Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk, Karli Morganthau/Flag Smasher, Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel, Kate Bishop/Hawkeye, Kazi Kazimierczak/Clown, Layla El-Faouly/Scarlet Scarab, Lilia Calderu, Marc Spector/Moon Knight, Maya Lopez/Echo, Rio Vidal/Lady Death, Steven Grant/Mr. Knight, Sylvie Laufeydottir

*listed in this section is any character who has not shown up in movies yet (or is primarily a tv show character)! but other characters like wanda maximoff and sam wilson are still technically in this category depending on the fic!

Defenders - PLEASE DO NOT REQUEST PROMPTS FOR: Iron Fist S2, Punisher S2, Jessica Jones S3 as I have not watched them yet

Claire Temple, Colleen Wing, Danny Rand/Iron Fist, Elektra Nachios, Foggy Nelson, Frank Castle/Punisher, Jessica Jones, Joy Meachum, Karen Page, Luke Cage, Malcolm Ducasse, Matt Murdock/Daredevil, Misty Knight, Patricia Walker, Ward Meachum

Marvel (Non-MCU/XMCU/Games)

Amazing Spider-Man

Curt Conners/Lizard, Gwen Stacy, Harry Osborn/Green Goblin, May Parker, Max Dillon/Electro, Peter Parker/Spider-Man

Into the Spider-Verse

Gwen Stacy/Spider-Woman, Miguel O’Hara/2099, Miles Morales/Spider-Man, Olivia Octavius/Doctor Octopus, Peter B. Parker/Spider-Man

Spider-Man (2002)

Flint Marko/Sandman, Norman Osborn/Green Goblin, Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus, Peter Parker/Spider-Man

Venom

Eddie Brock/Venom

Miscellaneous

10 Things I Hate About You

Chaos Walking - (SPECIFY MALE/FEM!READER)

The Devil All the Time

Free Guy

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

Jurassic World

The Office

Supernatural

Top Gun

Victorious

Wednesday

*i currently haven’t specified which characters i do/do not write for in the section above right now, but i won’t mind if you ask!

Musicals + Movies Counterparts

Heathers

Heather Chandler, Heather Duke, Heather McNamara, Jason Dean, Veronica Sawyer

Newsies

Crutchie, Davey Jacobs, Jack Kelly, Katherine Plumber, Romeo

New Girl

Aly Nelson, Cece Parekh, Ernie Tagliaboo/Coach, Jessica Day, Nick Miller, Reagan Lucas, Winston Bishop, Winston Schmidt/Schmidt

Peaky Blinders

Ada Shelby, Arthur Shelby, Esme Lee, John Shelby, Lizzie Stark, Michael Gray, Polly Gray, Thomas Shelby

Riverdale

Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Cheryl Blossom, Fangs Fogarty, Jason Blossom, Josie McCoy, Jughead Jones, Reggie Mantle, Sweet Pea, Toni Topaz, Veronica Lodge

Shameless (US)

Carl Gallagher, Debbie Gallagher, Fiona Gallagher, Kevin Ball, Ian Gallagher, Lip Gallagher, Svetlana Yevgenivna, Veronica Fisher

Star Wars

Ahsoka Tano, Anakin Skywalker, Boba Fett, Cal Kestis, Cara Dune, Cassian Andor, Din Djarin/Mando, Ezra Bridger, Fennec Shand, Finn, Han Solo, Haja Estree, Hera Syndulla, Jyn Erso, Kanan Jarrus/Caleb Dume, Kay Vess, Lando Calrissian, Leia Organa, Luke Skywalker, Mae Aniseya, Nightsister Merrin, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Osha Aniseya, Padmé Amidala, Poe Dameron, Qimir/The Stranger, Qi’ra, Rey, Rose Tico, Sabine Wren, Trilla Suduri

*I will not write Master x Padawan romantically

*I do not write for Kylo Ren romantically

Stranger Things

Dustin Henderson, Eddie Munson, Eleven Hopper, Jim Hopper, Jonathan Byers, Joyce Byers, Lucas Sinclair, Max Mayfield, Michael Wheeler, Nancy Wheeler, Robin Buckley, Steve Harrington, Will Byers

*Stranger Kids will not be written romantically, crushes are acceptable

*I do not write for Billy Hargrove romantically

That 70’s Show

Donna Pinciotti, Jackie Burkhart, Michael Kelso, Steven Hyde

The 100

Bellamy Blake, Charmaine Diyoza, Clarke Griffin, Echo kom Azgedakru, Emori kom Spacekru, Finn Collins, Hope Diyoza, Jasper Jordan, John Murphy, Jordan Green, Lexa kom Trikru, Monty Green, Nathan Miller, Octavia Blake, Raven Reyes

The Umbrella Academy

Diego Hargreeves, Allison Hargreeves, Klaus Hargreeves, Five Hargreeves**, Viktor Hargreeves***, Lila Pitts

*I will not write number 8!reader x Hargreeves romantically

**I will not write for Five romantically

***Because Viktor (Number 7) is canonically trans now, writing for him is more tricky. Fics written pre-S3 remain unedited. Future fics will follow the timeline and may still address Viktor pre-transition depending on when the fic takes place. Please understand this is for continuity and not disrespecting his identity!

Video Games

Batman: Arkham Series

Gotham Knights

Injustice

Marvel’s Avengers

Marvel’s Spider-Man

Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor

*I write for most characters in these games, I don’t mind if you ask!

X-Men

Prequels

Alex Summers/Havok, Charles Xavier/Professor X, Elizabeth Braddock/Psylocke, Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto, Hank McCoy/Beast, Jean Grey/Phoenix, Jubilation Lee/Jubilee, Ororo Munroe/Storm, Peter Maximoff/Quicksilver, Raven Darkholme/Mystique, Scott Summers/Cyclops, Sean Cassidy/Banshee, Warren Worthington III/Angel

Originals

Modern Day

Danielle Moonstar/Mirage, Ellie Phimister/Negasonic Teenage Warhead, Illyana Rasputin/Magik, Laura Kinney/X-23, Logan Howlett/Wolverine, Neena Thurman/Domino, Rahne Sinclair/Wolfsbane, Roberto da Costa/Sunspot, Sam Guthrie/Cannonball, Wade Wilson/Deadpool

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fandom list.

categories:

Films

TV Shows

YouTube ASMR Voice Audios (misc.)

* Italics = a character I will only write platonically.

—films

The Maze Runner

Thomas / Teresa Agnes / Newt / Minho / Frypan / Gally / Brenda / Aris / Sonya / Harriet

Janson / Ava Paige

The Hunger Games

Katniss Everdeen / Primrose Everdeen / Peeta Mellark / Gale Hawthorne / Finnick Odair / Haymitch Abernathy / Cato / Clove / Glimmer / Foxface / Enobaria / Johanna Mason / Effie Trinket

Rue / President Snow / President Alma Coin / Cinna

Titanic (1997)

Jack Dawson / Rose DeWitt Bukater / Fabrizio / Cal Hockley / and maybe the ship officers

Triple Frontier

Tom “Redfly” Davis / Santiago “Pope” Garcia / Francisco “Catfish” Morales / William “Ironhead” Miller / Ben Miller / Yovanna

Reservoir Dogs

Mr. Orange / Mr. Pink / Mr. Brown / Mr. Blonde / Mr. White / Nice Guy Eddie

Pulp Fiction

Vincent Vega / Jules Winnfield / Mia Wallace / Butch / Ringo "Pumpkin

Inglourious Basterds

Aldo Raine / Donny Dorowitz / Shosanna Dreyfus “Emmanuelle Mimieux” / Marcel / Archie Hicox / Bridget Von Hammersmark / Hugo Stiglitz

Hans Landa, Major Dieter Hellstrom, Fredrick Zoller (in some cases, I can write implied topics but nothing of my writing condones Landa, Hellstrom or Zoller’s actions as N*zis - in no way am I tangentially condoning their actions in this film - so they are written platonically - preferably as enemies of the reader)

Dunkirk

Tommy / Peter / George / Gibson / Alex / Collins / Farrier / Soldier (Cillian Murphy)

Midsommar

Dani Ardor / Christian Hughes / Josh / Mark / Pelle

Heathers (1989)

The Heathers / Veronica Sawyer / Jason “J.D” Dean

Scream franchise

(1996) Sidney Prescott / Billy Loomis / Stu Macher / Randy Meeks / Tatum Riley / Dewey Riley / Gale Weathers

(2000) Roman Bridger

(2022) Tara / Sam / Amber / Richie / Chad

—tv shows

Gotham

Bruce Wayne / Selina Kyle / Edward Nygma / Oswald Cobblepot / Jim Gordon / Jerome Valeska / Jeremiah Valeska / Ecco / Barbara Kean / Tabitha Galavan / Jervis Tetch / Lee Thompkins / Ivy Pepper (older), Fish Mooney, Eduardo Dorrance “Bane” / Ra’s Al-Gul / Victor Zsasz, Jonathan Crane “Scarecrow”

Harvey Bullock, Alfred Pennyworth, Butch Gilzean

Squid Game

Gi-Hun / Sang-Woo / Kang Sae-byeok / Hwang Jun-ho / Ali Abdul / Ji-yeong

Arcane (League of Legends)

Vi / Jinx / Caitlyn Kiramman / Sevika / Silco / Vander / Ekko / Jayce Talis / Viktor / Mel Medarda / Deckard 

Powder (younger) 

Euphoria

Rue Bennett / Jules Vaughn / Maddy Perez / Cassie Howard / Lexi Howard / Kat Hernandez / McKay / Fezco / Elliot

Gia Bennett / Ashtray

***will not write for Nate, Cal or Aaron Jacobs***

Skins (UK)

Generation 1: Tony Stonem / Sid Jenkins / Cassie Ainsworth /  Michelle Richardson / Jal Fazer / Chris Miles / Anwar Kharral / Maxxie Oliver (no female pairing unless platonic/familial)

Generation 2: Effy Stonem / Pandora Moon / James Cook / Freddy McClair / JJ Jones / Thomas Tomone / Katie & Emily Fitch / Naomi Campbell

Generation 3: Franky Fitzgerald / Mini McGuiness / Alo Creevey / Rich Hardbeck / Liv Malone / Grace Blood

The Haunting of Hill House

Steven Crain / Shirley Crain / Theo Crain / Nell Crain / Luke Crain

Young!Crain siblings, Hugh Crain, Olivia Crain

The Haunting of Bly Manor

Dani Clayton / Jamie / Peter Quint / Rebecca Jessel / Owen / Hannah Grose

Henry Wingrave / Flora Wingrave / Miles Wingrave

Black Mirror

Bandersnatch: Stefan Butler / Colin Ritman

Fifteen Million Merits: Bingham Madsen / Abi Khan

Be Right Back: Ash Starmer

White Christmas: Matt

San Junipero: Kelly / Yorkie

Hated in the Nation: Karin Parke / Blue Colson

USS Callister: Nanette Cole, Walton, Elena Tulaska, Shania

Hang the DJ: Frank / Amy

Kenny (Shut Up & Dance) / Robert Daly (USS Callister)

*I do not write for all Black Mirror episodes*

The Pacific

Bob Leckie / John Basilone / Manny Rodriguez / Lew “Chuckler” Juergens / Wilbur “Runner” / Conley Andrew “Ack Ack” Haldane / Eddie “Hillbilly” Jones / Bill “Hoosier” Smith / Eugene Sledge / Merriell “Snafu” Shelton / Sid Phillips / Jay D’Leau / Bill Leyden / R.V Burgin / Vera Keller / Lena Riggi

Superstore

Jonah / Amy / Dina / Garrett / Cheyenne / Mateo / Marcus / Bo

Glenn Sturgis

The Queen’s Gambit

Beth Harmon / Jolene / Benny Watts / D.L Townes / Harry Beltik

The Good Place

Michael / Eleanor Shellstrop / Chidi Anagonye / Tahani Al-Jamil / Jason Mendoza / Janet

The Walking Dead (S1-11)

Rick Grimes / Shane Walsh / Daryl Dixon / Carl Grimes / Glenn Rhee / Maggie Rhee / Beth Greene / Michonne Hawthorne / Negan / Simon / Enid / Rosita Espinosa / Yumiko / Magna / Connie / Kelly / Jesus / Siddiq / Noah / Cyndie / Tara Chambler / Dwight / Sherry / Sasha Williams / Eugene Porter / Jerry / King Ezekiel / Abraham Ford

Aaron, Lydia, Judith Grimes, Henry Peletier, Sophia Peletier

Dracula (BBC/2020 Netflix original)

Count Dracula / Agatha Van Helsing / Zoe Van Helsing / Jonathan Harker / Jack

Peaky Blinders (S1-S6)

Tommy Shelby / Arthur Shelby / Ada Thorne / John Shelby / Finn Shelby / Polly Gray / Michael Gray / Grace Burgess / Lizzie Starke / May Carleton / Alfie Solomons / Luca Changretta / Tatiana Petrovna / Gina Gray / Aberama Gold / Bonnie Gold

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Jake Peralta / Amy Santiago / Rosa Diaz / Charles Boyle, Gina Linetti

Raymond Holt / Kevin Cozner

Shadowhunters

Clary Fray / Jace Wayland / Alec Lightwood / Isabelle Lightwood / Magnus Bane / Simon Lewis / Maia Roberts / Luke Garroway / Raphael / Jordan Kyle / Seelie Queen / Meliorn / Hodge Starkweather / Helen Blackthorn / Aline Penhallow

Jonathan Morgenstern / Sebastian Verlac (as disguise) / Valentine Morgenstern / Jocelyn Fray / Maryse Lightwood / Max Lightwood / Camille Belcourt

Stranger Things

Steve Harrington / Jonathan Byers / Nancy Wheeler / Robin Buckley /  Eddie Munson / Chrissy Cunningham / Dmitri Antonov / 001/Henry Creel/”Peter” (not writing him as Vecna) / Jim Hopper / Joyce Byers

Eleven / Mike Wheeler / Will Byers / Lucas Sinclair / Dustin Henderson / Max Mayfield

***no longer writing for Billy Hargrove***

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ZSakuVA 

Professor Andrew Marston (Strict Professor series)

CardlinAudio

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Happy New Year! Books are the Best!

In 2018 I went to Japan, filled some bookshelves, and read more than the usual amount of literary biographies. In Japan, we navigated the bookstore in which Haruki Murakimi apparently bought his first fountain pen. While there, I bought copies of two of my favourite Japanese books: Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto, and Book 1 (of 6) of 1Q84.

Japanese books are very beautiful, and all very uniform. There were hundreds of book protectors on sale in every bookshop and stationery shop (we went to a lot of those – the Iroshizuku ink was soooo cheap!), I had to remind myself that books in the UK don’t fit into them to stop myself from bringing them all home. Now that I have at least one  Banana Yoshimoto book in Japanese, there’s more incentive than ever to try and learn the language. I’ve been thinking a lot this year about how much is lost or gained in translation and what that does to a book depending on the language you read. This Little Art by Kate Briggs is a novel-length essay on exactly this topic, and I read it not long after The Idiot in which the protagonist has a crisis about language and how words can lose their meaning. They fit together very well in my head – both asked and tried to provide answers to questions about translation, like why even do it at all if meaning is going to be lost? Having read Murakami’s most recent book, Killing Commendatore, I’m still not sure if the absence of Jay Rubin as translator is responsible for my disappointment with it, or if it was just a bad book, or if Haruki Murakami has never been that great and it was all Jay Rubin all along.

This Little Art, The Idiot, Shirley and Romantic Outlaws are probably my favourites from this year. Also Daphne du Maurier’s short story The Breakthrough, from Don’t Look Now. Sinister, terrifying, haunting, all words that fall short of describing the atmosphere of that one short story.

I read Shirley after reading Outsiders by Lyndall Gordon. I had tried to read it before and had never been able to get past the first chapter, but something about Outsiders made me want to try again. Reading Outsiders made me realise in a way that I hadn’t before that books written in the last couple of centuries aren’t as far removed from us as I had thought. Previously, when reading books from different time periods, I had become as detached as if I was reading fantasy; I forgot that the stories being told were often very firmly set in social, political and cultural climates that had once existed. It helped me to find ways to empathise with the narrators and the characters, and make them much more human and relatable. While reading Shirley, instead of feeling like the characters and situations were a million miles away, I forced myself to remember that Charlotte Brontë was writing about events that were important to the people in the time she was writing about. Her father witnessed Luddite uprisings. The setting of Shirley with its discussions of workers’ rights and its attacks on mills was as real for Charlotte and her father as Brexit and Trump are for us now.

Turtles All The Way Down – John Green

My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs – Kazuo Ishiguro

Manderley Forever: Daphne du Maurier, A Life – Tatiana de Rosnay

Don’t Look Now & other short stories – Daphne du Maurier

Outsiders: Five Women Writers who Changed the World – Lyndall Gordon

Shirley – Charlotte Brontë

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The first time I tried to read Shirley, I struggled to get past the first three chapters. "This is not as good as Jane Eyre or Villette," I thought. And, of course, I was wrong. How did I come to change my mind and try again? It was because I read Outsiders by Lyndall Gordon. It was sometimes difficult to read; lots of what felt like fact-listing, and the events of the five lives studied are not always in chronological order, which would not be a problem if it was made clearer. This made it difficult to get through but did not affect my ability to be grateful for all the new information and the future reading list (I have a charity shop copy of Middlemarch now sitting on top of a book pile, and am searching for some Olive Schreiner). It also provided me with new reasons to persevere with Shirley. Though the Brontë sister included in this book is Emily, not Charlotte, it is impossible to talk about one without mentioning the other. Especially when Charlotte included a characters based on Emily in a novel: Shirley Keeldar and Caroline Helstone. To read someone's fictionalised perception of her sisters' characters, I thought, would be a very strange experience. And it is, it sometimes feels weirdly voyeuristic. In the future we are all in on the secret. A huge theme throughout Outsiders is the rights of women and how their role has changed over time; Shirley is referred to as an incredibly feminist book. And it is. Jane Eyre has nothing on it. Still feminist, but this is in-your-face "what are we supposed to do all day, cook and sew??" "…yes. I hate womenites." So I decided to read it again but placing it as contemporary, rather than viewing it as a relic of the past which I should accept that I can't always understand or relate to. Putting these new perspectives on it has really helped me to get into the book. This is a huge post. Shirley is great. (Also the first time Shirley was used as a female name!) #bookstagram #Shirley #charlottebrontë #outsiders #lyndallgordon #brontë #nowreading

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In Search of Anne Brontë – Nick Holland

Moshi Moshi – Banana Yoshimoto

Asleep – Banana Yoshimoto

Valley of the Dolls – Jacqueline Susan

Eleanor and Park – Rainbow Rowell

Winter – Ali Smith

Banshee, Volumes 2 & 5

My Uncle Oswald – Roald Dahl

Young Hearts Crying – Richard Yates

The White Book – Han Kang

Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë

The Idiot – Elif Batuman

Emily Brontë Reappraised: A View from the 21st Century – Claire O’Callaghan

A Cup Of Sake Beneath The Cherry Trees – Yoshida Kenko

This Little Art – Kate Briggs

The Lonely City – Olivia Laing

The Diary of a Bookseller – Shaun Bythell

Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami

A Cat, A Man and Two Women – Junichiro Tanazaki

N. P. – Banana Yoshimoto

Romantic Outlaws – Charlotte Gordon

The Pilgrims – Mary Shelley

Bartleby The Scrivener – Herman Melville

Behind A Wardrobe In Atlantis – Emma J. Lannie

The Hatred of Poetry – Ben Lerner

Convenience Store Woman – Sayuka Murata

Demian – Herman Hesse

Revolutionary Girl Utena 20th Anniversary companion book

The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories – Edited by Jay Rubin, Introduction by Haruki Murakami

The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night – Jen Campbell

The Tales of Beedle the Bard – J.K. Rowling, Illustrated by Chris Riddell

We went to a talk given by Chris Riddell at Nottingham Trent University. He was answering questions about his work on the newly illustrated Beedle the Bard while drawing for us live. He signed my copy of The Edge Chronicles Maps, and was generally very lovely.

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Tonight we went to see Chris Riddell speaking with Dr Sarah McConnell at Nottingham Trent University. There were live illustrations, and Shauna Shim did dramatic readings from The Tales of Beedle The Bard. I've been reading The Edge Chronicles since I picked up a copy of Beyond The Deepwoods AT THE LIBRARY (libraries, man!), aged 11, and thought it had the best front cover I had ever seen. Now that I'm older, if Chris Riddell has illustrated something I assume it's good and read it. Thank-you @chris_riddell for staying super late after your talk to speak to everyone and sign everything! @ntucreated #nottinghamtrent #illustration #theedgechronicles #beyondthedeepwoods

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Ariel – Sylvia Plath

Charlotte Brontë Revisited: A View from the 21st Century – Sophie Franklin

Killing Commendatore – Haruki Murakami

By The Light of My Father’s Smile – Alice Walker

Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë

Rough Magic – Paul Alexander

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HAPPY FRIDAY GUYS

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How To Be Invisible – Kate Bush

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Merry Kate-mas =D

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Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom – Sylvia Plath

This year I would like to write more about the books I am reading – this blog has been very neglected for the past couple of years! I’ve been occasionally taking part in the Are You Book Enough bookbinding challenge on instagram again. This time last year I was working on the January 2018 theme Darkness. I wrote and illustrated a story called The Black Ribbon. It was inspired by the Tatiana de Rosnay biography of Daphne du Maurier, in which de Rosnay refers to Daphne du Maurier’s depressive episodes as her “black ribbon.” It’s also a tribute to Edward Gorey. I thought his style of illustration would be best suited to the story I was telling, so I had a go at reproducing his style.

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Part 2 of my #AreYouBookEnough January book. Here are all the illustrations and the story I wrote inspired by Edward Gorey, Daphne du Maurier and Tatiana de Rosnay. Please see my previous post for the explanation! #bookart #bookstagram #handmadebooks #illustration #edwardgorey

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Another of the books I made this year was a book in a box for the theme Listen. I chose to bind a book of Kate Bush’s Fifty Words For Snow from her song and album of the same name.

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This is my contribution to the August #AreYouBookEnough bookbinding challenge, #listen . I love to listen to music, and Kate Bush is one of my favourites. Why choose Fifty Words For Snow when I could choose any of her songs? Why does it fit the theme best? The song is a list. It's Stephen Fry reciting fifty words for snow – some made up by Kate Bush, some real. She wanted him to be the narrator because people believe the words he says, he is intelligent and speaks with a quiet authority.  Hearing him speak her fictional words for snow makes them sound real. Snow itself deadens sound but has sounds of its own; one of the words is "creaky-creaky." I hope whoever looks at my book can hear the snow behind the words. This is the first time I've made this kind of box, and my measurements are a bit off (the lid is loose!) but overall I'm pleased and know what to do better next time! The paper is very fibrous, I wanted something that looked and felt like snow. Both the front cover of the book and the lid of the box are padded. The ink I used to write the fifty words is a mixture of two different inks – white calligraphy ink and a Grey Plum Kwiz ink. I'm going to have to find a way to photograph it properly because it is almost pearlescent! If you hold the paper a certain way it disappears. Hold it to the light and it looks like it is glowing. I'll try and get some video footage of it. #AreYouBookEnough #bookart #handmade #katebush #fiftywordsforsnow #50wordsforsnow #listen #books #snow #music

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I will leave you with a picture of the new bookcase. I hope you have an excellent 2019!

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Got a new phone. The cats ran away so I took a picture of one of the bookcases. It's so shiny

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  Books I read in 2018 Happy New Year! Books are the Best! In 2018 I went to Japan, filled some bookshelves, and read more than the usual amount of literary biographies.

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Co się dzisiaj działo? #71 12.3.2022

Turniej ITF w Bendigo: Weronika Falkowska/Alexandra Bozovic-Rutuja Bhosale/Ankita Raina 6:4 3:6 4-10

NHL: Penguins-Golden Knights 5:2

Krykiet, mecz testowy, dzień 5

Mecz Indie Zachodnie (373/9 & 147/4, Nkrumah Bonner 123 & 38*, Jayden Seales 4/79 & Alzarri Joseph 3/78) Anglia (311 & 349/6d, Jonny Bairstow 140 & Zak Crawley 121, Ben Stokes 2/42 & Jack Leach 3/57) zakończył się brakiem rozstrzygnięcia

dzień 1

Pakistan (,,Hasan Ali 1/31)-Australia(251/3, Usman Khawaja 127*,)

Indie(252, Shreyas Iyer 92,)-Sri Lanka (,, Praveen Jayawickrama 3/81)

ICC World Cricket League 2: ZEA (348/3, Vriitya Aravind 115*, Ahmed Raza 3/60) pokonało Namibię (305/9, Craig Williams 79, Tangeni Lungameni 1/34) 43 runami

ICC Puchar Świata Kobiet: Indie (317/8, Smriti Mandhana 123, Sneh Rana 3/22) pokonały Indie Zachodnie (162, Deandra Dottin 62, Anisa Mohammed 2/59) 155 runami

Turniej ATP w Indian Wells:

Kamil Majchrzak-Aljaz Bedene 6:1 7:5

Hubert Hurkacz/Łukasz Kubot-Tim Puetz/Michael Venus 2:6 2:6

Puchar Świata w biegach, bieg indywidualny mężczyzn w Falun

34. Dominik Bury

65. Maciej Staręga

66. Kamil Bury

70. Mateusz Haratyk

CAF Liga Mistrzów:

Etoile Sahel-Esperance Tunis 0:2

Mamelodi-Al Ahly 1:0

Horoya-Raja Casablanca 2:1

Petro-Sagrada 3:0

Setif-AmaZulu 2:0

League Two: Port Vale-Crawley 4:1

Bundesliga: TSG Hoffenheim-Bayern 1:1 (gol Roberta Lewandowskiego)

MyGolfLife Open, 3 runda: 27. Adrian Meronk

Challenger w Roseto Degli Abruzzi: Jan Zieliński/Hugo Nys-Roman Jebavy/Philipp Oswald 7:6(2) 4:6 10-3

Puchar Świata w biathlonie, bieg masowy kobiet w Otepie:

11. Monika Hojnisz-Staręga

PDC European Tour w Hildesheim, 2 runda:

Krzysztof Ratajski-Jamie Hughes 6:3

Rob Cross-Martijn Kleermaker 6:2

Dirk van Duijvenbode-Darius Labanauskas 6:3

Damon Heta-Martin Lukeman 5:6

Ryan Searle-Vincent van der Voort 6:4

Dimitri van den Bergh-Alan Soutar 6:4

Luke Humphries-Daryl Gurney 4:6

Joe Cullen-Ricky Evans 6:3

Jose de Sousa-Kim Huybrechts 6:5

Michael Smith-Devon Petersen 6:4

Gabriel Clemens-Dave Chisnall 5:6

Michael van Gerwen-Jose Justicia 6:3

Peter Wright-Martin Schindler 6:4

Jonny Clayton-Scott Waites 6:2

Callan Rydz-Mensur Suljović 0:6

Chris Dobey-Karel Sedlacek 0:6

Mistrzostwa Świata w lotach, dzień 2

11. Jakub Wolny

12. Piotr Żyła

21. Kamil Stoch

24. Paweł Wąsek

Tirreno-Adriatico, 6 etap:

15. Rafał Majka (25 w generalce)

80. Cesare Benedetti (87 w generalce)

130. Maciej Bodnar (125 w generalce)

Turniej WTA w Indian Wells: Marketa Vondrousova-Magdalena Fręch 6:1 6:3

Energa Basket Liga Kobiet: VBW Arka Gdynia-Basket 25 Bydgoszcz 73:58

PGNIG Superliga: MKS Kalisz-Wybrzeże Gdańsk 35:22

Liga Centralna piłki ręcznej: Padwa Zamość-MKS Grudziądz 30:25

1 liga piłkarzy ręcznych: KPR Gryfino-Tytani Wejherowo 26:31

1 liga piłkarek ręcznych: Arka Gdynia-Pogoń Szczecin 24:21

1 liga siatkarek: Wieżyca Stężyca-Zagłebie Sosnowiec 2:3

III Liga:

Stolem Gniewino-Pogoń Szczecin II 0:5

Świt Skolwin-GKS Przodkowo 2:0

KP Starogard-Błekitni Stargard 0:4

Campionato Sammarinese:

Cailungo-Libertas 1:1

Fiorentino-Virtus 1:1

Folgore-Murata 3:0

San Giovanni-La Fiorita 0:3

Futsal Ekstraklasa: AZS UG Gdańsk-Dreman Opole 2:5

Ekstraklasa:

Warta-Górnik Zabrze 2:1

Piast-Lechia 1:0

Cracovia-Pogoń 1:1

Fortuna 1 Liga: Odra Opole-Arka Gdynia 1:3

Puchar 6 Narodów:

Włochy-Szkocja 22:33

Anglia-Irlandia 15:32

Ekstraliga Rugby:

Lechia Gdańsk-Pogoń Siedlce 40:12

Posnania Poznań-Ogniwo Sopot 15:31

Arka Gdynia-Budowlani Łódź 26:28

Igrzyska Paraolimpijskie w Pekinie, dzień 8

paranarciarstwo klasyczne, bieg na średnim dystansie

mężczyzn z przewodnikiem

1. Brian McKeever/(p)Russell Kennedy (CAN)

2. Zebastian Modin/(p)Emil Jonsson (SWE)

3. Dmytro Suiarko/(p)Oleksandr Nikonovych (UKR)

11. Piotr Garbowski/(p)Jakub Twardowski

14. Paweł Gil/(p)Michał Lańda

15. Paweł Nowicki/(p)Jan Kobryń

mężczyzn stojąc

1. Wang Chenyang (CHN)

2. Benjamin Daviet (FRA)

3. Cai Jiayun (CHN)

11. Witold Skupień

kobiet z przewodnikiem

1. Linn Kazmaier/(p)Florian Baumann (GER)

2. Wang Yue/(p)Li Yalin (CHN)

3. Carina Edlinger/(p)Josef Lorenz (AUT)

Aneta Górska/(p)Catherina Spierenburg nie ukończyły biegu

kobiet stojąc

1. Oleksandra Kononova (UKR)

2. Natalie Wilkie (CAN)

3. Iryna Bui (UKR)

8. Iweta Faron

mężczyzn siedząc

1. Mao Zhongwu (CHN)

2. Zheng Peng (CHN)

3. Giuseppe Romele (ITA)

14. Krzysztof Plewa

kobiet siedząc

1. Yang Hongqiong (CHN)

2. Oksana Masters (USA)

3. Ma Jing (CHN)

11. Monika Kukla

parahokej, mecz o brązowy medal

Korea Południowa-Chiny 4:0

curling na wózkach, finał

Chiny-Szwecja 8:3

pozostałe konkurencje medalowe

paranarciarstwo alpejskie, slalom kobiet

z przewodnikiem

1. Veronika Aigner/(p)Elisabeth Aigner (AUT)

2. Barbara Aigner/(p)Klara Sykora (AUT)

3. Alexandra Rexova/(p)Eva Trajcikova (SVK)

stojąc

1. Ebba Arsjo (SWE)

2. Zhang Mengqiu (CHN)

3. Anna-Maria Rieder (GER)

siedząc

1. Anna-Lena Forster (GER)

2. Zhang Wenjing (CHN)

3. Liu Sitong (CHN)

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The Midheaven: How You Will Be Remembered

The Midheaven (MC) is commonly thought to describe one’s career path. Although this is a decent indicator of one’s overall path, it can be hard to relate to a specific career so early in one’s life. So, if you don’t relate to your Midheaven like, “Oh, you have a MC in Aries, so you’re probably going to be a police officer, solider, or athlete" then maybe try thinking of the Midheaven as how you will be remembered or what you are generally associated with. (Always trust your dominant sign to describe you the most- *a post similar to this coming soon) ✨No matter what career you decide, you will be remembered by your peers, co-workers, friends, and family by traits from the sign, aspects*, and planets* bestowed upon your 10th House.✨

♈ Aries MC: will be remembered for their courage, boldness, intimidating/unsettling nature, and/or originality. (ex. Stephen King, Meryl Streep, Kanye West, Joan of Arc, Bill Gates, Angelina Jolie, Madalyn Murry O'Hair, Pablo Picasso, Rachel Maddow, Will Smith, Franz Kafka, Tyra Banks, Aleister Crowley, Tina Fey, Francisco de Goya, Julia Roberts, Chris Farley, Joseph Goebbels, Marvin Gaye, Iggy Pop, Kate Moss, Alfred Hitchcock, George Wallace, Hank Williams, Ayn Rand, Rob Zombie, Alexandre Dumas, John Steinbeck, Anne Frank, Twiggy, Jack Black, William Blake, Celine Dion, Galileo Galilei, Al Gore, Emmylou Harris, Las Vegas-Nevada, Manhattan-New York)

♉ Taurus MC: will be remembered for their extravagant style or possessions, their values, and/or “diva” attitude. (ex. Henry VIII, Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe, Tina Turner, Pope Francis, Jackie Robinson, Selena Gomez, Drake, Donald Trump, Freddie Mercury, Agatha Christie, Muhammad Ali, Frida Kahlo, O. J. Simpson, Justin Timberlake, Marlene Dietrich, Malala Yousafzai, Christopher Columbus, Michael Bay, Luciano Pavarotti, Nicole Richie, Woody Allen, Marilyn Manson, Maya Angelou, Martin Scorsese, Bernie Madoff, Ringo, Josephine Baker, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sarah Palin, Josh Groban, Chris Brown, Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen, Norway)

♊ Gemini MC: will be remembered for/through words (writing, phrase, acting, thoughts, speech), their cleverness, and/or mental/emotional detachment. (ex. Jean-Jaques Rousseau, Albert Camus, Madonna, J.R.R. Tolkein, Donna Summer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Chelsea Handler, Alex Trebek, Kurt Cobain, Julie Andrews, Oscar Wilde, Jay-Z, Richard Nixon, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Tom Hanks, Kris Jenner, Walt Disney, Miss Cleo, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Hugh Hefner, Lizzie Borden, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Kathy Bates, Winston Churchill, Melissa Ethridge, Ernest Hemingway, Margaret Mitchell, Paul Simon, Greece, Tokyo-Japan)

♋ Cancer MC: will be remembered for their emotional impact, sensitivity, and/or parental care/control. (ex. Beyoncé, Matamha Gandhi, John F. Kennedy, Venus Williams, Britney Spears, Arthur Rimbaud, Elizabeth Warren, Denzel Washington, Jeffery Dahmer, Sun Yet-sen, Bob Hope, Stevie Wonder, Anderson Cooper, Cat Stevens, Anna Nicole Smith, Joe Jonas, Rock Hudson, Alice Cooper, Woodrow Wilson, Barbara Walters, T. S. Elliot, Coretta Scott King, Albert Schweitzer, Ted Cruz, Monica Lewinsky, H.P. Lovecraft, Anaïs Nin, Katie Couric, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Carole King, Neil Diamond, Harper Lee, Giacomo Puccini, Sidney Poitier, September 11 attacks, United Kingdom)

♌ Leo MC: will be remembered for their theatrics, arrogance/vanity, power, and/or regality. (ex. Grace Kelly, Prince, Isaac Newton, Adolf Hitler, Katy Perry, Charlie Chaplin, Aretha Franklin, Sigmund Freud, Jacqueline Onassis-Kennedy, Stanley Kubrick, Courtney Love, Mark Twain, Chaka Khan, Napoleon Bonaparte, Kathy Griffin, Jim Carrey, Alfred Nobel, Eric Clapton, Annie Oakley, Martha Stewart, Divine, Louis Pasteur, Robin Williams, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Chuck Berry, Vladimir Putin, Clint Eastwood, Missy Elliot, Frank Sinatra, Mel B, Edgar Allan Poe, Los Angeles-CA)

♍ Virgo MC: will be remembered for their scandals/controversy, never-ending toil, physicality/health and/or attention to detail. (ex. Hillary Clinton, Bruce Lee, Kim Kardashian, Ellen DeGeneres, Brad Pitt, Nelson Mandela, Bette Davis, Justin Bieber, Elvis Presley, Erykah Badu, Jimmy Page, Eartha Kitt, Leonardo de Vinci, Bob Marley, Joan Crawford, Margaret Thatcher, Eminem, Friedrich Nietzsche, David Lynch, Chaz Bono, Marlon Brando, Björk, Ozzy Osborne, Emily Brontë, Bernie Sanders, Georgia O'Keeffe, Diana Ross, Kahlil Gibran, Russia, United States)

♎ Libra MC: will be remembered for their inner/outer beauty, adaptability, and/or desire for or appearance of stability. (ex. Elton John, Jane Goodall, Malcolm X, Coco Channel, Kylie Jenner, Ronald Reagan, Princess Diana, Michelangelo, Oprah Winfrey, Bob Dylan, Winona Ryder, Jimi Hendrix, Mother Teresa, Elizabeth Taylor, Cristiano Ronaldo, Angela Merkel, Tom Brokaw, Alan Watts, Charles Darwin, Brigitte Bardot, Patti Smith, Chuck Norris, Linda Lovelace, Ray Charles, Lionel Messi, Eleanor Roosevelt, Lewis Carroll, Noam Chomsky, Lucille Ball, Venice-Italy)

♏ Scorpio MC: will be remembered for their physical attractiveness, taboo activities/topics, and/or natural talent. (ex. James Joyce, Billie Holiday, Taylor Swift, Barack Obama, Carrie Fisher, Jim Morrison, Selena, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Queen Elizabeth II, Ariana Grande, Marie Curie, Anthony Hopkins, René Descartes, Nina Simone, Willem Dafoe, Paul Newman, Mariska Hargitay, Thomas Jefferson, Ray Bradbury, Joseph Stalin, Larry King, Duke Ellington, Joan Jett, Buddy Holly, Megan Fox, Johnny Knoxville, Daniel Day-Lewis, Gwen Stefani, Francis Ford Coppola, Sophia Loren, Marcus Aurelius, China)

♐ Sagittarius MC: will be remembered for their joviality​, reckless/wild free spirit, sense of humor, and/or philosophy/spirituality. (ex. Al Capone, Deepok Chopra, Shia LaBeouf, Audrey Hepburn, Harvey Milk, Johnny Cash, David Bowie, Bettie Page, Pablo Neruda, J. K. Rowling, Christina Aguilera, Michael Jackson, Henry David Thoreau, Adele, Janis Joplin, Maximilien Robespierre​, Ellen Pompeo, Whitney Houston, Paul McCartney, Evel Knievel, Bruno Mars, Jimmy Fallon, Peggy Lipton, Karl Marx, George Takei, Ryan Gosling, Whoopi Goldberg, Vincent Price, Rio de Janeiro-Brazil)

♑ Capricorn MC: will be remembered for their accomplishments/legacy, conquering of odds, and/or persistence. (ex. Martin Luther King Jr., George Washington, Rihanna, Isadora Duncan, Benjamin Franklin, James Dean, Nikola Tesla, John D. Rockefeller, Serena Williams, Joan Baez, Snoop Dogg, Alexander the Great, Barbara Streisand, Ron Howard, Stevie Nicks, Bette Midler, Joan Rivers, Immanuel Kant, Queen Latifah, Johann Sebastian Bach, Walt Whitman, Che Guevara, Liza Minnelli, Amelia Earhart, Mariah Carey, John Lennon, George Lucas, Donatella Versace, Louis Armstrong, Pakistan)

♒ Aquarius MC: will be remembered for their rebellious nature, involvement in a social organization/group​, and/or unpredictability. (ex. Miley Cyrus, Tim Burton, Voltaire, Mick Jagger, Carl Sagan, Rita Hayworth, Neil Armstrong, Amy Winehouse, Pamela Anderson, Carlos Santana, Edward Snowden, Leo Tolstoy, Mae West, Orson Welles, Charlie Sheen, Eva Peron, Miles Davis, Bruce Springsteen, Johann Kepler, Suddam Hussein, Ruby Rose, Gerard Way, Helen Mirren, Howard Stern, Arthur Conan Doyle, Mary Shelley, George R. R. Martin, Kristen Stewart, Jean Piaget, Ronda Rousey, Willow Smith, Florida, India)

♓ Pisces MC: will be remembered for their delusional optimism, supernatural success, and/or they are often idolized. (ex. Vincent Van Gogh, Albert Einstein, Irene Cara, Cher, Salvador Dalí, William Shakespeare, Edie Sedgwick, Fidel Castro, Lady Gaga, Dalai Lama XIV, Steven Spielberg, George Michael, Marie Antoinette, RuPaul, Judy Garland, Michael Phelps, Sally Ride, John Cena, William Faulkner, Victoria Beckham, Lee Harvey Oswald, Douglas Adams, Jean Renoir, Buzz Aldrin, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Farrah Fawcett, Osama bin Laden, Sam Cooke, Michael Jordan, Switzerland, North Korea)

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1900 Booker T. Washington founds the National Negro Business League.

Washington publishes his first autobiography The Story of my life and work editor of the New York Age Timothy Thomas Fortune.

October Washington invited for dinner at the White House by President Theodore Rosevelt.

Du Bois attends the First Pan-African Conference in London drafts letter ”Address to the Nations of the World” to the European heads of states. 

Seay becomes certificate as an educator teaches in Mayan village of Xcalak in Mexico.

1901 Garvey becomes apprentice to printer Alfred ‘Cap’ Burrowes in his native parish of Saint Ann.

W.E. B. DuBois with his wife Nina and daughter Yolande ca. 1901

Washington publishes his autobiography Up From Slavery.

Washington recieves honorary decorate from Dartmouth College.

1903 Du Bois publishes his 14 essay book The Souls of Black Folk.

1904 Garvey relocates from his native parish of Saint Ann 25 miles away to Alfred Borrows branch in Port Maria, Saint Mary.

1905 Garvey moves to Smith Village, Kingston at 13 Pink Lane in begins working for P. A. Benjamin and exceeds to the position of foreman.

Booker Washington and Theodore Roosevelt at Tuskegee Institute, 1905.

December Du Bois buys printing press and publishes Moon Illustrated Weekly.

1906 January 23 Washington giving a speech at Tuskegee Institute Silver Anniversary Lecture Carnegie Hall in New York City.

Du Bois and American Civil Rights activists meet in Canada write declaration opposing Washington's Atlanta Compromise and form the Niagara Movement.

August Second Niagara conference West Virginia Harpers Ferry John Brown raid.

September Atlanta riots 10 thousand whites, 25 deaths.

Du Bois publishes his “A Litany at Atlanta” essay.  

1907 Hubert Harrison begins working at the United States Post Office.

Garvey elected vice president of the compositors branch of the Kingston Typographical Union.

Du Bois publishes The Horizon: A Journal of the Color Line. 

Philadelphia Quaker Anna T Jeanes donates one milion dollars to Booker T washington.

1908 November 28 Garvey participates in Jamaica Print worker strike.

18 March Garveys Mother Sarah Richards passes away at age 56.

1909 Washington tours southern Virginia and West Virginia. 

May Du Bois attends the First National Negro Conference in New York where National Negro Committee is created chaired by Oswald Villard. 

Orientalist Dr. Carl Bezold publishes his edition of the Book of the Glory of Kingswith a German translation.

1910 Du Bois attends the Second National Negro Conference Committee where they create the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Du Bois becomes Director of Publicity and Research for editor of its monthly magazine the Crisis.

Harrison writes two letters to the New York Sun critical of Booker T Washington which cost him his job at the United States Post Office.

Garvey travels to Costa Rica where he is employed as a time keeper on a Banana plantation.

20 April Garvey elected first assistant secretary of the National Club and Wilfred Domingo Apprentice Tailor, second assistant secretary. Fortnightly journal Our Own. Garvey and Domingo The Struggling Mass pamphlet.

Garvey enrolls for elocution lessons with Jamaican Dr. Robert J Love monument George William Gordon.

Garvey publishes three issues of his Watchman journal namd after George William Gordon’s journal the Watchman.

November Du Bois publishes the first issue of The Crisis.

1911 Harrison begins work at Socialist Party of America becoming Americas leading black socialist.

Du Bois attends First Universal Race Congress in London, publishes his Quest of the Silver Fleece novel and joins the Socialist Party of America.

Garvey becomes editor of daily newspaper La Nacionale in Costa Rica and later travels to Colon, Panama.

July 26 Universal Races Congress among its attendees Harry Johnston of the Royal Geographical Society, Sir Sydney Olivier Governor of Jamaica.

April 25, 1911 - The Nation (edited by Marcus Garvey) Cover Page.

July 26 Universal Races Congress among its attendees Harry Johnston of the Royal Geographical Society, Sir Sydney Olivier Governor of Jamaica.

1912 Julius Rosenwald begins serving on the board of directors of Tuskegee Institute.

February 7 Blyden passes in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Harrison campaigns for Industrial Workers of the World founder Eugene V. Debs, presidential candidate, writes the Negro and Socialism for the socialist newspaper the New York Call as well as the socialist monthly the International Socialist Review, also founds the Colored Socialist Club and speaks at Broad and Wall Street in front of the New York stock exchange on socialism. 

Garvey sails to London where he attends evening classes at Birkbeck College. 

August Garveys sister, Indiana, joins him in London.

Du Bois supports the Democrat Woodrow Wilson in presidential campaign forcing him to resign from Socialist Party of America. 

Julius Rosenwald begins serving on the board of directors of Tuskegee Institute.

1913 Garvey begins working for Dusé Mohamed Ali at the African Times and Orient Review office at 158 Fleet Street as messenger and handyman, in October issue writes The British West Indies in the Mirror of Civilization essay. Dusé Mohamed Ali was also later to become the foreign secretary for Garveys Universal Negro Improvement Association. 

Garvey travels to Scotland.

Garvey granted month long readers pass to the British Museum library, where he reads Edward Wilmot Blyden’s Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race as well as Booker T Washington’s autobiography Up from Slavery.

Claude Mckay attends Tuskegee Institute.

W.E.B. DuBois and members of the New York State Commission on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1913.

Organizers of the 1913 Silk Strike in Paterson, New Jersey. Front row, from left: Hubert Harrison, members of the Industrial Workers of the World Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and “Big Bill” Haywood. Back row: unknown, Patrick L. Quinlan, unknown, and unknown. Photographer unknown. Courtesy the American Labor Museum, Haledon, New Jersey, and Jeffrey B. Perry.

Six new small schools in rural Alabama funded by Rosenwald built and opened.

1914 Crisis magazine article 2,732 lynchings from 1884 to 1914.

Marcus Garvey founds the Universal Negro Improvement Association at 12 Orange Street, Kingston.

August Garvey meets Amy Ashwood at the Queen Street Baptist Literary and Debating Society U.N.I.A. moved to 20 Orange Street, Kingston.

October Tsar Nicholas II October manifesto freedom of speech and suffrage.

The Russian army invade Germany.

Alfred Charles Sam Akyem Abuakwa Gold coast Texas, Oklahoma.

1915 Harrison publishes The Black Man’s Burden Rudyard Kipling.

Du Bois publishes The Negro and “The African Roots of the War” essay, Atlantic Monthly and fights with the NAACP to band The Birth of a Nation film, the Crisis magazine also publishes article 2,732 lynchings from 1884 to 1914.

135th Street Lenox Avenue Harlem speakers corner.

Tsar Nicholas assumes Commander in Chief.

1916 Crisis magazine April issue lynching of six in Lee County, Georgia and June issue “ Waco Horror” article lynching of mentally impaired 17 year old Jesse Washington in Waco, Texas.

March Garvey departs from Jamaica to New York on the SS Tallac.

April 25th Garvey heads to the NAACP offices at 25 695th Avenue in search of Du Bois.

May 9, Garvey holds his first public lecture in New York City at St Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery where he becomes overwhelmed whilst speaking and falls off the stage.

The Star of Ethiopia a pageant of the history of black people from 50,000 B.C to 20th century wrote, produced, and directed by WEB Du Bois.

Lucien B. Watkins poem The Star of Ethiopia.

December Grigori Rasputin murdered by Prince Yusopor.

1917 Garvey and thirteen others the Harlem, New York branch of the UNIA,

Asa Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen also found the Messenger monthly magazine, earlier the same year A Philip Randoph had stepped down from his stepladder in Harlem to let Garvey speak.

March Tsar Nicholas II resigns.

April Vladimir Lenin returns to Russia from exile in Switzerland flee to Finland.

Harrison founds the Liberty League and Voice newspaper.  

12 June Harrison and Marcus Garvey speak at Harrisons Liberty League of Negro Americans meeting at the Bethal African Methodist Espicopal church.

July 1 East Saint Louis riots, white drive by and fire shots, journalist and two police men drive by Blacks open fire on car killing one officer, thousand of whites begin rioting. women, blacks lynched Congressional Investigating Committee reports 39 blacks, 9 whites dead although thought to be more like hundreds, 6 thousand Blacks left homeless after their neighbourhood burned.

July 8 Garvey at Lafayette Hall speaks on the East Saint Louis riot The conspiracy of the East St. Louis Mayor Mollman migration riots printed pamphlets.

July 28 Du Bois and NAACP organise and lead a “Silent March” of 10,000 black New Yorkers down Fifth Avenue to protest the East St. Louis race riot, Du Bois also travelled to St. Louis to report on the riots and publishes the article "The Massacre of East St. Louis" in September. 

October 16 Lenin returns to Russia.

October 24th/25th Bolshevik Provisional Government Petrograd Soviet.

1918 Garvey on his birthday founds the Negro World weekly newspaper. 

Garvey holds UNIA meetings at Palace Casino Theater 135th Street Madison Avenue.

Harrison works with the American Federation of Labor and serves as chairman for the Negro American Liberty Congress co-headed by Monroe Trotter, the AFL also submits petition to the U. S. Congress for federal anti-lynching legislation.

According to the Hymn From Greenlands Icy Mountains had been adopted by the UNIA and sung at this meeting it is also used by the RasTafarite Ethiopia Black International Congress.

August 4 Randolph and Owen in Cleveland at Social Party leader Walter Bronstrups meeting arrested by Department of Justice official to be trailed on the charge of violating the Espionage Act.

“unlawfully, knowingly and feloniously, the United States being then and there at war with the Imperial German Government, willfully print and cause to be printed, publish and cause to be published, circulated, in a certain language intended to incite, provoke and incur resistance to the United States and to promote the cause of its enemies in a certain publication known as the Messenger.” 

6 October 1918 Amy Ashwood arrives from Panama. 

According to the Hymn From Greenlands Icy Mountains had been adopted by the UNIA and sung at this meeting it is also used by the Ras Tafarite Ethiopia Black International Congress.

1919 January 18 the year long Versailles Peace Conference is held in Paris France. Treaty of Versallies Germanys possessions Hiltler re militarization June 28 and creation of the League of Nations.

WEB Du Bois with the help of Senegalese deputy to the National French Assembly Blaise Diagne organized the First Pan African Congress to be held in Paris.

The 20 year old Haitian Elizier Cadet elected as a delegate, interpreter, main negotiator and later high commissioner to the Conference, presents the resolutions of the UNIA that Germanys confiscated colonies be governed by Negroes educated in America and Europe, to the President the French PM Georges Clemenceau, Cadet also camped outside the offices of the Parisian newspapers of the Liberal La Matin editor, as well as the editors of La Presse and L’Instansigeant newspapers who promised to publish the articles.

Ida B. Wells and Randolph were also elected as delegates but were unable to obtain passports and visas.

German East Africa Tanganika designated to Britain, South West Namibia Cameroon, and Togo to France and Britain, Urundi Burundi to Belgium and Namibia South Africa

January 21 Seattle Shipyard Strike 35, 000 workers go on strike. Unions in Seattles shipbuilding industry demand pay increase for unskilled workers, the yard owners offer to give a pay increase to skilled workers, the union reject the offer and go on strike.

February 23 Third Irish Race Convention Philadelphia.

Soldiers of the 369th (15th N.Y.), awarded the Croix de Guerre for gallantry in action, 1919. Left to right. Front row: Pvt. Ed Williams, Herbert Taylor, Pvt. Leon Fraitor, Pvt. Ralph Hawkins. Back Row: Sgt. H. D. Prinas, Sgt. Dan Storms, Pvt. Joe Williams, Pvt. Alfred Hanley, and Cpl. T. W. Taylor.

Pvt. Henry Johnson nicknamed “Black Death”.

Pvt. Needham Roberts.  

Johnson who using his broken rifle as a club and Roberts with a 9 inch bolo knife defeat a 24 German in France awarded.

$10, 000 $35, 000 steam paddle ship SS Shadyside SS Kanawha.

The UNIA  property located at 114 West 138th Street, New York City which had previously been the Metropolitan Baptist Tabernacle and which would now become the first of many of the UNIAS Liberty Halls.

The Black Star steamshipping line was also established.

Garvey and the UNIA investigated by the FBI then the BOI. Major Walter Howard Loving Negro World Probable Bolshevik Propaganda.

Bolshevik meaning majority, referring to the Marxist majority of the Russian Social Democratic Party of which Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky came into power in October 1917 and the influence of its socialist, communist and Soviet regime. 

Supported by German or Bolshevik money. 

February 4 U.S. Senate votes to Overman Judiciary Subcommittee for more investigation of German spies and Bolshevik propaganda. committee month hearing February 11.

February 6 to 11 Seattle, Washington General Strike. Head of Emergency Fleet Corporation sends telegram mistakenly to Metal Trades Council rather than Metal Trades Association withdraw contracts of any given wage increase, the workers appeal to Seattle Central Labor Council for the strike.

General Strike Committee formed to provide essential services throughout the city during the strike, Army Veterans form Labor War Veterans Guard to ensure order throughout the city although.

“Russia Did It” pamphlet overthrow.

Mayor Hanson police and military order federal troops, stations 950 sailors and marines February 7. 600 hires men to the police force hires 2, 400 deputies.

February 8 The executive committee of the General Strike Committee by AFL and international labor organizations to end the strike at midnight but voted against by the General Strike Committee.

February 9 Mayor Hanson “sympathetic strike was called in the exact manner as was the revolution in Petrograd”.

February 10 The General Strike Committee vote to end the strike the next day.

39 Industrial Workers of the World members arrested ringleaders anarchy.

April bombs mailed to Government officials, businessmen such as John D Rockefeller, Mayor of Seattle Ole Hanson receives mailed packaged bomb opened at the wrong end by member of his office staff William Langer, who then takes the bomb to the police and notifies Post Office. 

Police officers turn up at the UNIA headquarters with a search warrant after an anonymous tip of that from the office of the Negro World. At Garveys Carnegie Hall meeting agents of the Lusk Committee also turn up with a bomb squad.

J Edgar hoover begins to hold suspicions of the Harlem offices of the Negro World and the Messenger being the Russian organ of Bolshevism in New York. Garvey papers II page 674. 642 of the Russian organ of Bolshevik from one memo J Edgar Hoover special assistant to Attorney General to Frank Burke Washington D.C. August 12 1919 Garvey papers I page 480.

May Day Boston Police attempt to stop unpermitted march, fight for socialist Soviet Union Red Flags, one policeman fatally stabbed, socialist HQ attacked by mob, 114 arrested.

At the Russian Peoples House social club, soldiers burn printed material and force emigrants to sing Star Spangled Banner.

Cleveland, Ohio protesting the imprisonment of Eugene V. Debs and promoting the campaign of Charles Ruthenberg the socialist candidate for Mayor plan march.

Nationalist group Victory Loanworkers try to block marchers, Ruthenbergs HQ attacked by mob, police mount with trucks and tanks, tank driven into crowd, two dead, 40 injured, 116 arrested.

June 2 Bombs judges sentenced anarchist to prison, Attorney A. Mitchell Palmer targeted for the second time, Carlo William Valdinoa editor of Galleanist publication Cronaca Sovversiva Luigi Galleani, delivers the bomb, trips up, the bomb detonates leaving his body parts on Palmers lawn.

Flyer traced to anarchists Andrea Salsedo, who commits suicide and Robert Elia.

June Attorney A. Mitchell Palmer Carlo William Valdinoa Galleanist trips up bomb detonating body parts lawn. 

Senator Lusk chairman of committee anarchy socialists troops office of Industrial Workers of the World and Rand school for racial propaganda Socialism Imperilled, or the Negro a Potential menace to American radicalism article by Wilfred Domingo editor of the Negro World who worked with Garvey in 1910 at the National Club.

June 2 Bombs judges sentenced anarchist to prison, Attorney A. Mitchell Palmer targeted for the second time, Carlo William Valdinoa editor of Galleanist publication Cronaca Sovversiva Luigi Galleani, delivers the bomb, trips up, the bomb detonates leaving his body parts on Palmers lawn.

Flyer traced to anarchists Andrea Salsedo, who commits suicide and Robert Elia.

July 28 Garvey charged with criminal libel against Richard Warner, Edgar Grey and the District Attorney Kilroe, Garvey incarcerated in Tombs prison and bailed for $3,000.

A Red Summer. 

The Red Summer racial riots were a series of riots 38 which occurred between May and October 1919.

December Crisis issue Omaha, Nebraska.

Will Brown, Victim of Omaha, Nebraska violence. 

Mary Turner.

May 10 Charleston, South Carolina

May 10 Sylvester, Georgia May 29 Putnam County, Georgia May 31 Monticello, Mississippi June 13 New London, Connecticut June 13 Memphis, Tennessee June 27 Annapolis, Maryland June 27 Macon, Mississippi July 3 Bisbee, Arizona July 5 Scranton, Pennsylvania July 6 Dublin, Georgia July 7 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania July 8 Coatesville, Pennsylvania July 9 Tuscaloosa, Alabama July 10 Longview, Texas July 11 Baltimore, Maryland July 15 Port Arthur, Texas

July 19 Washington, D.C. July 21 Norfolk, Virginia July 23 New Orleans, Louisiana July 23 Darby, Pennsylvania July 26 Hobson City, Alabama July 27 Chicago, Illinois July 28 Newberry, South Carolina July 31 Bloomington, Illinois July 31 Syracuse, New York July 31 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania August 4 Hattiesburg, Mississippi August 6 Texarkana, Texas August 21 New York City, New York August 30 Knoxville, Tennessee September 28 Omaha, Nebraska October 1 Elaine, Arkansas

Elaine, Arkansas, arrested and tried for conspiracy in the Moore v. Dempsey case. 

28 July Garvey charged with criminal libel against Richard Warner, Edgar Grey and the District Attorney Kilroe, Garvey incarcerated in Tombs prison and bailed for $3,000.

28th September Garvey, Reverend Eason, Amy Ashwood and Henrietta Davis Illinois south for meetings at the 8th Regiment Armoury the home of the all Negro infantry Garvey was arrested by detective George Friend of the Chicago Constabulary on violation of the Blue Sky Law turned out to be a private detective from Keystone Detective Agency who was hired by Robert Abbott editor of the Chicago Defender and taken to Harrison police station. 

September Henrietta Vinton Davis that there were 7, 500 members in New York alone and branches in 25 states of Union.

11 October memorandum from J Edgar Hoover to special agent Ridgely.

October 1 Elaine, Arkansas 200 African Americans murdered, arrested and tried for conspiracy in the Moore v. Dempsey case.

11 October memorandum from J Edgar Hoover to special agent Ridgely.

14 October Garvey shot by George Tyler, grazed on his temple and caught in the leg. Tyler commits suicide the next day, Tyler was also the only witness for the criminal libel charge against Garvey.

October Garvey speaks at Philadelphia Peoples Church again.

The Negro World seized in British Guiana and Honduras, according to the Saint Vincent Gazette October 1919 anyone bringing the paper into the colony to serve six months prison sentence, possibly with hard labor.

November Second anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution BOI agents police raid Union of Russian Workers in 12 cities.

Garveys name put forward to Louis F. Post at the Labour Department for deportation on unsubstantiated grounds.

December Du Bois in the Crisis covers lynching in Omana, Nebraska.

December Guianse Edward Green Smith founding member, Secretary UNIA and accountant who previously worked at the ammunition factory in Trenton, New Jersey shot during robbery, pregnant wife dies from shock BSL principal negotiator.

December 25 Garvey marries Amy Ashwood two week honeymoon in Canada Toronto and Montreal.

Garveys name put forward to Louis F. Post at the Labour Department for deportation on unsubstantiated grounds.

December 1919 Guianse Edward Green Smith founding member, Secretary UNIA and accountant who previously working at the ammunition factory in Trenton, New Jersey employment shot during robbery pregnant wife dies from shock BSL principal negotiator.

The Belize branch of the Universal African Black Cross Nurses established in 1920 by Vivian Seay.

Seay survey infant and maternal recruits nurse trainees.

Garvey and Green without Cockburn charter the SS Frederick Douglas at the rate of $11, 000 as opposed to $100, 000 with repairs amounting to $11, 000 and fail to include limited indemnity clause in contract with Green River Distillery making them liable damages to whisky company prohibition deadline 16th January confiscated.

Cockburn receives $2,000 commission from Green River Distillery to load the and sail the ship.

1920 January 15 Frederick Douglas sails from the U. S. to Havana, Cuba with 20, 000 cases of whiskey, 500 cases of champagne and 350 barrels of wine 500 cases of whisky, caught in storm off the coast of Cape May, the cargo shifts in its Hull making its starboard list heavy, tossed aboard in order to prevent it from capsizing and has to be towed back to New York .

neglect to making docking arrangements cargo cant be unloaded because of the shoremans strike, left to face penalty of thousands every day for  32 days. 

Chief Officer Hugh Mulzac and UNIA delgation meet arrive at Havana, Cuba meet President Menocal and are given banquet at his palace.

The SS Frederick Douglass at Colon Panama carries 500 Caribbean laborers to Cuba.

The SS Frederick Douglass makes a ceremonial stop at Bocas del Toro in Costa Rica.

In Kingston, Jamaica the SS Frederick Douglass cargo of 700 tons of coconuts which rot on detour to Boston. 

Du Bois publishes the first of his three autobiographies Darkwater: Voices From Within the Veil containing his “The Damnation of Women” essay as well as The Brownies Book, a monthly children’s magazine co founded by Augustus Granvil Dill and Jesse RedmonFauset.

1920 Du Bois publishes the first of his three autobiographies Darkwater: Voices From Within the Veil containing his "The Damnation of Women" essay as well as The Brownies Book, a monthly children's magazine.

January Harrison becomes editor of the Negro World and also contributes to the Declaration of Rights of Negro People’s of the World.

August the first UNIA Convention was held for the whole duration of the month of August in Madison Square Gardens, New York City. It was at this convention that the Bill of Rights the Declaration of Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World was drafted and adopted. https://tmblr.co/Z9elId2ORVqcw

It was at this event where he was duly elected Provisional President of Africa at the convention Garvey reportedly read two telegrams one from Irish Republic leader Eamon de Valera Provisional President of Ireland and the other from Zionist in Califonia Louis Michael.

Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir? Amos 9:7

10. We protest against segregated districts, separate public conveyances, industrial discrimination, lynchings and limitations of political privileges of any Negro citizen in any part of the world on account of race, color or creed, and will exert our full influence and power against all such.

12. Against all such inhuman, unchristian and uncivilized treatment we here and now emphatically protest, and invoke the condemnation of all mankind.

17. Whereas the lynching, by burning, hanging or any other means, of human beings is a barbarous practice and a shame and disgrace to civilization, we therefore declare any country guilty of such atrocities outside the pale of civilization.

24. We believe in the doctrine of the freedom of the press, and we therefore emphatically protest against the suppression of Negro newspapers and periodicals in various parts of the world, and call upon Negroes everywhere to employ all available means to prevent such suppression.

25. We further demand free speech universally for all men.

33. We vigorously protest against the increasingly unfair and unjust treatment accorded Negro travelers on land and sea by the agents and employee of railroad and steamship companies, and insist that for equal fare we receive equal privileges with travelers of other races.

35. That the right of the Negro to travel unmolested throughout the world be not abridged by any person or persons, and all Negroes are called upon to give aid to a fellow Negro when thus molested.

39. That the colors, Red, Black and Green, be the colors of the Negro race.

40. Resolved, That the anthem “Ethiopia, Thou Land of Our Fathers etc.,” shall be the anthem of the Negro race… adopted by the RasTafarites Universal Ethiopian Anthem.

Signatories of the Declarations of the Rights of Negro Peoples of the World capture the moment during the 1st International Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World.

Negro World editor William Ferris spots WEB Du Bois at the convention.

18 January Negro World SS Kanawah Antonio Maceo to sail for Bermuda, Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Panama. Sir Willocks governor general British Secretary of State for the Colonies Winston Churchill prohibit landing.

Advert Negro World Architects and Contracting Builders to sail to Liberia between January 25 February 20.

1921 Haitian Elie Garcia auditor general produce two reports on Liberia. 

Son of Liberian President Hilary Johnson, Mayor of the Liberian capital, Monrovia, Gabriel Johnson, UNIA Potentate Leader of the Negro Peoples of the World along with George O Marke, Supreme Deputy Potentate in charge of the Sierra Leone division of the UNIA and accountant and stenographer, Resident Commissar Cyril A Crichlow sent to acquire land and property in Liberia 30 40 miles away from Monrovia farm owned by local Mrs.Moort however land quality.

Johnson previously a Brigader, his brother Attorney General, first cousin was also married to the later President D. B. King.

Edwin Barclay Liberia Secretary of Sate French and British bordering colonies of Sierra Leon and Ivory Coast.

February Garvey tours the West Indies and Central America also with the initiative of raising funds.

Hoover alerts immigration in Florida so that the Labour Department ports refuse his reentry however Hoover could not provide them with grounds.

28th February Garvey Amy Jacques and her younger brother Cleveland take the train to Key West where they board the USS Governor Cobb to Havana, Cuba.

7 March Liberia President Charles D. B. King arrives on the USS Panhandle in New York harbor, UNIA delegation meet hom at Waldorf Astoria Hotel.

Charles Latham American consul in Jamaica instructed to refuse Garvey a visa to Panama as well as a reentry visa into America.

Costa Rica 10, 000 people to see Garvey at Limon according to United Fruit company manger G. P. Chittenden one meeting two scrap baskets and one suitcase full of United States gold notes were collected and at another he stood beside a pile of gold notes which reached above his knees possibly as much as $50, 000.

Garvey introduced to President Julio Acosta in the capital. 

Garvey granted visa by Panama visits the cities of Bocas Del Toro and Almirante in Panama although the response he received was not so much of an enthusiastic one but more.

Garvey travels to the city of Colon by submarine where he is greeting by the biggest crowd he has ever seen, they brake the windows of his train carriage and carry him out into a car but there are so many people on top of the car that the tyres puncture and the car has to be pushed.

May 31 June 1 Tulsa, Oklahoma riot Dick Rowland assault elevator in Drexel building, mob jail shots, Greenwood little Africa.

May June Tulsa, Oklahoma riot Dick Rowland assault elevator Drexel building mob jail shots Greenwood little Africa.

25th May the ship the SS Kanawah/Antonio Maceo, sets sail for Panama. boilers three days Kingston.

Garvey denied reentry visa generals voted counsellor general William Matthews sent to Washington to lobby the state department. staff visa control. Garvey advised by lawyer for the American consul to send a cable to state department requesting a visa in which event the visa was granted.

At the annual convention in August 1921 literary editor William Ferris and journalist John E Bruce knighted with order of the Nile, George Tobias with the order of Ethiopia and Henrietta Vinton Davis with Lady Commander of the Sublime order of the Nile.

Marcus Garvey quoted Psalm 68:31 on numerous occasions including in his Christmas message to the Negro Peoples of the World December 1921 as well as in his Emancipation day speech made at Liberty Hall New York city on 1 January 1922. https://tmblr.co/Z9elId2OPQ-fq

1922 January Garvey arrested for mail fraud but bailed for $2, 500, Garvey was brought to charge with mail fraud on the basis that the BSL had advertised the ship the Orion as SS Phyllis Wheatley which they did not yet actually own but were still in the process of negotiation for, Thompson, Garcia and George Tobias were also investigated, however, only Garvey was prosecuted.

May 22 UNIA Commissioner Robert Moseley invited to speak at Baptist church’s, arrested and fined for vagrancy in Jacksonville, Texas and separately also taken to the woods and horsewhipped.

Garvey Los Angeles local division and others parade Oakland California Frisco. Commander J.J. Hannigan San Francisco 400 new members.

May 27 Garvey marries Amy Jaques in Baltimore.

June 25 Garvey travels to Atlanta for a meeting with the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

Garvey meets with and is interviewed by Hutson on his first visit to Belize 5 July Huton sent transcript of the recorded interview to Secretary of the Colonies the British PM Winston Churchill.

July office Harlem building floor above UNIA Publishing and Printing House the Messenger editorial Chandler Owens and A Philip Randolph William Pickens and Detroit preacher Robert Bagnall Garvey Must Go campaign.

Garvey and Amy picture.

May 27 Garvey marries Amy Jaques in Baltimore.

June 25 Garvey travels to Atlanta for a meeting with the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

Garvey meets with and is interviewed by Hutson on his first visit to Belize 5 July Huton sent transcript of the recorded interview to Secretary of the Colonies the British PM Winston Churchill.

July office Harlem building floor above UNIA Publishing and Printing House the Messenger editorial Chandler Owens and A Philip Randolph William Pickens Detroit preacher Robert Bagnall.

The Messenger. 6.9 (August 1922). William Pickens NAACP Detroit preacher, Robert Bagnall Messenger.

August Trinidadian pilot Hubert Fauntleroy Julian dubbed the Black Eagle of Harlem by H. Allen Smith because of his parachute jumps, flys biplane over UNIA parade and becomes head of the organisation’s new Aeronautical Department.

September 5 Randolph at 2305 7th Avenue receives package calls the police bomb squad open package containing a severed human hand.

November 9th Esau Ramus Philadelphia branch UNIA janitor New Orleans William Phillips. 

Reverend Eason Baptist Church, St John 1st Street, shot in the back and forehead, dies from wounds on January 1923. William Shakespeare and Fred Dyer charged with Easons murder. Claude McKay in Kremlin, Russia.

November Max Eastman Fourth Congress of the Communist International Petrograd.

Otto Huiswould and Claude McKay, two leading early members of the Communist International (Comintern). They both addressed the Comintern in Moscow in 1922.

Claude McKay with Arthur Holitscher and Clara Zetkin in Russia - December, 1923.

Claude McKay and International Group in Russia - December, 1923

McKay with Grigory Zinoviev and Nikolai Bukharin in 1923.

McKay also meets communist Leon Trotsky.

Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey by Amy Jaques Garvey 1923 Chapter 3 The Image of God

If the white man has the idea of a white God, let him worship his God as he desires. If the yellow man’s God is of his race let him worship his God as he sees fit. We, as Negroes, have found a new ideal. Whilst our God has no color, yet it is human to see everything through one’s own spectacles, and since the white people have seen their God through white spectacles, we have only now started out (late though it be) to see our God through our own spectacles. The God of Isaac and the God of Jacob let Him exist for the race that believes in the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. We Negroes believe in the God of Ethiopia, the everlasting God — God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost, the One God of all ages. That is the God in whom we believe, but we shall worship Him through the spectacles of Ethiopia. 

Ras Nasibu Emmanuel Oganden Hindenburg Wall Poem.

Edwin Barclay Liberias secretary of state French and British bordering colonies of Sierra Leone Ivory Coast disapproval. 

Hilary Johnson clerk office Crichlow pulling weight 24 March sent cable ship $5, 000 steamer for sawmill.

1 December UNIA delegation departs for Liberia via Lisbon, Portugal on the Cunard vessel SS Britannia. 

1923 December Mc Kay Arthur Holitscher and Clara Zetkin in Russia. International Group in Russia. Grigory Zinoviev and Nikolai Bukharin.

1924 11th February UNIA delegation meets with President 3, 000 immigrants land in three colonies Cavalla, Sino and Grand Bassa as well as in Cape Mount.

16 March Robert Poston fever lobar pneumonia dies on board SS President Grant. 

April 19 send material artisan technicians carpenter builder and mechanical engineer. 

Seay 24 trained nurses to Belize Town as volunteers parenting teaching, sanitation, midwifery services.

May 19 Du Bois with Professor Wendell Phillips Dabney finally comes face to face with Garvey for the first time at the elevator in Sheraton Hotel, Cincinnati.

11th February meet with President 3, 000 immigrants land in three colonies Cavalla, Sino and Grand Bassa as well as in Cape Mount.

23 June 1923 Garvey sentenced to five years in prison for mail fraud. Garvey spends three months in the Tombs Jail Manhattan detention center and would be bailed for the sum of $15, 000 which was raised in campaign by Amy Jacques by September.

Bishop Alexander Mc Guire the first black archdeacon of the Protestant Episcopal Church ‘We have reasons to believe that his enforced solitude has clarified his vision’ 'Moses came back to Israel with new Revelation’ 'Negro everywhere will be the beneficiaries of the new ideas he has gained during his vacation’.

16 March Robert Poston fever lobar pneumonia dies on board SS President Grant. 

April 19 send material artisan technicians carpenter builder and mechanical engineer.

Seay Twenty four trained nurses.

May 19 Du Bois with Professor Wendell Phillips Dabney finally comes face to face with Garvey for the first time at the elevator in Sheraton Hotel, Cincinnati.

June 4 mining engineer Wallace Strange. 

1924 July 4 UNIAS Hubert Fauntleroy Julian to make transatlantic flight from New York to Liberia via Atlantic city, New Jersey and the West Indies. Purchases seaplane christened Ethiopia I, crashes into Flushing Bay after one of the planes pontoons comes off.

Robinson diploma in auto mechanics, Tuskegee civilian pilot training program there Melaku Beyan Ethiopian Army shot in the arm and exposed to mustard gas.

10 July Liberia Consul General in US press release stated that anyone from the UNIA in the US would not be allowed to land in the republic of Liberia the Liberian Consuls in the US instructed not to permit them visas. Wallace Strange Monrovia arrested and deported equipment auctioned Chief Justice J. J. Dossen of Liberia President ports refuse entry. given preference to the Firestone Rubber Plantation Company 1 million acres of land 5 to 10 cents per acre.

The Most Honorable Marcus Garvey is accompanied in the rear seat of his shiny 1920 Pierce Arrow Limousine by the Rev. R Van Richards at the 4th International Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World Opening Parade in Harlem, NY. His Secret Service (aka Knights of the Roundtable) ran alongside the President-General’s parade vehicle. Although its not visible in this photo, Mr. Garvey is also flanked in the rear by a banner reading Parent Body Division. (Negro World August 16, 1924, p.10)

Uniformed Universal African Motor Corp marching up 7th Ave in Harlem, NY during the opening parade of the UNIA sponsored 4th International Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World in 1924.

Universal Motorcorp In Parade - 1924

Executive Council Reviews Parade From Observation Deck and Universal African Royal Guard Parade Drill in Harlem, NY.

Contingent of the Detroit Division #125 in the opening day parade of the 1924 International Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World, hosted by the UNIA in Harlem, NY. USA. President Joseph A Craigen is seen leading the march with his Red, Black and Green Flag draped over his shoulder.

Dinner Scene at the Third Royal Court Reception of the UNIA at Liberty Hall, NY (Negro World August 30,1924, p.10)

Marucs Garvey in 1924 by James VanDerZee.

Marcus Garvey (right) with George O. Marke (left) and Prince Kojo Tovalu-Houenou. 1924. James VanDerZee (American, 1886-1983). Te Dahomean protonationalist Kojo Tovalou-Houénou declared at the same convention that “your association, Mr. President … is the Zionism of the Black Race.”^ Les Continents, 15 October 1924.

Big Negro Excursion [January 3, 1925, advertisement in the Negro World announcing the sailing of the S.S. Booker T. Washington to Central America, the West Indies, Panama, and the South of the United States.  

Amy Jacques Garvey, Henrietta Vinton Davis and Marcus Garvey during the renaming of the ship from the 'General G.W. Goethals’ to the S.S Booker Washington.

Marcus Garvey (center), President General of the African Republic, leaves court handcuffed to a deputy, Marshal Hecht, at left being taken into custody to begin serving his sentence at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary on 8 February 1925. 

African Fundamentalism

From the editorial by Marcus Garvey orinted in the Negro World, 6 June 1925, as a front-page editorial; written in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. Original headlines omitted. Creed reprinted in slightly revised form, under the title “African Fundamentalism,” as a UNIA poster, sold by mail order through the Negro World by Amy Jacques Garvey, 1925.

Fellow Men of the Negro Race, Greeting:

The time has come for the Negro to forget and cast behind him his hero worship and adoration of other races, and to start out immediately, to create and emulate heroes of his own.

We must canonize our own saints, create our own martyrs, and elevate to positions of fame and honor black men and women who have made their distinct contributions to our racial history. Sojourner Truth is worthy of the place of sainthood alongside of Joan of Arc; Crispus Attucks and George William Gordon are entitled to the halo of martyrdom with no less glory than that of the martyrs of any other race. Toussaint L'Ouverture’s brilliancy as a soldier and statesman outshone that of a Cromwell, Napoleon and Washington; hence, he is entitled to the highest place as a hero among men. Africa has produced countless numbers of men and women, in war and in peace, whose lustre and bravery outshine that of any other people. Then why not see good and perfection in ourselves?

Marcus Garvey at Atlanta Federal Prison in December 1926.

Garvey was released in November 1927 and boarded in New Orleans to be deported to Jamaica where he arrived at Orrett’s Wharf in Kingston.  

1928 October 7 Ras Tafari Makonnen Crown Prince and Regent Plenipotentiary of Ethiopia is crowned Negus (King) Empress Zawditu daughter of Emperor Menelik II seated to his left.

Julian at the Emperor Haile Selassie’s pre coronation show, parachutes landing in front of the Emperor, the Emperor grants him citizenship, the rank of colonel as well as the highest honour in Ethiopia, the order of Menelik.

Julian at the Emperors coronation dress rehearsal crashes the Emperors personal plane de Havilland Gipsy Moth into a Eucalyptus tree, the plane was given to the Emperor as a gift from Selfridge’s department store in London.

18th August 1930 performance of Garveys play Coronation of an African King, King Cudjoe of Sudan.

These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful. Revelation 17:14

And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and He who sat on it iscalled Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and wages war.

His eyes are a flame of fire, and on His head are many diadems; and He has a name written on Him which no one knows except Himself. He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.

And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following Him on white horses.

November 2 Negus Tafari coronation as Emperor Haile Selassie Time weekly magazine. National Geographic Magazine monthly Volume LIX Number 6 1931 June.

1932 E.A. Wallace Budge publishes his second edition of the Ethiopic Book of the Glory of Kings.

1933 Leonard Percival Howell began to preach about the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie in the parish of Saint Thomas at largely attended meetings accused of ‘Blantant swindle selling pictures at 1s per piece to boost the sale of King RasTafari of Abyssinia son of King Solomon by the Queen of Sheba. Howell held meetings in Trinity Ville and Seaforth of 300 and in 1934 was trailed and sentence for two years sedition and even blasphemy and Robert Hinds ‘his disciple’ led astray by evil doctrine sentenced to one year at the Saint Thomas Circuit Court in Morant Bay by Chief Justice Robert Lyall Grant.

Du Bois resigns at The Crisis to work at Atlanta University.

Meanwhile the second ItaloEthiopia war began over the Italo Ethiopia Treaty of 1928 similarly to the first ItaloEthiopia war in 1895.

The Italians built a military post on within the border of Ethiopia in 1930 which caused the WalWal incident in 1934.

The members of the League of Nations especially France and Britain failed to comply with Article X of the covenant and did not act to assist Ethiopia under Italian aggression, they wanted Italy as an ally against Germany, it was Italys plan to make Ethiopia an East African colony along with Eritrea and Italian Somalian.

1935 January Pierre Laval and Benito Mussolini sign the Franco Italian agreement which gave Italy a part of bordering French Somliland (now Djibouti) as part of Eritrea as well as the Aouzou strip in French Chad in Italian Libya.

Du Bois publishes his Black Reconstruction in America.

During the Ethiopian Crisis people from all other the world rallied support for the Emperor including The International African Friends of Ethiopia among whos members included Amy Ashwood Garvey, Jomo Kenyatta, C. L. R. James and George Padmore.

July

August

The Honorable Amy Ashwood Garvey speaks before a London crowd at Trafalgar Square, denouncing the Italian invasion of Ethiopia.“No race has been so noble in forgiving, but now the hour has struck for our complete emancipation. We will not tolerate the invasion of Abyssinia.“ Mrs. Garvey said: "In this struggle, the black women are marching beside the men. You white people brought us out of Africa to Christianize us and civilize us, but all the Christianity and civilization you gave us for 320 years was slavery. You have talked of ‘The White Man’s burden.’ Now we are carrying yours and standing between you and Fascism.” She warned the British Government that if this became a struggle between the “Blacks” and the “Whites” that three quarters of the people of the Empire are colored. Jamaica Gleaner, September 11, 1935.

August 12 Ethiopia also pleads for the embargo to be lifted.

October 5 Italian I Corps take Adigrat.

October 6 Italian II take Adwa.

October 15 General Emilio De Bono forces advance from Adwa occupy Axum Bono loots Obelisk.

October Saint Lucia Clarkes Theatre International Friends of Ethiopia Foreign Enlistment Act.

November The League of Nations places sanctions.

December Samuel Hoare Pierre Laval Pact was secretly agreed to sign OgadenTigray and Southern parts of Ethiopia away to Mussolini when this was found out they were forced to resign.

December 30 Red Cross unit at Dolo bombed, Egyptian ambulance at Bulall attacked, Egyptian medical unit at Daggah Bur.

1936 January 12 to 16 Battle of Genale Doria.

January 20 to 24 First Battle of Tembien Ras Kassa Phosgene gas makale.

February 10 to 19 Battle of Amba Bradam Ras Mulugeta.

February 27 to 29 Second Battle of Tembien Ras Kassa and Ras Seyoum.

March Red Cross camp Quoram.

Hitler militarisation of Rhineland.

March Battle of Shire Ras Imru. 969 Italian

March 22  Regia Aeronautica bomb Harar.

March 26 March of Iron Will Dessie to Addis Ababa.

March 31 Battle of May Chew.

Stresa Front.

April 4 mustard gas Lake Ashangi Regia Aeronautica.

April 14 Graziani Ras Nasibu Emmanuel Battle of Ogaden.

May His Imperial Majesty boards the train from Addis Ababa to Djibouti, with the gold of the Ethiopian Central Bank. According to Barker, A. J. (1971). Rape of Ethiopia, 1936. New York: Ballantine Books, Graziani suggested to Mussolini that he have the train bombed which however he didn’t see fit to do so.

The Emperor and hunting party in Ethiopia before the Italian invasion drove him into exile. It was taken on the Addis Ababa to Djibouti railway line in the early 1930s just after he’d been officially crowned as Emperor.

May 4 H.I.M. sails from Djibouti in the British cruiser HMS Enterprise.

May 5 Addis Ababa taken.

May 8 arrives at Haifa.

from Mandatory Palestine sails to Gibraltar on the way to Britain.

May 5 after the fall of Addis Ababa the sanctions are dropped.

Benito Mussolini also used poison gas and mustard gas which were exposed by International Red Cross.

June 30 The Emperor himself addresses the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.

Howell marries Teneth Bent.

Du bois visits Nazi Germany, China and Japan.

July 4 The League of Nations votes to lift sanctions imposed against Italy.

July 15 Sanctions lifted.

Mussolini and Hilter become allies during the Spanish Civil War, Mussolini declares war on Britain and France attacks British in Egypt Sudan, Kenya, British Somaliland.

1937 the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and the pullman company enter contract together.

Marcus Garvey (seated in dark suit with fan) and the Port of Spain Trinidad City Council, 1937. Mayor Alfred Richards is to Mr. Garvey’s right.

Tubal Uriah Buzz Butler strike policeman set alight and died colleagues riots. George Padmore International African Service Bureau C. L. R. James author of The Black Jacobins

1938 January strike for higher wages at Serge Island in the parish of Saint Thomas 1, 400 workers, armed 24 injured, 60 arrested.

April 29 Westmoreland strike 4 killed, 13 injured and 105 arrested.

May 23 Kingston strike.

Howell sent to Bellevue Asylum.

1939 April Howell founds the Ethiopian Salvation Society and purchases 485 acres in the hills of Saint Catherine, 5 miles on the road to Sligoville,  the free community founded by English Reverend Baptist Minister James Mursell Phillippo in 1843, named after the 2nd Marquess of Sligo, Governor of Jamaica, Saint Catherine also being the parish with the most number of active sugar plantations at the time Howell established this settlement which became to be known as Pinnacle.

1941 July 14 Pinnacle raided for first time 72 arrested.

Randolph Madison Square Gardens.

July 24 Howell arrested sentenced to 2 years released 1943 April.

December 23 Howells Wife Teneth Bent Howell dies, Howell accused of murdering her and arrested but is acquitted 1944 April 6.

1948 Ganja Dangerous Drugs Act began to be used against Rastafarite.

1948 January 8 Howell 6 months in prison.

1950  Randolph, Roy Wilkins, Executive Secretary of the NAACP, and, Arnold Aronson, of the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council found the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR).

1951 January 18 Howell sentenced to 2 year in prison for Ganja.

1954 April Howell arrested for illegal practice of medicine. May two of Howells adolescent sons arrested under false pretense. May 27 biggest Ganja raid as of that time £3, 000 seized.

1957 Randolph Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom with Martin Luther King Jr.

1958 Pinnacle burnt by Police members disburse.

Randolph Youth Marches for Integrated Schools in Washington, DC.

1960 Howell arrested for Ganja Tredegar Park and sent to Bellevue.

1961 21 April Bob Marleys teacher Nyahbinghi elder Mortimer Planno visits Ethiopia meets His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie, April 26 visits Nigeria meets NnamdiAzikiwe, May 10 visits Ghana meets Kwame Nkrumah, May 16 visits Liberia and May 21 visit Sierra Leone meets I.T.A. Wallace.

12th April 1963 Bad Friday Coral Gardens Massacre.

May 25th the Organisation of African Unity was formed with the Emperor Haile Selassie as its chairman and its headquarters in Ethiopias capital Addis Ababa.

1966 April 22nd Groundation day Haile Selassie Jamaica visit H.I.M. with Mortimer Planno.

December 22, 1967 Kampala, Uganda- The heads of state and the leaders of governments of East and Central Africa are pictured prior to the opening of their summit conference. Standing in the front row are (L-R): Mr.Kayibanda, President of Rwanda; Mr. Jean B. Bokassa, President of the Central African Republic; Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia; Dr.Jomo Kenyatta, President of Kenya; Mr. El Azhari, President of the Sudan; and Lieutenant General Joseph Mobutu, President of the Republic of the Congo.

Nigeria & Tanzania reconciled at Africa Hall.

Mediating between Senegal & Guineain Monrovia, Liberia.

Settling differences in the internal crisis in the Sudan.

1978 March arrested for Ganja.

1979 Gunmen terrorize Rastafarites at Pinnacle.

1980 April 18th Bob Marley performs his Zimbabwe song in Zimbabwe at the Independence celebration in Rufaro Stadium Harare.

1986 July 14th - 27th Ras Boanerges Rastafari Focus Conference at the Commonwealth Institute in London.

[nehswritesstuffs]

Getting the hang of things: Clara is out for the week and it falls on daddy 12 to give the twins “The Talk”. He calls Clara to ask him for advice and he makes some notecards and it goes about as awkward as you would expect. When Clara gets back the kids have far more questions than before based on some interesting things that daddy 12 decided to add onto “The Talk”. Later 12 and Clara have a laugh before “turning in for the night”.

I absolutely love this because it is so mortifying there is no option but failure.

2331 words; makes use of some of the more infamous EU canon; I feel like if Twelve and Clara were raising kids like this, that this would be just absolutely blown-out-of-the-water awkward or not at all, only because you have two very different species you’d be dealing with even if on the surface their physiologies have minimal deviance from each other’s norms; no matter what, we’re dealing with Human/Extraterrestrial hybrids, so jury’s out as to what in the hell’s going on anyhow, so, yeah, your mileage is supposed to vary

-_-_-_-_-_-_-

It was a very normal day within the TARDIS as the Doctor carried his daughter like a sack of potatoes into the learning docks. She had long ago let her body go limp, having given up against her father’s iron grip. James followed close behind, as he was unsure of the situation—should he follow his father, or help his sister escape?

“If you don’t get in there, you’re never going to be where you need to by the time Mam puts you in school,” the Doctor scowled. He placed Alison on the floor and saw that her expression nearly matched his own in irritation. “What’s with that face?”

“We’re already ahead of where sixth-formers are, and we’re only eight,” Alison argued. “Can’t we go and ignore the learning docks for a bit?”

“No—you’re well beyond sixth-form in basics like maths, sciences, language, and the like, but you’re not going to be in subjects that are decidedly Earthen in nature.”

“…like…?”

Her obstinate ways knew no bounds… but then again, it wasn’t as though he could complain, since she learned from the best after all…

“History and literature, for two,” he reminded her. “As much information as I programmed into the docks, there’s only so much knowledge that I can give it. You need the perspectives of a variety of Earthen sources to be well-rounded in those topics, which is what you’ll get when you start at Coal Hill. In the meantime…”

Alison groaned loudly as she dramatically flopped down on the chair and sourly turned on the equipment. The Doctor then turned his attention to his son, with the boy fidgeting nervously.

“What’s the matter now?” he asked, trying to be as gentle as possible. James shrugged.

“There’s not a lot of sciences either,” the boy stated. “Biology has lots of gaps.”

“Nonsense—what kind of gaps?”

“How more animals happen,” James said. “The docks will tell us about an animal’s behavior and its habitat and its diet, but nothing about baby animals without anything about the replication mechanisms. Why is that?”

Both of the Doctor’s hearts skipped a beat and he tried not to outwardly grimace. “I’ll make sure to look into it—must’ve been something that got jumbled between you and the last person who used it.”

“Ace, right?” James asked. “If she was like your daughter, did you adopt her? Does that make her our sister? Is she our sister? When can we meet our sister?”

“We’ll talk about that once you get to temporal schisms and their relationships with the fifth dimension,” the Doctor insisted. He guided the boy over to his learning dock and sat him down. “It’s way too complicated an answer for me to tell you before then, and I don’t want you to feel bad because there’s something you don’t understand, or that there is an additional concept that needs explaining with varying amounts of other context. You’re not stupid, and explaining now when you don’t have that foundation might risk you feeling that way.”

“Are you sure this isn’t you avoiding the topic?”

“I’m sure; now get in.” The Doctor helped his son turn on the learning dock and he left the room, heading back to the study where he had several books waiting for him.

Ah, yes, books—that would certainly distract him from the matter at-hand. It was true that he needed to make sure that the docks were in full working order—what else did his demolitions-daughter put behind a firewall—but at the same time…

…he needed to have The Talk with his children.

They were bright, clever, brilliant wee things, so there was the chance that they somehow figured it out already, but at the same time, there was nothing telling him that they had either. It was a thing that he dreaded, and hoped that at least the learning docks would take care of, or—if anything—Clara would be there to help. He tried distracting himself with a book and it simply wasn’t sticking… he needed to talk to Clara. Pulling the mobile from his pocket, he fired off a text, hoping it was well-received.

A moment passed and the mobile rang, the sudden noise causing the Doctor to fall off the couch.

“Clara!”

“What’s going on?” she wondered on the other end of the line. It sounded like she was echoing in the mobile speaker—she must have stepped into a stairwell. “All you said was ‘it was asked’ and that was it. That’s cryptic, even for you.”

“The learning docks have apparently been withholding information about animal reproduction from the children, and I just got asked why. Blamed it on Ace for the time being, but I don’t know what to do about it now that it’s out.”

Clara chuckled on the other end. “So what you’re saying is that you stumbled into needing to have The Talk with the kids?”

“Do I have to?”

“You’re the parent that ended up getting asked, so you’re the one who needs to follow up,” she replied in bemusement. “I can help with anything else from a Human perspective when I get back, but otherwise you’re on your own. Chances are they won’t wait until Mum’s home to start asking more questions, and we want them to feel like they can go to either of us for answers or advice, right…?”

“…but Clara…”

“What…? Is the big, bad Time Lord afraid of some birds and bees? I’ve helped teach sex ed—it’s not that bad.”

“Then can it wait until the weekend?”

“Don’t be so terrified—they won’t bite.” The Doctor placed one of the throw pillows from the couch over his head and audibly groaned. “Stop being such a baby… you can make flashcards for this, you know. It won’t be that bad.”

“I wasn’t the one to do it before,” he replied quietly. “The Academy took care of that. This isn’t exactly something that I’ve had a lot of practice in.”

“…despite the very sexy Dad Skills…?”

“Yes, despite the terribly sexy Dad Skills.” He shifted onto his side and curled up. “I’m scared, Clara. What if they don’t wait until you’re in for the weekend?”

“You’ll be perfectly fine,” she assured him. “In fact, I’m sure you’ll be nothing short of brilliant. I wouldn't trust my children with anything or anyone less.”

The Doctor stayed silent for a moment, taking strength from the fact that they were, in a way, together in that moment. That was right; she never would be with him, never leave the twins with him, if she didn't trust his judgement explicitly.

“I’ll report back tonight, yeah?”

“There’s a good lad—I’ll call you then.”

“Okay.”

The call ended and the Doctor felt as though he was going to be sick—he wasn’t prepared for this in the slightest.

-_-_-_-_-_-_-

“Hey Dad… did you look into the learning dock programming?”

The Doctor glanced across the dinner table at his son and felt a shiver go down his spine. He was hoping that the boy had forgotten their conversation from the morning, but it was not meant to be, apparently.

“What about specifically?”

“You said you were going to look into why it doesn’t show anything about baby animals,” James noted. Alison gasped.

“We can learn about baby animals?!” she gasped. “I love baby animals!”

“About that…” The Doctor began to rifle through his pockets, searching for the flashcards he’d just made up that afternoon. “In order to learn about baby animals, we need to first talk about how baby animals are made.”

“Well, yeah, we know that,” Alison scoffed. Her father almost dropped his pile of index cards onto the floor.

“...you do…?”

“Of course we do,” James said. “When a Mum and Dad love one another, she eats a lot and gets a big belly and then that becomes a baby.”

“Yeah, though sometimes it’s two mums or two dads, and when that happens, they either find a kid to adopt, or they go to a house where there are spare babies for sale,” Alison added. “Is that where loom-born come from?”

The Doctor suddenly knew he was in way over his head. “How do you know about the loom-born?”

“Sometimes the learning docks mention that someone from Gallifrey was loom-born,” she shrugged. “That’s how you get adopted babies, right? Have them loomed instead of growing it in a lady-person?”

“Have they made looms big enough to make twins like us or are they all one at a time?”

“Do people start off having a mum and dad, but then one of them regenerates and then there’s two? Does that turn them into loom-born? How can you tell the difference from someone who was grown from their mum and someone who came from a looming agency?”

“How do babies come out? Do they come out of the belly button? Is that what it’s for? Why do you have a belly button if we came out of Mum? Is it a vest… vemst… vemstigimul…?”

“...vestigial, son…”

“Yeah! A vestigial thing!”

“That’s like Mum’s appendix, right?”

“Okay, okay, enough, enough,” the Doctor sighed. “Now listen: there’s a lot of things we need to go over when it comes to this, so let’s clean up our plates and head on over into the study. I’ve got slides for this.”

“A slideshow?!” the kids gasped.

“Yeah… a slideshow…” The Doctor felt a weight drop in his stomach as the twins hurriedly finished their food and began clearing their dishes. He had been hoping that there wouldn’t be any questions for him until Clara got back, and yet… no such luck.

It was time to talk about baby animals, he guessed.

-_-_-_-_-_-_-

A few days passed and Friday eventually came. Clara stepped into her flat after work to find that the TARDIS was already there, silently keeping watch in the corner of her sitting room. She gave the wooden door a respectful pat before pushing open the door, heading inside to find her family. Once divested of her marking in the console room, she began to wander the corridors in search of her trio of extraterrestrials, popping her head into individual rooms for a bit before glancing up at the ceiling and frowning.

“Okay, I give up: where are they?”

The TARDIS hummed and acquiesced, guiding Clara to the classroom. The learning docks were empty, though it did not mean that the room was unoccupied, as the twins were sitting at their desks while the Doctor was at the chalkboard, a diagram of the cross-section of a chicken egg having been hastily drawn upon it.

“How are my favorite primary-schoolers?” Clara chuckled. Her family all snapped their attention towards her, the twins rushing up to her for hugs while their father breathed a sigh of relief.

“Mum! We’re learning about baby animals!” Alison squeaked.

“Yeah! The learning docks had a malfunction, so we’re learning about them from Dad instead!” James added. “He showed us Gallifreyanoids first, and then other animals like kittens and puppies, and now we’re learning about lizards and baby chicks!”

“That sounds like a lot of things to learn,” Clara noted. She glanced at the Doctor, who was getting pink in the face. “Have they been good students?”

“Good enough to where I think they’ve earned a break while Mam and Dad put dinner together,” he replied. The kids both gasped in excitement and ran out of the room, determined to get in as much as they could before dinner. This left their parents alone, their mother approaching their father, putting her arms around his waist in a hug as he leaned into her.

“See? Was that so bad?” she chuckled.

“Clara, my blood pressure is high enough as it is—I didn’t need to do that by myself.”

“...but it wasn’t something they simply let sit until I got back, now was it?”

“No… you’re right…” He kissed the top of her head as he returned the embrace. “I don’t know how much more of that I could have done.”

“You make it sound like it was one of the most difficult things you’ve ever done. I know it’s hard… but…” At that point, Alison poked her head back into the classroom, cutting her mother off. “Yes, Aly?”

“I have a question about when Dad was telling us about Gallifreyanoids and how they make babies,” the girl stated. Clara let go of the Doctor and gave their daughter her full attention.

“What’s that?”

“I need to know: do people on Earth have looms too?” Alison wondered. “Dad said that Humans don’t have looms, but I want to make sure that it’s just not something he doesn’t know about, since he knows a lot, but not about everything.”

“Looms…?” Clara glanced at the Doctor, who looked like he was going to faint in mortification. “There are looms on Earth, but they’re the kind for making cloth, not the kind for creating babies.”

“Oh…” Alison seemed to ponder that for a moment before nodding. “I didn’t think so. That means that when Madam Vastra and Missy Jenny want to raise kids, they have no choice but send Mister Strax to the baby store and find one on sale, right? Mister Strax loves things on sale.”

“...if Madam Vastra and Miss Jenny want to even raise children at all,” Clara explained. “Sometimes, people don’t want to raise children, or they can’t afford to do so, or they would much rather be sitters. There’s lots of ways that can happen.”

“I guess…” Alison shrugged before turning around and running out the door, presumably to wherever it was her brother had run off to, leaving her parents alone again. Clara looked at the Doctor again and chuckled.

“At least it happened this way instead of them walking in on us turning in for the night,” she reminded him. He shuddered at that and followed her out into the corridor—anything but that.

[nsula]

Degrees awarded to Summer, Fall graduates

NATCHITOCHES – Northwestern State University conferred degrees to 865 graduates who completed coursework in the Summer 2017 and Fall 2017 semesters. Commencement speaker was Alejandro Perkins, chair of the board of supervisors for the University of Louisiana System.

             Fall graduates listed by hometown are as follows.

 Abbeville -- Shaquana Jackson, Bachelor of Science;           

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Abita Springs -- Charles Camus, Bachelor of Science;          

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Aimwell -- Jonathan Poole, Associate of General Studies;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

 Alexandria -- Fatisha White, Associate of Science in Nursing; Courtney Moore, April Negrete, Senchal Slaughter, Leslie Trowel, Associate of General Studies; Rochelle Holmes, Tammethia Starks, Joshua Wahlder, Bachelor of Arts; Jordan Berlin, Bachelor of General Studies; Alecia Alford, Tamera DiBartolo, Natasha Guidry, Emily Leone, Wade Morris, Kaycee Ouber, Sage Sasser, Bachelor of Science; Irisia Cayton, Kimberly Colston, Amy  Girtman, Sha'Darius Plummer, Bachelor of Science in Nursing; Courtney Brown, Amelia  Ryland, Bachelor of Social Work; Alaine Ryder, Master of Arts; Rebecca Poklemba, Master of Arts in Teaching; Afnan Othman, Master of Science;      

 Anacoco -- Brett Haymon, Associate of Science in Nursing Karlee Laurence, Associate of General Studies Meghan Blanton, Bachelor of General Studies; Hilary Jett, Bachelor of Science; Julia Johnson, Master of Education;  

 Arlington, Texas -- Whitley Woods, Associate of General Studies; Jaquanda Quinney, Bachelor of General Studies;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

                                                                                                                                                                                      Arlington, Virginia -- Elisha Ibanga, Master of Science;                                                                                                                                                  

 Ash Grove, Missouri -- Brettin Isenhower, Bachelor of Science;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

 Atlanta -- Leah Lashley, Bachelor of Science; Lilith Choate, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

 Augusta, Georgia -- Ebony Jackson, Master of Arts;    

 Baldwin -- Lakesha Colar, Associate of General Studies;

 Ball -- Heather Richey, Associate of General Studies; Payton Pilgrim, Bachelor of Arts;

Michaela Henry, Jennifer Hughes, Bachelor of Science; Sarah Morgan, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;    

 Baltimore, Maryland -- Tashia Malone, Bachelor of General Studies;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

 Bassfield, Mississippi -- Wilbur Myers, Master of Arts;    

Baton Rouge -- Hannah Chaney, Bailey Dotson, Alisha Jenkins, Jennifer Normand,  Zephaneth Zoleta, Associate of General Studies; Chloe Hidalgo, Bachelor of Applied Science; Markeisha Patterson, Dina Scimemi,  Spacish Washington, Bachelor of Arts; Kawanda Johnson, Bachelor of General Studies; Logan  Ashley, Bachelor of Music Education; Adam Aycock, Khloe' Clay, Stan Mays, Andrew Vessel, Chiquita  Warner, Bachelor of Science Dakota Newman, Bachelor of Social Work;  Kevin Trice, Master of Education;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Beaumont, Texas -- Roydrek Jackson, Bachelor of Science;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

 Belle Chasse -- Nikki Lopez, Bachelor of Science;                                                                                                                                                

 Benton -- Sara Hale, Frederick Hapgood, Jenna Smith, Bachelor of Science in Nursing; Mary Chambers, Master of Science in Nursing;  

 Bogalusa -- Steven Pierce, Associate of General Studies;

 Bossier -- Sonja Williams, Bachelor of Applied Science; Whitney Guidry, Bachelor of Science; Elisa Ceballos, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;    

 Bossier City -- Latasha Bates, Randy Bounds, Amanda Harner, Adrianne Jones, Arnold Merry, Jessica Randall, Leann Shell, Associate of Science in Nursing; Amy Russell, Associate of General Studies;  Zachary Ekendahl, RaeShauna Lacy, Heather Oswald, Bachelor of Arts; Krystal Abraham, Bachelor of General Studies; Sheldon Busby, Bachelor of Music; Mary Katheryn Lummus, Bachelor of Music Education; Desiree  Anderson, Christina Ashley,  Tanner Church,  Sharon Clark, Sharonda  Demars, Hang Lian, Gina  Masson, Stephen Masson, Michelle McIntyre, Michelle McIntyre, Sarah McMillan,Yadira Ocanas, Kevin Smithey, Bachelor of Science; Lindsay Adkins, Janeth  Bird, Emilee Branch, Nancy Diaz, Janay Jefferson, Alexa McKnight, Madison Morris, Taylor Pinney, Amber Suttle, Michael Thomas, Bachelor of Science in Nursing; Melody Hammett, Master of Arts in Teaching; Victoria Sanford, Aaron Viviano, Master of Education; Delanie Nock, Master of Science;  

 Boyce -- Brooke Carlini, Associate of General Studies; John Carley, Bachelor of Music; Stacey Gannaway, Bachelor of Science; Cynthia Menton, Master of Arts;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

                                                                                                                                      Burleson, Texas -- Donato Susca, Bachelor of Science;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

 Campti – Brittney Arnold, Crystal Roberson, Associate of General Studies; Domonique Gardner, Ebony Lee, Kelsey Perot, Bachelor of Science, Ruby Johnson, Master of Arts;                                                                                                                                                    

                                                                                                                                                                                                      Carencro – Damian Glover, Master of Arts; Sarah Clavelle, Master of Education;

                                                                                                                                                Carriere, Mississippi – Ryan Rodgers, Educational Specialist;

 Carthage, New York – Kaycie Jensen, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Castor – Ashley Tisdale, Bachelor of Applied Science;

                                                                                                                                     Cedar Hill, Texas – India Davis, Associate of General Studies;

 Center Point – Kimberly Diaz, Master of Education;

 Chopin – Dakota Nichols, Bachelor of Science;

                                                                                                                                        Church Point – Jennifer Thibodeaux, Bachelor of General Studies;                                                                                                                                        

 Clayton – Brianna Wright, Bachelor of Arts;

 Cleveland, Ohio – Dia Nath, Master of Science;

 Clinton – Ashley Hurst, Bachelor of Applied Science;

 Colfax – Elizabeth Crabtree, Associate of General Studies; Heather West, Bachelor of Science;

                                                                                                                                              Columbia, Mississippi – Sidney Riley, Bachelor of Arts;

 Converse – Victoria Gasper, Bachelor of Science;

 Corinth, Texas – Madison Walford, Bachelor of Science;

 Cottonport – Laila Rome, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Coushatta – Laura Keith, Associate of Science in Nursing; Destiney Coatney, Precious Smith, Associate of General Studies; Tyler Scott, Bachelor of Arts; Allison Longino, Bachelor of Science; Nichola Bryant, Janet Cogburn, Jeanetta Emmitt-Taylor, Karisma Jones, Bachelor of Science in Nursing; Nicholas Williamson, Master of Arts in Teaching;

 Covington – Ian Cassidy, Bachelor of Music; Kelsey Cassidy, Gary Jackson, Bachelor of Science; Keisha Allen, Master of Arts;                                                                                                                                                    

                                                                                                                                                                                                      Crosby, Texas – Travis Plumb, Associate of General Studies;                                                                                                                                      

                                                                                                                                                                                                      Crowley – Thomas Groth, Bachelor of Science; Amelia Bertrand, Master of Science;                                                                                                                                                  

 Daphne, Alabama – Zachery Cazabat, Associate of General Studies;

DeQuincy – Kylie Thompson, Bachelor of Science; Linda Owens, Master of Education;

 DeRidder – Kaylyn Farquhar, Samantha Loftin, Associate of Science in Nursing; Brandon Mumford, Associate of General Studies; Devon Hamm, Kristopher Pruett, Bachelor of Arts, Kevin Blake, Steven Brand, Amber Jacks, Nathan Stinley, Bachelor of General Studies; Leah Nicholson, Tia Youngblood, Bachelor of Science; Veronica Bobb, Bachelor of Social Work;

 Delhi – Jaylin  Pitts, Associate of General Studies;

                                                                                                                                      Denham Springs – Melissa Flores, Joshua Gillich, Associate of General Studies; Chantal Dale, Tiffany Duval, Kaylie Krepinevich, Bachelor of Science;                                                                                                                                              

 Denver, Colorado – Jennifer Telfor, Bachelor of General Studies;                                                                                                                                      

Derry – Viola Roque, Bachelor of Social Work;

 Deville – Sarah Elkins, Bachelor of General Studies; Hailey Dennard, Bachelor of Science in Nursing; Sarah Stevens, Master of Education;

 Dodson – Josie Greer, Bachelor of Science;

                                                                                                                                               Donaldsonville – Kayla Hernandez, Bachelor of Science;

 Dry Prong – Melody Belaire, Associate of Science in Nursing; Brandy Parker, Associate of General Studies;

 Elizabeth – Derek Saunders, Associate of General Studies; Kelby Friday, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         El Paso, Texas – Jovanna Betancourt, Bachelor of General Studies;

                                                                                                                                        Elm Grove – Abbi Suire, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Elmer – Erica Sanchez, Associate of Science in Nursing; Katelynn Cloud, Bachelor of Science;

                                                                                                                                                Elysian Fields, Texas – Jane Harris, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

                                                                                                                                    Endicott, New York – Tonya Rackett, Associate of General Studies;

 Ethel – Jayson Freemyer, Bachelor of Arts;

                                                                                                                                                  Eunice – Julia Common, Associate of General Studies; Lindsay Manuel, Bachelor of Arts; Charisse Denton, Trevor Landreneau, Bachelor of Science;

                                                                                                                                                Fayetteville, Arkansas – Connor Reilly, Associate of General Studies;

 Ferriday – Jerrees Dangerfield, Associate of Science in Nursing; Charly Hudnall, Master of Science;

 Florien – Calli Robertson, Bachelor of General Studies; Zachary Williams, Meagan

Wilmore, Bachelor of Science;

 Folsom – Catherine Bossetta, Associate of General Studies;

 Fort Polk – Molly Fields, Nicole Hurst, Joanie Senior, Kenisha Smith, Diana Withers, Associate of Science in Nursing;

                                                                                                                                      Fort Worth, Texas – Jennifer Auger, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Franklin – Shelley Bell, Associate of General Studies; Deja Anderson, Cassidy Moton,

Bachelor of Science;

                                                                                                                                                Franklinton  - Caleb New,Bachelor of Science;

 Georgetown – Gabriella Gordon, Bachelor of Science;

 Glenmora – Quesheba Gonsalves, Bachelor of Science;

 Goldonna – Hannah McGrew, Bachelor of Science;

                                                                                                                                                Gonzales – Jesse Padgett, Eric Sulik, Associate of General Studies;                                                                                                                                      

 Gramercy – Dustin Montelius, Bachelor of Science;

 Grand Cane – Sarah Ruiloba, Associate of Science in Nursing; Brandi Brummett, Associate of General Studies, Maura Pellerin, Bachelor of Science;

 Gretna – Rebecca Lefante, Associate Degree; Bachelor of Science;                                                                                                                                              

                                                                                                                                                                                                     Grovetown, Georgia – Jonathan Hogan, Bachelor of Science;

 Hahnville – Kentralyn Montgomery, Master of Education;

                                                                                                                                              Hampton, Virginia – Chasity Strowder, Bachelor of Science;                                                                                                                                                

 Harvey – Taylor Bourgeois, Bachelor of Arts; Lauren Lewis, Joseph Scott, Bachelor of Science;

                                                                                                                                                Haughton – Jonna Vetter, Associate of Science in Nursing; Christopher Moore, Bachelor of Arts; Sherrie Singleton, Bachelor of General Studies; Connor Geer, Aly Hesson, Lucas Moncla, Bachelor of Science; LeDarian Frank, Lauren Lopez, John Nance, Bachelor of Science in Nursing; Hannah Teutsch, Bachelor of Social Work; Stephanie Grubbs, Master of Science;

 Haynesville – LaFaye Muse, Bachelor of General Studies;

 Hayward, California – Virgil Hart, Master of Arts;

 Henderson – Airon Berry, Master of Arts in Teaching;

 Hessmer – Damaryon Lee, Bachelor of Science;

                                                                                                                                                Hineston  -- Kelly Meylian, Terri Smith, Master of Education;

 Hornbeck—Tori Dahlhoff, Bachelor of Arts; Kelsey Robertson, Master of Arts in Teaching;

 Houma – Shelby Glynn, Michael Niette, Daphne Young, Bachelor of Science;

 Houston, Texas – Brooke Bourbonais, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Independence  -- Kaylan Showers, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Iowa – Romona Thomas, Master of Education;                                                                                                                                                

                                                                                                                                                                                                      JB MDL, New Jersey – Annmarie Griffith, Associate of General Studies;                                                                                                                                        

                                                                                                                                                                                                      Jena – Jerrod Snoddy, Bachelor of Science;                                                                                                                                                

 Jennings – Kelsey Richard, Bachelor of Science;

 Johnstown, Pennsylvania – Morgan Lewis, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Jonesboro – Lachante Cooper, Associate of General Studies;

 Kaplan – Gabrielle Dubois, Bachelor of General Studies;

 Katy, Texas – Jocelyn Cummons, Bachelor of Music Education; Christina Zehner, Master of Science;

 Keithville -- Alexis Britt, Bachelor of Science; Jennifer Counts, Audrey Ellzey, Bachelor of Science in Nursing; Desiree Bell, Master of Science;

                                                                                                                                                  Kenner – Elizabeth Curcuru, Bachelor of Arts; Kiristen Byrd, Bachelor of General Studies;

                                                                                                                                        Knob Noster, Missouri – Carey Sunderland, Bachelor of General Studies;                                                                                                                                        

 LaPlace – Antoinette Marsalis, Master of Arts;

 La Porte, Texas – Jeremy Hasan, Bachelor of Music Education;

                                                                                                                                      Lafayette -- Danielle Standefer, Amy Trahan, Bachelor of Science; John Malone, Carl Tapo, Master of Arts;

                                                                                                                                                    Lake Charles – Kylie Miller, Bachelor of Applied Science; Demmi O'Donnell, Sierra Seemion, Bachelor of Science; Wesley Bray, Bachelor of Science in Nursing; Marquita

Gray, Master of Education;                                                                                                                                                

 Laurel, Mississippi – Payton Roney, Bachelor of Science;

                                                                                                                                                Lecompte – Katelyn Johnson, Bachelor of Science;

Leesville – Jeffrey Santos, Bachelor of Arts; Kelly Bishop, Caitlin Deon, Hannah Doyal, Johnny Hagan, Megan McDonald, William Midkiff, Bachelor of General Studies;

                                                                                                                                        Katlyn Austin, Kylee Cook, Alvin Dowden, Douglas Edds, Madison Hall, Karyn Jones, Reagan Koury, Anthony Rios, Kaplan Rolon, Bachelor of Science; Hannah Longo, Bachelor of Science in Nursing; Kaitlyn Connors, Natalie West, Bachelor of Social Work; Jessica McKee, Master of Arts;                                                                                                                                    

 Lena – Tracy Benjamin, Associate of General Studies, Brandon Guin, Bachelor of Science;                                                                                                                                              

                                                                                                                                                                                                     Logansport – Mikesha Alexander, Bachelor of General Studies; Carrie Moton,  Susan Wheless, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;                                                                                                                                    

                                                                                                                                                                                                      Lutcher – TaShelle Johnson, Bachelor of Science;

                                                                                                                                                Madisonville – Jason Horst, Bachelor of Science;

                                                                                                                                               Mandeville – Chelsea Main, DeAngelo Renard, Bachelor of Science; Elisha Tarbell, Master of Education;

   Mansfield – Brandon Kent,  Norinthian Phillips, Bachelor of General Studies, Rebecca Anthony, Erin Campbell, Jairus Lane, Bachelor of Science; Shelby Hebert, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;                                                                                                                                                

 Mansfield, Texas – Wanda Grigsby, Associate of General Studies;                                                                                                                                      

Many – Tracey Gosey, Elizabeth Landry, Associate of Science in Nursing; Christopher Henley, Associate of General Studies; Gabrielle Murphy, Bachelor of Arts; Kaley Leach, Taylor Leach, Bachelor of General Studies; Nicholas Ezernack, Sarah Richie, Kimberly Voorhies Bachelor of Science; Shelby Clifton, Sarah Heard, Bachelor of Science in Nursing; Micala Britt, Master of Arts in Teaching;

 Marksville – Melanie Dauzat, Associate of General Studies, Holly Guillot, Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Emily Ryan, Bachelor of Social Work;

                                                                                                                                            Marthaville  -- Renee Bergeron, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

                                                                                                                                   Maurepas – Jaci Cornett, Associate of General Studies;

                                                                                                                                    Mesquite, Texas – Lakesha McCoy, Bachelor of Science;

                                                                                                                                                Metairie  -- Lisa Roberson, Bachelor of Applied Science; Tyler Jacobs, Rachel Moran, Bachelor of Science; John Hennessey, Master of Science                                                                                                                                                  

Mill Creek, Washington – Ashley Murphy, Associate of General Studies;

                                                                                                                                      Minden – Kendra Robinson, Associate of Science in Nursing; Ryan Harmon, Bryia Matthews, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

                                                                                                                                    Miramar, Florida, Frank Boudreaux, Bachelor of Science;

 Monahans, Texas – Betty Hogan, Educational Specialist;

                                                                                                                                            Monroe  -- Courtney Blakes, Taylor Hogan, Alex Jones, Breonda Simmons, Bachelor of Science; Anna McKoin, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Montz – Nikki Bordelon, Master of Education;

                                                                                                                                                Mooringsport  -- Samantha Mattson, Bachelor of Arts;

 Mora – Constance Seibles, Master of Arts;

 Morgan City – Sennet Wiggins, Bachelor of Arts;                                                                                                                                                  

 Nacogdoches, Texas – Willie Toomer, Master of Science;

 Natchez – Rollyn Colbert, Pearlie Jones, Associate of General Studies; Jennie Bayonne, Bachelor of Science;

 Natchitoches-- Anthony Boddie, LaQuita Collins, Sarah Flowers, Crystal Long, Maina Ibn Mohammed, Choicelaun McClinton, Jessica Perry, Rodney Robinson, Associate of General Studies; Andrew Nieman, Associate of Science in Nursing;  Terrius Bell, Associate of Science;  Whitney Brock, Shayla Johnson, Joseph McClung, Cynthia Troquille, Ashlyn Vitte, Bachelor of Arts; Jana Armour, ZaChary Clark, Brandon Jackson, Justin Metoyer, Bachelor of General Studies;  Emilio Castro, Paul Monroy Galeyeva, Kaylee Weakley, Bachelor of Music; James Almond, Whitney Buntyn, Heather Burrell, Emilio Castro, Colton Chadick, Jashovion Cole, Ehris Faulkner, Thaven Jackson, Christian Jones, Joshua Kaufman, Lyia Kennedy, Lindsay Lee, Paul Melancon, William Montgomery, Ethan Mouton, Xandria Petty, Nigel Severin, Jessica Spear, Faith Stanfield, Brianna Stelly, Matthew Westerfield, Bachelor of Science; Taji Helaire, Casi Killian, Roquel Merritte, Matthew Metoyer, Kaitlin Oliphant, ShaRhonda Zeno, Bachelor of Science in Nursing; Brittany White, Bachelor of Social Work;  Raney Chambers, Gary Dupree, Krystyn Dupree, Taylor Whitehead, Master of Arts; Victoria Hippler, Jenae Williams, Master of Arts in Teaching;  Molly McNeely, Sara McShan, Christy Rawls, Master of Education;  Elkin Cabeza Jimenez, Master of Music;  Justin Kerin Dollar, Master of Science;  

 New Braunfels, Texas – Mardi Gauthier, Bachelor of Science;

 New Iberia – Stephen Ferry, Bachelor of General Studies; Khantisha Grayson, Bachelor of Social Work;

 New Llano – Kara Daniel, Associate of General Studies; Jamal Harrell, Bachelor of Arts; Amanda Hunt, Bachelor of General Studies;  

 New Orleans – Tyrrielle Slack, Associate Degree; Jamie Gooden, Sierra Sumler, Associate of General Studies; Lauren Lee, Bachelor of Applied Science;  Larionne Clark, Bachelor of Arts;  Tyrrielle Slack, Chantrice Weber, Bachelor of Science;  Lundyn Kennedy, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;  Lila Hochron, Master of Education;  Rebecca Mercer, Master of Science;

 Noble – Bridgette Bell, Associate of Science in Nursing; Krista Rivers, Thomas Rivers, Associate of General Studies; Angela Lee, Bachelor of General Studies; Alexandria Warner, Bachelor of Science;  Breana Remedes, Bachelor of Social Work;

 North Dinwiddie, Virginia – Carrie Howell, Associate of General Studies;

 Oak Grove – Lara Harper, Master of Arts in Teaching;

 Oakdale – Shawn Pelt, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Oil City – Erin Weaver, Bachelor of Arts;

 Olla – Kaitlyn Knight, Bachelor of Arts; Meghan Knight, Bachelor of Science;

 Opelousas – Shelley Perkins, Associate Degree;  Donovin Boast, Associate of General Studies; Shelley Perkins, Bachelor of Science; Destiny Arceneaux, Miyoka Landor, Bachelor of Social Work;

 Pearl River – Danielle Williams, Bachelor of Science;

 Pickerington, Ohio, Zachary Gorman, Bachelor of Science;

 Pierre Part – Austin Lavergne, Associate of General Studies;

 Pineville – Brianna Marzett, Associate of Science in Nursing; Heather Fontenot, Associate Degree;  Jessica Clark, Maurissa Miles, Robert Stockdale, Associate of General Studies; Justin Jenkins, Bachelor of Arts;   Savanna Lass, Jessica Nichols, Bachelor of General Studies;  Maurissa Miles, Loren Ryland, Bachelor of Science; Kaylee Chronister, Samantha Sibley, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;  Clifford Darby, Rebecca Farmer, Master of Arts; Callie Hardy, Deanna Hodges, Faith Normand, Master of Education;

 Pioneer, Ohio – Joie Douglass-Garr, Bachelor of Science;

 Pitkin – Lauren Wellman, Bachelor of General Studies; Ellise Odom, Master of Arts in Teaching;  Brian Thompson, Master of Education;

 Plain Dealing – Jennifer Clarkston, Bachelor of Science;  

 Plattsburgh, New York – Abdourazak Tidjani, Master of Arts;

 Pleasant Hill – Stephanie Pulzone, Bachelor of Science;

 Pollock – Bethany Coston, Associate Degree, Bachelor of Science;

Ponchatoula – Rachel Carazo, Master of Arts;  

 Pooler, Georgia – Norlisha Gistarb, Master of Arts;

 Port Allen – Cara Guilbeau, Master of Arts;

 Prairieville – Julianna Carmouche, Bachelor of Arts;  Keith Howard, Bachelor of General Studies; Grace Brumfield, Bachelor of Science;

 Princeton – Elani Woods, Bachelor of General Studies;

 Provencal – Clifton Brian, Associate of General Studies;

 Pueblo, Colorado – Katie Villarroel, Master of Arts;

 Quitman – Jeremiah Cottingham, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Raeford, North Carolina – Brittney Carpenter, Bachelor of General Studies;

 Red Rock, Arizona – Kaylyn Jayroe, Associate of General Studies;

 Reserve – Natasha DuBois, Associate of General Studies;

 Richmond, Virginia – Cassandria Bryant, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Ridgecrest – Jackie Coates, Bachelor or Science;

 Roanoke, Virginia – Sherone Cephas, Bachelor of Science;

 Robeline – Arica Ammons, Sarah Cates, Associate of General Studies; William Rachal, Bachelor of Arts; Christian Hamous, Bachelor of General Studies; Kelcey Dubois, Michael Young, Bachelor of Science;

 Rowlett, Texas – Cheyenne Coleman, Bachelor of Science;

 Ruston – Maya Robertson, Bachelor of General Studies;  

 Sachse, Texas – Trevor Eickman, Associate of General Studies;

 St. Andrew – Carol Rose, Master of Science;

 St. Gabriel – Brooke Griffiths, Bachelor of Science;  

 Saline – Cheyenne Roberts, Associate of General Studies; Sincerely Qualls, Bachelor of Science;

 San Antonio, Texas – Grant Tierny, Associate of General Studies; Shelby Jones, Bachelor of Science;

 Sanford, North Carolina – Joseph Tippit, Bachelor of Science;  

 Seattle, Washington – Ronald Perry, Bachelor of Science;

 Shelbyville, Texas – Haley Hutchins, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Shiatook, Oklahoma – Sadie Fudge, Bachelor of Science;

 Shreveport – Ashlee Blow, Joseph Gouthiere, Danielle Hynes, Ashley Jackson, Taylor Joest, Kristi Laborde, Megan Richard, Hannah Smith, Kamilah White, Associate of Science in Nursing; Chad Bell, Nikisha Boyd, David Holmes, Carol Kitterlin, Kelsey Metoyer, Marcus Williamson, Associate of General Studies; Tiffany Greggs, Sasha Harris, Starlet Reaves, Bachelor of Applied Science; Kassidee Kennedy, Bachelor of General Studies;  Ashley Hardeman, Shaffer Kimball, An-Gel Samuel, Javonti Thomas, Rodkeia Turner, Bachelor of Arts; Elizabeth Antee, Erica Brothers, Unique Carter, Jalen Clark, Tristine Czaska, Lashayle Ester, Nicholas Fergson, Sean Flair, Jace Gaines, Kiera Jones, Erin LeClair, Casey Long, Hunter Martin, Brianna Mason, Brittany Nail, Joann Nelson, Kendrick Payne, Anthony Richard, Anna Richardson, Kashona Stewart, Rachel Taylor, Bachelor of Science;  Ar’keli Armstrong, Ethan Branch, Brianna Burke, Michael Cade, Rikkia Ceasar, Celeste Clifton, Charlette Crawford, Brandy Ellison, Cander Freret, Courtnei Green, Cavonte Jones, Jason Joshua, Dana Patterson Evans, Deanna Peveto, Jayla Washington, Yao Wang, Erica Zuniga, Bachelor of Science in Nursing; Valarie Francis, Cynthia Terrell, Bachelor of Social Work; Jordan Dixon, Alexis Smith, Master of Arts;  Angela Brewer, Masteer of Arts in Teaching; Rashada Abraham, Master of Education;  Shanice Henderson, Michelle Leger, Angelia Williams, Master of Science;  

 Sibley – Shantika Jackson, Associate of General Studies;

 Slidell – Keely Macloud, Bachelor of Science;  Michele Scholtens, Master of Education;

 Spring, Texas – Hailee Rhodes, Bachelor of Science;

 Spring Lake, North Carolina – Bachelor of General Studies;

 Springfield, Virginia – Laura Highsmith, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Stockbridge, Georgia – DeNori Walton, Master of Arts;

 Stone Mountain, Georgia – Ryland Francis, Bachelor of Science;

 Stonewall – Brittany Garcie, Bachelor of Science;  Amber Rogé, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Sulphur – Jennifer Watzlavik, Bachelor of Science;  Elyssa Constance, Master of Arts;  Cynthia Pottorff, Master of Education;  

 Sunset – Emma Warren, Bachelor of Science;

 Tylertown, Mississippi – Christopher Jones, Bachelor of Science;

 Tacoma, Washington – Alex Park, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Tallulah – Frances Ferguson, Bachelor of Science;  

 Tampa, Florida – Osman Dongos, Master of Science;

 Temple, Texas – Weston Scholten, Bachelor of Music Education;

 Texarkana, Texas -- Karlie  Purdy, Bachelor of Science;

 Thibodaux – Mandy Davis, Bachelor of Science;

 Tucson, Arizona – DeVon Hopping, Associate of General Studies;

 Victor, New York – Elmer Rivas, Bachelor of Arts;

 Ville Platte – Morgan Bayman, Bachelor of Science;

 Vinton – Emily Walter, Bachelor of Arts;

 Vivian – Emily Holley, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Waskom, Texas – Kendall Perot, Bachelor of Science;

 West Monroe – Beyonca Dickens, Associate Degree, Bachelor of Science; Mark Payton, Bachelor of Music; Maggie Harris, Bachelor of Social Work; Robyn Purvis, Bachelor of Science;

 White Bear Lake, Minnesota – Bruce Gramling, Associate of General Studies;

 Winnfield – Rebecca Hodnett, Branden Jennings, Bachelor of Science;

 Woodville, Mississippi – Shannon Tison, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Woodway, Texas – Chrishard Buhl, Bachelor of Science;  

 Woodworth – Mallory Gleason, Bachelor of Science; Elizabeth Bonnette, Bachelor of Social Work; Bobi Delaney, Master of Education;  

 Youngsville – Bridget Landry, Bachelor of Applied Science; Shayna Bolgiano, Bachelor of General Studies; Ivy Bathelemy, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Zachary – Ethel Felder, Bachelor of Science;

 Zwolle – Jared Fisette, Bachelor of Science.

Summer graduates by hometown are:

 APO, AE -- Rebecca Watters, Bachelor of Science;

 Abbeville -- Ericka Smith, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Alexandria -- Robert Ardoin, Lewis Davis, Tara Hall, Bachelor of Science; Cassandra Armstrong, Taryn Collins, Dustin Cross, Latonya Henry, Deborah Powell, Madison Ross, Elizabeth Whitcher, Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Ty Lege, Master of Music; Virginia Beall, Post Baccalaureate Certificate;

 Anacoco -- Billy Harman, Associate of General Studies; Angela Ortiz, Bachelor of Science; Virginia Hopewell, Post Masters Certificate;

 Anaheim Hills, California -- Brittany Virgoe, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Ash Grove, Missouri -- Brettin Isenhower, Associate of General Studies;

 Austin, Texas – Kaleb Wayne, Associate of General Studies;

 Baton Rouge -- Tabatha Burks, Aubrey Jones, Joshua Perkins, Stephen Watson, Associate of General Studies; Juliana White, Bachelor of Science in Nursing; Lakesha Thomas, Doctor of Nursing Practice; Kristen Retana, Master of Arts;

 Benton -- Ashley Jackson, Associate of Science in Nursing; Savannah Shiflett, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Bertram, Texas -- Alexana Torres, Master of Science;

 Berwick -- Catherine Patureau, Post Baccalaureate Certificate;

 Bethany -- Rebekah Rambin, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Bossier City -- Shatondra Horton, Associate of General Studies, Daniel Dorsey, Bachelor of Science in Nursing; Desiree Anderson, Associate Degree; Jana Morgan, Bachelor of General Studies; Jose Cardenas, Bachelor of Science; Candace Baird, Sara Blankenship, Mikaela Byrnes, Audrey Friesen, Morgan Hudson, Kalli Loyd, Courtney Pierce, Toni Thompson Johnston, Sara Woods, Bachelor of Science in Nursing; Katherine Rains, Doctor of Nursing Practice; Sarah Schackelton, Post Baccalaureate Certificate;

 Broussard -- Melisa Landry, Post Baccalaureate Certificate;

 Burnsville, Minnesota -- Brian Perry, Master of Arts;

 Campti -- Jason Ivey, Post Baccalaureate Certificate;

 Carencro -- Nicole Malbreaux, Associate of General Studies;

 Centerpoint -- Megan Tyler, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Church Point -- Megan Bertrand, Master of Arts;

 Columbia -- Courtney Watts, Master of Education;

 Converse -- Wendi Wright, Post Baccalaureate Certificate;

 Coushatta -- Shelly Franks, Post Baccalaureate Certificate;

 Cypress, Texas -- Emily Rice, Master of Arts;

 DeRidder -- Sarah Fulford, Associate of General Studies;

 Denham Springs -- Christopher Evans, Karliegh Gwyn, Associate of General Studies; Glenn Nicholas, Bachelor of Science;

 Destrehan -- Valerie Laster, Master of Education;

 Deville -- Beau Belgard, Sarah Elkins, Jessie Paul; Associate of General Studies; Leslie McDowell, Bachelor of General Studies; Sarah Dauzat; Bachelor of Science; Hope Cole, Post Baccalaureate Certificate;

 Dry Creek -- Devin Stutes, Post Baccalaureate Certificate;

 Dry Prong -- Tanna Walker, Bachelor of General Studies; Jennifer Speed, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Dubach -- Michelle Standifer, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Dublin, California -- Mary Gagnon, Associate of General Studies;

 Englewood, Colorado -- Kalia Wilhelmi, Bachelor of Science;

 Eunice -- Jason Thibodeaux, Master of Arts; Konstance, Andrepont, Post Baccalaureate Certificate;

 Florien -- Anna Parker, Bachelor of Science in Nursing; Kathryn Thaxton, Master of Arts in Teaching;

 Fort Polk -- Melissa Gasho, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Fort Walton Beach, Florida -- Lydia Hanneken, Master of Arts;

 Fort Wayne, Indiana -- Deborah Wesse, Associate of General Studies;

 Harris, Minnesota -- Matthew Johnson, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Haughton -- Shannon Barnard, Bachelor of General Studies; Chrissy Baird, Shannon Feeheley, Erica Moseley, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Hendersonville, Tennessee -- Amy Williams, Doctor of Nursing Practice;

 Hineston -- Blake Powell, Bachelor of Arts; Angel McManus, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Hodge -- Loretta Blow, Bachelor of General Studies;

 Hornbeck -- Joshua Carroll, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Huntsville, Alabama -- Phillip Sampson, Bachelor of Science;

 Ida -- Katelyn Campbell, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Italy, Texas -- Fabione Clark, Associate of General Studies;

 Jamestown -- James Moss, Bachelor of Science;

 Jena -- Brittani Pritchard, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Jennings -- Claire Clement, Bachelor of Science;

 Jonesville -- LaShondra Washington, Associate of General Studies;

 Katy, Texas -- Tyler Rubin, Associate of General Studies; Timothy Winders, Bachelor of General Studies;

 Keatchie -- Colton Steadman, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Keithville -- Dianna Fort, Kanvis Williams, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Lafayette -- Latisha Howard, Karissa Robertson, Jaime Semien, Associate of General Studies; Shenekia McDonald, Bachelor of Arts; Cortney Delhomme, Master of Arts;

 Lake Arthur -- Rayce Mayor, Master of Science;

 Lake Charles -- Karensa Bray, Master of Education, Brendan Nalbone, Associcate of General Studies;

 Leesville -- Malak Alammar, Associate of General Studies, Violeta Sifuentes Shaffer, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Lena -- Lea Hawkins, Post Masters Certificate;

 Lufkin, Texas -- Melissa Stewart, Doctor of Nursing Practice;

 Magnolia, Arkansas -- Stephanie Hawkins, Associate of General Studies;

 Mansfield -- Ismael Castillo, Post Baccalaureate Certificate;

 Mansura -- Tyler Juneau, Post Baccalaureate Certificate;

 Many -- Roderick Davis, Associate of General Studies; Donya Tatum, Master of Education;

 Marksville -- MyChel Robinson, Associate of General Studies; Patricia Dauzat, Nikki Valois, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Marshall, Texas -- Amy Hale, Bachelor of Science;

 Metairie -- Lindsay Garon, Bachelor of Science;

 Monroe -- Mary Jans, Johnesha Lyons, Breonda Simmons; Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Natchitoches -- Hannah Brown, Christopher Cousins, David Durr, Elizabeth Long, Michael Mayeux, Lauren Rachal, Associate of General Studies; Stephen Lawson, Bachelor of Arts; Shircarra Dobin, Bachelor of General Studies; Jeremy Cox, Katelynn Raggio, Bachelor of Science; Greg St. Andre, Master of Science; Jessica Garcia, Jenny Massia, Post Baccalaureate Certificate;

 New Orleans -- Carolyn Marks, Bachelor of Science;

 Noble -- LeeAnna Ebarb, Bachelor of Science;

 Oakdale -- Bailey Doxey, Ashley Farris, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Opelousas -- Kevin Guillory, Associate of General Studies; Ashley Kelly, Meagan Thierry, Bachelor of General Studies; Courtney Tatmon, Bachelor of Science;

 Pasadena, Maryland -- Alissa Sabbe, Bachelor of Science;

 Pearl River -- Derek Hoffritz, Bachelor of Science;

 Picayune, Mississippi -- Katie LeBlanc, Bachelor of Science;

 Pineland, Texas -- Desmond Lacey, Bachelor of Science;

 Pineville -- Mary Lambert, Associate of General Studies; Brandon Timmon, Bachelor of Science; Heather Craig, Sarah Daigre, Breana Rogers, Henry Wolff, Bachelor of Science in Nursing; Karlee Jones, Rachel Sasser, Post Baccalaureate Certificate;

 Pitkin -- Brianna Deason -- Master of Education;

 Plattsburgh, New York -- Abdourazak Tidjani, Graduate Certificate;

 Plaucheville -- Casey Foret, Post Baccalaureate Certificate;

 Pollock -- Lori Holman, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Ponchatoula -- Rachel Carazo, Graduate Certificate;

 Poplarville, Mississippi -- Casey Beckham, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Port Arthur, Texas -- Britany Kinlaw, Associate of General Studies;

 Porter, Texas -- David Barnhill, Briana Johnson, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Princeton -- Jamal Bradford, Bachelor of Science;

 Rosepine -- Quincy Pea, Bachelor of Science;

 Ringgold -- Kristen Wiggins, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Robeline -- Payton Nichols, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Ruston -- William Davis, Master of Science;

 Shongaloo -- Laci Roberts, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Shreveport -- Elizabeth Antee, Associate Degree; Grace Bates, Courtney Bell, Tonnette Clark, Jalen Fleming, Candance Jones, Kimberly LaLena, Kristian Penn, Donna Wiggins, Associate of General Studies; Elizabeth Huff, Bachelor of Applied Science; Ellen Nelson, Bachelor of Arts; Philessa Henderson, Bachelor of General Studies; A Taylor Bray, Crystal Brown, LaurenAnn Delaune, Kendra Johnson, Khandice Smith, Bachelor of Science; Brionne Blanche, Crystal Claunch, Jodie Ford, Kari Harris, Ashley Holbrook, Adrianne Kelly, Brittany Malinovsky, Alexandra McAfee, Fred McClure, Mark Mitchell, Martha Vazquez, Celte Weaver, Bachelor of Science in Nursing; Rosaline Caldwell, Doctor of Nursing Practice;

 Slidell -- Rachel Mendoza, Associate of General Studies; Julianna Toranto, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Snellville, Georgia -- Jeffery Brown, Bachelor of General Studies;

 Sulphur -- Julianna Pugh, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Sunset -- Meagan Bolds, Bachelor of Arts;

 The Colony, Texas -- Julia Focht, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Vidalia -- Alicia Johnson, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 Ville Platte -- Regis Tezeno, Post Baccalaureate Certificate;

 Virginia Beach, Virginia – Andrea Stewart, Bachelor of General Studies; Kristi Lafoon, Master of Arts;

 Vivian – Jonathan Parker, Associate of General Studies;

 Washington – Keith Scott, Post Baccalaureate Certificate;

Waynesville, Missouri – Jessica Rodger, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

 West Monroe – Lindsay Price, Associate of General Studies; Laura Kaul, Post Baccalaureate Certificate;

 Winnfield – Carl Bryant, Bachelor of General Studies; Joseph White, Bachelor of Science in Nursing;

                                                                                                                                    Zwolle – Shanna Green, Joshua Lewis, Associate of General Studies; Hannah Ezernack, Bachelor of Science in Nursing.                                                                                                                                    

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137 Economists Support GOP Tax Reform

In an open letter to Congress today, 137 economists backed the GOP tax reform effort, saying:  “Economic growth will accelerate if the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passes, leading to more jobs, higher wages, and a better standard of living for the American people.”  Senator Portman echoed this point on Fox Business earlier today, saying the Senate’s Tax Cuts & Jobs Act “will generate more jobs and higher wages because of the increased investment and productivity.”

The full letter is below and at this link.

An open letter to Congress signed by 137 economists supporting GOP tax reform bill

CNBC

November 29, 2017

Dear Senators and Representatives:

“Ask five economists,” as the Edgar Fiedler adage goes, “and you'll get five different answers.”

Yet, when it comes to the tax reform package aimed at fixing our broken system, the undersigned have but one shared perspective: Economic growth will accelerate if the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passes, leading to more jobs, higher wages, and a better standard of living for the American people. If, however, the bill fails, the United States risks continued economic underperformance.

In today’s globalized economy, capital is mobile in its pursuit of lower tax jurisdictions. Yet, in that worldwide race for job-creating investment, America is not economically competitive.

Here’s why: Left virtually untouched for the last 31 years, our chart-topping corporate tax rate is the highest in the industrialized world and a full fifteen percentage points above the OECD average. As a result of forfeiting our competitive edge, we forfeited 4,700 companies from 2004 to 2016 to cheaper shores abroad. As a result of sitting idly by while the rest of the world took steps to lower their corporate rates, we lowered our own workers' wages by thousands of dollars a year.

Our colleagues from across the ideological spectrum – regardless of whether they ultimately support or oppose the current plan – recognize the record-setting rate at which the United States taxes job-creating businesses is, either significantly or entirely, a burden borne by the workers they employ. The question isn't whether American workers are hurt by our country's corporate tax rate – it's how badly. As such, the question isn't whether workers will be helped by a corporate tax rate reduction – it's how much.

The enactment of a comprehensive overhaul – complete with a lower corporate tax rate – will ignite our economy with levels of growth not seen in generations. A twenty percent statutory rate on a permanent basis would, per the Council of Economic Advisers, help produce a GDP boost “by between 3 and 5 percent.” As the debate delves into deficit implications, it is critical to consider that $1 trillion in new revenue for the federal government can be generated by four- tenths of a percentage in GDP growth.

Sophisticated economic models show the macroeconomic feedback generated by the TCJA will exceed that amount – more than enough to compensate for the static revenue loss.

We firmly believe that a competitive corporate rate is the key to an economic engine driven by greater investment, capital stock, business formation, and productivity – all of which will yield more jobs and higher wages. Your vote throughout the weeks ahead will therefore put more money in the pockets of more workers.

Supporting the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will ensure that those workers – those beneficiaries – are American.

Sincerely, James C. Miller III, Former OMB Director, 1985-88 Douglas Holtz-Eakin, American Action Forum Alexander Katkov, Johnson & Wales University Ali M. Reza, San Jose State U (Emeritus) Ann E. Sherman, DePaul University Anthony B. Sanders, George Mason University Anthony Negbenebor, Gardner-Webb University Arthur Havenner, University of California, Davis Austin J. Jaffe, Penn State University Barry W. Poulson, University of Colorado Boyd D, Collier, Tarleton State University, Texas A&M University System (Emeritus) Brian Stuart Wesbury, Joint Economic Committee Carlisle E. Moody, College of William and Mary Charles W. Calomiris, Columbia University Christine P. Ries, Georgia Institute of Technology Christopher C. Barnekov, FCC (Retired) Christopher Lingle Universidad Francisco Marroquin Clifford F. Thies, Shenandoah University Daniel Fernandez Universidad Francisco Marroquin Daniel Houser, George Mason University David H. Resler, Chief US Economist, Nomura (Retired) David Ranson, HCWE & Co. Dennis E. Logue Steven Roth Professor, (Emeritus) Tuck School, Dartmouth Colleges Derek Tittle, Georgia Institute of Technology DeVon L. Yoho, Economist Ball State University (Retired) Donald J. Oswald California State University, Bakersfield (Retired) Donald Koch, Koch Investments Donald L. Alexander, Western Michigan University Donald Luskin, TrendMacro Douglas C Frechtling, George Washington University Douglas Kahl, The University of Akron Douglas O. Cook, The University of Alabama Kingdon Hurlock Jr., Calvert Investment Counsel Edward M. Scahill, University of Scranton Eleanor Craig, University of Delaware Owen Irvine Michigan State University (Emeritus) Farhad Rassekh, University of Hartford Francis Ahking, University of Connecticut Frank Falero, California State University (Emeritus) Gary R. Skoog, Legal Econometrics, Inc. Gary Wolfram, Hillsdale College Gene Simpson, NPTC, Auburn University George Langelett, South Dakota State University Gerald P. Dwyer, Clemson University Gil Sylvia, University of Georgia H Daniel Foster, HDFCO Hugo J. Faria, University of Miami Inayat Mangla, Western Michigan University Edward Graham, UNC Wilmington Jagdish Bhagwati, Columbia University James B Kau, University of Georgia James C.W. Ahiakpor California State University, East Bay James D. Adams, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute James D. Miller, Smith College James F. Smith, EconForecaster, LLC James Keeler, Kenyon College James M. Mulcahy SUNY - Buffalo economics department James Moncur, University of Hawaii at Manoa Jeffrey Dorfman, University of Georgia Jerold Zimmerman, University of Rochester Jody Lipford, Presbyterian College John A. Baden, Chm., Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE) John C. Moorhouse Wake Forest University (Emeritus) John D. Johnson, Utah State University John H McDermott, University of South Carolina John McArthur, Wofford College John P. Eleazarian, American Economic Association John Ruggiero, University of Dayton John Semmens, Laissez Faire Institute Joseph A. Giacalone, St. John's University, NY Joseph Haslag University of Missouri- Columbia Joseph S. DeSalvo University of South Florida - Tampa Joseph Zoric Franciscan University of Steubenville Kathleen B. Cooper, SMU's John Tower Center for Politico Science Kenneth V. Greene Binghamton University (Emeritus) Lawrence Benveniste Goizueta Business School, Emory University Lawrence R. Cima, John Carroll University Leon Wegge, University of California, Davis Lloyd Cohen, Scalia Law School Lucjan Orlowski, Sacred Heart University Lydia Ortega, San Jose State University Northrup Buechner, St. John's University, New York Maurice MacDonald, Kansas State University Michael A. Morrisey, Texas A&M University Michael Connolly, University of Miami Michael D Brendler Louisiana State University Shreveport. Michael L. Marlow, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo Moheb A. Ghali, Western Washington University Nancy Roberts, Arizona State University Nasser Duella, California State University, Fullerton Nicolas Sanchez, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA (Emeritus,) Norman Lefton, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville Paul H Rubin, Emory University Pavel Yakovlev, Duquesne University Pedro Piffaut, Columbia University Peter E. Kretzmer, Bank of America Peter S. Yun, UVAWISE (Emeritus) Phillip J. Bryson Brigham Young University (Emeritus) Ashley Lyman, University of Idaho L. Promboin, University of Maryland University College (former) Richard J. Cebula, Jacksonville University Richard Kilmer, University of Florida Richard Timberlake, Prof. of Econ., Univ. of Ga. (Retired) Richard Vedder, Ohio University Robert B Helms, American Enterprise Institute (Retired) Robert F Stauffer, Roanoke College , (Emeritus) Robert H. Topel, University of Chicago Booth School of Business Robert Heller, Former Governor, Federal Reserve Board Robert Sauer, Royal Holloway University Robert Tamura, Clemson University Roger Meiners, University of Texas-Arlington Sanjai Bhagat, University of Colorado Boulder Scott Hein, Texas Tech University Seth Bied, New York State Tax Department Stan Liebowitz, University of Texas Stephen Happel, Arizona State University Craig Tapley, University of Florida Thomas H. Mayor, University of Houston Thomas J Kniesner, Claremont Graduate University Thomas M. Stoker, MIT (retired) Thomas Saving, Texas A&M University Timothy Mathews, Kennesaw State University Tomi Ovaska, Youngstown State University Tony Lima, California State University, East Bay Victor a Canto, La Jolla economics Vijay Singal, Navrang Inc Wallace Hendricks, University of Illinois Ward S. Curran Trinity College Hartford Connecticut (Emeritus) Wayne T. Brough, FreedomWorks Foundation William B. Fairley, Analysis & Inference, Inc. William Buchanan, Valdosta State University William McKillop, Resource Economics (Emeritus) William R. Allen UCLA Department of Economics William S. Peirce Case Western Reserve University Wim Vijverberg, CUNY Graduate Center Xuepeng Liu, Kennesaw State University Yuri N. Maltsev, A.W. Clausen Center for World Business, Carthage College

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  from Rob Portman http://www.portman.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ContentRecord_id=0407B2E2-F566-4B88-BC06-FE84678C8E52

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137 economists sign open letter to Congress supporting GOP tax reform bill

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137 economists sign open letter to Congress supporting GOP tax reform bill

Our colleagues from across the ideological spectrum – regardless of whether they ultimately support or oppose the current plan – recognize the record-setting rate at which the United States taxes job-creating businesses is, either significantly or entirely, a burden borne by the workers they employ. The question isn’t whether American workers are hurt by our country’s corporate tax rate – it’s how badly. As such, the question isn’t whether workers will be helped by a corporate tax rate reduction – it’s how much.

The enactment of a comprehensive overhaul – complete with a lower corporate tax rate – will ignite our economy with levels of growth not seen in generations. A twenty percent statutory rate on a permanent basis would, per the Council of Economic Advisers, help produce a GDP boost “by between 3 and 5 percent.” As the debate delves into deficit implications, it is critical to consider that $1 trillion in new revenue for the federal government can be generated by four- tenths of a percentage in GDP growth.

Sophisticated economic models show the macroeconomic feedback generated by the TCJA will exceed that amount – more than enough to compensate for the static revenue loss.

We firmly believe that a competitive corporate rate is the key to an economic engine driven by greater investment, capital stock, business formation, and productivity – all of which will yield more jobs and higher wages. Your vote throughout the weeks ahead will therefore put more money in the pockets of more workers.

Supporting the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will ensure that those workers – those beneficiaries – are American.

Sincerely,

James C. Miller III, Former OMB Director, 1985-88

Douglas Holtz-Eakin, American Action Forum

Alexander Katkov, Johnson & Wales University

Ali M. Reza, San Jose State U (Emeritus)

Ann E. Sherman, DePaul University

Anthony B. Sanders, George Mason University

Anthony Negbenebor, Gardner-Webb University

Arthur Havenner, University of California, Davis

Austin J. Jaffe, Penn State University

Barry W. Poulson, University of Colorado

Boyd D, Collier, Tarleton State University, Texas A&M University System (Emeritus)

Brian Stuart Wesbury, Joint Economic Committee

Carlisle E. Moody, College of William and Mary

Charles W. Calomiris, Columbia University

Christine P. Ries, Georgia Institute of Technology

Christopher C. Barnekov, FCC (Retired)

Christopher Lingle Universidad Francisco Marroquin

Clifford F. Thies, Shenandoah University

Daniel Fernandez Universidad Francisco Marroquin

Daniel Houser, George Mason University

David H. Resler, Chief US Economist, Nomura (Retired)

David Ranson, HCWE & Co.

Dennis E. Logue Steven Roth Professor, (Emeritus) Tuck School, Dartmouth Colleges

Derek Tittle, Georgia Institute of Technology

DeVon L. Yoho, Economist Ball State University (Retired)

Donald J. Oswald California State University, Bakersfield (Retired)

Donald Koch, Koch Investments

Donald L. Alexander, Western Michigan University

Donald Luskin, TrendMacro

Douglas C Frechtling, George Washington University

Douglas Kahl, The University of Akron

Douglas O. Cook, The University of Alabama

Kingdon Hurlock Jr., Calvert Investment Counsel

Edward M. Scahill, University of Scranton

Eleanor Craig, University of Delaware

Owen Irvine Michigan State University (Emeritus)

Farhad Rassekh, University of Hartford

Francis Ahking, University of Connecticut

Frank Falero, California State University (Emeritus)

Gary R. Skoog, Legal Econometrics, Inc.

Gary Wolfram, Hillsdale College

Gene Simpson, NPTC, Auburn University

George Langelett, South Dakota State University

Gerald P. Dwyer, Clemson University

Gil Sylvia, University of Georgia

H Daniel Foster, HDFCO

Hugo J. Faria, University of Miami

Inayat Mangla, Western Michigan University

Edward Graham, UNC Wilmington

Jagdish Bhagwati, Columbia University

James B Kau, University of Georgia

James C.W. Ahiakpor California State University, East Bay

James D. Adams, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

James D. Miller, Smith College

James F. Smith, EconForecaster, LLC

James Keeler, Kenyon College

James M. Mulcahy SUNY – Buffalo economics department

James Moncur, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Jeffrey Dorfman, University of Georgia

Jerold Zimmerman, University of Rochester

Jody Lipford, Presbyterian College

John A. Baden, Chm., Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE)

John C. Moorhouse Wake Forest University (Emeritus)

John D. Johnson, Utah State University

John H McDermott, University of South Carolina

John McArthur, Wofford College

John P. Eleazarian, American Economic Association

John Ruggiero, University of Dayton

John Semmens, Laissez Faire Institute

Joseph A. Giacalone, St. John’s University, NY

Joseph Haslag University of Missouri- Columbia

Joseph S. DeSalvo University of South Florida – Tampa

Joseph Zoric Franciscan University of Steubenville

Kathleen B. Cooper, SMU’s John Tower Center for Politico Science

Kenneth V. Greene Binghamton University (Emeritus)

Lawrence Benveniste Goizueta Business School, Emory University

Lawrence R. Cima, John Carroll University

Leon Wegge, University of California, Davis

Lloyd Cohen, Scalia Law School

Lucjan Orlowski, Sacred Heart University

Lydia Ortega, San Jose State University

Northrup Buechner, St. John’s University, New York

Maurice MacDonald, Kansas State University

Michael A. Morrisey, Texas A&M University

Michael Connolly, University of Miami

Michael D Brendler Louisiana State University Shreveport.

Michael L. Marlow, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

Moheb A. Ghali, Western Washington University

Nancy Roberts, Arizona State University

Nasser Duella, California State University, Fullerton

Nicolas Sanchez, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA (Emeritus,)

Norman Lefton, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville

Paul H Rubin, Emory University

Pavel Yakovlev, Duquesne University

Pedro Piffaut, Columbia University

Peter E. Kretzmer, Bank of America

Peter S. Yun, UVAWISE (Emeritus)

Phillip J. Bryson Brigham Young University (Emeritus)

Ashley Lyman, University of Idaho

L. Promboin, University of Maryland University College (former)

Richard J. Cebula, Jacksonville University

Richard Kilmer, University of Florida

Richard Timberlake, Prof. of Econ., Univ. of Ga. (Retired)

Richard Vedder, Ohio University

Robert B Helms, American Enterprise Institute (Retired)

Robert F Stauffer, Roanoke College , (Emeritus)

Robert H. Topel, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Robert Heller, Former Governor, Federal Reserve Board

Robert Sauer, Royal Holloway University

Robert Tamura, Clemson University

Roger Meiners, University of Texas-Arlington

Sanjai Bhagat, University of Colorado Boulder

Scott Hein, Texas Tech University

Seth Bied, New York State Tax Department

Stan Liebowitz, University of Texas

Stephen Happel, Arizona State University

Craig Tapley, University of Florida

Thomas H. Mayor, University of Houston

Thomas J Kniesner, Claremont Graduate University

Thomas M. Stoker, MIT (retired)

Thomas Saving, Texas A&M University

Timothy Mathews, Kennesaw State University

Tomi Ovaska, Youngstown State University

Tony Lima, California State University, East Bay

Victor a Canto, La Jolla economics

Vijay Singal, Navrang Inc

Wallace Hendricks, University of Illinois

Ward S. Curran Trinity College Hartford Connecticut (Emeritus)

Wayne T. Brough, FreedomWorks Foundation

William B. Fairley, Analysis & Inference, Inc.

William Buchanan, Valdosta State University

William McKillop, Resource Economics (Emeritus)

William R. Allen UCLA Department of Economics

William S. Peirce Case Western Reserve University

Wim Vijverberg, CUNY Graduate Center

Xuepeng Liu, Kennesaw State University

Yuri N. Maltsev, A.W. Clausen Center for World Business, Carthage College

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An open letter to Congress from over 100 economists: Pass tax reform and watch the economy roar

Carlos Barria/Reuters

Dear Senators and Representatives:

"Ask five economists," as the Edgar Fiedler adage goes, "and you'll get five different answers."

Yet, when it comes to the tax reform package aimed at fixing our broken system, the undersigned have but one shared perspective: Economic growth will accelerate if the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passes, leading to more jobs, higher wages, and a better standard of living for the American people. If, however, the bill fails, the United States risks continued economic underperformance.

In today’s globalized economy, capital is mobile in its pursuit of lower tax jurisdictions. Yet, in that worldwide race for job-creating investment, America is not economically competitive. Here’s why: Left virtually untouched for the last 31 years, our chart-topping corporate tax rate is the highest in the industrialized world and a full fifteen percentage points above the OECD average. As a result of forfeiting our competitive edge, we forfeited 4,700 companies from 2004 to 2016 to cheaper shores abroad. As a result of sitting idly by while the rest of the world took steps to lower their corporate rates, we lowered our own workers' wages by thousands of dollars a year.

Our colleagues from across the ideological spectrum — regardless of whether they ultimately support or oppose the current plan — recognize the record-setting rate at which the United States taxes job-creating businesses is, either significantly or entirely, a burden borne by the workers they employ. The question isn’t whether American workers are hurt by our country’s corporate tax rate — it’s how badly. As such, the question isn’t whether workers will be helped by a corporate tax rate reduction — it’s how much.

The enactment of a comprehensive overhaul — complete with a lower corporate tax rate — will ignite our economy with levels of growth not seen in generations. A twenty percent statutory rate on a permanent basis would, per the Council of Economic Advisers, help produce a GDP boost "by between 3 and 5 percent." As the debate delves into deficit implications, it is critical to consider that $1 trillion in new revenue for the federal government can be generated by four-tenths of a percentage in GDP growth.

Sophisticated economic models show the macroeconomic feedback generated by the TCJA will exceed that amount — more than enough to compensate for the static revenue loss. We firmly believe that a competitive corporate rate is the key to an economic engine driven by greater investment, capital stock, business formation, and productivity — all of which will yield more jobs and higher wages. Your vote throughout the weeks ahead will therefore put more money in the pockets of more workers.

Supporting the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will ensure that those workers — those beneficiaries — are American.

Sincerely,

  James C. Miller III

Former OMB Director, 1985-88

  Douglas Holtz-Eakin

American Action Forum

  Alexander Katkov

Johnson & Wales University

  Ali M. Reza

San Jose State U (Emeritus)

  Ann E. Sherman

DePaul University

  Anthony B. Sanders

George Mason University

  Anthony Negbenebor

Gardner-Webb University

  Arthur Havenner

University of California, Davis

  Austin J. Jaffe

Penn State University

  Barry W. Poulson

University of Colorado

  Boyd D, Collier

Tarleton State University, Texas A&M University System (Emeritus)

  Brian Stuart Wesbury

Joint Economic Committee

  Carlisle E. Moody

College of William and Mary

  Charles W. Calomiris

Columbia University

  Christine P. Ries

Georgia Institute of Technology

  Christopher C. Barnekov

FCC (Retired)

  Christopher Lingle Universidad Francisco Marroquin

  Clifford F. Thies

Shenandoah University

  Daniel Fernandez Universidad Francisco Marroquin

  Daniel Houser

George Mason University

  David H. Resler

Chief US Economist, Nomura (Retired)

  David Ranson

HCWE & Co.

  Dennis E. Logue Steven Roth Professor, (Emeritus) Tuck School, Dartmouth Colleges

  Derek Tittle

Georgia Institute of Technology

  DeVon L. Yoho

Economist Ball State University (Retired)

  Donald J. Oswald California State University, Bakersfield (Retired)

  Donald Koch

Koch Investments

  Donald L. Alexander

Western Michigan University

  Donald Luskin

TrendMacro

  Douglas C Frechtling

George Washington University

  Douglas Kahl

The University of Akron

  Douglas O. Cook

The University of Alabama

  Kingdon Hurlock Jr.

Calvert Investment Counsel

  Edward M. Scahill

University of Scranton

  Eleanor Craig

University of Delaware

  Owen Irvine Michigan State University (Emeritus)

  Farhad Rassekh

University of Hartford

  Francis Ahking

University of Connecticut

  Frank Falero

California State University (Emeritus)

  Gary R. Skoog

Legal Econometrics, Inc.

  Gary Wolfram

Hillsdale College

  Gene Simpson

NPTC, Auburn University

  George Langelett

South Dakota State University

  Gerald P. Dwyer

Clemson University

  Gil Sylvia

University of Georgia

  H Daniel Foster

HDFCO

  Hugo J. Faria

University of Miami

  Inayat Mangla

Western Michigan University

  J. Edward Graham

UNC Wilmington

  Jagdish Bhagwati

Columbia University

  James B Kau

University of Georgia

  James C.W. Ahiakpor California State University, East Bay

  James D. Adams

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  James D. Miller

Smith College

  James F. Smith

EconForecaster, LLC

  James Keeler

Kenyon College

  James M. Mulcahy SUNY - Buffalo economics department

  James Moncur

University of Hawaii at Manoa

  Jeffrey Dorfman

University of Georgia

  Jerold Zimmerman

University of Rochester

  Jody Lipford

Presbyterian College

  John A. Baden

Chm., Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE)

  John C. Moorhouse Wake Forest University (Emeritus)

  John D. Johnson

Utah State University

  John H McDermott

University of South Carolina

  John McArthur

Wofford College

  John P. Eleazarian

American Economic Association

  John Ruggiero

University of Dayton

  John Semmens

Laissez Faire Institute

  Joseph A. Giacalone

St. John's University, NY

  Joseph Haslag University of Missouri- Columbia

  Joseph S. DeSalvo University of South Florida - Tampa

  Joseph Zoric Franciscan University of Steubenville

  Kathleen B. Cooper

SMU’s John Tower Center for Politico Science

  Kenneth V. Greene Binghamton University (Emeritus)

  Lawrence Benveniste Goizueta Business School, Emory University

  Lawrence R. Cima

John Carroll University

  Leon Wegge

University of California, Davis

  Lloyd Cohen

Scalia Law School

  Lucjan Orlowski

Sacred Heart University

  Lydia Ortega

San Jose State University

  M. Northrup Buechner

St. John's University, New York

  Maurice MacDonald

Kansas State University

  Michael A. Morrisey

Texas A&M University

  Michael Connolly

University of Miami

  Michael D Brendler Louisiana State University Shreveport.

  Michael L. Marlow

Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

  Moheb A. Ghali

Western Washington University

  Nancy Roberts

Arizona State University

  Nasser Duella

California State University, Fullerton

  Nicolas Sanchez

College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA (Emeritus,)

  Norman Lefton

Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville

  Paul H Rubin

Emory University

  Pavel Yakovlev

Duquesne University

  Pedro Piffaut

Columbia University

  Peter E. Kretzmer

Bank of America

  Peter S. Yun

UVAWISE (Emeritus)

  Phillip J. Bryson Brigham Young University (Emeritus)

  R. Ashley Lyman

University of Idaho

  R. L. Promboin

University of Maryland University College (former)

  Richard J. Cebula

Jacksonville University

  Richard Kilmer

University of Florida

  Richard Timberlake

Prof. of Econ., Univ. of Ga. (Retired)

  Richard Vedder

Ohio University

  Robert B Helms

American Enterprise Institute (Retired)

  Robert F Stauffer

Roanoke College , (Emeritus)

  Robert H. Topel

University of Chicago Booth School of Business

  Robert Heller

Former Governor, Federal Reserve Board

  Robert Sauer

Royal Holloway University

  Robert Tamura

Clemson University

  Roger Meiners

University of Texas-Arlington

  Sanjai Bhagat

University of Colorado Boulder

  Scott Hein

Texas Tech University

  Seth Bied

New York State Tax Department

  Stan Liebowitz

University of Texas

  Stephen Happel

Arizona State University

  T. Craig Tapley

University of Florida

  Thomas H. Mayor

University of Houston

  Thomas J Kniesner

Claremont Graduate University

  Thomas M. Stoker

MIT (retired)

  Thomas Saving

Texas A&M University

  Timothy Mathews

Kennesaw State University

  Tomi Ovaska

Youngstown State University

  Tony Lima

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Whouffaldi parents prompt: Daddy 12 takes his turn watching the kids and he plays dress up and has a tea party. Mommy Clara comes home to see Daddy 12 dressed up like a fairy Princess and singing Disney songs.

YESSSSSS

1520 words; takes place in the Getting the Hang of Things ‘verse; since this particular storyline has Twelve as a stay-at-TARDIS dad for the first eleven years of the kids’ lives, this isn’t necessarily his “turn”, but more “business as usual” and although some of the stereotypical “mom comes home to find the house reigned by chaos” is at play in this, it’s definitely more of just that anything Time Lords do involves chaos and little else

-_-_-_-_-_-_-

It was the third week since Clara had begun going back to work.

The first week was easy and felt like one of her holidays, where she’d go back to Earth and see a few people and prove she was still alive and not dead in some countryside ditch. Surviving the second was a bit rougher, as she had only returned for the weekend, and it was rare that she’d done that. They’d all been a bit clingy that Monday morning, but they knew that they had to let her go.

When they reached the third week, however, it felt as though it was never going to end. The Doctor was sitting on the steps in the console room, tuning his guitar as the twins colored quietly, hoping quietly for the sweet release of Clara’s presence to arrive sooner than he thought. It was only Thursday, which meant that there was still a whole, entire, excruciating day left before Clara once again walked through the TARDIS doors.

“Daddy… where’s Mummy…?” whined a voice. The Doctor had less than a second before his daughter draped herself over his shoulder, impeding his ability to tune the guitar. “Why has she been gone for so long?”

“She’s at work,” he explained. Another weight dropped on his other shoulder and he knew that James had joined them. “Mam isn’t the kind of person to stay at home all the time. She needs to be able to talk to other people and see other things or else she’s liable to go absolutely mental.”

“You aren’t the kind of person to stay home all the time either, ‘cause you’re already mental,” James pouted.

“...and how would you know that?”

“Mummy said so,” the boy stated.

Of course… somehow, he couldn’t be cross at that admission.

“She needs to be here,” Alison groaned.

“Yeah,” her brother added. “We want to have a tea party, and Mummy makes the best tea.”

“Is this to say that I don’t make a decent cuppa?” the Doctor asked.

“It means we want Mummy to do it,” Alison insisted. “We want to have a tea party with Mummy.”

“Well, Mam’s at work, so Dad’s going to have to do,” the Doctor said. He stood up, allowing the preschoolers to cling to his shoulders as he placed his guitar back on its stand and started to head towards the kitchen. The kids slid off his back and dropped to the corridor floor, bouncing along as they followed their father through the inner workings of the TARDIS.

“You mean, you’re gonna have a tea party with us?!” Alison gasped.

“Of course! I thought you liked tea parties with Dad.”

“I don’t remember having a tea party with just you, only you and Mummy,” James noted.

“Well, go set up now!” the Doctor insisted, shooing the children down the corridor. “I want the table to be ready when I get there!”

The pair of three-year-olds rushed down the corridor to the nursery, arms extended like airplanes as they sputtered towards playtime. Their father shook his head and chuckled, stepping into the kitchen to make the aforementioned tea. He got together a whole pot of decaffinated Earl Grey tea, along with a plate of Jammie Dodgers, a plate of windmill spice biscuits, and three stroopwafels. Once everything was on the tray, he carried it out of the kitchen and down to the nursery, where James and Alison were finishing setting up the low-sitting play table with their toy tea service. Both of them lit up in excitement when they saw their father, jumping up and down as he placed the tray down.

“Alright,” he said, sitting down on a cushion. “What’s the plan?”

“Daddy, you can’t sit down,” Alison insisted. “You need to be propertly dressed first.” He glanced down at his t-shirts, jumper, and hooded sweatshirt combo and raised his eyebrow. “I can’t believe that you want to have a tea party and aren’t going to be propertly dressed.”

“Aren’t you a little young to be worrying about being properly dressed?” he fired back.

“It’s the rules!” his daughter insisted, smacking her tiny fists on the table. “Daddy, you’re embarasstming. If you don’t follow the rules, then tea will be ruined”

The Doctor swallowed hard as he realized that there was no escape—he was going to have to comply with The Rules. Not made by him. For once. Rassilion curse him.

-_-_-_-_-_-_-

It had been a long four days in when Clara finally returned to her flat that Thursday evening. Setting down her keys in their dish and kicking off her shoes, she felt more tired than she had in a long time. Getting back to work properly again was really straining her, which she had a feeling was going to happen, just not to the degree to which it was knocking her directly onto her arse. It was worth it, though, as she was getting reacquainted with her chosen profession and catching up with not only a bunch of her former coworkers, but seeing the progress that some of her students had made since before she went on her “sabbatical”. She shuffled into her slippers and picked up a small device from next to the dish her keys sat in, pressing the button. It whirred softly, glowing a gentle green, and she put it back, carrying her marking further inside the flat as she went towards her bedroom.

There, in the corner, the TARDIS was materializing. She was hoping that she would catch her family by surprise, that her children would squeal in delight, while their father would start planning for later on that night when they were alone again. Entering the ship, she noticed that the console room was decidedly empty—the only evidence that anyone had been there recently was some abandoned coloring books and errant guitar picks.

“Doctor? Kids? Guess what? There’s a fault with the toilets at work—we’re going to be closed for a week…” She began to investigate into the whereabouts of her family, cautiously going through the corridor. They weren’t preparing dinner, nor were they in the library, or the study…

Ah, she found them! They were in the nursery, huddled around the short play table in the middle of a presumed tea party. Clara couldn’t help but laugh as she saw the Doctor sitting there, translucent costume wings strapped to his back, while he wore on his top half one of his frilly shirts from his dandy days and the patchwork-colored jacket from another time she knew he’s rather forget. All three were alerted to her presence at the sound of her laughter, the children elated whilst the Doctor was mortified.

“Mummy!” Alison and James exclaimed as they scrambled to their feet and began to run towards her. Their own play-costume wings flapped as they bounced across the nursery, not caring about the state of anything anymore, all because Mummy was home. They both crashed into her legs as they clung to her, not wanting to let go now that they had her again.

“So here is where you are,” she smirked. “I was wondering what was keeping you.”

“Aren’t you back from work early?” James wondered.

“I am, but that’s because there is an issue with the building I work in,” Clara explained. “The issue is so bad that I can’t go back for a week.”

“Did someone get hurt?” Alison squeaked.

“No, no—just some toilets began to explode and they’re going to need to completely redo the plumbing,” Clara said. She popped up on her toes as the Doctor came over and bent down, pecking her on the lips. “Admit it: I’ve seen you in worse states.”

“Yeah, you have,” he agreed, face tingeing pink. “How about if Mam finishes up the tea party, while Dad starts to put together dinner?”

“Coward.”

“Yeah.” He patted the twins on the head and gave Clara another kiss before walking towards the door. “I’ll let you know when dinner’s ready.”

“Nuh-uh—you won’t get off that easy,” Clara insisted. She pulled the Doctor back towards the table and had him sit down, the grin on her face absolutely insufferable. “Sit, sit… tell me about your week.”

“Mummy, you need to be dressed propertly too!” Alison gasped. She somehow pulled a fourth set of wings from the closet and handed them to Clara, who put them on as one would a backpack.

“Now all the Royal Faeries are here,” James stated. The boy placed a couple biscuits on a plate and put it in front of his mother. “Her Lady the Faerie Queen has joined her family for tea!”

“Does that mean then that you are the Faerie Prince and Princess?” Clara asked. The children nodded excitedly, and she turned towards the Doctor. “That must make you His Regal Highness, the Faerie King.”

“What else would I be?” he shrugged, sipping on his own cuppa in an effort to seem nonchalant. “It was part of the rules, right kids?”

“That’s right!” Alison said. “Rules are rules!”

At least there were worse rules to have to follow.

[nehswritesstuffs]

12 and Clara’s kids are in their awkward teenage years and much to their horror 12 and Clara embarrass them (as parents do) by volunteering to chaperone their school dance! Yes, and you better believe Daddy 12 brought along his electric guitar! Also 12 and Clara get into things and slow dance together.

Considering that in the Getting the Hang of Things ‘verse, the kids attend Coal Hill? I think I have something just for the occasion.

1381 words; I don’t know how school dances work in the UK so please forgive me if something’s egregiously off; pour one out for all the tweens and teens who never wanted to attend a school dance, but were forced to by their parents/adults due to a shoddy understanding of what “being social” is and changing norms that the parents themselves created (though in Clara’s case it’s more of missing the mark by just a hair than anything)

-_-_-_-_-_-_-

“So… you going to the Hill Hop?”

James and Alison looked up from their lunch to see one of their classmates standing there, arms folded across her chest. It was a bit chaotic in the cafeteria that day, meaning that there was plenty going on to not only drown their classmate out, but make it so that the siblings were tempted to go find their mother and eat lunch with her instead.

“What’s that…?” James asked. The classmate rolled her eyes.

“The Hill Hop… the school dance… you know, the one that’s finally open to us now that we’re Year 9 but not the one for school-leavers… are you going?”

“We… uh… hadn’t thought about it,” Alison claimed. “It’s not required.”

“Yeah, but most people are going to be there,” the classmate said.

“Why is it still called ‘the Hill Hop’ anyhow?” James noted. “That’s something more for our great-grandparents, isn’t it?“

“Just: are you going?”

“Got to make sure to clear it with Mum and Dad,” Alison claimed. “It should be fine, though.”

“Your mum’s one of the teacher sponsors—I should hope so.” At that, the classmate left, which allowed the siblings to lean in and talk quietly to one another.

“Shit—what has Mum gotten us roped into?” James scowled.

“I don’t know,” his sister shrugged, “but it might be fun.”

“Might be? Are you sure?”

Her expression didn’t exactly do much to convince him.

-_-_-_-_-_-_-

Later on that evening, as the Oswald-Smith Family was cleaning up after dinner, the topic was broached again.

“James, Alison, have you given much thought as to what you’re going to wear to the Hill Hop?”

One twin froze with the compostables bag in his hand, the other with a stack of dishes in hers. The kitchen came to a bit of a standstill as the teens tried to calculate the risks.

“I, uh, wasn’t even sure I wanted to go,” James shrugged.

“It’s just a dance—there’s others,” Alison scoffed.

“Now how is it going to look if I’m there but you two are not?” Clara noted. “You’re coming along.”

“...but Mom!” the teens whined in unison. Their mother did not budge.

“It’s not a formal dance, so you don’t have to get particularly dressy,” she reasoned.

“Didn’t Dad need help with the TARDIS?” Alison mentioned.

“Yeah! That’s right!” James chimed in, relieved. “She needs a tune-up after sitting still for so long!”

“Don’t think you’re getting out of this easy as that,” Clara frowned. “Your father’s coming along to help out as well.”

“...I am…?” the Doctor blinked. His wife glared at him.

“You agreed last month.”

“When? What was I doing?”

“We were… turning in for the night…” she replied. He considered her words and cringed slightly: ah. That.

“You really should stop getting me to agree to things after we’ve turned in for the night.” He tried to then turn his attention towards their children, though refused to make eye contact as his skin was turning pink with blush. “Mam’s right—we’re all going.”

“You’ve betrayed us,” Alison declared dramatically. She began to load the dishes in the dishwasher, while James stood there awkwardly with the compostables bag still in his hand.

“So… nothing we can do to change your mind?”

“It’s not my mind to change, son,” the Doctor said. Clara folded her arms across her chest and gave their son a stern stare, which made him retreat towards the front door in order to toss the bag down the correct chute in the corridor.

‘Oh my God,’ James thought as he slipped on his shoes. ‘We are going to die.’

-_-_-_-_-_-_-

Alison and James Oswald-Smith looked about the crowded gymnasium and both wanted to shrink down into nothingness from the spot against the wall. Although their mum was correct in that it wasn’t a very formal dance, there was still the fact that they were in the middle of a scrum of hormones and body spray, glitter and unflattering cosmetics, of popular music’s relationship with teenagedom at its wildest, made no less mortifying by the fact that both their parents were there.

“Poppy, Angela, don’t make me come over there and separate you two; that’s not appropriate,” Clara scowled at a pair of teens grinding against one another to the music. While not a prude in any way (and, frankly, she had not been guiltless herself when she had been their age), it was certainly exhausting trying to keep up with the her job part of why she was there—the further she could keep students from committing sexual acts on the dance floor, the better off everyone was going to be. Once the offenders each took a reluctant step backwards, the teacher looked at her children and motioned with her head towards the dance floor. “You know there’s fun to be had out there, yeah?”

“I guess,” Alison mumbled.

“You love dancing.”

“Yeah…”

“...and going to dances…”

“...where I don’t know people...”

“Yeah, and people don’t know you…” James added, gesturing to his mother.

“I am not going to have this moping,” Clara stated. “Now get out there.”

“Dad’s not out there,” Alison argued.

“Yeah,” James realized. “He’s probably hiding in the caretaker’s office.”

Just then, as though on-cue, the kids heard an extremely familiar five note riff. The family glanced over to see that the Doctor was there, wearing his portable amp and strumming the opening riffs to Pretty Woman on his guitar. He approached Clara—sonic shades in the dark room and all—with a grin plastered across his face.

“Would the lady care for a dance?” he asked.

“What I would like is for our children to actually get out there and have some fun, as well as for their classmates to stop trying to have sex on the surface where they also play basketball.”

“Youngsters are going to do what they’re going to do,” he shrugged. The Doctor shifted his guitar so that it rested on his back and held out his hand. “Maybe they need to learn a bit by example?”

“Sounds like a plan.” She placed her hand in his and allowed him to guide her to the dance floor. There, despite the fast tempo of the song and the fact there were dozens of teens surrounding them, they began to dance slowly in one another’s arms, lovingly gazing at each other.

“This is on-purpose, isn’t it?” James asked, visibly cringing. Alison was busy going absolutely scarlet from embarrassment.

“It has to be,” she replied. The other denizens of Coal Hill who were by their parents all gradually stopped and stared at Mr. and Mrs. Oswald-Smith. “Maybe, if we make a break for it, we can get home before Mum and Dad do and we can run off in the TARDIS.”

“That’s stealing.”

“That’s how Dad has the TARDIS to begin with.”

“...with our niece; thanks for the reminder.” She made eye contact with a classmate who was out on the dance floor, who pointed at the Doctor and Clara with a quizzical look on his face. Alison shrugged with a grimace—she didn’t know what they were doing out there either. “We’re never going to be allowed to show our faces in respectable circles ever again.”

“That’s only if we’re lucky,” James reminded her. He watched their parents kiss chastely, which caused a ripple-effect of grossed-out-ness between him, his sister, and their peers. “Yeah, we’re never going to recover from this, are we?”

“Being the children of a teacher sucks,” she stated. Both her and her brother then blanched as the DJ changed songs, the woman clearly having heard their father’s entry music. The Time Lord grinned manically and began to play along to the song, showing off his guitar skills to the hall of slightly-impressed teens.

Pretty woman, walking down the street…

Pretty woman, the kind I like to meet…

Pretty woman…

Alison and James Oswald-Smith wanted to die, right then and there, as their father played the guitar, their mother pretended to not be mutually besotted with her husband, and their classmates laughed. Heartily. There was no other way to describe it.

Maybe, just maybe, it wasn’t too late to steal the junker space-time ship their father and niece already ran off with in times past.