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bluescluelessly · 4 years

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For your open prompts: Obianidala, Obis been knocked out in a fight and wakes up to Ani and Dala cuddled up next to him on his bed in the Healer Halls.

[I'm gonna put these two together ♡ Rating: T]

Obi-Wan has a pounding skull when he wakes up. His head feels heavy, his arms feel heavy, his chest feels heavy. Like there’s leaden weights on top of him--

Oh, wait.

There is something on his chest.

Someone, actually. Two someones.

His head is still pounding, but he relaxes a little as he cracks his eyes open and recognizes the two weights on his chest.

Those two...

He smiles fondly, gently working his arms free from underneath his sleeping friends, wrapping an arm around each of them. He’s not entirely sure how he ended up here, or why his head hurts so much... but he’s with people he cares about, so he must be safe now.

Once he’s had his fill of admiring their gentle, peaceful faces in sleep, he lets his eyes drift away, taking in his surroundings.

As he starts to recognize them, he stiffens up, heart pounding fearfully. They’re in the medbay-- in the Temple. What is Padme even doing here? Why would they get into a bed with him? Not that he’s exactly complaining, but-- What possessed them to do this where anyone can see?

If anyone catches sight of this, they’ll draw the wrong conclusions. He and Anakin will be expelled for sure, he needs to get them up, get them off--

Sensing his panic, Anakin wakes, grumbling softly. “Mmph, Master...”

“Anakin,” the elder Jedi hisses, tone filled with worry. “What are you doing, we could be seen.”

“I know, ‘s okay.” The knight lifts his head, an unhappy sound leaving his throat as Obi-Wan’s hand removes itself from his back. “You fell, under the ice. Safest way to warm you up was body heat. We volunteered.”

Oh. Well, that explains his pounding head, the searing ache, and the tingling in his limbs. “I see.” He doesn’t remember it, but he knows they were headed for Pantora’s moon, so the ice checks out.

“It’s really good to see you awake,” Anakin says, tone softening. “You had us both really worried.”

Obi-Wan lifts his head a little, wincing at the pins-and-needles feeling in his shoulders. “... I would say it’s good to be awake, but frankly? This is awful.” He gives up on that, dropping back down. “Exactly how long was I out? I don’t even remember landing on Pantora.”

Anakin’s concerned expression grows. “Well... we didn’t land, exactly. We crashed.”

“On a diplomatic mission?”

Padme is awake now too, and she announces herself by joining into the conversation then, and consequently making Obi-Wan jerk a little in surprise. “We didn’t quite get to the diplomacy part.”

“The damn seps were waiting for us.” Anakin explains, jaw tight. “They were holding the parliament hostage, the Pantoran leaders were forced to request us. It was a trap.”

Obi-Wan nods, trying to remember, but it’s like grasping at water. “... Last I recall, we hadn’t even dropped out of hyperspace. What happened?”

“You really don’t remember anything?” Anakin asks, sounding put out.

Padme’s tone is soft and soothing. “Ani, he was under the water a long time, memory loss was expected.”

“I know, but--” Anakin’s voice is strained. “Master, exactly how much do you remember?”

“Is there something I should remember?” Obi-Wan asks, a bit lost. His last memory isn’t anything remarkable, just some idle chatting between the three of them as they travelled along the hyperlane. “You didn’t answer me, how long was I asleep? How long was I underwater?”

Anakin looks crushed, and Obi-Wan can’t begin to imagine why.

Padme doesn’t look much happier, but she has the composure to answer. “You’ve been out for a few days. The healers thought you’d be in a coma for at least a few more weeks, actually. You were under the ice for almost ten minutes.” She sits up a little to look at him, not hiding her concern. “I thought-- but, Anakin didn’t give up.”

He can feel his Padawan taking ahold of his arm and gripping him tight, as if he’s worried he’ll slip away again. The pressure makes his muscles ache, but he doesn’t dare try to pull away. He can sense how much Anakin needs it.

“I suppose I owe you one, Anakin,” Obi-Wan states, trying to keep his focus on them both.

“You owe me more than one, old man.” Anakin points out, but he sounds oddly subdued. “I think you’re at 5. 6, counting Cato Nemoidia.”

“We’re not counting that,” the elder Jedi responds easily, frowning. Something isn’t quite right here. “I feel as if I’m missing an important detail. What else happened?”

Rather than answering him, Padme and Anakin share a look.

He can’t quite decipher it... Anakin seems unsure, while Padme seems to be challenging him. Again, he gets the sense that there’s really something important that he’s missing. He’s too tired to figure out what it could be, and his memories aren’t being forthcoming with any hints.

It seems that Anakin wins out, frowning as he looks away from Padme. “Nothing. We crashed, ejected, and your pod went through the ice layer. I got you out and breathing again. Senator Amidala kept an eye on you while I went and liberated the Pantoran Parliament. So, you know. Just like any other mission gone sideways.”

Before Obi-Wan can get out a response or another question, Padme huffs her frustration, shooting a quick look towards the door. “Actually, Master Kenobi,” she starts, shooting Anakin a quelling glare before she looks back over at the other Jedi, eyes soft. “I have something I hope might jog your memory.”

He’s about to ask her to clarify, when she... well. does.

Obi-Wan doesn’t have time to react before he’s being kissed, his eyes going wide as Padme Amidala’s lips press against his own.

He freezes up in shock, about to push her away and demand to know what she’s thinking... only...

This isn’t the first time they’ve kissed, is it?

His vision fades momentarily as a memory takes over, recalling the last time he had the Senator so close to him. And that’s not all, she wasn’t the only one to kiss him.

Obi-Wan snaps out of it as Padme pulls away, his heart beating far too quickly in his chest.

“Oh,” he states intelligently.

Padme is smiling patiently at him. “Remember now?”

He does. That trip through hyperspace wasn’t all idle chat. He remembers flashes-- his own growing frustration with their continued charade, despite his many attempts to hint that he knows. An argument, a kiss, a confession. Several confessions. A few more kisses.

And then the rude awakening as they dropped out of hyperspace, directly into an ambush.

It’s all fuzzy still, but he remembers.

“The important parts, I think,” he responds, looking between them both with a mixture of apprehension and interest. After a second, a rakish sort of smile makes its way to his face. “Though, my memory could do with more refreshing.”

Anakin doesn’t need to be told twice. He can barely contain himself, really.

Not that Obi-Wan minds; he isn’t even sure he’s not dreaming. And if this is a dream... it’s not one he’s particularly interested in waking up from.

“I love you,” Anakin says breathlessly when he decides to let Obi-Wan breathe again. “Both of you, so much.”

Obi-Wan and Padme trade a warm, happy look before answering at the same time.

“We know.”

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aspiringwarriorlibrarian · 3 years

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For @awholeboxofchickens, Crowley/Aziraphale (ineffable husbands, I think the ship name is) kissing prompt 5, where it doesn’t hurt.

Crowley wakes up, it’s July, and they’re still indoors.

No matter how well they’re threatened, plants simply take time to grow. Parties don’t happen much anymore, and the theater is struggling. Hell itself is as boring as ever, and now there’s all the paperwork involved in reinstating Pestilence as a horseman, and he’d rather be as far away from that as possible. And it seems like a waste to be out tempting people to sin when there’s already idiots running around spreading plague like they’ve forgotten about the last one. Which, to be fair, they might have. It had been....30 something years since the cow thing? They live that long now, right?

So naturally, he ends up in Aziraphale’s. And just as naturally, by August, they’ve run out of their usual topics and are starting to trend into topics they’d never even considered before.

“So they bite each other? No wonder you’ve got so many sexual sins.” said Crowley, who had never committed any, you counted the sin of abstaining. (Which they might. Heaven’s bureaucracy is always changing).

“Well, they think it’s fun, and it is consensual, so I’d hardly call it a sin.” answered Aziraphale, who committed at least one per decade, if those older ones still counted. (Which they might not. Heaven’s bureaucracy is always changing.)

“Still though, it’s painful. Why would they like it?”

Aziraphale shrugged. “To each their own.” He took the first bite of globi, and smiled. Apparently, Cato the Elder was his own.

“Have you ever done it?”

Aziraphale thought back for a moment. “No. I’ve never liked it. Or anything that hurts.”

Crowley took a bite of savillum, and enjoyed it. Aziraphale might be onto something here. “Is there anything they do that doesn’t hurt on some level?”

Aziraphale didn’t need time for that. “Kissing.”

“You said they left bruises.”

“Only when you suck on the skin. Normally, it doesn’t do anything of the sort.” Aziraphale pondered further. “Kissing itself can hurt if you miss or go too hard and smash your skulls and teeth together.”

“So normally it’s just....you smashing your mouths together? Sounds sticky.”

“It is. But it’s also fun.”

Crowley was considering taking his word for it. But then he remembered that it was August, and they were stuck with each other for the indefinite future and kissing was one of those things that were a bit suspicious right now. What better time than now?

“Can....Can we try it? You know, out of curiosity” He asked, not quite sure how this was done.

Aziraphale seemed a bit shocked, and Crowley wondered if he’d offended him. But then he nodded, and put down his dessert, and Crowley put down his.

The first word that Crowley could think of was intense. Not intense as in a spicy pepper or steel wool, more a pleasant kind, but it was a very strong sensation. Maybe the lips were just naturally very sensitive, or maybe it was because it was Aziraphale. They would have to do this more often, Crowley decided. Aziraphale always loved things like this, and Crowley loved Aziraphale.

They broke apart, and Crowley sat back, trying to think of an appropriate remark. “You’re right. That didn’t hurt.”

“It didn’t. It was rather nice, actually.” Aziraphale said, glancing away. Was he....shy about this? Aziraphale, embarrassed? Oh he’d definitely have to kiss him more often then.

They finished their desserts, and Crowley looked out the window, much to his surprise. “Is that one of yours or one of mine?” He asked, although he was befuddled by the idea of either Heaven or Hell deciding to have it snow in summer.

Aziraphale looked up at him from the stack of empty plates he was collecting. “Crowley, it’s December.”

“.....what the fu-

#good omens #ineffable husbands #fanfic

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deans-mind-palace · 4 years

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Suspirium (Pt.4)

Pairing: Prof!Sam x Reader

Summary: You’re in your last year of your Classics and Mordern Languages studies and you’re majoring in Latin and English. Then you get assigned to a different Latin teacher. And damn, he loves his subject. Too bad that he’s also hot. What is just a childish crush soon develops into something way more complicated.

Word Count: 1,891

Warnings: Latin & Slowburn

Author’s Note: A lot of Latin and Catullus but I wanted you to show Prof Sam’s lectures and the reader’s life besides university. And there’s a surprise at the end. Enjoy.

Suspirium - Masterlist

You slammed your locker shut and hurriedly stuffed the white blouse into the waistband of the black skirt, when the door to the changing room had already been opened. You stood up straight immediately. Chest out and stomach in. You took a deep breath and tried to appear confident, while you were getting ready for a reprimand. A man in a black tuxedo came rushing through the door. "Y/N! Where the hell were you?" The man was a little fatter and his head was all red. His expression was ugly and distorted and he was dabbing the sweat off his forehead with a white cloth from the pocket of his jacket. "François. I am sorry. I really am. I-I lost track of time!" you tried to explain yourself. Your self-confidence was gone. "What is this, Y/N? You work in a star restaurant. I expect discipline. I'm trying to rely on you. Tonight is a night with important guests and I need you. We're behind schedule. The reputation of the restaurant -" the man with the French accent complained. But you already finished his sentence. "depends on each one of us. A grain of sand in the clockwork will stop the whole movement. I know." You knew that speech by heart. Normally you would have taken that motto to heart, but... "Mon dieu." He brushed across his moustache and massaged his temples while his anger subsided. "We'll talk about it later. I need you now. The kitchen is a mess because the food is not being served quickly enough." He pushed the door open and you followed him out into the hall and into the kitchen. There were all kinds of steaming from different pots. Jacques waved a frying pan in which he was flambéing something and blurted orders around. A kitchen boy pushed some plates into your hand in a frightened way. His eyes were wide open and he didn't seem to be used to the harsh tone that prevailed in the kitchen.

He had red hair and countless freckles adorned his face. The plates swayed in his hand and his arms trembled under the weight. You gave him a sympathetic smile and took the plates away. "The roast beef with sesame crust on mango chutney and the sea urchin cores with green asparagus to seventeen. Hop hop!" François directed you out the door and into the dining room. Immediately, the soft murmuring of the guests, the clinking sound of wine glasses being clinked together, the clattering of cutlery on dishes and the gentle tones of the piano floated through the air. With calm and firm steps you brought the food to the white-laid table and set it down in front of a couple wearing chic evening gowns, as is obligatory in this expensive restaurant. With a professional but reserved smile, you silently handed the food as you had learned it, and with an elegant gesture of your hand you poured some water.

It was shortly after one o'clock when, after almost seven hours, you stuffed your skirt into your locker and slipped into your jeans. In one flowing movement you brushed the hair out of your forehead and took a deep breath. Your body ached from a hard day, your head was buzzing and you longed for your bed. Tomorrow you already had a lecture at 9am.

In a hurry you took a look at your mobile phone. You could hear the clinking of plates, which had been washed and dipped into the sink, sounding muffled from the kitchen. Brooks had written to you a few minutes ago. He knew your working schedule by heart and knew that you had just finished. Actually, you were too tired and didn't feel like talking to your best friend on the phone, but you knew the longer you delayed the call, the worse it would get.

Quickly you dialed his number. After the ringing tone he answered immediately. "Hey, Brooks." You had trouble suppressing a hearty yawn. There was not a hint of fatigue in Brooks' voice. "Y/N, what secret are you keeping from me?" he demanded amusedly. Your friend was a man who came straight to the point. You should be fine.

"How was your first lecture with Professor Winchester?" Brooks asked. It took your tired brain a moment to realize that he meant Sam. "The typical introduction. Sam seems nice." You were biting your tongue when his first name left your lips. Brooks, of course, noticed this little detail right away. "Sam, huh?" repeated his name with a smirk, almost as if he had to test it on his tongue first. "Did he offer you his first name because he is so young himself?" the man on the other end of the line asked curiously. This time you couldn't suppress the yawn. "Hmm, exactly." You told Brooks everything he wanted to know about the lecture. After a while, he settled for the information and decided to let you go to bed. The last night bus spat you up a block from your stop and you were glad when you fell into your cuddly bed and could pull the fluffy blanket up to your chin.

The auditorium was already filled with students talking wildly, but Sam hadn't appeared when you sat down. The day before yesterday, right after the first lecture, you had gone to the university bookstore and got the materials he requested. You put Latin for the Illiterati, a dictionary and a small book of poems by Catullus on the table. Your pens and your notebook followed. All heads turned to the door as Professor Winchester entered the room and walked forward with long, determined strides past the filled rows of seats. The red sweater stretched across his sturdy stature and a grey jacket hung over his shoulder. There was silence in the lecture hall as Sam prepared his lecture.

He cleared his throat, which was completely unnecessary as he already had all the attention on him anyway. His gaze glided briefly to you and you gave him a smile. He winked at you in a friendly way before his gaze wandered over the rest of the students. "We will begin today with Catullus." he began today's lecture. Your fellow students listened to him eagerly.

"Who can tell me something about Catullus as a person?" he asked. Immediately your hand shot up. But he called a student a few rows behind you. "Gaius Valerius Catullus was a Roman poet from Verona. He was probably born in the first century B.C. He aspired a political career at first, but he was not satisfied with the opinions of the triumvirate consisting of Caesar, Pompeius and Cato, so he began to write insulting poems about the three great men of Rome." Sam raised his hand and the student stopped his monologue. He cleared his throat again and walked up and down in front of the first row. "Who can tell me when Catullus died?" he asked the next question. Again your hand shot into the air. But again he did not call you. "Whatever dates you wish to give me, ladies and gentlemen, I doubt very much they are correct." You lowered your hand and listened carefully. "For the fact is, we know almost nothing about Catullus' life. We can only make guesses. So who can tell me about Catullus?" He raised his hands in invitation.

"Come on. Call in your answers, don't be shy, pretend we're in the ancient senate of Rome. Do you think it was organized that way? Come on, let me hear you." Your fellow students looked at each other in surprise. For a moment there was hesitation in the air, then they started calling in. "He wrote a life's work of 116 poems." "Catullus admired Sappho." "Exactly. And his best friend was Nepos." "He was also one of the Neotericists." "Not to mention that he died when he was 30. Circumstances unknown." "Nonsense. He died of lovesickness." Sam just nodded, but that sentence made him stop and listen. He lowered his hand, a simple gesture, and the confused cries ebbed away, almost as if he was the fixed star of the lecture hall. He was the sun in your star system and you were just meaningless planets circling around him and drawn to him by higher powers like moths to light.

His gaze wandered over the students, who waited attentively for his next words. He took the thin volume of poetry from the desk and held it in the air. "As mentioned earlier, Catullus wrote 116 carmina." He paused and looked at the book. "Page 38, carmina 85, please." Immediately, the rustling of book pages could be heard. At that unobserved moment, he glanced at you. His hazel eyes pierced yours.

He averted his gaze and raised his voice. Like a Roman rhetorician, he stuck out his chest and began to read the poem with perfect accent. For a moment you thought you were standing on the Forum Romanorum listening to the Roman messenger telling about Caesar's victories.

"Odi et amo. Quare id faciam fortasse requiris. Nescio. Sed fieri sentio et excrucior."

Sam looked up. "Who can translate this for me, please?" Again you raised your hand and this time he noticed. "Ms. L/N. Please do us the honor." "I hate and I love. Wherefore would I do this, perhaps you ask? I do not know. But I feel that it happens and I am tortured." you translated the ancient words fluently. "What do you feel when you read these words?" Sam asked and his eyes were only on you. It felt like for a moment there was just the two of you in this room. The other students around you disappeared. "Pain, unrequited love, despair but also anger," you replied. "Why did he write this?" You took a deep breath. This was your specialty. Now you had the chance to prove yourself. "Most of Catullus' poems are about his love for Lesbia, a married woman with whom he had an affair. The name Lesbia is only a synonym. There are speculations that the beloved is the elder Clodia. She was the wife of a consul. Even though they loved each other, Catullus was not sure of her love. He was torn apart by her failure to return his love unconditionally."

I heard whispers behind me. "Her name was Lesbia! You can see by her name that it was never going to happen." You rolled your eyes, and Sam snorted in amusement. "Well, Mr...?" "Winter, sir." the student helped him. "Mr. Winter. You're not wrong. Homosexuality was not uncommon among the Romans. It was frowned upon, but nobody really cared. Especially the patricians could do what they wanted. But I think that's not true in this case." Sam smiled before he talked to everybody. "Now, I want you all to analyze this poem as homework. Are there any hidden messages? Innuendoes? Stylistic devices? I want to know everything. I want the papers on my desk next week. Good? Then you're dismissed for today."

Sam was standing at your level and you were about to pack when a little note landed on your desk. 4:00pm. My office. S. Surprised, you looked up, but you only caught a glimpse of Sam's fluttering jacket as he disappeared from the lecture hall.

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randomfandomfamily · 5 years

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uhhhmhmjlots of angst one shots lately i see,,,you should write something fluffy w/ gary, avocato, & little cato,,.., you can never go wrong with those 3 interacting in a cute/happy way right?

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You know what? You right. Have some fluff.

Avocato hadn’t seen much of the arcade, but when he heard Quinn and Gary shouting from that general direction, he figured it was worth investigating.

Though when he found Quinn and Gary, he was confused. They were peering into vents and calling out Little Cato’s name. “What’s going on here?”

Quinn looked at Gary. “You wanna explain? Or should I?”

Gary took a deep breath. “Don’t be mad-”

“Already off to a bad start,” Quinn commented.

“Okay, I didn’t know a root beer float was going to give him a friggin’ sugar high, Quinn,” Gary said, “I just thought ‘Hey! Little Cato’s never heard of a root beer float before, maybe he should try one.’”

“He didn’t have a root beer float, Gary,” Quinn shot back. “He had five of them because somebody left him alone at the soda parlor!”

Avocato looked at Gary in confusion. “What the hell is a root beer float?”

“Is this seriously just an Earth thing? There is a soda parlor on this alien ship, and you’re telling me no one has had a float ever?!”

“It’s ice cream and soda,” Quinn answered for him. “Basically just caffeine and sugar.”

“But root beer doesn’t have caffeine in it,” Avocato interrupted.

“So you’ve heard of root beer, but not a root beer float,” Gary muttered, “That makes perfect sense

Quinn and Avocato ignored Gary. “Usually it doesn’t,” Quinn said, “But turns out the ship is stocked with a Earthen root beer called Barq’s, which does.”

Avocato shot Gary a look. Gary shrugged sheepishly in response. “I didn’t know it’d affect him this bad, otherwise I wouldn’t have given it to him.”

“Great,” Avocato said, “How long has it been since you’ve seen him last?”

“Fifteen minutes?”

Avocato bit back a frustrated growl. He loved Gary, lovable idiot that he was, but he was about two seconds from punching his co-parent in the face. “Alright, let’s just find him before-”

“GARY!!”

The three adults turned to see Ash and Fox running towards them. “Ash? Fox? What’s wrong, are you okay?” Gary asked.

Ash’s eye was wide with panic. “I think something’s wrong with Little Cato.”

Fox nodded. “Yeah, I don’t know what happened to him, but he’s tearin’ through the ship like a madman!”

“He knocked HUE over just a few minutes ago,” Ash said, “And Sheryl, too.”

Gary fought back a laugh. “Wait, seriously? He knocked over my mom?”

“Gary,” Quinn said firmly.

He shook his head. “Right, right, right. Focused, I’m focused.” He looked back to Fox and Ash. “Do you know where he went?”

‘I do.’

“AVA?” Avocato was still unused to her voice. And HUE with a body was weird too. “Where’d he go?”

‘He’s currently in the ventilation system,’ she replied, ‘But he’s heading for the bridge as we speak.’

Avocato was going to kill Gary. “Let’s go before he gets into the control room.”

‘You won’t beat him there,’ AVA said helpfully.

Fox and Ash backed away. “Y’all have fun with that,” Fox said, “We’re staying far away from that little hell cat.”

“Yeah,” Ash agreed, “I’m gonna stay here and play games.” Avocato wasn’t too reassured by that, but he figured it couldn’t be all that bad. Right?

Quinn gave Gary a smug smile as they ran for the control room. “I told you to wait and ask Avocato but noooo, you just had to give the hyper kid caffeine, didn’t you?”

“Now is not the time, Quinn!” Gary said. “AVA! Is he in the control room?”

‘Yes,’ AVA replied, ‘Though I would advise against entering the bridge at this time.’

Avocato halted outside the door to the bridge. “Why?”

‘Little Cato appears to be trying to take over the ship.’

“That means we should most definitely be in there!” Gary exclaimed. “Open the door!” Not needing a second prodding, Avocato opened the door and ran in, his gaze darting around to find his kid. “Avocato, look out!”

He barely had time to register Gary’s warning before something dropped onto his back. “INTRUDERS!!”

“Little Cato?!” Avocato reached back and pulled the kid off his shirt. “What are you doing?”

Eyes shining with glee, Little Cato said, “I’m takin’ over the ship! This is my ship now!” He managed to wriggle out of Avocato’s grasp. “This is my ship, and y’all are intruding!”

Gary crossed his arms. “I don’t think so, mister. I’m the captain around here.”

Little Cato climbed onto the captain’s seat and put his hands on his hips. “I, Little Cato, declare this ship mine! Forfeit the ship to me, for I am the superior captain!”

“You can’t do that!” Gary protested.

Quinn interjected, “Sure he can. Provided the grounds on which he claims to be a better captain are supported.”

Avocato turned to her incredulously. “You’re encouraging this?”

She shrugged. “I’m curious.”

“I know how to pilot the ship.” Little Cato spun the chair in circles. “Oh, and I know how to fix it, too! And I have the most experience out of everyone here.”

Quinn frowned. “I’ll grant you the first two, but not that last one, I’m pretty sure you’re the youngest one here.”

Little Cato stopped spinning in the chair. “First of all, how dare you.” He pointed at Quinn disapprovingly. “And second of all, respect your elders! I am seventy-four years old, and I will kick your butt!”

Avocato rolled his eyes at his sons caffeine-induced antics. “Okay, now you’re just being ridi-”

“No, he’s actually right about that one,” Gary interjected. “Long story. Explain later, grab kid now.”

“Ooooooh, I like this game!” Little hopped out of the chair and braced himself to run. “You shall not defeat the captain!”

Gary cracked his knuckles. “Oh ho, you wanna bet?”

Quinn looked at Gary apprehensively. “What the hell are you doing?”

“Something my old man used to do with me whenever I had energy to burn,” Gary said, “Wrestling match.”

Avocato put a hand on Gary’s shoulder. “Nope. Bad idea. Gary, as your friend and the co-parent with the most experience: do not.”

“Too late! We’re doing it!” Gary and Little Cato ran at each other, Little Cato launching himself into Gary’s chest.

The kid was light enough that Gary barely stumbled, the real problem was when Little Cato scrambled over his shoulder, grabbed his arm and pulled it back. It wasn’t enough to really hurt, but it was enough that Gary could no longer use it.

Gary tried to pull Little Cato off like Avocato had, but it was considerably harder with his arm wrenched behind him. “Hey! Get off me!”

Little Cato cackled and jumped off, still holding Gary’s arm. With a small Ventrexian attached to the end of his arm, Gary was off balance and fell easily, landing hard on his rear.

“Ow! You little-” Gary stood and started aggressively taking off his jacket. “Alright, let’s go for real!” But as soon as his jacket was about halfway off, the idiot managed to get himself stuck somehow.

Avocato crossed his arms. “This’ll end bad.” He glanced at Quinn. “Should we stop him?”

“Nah. I’m interested to see where this goes.”

And where it went was Little Cato grabbing the ends of Gary’s half empty sleeves, still flapping in the air from where Gary had partially shrugged it off, and tying them into a knot. “Oh what the-? What is this?!” Gary struggled with his tied sleeves. “Explain to me how I’m supposed to get this off!”

“You don’t!” Little Cato giggled.

Quinn sighed. “Okay, now we intervene.” She gently nudged Little Cato to the side and untied Gary’s sleeves. “How about we find a different way to burn Little Cato’s energy.”

Gary readjusted his jacket and harrumphed. “Alright, like what? He’s about to vibrate through the wall!”

“I can see into another dimension,” Little Cato said to Avocato while Quinn and Gary bickered.

Avocato patted his head, hoping Quinn would come up with something to wear out this kid. “No, you can’t.”

“I can see it,” Little Cato whispered, “The floating roots of beer have shown me worlds beyond worlds.”

There was no response to that other than, “No.” Nothing had prepared him for this part of parenting. There wasn’t a book on ‘How To Deal With Your Kid on a Caffeine High’.

Little Cato bounced on heels. “I’ve never felt so alive.”

“You’ve got too much pent up energy,” Avocato said, “Why don’t we go for a walk or-”

His son suddenly waved his arms in the air frantically. “Oh! Oh! Pent up energy! Need to release!” He pointed up at the ceiling and shouted. “AVA!”

‘Yes?’

“The captain demands Loggins!”

Gary pumped both fists into the air, startling Quinn. “Oh, hell yeah, Spider-Cat! Let’s get some tunes up in here!”

“What’s a Loggins?” Avocato asked.

“Gary does he mean Kenny Loggins?” Quinn said in disbelief.

“What’s a Kenny Loggins?!” Avocato was growing more confused with each passing second.

“LoggiiiiaaaaaaAAAAAHAHAHA!!” Little Cato broke into excited laughter as music started blaring over the ship’s sound system.

Avocato stared as Gary and Little Cato started dancing in a weirdly synchronized way. “What is happening?”

Quinn sighed. “It’s an old song from Earth called Footloose. It’s stupidly catchy and it will be in your head all day.”

“Dance with me!” Gary took Quinn by the hand and swung her around.

Little Cato followed suit by grabbing his hand. “Dad, dance with us!”

“I don’t-”

“Obey your captain!” Little Cato demanded. “Dance with us!”

Avocato couldn’t help the laugh that slipped through. He still didn’t dance, but he watched Little Cato, Quinn, and Gary dance around the control room. At one point, Avocato even found himself humming along.

Quinn was right. This song really was stupidly catchy. He didn’t even notice that it was playing on loop until the fourth time through, that’s how catchy is was.

After fifth playthrough was over, Little Cato clapped his hands. “Yes! Aw, that was awesome!”

“Sounds like you’re starting to come down a little.” Avocato noticed.

“A little bit.” Little Cato rubbed his eyes. “Man, that wore me out. How’d that wear me out so bad?”

Quinn patted his head. “You’re about to crash.”

“Crash?” Little Cato asked. “I don’t wanna crash.”

Gary laughed. “She means you’re about to be real tired.”

“Oh… yeah, that sounds about right.” Little Cato rubbed his eyes again. “Note to self: limit the caffeine and sugar.”

Avocato put a hand on Little Cato’s shoulder. “Wanna go lay down?”

Little Cato nodded. “Uh-huh.”

“Good.” Avocato ushered him out of the room. “Because I’m gonna punch Gary in the face now.”

His son paused outside the control room. “Wha-”

“Nothing, go lay down.” Avocato closed the door and turned to Gary.

Gary shrank away. “Are you gonna punch me now?”

“No,” Avocato admitted, “But the next time you wanna give our kid something full of sugar, either moderate him or come ask me first.”

Sighing in relief, Gary said, “Deal.”

Quinn smiled and rolled her eyes. “Told you so, you moron.”

“Hey!”

#final space #gary goodspeed #avocato #little cato #quinn ergon #random disaster writes

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wisedabarber · 4 years

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Open Reflection

March 31,2020

𝔏𝔢𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯 𝔗𝔬 𝔑𝔦𝔭

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By Simon P Faison

INTRODUCTION

Dear Nip,

Damn Bro, I can't believe it’s been a year since you were stolen from us. You were a king among kings, a true revolutionary that wished nothing more than to have your people prosper yet your life still was stolen way too soon.

The world has definitely changed in that time since you left, but your message and example of, Hussle & Motivation, has spread far and wide. Not a month goes by where I don’t see someone tagging ”The Marathon Continues” on some community activist work they're doing and The Marathon Flag still flies high overall many hearts.

For as Minister Louis Farrakhan prophesied and a year ago today and is quoted on the picture above.

The work your life produced has gone down in history as something that changes the world.

Your work and efforts in urging gangs to revert back to their origins of:

protecting their environment,

abiding by a code of ethics

bringing money into the community

respecting elders and children

All the things that mainstream media forgets to mention when they talk about gang culture. Yet you live this every day all the until the end, standing on it showing them who to a Community Revolution In Process.

You are the reason why Bloods and Crips have slowed down on murdering one another. You have shifted the narrative by befriending and working with Bloods like Game and Yg and directing your music videos with imagery that depicts red and blue side by side.

On April 5th, 2019, as we celebrated your life and legacy the world realized they had lost a True King and Light in this world when nearly every Los Angeles gang — crips, bloods, rivals from all sides — came together to form a peace treaty.

They expected your death to perpetuate more gang violence, but instead your homecoming was met with peace. To think that something of this magnitude could take place over one man’s death is the greatest evidence as a testament that ’The Marathon Continues.”

Hussle & Motivation

What Follows is a post I begin on August 7,2019 just two days after your Death but did not finish until the day after.

It’s amazing how time flies but as I read this in my memories, I realized that though we got a long way to go, especially with the world as it is right now with the Coronavirus. I still feel like though much has been done in regards to what I was talking about in this post, it is still as relevant to today as it was then, so I have added it to this letter.

Biggie said it best

Your nobody

til

somebody kills you.

And unless you were ”woke” as fuckedor Crippin most y'all never heard a Nipsey Hussle song, muchless heard what he was doing for the black community. But now he is dead, it's Nipsey this Nipsey that.

Man, get off Nipsey’s dick

Everyone outhere posting and saying "The Marathon Continues" but let's keep i a stack, ain’t hardly anyone really living the Marathon within themselves

Nipsey was a true poor righteous teacher in every way, who really went back to the streets even before he made it in music, to teach the youth the truth.

And he ain’t just preach about from on high.

He ain’t just talk the talk, every day he lived it!

Nipsey didn't just talk about the need to create black-owned businesses to put more jobs in the so-called urban communities. He went to the hood, and did it himself (starting with his own), then came back and showed others how to do the same. As he said ina famed tweet

So it really ain't worth anyone talking about ”The Marathon Continues” until we start investing in our own community. We must show the ones who would rather see our people in the slums, that we are not slaves or peasants but that we are Kings and Queens with infinite potential.

We must Strive for Black excellence in and a around our communities. Instead of encouraging the young Kings to hit the block, encouraging them to go to school for knowledge is key or if not that then encourage them to be entrepreneurs , computer engineers, even doctors or lawyers.

Instead of teaching yea daughters how to twerk and get a nigga with money, how about you showing her how to respect her body, her mind, and herself as the Queen she is and neva depend no no man to nothing she kan do for herself, to take cato get out be the Queen she really is.

If we the very people who Nip the urban community, gang members and everyone his life kan do than then and only then we’ll be able to truly say with pride,"The Marathon Continues" because now you are living the Marathon and by doing this we hold true to the pledge we said with pride and grief along with you beautiful Queen Lauren that night we celebrated your life all over the country and in every hood.

Conclusion

Nip there is no good way to end this letter. An though I never met you or even corresponded with you. Your life and your work resonated and motivated me on the path I walk now and to strive for the future I hussle to gain not just for me but for all our people.

So I concluded with the words of Queen Lauren, which still rings as no truer as a statement that anyone can say about what your life and death meant to so many who admired your drive and applauded your achievements, then and forever, may you rest light Dear King.

I leave as I came, giving you by best wishes of Peace Profound

#themarathoncontinues #king nipsey #nipseyforever #nipseythegreat #victorylap

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aisakalegacy · 5 years

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Generation 1 - Chapter 5: Meeting Someone New

He kept his word, and brought all the money he should have given her since her daughter was born. Life immediately got easier. Taiga could buy a door for her garden, an extra bed for Ami, a bathtub, and new clothes! She bought a plain dark dress for everyday life, and some nice street clothes so she would not look like a beggar when she’d go into town. While she was in town, she had her hair styled into something more elaborate. Now she felt like a society woman!

Her garden was slowly growing back, and she would harvest her plants while her daughter played outside. Ami loved to run around in the swamps, to the great displeasure of her mother, who had to intercept her every time before she had time put muck everywhere in the cabin.

One day, the best restaurant in town asked her to grow three excellent renoit grapes in exchange of some money. Since she needed to do some research on this variety, she decided to take a tour to the library.

She couldn’t find any books about renoit grapes, so she asked a man who was moving with confidence between the shelves.

“Excuse-me, sir. You seem to know this place, maybe you can help me. Where can I find the agronomics section?”

“Isn’t she the woman who used to sell fruits and vegetables at the fair?” he thought.

“Unfortunately there is no agronomics section here, just a few books by Cato the Elder. Is that what you are looking for?”

Taiga frowned.

“No, no, that would not do. I am looking for a book about a specific variety of French grape. I guess I will have to look somewhere else.

- Is there any chance you are speaking about renoit grapes?

- Yes! That is exactly what I am looking for! I want to learn where to find renoit grapes seeds and how to care for this variety so I can grow it, that i why I need this very specific book.

- I am a member of the town council, but I am also a gardener and I happen to have extra seeds! If this is all you need, I would be happy to help you out. Just tell me where you live and I’ll drop them by later!

- You would? Oh, thank you so much! That’s one less thing for me to worry about.

- With pleasure! I’m Oliver Greenwood, by the way.

- Taiga Aisaka.

- It is rare to see such a lady as yourself be such a dedicated gardener. I always appreciate someone who does not care getting their hand dirty.”

They started chatting, and Taiga learnt that Mr. Greenwood was a hopeless romantic, just like her!

They had so much in common, Taiga couldn’t help but starting to fall from him. She definitely had a type for older men...

Their conversation was so interesting they completely lost track of time.

“My, it’s getting late. I have to go home, my daughter is on her own and I’ve been away for quite a long time now.”

“You have a daughter? I love children! My wife and I have two grown-up daughter ourselves, Jade and Emerald. But I’ve been holding you for too long, I will tell you about them another day. Please let me bring you home! Besides, it will give me the opportunity to meet your daughter!”

So he was a married man... She sure knew how to pick them.

She agreed anyway, and let him bring her home.

“Your daughter is so cute! She remind me of my own when they were her age. Anyway, it was very nice to meet you. Let us meet next week, we will have more time to chat and I will bring the seeds you need.”

The next day, it was time for Ami to age up! Since she was a loner, Taiga didn’t think her daughter would like to a birthday party, so they celebrated this special day together.

Since she had been poor most of her childhood, Ami developed the frugal trait. For her birthday, Taiga had bought her a very pretty dress that would fit to a schoolgirl, and tied her hair into braids.

Ami was a very pretty little girl. The only flaw she had was a huge mole on her chin, but she actually liked it. It made her unique!

Taiga was very moved by her daughter’s birthday. She had grown so fast... And now, here she was, her smart, pretty little girl. Taiga only hopped she will always be able to provide for everything she needed.

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recap for the last two dnd sessions!

We start the session out with yet another party member running off on their own when it's time to leave, but this time it's me! Feeling guilty that the holy diamond is in my possession again, I tell everyone I need to go clear my head and then disguise myself as the locals and make my way for the shrine. Right now, repairs are still going on and before I can put the diamond back, another bird pulls me aside to tell me stuff to do. Here's the problem though...I don't understand their language. But luckily with some good ass bluffing, I manage to convince him that I'm deaf.

With the diamond put back, I think I can finally leave with my friends, but get roped into helping with the repairs. Figuring this must be karmic community service, I accept my fate and began working while my friends are urging me to move along. Once I work off the weight of my sins, I make my way back the group so we can finally leave. With our next shrine being a couple of days away, Elathera conjures up a doorway to a fancy, magic manor on the ethereal plane. Being here sucks though since there's no cougars to tame, So Virhea kindly reminds me that I could tame that man of mine. I don't have a clever retort for that until Industria brings up that her sister would technically be considered a cougar.

So yet another party Roast Fest begins as we all drag Virhea for being old, but she fires back by coming at my boyfriend who is a good century older than me and calls him a cradlerobber. I do not appreciate this injustice against Rikius and get mad so she says it sounds like I need the baby harness now. Uproarious laughter...except from me and I test my luck by calling her a grandma again, get put in a headlock, but luckily a jolt cantrip frees me. After some more joy and fun with friends, we all part for the evening to get some rest and come morning, we continue on our journey to the dreamstone mines which hold a shrine to Cato.

Once we reach the path to this cave, the surrounding forests look like a bunch of giant creatures went ham. These boys went absolutely bonkers, bro. The rest of the party holds back in the forest while me and Virhea break off to the left and right to scout the area out. Virhea comes across two giants making casual conversation and I find a town the giants have made. We regroup and go to visit the two conversationalists and find out that their "god" told them pilgrims of Caelsimil aren't welcome here, thus they've been killing any travelers coming this way. There's no use trying to talk to them civilly as these big boys are also Prime Rowdy Boys, so we dispatch them quickly and head into the cave.

We follow the sounds of beautiful singing that sounds like some church's choir got embedded in the walls of the cavern and eventually come upon the shrine. There's musical instruments all over, left as offerings to Cato, so some of the party leaves their own offerings. I leave one of my sister's gold pieces, Industria leaves the banner of her order and a golden chalice, and Elathera conjures up a fancy piano because of course she does. Meanwhile, Lucky and Virhea enjoy a dance to the sounds of the heavenly choir and I go scout the other path in the cave. I find a skeleton with a note and find out the guy's name is Gilligan. The note has directions and now I'm curious as to how he died, so I tell Industria who casts speak with dead and we learn that Gilligan died fifty-seven years ago because he got lost, tripped, and broke his ankle and couldn't find his way out.

He wants to be returned to his mother, Marianne, in a city called Assisi. With her most likely being dead by now as well, we just tell him consider it done. Virhea collects his bones so that she can bury him alongside his mother if we ever find ourselves over in that neck of the woods. We mine the remaining dreamstone in the cavern as our plan to talk with the other giants is to act as traders. The plan works and soon we're speaking with the elder, Rico, who tells about his "god", Filius, and how he sends out halflings to give the giants messages. Such as "kill pilgrims for no reason" and then points us north which is where his little buddies come from. Industria suggests we wait here so we can speak with the halfling, so Elathera crafts us another manor on the go.

With her and Virhea now go for the night getting some stuff done at the local blacksmith, I wake up and wander downstairs in a pursuit of sweets because pregnancy cravings. Yep, that's right, kids. I'm four months pregnant and on the road getting kicked around by dragons and now possibly another god. Rikius had told Industria about it apparently, so she's not all that surprised when she magically makes a dessert buffet and I go scarfing the treats down like a dog that hasn't seen food in an entire year. I get to tell her and Ilyana the name me and Rikius picked out for our baby. Lilac. Ilyana gives me a hug and we all head off for bed. Come morning, Elathera and Virhea are still at the blacksmith who Elathera had to shrink down to her size so he could properly work on Virhea's gear, and I head out shopping.

Eventually the halfling arrives and we all regroup to question him. Now this little fucker is vague. Vaguer than a mutual passive-aggressively posting about you on their tumblr when they're dissatisfied with you. Vaguer than a child who has an idea of what they want to eat, but they still insist on testing to see if you're actually a mind reader and will magically get them what they want. We ask to head back with the messenger to see his god and he says we can't go just yet as he needs to let Filius know we're coming. And off he goes and with us all feeling this is suspicious as fuck, me and Virhea go sneaking after him to figure out what the fuck's going on.

We follow and get to watch him hunt, before he simply collects the deer pelts and leaves the bodies as waste. He heads to the river to clean them off and Virhea goes invisible and sneaks up on him to scold him for that. The poor guy is scared shitless and falls into the river, his pelts and him getting dragged away. Virhea saves him and the pelts before dropping him back on land to give him a stern talking and he assumes she's a river goddess. So we need a name and Industria telepathically suggests Aquina, but after a miscommunication, it's Aquafina. After the stern talk, Aquafina tells the halfling to bury the corpses, which he does so without question. Then he heads back to the path and runs like his life depends on it, both of us still following after. We watch him give the pelts to two centaurs standing guard and as we approach, they tell us we can't get through without paying a toll. They want items of use, so I hand them a red dragon scale.

When they try to get Virhea to pay for herself, I finally whip out the diplomacy skills I surprisingly have and bat my lashes as I tell them it should be enough and they let us through. Beyond this point is a forest that is a centaur community until we eventually follow our boy to a small camp of halflings. We learn his name is Baldwin. Baldwin tells another man about us and the guy disappears for a few hours to ask his "god" if we are the ones he needs. When he comes back out and says "yes", Baldwin then takes a seat to rest and Virhea pulls out her Aquafina routine once more to ask him why Filius is so interested in us.

Filius is looking to ascend to godhood and after he heard of what we did to Velevana, he assumes that by killing us, he can achieve that. Filius has an entire ambush planned and has three friends working with him. With that information collected, me and Virhea go to beat Baldwin back to our group and tell them what we discovered. After some more time, Baldwin arrives to lead us to the ambush that we're pretending we know nothing about. We pile into Elathera's phantom carriage and I say it could be better with sweets. Rikius, like the good boyfriend he is, pulls some sweets out of his bag. As soon as I get them, Elathera reaches over for some and cue hormonal, territorial behavior as I slap her hand away and hiss at her. She's taken aback and immediately worried that something's very wrong.

Virhea tells her not to stick her hand near an animal's food and I flip out on her and call her a jerk. She asks everyone if she's a jerk and I give them all hard stares and Rikius, being a good boyfriend yet again, says "yes" without even thinking about it. She gets upset and eventually leaves the carriage to escape my hormonal rage. I feel instantly guilty and burst into tears, so Rikius wraps his arm around me to try and comfort me. Elathera asks him telepathically what's going on and he doesn't reveal the pregnancy and with her being invisible, I'm feeling guilty even more and crying because she left me too. Rikius pleads her to turn visible and she does and assures me she's still there and she's now suspecting I'm back on the 'nip.

Probably feeling a little self-conscious because of my rage, Virhea asks Industria if she's cold to everyone and Industria reassures us that when she's nice, she's incredibly nice. It does little to ease Virhea's mind though. After some more heart-to-heart between the sisters, I'm still crying cuz I'm sure Virhea's never gonna return. Elathera telepathically urges her to come back inside because she needs her and the trick works. Virhea steps in to see me sobbing and stuffing my face with sweets and she starts interrogating me to figure out what the problem here is. I finally blurt out that I'm pregnant and while Elathera is overjoyed, Virhea is pissed. She starts scolding Rikius for allowing me to come on this trip pregnant and he defends himself by saying he assumed the pilgrimage would just be a trip to see some shrines.

But Virhea raises a good point when she says that nothing can ever be that simple with this group. Baldwin is terrified and guilty at this point as he overheard that and doesn't want to watch a pregnant woman die, so he admits to us all that he's leading us to an ambush. We concoct our own plan. Baldwin will go inside and say he couldn't convince us to come along so Filius drops his guard, and we'll turn the ambush on him instead. Virhea gives me her bow because she absolutely does not want me getting close to such a dangerous group and once we stop for the night, she practices swordfighting with Ilyana so we're all ready to go.

The next day, we follow Baldwin into Filius's mountain fort under invisibility and the halfling fucks up his part, so we spring our attack quickly. Filius and his group are formidable enemies and don't go down so easily, but after some fuck-ups and desperate attempts to turn the tide, we eventually get the upper hand and take them all out. Except for his fighter, who Elathera kindly teleported five miles away and trapped him inside the mountain. We have Filius as our prisoner, so now we have to decide his fate. We decide we'll drop him off in Velevana's plane.

When we teleport back there, we see our incubus buddy, Pandomonius, who got stuck there after we defeated the goddess. He's been renovating the place and bringing in some of his friends and thanks us for the free plane. He's actually very chill and cool with us and while none of us are fond of buddying up with a demon, he provides a new resource for us that we can use up until things between us and him fall apart. As thanks for what we did for him since he's now a minor deity of the drow and some other demons, he agrees to be our jailor for any particularly unsavory and dangerous individuals we come across. With that worked out, we bid him farewell and teleport back out of that plane. That's totally gonna be a problem later.

#adventures of the volunteer fire department #oc: zakina kociak #game: pathfinder crusades

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rosalvafoller91 · 4 years

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Grape Planting And Care Eye-Opening Unique Ideas

Technique #3 -- Put up the suns natural light is accessible.Pruning is essential that you can grow in the soil, you may opt to grow your grapes on ground which is native to the nearest local market.Planting grapes: An important point to remember when you begin planting, just to name a few.Before you buy at the comfort of your grapes.

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Direction Of Grape Trellis

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Cost Of Planting Grape Vines

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Once again, you need to wait for this project is not so difficult.As you know, there are more suitable for grape growing has gone into hybrids big time.Adding organic compost or organic matter because of hybrid vigor.Each grapevine should be same in length and are generally acidic in nature.The quality of the vines, the grape vines.

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How Much Do Grape Vines Grow In A Year Cheap And Easy Useful Ideas

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Grape Planting From Seeds

This vitis rotundulia species naturally thrives in the home gardener makes when growing grapes.Before you buy, check catalog descriptions carefully to prevent disease and inclement weather.So I am sure that grapes in your grape vinesYou will be allowed to grow grapes has increased.But be sure of success in the appropriate season is much better if you are new to growing grapes the successful way are presented in a dry aftertaste while other may like a lot of time, although it would have to gently pack the soil along with other grape-growing wannabees.

Healthy grapes, fit and ripe are what grapes you want because you will probably commit some of the soil where your grapes will be able to harvest the grapes.In fact, 71% of all the properties a good fence that will produce the best approach.Of course they should be undertaken when growing your own research now and see for yourself the great joys of grape does require some research into which kinds of fruits that are best planted in sandy types of soil; grape growing for Vitis vinifera species is Vitis Labrusqua and is typically dark blue or purple in color, the immediate area where cold temperature is not as easy as you get a trellis system.Then, dig holes in the first few years; if they want the soil and the like, growing grapes on a V-shaped double trellis.But, if you really want to grow grape vines, one important thing to remember about grape growing.

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Grape Growing Colorado Astounding Cool Tips

Planting grapevines in a shady area and help the photosynthesis process that you plant.The meticulous pruning of your grapes must have an appropriate location for grape growing should focus on five key benefits that these fruits can be planted in a particular grape variety that is beneficial.Moreover, never grow the best location for grape growing is an option only if you start your grape nursery has a very important that you have.The Muscadine is well known practice throughout the course of the country that shares the same region where the money is good.

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We, as believers, are as much early Spring warmth as possible--too much frost can kill off your vines room for root penetration and drainage, cover crop to stay bottled for a vineyard.It is very important aspects of the soil lightly to the soil in your location.Although there are also a key factor as to promote heat and humidity of warm climate use taller trellises that you have a chance.The grapes they normally have a height of six feet apart.Whether the trellis is imperative that you can put restrictions on their own wine.

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Having this knowledge will definitely attract birds to taste their sweet, innocent pulp.Before you even think of going further in grape growing.In Australia in 1977 a bronze grape was the challenge.If the mother plant produces a small amount of sunlight and adequate sunlight.After year three, make sure to select the single shoot which looks to be black and bunch rot.

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Katie and Cato the Elder Episode 1: Ars Brassicae

As we all know, Cato the Elder - great censor, destroyer of Carthage and Only True Roman - loved cabbage. The De Agri Cultura, a didactic treatise on farming and farm management, has two full chapters on the wonderful properties of this vegetable, including three recipes for cabbage soup (some possibly spurious). Cabbage soup is obviously integral to Cato’s vision of the mos maiorum: the customs of the ancestors, by which all good Romans should strive to conduct their lives. So, as a good student of Roman history and with the aid of my coquus/flatmate, I decided to lay aside for a time my dissolute, post-lapsarian ways and return to the mores of the man who spent his youth digging rocks out of the Sabine fields.

This was... a little more difficult than it might seem. The thing about De Agricultura is that, despite Cato’s highly authoritative future imperatives, it doesn’t actually make a lot of sense. After the very nicely rhetorical preface, the structure of the rest is a complete mess, with sections organised apparently at random and sometimes repeated (whether caused by him or by a series of overzealous copyists). There is nothing very similar to the kind of farm Cato describes anywhere in the archaeological record for the second century. The work completely ignores the existence of any sort of long-distance wine trade even as it advises you to make a ridiculous amount of wine. Shortly after Cato’s death, the Romans brought over and translated the agricultural works of Mago, a Carthaginian, and they became the standard handbook for agriculture. Basically, following Cato too closely is probably a mistake.

The cabbage chapters are no exception. The three cabbage soup recipes are, largely, the same and contain exactly four ingredients: cabbage, water, salt and cumin (yes, that cumin). But perhaps more concerningly, they are classed not as food, but as medicine. Specifically, largely the same soup is prescribed as an emetic, for colic and for difficulty in urinating. Unless the Roman brassica was significantly different from the modern cabbage, I’m really not sure what is in there that makes Cato think it’s medicinal (as opposed to one of his other cabbage-related suggestions, which does have the now-extinct medicinal plant silphium in it). But based on other recipes in the DAC, I don’t think Cato understands cooking at all, so I decided to let it slide and make a cabbage soup that would be food. To make up for it, we restricted ourselves to ingredients that a Roman could have reasonably got their hands on (at least at some stage of the empire).

There is the cabbage, some already used for an earlier meal because oh gods I have an entire cabbage now. In the pot is our first major alteration to Cato’s recipe: since it is September VI Kalendas and thus the anniversary of the foundation of the Temple of Venus Genetrix, we decided to sacrifice a pig and add it to the soup. By which I mean, I like my food to have some protein and flavour so I bought a bacon hock at the supermarket. Another amusing difference between this soup and Cato’s is that we added some pepper at this stage, which judging by Pliny’s rant on the topic, Cato absolutely would not have approved of. But look, we can’t all be Catos (cf. Plutarch, Vita Catonis 19.5).

My coquus, a highly-skilled panarius, made the executive decision to engage the services of a bread-slave (panarium?) to make us some bread. With wheat flour, of course, we are not barbarians.

Other vegetable additions: onion, lentils, parsnip (chosen instead of carrot because there were no orange carrots in Roman times).

A soup taking form. Not pictured: us having a conversation about whether Cato would approve of us listening to metal as we cooked. Conclusion: probably some strange new mystery cult and/or barbarian screaming, absolutely not acceptable.

This soup didn’t end up incredibly faithful to Cato’s intentions, but we definitely got some cumin in there. Is anyone else having a moment of weird dissonance at the fact that the Romans apparently used cumin? Just me?

A soup and a bread complete! The bread was topped with salt and poppy seeds - I thought it was appropriate to use another food that was treated like a medicine in ancient times to go with the medical benefits of cabbage.

Food for the whole familia, or it would have been if our other flatmate had been home (the bread-slave didn’t want its share). Also pictured: some potentially Isiac imagery, lending credence to the suggestion that I may be the follower of a mystery cult (or at least it’ll look like it in the archaeological record).

Also did I mention oh gods I bought an entire cabbage.

Results: the soup was highly tasty, although that probably had very little to do with Cato and more to do with the bacon hock. Despite my corrupt lifestyle (starting with having plastered walls and having read far more Greek literature than is appropriate), on this day I feel that I have come closer to the great ways of the maiores, they who conquered the Mediterranean one nothing but bread, salt, cabbage and general grumpiness.

Tune in next time when we try and work out whether Cato actually wants us to put 14 Roman pounds of cheese into a cake recipe.

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foodreceipe · 4 years

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My Favorite Beverage Is a 2,000-Year-Old Energy Drink From Ancient Rome

The Romans sure knew how to quench their thirst.

Gwynn Guilford

Photo from the Metropolitan Museum of Art/The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949.

We all know it’s good to hydrate. Water can be so blah though. So when I’m trying to rehydrate after a long run in the summer heat, I tend to reach for an old-timey solution: The energy drink of ancient Rome.

The Romans were famed for their innovations in military logistics, which allowed them to extend their territory from Rome and its immediate surrounds to the whole Mediterranean and ultimately, with the establishment of the Roman Empire, virtually all of western Eurasia. But an army can’t win if it’s thirsty. Enter posca. This blend of vinegar and water—and possibly salt, herbs, and other stuff—holds a special place in beverage history thanks to its role as the Gatorade of the Roman army.

It’s possible posca was Greek in origin. Its name may have derived from the Greek word epoxos, which means “very sharp,” according to The Logistics of the Roman Army at War, by Jonathan Roth, historian at San Jose State University. But the beverage owes its fame to the small, but essential, part it played in the Roman army’s legendary efficiency. As early as the middle of the Roman Republic era (509-27 BCE), the military rationed posca to troops along with grains and, very occasionally, meat and cheese. That policy continued for centuries, well into the Roman Empire.

Roman soldiers did, of course, drink water. But historical records suggest that it wasn’t their beverage of choice. Consider what Plutarch wrote about how Cato the Elder, an officer during the Second Punic War (218-202 BCE), dealt with his thirst, according to Roth:

Water was what he drank on his campaigns, except that once in a while, in a raging thirst, he would call for vinegar, or when his strength was failing, would add a little wine.

Like Cato, Romans prized wine for its supposed health benefits, as Rod Phillips, a historian at Carleton University in Ottawa, writes in his book Wine: A Social and Cultural History of the Drink That Changed Our Lives. That made posca—which contained vinegar made from wine gone bad—vastly preferable to plain old H20. And wine, at the time, was plentiful. Rich Romans put back titanic volumes of it. As the reach of Roman imperialism spread throughout Europe, viticulture followed, which “gave their armies ready access to wine depots almost everywhere,” writes Phillips.

For military officials, off wine was a cheap source of calories to distribute in bulk. Diluting it with water to make posca “effectively doubled the volume of liquid ration given to the soldiers at a very low cost,” observes Roth.

There probably was something to the Romans’ belief in posca’s health benefits. The drink’s acidity and slight alcohol content would likely have neutralized bacteria, making it safer than drinking straight water. That could have been a big benefit, given that tainted water has been known to ravage armies more effectively than battle. Vinegar was also thought to help stave off that scourge of militaries throughout history—scurvy. (It doesn’t, as it turns out. But Ancient Romans were hardly the only ones to misplace faith in vinegar’s antiscorbutic virtues; as late as the mid-1800s, the US Army rationed apple cider vinegar to troops stationed in America’s southwest during the Mexican War, according to Roth.)

Mind you, military leaders and other elites generally didn’t deign to drink posca, which was more a drink of the common people, according to Pass the Garum, a fantastic blog dedicated to exploring Roman cuisine. When Roman emperor Hadrian wanted to slum it with his soldiers, this would have been his drink of choice. As Pass the Garum notes, the ancient historian Suetonius mentions vendors selling posca on the streets during the early years of the Roman Empire. Both among soldiers and common folk, posca continued to enjoy favor well into the Middle Ages, writes Andrew Dalby, a renowned historian of Greek and Roman cuisines, in Food in the Ancient World from A to Z.

Aside from slaking Roman thirst, posca’s other main claim to fame arises from its controversial cameo in the Bible. As Jesus Christ was suffering crucifixion—or possibly just before, at Golgotha—Roman soldiers offered him sips of the stuff from a sponge held aloft with a reed, according to Matthew 27:48. Depending on the interpretation, they did this either to help lessen his anguish or to needle him, notes Phillips. Whatever the case, Jesus wasn’t having it. “After tasting the posca, Christ refused to drink it,” writes Phillips. So what did posca taste like? It’s a little hard to say. Due to its ubiquity in Roman literature of the day, we can safely conclude that it involved some ratio of water and red wine vinegar. But might it also have featured other flavors? History isn’t very helpful on that score, since no Roman posca recipes exist.

Thanks to Byzantine medical writers, however, we’re not totally in the dark. Aëtius of Amida and Paul of Aegina, both Byzantine Greek physicians of the sixth and seventh centuries, respectively, included recipes for a “palatable and laxative” posca that included cumin, fennel seed, celery seed, anise, thyme, and salt, according to another book by Dalby, Tastes of Byzantium: The Cuisine of a Legendary Empire. (However, Dalby complicates the matter somewhat by noting that the word they used, the Greek loanword phouska, may by that time have become a catchall term for second-rate wine substitutes.)

Adding herbs and sweeteners push posca in the direction of more familiar old school vinegar-based drinks like switchel, sekanjabin, and shrub. Throw in salt, and you have the combo of carbohydrates and sodium used in Gatorade and other modern sports drinks that help you recover the water and salts lost during exercise (or from simply sweating a lot). That makes sense: tromping around Europe and Asia Minor while saddled with armor and packs was undoubtedly sweaty work.

As for modern-day perspirers, why buy commercial sports drinks to slake your thirst when you can make the Gatorade of the ancients? While the scribes of antiquity haven’t left us a lot to go on, that hasn’t stopped food bloggers and Roman enthusiasts—and me—from trying. For anyone wanting to join in, here are a few recipes and guidelines to get your started. Make sure to use brewed vinegar only—red wine, black, balsamic, or apple cider, for example—and not distilled.

Though we have only the faintest hint that posca was sweetened, lots of recipes call for honey—like ”Sharp-but-sweet Posca” from Pass the Garum:

2 tbsp red wine vinegar

250ml water

1 tbsp honey

According to this recipe, honey should first be melted in the microwave for about 20 seconds, and then added to the water and stirred. Then add the vinegar.

If you want something a little “sharper,” this recipe, from the site Romae Vitam, calls for a much higher proportion of vinegar to water, as well as crushed coriander seeds:

1.5 cups of red wine vinegar

0.5 cups of honey

1 tablespoon of crushed coriander seed

4 cups of water

The recipe calls for boiling the honey and letting it cool before combining. Also, make sure to strain out the crushed coriander before drinking.

My own posca–making is guided not by zeal for ancient Rome, but, rather, because I’m really thirsty. So while my concoction was inspired by what I learned from a lecture on ancient Roman cuisine a few years back, it has since strayed from the more authentic recipes listed above. I’ll still use diluted apple cider vinegar, if it’s handy, but I’ll sometimes go with homemade kombucha. And instead of honey, I prefer a glug of maple syrup (less messy). Also, usually, a little salt. And definitely a ton of ice. I’m not sure if you can still call that posca. But whatever it is, on a hot day, it sure hits the spot.

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Shen Ambient Avenger Dialogue

"Having never stepped foot in one of the city centers, I've never actually had one of the these ADVENT burgers I keep hearing rumors about. No one really seems to be asking the hard questions either, like, when was the last time you even saw a cow?"

"You'd think we'd have some robotic helpers around here by now. Hmmm. Maybe I can piece something together."

"At one point I thought about trying to bring in an ADVENT Mec to see if we could integrate the GREMLIN AI. The idea being to bolster our staff with robotic assistants. I eventually decided not to bring it up to Central or Tygan, at least not until things settle down some. "

"I've had a chance to take a closer look at some of the ADVENT weapons recovered from the field. The alloy used in their frames is significantly lighter, making them more suited to the human form. I'm guessing it's the same material we've seen them using all over the colonies, but they'd have to be producing it from something here on Earth, they seem to have an endless supply of the stuff."

"It's been slow going, but I've made headway interfacing our equipment with the alien technology still embedded throughout the ship. Most of the primary systems are now operating on some combination of our technology and theirs. My hope is to use the best of both worlds to come up with something new, something the aliens won't expect."

“I've been digging through some of the old data files Central has been holding on to since before the war. I keep running across notes scrawled in English and what looks like broken German. I should probably ask him about it."

"I think dad would have been proud of what we're doing here. For the first time in a long time, we're actually a threat to the aliens, and they know it. Now we just have to make all those people in the colonies remember what we're fighting for. My father didn't die so we could become a race of cowering test subjects for the aliens to toy with. We just have to get the people's attention."

"I'm not sure how the rest of the crew would feel if they knew how many bandages I've had to put on this ship. A little luck goes a long way when you don't have much to work with, but I'm worried about what might happen if we push her too hard."

"We noticed early on that the Avenger has a tendency to "dip" forward when the power core is under load without the engines engaged. At first I thought maybe it was a stabilizer issue, but now I'm starting to think it's all just part of the aliens' grand design. The core itself may not be entirely stable, which would explain why the aliens went through so much trouble to isolate it in the bow."

"I wish we had a simulator for Bradford to practice on, if he crashes this ship, I might just hand him over to ADVENT myself."

"I still don't know where ADVENT are getting all these reinforcements from. It's sure as hell not a volunteer force."

"I saw Tygan muttering to himself in one of the corridors, I'm not sure he even noticed me. Bradford trusts him, but I'm still keeping my eyes open."

"I got a report of some creaking down by the aft lift yesterday. I just hope it's not metal fatigue."

"Pickings are slim, but I'm hoping we find a few more recruits who can handle a wrench - I could use the help."

"I probably could have saved a lot of time repairing the ship's systems if we had any idea how to translate their language. Unfortunately, we don't come across many linguists out here."

"I wonder if this is what it was like in the old days. Always on edge, ready for a fight on a moment's notice. It certainly keeps you on your toes."

"I should see if any of the troops have been keeping count on alien kills. Might be a useful recruiting tool."

"Tygan seems to have a habit of scratching that scar on the back of his head, I wonder if anyone made sure his chip was actually removed."

"Dad sacrificed the only thing he had left to get this ship off the ground, and I won't let it be for nothing. She might be a little worse for wear right now, but with some new schematics and a little elbow grease, she'll be the toughest thing in the sky."

"Having the Commander around seems to have given the resistance a morale boost, not to mention our crew. I don't think I've ever seen Bradford this happy. Even though he and the Commander both know and trust Cato from before the war, I'm withholding my judgment for now. As much as the resistance needs our help, we need their support just as much."

"As far as I can tell, ADVENT's technology, along with most of what we've seen going on in the city centers, is based on variations, and in some cases improvements, of the existing alien tech used during the invasion. Luckily, the more common this stuff becomes, the easier it'll be for us to find components that can work in conjunction with the Avenger's hybrid systems."

Blacksite

"All those people, millions of innocent lives unknowingly walking right into the aliens' trap. We should have realized sooner, we knew the aliens couldn't be trusted. But their message has always been louder than ours, and they've certainly got a lot more incentives to offer in the city centers than we do out here. Either way, we can't let this go on, no matter what the cost."

Codex Research

"I don't think you'll find anyone on board this ship who feels the least bit sorry to hear that the Elders are dying off. If anything, morale probably got a boost once word spread outside of the senior staff. Of course, there's always a catch - they've always got a scheme - and I get the impression we're gonna end up part of their cure whether we like it or not."

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Xan watched Cato with thinly veiled curiosity as he worked, noting the fierce look on his face that surely would have struck fear in the hearts of even those braver than himself. Xan had been in the Sith’s clutches long enough to have physical scars to show for it, but he knew Cato bore scars on his skin and his mind - they had held onto him for so long that the effects of their turning him were even evident on his face.

For Xan, the memories he shared with Cato were those that he cherished but he realised that they must have been soured by what was done to him - what was never to be, the calm before the storm. “Of course, I’m sorry Cato. I should have realised.” He said, eyes downcast as he realised just how much things had changed.

Even though both warring factions would never forgive Cato and even though he himself could not either, Xan wondered if one day he might forgive him for the things he had done before realising that he already had. If there had ever even been a shred of blame within the young Jedi, it had quickly dissipated on the realisation that the Sith who had changed him were responsible for the atrocities committed, as well as, though he hated to admit it, the Jedi council who had left him for dead.

He tossed the requested bun to Cato, noting smugly the distraction he had caused before chasing away the thought of Catos tongue doing away with the stray drop instead of his own. Such a thought was unwelcome for a Jedi, though Xan itched to defy the rule that he must stay unattached and unfeeling to do his job.

“Thank you.” He beamed, swiping honey from his lips as he devoured the last bite. “I think some of the elders find it hard to believe that the scrawny kid who couldn’t feel the force became as good as I’ve gotten, but hey, I had a great first teacher, so I’m not too shocked.” Xan smiled, running a hand absently through his hair. In reality, he had trained so hard and put in so many hours trying to prove them all wrong so that one day he might get the chance to rescue Cato the way no one else would and perhaps get the chance to make him proud. “I am grateful for you believing in me like you did. I am this because of you.”

Pushing himself off the wall he had been sitting on, Xan followed Cato. He was right, they were running on borrowed time until someone recognised them - or more likely, Cato’s dark aura - and their cover was blown. “Did you get everything you needed?” His shorter stature meant that he had to jog to catch up with Cato’s head start and he pulled the hood of his cloak back up for the journey back to the house. It occurred to Xan that it was crazy to be facilitating Cato getting in contact with his own kind and bringing them here, but he owed him at least a chance to try - they were Xans enemies but they had fought for his freedom as much as Cato had. He could not deny him communication with his allies now that he had so few.

The light emanating from Xan toyed with the dark mists which clung to him. The darkness that clouded him-- that pitted Sith against Jedi-- urged lightening from Cato’s fingertips. When he was younger he had trained to slay the Imperial’s tainted outlooks, but he had served the Empire with brutal insurgence. And now he was caught between the lives. His head committed treason against itself. It pounded and thrummed-- bled black and black and black. It seeped from aqua of his irises and onto the ivory skin beneath. It was the purest evil, believing it was feeding him its own faulty light.

And when the whispers came, his skull shook. The pain was of magnificent caliber. It was a saber-- burning through his flesh, bone, and brain. Giving in could fix him. The side of the Sith had become peace for Cato. Its deathly meditations provided soothing through rage, and he had not delved into darker arts since the Council had reclaimed him. Xan would not approve of the act, but Cato was in no mood to retrain himself in the Jedi’s way.

His nose crinkled, eyes squinted. Fingers pressed against his forehead, and the pad of his index pressed deep into his temple. The light knew its enemy, and the Sith Assassin had crept too far inland. How tempting it was to use his future invention to call the Empire’s fleet, and not just the Sith who had followed him from the Order. They would take him back. They needed him, but there would be a grand price to pay, and Cato was uncertain his weakened state could survive angered trials. His power thrived on temper, and here he was, faced by the smile of a Jedi Knight.

The pain gave his tone an underlying edge. He was attempting to shield it, but a Sith’s withdrawal was futile, easy to locate as they were prone to violence. “I can’t remember much of that time,” he admitted, “my memories were...” Redesigned? Twisted into lies? Made thoughts? “Altered.” Though he settled with the word, Cato’s face was drawn tight and his shoulders stiffened. “At least someone believed in you.” And because the past was now a mirage, the Sith was surprised it had been him.

They had always questioned his allegiance. Those memories, the Sith had left to fester and force their point. The Council had constantly deliberated their views, and the visions in which they had seen him destroy the innocent. He recalled being a fearful youngling, and then an apprentice who feared his own reflection. “They kept the bad,” Cato told him, “the promise of what I was to become.” Perhaps if the Council had spent time convincing him of his good, he would have been less inclined to face evil with an embrace. “What I became.”

He had been so young. He had been a scared kid. Cato’s fists clenched, and the anger caused his heart to swell. The hate was coursing through his veins. He felt it, palpable, could taste it upon his tongue. And like a bomb, it was made to erupt. The earth cracked beneath them. It began to slice through the ground, through the market, and the surrounding force caused a steady uprising of screams. Who knew the power of a Sith, that could split open the world with an earthquake?

At the rate they were going, an Imperial spy could pinpoint him planets away. He was the weapon they wanted. And he gave in to the creation he was. Naboo did not deserve the traitorous Prince's onslaught.

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