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Salt, Sugar, and Bittersweet prt 3

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Mmm, I know I promise angst of some form. I tried, but it do realize that I did boarder on the line writing Yandere readers. That wasn’t my intention but it worked with the prompt. I do ask for your understanding of the characters I picked were not who you wanted. I am considering taking requests but I have one already so there’s that… Enjoy.

!!Warning!! Mentions of bleeding, wounds, unhealthy attachment to another party, and just a twinge of wholesomeness because I’d actually cry.

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Prompts •—• Prt 1 •—• Prt 2

15: “Don’t go where I can’t follow?”

Rachel (Raven) Roth

There’s always an equal opposite force to everything. You were that force to the daughter of Trigon. Not that you knew what to do. After years of searching, you ended up on earth.

“Should we restrain them?” “I’m tired of all these aliens.” “Hey, I find that offensive.” “B you’re not an alien.” “Alien blood counts.”

You glare. “I can hear you, why’s it hard to-“

As you reach you weren’t even sure what you were reaching for. Instead, you fell, hitting something firm and rough. Standing up the feeling of your feet on the ground made it easier to see.

“Where are you looking?”

As if a feeling reminded you what you were doing you move closer to them. Their figure disappeared when something changed.

“Wait.” The desperation in your voice as you drop to the ground you frown.

“I think they can’t see us, or they can’t see at all.” One of the other voices, they were referred to as B.

“Can’t see? I could for a little bit but when I landed here it became dark again,” you mumble.

“For an alien, they sure can speak very well,” someone sasses.

You tilt your head from side to side. “Alien, is that what I am to you?”

Suddenly a hand was on your head. Turing your face to them you smile.

“It’s you!” Jumping up you reach for them only to grab air.

“Ray? Do you know them?”

“No, and I don’t want to.”

You frown. “Wait, please don’t go where I can’t follow, please not again.”

“What do you mean again?”

Around you were the titans, though you knew nothing about this planet you knew who you were looking for.

“Yes, again. When our planets were destroyed I couldn’t find you. But I’ve found you again, so please don’t go,” you plead. “I’ll be good, I won’t do anything that you don’t want me to. Just don’t leave me out there again.”

It was quiet. Almost as if you could hear them thinking it was a moment before someone spoke.

“I think we should bring them with us, we can’t just leave them here. Especially if they can’t even see. What’s your name? Call me Nightwing.”

“Nightwing. I have no name, we are not allowed to speak them but I guess I have no name truly since my planet was destroyed,” you thought aloud.

The one who you’d been looking for sighs. “I don’t like this.”

“You can give me a name. I’ll gladly accept any name you give me,” you turn to where you heard her.

“For now let’s call them, Y/N. Night wing is right we should get out of the forest. Call me Raven for now.”

“Yes, priestess Raven.” You smile.

“Just Raven.”

“But I-“

“Say it.”

“R-Raven.�� You pout, getting back on your feet you heard their steps but weren’t sure how to follow.

Suddenly a hand was in yours. A small glimpse of what was in front of you as they drag you along. But why did you feel like something was wrong?

16: “go back to bed before you hurt yourself.”

Aizawa Shoto

Sitting up with a start you yelp at the shooting pain along your body. Looking down you saw the bloodied bandages and what was left of your hero uniform. Wiping off the sweat you look around the natural disaster that had been your home, you probably need to clean up.

Getting up from the bed you felt like you were walking for the first time. Your knees shake like a tree in a storm, just barely able to stand as you reach the doorway. Long messy trails of blood lead into your room and it couldn’t have just been your blood.

“No! That’s not fair, they're my guardian I deserve to see them!” The scream stabbed your heart.

“They’re still sleeping let them get some of their strength back before stressing them out like that.” Aizawa sighs. “Keith they wouldn’t want you to see them like this.”

It hurt to move, but as you heard your daughter crying you couldn’t just let it go. “Hey.”

“Y/N! Go back to bed before you hurt yourself!” He was at your side in a moment.

“I’m fine, it’s just a scratch.” You wave him off to go to the girl. “Baby don’t cry; I’ll be right as rain tomorrow.”

Her sobs poured out like a broken faucet. Aizawa sighs picking you up and carrying you to the couch. He also picks up the girl sitting her next to you.

“I’d put you both in your room but I don’t have the energy to clean up the blood.” Aizawa frowns curling into your free side.

“This is more than enough.” You smile.

The next day you had to go to the hospital, and Recovery girl had choice words for you. But you just smiled the whole way.

17: “did you ever care about me? Even for a moment?”

Tartaglia (Childe)

Being a part of the Fatui was not your first choice. It was kind of decided for you, when your guardian realized the person you were always around was joining, they forced you. But it wasn’t all bad. You were not a vision bearer as a child but you were completely attuned to your delusion, Dendro specifically. How did you end up with that? Childe.

“Y/N, how’s it going?”

“I think I’m gonna strangle you if you keep asking me,” you huff. By proxy, you had been suggested for a possible next harbinger. You promptly rejected the suggestion.

Childe observed your exhausted form as you check for bruising under where your armor had been. Nothing was visible with your normal clothing and you were pretty happy with that. But as you stand up a coughing fit breaks out.

“Damn it,” you curse covering your mouth to collect the possible blood. It was much worse. Much much worse when you were just training with your weapon alone. Because swords could be dangerous if used wrong.

“Again?” He groans.

Frowning you clean up the blood. “Not everyone can be like you eleventh harbinger. Considering I am your subordinate you are avoiding protocol by not punishing me for being weak.”

“Punishing, I do that enough when we spar.” He waves you off before picking up your discarded sword.

“Drop it!” You hiss.

You hear him switch it between his hands before chuckling. “Why?”

Walking over you rip the weapon from his hand before sheathing it. “The handle is poisoned.”

“I have gloves.” He holds up his hands. But you take them off.

“You’re so stupid. Don’t touch my sword,” you remind him.

“I touch your swords all the time,” he teases.

Shaking your head you start cleaning up your mess. “No you touch my plants, those weapons aren’t swords.”

It was quiet for a while. He looked at the now clean training space.

“You’ve gotten faster.”

“It’s your fault.” Picking up the sullied items you sigh. “I’ll be going now. Please have a good training session.”

Leaving you make sure to drop the unusable things in the incinerator. Only to lean over the chute, maybe you shouldn’t have become a member of the Fatui.

Getting some food you couldn’t help but overhear something.

“Tartaglia is being sent to Liyue. Do you think he’ll take his tail with him?”

“Nah, they serve a better purpose here. He was the one who submitted them for harbinger rank.”

You finished your cup like it was water. Yeah no, this wasn’t gonna be fun. Even if you were forced to be a part of the Fatui part of it was to follow him. Mostly to hold on to a long-standing promise, you would never part. It didn’t take long for the burning in your throat and the mind-numbing buzz of losing your senses.

“Y/N, what are you doing?”

Looking at him you fix your mask over your eyes. “Just leave me alone.”

“Give me two glasses of water.” He takes the seat next to you and you pick angrily at your food.

You didn’t want to be near him, not now. He was trying to break the promise. Where would you go if you were here by yourself? You didn’t want to be a Fatui. You didn’t want to hurt people. After finishing the water you pay for your food and leave.

The freezing air nipped at your exposed skin, maybe a night's rest will clear your mind? That was your wish when someone whipped you around to face them.

“C/N, what are you doing?” Childe asks.

“I’m going home.”

“The barracks…”

Pushing his hands off you, you shake your head. “No, I’m going home.”

He raises a brow keeping his hands up. “What’s gotten into you?”

“It’s not like you care,” you turn about to continue walking with he grabs you again.

“As your superior, I demand you tell me.” He glares.

You take a breath, it came out in the familiar cloud. “It’s been years Ajax. I’ve done everything to stay next to you, but with every step closer to you I make you take five away. Did you even care about me? Even for a moment?”

He looks at you. “You’re an important asset to the cause.”

“Don’t give me that, you’re just degrading the time we’ve known each other to a working relationship! I- I think I was in love with you. For how long I have no idea, but you mean so much more to me than some stupid-“ you stop and just scream. “You know what. I’ll accept the position. You forget about me.”

“As if you’d let that happen.” He rolls his eyes. “You know this is the most emotion you’ve shown in years.”

You scoff. “I hate you. Hopefully, this damn thing kills me so I don’t have to see your smug face again.”

Childe holds your face with one hand. “Then die for me Y/N.”

18: “but you get butterflies and-“ “Digest them.”

Arataki Itto

Usually, you’d use your break to pick up lunch outside of your place of work and walk around for a breath of fresh air. But today as the low clouds roll in your mind wandered and the usual stabbing feeling of loneliness dug at your skin. So you left work for the day finding a tree to sit under and cry.

Just as you started to sob the thunder started, it made your body run cold as you continued to cry. Before the vision hunt decree, you had to send your little brother away, luckily he got out of Inazuma and was safe. But without your brother or parents, you were alone.

“Hey! It’s not safe to be out in a rainstorm,” someone shouts starling you.

Usually, anyone would mind their own business and leave you alone. But you didn’t recognize the person walking over. Red horns and large worried eyes, you didn’t get a chance to tell him to leave you alone before he picked you up and carried you away from the tree. It wasn’t providing any shelter and you were soaked to your bone.

“It’s not safe to sit out in the rain you know that right?” He asks with a weak smile.

“Maybe I don’t care. There’s no one left to care about me,” you grumble trying to get to your feet. “Look just put me down and I’ll walk home.”

“Hey, I’m sure someone cares, seeing someone crying in the rain is heartbreaking.” He frowns, but suddenly he sneezes.

“Put me on my feet,” you order.

Doing as he’s told you fix your clothes before grabbing his hand in yours and walking. It was a ways away considering you lived a little bit away from the city. It would have been very expensive for you otherwise.

Taking off your shoes before going inside you waved the man to follow you. You were lucky enough that the roof was just high enough that his horns didn’t touch the ceiling. grabbing a towel and forcing him to sit you started drying him off.

“You can’t scold someone about sitting in the rain when you have a weak enough constitution to start sneezing in the rain,” you sigh, making sure that his hair was dry first before letting him finish toweling off.

“I can take care of myself, can’t get sick when I have a gang to run,” he boasts.

You move to a different room still talking to him, “well, you could have fooled me. You didn’t have to pick me up, I’m more resilient than I look.”

Drying yourself and changing clothes you sigh.

“What are you-“

“This is my house…” you walk out and sit down as well. “I got changed because I needed to. Do you want to borrow some clothes? I’m not sure I have anything big enough for you though.”

He shakes his head. “No that’s fine, by the way, I’m Arataki Itto the crimson Oni.”

“My name is L/N Y/N, I would say I’m human but as you can clearly see,” you wave your tail. “I am not.”

“Woah are you a dog?!” He asks a little too excited.

You blink a little caught off guard. “What? No, I believe my mother told me that We were Adeptus or part.”

Somehow you ended up hosting the oni, he happily compels accepted the shelter. Only to be embarrassed and nervous when you mentioned that you were the only other person there. But somehow you befriended him.

“Y/N, Itto is here,” Thoma says as you put the water in the teapot.

“Again? Alright, I’ll serve him some tea,” you nod.

Thoma chuckles. “Maybe we should put him to work since he comes here so much.”

“Not a good idea.” You shake your head. Preparing the tea and snacks you squeak when the near-silent traveler appears. Their floating companion did all the talking as you moved past them without alerting them of your presence.

“Y/N! How’s everything been?” Itto asks with a large grin.

“Same as when you asked two days ago, are you behaving?” You ask putting the cup down and placing the small plate of snacks down.

He nods. “Course I am, would I lie to you?”

You open your mouth to say something but he pops a small rice cake into your mouth. Chewing the back slowly you pout crossing your arms.

“Awe come on you can’t make a sour face when eating something so tasty,” he laughs.

Finishing the food in your mouth you sigh. “Don’t you have things to do?”

“Nope, the gangs busy and I’m free for now.” He pats your back forcefully.

Narrowing your eyes you sip your tea before saying something. “Thanks for coming by again.”

“Of course, what are friends for?” Wow, that one nailed you right in the heart.

“I mean friends are nice but there is someone I’m interested in,” you look to him.

A fire lights up in his eyes. “Really? Who is it? Is it someone I know?”

Rolling your eyes you shrug. “I can’t tell them.”

“Why?” He seemed genuinely curious as you sigh.

“Well, when I’m around him I get nervous. And it’s like I get butterflies in my stomach.” You start.

Itto frowns and with the most serious tone you’ve heard from him he says. “Digest them.”

You had to put your cup down before laughing. Laying back on the floor trying to contain the chuckles.

“It’s you, ya dork.” You manage between laughing.

19: “please, I don’t know what to do without you.”

Shigaraki Tomura

You don’t remember when it happened, or how much time had passed. But you knew one thing something wasn’t right. Usually, he’d be down to see if you were still alive or to demand healing. Moving toward the door you try to open it, locked.

“Where?” You look around with a frown. There wasn’t even anything that you could hit the door with. Most of the room was just necessities.

Just as you were sitting back in your usual spot on your makeshift bed, the lock breaks. What? He had a key, he could just unlock the door.

“Oh it’s you, this is where he was hiding you. Here,” Dabi, you remembered him a little bit, he threw something at you.

Looking at it again it was clothes. Changing from the clothes you were wearing before into the new ones you look at him confused. The familiar scent wrapped around you like a blanket, Shigaraki. You wanted to see him.

“Let’s go.” Dabi nods to the door. “We’re gonna walk.”

Following him, you didn’t speak. You knew Dabi and could feel okay around him. But you couldn’t talk to him much. Maybe fifteen minutes later you look around, he had put a hoodie on to cover him up. You considered healing him a bit to help mask him, but you might not have enough energy.

“What happened to Kuro?” You finally manage ten minutes or so later.

“Heroes got him.” Dabi frowns. “We moved but he wasn’t able to grab you before we left.”

You shrug. “That’s fine. He’s safe right?”

“Kids alive.” He nods.

“Good.”

He hands you some food. When did he? Shaking your head you just accept it, a little more energy is better than collapsing. Wherever you were going it was pretty far, you almost didn’t believe it. Maybe Dabi was tricking you and was gonna try to kill you? It wouldn’t have worked. It never did. But Shigaraki was fine, that meant continuing in this life was fine.

“We’re almost there.” Dabi huffs.

You blink upon seeing the red wings. Hiding behind the tall male just before the excitable blond tackles you to the ground. Something was broken, definitely broken.

“You’re okay! Y/N, do you know how much Tomura missed you?!” Toga gasps squeezing your face in her hands.

You shake your head at this. “No, I didn’t know. You guys told me not to move remember.”

She hugs you tighter before picking you up again to drag you around. “Twice is gonna be so excited to see you and so is spinner.”

Nodding you continue following her. “Everyone is safe right?”

Her hand tightens on yours. “Um, yeah. Everyone is safe.”

Something wasn’t right. How long had it been? Just as you were dragged around you felt a sharp pain. Every quirk has a drawback, yours was a connection created when you healed someone. The more you healed them the stronger the connection and the more vulnerable you become when they are in pain. To wean these connections it took time or death.

If you press it could have a negative effect. “Toga do you need healing?”

“Can you really? If you heal anyone it should be Shigaraki first.” She smiles. “Let’s go see Twice.”

Though they told you that you would heal Shigaraki first they wouldn’t let you see him. Because of the many times, you had healed him the connection was still present. The constant building pain could only be from him.

“Where’s-“

An explosion cut you off. What’s happening? But you saw him. Shigaraki looked healthier and something was different.

“Why is she here? Take her away.”

Toga grabbed your hand. No. No. There was nothing. Just one thought on your head as you muttered over and over again. “Please…” I don’t know what to do without you.

20: “did I wake you up?”

Nishinoya Yuu

Mornings weren’t usually noisy, especially when you had just come back home. Yawning you smother it as you try to rub the sleep from your eyes.

“Yuu?” You mumble. The sound stops.

“Did I wake you up?” Nishinoya Yuu, your boyfriend. You two had met through a traveling group. He traveled for fun; you traveled to escape.

Shaking your head you lean into his back hugging him before placing a kiss on his cheek. “Morning, going somewhere?”

“I thought we should go to Argentina.” He laughs.

You raise a brow. “We or just you?

“I meant we.”

Laughing for a moment you stand up. “You go first and I’ll meet you there. My little sister has been asking to see me for no reason.”

He rolls his eyes before hugging you. “Actually how about we rest.”

“What?”

“Yeah, another day in Japan will not hurt, besides I have no really need to go there,” he shrugs.

“Alright then I’ll make breakfast-“ you didn’t get to finish your sentence as he picked you up.

He laughs. “Nope, one more day home means a lazy day back to bed.”

21: “you’re gonna have to limp faster than that…”

Itadori Yuuji

“Fight curses they said, you have the aptitude for it they said,” you sass while looking at your leg.

The amount of blood leaving your body was enough to make you question your career path. Puddles and puddles of blood were gathering as you tried to stabilize the wound or something. You weren’t able to first aid, it wasn’t your forte considering the last time you tried to wrap someone’s bandages they ended up more cut up than you.

“Are you okay?” Itadori Yuuji somehow got ended up paired with him for a mission.

“Do you not see me bleeding out right now?”

He nods. “It’s amazing that you’re still awake.”

“They could be hallucinating right now.” Sakuna’s voice adds.

“Kind of trying to hold on to my psyche here not slip further into madness you ass,” you hiss trying to pull yourself up.

Yuuji took this moment to wrap it up to at least slow the bleeding. But the spots were already blinking in your eyes. Looking around you push him away.

“We gotta go.” You rush out but only realize that you’d be limping.

One meter, two meters. Five meters.

“You’re gonna have to limp a little faster than that…” Yuuji sighs.

You frown. “Why don’t you just carry me if you’re gonna throw obvious things at me.”

“Fine.”

“I could just eat them.” Sakuna offers.

You frown. “Trust me, I’m not tasty. Besides I’m not into things like that.”

“Like what?” Yuuji asks.

“I’ll tell you when you get older, now we need to go.” You cling to him.

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MARVEL

PETER PARKER

CRUSH CITY, POPULATION: US — ONESHOT

Y/N’S FRIEND DRAGS HER TO A PARTY WHERE SHE ENDS UP TALKING WITH PETER, A GUY THAT SHE SHARES A FEW CLASSES WITH AND MAY OR MAY NOT KINDA HAVE A LITTLE CRUSH ON.

THE ONE WITH THE SOCKS IN BED — DRABBLE

PETER IS SICK, WEARING SOCKS TO BED, AND REALLY NEEDS A CUDDLE.

THE ONE WITH THE BLACK EYE — DRABBLE

PETER’S SPIDEY REFLEXES AREN’T ALWAYS HANDY. (FEATURES NELSON & MURDOCK!READER AND FRIEND!MATT MURDOCK)

THE ONE WITH THE EXISTENTIAL QUESTION — DRABBLE

YOU AND PETER ARE TALKING ABOUT ALTERNATE UNIVERSES WHEN HE ASKS THE QUESTION EVERYONE IN THE COMPOUND HAS BEEN WAITING FOR.

THE ONE WITH THE CHARITY GALA — DRABBLE

PETER ASKED YOU TO BE HIS FAKE DATE TO TONY STARK’S CHARITY GALA. (COLLEGE!AU)

THE ONE WITH THE CHARITY GALA PRT 2 — DRABBLE

WHO KNEW PETER WOULD PICK YOU OVER OSCAR ISAAC?

THE ONE WITH RUMLOW AND THE SPY — DRABBLE

YOU AND YOUR AGENCY WORK FOR TONY STARK SO YOU CAN CATCH BROCK RUMLOW. ALONG THE WAY, YOU RUN INTO PETER PARKER.

THE ONE WITH RUMLOW AND THE SPY PRT 2 — DRABBLE

YOU’RE FORCED TO STAY BACK AND CLEAN. YOU RUN INTO PETER PARKER ONCE AGAIN.

THE ONE WITH THE KNIFE VINE — DRABBLE

YOU AND PETER GET CAKE AS A REWARD.

THE ONE WHERE TONY HAS TO DO ALL THE WORK — DRABBLE

TONY THINKS YOU AND THE KID ARE CUTE. UNTIL HE HAS TO WAKE YOU TWO UP.

THE ONE WITH THE DIMENSION HOPPER — DRABBLE

YOU’RE STARGAZING WHEN PETER DECIDES TO BE A PAIN IN THE ASS. (FEATURING BECK!READER)

THE ONE WITH WUTHERING HEIGHTS — DRABBLE

PETER WANTED TO HAVE A “STUDY SESSION.”

THE ONE WITH THE SALAD —DRABBLE

YOU AND PETER ARE ON YOUR FIRST DATE SINCE TONY FOUND OUT YOU TWO WERE DATING.

THE ONE WITH THE FEAR OF BIKES — DRABBLE

YOU DON’T DIG BIKES AT ALL.

THE ONE WITH THE NEW YORK SIREN — DRABBLE

SPIDER-MAN IS FACE TO FACE WITH NEW YORK’S NEWEST VIGILANTE.

THE ONE WITH THE FRUIT PUNCH — DRABBLE

PETER FINALLY TALKS TO YOU AT A PARTY. TONY HAS TO INTERRUPT BEFORE YOU DO MORE THAN TALKING. (FEATURING COLLEGE!PETER X COLLEGE!READER)

SPRING HAS SPRUNG — ONESHOT (REQUESTED)

SPRING BREAK MEANT COMING HOME AND RUNNING AWAY FROM YOUR PROBLEMS FOR A WEEK OR TWO. HOWEVER, THE SECOND PETER PARKER COMES TO YOUR PLACE TO CRASH FOR A FEW DAYS, YOU FIGURE OUT THAT YOUR PROBLEMS FOLLOWED YOU INTO THE COMFORT OF YOUR OWN HOME. (FEATURING COLLEGE!PETER X COLLEGE STARK!READER)

MICHELLE JONES

REEVALUATION — ONESHOT (REQUESTED)

YOU AND MJ HAVE BEEN HAVING SOME TROUBLES IN YOUR FRIENDSHIP FOR THE PAST COUPLE OF WEEKS, AND IT TAKES THE ART COMPETITION AT MIDTOWN HIGH TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF WHY SHE’S BEEN ACTING SO RUDE TO YOU.

THE ONE WITH THE ENGLISH CLASS — DRABBLE

MJ TRIES IMPRESSING YOU DURING YOUR ENGLISH CLASS.

MATT MURDOCK

POOL — ONESHOT

IT’S DATE NIGHT FOR YOU AND MATT, SO YOU BOTH DECIDED IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO PLAY A NICE FRIENDLY GAME OF POOL IN JOSIE’S BAR.

THE ONE WITH THE DEVIL’S BABY — DRABBLE

YOU’VE BEEN SICK LATELY AND TRIED TO HIDE IT.

BLUE MOON — ONESHOT/POTENTIAL SERIES

AFTER A ROUGH BREAKUP YOU HEAD BACK TO THE ONE PLACE THAT’LL HELP YOU DROWN YOUR IMPENDING SORROWS: JOSIE’S.

THE ONE WITH THE KNOCK OFF DAREDEVIL SUIT — DRABBLE

YOU AND MATT ARE HEADING TO FOGGY’S HALLOWEEN PARTY.

STEPHEN STRANGE

SILVIA AND THE GOOGLE SEARCH — ONESHOT

SILVIA’S FEELING A LITTLE UNDER THE WEATHER AND INSTEAD OF INFORMING HER FATHER, SHE GOOGLES HER SYMPTOMS. STEPHEN WISHES SHE DIDN’T DO THAT. (FEATURING MY OC SILVIA STRANGE, FATHER!STEPHEN STRANGE)

THE ONE WITH PERSUASION — DRABBLE

STEPHEN’S TRYING TO CONVINCE YOU TO COME TO A PARTY AS HIS PLUS ONE. (TECHNICAL PROLOGUE FOR A NEW ER NURSE!READER FIC)

PIECES OF EGG — ONESHOT

YOU WERE COOKING BREAKFAST WHEN YOUR FAVORITE SONG CAME ON. (FEATURING ER NURSE!READER)

THE ONE WITH THE PREGNANCY SCARE — DRABBLE

YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE PREGNANT AND END UP SUGGESTING AN ALTERNATIVE BIRTH CONTROL METHOD TO STEPHEN.

THE ONE WITH THE HAMILTON BIOGRAPHY — DRABBLE

STEPHEN STARTS HIS FIRST DAY AT STARK AND POTTS ILLUSTRATED MEETING YOU.

THE ONE WITH THE BASSET HOUND — DRABBLE

YOU REALLY WANT STEPHEN’S DOG.

THE ONE WITH UNREQUITED LOVE — DRABBLE

YOU KNEW YOU FELT SOMETHING FOR STEPHEN. BUT HE LOVED CHRISTINE.

THE ONE WITH THE SECOND DATE — DRABBLE

STEPHEN STRANGE IS GENUINELY A GOOD DATE.

THE ONE WITH SPAGHETTI NIGHT — DRABBLE

STEPHEN’S DAUGHTER TRIES TO KNOCK SOME SENSE INTO HIM. (FEATURING MY OC, SILVIA STRANGE!)

THE ONE WITH THE CHAI LATTE — DRABBLE

STEPHEN JUST WANTED TO GET COFFEE BEFORE HIS MEETING.

THE ONE WITH THE HARRY POTTER REFERENCE — DRABBLE

YOU NEVER THOUGHT YOU’D SEE THE DAY STEPHEN GETS ASSIGNED A NICKNAME BY TONY STARK.

THE ONE WITH THE POTENTIAL MUGGING — DRABBLE

STEPHEN’S DOORS ARE OPEN TO YOU 24/7.

THE ONE WITH THE SOCK THIEF — DRABBLE

STEPHEN’S HURT AND YOU PATCH HIM UP.

THE ONE WHERE YOU REMIND YOURSELF OF TWILIGHT — DRABBLE

YOU CAN’T SLEEP AND DECIDE THAT STARING AT YOUR BOYFRIEND IS A GOOD PASTIME.

I’LL LIVE TO SEE ANOTHER DAY — ONESHOT

YOU’RE FINALLY BACK IN YOUR APARTMENT FROM YOUR LONG SHIFT AT METRO-GENERAL, BUT YOUR MYSTICAL BOYFRIEND DECIDED YOU COULDN’T TAKE A BREAK YET. (FEATURING ER NURSE!READER)

BATTLE OF WIT — ONESHOT

STEPHEN REALIZES AFTER YOUR MOST RECENT BATTLE THAT HE CAN’T LOSE YOU, NO MATTER THE CIRCUMSTANCE. HE’S JUST... TERRIBLE AT EXPRESSING HIS FEELINGS PROPERLY.

WADE WILSON

SHOULDA, COULDA, WOULDA — ONESHOT

WADE DIDN’T WANT TO RUIN HIS KID’S NIGHT WITH HER ‘BOYFRIEND,’ BUT HE DIDN’T HAVE MUCH OF A CHOICE, SHE HAD A RIGHT TO KNOW. (FEATURING FATHER!WADE WILSON AND PETER PARKER X DEADPOOL’S!DAUGHTER)

STEVE ROGERS

PROMISES PROMISES — ONESHOT

STEVE WISHES YOU’D STOP REMINISCING WHEN YOU’RE LITERALLY BLEEDING OUT IN HIS ARMS.

THE ONE WITH THE COFFEE SHOP — DRABBLE

BUCKY CATCHES STEVE SKETCHING A GIRL WHO ALWAYS COMES TO A LOCAL COFFEE SHOP ACROSS THE STREET FROM THEIR APARTMENT AND CONVINCES HIM TO TALK TO HER.

THE ONE WITH THE COFFEE SHOP PRT 2 — DRABBLE

STEVE FINALLY GETS THE COURAGE TO TALK TO THE GIRL WITH THE SHIELD HAT AND CIA PATCH.

THE ONE WITH THE GINGERBREAD ZOMBIES — DRABBLE

YOU WISH HALLOWEEN WAS CELEBRATED A LOT MORE THAN CHRISTMAS IS.

THE ONE WITH THE STUTTER — DRABBLE

YOU’RE TRYING TO TELL STEVE SOMETHING IMPORTANT.

TONY STARK

THE ONE WITH NO RESOLUTION — DRABBLE

TONY FEELS OBLIGATED TO FIND A WAY TO GET EVERYONE BACK. (SOME AVENGERS: ENDGAME SPOILERS!!)

THE ONE WITH THE GOLDFISH — DRABBLE

YOUR NIECE LOVES MAKING A MESS.

THE ONE WITH THE DRUNK LOVER — DRABBLE

YOU HAD A GIRLS NIGHT AND WENT A LITTLE OVERBOARD.

THE ONE WITH YOUR NIECE — DRABBLE

YOUR NIECE GIVES TONY THE BEST CROWN AROUND.

THE ONE WITH THE DINNER CONTRACT — DRABBLE

YOU AND TONY ARE BACK FROM TRAVELING TO VISIT YOUR FAMILY AND FIND THAT JET LAG IS A GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING.

THE ONE WITH THE DOG — DRABBLE

TRYING TO CONVINCE TONY STARK TO GET A DOG FOR THE AVENGERS IS HARD UNTIL THOR IS BROUGHT INTO THE MIX.

THE ONE WITH THE PEPPERMINT — DRABBLE

TONY OFFERS YOU A DRINK YOU HAVE TO REFUSE.

LOKI ODINSON/LAUFEYSON

THE ONE WITH THE TRICKSTER — DRABBLE

LOKI WOKE YOU UP BY GIVING YOU A WET-WILLIE.

THE ONE WITH THE BOZO — DRABBLE

AT STARK AND POTTS ILLUSTRATED, LOKI BULLIES YOU OVER YOUR HEIGHT.

THE ONE WITH OTHELLO — DRABBLE

LOKI WAS READING OTHELLO WHEN HE MET HIS SOULMATE.

THE ONE WITH THE GUN — DRABBLE

YOU THOUGHT SOMEONE BROKE INTO YOUR ROOM.

THE ONE WHERE THOR RETALIATED — DRABBLE

LOKI GOT A RETRACTABLE KNIFE AS A GIFT. YOU HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE AFTERMATH OF HIS ACTIONS, AS USUAL.

THE ONE WITH TRYING NEW THINGS — DRABBLE

LOKI TRIES TO ACT LIKE A MIDGARDIAN WHEN YOU NEED TO SHOP FOR A STARK GALA.

THE ONE WITH DEVELOPING POWERS — DRABBLE

YOU’RE FREEZING GLASSES OF WATER. LOKI’S THERE FOR HELP.

THE ONE WITH TRYING NEW THINGS — DRABBLE

LOKI ACCOMPANIES YOU TO PREPARE FOR STARK’S GALA AND TRIES MIDGARDIAN FOOD.

THE ONE WITH THE ASGARDIAN BALL — DRABBLE

YOU’RE PROVING TO ODIN YOU CAN ATTEND A BALL.

KISSES AND CONSTELLATIONS — ONESHOT

YOU AND LOKI ARE CHILDHOOD SWEETHEARTS, NAVIGATING YOUR FIRST DATE. IT’S AWKWARD, UNTIL YOU REALIZE YOU HAD NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT AT ALL.

SHIRTLESS WONDERS — ONESHOT

WHEN YOU GO LOOKING FOR LOKI, YOU FIND THAT IN THE MIDST OF BATTLE HE HAD BEEN INJURED. WHILE TENDING TO HIS WOUNDS, SOME THINGS COME TO LIGHT.

JOYRIDE — ONESHOT

YOU’RE HEADING BACK TO YOUR APARTMENT AFTER A GAME NIGHT AT A FRIEND’S PLACE WHEN YOU ENCOUNTER LOKI FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE HIS INVASION IN 2012.

BUCKY BARNES

THE ONE WITH THE COOKING SHOW — DRABBLE

YOU DIDN’T EXPECT YOUR BOYFRIEND TO GET HEATED OVER A SHOW.

THE ONE WITH THE SNOWBALL FIGHT — DRABBLE

A SNOW DAY WITH THE WINTER SOLDIER

THE ONE WITH THE ORIGINAL COKE — DRABBLE

A 1940′S COKE IS HARD TO FIND NOW-A-DAYS.

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Would it be useful to have a list of pairs of roots? - a thought experiment

This is part of my learning how to read more fluently.

I'll start with an image that I saw on the web recently. Where is this in the Bible? I wondered. This is a really easy example. The text is clear and the words, if you read Hebrew, are a giveaway. If you found a manuscript with these words on it, you would know right away where it is located in the Scripture. Though it is initially hard to separate the words on the page, it didn't take me long to figure out.

Unidentified ms #1

My approach was to look up some consecutive words by root using my software. So what is the verse?

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Let's try a slightly harder one.

Unidentified ms #2

So in this second one, which I have picked at random (I am not kidding), I ask myself what words are easy to read and determine the root? What about the one at the end of the second row? wb't shin-bet-tet - there are 192 of these in the canon. (And, hint, I am only looking at canonical texts here.) What is it preceded by? This is not so obvious. It looks like a form of kx, arrow. But where does one word begin and end? The form vlkxi does not occur in the canon for kx. In fact wb't is never preceded by the root kx. When I see this sort of conundrum, I try another tack, and then back up to the place I have not understood to see how to read it.

I see a set of words that are common to both examples: words 4, 5, and 6 of the first example and words 2, 3, and 4 of the last line of the second example. Words 3 and 4 are the phrase ybd ihvh, servant of Yahweh. That should be a breeze! There are only 34 verses where this phrase occurs in the Hebrew Scriptures. (I can tell this from my search for sequential words with the software I use.)

So if I had just a list of pairs of words (even without the software I use) containing everywhere that this pair occurs, I would immediately be able with a search to narrow down where this passage is to one of those 34 places.

But in the prior post, I excluded names and I excluded multiple occurrences to reduce the volume from 280K to about 50K. That leaves out ihvh as a possible pairing and also the other (famous) name that is in this text. Wait a minute, if I excluded names, then I would also change the adjacent words. So amr in the last line would be preceded by ybd. This is potentially very confusing. So excluding names is not an option for a useful set of pairs. Names will often be the most easily recognizable words in the manuscript. In fact they are pervasive in this section. So read the names.

Now if you are more or less at my stage of reading, and you have stared at these texts, you will have guessed where both are from. And you can see how tricky it is to guess the root of a word. The form vlkxi is not a form of kx, arrow, but a form of kxh, half. This word half is often used with wb't the band (traditionally tribe), in reference to Manasseh. And of course, Moses is also evident in both ms images. At random, I happened to pick a text that was from the one I found on the web. (Facebook actually, a friend's post.)

The exercise for the eye and the brain is a good one. Are you ready for the answer? Here is the section. If you compare the SimHebrew with the Hebrew of the ms, you will see how the Latin abbreviation for Hebrew is about as accurate as one can get with the two alphabets.

spr ihvwy

Book of Joshua

avihi akri mot mwh ybd ihvh, viamr ihvh al-ihowuy bn-nun mwrt mwh lamor, 1And it was after the death of Moses, the servant of Yahweh, and Yahweh said to Joshua, child of Nun, minister of Moses, saying,bmwh ybdi mt. vyth qum ybor at-hirdn hzh ath vcl-hym hzh al-harx awr anoci notn lhm lbni iwral. 2Moses, my servant, has died. So now, arise, cross over this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land that I am giving to them, to the children of Israel.gcl-mqom awr tdroç cf-rglcm bo lcm nttiv, cawr dibrti al-mwh. 3Every place on which the sole of your foot will tread, to you I have given it, as I spoke to Moses.dmhmdbr vhlbnon hzh vyd-hnhr hgdol nhr-prt col arx hkitim vyd-him hgdol mboa hwmw, ihih gbulcm. 4From the wilderness to this Lebanon and until the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the great sea, from the going down of the sun, will be your border.hla-itiixb aiw lpniç col imi kiiç. cawr hiiti ym-mwh ahih yimç la arpç vla ayzbç. 5No person will be stationed before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, I will be with you. I will not slacken with you, and I will not forsake you.vkzq vamx, ci ath tnkil at-hym hzh at-harx awr-nwbyti labotm ltt lhm. 6Be encouraged and be assured, because you will make this people inherit the land that I swore to their ancestors to give to them.zrq kzq vamx maod lwmor lywot ccl-htorh awr xivvç mwh ybdi al-tsur mmnu imin uwmal, lmyn twcil bcol awr tlç. 7Certainly you be encouraged and be very assured, to keep and to do according to all the instruction that Moses, my servant, is commanding you. Do not turn aside from it on the right hand or on the left, so that you may have insight everywhere that you walk.kla-imuw spr htorh hzh mpiç vhgit bo iomm vlilh lmyn twmor lywot ccl-hctub bo, ci-az txlik at-drciç vaz twcil. 8The record of this instruction will not deviate from your mouth, but you will mutter on it day and night so that you keep and do according to all the writing in it, for then you will thrive in your way, and then you will have insight.'thloa xivvitiç kzq vamx al-tyrox val-tikt, ci yimç ihvh alohiç bcol awr tlç. {p} 9Have not I commanded you? Be encouraged and be assured. Do not panic, and do not be in disarray, for Yahweh is with you, your God, everywhere that you walk. Pivixv ihowuy at-wo'tri hym lamor, 10Then Joshua commanded the overseers of the people, saying,iaybru bqrb hmknh vxvu at-hym lamor hcinu lcm xidh, ci byod wlowt imim atm yobrim at-hirdn hzh lboa lrwt at-harx awr ihvh alohicm notn lcm lrwth. {s} 11Pass through within the camp and command the people, saying, Prepare for yourselves provender, because before three days has past you will cross over this Jordan to enter, to possess the land that Yahweh your God is giving for you to possess it. Sibvlraubni vlgdi vlkxi wb't hmnwh, amr ihowuy lamor, 12And to the Reubenites and to the Gadites and to the half band of Manasseh, said Joshua, saying,igzcor at-hdbr awr xivvh atcm mwh ybd-ihvh lamor, ihvh alohicm mnik lcm vntn lcm at-harx hzat. 13Remember the word that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, saying, Yahweh your God has given rest for you and gave to you this land.idnwicm 'tpcm umqnicm iiwbu barx awr ntn lcm mwh bybr hirdn, vatm tybru kmuwim lpni akicm col gibori hkil vyzrtm aotm. 14Your wives, your little ones, your livestock, will settle in the land that Moses gave to you across the Jordan, but you, you will cross over in fifties before your kin, all the valiant of force, and you will help them.'tvyd awr-inik ihvh lakicm ccm virwu gm-hmh at-harx awr-ihvh alohicm notn lhm. vwbtm larx iruwtcm virwtm aoth awr ntn lcm mwh ybd ihvh bybr hirdn mzrk hwmw. 15Until Yahweh has given rest to your kin as you, and they will possess also themselves the land that Yahweh your God is giving to them. Then you will return to the land of your possession and you will possess it that Moses, the servant of Yahweh, gave to you across the Jordan toward the rising of the sun.'tzviynu at-ihowuy lamor, col awr-xivvitnu nywh val-cl-awr twlknu nlç. 16And they answered Joshua, saying, All that you have commanded us, we will do, and to wherever you send us, we will walk.izccol awr-wmynu al-mwh cn nwmy aliç, rq ihih ihvh alohiç yimç cawr hih ym-mwh. 17As in everything we have paid heed to Moses, so we will pay heed to you, but let Yahweh your God be with you, as he was with Moses.ikcl-aiw awr-imrh at-piç vla-iwmy at-dbriç lcol awr-txvvnu iumt. rq kzq vamx. {p} 18Everyone who is provocative of your mandate and will not heed your words in all that you command, will die. But you be encouraged and be assured. P

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LATE NIGHT VEGAS PRT. 2

HiGGS GAINING MOMENTUM Part 2 (The Sand Dollar)

Hi people we’re going to time travel Back to September 20th the Sand Dollar Lounge.

It’s 3 am and we are all stuck in traffic listening to Jesse ramble on about this and that and the other thing. The band wants to go to the hotel to sleep after a long day and I still need food! I didn’t hardly eat anything at the venue because they were serving of all things, fucking PIZZA; I’m anti-pizza! I can’t eat that delicious, cheesy, bubbly, yummy and spicy food art. If I eat it I could blow up! I shouldn’t be eating pizza dough! If I do I could blow up! Thus can’t sell the Merch! It’s just a thing with me, I’m dedicated to The HiGGS for reasons I am sworn under oath of the road-dog not to reveal.

Eating is a challenge for the Road-Dog. I get busy at the Merch booth and the crowds show up and I’m stuck there. Sometimes I miss dinner and end up eating late at night. I have permission to leave, but I take my responsibilities seriously. I can’t with good conscious leave the table un-attended.

It’s not in the Merch-man’s programming.

It might not make sense to you, but that’s me!

Now the band, they all love to eat and eat. They eat all kinds of dank food found in the most random and remote places through the Yelp App. Yet Pizza, (The enemy of the Road-Dog) seems to be on the menu at lot of the venues booked by The HiGGS. David and Jesse love to express how damn delicious and great everything that they are eating is. It’s not easy to sit through this. My palate starts quivering and my mouth waters. My mind fills with thoughts and pictures every time they do it.

Damn them two!

LOL!

John places third. He really enjoys hella food, but likes to escape and eat it in a private setting most often out of all of them. He can talk about grubbing down until no end. Telling tales of Korean Steak houses and his favorite Yakatori joints, as well as noodle houses and dessert places he’s traveled far and wide to experience. He LOVES sweets! I once caught him making love to ice cream in private, he ate it like a lover. So graceful and with care and once again in private. He rarely eats anything in front of me. It happens but only on very rare occasions.

Garrett likes to go find good food deals. He is very much a smart buyer and a magnet to getting the food he loves for less money; he disappears as well a lot of the times. He keeps to himself unless asked if it was good. (Thank you Garrett!)

It takes a lot of will power to resist the crappy and sometimes dank food of the road, I would never tell the guys not to express themselves; my problem not theirs.

But have a heart for the Road-Dog guys!

Oh! Lord Help Me!

Many might think road life or life as a road-dog is just a big adventure and your right to think it, it is! I’m sworn in as “Road Dog” Blogger/Merch-man and confidant of the spaceship Lydia to live by this motto. “What is happens on the road is defiantly getting tattled on in the blog”! Ha! LOL!

Nah! That’s not true and loose lips have sank smaller ships. Plus it would be boring! Due to nothing happens much? (Right?) Remember I’m sworn in as Road-Dog Confidant. (See Confidant https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/confidant)

My Lips are held shut with John’s guitar Capo. LOL!

But, anyways getting back to where the hell I was; were did I leave off?

That’s right! I was talking about how these guys unintentionally (Except Jesse, he told me he loves to do it. So I got to love this man for his madness.) torture the living hell out of me. By eating and enjoying all food that comes down the tour pike. I can’t eat I’d say, meh, 75 percent of what they eat. I’ll blow up if I do! Thus Merchman will be no more! Then who will be there to sell it with a crooked smile? I’ll literally blow the fuck up! I can’t eat too much bread, maybe once a day if it’s early?

So here we are driving into the cesspool of the desert, Las Vegas, Nevada. Frantically looking for some sustenance. Then I see it! Like the Disney Castle to a child. The bright neon lights call my name!

“Taco Bell Cantina”!

My rules sometimes must be broke, I’m hungry!

I’m thinking of some serious cheesy and delicious toasted Gordita’s! I’m F-N hungry and getting desperate. Their toasted not fried! Perfect for a case of the munchies when out “Late Night”. It was definitely late, and it was certainly night-time. Like I said I’m hungry and options are not good at this late hour. Road-Dog can’t live on pizza toppings like cheese peperoni and tomato sauce. The dough is a no go!

But there it is, like a lantern made of gold!

Taco Bell Cantina. My stomach was hell-of hungry and frustrated! After all I was feeling the lack of food in my system and, well, just guess? (Well if you’re following along, once again due to my high road maintenance.) I’ll just blow up and the Merch can’t be sold and the world would end. But there it was, picture perfect, a delicious, cheesy crunchy, mind altering and like a drug, Chalupa! These damn things are addictive and Taco Bell is like a legal drug dealer!

Oh! I admit, I know Chalupas’s are not that healthy for me. I was licking my lips just anticipating a fix! After all that delicious and scrumptious Chalupa was in waiting. I am f/n hungry!

Well right at the height of my Taco Bell Cantina wet dream this happens.

WE CAN’T PARK LYDIA!

I’m saved by denial!

I won’t be blowing up!

Not yet!

But I was reeling with panic!

Tears in my eyes!

The van, it is too fat and long and hard! Well what I really mean to say is, it’s hard to navigate the road-hog the band refers to as Lydia into a tight area? Las Vegas is definitely tight! So to make a long story short.

NO TACO BELL! CANTINA FOR ROAD-DOG!

I swear that devil Jesse, who was now hallucinating weird shit from lack of rest and consuming mass amounts of Red Bull. He loves to antagonize me! He who had a belly full of Pizza. Knew we couldn’t go in. Started with his teasing remarks; “Hey, Steve look, it’s so close you can almost touch it; don’t you wish you had some”? Then he laughs like a Hyena at me! Jesse was right I almost could touch it, like I said before I even tried, with a tear in my eye! But I was stuck in the vegetarian smelling and tour stained vessel, Lydia! (I’m investing in an air-freshener soon.) But between myself and the Cantina there stood what seemed literally like prison bars. They might as well been. These bars and lack of parking was keeping me from my Chalupa ecstasy.

Jesse through all this happening was in his element, as I said before he enjoys frustrating me to no end. Liking to tease me due to my inability to consume normal human food; Oh shit; I can’t say that! (I swear I’m not alien)

I love Jesse and I know it’s all in fun. (I think?)

Needless to say we went to find a McDonalds that was 24hrs. Even looked for more than one.

See the bands does loves Road-Dog!

Yet, Time after time searching, we found no parking! It was now like 2am and eventually Lydia wound up at a Subway far away in the outskirts of Vegas far from the Neon Lights. My mind was screaming “No bread, get a grilled chicken salad”!

Subway was sadly a shit show, I regretted it and took way too long to get me “Road-Dog” my food. Jesse, now parked, was hallucinating from fatigue even more and now babbling more crazily and more senseless than earlier. After all he drove literally all day and then performed 2 sets!

But Road-Dog needs to eat, and as the Roadman, I have to wait sometimes until master gets hungry first! Plus, if master doesn’t stop at a road-dogs safe restaurant, it could mean KA-POW!

Do you remember reading? “Bub staring at me when I was waking”.

(Read my Blog titled. Day 1 Finally hitting the road)

Road-Dog doesn’t relieve himself either till he gets permission and the van stops. LOL!

Jesse now in a state of slumber, kept falling asleep while parked and waiting for me to get my order. Losing track of everyone’s where-a-bouts! LOL! Then nodding out to see John who was sitting in the passenger seat, suddenly disappear and then appear out of the van; walking around the parking lot. Then again re-appearing sitting next to him back in the van. LOL!

Who needs drugs, just stay up late?

After all this, I Road-Dog got food! A chopped “oven baked chicken” salad. It was horrible, never agree to have your salad chopped. Always ask them to toss it. LOL! But make sure not to wink at the person taking the order, they might take it wrong! I swear I wasn’t winking, my eyes were just tired. I wasn’t being fresh I swear!

Finally after all that, at 5am, after getting to the hotel, unloading my bed, bag and threads. I sat down to a nice soggy salad!

I ate the chicken only, after picking it out and throwing the chopped throw-up away…….

Road life is not easy!

Off we headed in the morning to.

This is where more fun troubles start!

Blog with you soon.

The Road Man/Road Dog.

Now off to the Hut, Phoenix, Arizona.

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airadam · 5 years

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Episode 120 : Lessons

"...educate yourself. Don't depend on your school for help."

- Charlie Brown

Coming to the end of the tenth year, we have an episode this month with the selected tracks centred around the theme of education - either by title, or by content. We cover a span of over thirty years of Hip-Hop, many styles, with everything from multiple MCs on a track to none at all! Do the knowledge.

Upcoming events worthy of your attention...

Gang Starr Foundation - Jeru The Damaja, Group Home, Big Shug @ Gorilla (Manchester), June 7th

Hip-Hop Psych @ University of Manchester, July 15th

Smif-N-Wessun @ Band On The Wall, August 22nd

And one more link...

Agent J's review of the Manchester Gods of Rap gig, featuring my photography!

Twitter : @airadam13

Playlist/Notes

Smif N Wessun : The A.L.L.

The number of times I've played this since it was released, it's sure to be in my top Spotify tracks of the year. Brilliant title track from the new Smif N Wessun album, their first in a little while, this is concentrated dopeness. Nothing hidden, just Tek and Steele putting their hearts out there on the mics with 9th Wonder providing a somewhat ominous beat. It's got a little skip to the drum track, and a perfect use of the vocal and choir-like samples. Could not have been done any better.

Lil Will Productionz : Another Day, Another Dollar

The Beat Tape Project released the 36-track "Common : The Beat Tape Project" back in 2014, but it's one of their projects I only recently picked up. Lil Will comes with the crunchy drums right here.

Slum Village : Multiply

This was the easiest of the four operators to find, since this track still gets regular play on the iPod! Slum flip an old prog-rock sample (but only a tiny piece!) to spit some pure sex talk. Find this one on their self-titled fifth album.

Show & A.G. ft. Lord Finesse and D-Flow : Add On

Absolutely signature boom-bap from the 1995 "Goodfellas" album (second disk of my copy is still mysteriously missing...), with the beat magic coming from the SP and S950 of the legendary Show. The lyrics absolutely match up, with Lord Finesse opening up, D-Flow from the Ghetto Dwellas on the second, and A.G. bringing it home.

Soul Position : Share This

Not something that was in my collection before this month, but I bought it as it represented "division" in this section of the show. This is very much from the early 2000s alternative Hip-Hop scene, the strain that was a little left-field even for the underground. Soul Position brought together RJD2 on the beats and Blueprint on the mic, and this is from their debut release, "8 Million Stories". If you like Anticon-type stuff, this will be right up your street!

Wiz Khalifa : Take Away

It was much tougher than I thought to get a track that would fit the "subtraction" theme! Eventually, Wiz' sophomore album "Deal Or No Deal" turned up the goods. Big Jerm has this one sounding big and bold, and Wiz comes off raw as he expresses the feelings that came from his then-newfound success.

Eric B & Rakim : Chinese Arithmetic

When I was a kid and heard this track, I knew nothing about DJing and just imagined being able to scratch like Eric B does here - I'd say that nowadays I definitely could! An instrumental track from the debut "Paid In Full", this is pure 80s business.

Cut Chemist : Lesson 4 - The Radio

"Return of the DJ, Volume 1" was an absolute groundbreaker of a compilation. After years of the DJ being pushed to the back, and the demise of DJ tracks on Hip-Hop albums, Bomb Records had the great idea of doing an all-DJ album. The whole thing is an essential, but this particular track is significant not just because of how good it sounds, but because of the lineage it asserts. With the title "Lesson 4", it plants itself as the latest in the series of "Lesson" sample/break mixes as originally constructed by Double Dee and Steinski between 1983 and 1985. You might only know Cut Chemist as part of Jurassic 5, but he definitely holds it down on his own.

The Roots : Table of Contents (Part 1)

A short track - in fact, only half of the track as it's presented on the must-own "Things Fall Apart" album. This one is The Roots' take on/homage to "Kibbles and Bits" by Alliance - now that is digging in the crates!

Gang Starr : As I Read My S-A

Not the first song mentioned when the classic "Step In The Arena" is mentioned, but excellent just like all the rest. The young Guru (not to be confused with Young Guru) is fresh as ever on the mic, and DJ Premier is on production as well as cutting up fiercely on the turntables!

Cut Chemist : Lesson 6

Appropriately for his name, this track from "Deep Concentration" works in a bunch of chemistry samples that might just take you back to high school. The sheer volume of samples and the way they come in and out on this cut is quite something - and if you want some really deep background, check out this tape of his sketched-out ideas and sounds!

Mark B & Blade : 24 Hours (Everyday) (Instrumental)

There's always love for Mark B (RIP), but why this beat from the B-side of the "Ya Don't See The Signs" 12" in particular? Well, to follow up on the close of the Cut Chemist track, what is four times six? ;)

MF Grimm : Teacher

I love a good martial arts film, and Grimm channels that feeling on this pick from the "American Hunger" triple album. JL on the production while Grimm works everything from pressure point techniques to "Fist of Legend" and "Karate Kid" into one long verse.

Kev Brown : Homework Part 2

"No substitutes, but y'all students." It's a real shame that Kev Brown is retiring, because his records are so good. This isn't even him at full power but the quality is there to hear on this short track from the "Homework" LP, his long-awaited follow-up to the also mighty "I Do What I Do". Plenty of school references in this one, especially in the first part of the first verse.

Poor Righteous Teachers : Each One Teach One

Wise Intelligent has been on the podcast a couple of times, but this is the first inclusion of the whole PRT crew. Coming out of Trenton, New Jersey, this group hit the scene back in 1989 with conscious lyrics heavily influenced by the 5% (plenty of references in this track if you listen), and are highly respected by those in the know. This cut produced by the late Tony D from their sophomore LP "Pure Poverty" blends some reggae flavour into the mix, while Wise and Culture Freedom give us some words to live by!

Lord Jamar ft. Sadat X and Queen Tahera Earth : Study Ya Lessons

Unabashed Gods & Earths content here, from Lord Jamar's lone solo release, "The 5% Album". Sadat X is of course Jamar's bandmate from Brand Nubian with an incredibly deep catalogue of his own, but Queen Tahera Earth, the extra guest on here, makes her mark on her only on-wax appearance to date. Lord Jamar does a solid job on the production here too, it should be noted!

Kev Brown & LMNO : We Got This (Instrumental)

Went back to the "Selective Hearing" album for this beat, nice and low-key to follow the production on the Lord Jamar track without being jarring.

Leaders of the New School : Teachers, Don't Teach Us Nonsense

Long Island's Leaders were still young when their debut "A Future Without A Past" was released, and they may well have been writing from extremely recent experience here! As it happens, they were also influenced by a song from the legendary Afrobeat musician Fela Kuti, who years before recorded "Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense". While Busta Rhymes closes things here and ultimately became the big breakout star of the crew, I personally think Charlie Brown had a better verse on this particular track.

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