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sparkliest-bard-bracket · 4 months ago

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Congratulations to ✨FREDDIE MERCURY✨ for being crowned the ✨SPARKLIEST BARD✨ in all the land!!!!

🎶HE. IS. THE CHAMPION. 🎶

Over the course of this bracket, he has faced off against many worthy bards, including an inter-dimensional storyteller, multiple irl musical artists, an immortal musically talented war criminal, and a muppet, and he proved himself to be the most sparkliest of them all.

Excellent singing, excellent piano playing, excellent songwriting, excellent fashion sense, and overall ~glamour~, Freddie Mercury has it all. Here are some of my favorite of Freddie's bardly moments, and feel free to reblog and add your own to celebrate our Bardly Champion!:

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And to honor Freddie Mercury's wonderful legacy, I present my favorite Bohemian Rhapsody video ever -- he didn't even need to be alive to have a concert!:

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And while we celebrate and throw a Queen-themed party for our Champion of Bards, do not forget to give a round of applause to all of the incredible bards who participated in this bardly showdown!! You can find all of their names and fandoms, along with the full completed bracket under the cut :D

That's all from me for now, folks!! I may make a poll for 3rd place if people are interested, and if people are very enthusiastic, I might make a round 2: fictional characters only! Lemme know if you'd be interested in either of those things, and thank you oh so much for your support through this whole bracket, and have a wonderful day all you fantastic bards and bard fans!!!

Complete Bracket in image format:

And the names and fandoms of all of our bards from the whole bracket!:

Jareth the Goblin King (Labyrinth)

David Bowie (Real Life)

Thom Merrilin (Wheel of Time)

Gurney Halleck (Dune)

The Bard/Kiwi (Wandersong)

Daeron (The Silmarillion)

Callie Cuttlefish (Splatoon)

Finrod (The Silmarillion)

Apollo/Lester Papadopoulos (The Trials of Apollo)

Apollo (Greek Mythology)

Bill Cypher (Gravity Falls)

Chong (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Max Rebo (Star Wars)

Edgin Darvis (Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves)

Dimentio (Super Paper Mario)

Will Scarlet (Robin Hood)

Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem (The Muppets)

Link (The Legend of Zelda)

Katalina (Tabletop Time)

Starling Birdsong (Realm of the Elderlings)

Orpheus (Greek Mythology)

“Weird Al” Yankovic (Real Life)

Dave BruBot/The Major Player (Toontown: Corporate Clash)

Carrie Wilson (Julie and the Phantoms)

Kvothe (The Kingkiller Chronicle)

Elan (Order of the Stick)

Raz'ul, Son of Daz'ul (BomBARDed)

Edward Chris von Muir (Final Fantasy IV)

Binary Bard (Poptropica)

Christian (Moulin Rouge)

The Bard (Shovel Knight)

Fflewddur Fflam (The Chronicles of Prydain)

Man with the Harmonica (Once Upon a Time in the West)

Kyoami/The Fool (Ran/King Lear)

Diedrich Knickerbocker (Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story)

Hannah Montana (Hannah Montana)

Bard the Bowman (The Hobbit)

Leliana (Dragon Age)

Sprig Plantar (Amphibia)

Lucifer Morningstar (Lucifer)

Neil Banging Out the Tunes (Tumblr)

The Muses (Disney Hercules)

Robinton (Pern)

Thistle/Sissel (Delicious in Dungeon)

Loquatius Seelie (Critical Role)

Cicero (Skyrim)

Michael Jackson (Real Life)

Oli/TheOrionSound (Empires SMP)

Megamind (Megamind)

The Onceler (The Lorax)

Mettaton (Undertale)

Gamzee Makara (Homestuck)

William Shakespeare (Real Life)

William Shakespeare (Something Rotten)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Classicaloid)

William Shamspeare (Ace Attorney)

Marceline the Vampire Queen (Adventure Time)

Brook (One Piece)

Gerard Way (Real Life)

Sea Hawk (She-Ra and the Princess of Power)

Snufkin (Moomin)

Frank Sinatra (Real Life)

Lias "Cliff" Bluestone (Discworld)

Rick Astley (Real Life)

Alan-a-Dale (Robin Hood)

Essi Daven (The Witcher)

Lúthien Tinúviel (The Silmarillion)

Stefen (The Heralds of Valdemar)

Roman Sanders (Sanders Sides)

Remus Sanders (Sanders Sides)

Bard (Crypt of the Necrodancer)

Kass (Legend of Zelda/Breath of the Wild)

Steven Universe (Steven Universe)

Glenn Close (Dungeons & Daddies)

Miss Piggy (The Muppets)

Nydas Okiro (Critical Role)

Charlie Pace (Lost)

Dob the Half-Orc Bard (Oxventure)

Kitagra (Kings of the Wyld)

Kaylie Shorthalt (Critical Role)

Father Gabriel (The Mission)

Gabrielle the Battling Bard (Xena: The Warrior Princess)

Haer'Dalis (Baldur's Gate)

Tsukasa Tenma (Project Sekai: Colorful Stage!)

Tom Bombadil (The Lord of the Rings)

Sylvando (Dragon Quest 11)

Steve McKenzie/Jester (Galavant)

Gieve (The Heroic Legend of Arslan)

Jaskier/Dandelion (The Witcher)

Kubo (Kubo and the Two Strings)

Guiliastes/Gui (1/2 Prince)

Rocky (Lackadaisy)

Asmodean (Wheel of Time)

Neil Cicierega/Lemon Demon (Real Life)

Kermit the Bard (Tales of Tinkerdee)

The Pied Piper (The Pied Piper of Hamelin)

Venti (Genshin Impact)

Sir Robin's Minstrels (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)

Oscar Wilde (Rusty Quill Gaming)

Franz Liszt (Classicaloid)

Eddie Munson (Stranger Things)

Puss in Boots (Shrek)

Freddie Mercury (Real Life)

Hoid/Wit (Cosmere)

Noise (Roleslaying with Roman)

The Amazing Devil (Real Life)

Klavier Gavin (Ace Attorney)

Rickety Stitch (Rickety Stitch and the Gelatinous Goo)

Ron Stampler (Dungeons & Daddies)

Thancred Waters (Final Fantasy XIV)

Raine Whispers (The Owl House)

Jack Black (Real Life)

Scanlan Shorthalt (Critical Role)

Éile (The Witcher: Blood Origin)

Hap Gladheart (Realm of the Elderlings)

Alastair Nobledrifter (Saving Throw - DnD Podcast)

Maglor (The Silmarillion)

Bill & Ted (Bill & Ted)

DJ Cadence (Club Penguin)

Imp Y Celyn (Discworld)

Bard Otter (The Last Dragonlord)

Yara of Nowhere, the Wandering Bard (A Practical Guide to Evil)

Dorian Storm (Critical Role)

Maria von Trapp (The Sound of Music)

Demyx (Kingdom Hearts)

Hisirdoux "Douxie" Casperan (Tales of Arcadia: Wizards)

Bilbo Baggins (The Hobbit)

BMO (Adventure Time)

#sparkliest bard bracket #announcements #not a poll #freddie mercury #tumblr tournaments #queen #queen band #tumblr bracket #tumblr bracket winner #winner #tysm for all of your support guys!!!#i love y'all so much <3<3<3 #bard fans forever!!!

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himboskywalker · 10 months ago

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Thank you so much for these many recommendations, i will definitely read some of them. I finally ordered lord of the rings, always wanted to do it but I finally did it.

I would love a separate rec list of less new books and overall classics. If you have the time of course. I always have a hard time finding new books for myself or to gift to other people.

Sure! And I'm ecstatic to hear you bought lotr! Another one to be welcomed into my fold! This list is decidedly less organized, but here's a list of more classic/ older works I always recommend or gift to people.

Anything written by our beloved Neil Gaiman. He's most well known, especially in this sphere, for "Good Omens" cowritten by Terry Pratchett, and rightfully so. If you've never read anything by either author, it is absolutely worth the hype, and even if you've watched the tv show, it is so incredibly funny and wonderful. "American Gods" is also phenomenal and very well known from its tv show now, but my personal favorite of Gaiman's is "Anansi Boys." No one does urban fantasy like him, and his works will always be the gold standard for me for this genre.

The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. There's 41 books in the series so it's a mighty undertaking, I myself haven't gotten through all of them yet, I think I have about ten books left. They are so wonderfully funny and philosophical and witty. I don't recommend reading the books in the order Pratchett wrote them, rather there are collections in the series you'll want to read in order. The Death collection and City Watch books are my favorites but there are many more than that you may like better.

"The Princess Bride" by William Goldman. This is one of my favorite books of all time and while the movie certainly gets the vibe, it's a whole different animal. It's just so incredibly funny and fun and smartly written, and I've given it to many family and friends for Christmas and birthday presents.

"The Lies of Locke Lamora" by Scott Lynch. This is commonly regarded as a fantasy genre must and I often vehemently disagree with what's considered a "classic" but I have to side with the powers that be in the lit community on this one. It's just damn well written and character driven in the exact kind of way I love in stories. If you start reading it and think "oh look morally gray thief characters doing a heist" just remember, Lynch published it in '06 and pretty much wrote the template for everyone who has copied him since.

Anything by Ursula Le Guin although I read the "Earthsea" series first and would recommend starting there as well. She just really is that bitch, it doesn't get better written or more observant of life than her. Outside of Tolkien I don't know if there's anyone I admire more as an author than Le Guin. Her prose are not only stunningly gorgeous, but line after line after line hits like a sucker punch to the side of the head for how she makes you see life and yourself in new ways. “Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.”

The Redwall series by Brian Jacques! I love them so dearly, they're fun and beautifully written and full of adventuring that only forest animals with swords are capable of. I do recommend reading them in order, or at least the original "Redwall" before you dive into the rest of the series, but "Taggerung" is my favorite.

This is a more divisive rec nowadays but Kurt Vonnegut. If you read "Slaughterhouse Five" in school and hated it I don't blame you, it's not my favorite of his and not what I urge people to look to if they want to fall in love with him like I did when I was a teenager. My favorite Vonnegut is "Sirens of Titan" and "Breakfast of Champions." Do look at content warnings for "Sirens of Titan" and I've seen a lot of vitriolic reviews of the book in recent years by younger readers, but I absolutely think it's worth the read and the shining glorious example of what I mean when I say protagonists aren't meant to be liked or morally right.

And speaking of squicky divisive recs! May I tell you about our lord and savior of "oh god I don't know if I can get through this" Margaret Atwood? Most people know her for "Handmaid's Tale" but I first read "Oryx and Crake." Seriously, read the content warnings, but Atwood is known for writing the best of speculative sci-fi for a reason.

Anything by Octavia Butler. My intro to her was through "Bloodchild" which I highly recommend, and I think is the perfect introduction to her brand of unnerving brilliance. She is most well known for "Kindred" and rightfully so.

"Perfume" The Story of a Murderer" by Patrick Suskind. It's weird, by god it's weird, and it's one of my absolute favorite "classic lit" novels. In 18th century France a weird little freak of a guy with a super sense of smell winds up murdering a bunch of people to make perfume. It's fantastic and the quintessential, I will not morally justify this, but boy am I enjoying reading about this little creep.

"Trainspotting" by Irvine Welsh. I also love "Filth" and "Porno" by him. I think Welsh is brilliant at characterization, especially when most of his characters are morally bankrupt and terrible. But what he does best is make you feel for these characters who have often put themselves in these terrible positions. They're just people, and life is shitty, and I don't think anyone writes that better than Welsh.

"The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien. O'Brien made a career of writing fictionalized recounts of his time in Vietnam. I love everything he's written, he is one of my favorite modern lit authors, but "The Things They Carried" is his best known work and what I first read of his. It's brilliant and beautiful and sad, and it was the first time I ever had to put a book down and read in chunks because it affected me so emotionally.

Cormac McCarthy, any and everything he has ever written. He's best known for "The Road" of course, and it's certainly worth the read but "Blood Meridian" is my absolute favorite of his. His stuff is brutal and wry and full of the dry irony that only the bleakness of reality offers, and by god is it well written.

And finally I'll leave you with a single nonfiction recommendation. I try to keep those minimal when I know that's not usually what people are looking for when they ask for reading recs. But since I'm giving a list of books I have often gifted, I can't NOT include this one. "Man's Search for Meaning" by Victor Frankl. I read this at 18 and it had a profound impact on how I think and view life. Any time someone I love has gone through a difficult time I've bought them their own copy.“For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.”

#reading list #book recs #reading recommendations #anons

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catwrites9 · 2 years ago

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elvhenprince · 7 months ago

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I guess i should move my writing to this blog-

William Hawke, SFW, Word count: 235

Hawke isn't pleased that Varric calls someone else "Chuckles"

William, as ever, was over-enthusiastic in his greeting, bending down his entire over six feet tall body to Varric’s level simply to hug and give unreasonably loud kisses on each cheek. “I’ve so missed you, Varric.”

Minding the Seeker's stunned look from afar, Varric patted the Champion of Kirkwall on the back, coaxing him to stand up and get ready to meet the Inquisitor.

“Now, now, Giggles, we can save the catch-up for later, the Inquisitor -”

“‘Giggles’?” William asked, pulling back from the embrace with a raised brow. “Whatever happened to ‘Chuckles’?”

“I uh,” Varric glanced in the direction of the rotunda where Solas tended to be, “sorta used that nickname for someone else.”

“Someone- Varric. I thought I was special. I thought we had something special,” William stood, dramatically placing his head in his hand and miming weeping.

“Now, now, Hawke-”

“Hawke? Hawke? Who am I to you? Did we ever mean anything to you??”

This, normally, Varric would find funny, if not for the incredibly deadly glare sent his way by one Cassandra Pentaghast, and now one bald elf coming out to witness the drama. The damned elf had the audacity to smirk in amusement at Varric's current predicament.

“I can't believe you'd call another man Chuckles,” William let out an incredibly theatrical sob, wiping away nonexistent tears.

“Look, I'll make it up to you, honey,” Varric muttered. “But first, the Inquisitor's waiting.”

#william hawke #scribbles

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thedragonagelesbian · 1 year ago

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Cyrus Hawke Playlist ~ Top 5 + 3 Ship Songs

I started drafting this post in fucking July, but now I'm awake at 7am with a sore throat and need the serotonin boost SO here we go!!

Also I made most of this playlist with DA2!Cyrus in mind, but many of its core themes hold across the (/counts on my fingers real quick/) five(?) distinct iterations of this character (why am i like this...).

1. It Keeps Us Dancing - The Family Crest

You know those blorbo songs that come with incredibly detailed line-by-line, shot-by-shot AMVs? I could describe in overwrought detail the images and moments that play in my mind when I listen to this, but I'll spare y'all that.

Big picture is that this is a song about not merely surviving but thriving through the bonds you form with others. I first encountered it in a Mighty Nein AMV, and unsurprisingly it maps beautifully onto another group of tragedy-stricken misfits. As much as it's a Cyrus song, then, it's also a Kirkwall Crew song. It's about the levity and respite he finds with them-- the strength to keep on moving, to keep dancing, despite everything the world subjects him to.

2. One Foot in Front of the Other - Emilie Autumn

A lot of Cyrus' song hit on survival, actually. The ability to endure--and the profound price of that resilience--are fundamental parts of his character and story. If for nothing else, this song gets a mention for the line if ive no one to fight, how do i know who i am? Who is Cyrus if not the Champion, if not his oath, his shield, his sword, if not the knight in shining armor come to save everyone but himself? What is he good for if not bleeding so someone else doesn't have to?

Also the last verse is a huge end of Act 3 mood: we've won the final round, but how to enjoy the win / when we've been broken down and we'll never know what could have been / heaven help us where do we begin? Allying with the mages at the end of DA2, as we all know, produces an immensely fucking hollow victory: you can't save anyone or anything, you only just barely save yourself and your family, and it's only at the mercy of Cullen fucking Rutherford.

And the line we'll never know what could have been hits particularly hard for Cyrus killing Anders-- or maybe it just hits hard for me because I do know what could've been between them. What is between them in a timeline where Cyrus doesn't make that choice, even if Anders still asks for it.

But in the canon timeline, where Cyrus is dragging all the dead weight of Kirkwall and Anders around his neck, how does he continue on after losing everything? By putting one foot in front of the other.

3. Simmer - Hayley Williams

What are you gonna do with that big bat? Gonna hit me? Better make it count. Better make it hurt. Better kill me in one shot

4. Into the West - Return of the King Soundtrack

Cyrus' victories are few and far between and fiercely fought and dearly paid for. Such is the nature of the tragedy he finds himself written into-- such is his propensity for self-sacrifice and inclinations toward martyrdom.

But somehow, miraculously, he makes it out of Kirkwall alive. And whatever that may have cost him, he's earned his sense of respite and safety. Peace, in whatever small measure he and his loved ones can manage.

5. Francesca

I cannot emphasize enough: this is it. This is the whole character. The intense, cosmologically defiant love, the endurance, the insistence that I would do it again. I'd go through it again. All the loss and suffering, all the ways his body has been harmed and changed, to love and to be loved in return matters more.

Even the verses are so delightfully appropriate for him-- my life was a storm since i was born / how could i fear any hurricane? My boy is sooooooo storm coded, all that strength and willingness to stand in the face of anything...

And then the second verse, losing parts of himself and his body to the trials life subjects him to, be it his asymptotic approach to Tranquility and Kirkwall's jaw clenched around his lifeblood or having his grief preyed on and stolen to forge him into a weapon of pure misery.............................. but if i could hold you for a minute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And, of course, some songs for some loves that heaven is not fit to house:

1. CyrusXVarric: Anything For You - Ludo

This is just such a universal VarricXHawke song. I mean, it's about a grandstanding storyteller whose highest, most singular devotion is to the person he loves! Come on!!

Then again, even my happier song picks aren't without their touch of angst-- the best story that Varric could ever tell (the one where am i growing old with you) isn't one he gets to experience. Not, at least, in the main timeline where Cyrus becomes Inquisitor and Varric sacrifices himself to save him in the final fight against Corypheus.

2. CyrusXAnders: Unknown/Nth - Hozier

I told myself I could only put one other Hozier song in this post, and while I was sorely tempted by some for Cyrus & Karlach, the honor really had to go to Unknown/Nth and the most disastrous ship of the fleet.

What is there to say other than that the bridge of this song permanently rewired my brain? 'the injury of finally knowing you' was the title of their WIP for a while-- the agony of learning and experiencing each other as intimately as they do only for everything to come crashing down around the very next day, as their own intractable issues and flaws begin to grind together again? Ugh......

And of course there's the weight of the goodness Anders still carries for Cyrus into Act 3. All the deceit, all the manipulation, all the hurt... it's because of that goodness, right? It's to protect him. It's all for love.

At least, that's what Anders tells himself.

3. CyrusXKarlach: Inkpot Gods - The Amazing Devil

and i can hear her sing / and i know she's giving up / and i don't know what to do, how to help her / how to bring her home

and i can hear him break / and he doesn't understand / and i wish that i could take his hand / but where i'm going is for me and me alone

#cyrus hawke #cyrus bg3 #cyrusXvarric #cyrusXanders #cyrusXkarlach

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kikiskeysgame · 1 year ago

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After a disappointing loss on Tuesday night, the Blackhawks bounced back tonight as they defeated the Vegas Golden Knights 4-3 in overtime.

In the first period, Vegas wasted no time getting themselves on the scoreboard first; goals by Pavel Dorofeyev and William Karlsson gave them a 2-0 lead.

However, Ryan Donato cut the Golden Knights' lead in half with his second goal of the season (assisted by Corey Perry and Wyatt Kaiser).

Connor Bedard tied up the game with his third goal of the season (which wasn't taken away; thank goodness) with assists by Nick Foligno and Alex Vlasic.

There were no goals from either team during the second period.

In the third period, Taylor Raddysh broke the tie, giving the Blackhawks a 3-2 lead; however, Shea Theodore tied up the game which sent it into overtime.

During the overtime period, William Karlsson got a penalty for tripping which sent the Blackhawks on the power play. Philipp Kurashev capitalized on the power play which gave the Blackhawks the win.

Takeaways from tonight's game: When the Vegas Golden Knights got themselves on the scoreboard early on in the game, my first thought was, "Oh, great. Looks like momentum is going to be on Vegas's side tonight"; however, the Blackhawks were able to gain some momentum for themselves tonight. I was very proud of how the Hawks were able to bounce back from a two-goal deficit and get two points tonight.

Connor Bedard was finally able to score his third of the season tonight. After Bedard's goal from Tuesday night's game was disallowed, I predicted that Bedard would find a way to get career goal #3 and I was right. Bedard also became the first and youngest player in NHL history to score in each of his first two games against the defending Stanley Cup champions.

I thought that the top line of Nick Foligno, Connor Bedard and Phillip Kurashev did quite well tonight. All three players had a point (Bedard & Kurashev scored goals and Foligno got an assist). According to the NBC Sports Chicago website, all three players generated 10 scoring chances when they were on the ice together at even strength. I hope that the top line continues to keep up the good work.

Alex Vlasic took a high hit from Golden Knights forward Brett Howden during the second period which left him a bit disoriented and he ended up missing the remainder of the game. I hope that everything will be okay with Vlasic.

Andreas Athanasiou ended up being a healthy scratch in tonight's game. After the shutout loss against Boston on Tuesday night, it appears as if Coach Luke Richardson is sending a message for his players. If the players don't want to end up sitting in the press box, then they need to make sure that they keep themselves productive & consistent throughout the entire game.

The Blackhawks' next game will take place on Monday night against the Arizona Coyotes.

Until then, go Blackhawks!

#chicago blackhawks #vegas golden knights #post game review

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byneddiedingo · 2 years ago

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James Cagney in The Crowd Roars (Howard Hawks, 1932)

Cast: James Cagney, Ann Dvorak, Joan Blondell, Eric Linden, Frank McHugh, Guy Kibbee. Screenplay: John Bright, Niven Busch, Kubec Glasmon, based on a story by Howard Hawks and Seton I. Miller. Cinematography: Sidney Hickox, John Stumar. Film editing: Thomas Pratt.

The "Hawksian woman," able to crack wise and exhibit grace under pressure as well as any man, is one of the glories of Hollywood movies. In Howard Hawks's movies, actresses as various as Katharine Hepburn, Jean Arthur, Rosalind Russell, Lauren Bacall, Joanne Dru, and Angie Dickinson held their own with domineering males like Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, and John Wayne. So when I saw that TCM had scheduled a Howard Hawks film I hadn't seen starring James Cagney and Joan Blondell, I thought if anyone could take down a peg the Cagney who became famous for abusing Mae Clarke with half a grapefruit in The Public Enemy (William A. Wellman, 1931) it would be Blondell, Warners' likable tough girl. (Blondell was in The Public Enemy, but she was linked up with Edward Woods instead of Cagney.) Well, here's another missed opportunity: Though Blondell gets top billing with Cagney, he's paired with Ann Dvorak; Blondell gets the forgettable (and forgotten) juvenile Eric Linden instead. And Dvorak's character is no Hawksian woman: Instead of toughing it out with a wisecrack when Cagney's character dumps her, she goes into hysterics. Instead of the witty battle of the sexes we have come to expect from Hawks, in The Crowd Roars we get a passable and sometimes exciting action movie about race car drivers, with a little romantic entanglement thrown in to bridge the well-shot and well-staged racing scenes. Cagney's Joe Greer is a champion race car driver -- he's won at Indianapolis three times -- who goes home to find that his kid brother, Eddie (Linden), wants to follow in his footsteps. So Joe takes Eddie back to L.A. with him, where he's been living without benefit of wedlock -- this is a pre-Code film -- with Lee Merrick (Dvorak). Initially he tries to hide his relationship with Lee to protect the younger man's morals -- to "keep him off of booze and women," as he puts it -- but truth will out. When he decides to break up with Lee, she enlists her friend Anne (Blondell) in a revenge plot: Anne will frustrate Joe's puritanical scheme by seducing Eddie. This doesn't work out: Anne and Eddie fall in love. Meanwhile, Joe and Eddie compete in a race in which Joe's sidekick Spud (Frank McHugh) is killed in a flaming crash -- there's a remarkable series of scenes in which drivers, including Joe, drop out of the race because they're nauseated by having to repeatedly pass the crash site with its smell of burning flesh. Eddie wins the race and goes on to become the star driver that Joe was, while Joe hits the bottle and the skids. Redemption and reconciliation of course ensue. None of this is new and all of it is predictable, but Hawks knows how to pump up the action when everything gets soppy. As for the Hawksian woman, she will have to wait until 1934 and Twentieth Century for Carole Lombard to give her the first satisfactory outing.

#The Crowd Roars #Howard Hawks #James Cagney

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husheduphistory · 2 years ago

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Fightin' Words: Abe, the Armstrongs, and the Life Changing Almanac

It’s a fun fact, the kind that comes out during parties, trivia games, or just in casual conversation. “Hey, did you know Abraham Lincoln is in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame?” As odd as it may sound, it is partially true. Before he became one of the most important figures in American history young Lincoln was many things, a self-taught student, rail-splitter, and a boatman to name a few. But, one of the biggest turning points of his life came to him as a young clerk where a simple show of athletic prowess would tie him to a murder trial decades later.

By 1831 Lincoln was living in New Salem, Illinois and working as a clerk in a grocery store owned by Denton Offutt while studying law. He was only twenty-two years old but the six-foot-four-inch tall Lincoln had developed a reputation for being a formidable wrestler with an undefeated string of wins in the catch-as-catch-can style of hand-to-hand wrestling. This type of reputation spread quickly in the rough and tumble town of New Salem, and it caught the ears of The Clary's Grove Boys, a nearby gang of men who spent their days drinking, fighting, pranking people, and spreading a general storm of rowdiness wherever they traveled. Offutt was continually impressed by his new employee, openly bragging about how Lincoln was mentally and physically superior to any of The Clary’s Grove Boys and that he could easily take any of them down in a fight. The Clary’s Grove Boys heard the claim loud and clear and their “champion” Jack Armstrong was up for the challenge.

The accounts of the fight between Abraham Lincoln and Jack Armstrong vary depending on the source. Some accounts say that the battle lines were drawn clearly between Lincoln and Armstrong while others say that Lincoln bet Armstrong ten dollars that he could find a man who could beat him and on the day of the fight no one showed leading to Lincoln calmly stating “Look here, Jack, my man isn’t here yet, but rather than lose that ten dollars I will wrestle with you myself.” Armstrong was no small opponent, but he had no idea who he was tangling with when he locked arms with Lincoln. Given his reputation as being a bully the entire town came out to see the brawl and the two men exchanged blows and grappled with each other, each unable to pin the other to the ground but with Lincoln clearly having the upper hand. Accounts say that at one point Lincoln grabbed Armstrong by the neck and held him at arm’s length while shaking him, laughing as other members of The Clary’s Grove Boys struck his legs with zero effect. There is an unclear picture as to who even won this fight, but what is known is that at the end of it a battered and bruised Armstrong shook Lincoln’s hand and declared "Boys, Abe Lincoln is the best fellow that ever broke into this settlement. He shall be one of us."

Print "There was a Man: Abe Lincoln Licks Jack Armstrong" by Harold von Schmidt for the July 1949 issue of Esquire Magazine. Image via www.lincolncollection.org.

The fight with Armstrong changed Lincoln’s entire persona in New Salem, making him a beloved and well-respected figure in the town. He became a voice of reason to the hijinks of The Clary’s Grove Boys, sometimes stepping in as mediator and diffusing disagreements before they came to blows. He also got his first taste of leadership, later being appointed as captain of the local militia unit and moving on to serve in the Black Hawk War. Perhaps the most surprising outcome was the bond between Lincoln and Armstrong who became extremely close friends after their brawl. As years went on Lincoln was welcomed into the Armstrong family home of Jack and his wife Hannah and he would often stay there both for friendly visits and when he found himself without work. When Jack and Hannah welcomed their son William into the world in 1833, Lincoln would often rock the baby to sleep during his visits. No one in the room could have predicted how their paths would cross one day.

Jack Armstrong. Image via http://www.mrlincolnandfriends.org/

Lincoln’s career in politics and law continued to grow steadily over the next decades but while Lincoln was building his fabled career in law the twenty-four year old William “Duff” Armstrong found himself on the other side of it. In August of 1857 a religious camp meeting held in Mason county Illinois was winding down after multiple days of congregating. On August 29th 1857, the night before the meeting was to officially conclude, Duff and some others were spending time around the whiskey wagons and they decided to sample the goods. After drinking heavily Duff lay down on a bench to sleep off the effects of the alcohol and he was left alone until approximately 8pm when a local farmer by the name of James P. Metzker rode his horse into the vicinity. Metzker was also intoxicated and he made the fateful decision to grab the sleeping man’s leg, spit in his face, and drag him to the ground waking the sleeping beast of Armstrong and causing the two of them to get into a heated brawl. According to Duff’s brother, A.P. Armstrong, the two men eventually stopped throwing fists and decided to have some more drinks together. He goes on to state that after this friendly exchange Metzker proceeded to get into another fight with another man that was drinking with them named J.H. Norris. Eventually Metzker left the scene on his horse, falling off several times in the process but eventually making it home. The only three that truly know what happened that night are Armstrong, Norris, and Metzker, but two days later Metzker was dead, having succumbed to two fractures to his skull that doctors concluded could not have come from him falling off his horse. The Mason County Sheriff arrested both Norris and Armstrong for the murder of James P. Metzker.

William "Duff" Armstrong. Image via hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu.

Armstrong was facing certain peril. Accused of cold-blooded murder alongside Norris, who had already escaped jail for a murder charge once before, the outlook was bleak. While awaiting trial in jail his father Jack Armstrong died but the man had a deathbed wish, he wanted to call in a favor from his old friend, the young attorney Abraham Lincoln, and ask that he defend his son in court. Hannah Armstrong wrote to Lincoln and his response was swift:

“I have just heard of your deep affliction and your son's arrest for murder. I can hardly believe that he can be capable of the crime alleged against him. It does not seem possible. I am anxious that he should be given a fair trial at any rate, and the gratitude for your long-continued kindness to me in adverse circumstances prompts me to offer my humble service gratuitously on his behalf.”

Lincoln packed his bags and traveled to Beardstown, Illinois ready to defend the man he once rocked to sleep as a baby in the battle for his life.

The Beardstown Courthouse where the Almanac Trial took place still standing today. Image via abrahamlincolnonline.org

The trial began on May 8th 1858 and the charges against Armstrong and Norris were grim, the indictment stating the Norris struck Metzker in the back of the head with a large piece of wood before Armstrong struck him in and around the right eye with a “slung-shot”, a metal weight held in a long strip of leather, causing “mortal bruises” that lead to his death. The prosecution greatly rested on the words of Charles Allen, a man who claimed he witnessed the assault and knew it was Armstrong and Norris because he could clearly see them by the light of the full moon overhead. It may have seemed like and open and shut case, Norris had a criminal past and Allen clearly saw the men attack Metzker. But then it was Lincoln’s turn to speak.

Up until this point Lincoln sat quietly in the courtroom, “with his head thrown back, his steady gaze apparently fixed upon one spot of the blank ceiling, entirely oblivious to what was happening about him, and without a single variation of feature or noticeable movement.…” When the time came for him to cross examine Allen, Lincoln had very specific questions for the star witness. When asked for details about that night Allen repeatedly insisted he saw it all happen from approximately 150 feet away, the brutal scene being lit by the full moon overhead “about where the sun would be at one o’clock in the afternoon.” Lincoln asked more questions, pressing him about the location and time of the crime over and over again. The camp meeting was taking place in a very densely wooded area that was quite dark at night. Lincoln joked, did Allen have a candle with him in order to see? But the witness persisted that he saw it all happen clearly in front of him and that his certainty was fully placed in what he saw under the light of the bright full moon. He was given every opportunity to change his words.

When Lincoln was satisfied that Allen was given a proper chance and that he had made himself clear about the moon lighting his view of the crime, he submitted into evidence an almanac that contained information about the night the assault occurred. The defense was swift and crushing. The pages of the almanac contained a wealth of information, including the position and phase of the moon the night of August 29th 1857 and it simply did not match the account of the witness. The volume was inspected by the court, the attorneys, and by Judge Harriott all of which confirmed the information on the page, at the time of the assault the moon was no where near a position to be illuminating the scene. Rather than being directly overhead as Allen stated, Lincoln said the moon was in fact setting, which would have left the scene amid the heavy forest in significant darkness, certainly not illuminated brightly enough to see the distinct faces of Armstrong and Norris.

Lincoln for the Defense painted by Norman Rockwell in 1962 depicting Lincoln during the Duff Armstrong trail. Image via https://www.lincolnshrine.org/

Everything the prosecution had deflated within moments as members of the jury and some in the courtroom burst into laughing. Judge Harriott commented that Lincoln was wrong about one thing, that according to the almanac the moon would have been coming up at the alleged time instead of going down as he stated. Lincoln’s response was simple, “It serves my purpose just as well, just coming up or just going down, as you admit it was not over head as Mr. Allen swore it was.”

With a simple turn of a page all credibility of the prosecution was destroyed. Lincoln had other evidence including a doctor stating the injuries to the front of Metzker’s face were the result of the blow to the back of his head, but it did not matter. The almanac sealed the deal in the minds of many present in the courtroom. As the jury went into the jury room Lincoln approached Hannah Armstrong and told her that her son would be “cleared before sundown”, a prediction that quickly came true. Within an hour the jury unanimously voted to clear Duff Armstrong of all charges.

After being reunited with his mother and getting a talk from Lincoln about how he needs to care for his mother and become the man his father was Duff Armstrong went on to live a long life, dying on May 5th 1899 at sixty-six years old. Norris, the man who allegedly inflicted the blow to the back of Metzker’s head, was convicted and this time he was unable to avoid jail. He was sentenced to eight years in a state penitentiary.

“The Almanac Case” became on of the most well know chapters in the law career of Abraham Lincoln and was even used in campaigns against him during his senatorial race and his later run for the presidency where opponents alleged that he used an altered almanac to keep his old family friends safe. Lincoln became the sixteenth President of the United States just two years later in 1860. He was honored by the National Wresting Hall of Fame with the Outstanding American Award in 1992. Today, visitors to the National Wrestling Hall of Fame can visit the Lincoln Lobby with a mural showing the famous brawl between Lincoln and Jack Armstrong that would lead to a lifelong friendship and save Armstrong’s son only two years before Lincoln became President of the United States.

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Sources:

Lincoln's Defense of Duff Armstrong by J. N. Gridley.

Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1908-1984), Vol. 3, No. 1 (Apr., 1910). https://www.jstor.org/stable/40194333

True Story of the Almanac Used by Abraham Lincoln in the Famous Trial of Duff Armstrong by Duncan Ferguson.

Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1908-1984), Vol. 15, No. 3/4 (Oct., 1922 - Jan., 1923). https://www.jstor.org/stable/40186950

Abraham Lincoln and the Case of the Altered Almanac by Mel Maurer

The Cleveland Civil War Roundtable, 2006.

“Duff” Armstrong Trial: 1858 Encyclopedia.com.

By the Light of the Moon: Abraham Lincoln's Adventure in Forensic Meteorology (Part 1) By Matt Soniak. Mental Floss.com Sep 13, 2011.

Is Abraham Lincoln in the Wrestling Hall of Fame? By Dan Evon. Snopes.com May 3, 2018. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lincoln-wrestling-hall-of-fame/

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“The Colonel's nephew, John C. Hamilton, had become estranged from his wife and family, and about this time the former gave her employment as his housekeeper. Her son Edgar, devoted to the memory of his Uncle William, in later years gave some of the most intimate glimpses we possess, into the life at the mines. The Colonel had also a Negro servant boy, “Black Davie,” of whom Edgar writes kindly. The Hamilton cabin became rare meeting-place as time went on. Here, it is true, he boarded some of his rough and muddy miners, but here he also entertained most distinguished visitors. Here his fine, aristocratic mother, and his sister, Mrs. Holly, were his guests in 1837. And here would sometimes come crowding in a roomful of the natives bands of whom remained for five or six years after Black Hawk's day. They were beggars and thieves. Hamilton understood them, and had no fear of them. But he had to keep a watchful eye on the visitors to guard against being ��robbed out of house and home.”

Says Muldoon, of the always interesting Colonel: “One day he could eat his ‘grub’ with his heavy-whiskered, ragged and mud-spatered miners; the next he could take his place to preside over a banquet of silk-clad and powder-haired aristocrats. He was an exceptionally clever conversationalist, when he did talk, but as a rule, was one of the silent type, doing far more, thinking than talking.”

From all sources we learn that Hamilton was unusually handsome, and from many that he was the “living image” of his illustratious father. He was of medium height and of medium stoutness. He stood 5 feet 7 inches in height and weighed 160 pounds. He had a light complexion and light brown hair. His eyes were blue and piercing. Strength, intelligence and kindliness all were marked in his fine face. He stood erect, was prompt and positive, and in every relation in life was the gentleman. He never married, nor, so far as is known, had a love affair. One of the finest tributes to the man, one that rings was paid by his friend of many years, Mr. Chas. H. Gratiot: “Col. Hamilton was an intimate friend of my family and a frequent visitor for many years. We esteemed him for his warm social instincts, his affability, his unassuming courteousness, his refinement and culture. He was virtuous, temperate and generous to a fault.”

“Col. Hamilton first opened the mines at Hamilton's Diggins in 1928, and spent most of the next twenty years in mining, meeting with good success until the water put a stop to his operations. Mr. Hamilton lived the life of a miner, a rough life at best, yet in his miner's cabin, the surroundings evinced the fine taste of the occupant. His library was the most valuable in the country, and contained, mostly, the books of classical authors.”

The friend with whom Hamilton first entered Galena, Daniel Parkinson, opened an inn at Mineral Point, thirty miles from Fort Hamilton, and here the Colonel could often be found with congenial friends, such men as General Dodge and the Gratiot brothers, discussing politics and sipping their cider, each taking his turn with some story of adventure in the wilderness. So, too, these men, and others well known in the lead district would meet before Hamilton's broad fireplace, or in his grocery store. Colonel Kellogg, or Captain Gentry was likely to be among them.

After the Indian war a post-office was established at the Diggings, and known as Fort Hamilton. The Colonel was again post-master. Now, more than ever, the store became the social center of the place. In 1833, he built a now needed school-house. Then followed a tavern, a saw-mill and a distillery. Fort Hamilton was growing. One matter is too interesting to omit. It concerns General Henry Dodge and the Colonel. From the time of Black Hawk's War to Colonel Hamilton's death in 1850, these two men were politically the foremost citizens of Wisconsin. Dodge was an ardent Democrat while Hamilton championed the Whig principles of his great father. Hamilton had always a keen tongue, when arcused and shortly before the Black Hawk War had made some statement which Dodge resented. After the fashion of the day. the latter challenged his Whig opponent to a duel. There was no hesitation on the part of the Colonel. We have the story from his nephew. The newphew, Col. Schuyler Hamilton, afterward of much prominence in the Civil War, says, “Uncle William replied that at that moment his country demanded his services; but if he survived until the war was over, he would be happy to oblige Mr. Dodge. Later, the war being over, Uncle William informed General Dodge that he awaited his convenience. But General Dodge replied frankly that he could have no quarrel with so brave a soldier and so true a gentleman as he had found Col. Hamilton to be, and begged to withdraw the challenge, and that they be friends. And they did become friends.” The incident speaks volumes for the mainliness of both men. Col. John Dement, of Dixon, married a sister of General Dodge, and Mrs. Dement spent her days thereafter at Dixon. She is known to have had the same fine openness of character as marked her distinguished brother.

Twice in his life on the frontier, as we are told, Colonel Hamilton visited his mother in the East-once from the Sangamon country and once from the lead mines, after the Black Hawk War. 1000 miles and he made it, like at knight of old, on horseback. But he did not stay long. Life in New York had become tame for him. It was a trip of His movements always had a suddeness and unexpectedness about them. Riding to the door one morning he told his mother, “I can't stand it here: I've got to get back where there is room,” and kissing her goodbye, he mounted his horse again and rode away.

In return, in the summer of 1837, the mother, accompanied by a daughter, Mrs. Sidney Holly, paid him a visit. Mrs. Hamilton was in her eighties, and the trip was a long one. From Pittsburgh on west it was by boat down the Ohio to Cairo and up the Mississippi to Galena. They took boat the middle of March and reached Galena June 1st. The courageous old lady was able, however, to meet every demand on her endurance. But the Colonel's cabin, “Fort Hamilton”, was too lacking in the comforts and refinements of living to be a suitable place to entertain his lady guests, so he shortly arranged for their entertainment in Galena, at the more elegant and comfortable home of his friends, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. B. Gratiot. Their historic old house is standing yet today.

Mrs. Gratiot writes of Mrs. Hamilton: “Pleasant and unaffected, she bore her eighty-four years with graceful dignity.” Not only the Gratiot home, but the entire community, showed her every courtesy and kindly attention. Her hosts took her on a trip to Fort Snelling where the ofifcers paid her distinguished honors, such as due the widow of Alexander Hamilton, She was always a devout church-woman. The Episcopalians of Galena had been kind to the Colonel in an illness, and were very kind to her, and it is told that she presented the church some communion silver. The writer has asked the present rector, the Rev. Mr. Ellsworth in regard to the gift, and he says it is not certain. but that they do have some old silver plate, of which no one now seems to know the origin. The visit lasted from June 1st to September 15th. It was set down by the diarists of the time as “the first great social event of the lead country.” The Colonel accompanied the ladies as far as St. Louis, on their return, and there, too, much was made of the patriotician old lady, of so many fine associations.

In the “Log Cabin and Hard Cider” campaign of 1840, the men of the Diggins, regardless of previous political affiliations, were enthusiastic Whigs. William Henry Harrison, victor over Tecumseh at the battle of Tippecanoe, and father of their fine young Captain at the stockade, was the Whig candidate. Moreover, it was confidently accepted that in the event of his election he would appoint their own beloved Colonel first Governor of the new territory of Wisconsin. The Whigs won the election, and Hamilton had so few plans laid for the governorship. Among them was that his mother and Mrs. Holly should be the ladies of his official household. He was boyishly happy in the prospect of being able so to honor and to gratify his aged mother.

It was no fault of “Old Tippecanoe” that Colonel Hamilton did not achieve this, the greatest political ambition of his lift. President Harrison died after only thirty days in office, and the post of President went to Vice President Tyler, a General appointed Democrat, who Dodge to the new governorship. Wisconsin was then Democratic, and the cards were stacked against the brave Colonel. Politically he enjoyed but one pronounced success, and that with the odds quite against him. His mineral region elected him to the first Territorial Convention of Wisconsin. There he was selected as chairman of the Convention and was recognized as easily the leading man in its deliberations. It was in 1843 that Hamilton changed the name of the Diggings, or Fort Hamilton, to Wiota, by which beautiful name the hamlet is still known. When, in 1847, Iowa County was subdivided, that part in which lay the Diggins was given the name “Lafayette's tribute to his friend, and his father's friend, General Lafayette. He made one more essay into politics. He was candidate, in 1848, for membership in the State Constitutional Convention. The vote was declared to be slightly against him. But there was little doubt the count had been erroneous. They could play politics in that day as well as this. Hamilton took his case before the convention itself. He is said to have made a masterly presentation of his claim, one that would have done credit to a Patrick Henry. But the majority were Democrats and voted solidly against him. He may well have forsworn all politics from that day on.

The California Gold Fields

Almost at the moment, however, arose a matter that would quite naturally crowd political questions from the mind of the adventure-loving Hamilton, anyhow. Word came East of the gold discoveries in California. He decided to join the gold-seekers. With all the zest that characterized the man, he spent the winter in preparing for overland trip the following spring. With the aid of the village black-smith he built two strong moving-wagons, and these he equipped for the journey. His proposed leaving saddened the home of his miners. But he assured his friends that he did not plan to be gone long, not more than a year or two. Then he hoped to return with money enough so that he could install pumps in the lead mines and give them all employment again.

Early the spring of ‘49 he started out with his two prairie schooners, soon to join one of the many long caravans heading across the plains and mountains. Hamilton himself, always a lover of good horses, dorve to the front wagon a span of beautiful blacks. One of the early settlers, a Mr. Engebretson long told of the brave appearance of the Colonel's team, with all its equipment new. The driver of the second wagon was a fine colored fellow named Barney Norris. It is likely that he drove mules. It would have been hard for oxen to keep pace with the Colonel's spirited blacks. Later, Norris returned to Galena, where he spent his days, far into old age, as sexton of the Presbyterian church. He was highly respected, and thought of, to the last, as Col. Hamilton's body servant. The Colonel and Barney got through in early summer.

They lost little time in prospecting, soon staking out their claim at a point about 100 miles north of Sacramento. The claim yielded fairly from the start. Profiting by his experience in the lead mines, Hamilton established a store, also, and sold supplies to the miners. He was $10,000 ahead at the end of twelve months. The stake he had set for the venture, before he should return to the Diggings, was $20,000. At this time a Sacramento firm, dealers in lumber and mining supplies, sold him an interest in their business. July 17, 1850, he was still at this “brush store” at the gold mines. July 30th, he was on his way to Sacramento. About October 1st a friend sought for him there, and was told by a member of the firm that a few weeks after joining them, Col. Hamilton had taken sick and died in the cholera then raging in the city. It was a period of terror, in which few records of any sort were kept.

The Colonel had been fortunate in having with him, in his last hours, fiends who stood by and gave him whatever attention and comfort was possible. His friend, Charles Gratiot and the faithful Barney were two of them. It was impossible to secure a coffin, but they found enough lumber to make at least a box. They accompanied his remains to the trench, where the cholera victims were being laid, and buried him as “No. 50” in the trench. They secured the services of a Baptist minister at the grave. One of the Colonel's brothers, in New York, having been informed of his death, wrote, requesting Mr. Gratiot to ship the remains East, but naturally enough, the navigation company would not carry the body of a cholera victim. It was 27 years later that an effort was made by a Wisconsin friend, the Hon. Cyrus Woodman, to locate the grave of Hamilton, with a view to the erection of a monument at the spot. The markers set up at the time of the burial had been of wood and were now rotted and gone. The faithful Barney, in Galena, over a quarter-century after the burial, now proved to be the one person who could so describe the location of the grave that it could be found. And it was. The remains were taken from the trench to an individual lot, and a good stone was placed at the head, by his old friend, Mr. Woodman. The inscription on it read:

COL. W. S. HAMILTON Born in New York Aug. 4 1797 Came to California in ‘49 Died October 8, 1850

In size and features, in talent and character, he much resembled his illustrious father.

A friend erects this stone.

Ten years later, Col. Hamilton's body found another, no doubt its final resting-place. The city of Sacramento furnished a larger lot, in a new and roomier part of the cemetery, naming it “Hamilton Square.” The Colonel's relatives in the East, at family expense, erected a stone there, dedicated to his memory, and bearing also, on one face, a bronze medallion of his father, Alexander Hamilton. Here may his rest be undisturbed!

Back by the village street in Wiota seems nevertheless, the most fitting spot for a memorial to the brave and lovable Colonel Hamilton. Here his heart was. And here, in his memory, where he was so long known and loved, the ladies of the D. A. R. have set a granite tablet, suitably inscribed. Near it stands a fine but necessarily temporary memorial painting, in bill-board form, showing, above, the Colonel's team and covered wagon, and below, a picture of the stockade. This, then, is what I have, at last, learned about William Stephen Hamilton, frequent visitor at early Dixon, friend of Father John Dixon, and son of great Alexander Hamilton.

THE END”

The “Sometime back” series, by L. B. Neighbour. Dixon Evening Telegraph (Illinois) [March 17, 1932]

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Warden-Commander Vilvarin Surana. Specialization: Spirit Healer.

The Champion of Kirkwall William Hawke. Specialization: Force Mage.

Lord Inquisitor Atish’an Lavellan. Specialization: Knight-Enchanter.

Was tagged by @thefathersbride. Thank you for the link :)

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Liam Hawke (wip)

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Book:’’ The Hawk Laird” formerly ‘’Laird of the Wind”

Author: Susan King

Series: Celtic Hearts, Book #1

Publisher: Dragonblade

Length: 340 Pages

Overall Rating: 5/5 Stars

Blog Rating: 5/5 Saltire Flags

Scottish Lowlands, 1305

This book starts with Lady Isobel of Alberlady who is a prophetess and tells the future, also known as Black Isobel due to her long, dark, raven hair. As could see the future: she saw a vision of William Wallace being betrayed by people he thought he could trust and would die because of the hawk! Now one of the men who betrayed him is trying to get himself out of prison but goes to William to warn him not realizing he had been betrayed too! Except this vision was not absolutely accurate as most of her visions were metaphors. When Jamie realizes William has been caught he knows the English will torture him and give him an agonizing death! Jamie tries to give his friend a quick, painless, death, unfortunately his arrow missed his mark! He is accused of betraying him which is not the truth!

Now it turns out the Hawk is Jamie Lindsay the former Laird of Castle Wildshaw who is misinformed about this prophetess, thinking she has helped ruin his name unfairly plus she is also betrothed to his enemy Sir Ralph Leslie! He was given his castle by the wicked English King, since Jamie is a hunted Scottish outlaw and Leslie is a Scottish turncoat who sides with the English betraying his own people! Jamie had expected Black Isobel to be an elderly crone, not a beautiful goddess forced to accept Leslie’s marriage proposal by her father and their Priest! However everyone is using Isobel for her abilities and she knows it too. Furthermore Lady Isobel’s castle is under siege where she and her people are starving! She is also a Scot and very kind and caring too which was very unexpected to Jamie.

Isobel has been misinformed her entire life by men saying she is protected and not able to leave her own castle due to her godly gifts. This was because she was a prophetess and because she is also just a feeble, weak, woman! She realizes now she had been held captive not protected as even her own father was being advised by their priest. Isobel was expecting James “Jamie” Lindsay who she thought was her champion and savior since he saved her from dying as the English attacked her castle burning to the ground. She soon discovers he only came to make her his captive to trade her for his cousin Janet who was taken as a captive in his place. Ralph Leslie is a man she detests and only wants her for her supernatural abilities, to make him more respected and wealthier by the English nobles. Soon Jamie reveals he lives in Ettrick Forest but takes Isobel to his secret lair where only a special few outlaws like Wallace knew of its existence. He realizes he had been wrong about Isobel and feels truly torn. They also discover a Hawk where Jamie had been a falconer as well as Isobel’s father so she is no stranger to the birds. They train the bird together and fall in love.

However soon time goes on as Jamie hates her heartless betrothed Sir Ralph Leslie, a turncoat Scot who sides with the English as Jamie wants to save his cousin Janet. He wants to trade captive for captive. The problem is he is in love with Black Isobel! Except he has nothing to offer her being on the run, being hunted and living as an outlaw in the forest. He feels Ralph can give her a peaceful existence except Isobel refuses to go! She rather be on the run with Jamie as he has given her first feel of freedom and rebels against all of those who had tried to keep her hidden because of her abilities where she was truly captive. On top of that Jamie does not know what to do as he loves his cousin like a sister but is madly in love with Isobel. What will Jamie do to trade Isobel to a man that only wants to use her or leave his cousin as a captive?He is between a rock and a hard place and does not know what to do? Read and find out.

Susan King has always been a favorite author of mine. I read this under ‘’Laird of the Wind’’ many years ago and I love Scottish history. I loved revisiting this book again number one when I read it the first time I had not been to Scotland yet. Now I have been to Scotland and been to specific sites she described in this book like Dunfermline Abbey. I too have been to the thorn tree where allegedly William Wallace’s mother was buried where it is still marked today.Also King Robert the Bruce’s body rests at Dunfermline Abbey. Furthermore I am so excited Susan King is with Dragonblade Publishing now being one of my favorite publishers too! I can’t wait to read The Falcon Laird next!

Celtic Hearts

Book 1 - The Hawk Laird

Book 2 - The Falcon Laird

Book 3 - The Swan Laird

Disclaimer: I received a complimentary copy and an advance reader copy from Dragonblade publishers. I voluntarily agreed to do a fair review and blog through netgalley. All thoughts, ideas and words are my own.

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