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starbabyg · 1 year

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Who I write for;

Just to let anyone who wants to request any imagines and such, and for my masterlist here’s a list of who I write for. [You can always ask me to write for anyone who isn’t on this list, these are just my faves and people I really wanna write for].

Nhl Boys

Jack Hughes [New Jersey Devils]

Juraj Slafkovsky [Montreal Canadiens]

Mitch Marner [Toronto Maple Leafs]

Thomas Bordeleau [San Jose Sharks]

Quinn Hughes [Vancouver Canucks]

Luke’s Hughes [UMich]

Nico Hischier [New Jersey Devils]

Trevor Zegras [Anaheim Ducks]

Actors

Cody Fern

Timothee Chalamet

Evan Peters

Aaron Taylor Johnson

Finn Wolfhard

Jacob Elordi

Tom Holland

Musicians

Jesse Rutherford

Luke Hemmings

Calum Hood

Ashton Irwin

Michael Clifford

Rappers

Gucci Mane

A$ap Rocky

Young Slo Be

Yatta

EBK Bckdoe

Pimp Tobi

Tay K

NBA Youngboy

Travis Scott

Roddy Rich

G Herbo

Shootergang Jojo

LordeTheTopScore

A Boogie

Method Man

Ol Dirty Bastard

Television Characters

Carl Gallagher [Shameless]

Lip Gallagher [Shameless]

Gallavich [Shameless]

Ason Unique [Wutang Saga]

Bobby Diggs [Wutang Saga]

Shotgun/Method Man [Wutang Saga]

Dennis Cole/DLover [Wutang Saga]

Sha/Raekwon [Wutang Saga]

Divine Diggs [Wutang Saga]

Mike Wheeler [Stranger Things]

Michael Langdon [American Horror Story]

Xavier Plympton [American Horror Story]

Duncan Shepherd [House of Cards]

Movie Characters

Jim Mason [Tribes of Palos Verdes]

Tangerine [Bullet Train]

Dave Lizewski/Kick Ass [Kick Ass]

Nick Sheff [Beautiful Boy]

Kyle Scheible [Lady Bird]

Prince Hal [The King]

Peter Parker [Spiderman] (Both Tom and Andrew version)

Richie Tozier [IT]

Anime

Katsuki Bakugou [My Hero]

Shoto Todoroki [My Hero]

Izuku Midoriya [My Hero]

Eijiro Kirishima [My Hero]

Denki Kaminari [My Hero]

Hitoshi Shinso [My Hero]

Soma Yukihira [Food Wars]

Death The Kid [Soul Eater]

Soul Eater Evans [Soul Eater]

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dustedandsocial · 1 year

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Dustedandsocial Bestof 2022 part2 (rap 1)

Pictured: Shawny Binladen

01. PeeWee LongWay - Shit On Me 02. EBK BCKDOE, SSRICHH33 & Verde Babii - Angry Africans 03. DJ Crazy & Philly Goats - Philly Shake 04. Cash Cobain & Chow Lee - SLIZZY LIKE 05. Drakko Nol & Hezzo - Lock In 06. Shawny Binladen - Blackout Bright 07. Big YAYA - Ashley & Kimberly 08. BEBiii & Shawny Binladen - OTW 09. Guttafoe & Ybk $tash - $tash x Gutta 10. DJ MikeyG & Mori Briscoe - Glitch 11. Four50 & Big YAYA - 3.14 12. BabyTron - Hold Up, Wait! 13. Monaleo - We Not Humping 14. Realstasher.50k - Coming Down 15. Almighy Nigel, RRB Duck & Blessteam Marv - Stretch It Out 16. Tae Rackzz & Pmg rob - Dog shit 17. DaeMoney, Veeze & Lucki - GTA 18. ICYTWAT - Porsche Truck 19. Sexyy Red - Don't Get Beat 20. Kodak Black - I’m So Awesome 21. Trapland Pat - Z Land 22. Babyface Ray - Steak N Lobster 23. Kamaiyah & Sada Baby - Oakland Steppin In Detroit 24. 42 Dugg & EST Gee - Thump Shit 25. Young Nudy - Project X 26. FNF Chop, Sheff G & Young Nudy - Walkdown 27. GloRilla - Blessed 28. Chief Keef - Overhead 29. Quelly Woo, Set Da Trend & Fr33BANDIT - Try Ya Luck 30. Zahsosaa, D Sturdy & DJ Crazy - Shake Dhat

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Dustedandsocial Bestof 2022 part3 (rap 2)

Pictured: Veeze

01. Sauce Walka - Dangerous Daringer 02. Shawn Eff, EBK Young Joc, Mac J & ThatBoyDayDay - Grim Reaper 03. Mikeeazybeazy & Icewear Veazzo - Groovy 04. Ace Cino & Kitchen Qleen - L.A In The Morning 05. Say It Ain’t Tone, Sada Baby & UpUp Rich Lo - Been Platinum 06. KCG Josh & Maxo Kream - Choke 07. Spinabenz - Murder Talk, Pt. 3 08. Glockboyz Teejaee - Go 09. Veeze - Let It Fly 10. CEO Trayle - Private Matter 11. CHASETHEMONEY, Babyface Ray & Valee - 99 Problems 12. Jugg Harden & YN Jay - How Yo Bitch Sound 13. Chicken P - Straight To Work 14. Damedot - FUCK YO SUMMER 15. Rio Da Yung Og - Showstopper 16. Drego, Beno & BabyTron - Vaxuum Sealed 17. Los, Nutty & Slime - Ready Rock 18. Baby Smoove - Miss Me 19. Ball Jackson - Fuk Corporate 20. Babyface Ray, Detroit Rap News & Kardiak Films - Santel 33 21. FishXGrits & Sauce Walka - Didn't I 22. SME TAXFREE, RRB Duck, RRB Mel & SME YM - Ayyyye 23. MarijuanaXO - Tris 24. Cashclick Boog & BandGang Lonnie Bands - USE TO MONEY 25. Gallery Provence & ManMan Savage - Dividends 26. BigXthaPlug & Maxo Kream - Safehouse (Remix) 27. Justin Credible & Ohgeesy - Lavish 28. DB.Boutabag - 10PM 29. YOUNG SLO-BE - Track Stars 30. Ralfy the Plug - The Truth Hurts

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Dustedandsocial Bestof 2022 part4 (rap 3)

Pictured: Mudbaby Ru

01. Mudbaby Ru - Gun Class 02. Bigkaybeezy & Lil Zay Osama - Glock 9 03. CEO Trayle & Fastmoney Ant - Nightmares & Dreams 04. Real Boston Richey & Future - I Want You 05. MarijuanaXO, Joe pablo, Chicken P & Juicester - 72 Hours 06. Drakeo the Ruler - Slip & Fall 07. QP KO & Baby 9eno - The 1 Not The 2 08. DCG Shun, DCG Bsavv & MoneySign Suede - Get Money 09. Icewear Vezzo - Ace Of Spades 10. Mac J & EBK Young Joc - Her Son Stoopin 11. JG Riff, CartiEarss & No Savage - Carry Em 12. Baby Stone Gorillas & WeezGotti - On To Tha Next 13. Shaudy Kash - All Around The World 14. TeemoK1Up - Backwood Crazy 15. BandGang Lonnie Bands - Crank It Up 16. EBG EJizzle - That's So Raven 17. Daboii & G Perico - No You Not 18. Drego, Prell & Bandgang Lonnie Bands - Laylow Flo 19. Whoppa Wit Da Choppa - Shhh 20. KP SKYWALKA - CANT GET RIGHT 21. Lil Gray - Abuse It 22. Nutso Thugn - UpperKutter 23. Dc2trill, Rio Da Yung Og & Rmc Mike - Vivienne Peacoat 24. Ralfy the Plug & OTM - Everyday A Movie 25. Baby Fifty - Meet you 26. Glock Jones - No Bap 27. Slimesito & Yung Maaly - Get Wicked 28. Smoke Chapo - Havin' The Most 29. Trapnhardo, EST Gee & Icewear Vezzo - Bottom Of The Trap 30. PGF Nuk - Switch Switch

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Dustedandsocial Bestof 2022 part5 (rap 4)

Pictured: Starlito

01. Rxknephew - Pocket Knife Nephew 02. Tony Shhnow - Show U 03. Veeze - living goat 04. Z Money - Lyin Oath 05. Texas Boyz - Awready 06. 10Kdunkin - Dj Dont Play No Love Song 07. Bbyafricka - Ronald Reagan 08. Cruddy Murda - Super 09. Bandosupreme, Icebirds & 44Oakboy - Money First 10. Idontknowjeffery & Big Marri - Yn Movement 11. Reace Sosa, O42marky, Mari Montana - ADN 12. WTM Scoob - throw up 13. 2ski & Boofboiicy - YTN 14. Warhol.Ss, CEO Trayle & Dc2trill - Blue 42 15. Hotboi Skullie & Sauce Keyz - Up Dere 16. Sickboyrari - Bow Bow 17. Vip Skylark & Papo2Oo4 - Soho Loft Party 18. Staysie Atoms - U My Son Go To Tha Corner Cuz U Grounded U My Son Go Get The Switch Cuz Bitch U Tried It 19. Surf Gang - Hardy Boyz 20. Icebirds - Throwed 21. Cousin Stizz - Lbs 22. G.T. & Curren$y - Push Start 23. Trapperman Dale - Lies 24. Starlito - Feat. All $tar 25. Gue Wop & Boldy James - Dirty Face 26. Valee & Na-Kel Smith - Kelly Green 27. Realyungphil - Blackout Freestyle 28. Lucki - Fumble 29. Larry June - Corte Madera, Ca 30. Father - Horsepower

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Dustedandsocial Bestof 2022 part6 (rap 5)

Pictured: Bbymutha

01. Danger Mouse, Black Thought & MF DOOM - Belize 02. Bbymutha - R U Sure 03. Mavi - Reason! 04. Nicholas Craven & Boldy James - Straight & Tall 05. Mr. Muthafuckin Exquire - Bubbleguts 06. Redveil, Fly Anakin & Ovrkast. - Automatic 07. Pink Siifu & Valee - Griptape'!! 08. Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals - Death Of A Constable 09. Jay Worthy, Larry June, Lndn Drgs & Roc Marciano - Maybe The Next Time 10. Big Cheeko & Mach-Hommy - Spin Off 11. Psalm One & Custom Made - Shadow Work 12. Fly Anakin & Henny L.O. - Dontbeafraid 13. Archibald Slim & Quadry - Surviving 14. Billy Woods & Despot - Versailles 15. E L U C I D - Smile Lines 16. Quelle Chris & Cavalier - Purple Robes 17. Messiah! - Lordy! 18. Yl, Starker & Zoomo - Digits 19. Roc Marciano & The Alchemist - Bubble Bath 20. Junglepussy - Mystical 21. Na-Kel Smith - Iloveyou,alright 22. Papo2Oo4 - Show You 23. They Hate Change - Some Days I Hate My Voice 24. Trippjones, Wifigawd & Tony Seltzer - Pressure 25. Monday Night, Heather Grey & Nickelus F - Viral 26. Rome Streetz - 1000 Ecstasy 27. Mike, Wiki & The Alchemist - Be Realistic 28. Ka - Touché 29. Earl Sweatshirt - Old Friend 30. Quelle Chris, Denmark Vessey & J Jig Cicero - Cui Prodest

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Dustedandsocial Bestof 2022 part7 (rap 6)

Pictured: Lo.Ceasar (YL & Starker)

01. Lukah, Jason Da Hater, Cities Aviv, Dame Mufasa, Suni Katz, Deener, The Derelick, J Royal & Yasin Allah - RARE FORMULAZ 02. Mach-Hommy, JuJu Gotti & Nicholas Craven - Sans Maquillage 03. Blass 89 & DøøF - Bad Day 04. Veteran! - TroubleWithTheMob 05. kemp dupri & achille - negro marx 06. amani & robalu - gunsmoke 07. Psyche Nah - BROKEN RECORD 08. Hakim - Chef's Kiss 09. Koncept Jack$on - 7 Cups of Blood 10. Rich Jones & Iceberg Theory - Have You Tried Turning It Off & Back On Again 11. Aj Suede - Monochrome 12. Ox Omni & Emilio Craig - ROTTEN APPLES 13. Defcee, Boathouse, Meyhem Lauren & Metasota - Dunk Contest [Remix] 14. Kipp Stone & Nuke Franklin - 1833 15. Camden Malik & DVNTBEATS - Direct 16. QThree - Big Dipper 17. Chris Crack - Jordan Never Did That Move 18. Argov, YL & Starker - Old School 19. Cise Greeny - ”ONWARDS” 20. Cousin Feo - Louie XVI 21. CLBRKS, Sleazy F Baby & Soweto Kinch - Tell Em! 22. Lo.Ceasar - VINTRILOQUIST 23. Medhane & JUNIE. - BET! 24. Lord Jah-Monte Ogbon, Sadhugold & Kaos the Baker - Tour Is Over 25. Sha Hef, Tony Seltzer & ABG Neal - Outside & Aktive 26. HooksArthur, Smokeintheye & Cise Greeny - Articulated Visions 27. Starker - Gangrel 28. Emilio Craig - EDDIE ROW 29. ZekeUltra - CAPTAIN HOOK 30. Pink Siifu, Real Bad Man, Peso Gordon & Chuck Strangers - Pour The Wine

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Dustedandsocial Bestof 2022 part8 (rap 7)

Pictured: Moor Mother

01. Obiekwe Agbu - ready to stay 02. LustSickPuppy - EGO BRUISER 03. GAWD - JOHN WALL 04. Sir EU - STAND NAME NationWidu (全国) 05. ELDER RA & Rahiem Supreme - Unorthodox Exquisiteness Taste 06. Lxdxp - The Dead 07. Akai Solo - Sun 2 Moon 08. Fil Jackson & Lord Jah-Monte Ogbon - Sunday Church For The Kids 09. proxy.exe - BREAK U OFF 10. Semiratruth, JWords, maassai & diani - ahead 11. Obijuan, YUNGMORPHEUS & Bisk - LIMBO 12. Kofi - treesap 13. DøøF - WeInHell 14. DrxQuinnx - Romper Room 14. mary sue & Tony Bontana - Moving On! 15. Jadasea - face of it 17. THE BLACKHEARTS - MONEY TALKS 18. Nappy Nina, Mavi & dane.zone - Tucked In 19. JUNIE. & AMIR BILAL - BEATRICE&RIO 20. Dylan Gray & 99PIRATE - Beetlejuice 21. yungmorpheus & THERAVADA - Vanishing Point 22. Elijah Bank$y - SMALL TALK 23. Blackchai - Chamber 24. Judah - Piece 25. SOUDIERE & WIFIGAWD - SIRIUS BLACK 26. Gam & Fatboi Sharif - Dusted Pushups 27. Moor Mother, Akai Solo & justmadnice - RAP JASM 28. NAPPYNAPPA - Source 29. Tony Bontana - Slide 30. Jaydonclover & ZekeUltra - browneyes

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part1 (bestof Certified Trapper): HERE

#Best of 2022 #Mixes

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travelingviabooks · 2 years

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Up Next

Because I’m awful at deciding what to read next, I put all of my TBR shelves into a random generator to pick for me. Any new books will be added to the end of the list.

“Children of Hurin” JRR Tolkien

“No Longer Human” by Osamu Dazai

“The Stand-In” by Lily Chu

“Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy

“War Trash” by Ha Jin

“The Raven Boys” by Maggie Stiefvater

“Remains of the Day” by Kazuo Ishiguro

“The Host” by Stephenie Meyer

“A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder” by Holly Jackson

“The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka

“Ali and Nino” by Kurban Said

“Tale of Genji” by Lady Murasaki

“Lovers of Algeria” by Anouar Benmalek

“Pachinko” by Min Jin Lee

“Killing Commendatore” by Haruki Murakami

“The Buddhist on Death Row” by David Sheff

“The Sympathizer” by Viet Thanh Nguyen

“A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World” by C.A. Fletcher

“Wicked” by Gregory Maguire

“The Last Gentleman Adventurer” by Edward Beauclerk Maurice

“Dragon Springs Road” by Janie Chang

“Watership Down” by Richard Adams

“You’ve Reached Sam” by Dustin Thao

“Evil and the Mask” by Fuminori Nakamura

“Tales from the Cafe” by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

“Before Your Memory Fades” by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

“I Am a Cat” by Sōseki Natsume

“Wind/Pinball” by Haruki Murakami

“The Island of Missing Trees” by Elif Shafak

“The Ministry of Special Cases” by Nathan Englander

“Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe

“They Both Die At The End” by Adam Silvera

“Crazy Rich Asians” by Kevin Kwan

“Absolutely on Music” by Haruki Murakami

“A Little Life” by Hanya Yanagihara

“The Buried Giant” by Kazuo Ishiguro

“Malice” by Keigo Higashino

“A Tale for the Time Being” by Ruth Ozeki

“Game of Thrones” by George R.R. Martin

“Watch Over Me” by Nina Lacour

“Goodbye Tsugumi” by Banana Yoshimoto

“White Ivy” by Susie Yang

“Bastard out of Carolina” by Dorothy Allison

“First They Killed My Father” by Loung Ung

“Yokohama Yankee” by Leslie Helm

“A Court of Thorns and Roses” by Sarah J. Maas

“Seoulmates” by Susan Lee

“Infinite Country” by Patricia Engel

“Silent Parade” by Keigo Higashino

“Men Without Women” by Ernest Hemingway

“Purple Hibiscus” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“The Red Palace” by June Hur

“Through A Darkening Glass” by R.S. Maxwell

“Inventing Japan” by Ian Buruma

“Death on the Nile” by Agatha Christie

“The Gangster We Are All Looking For” by Lê Thi Diem Thúy

“Red At the Bone” by Jacqueline Woodson

“Stranger in the Shogun’s City” by Amy Stanley

“Midnight in Broad Daylight” by Pamela Rotner Sakamoto

“Kokoro” by Natsume Sôseki

“Some Prefer Nettles” by Junichiro Tanizaki

“Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor” by Xiran Jay Zhao

“The Princess Diarist” by Carrie Fisher

“Firekeeper’s Daughter” by Angeline Boulley

“Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All” by Jonas Jonasson

“I Am Malala” by Malala Yousafzai

“There There” by Tommy Orange

“The Travelling Cat Chronicles” by Hiro Arikawa

“Pearl of China” by Anchee Min

“Slasher Girls & Monster Boys” by April Genevieve Tucholke

“A Hundred Thousand Worlds” by Bob Proehl

“The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis” by José Saramago

“My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry” by Fredrik Backman

“Memoirs of a Polar Bear” by Yoko Tawada

“Little Fires Everywhere” by Celeste Ng

“The Alchemist” by Paulo Coehlo

“Fallout” by Lesley M.M. Blume

“Natural Rivals” by John Clayton

“The Mermaid from Jeju” by Sumi Hahn

“The Women I Think About At Night” by Mia Kankimäki

“In Praise of Difficult Women” by Karen Karbo

“On Trails: An Exploration” by Robert Moor

“Four Treasures of the Sky” by Jenny Tinghui Zhang

“Solito” by Javier Zamora

“Gideon: The Ninth” by Tamsyn Muir

“Circe” by Madeline Miller

“The Girl With Seven Names: Escape From North Korea” by Hyeonseo Lee

“Above the Clouds” by Kilian Jornet

“The Only Child” by Mi-Ae Seo

“We Are Not From Here” by Jenny Torres Sanchez

“The Gilded Ones” by Namina Forna

“Within These Wicked Walls” by Lauren Blackwood

“In The Serpent’s Wake” by Rachel Hartman

“The Miracles of the Namiya General Store” by Keigo Higashino

“The Marriage of Opposites” by Alice Hoffman

“The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky

“Under a Painted Sky” by Stacey Lee

“Frankly in Love” by David Yoon

“Both Can Be True” by Jules Machias

“The Viking Heart” by Arthur Herman

“Spin the Dawn” by Elizabeth Lim

“Unravel the Dusk” by Elizabeth Lim

“Last Night at the Telegraph Club” by Malinda Lo

“Zen in the Art of Archery” by Eugen Herrigel

“Gasa-Gasa Girl” by Naomi Hirahara

“Our Bodies, Their Battlefields” by Christina Lamb

“Icebound” by Andrea Pitzer

“Cursed” by Thomas Wheeler

“Beijing Payback” by Daniel Nieh

“From Little Tokyo With Love” by Sarah Kuhn

“The Chosen and the Beautiful” by Nghi Vo

“Where Oceans Burn” by Casey L. Bond

“The Night Tiger” by Yangsze Choo

“Sweet Bean Paste” by Durian Sukegawa

“O Beautiful” by Jung Yun

“I Am China” by Xiaolu Guo

“Too Much Lip” by Melissa Lucashenko

“Songbirds” by Christy Lefteri

“Rebel Seoul” by Axie Oh

“Rogue Heart” by Axie Oh

“The Emissary” by Yoko Tawada

“Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation 1” by Mo Dao Zu Shi

“The One and Only Ivan” by Katherine Applegate

“The One and Only Bob” by Katherine Applegate

“Tokyo Ueno Station” by Yu Miri

“Nowhere for Very Long” by Brianna Madia

“Mutant Message Down Under” by Marlo Morgan

“Outlawed” by Anna North

“Snow Country” by Yasunari Kawabata

“Wolf Nation” by Brenda Peterson

“Coyote America” by Dan Flores

“Adventures of a Young Naturalist” by David Attenborough

“Silence” by Shūsaku Endō

“The Lonesome Body Builder” by Yukiko Motoya

“Leaving Mother Lake” by Yang Erche Namu & Christine Mathieu

“A Personal Matter” by Kenzaburō Ōe

“Sour Heart” by Jenny Zhang

“Bullet Train” by Kotaro Isaka

“Strange the Dreamer” by Laini Taylor

“The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden & The Trial of the Century” by Sarah Miller

“The Island of Sea Women” by Lisa See

“The Lovely and the Lost” by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

“Falling” by T.J. Newman

“The Inheritance Games” by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

“Amari and the Night Brothers” by B.B. Alston

“I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki” by Baek Sehee

“This Savage Song” by Victoria Schwab

“Howl’s Moving Castle” by Diana Wynne Jones

“Seven Deadly Shadows” by Courtney Alameda and Valynne E. Maetani

“Empress of All Seasons” by Emiko Jean

“The Revenant” by Michael Punke

“Summer of the Big Bachi” by Naomi Hirahara

“The Sunbearer Trials” by Aiden Thomas

“Road Trip Rwanda” by Will Ferguson

“The Next Everest” by Jim Davidson

“Into Thin Air” by Jon Krakauer

“Vagabonding” by Rolf Potts

“The Power” by Naomi Alderman

“Six of Crows” by Leigh Bardugo

“The Stolen Throne” by David Gaider

“Tess of the Road” by Rachel Hartman

“The Big Year” by Mark Obmascik

“The Crying of Lot 49” by Thomas Pynchon

“Heaven’s Official Blessing” by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

“Out” by Natsuo Kirino

“A Year in Provence” by Peter Mayle

“Socrates in Love” by Kyoichi Katayama

“Sight Hound” by Pam Houston

“Two Old Women” by Velma Wallis

“The Stranger in the Woods” by Michael Finkel

“Wilderness” by Scott Stillman

“Never Cry Wolf” by Farley Mowat

“The Priory of the Orange Tree” by Samantha Shannon

“Eiger Dreams” by Jon Krakauer

“Siddhartha” by Herman Hess

“And the Mountains Echoed” by Khaled Hosseini

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nwtfghana · 3 months

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Kwaw Kese ft Kofi Mole - Awoyo Osofo | New Music Video

Kwaw Kese releases the official music video for his song ‘Awoyo Osofo’, featuring Kofi Mole. The project by the Madtime Entertainment front-liner is fast trending soon after it’s release. The song was produced by Skonti and the video that comes with it was directed by Rich Sheff. Watch and enjoy the video below:

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#Awoyo Osofo #Kofi Mole #Kwaw Kese

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thebandcampdiaries · 2 years

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N.M. Ballin’ is an artist and performer who has recently releases a brand new release, “Hometown.” (Featuring Strategy Ki)

November 2022 - N.M. Ballin’, also known as Golden Tongue, has recently teamed up with fellow artist Strategy Ki to release a brand new single: Hometown. The track has a punchy drill vibe, with a huge bass response and a lot of energy in the delivery. The song also appears on the album “Eight Prelude (Prequel), which is currently available on Spotify. The full record features eight songs, and “Hometown” feels like the perfect example of what people can expect from this release. The tone has a darker, relentless style, and the production feels very organic, allowing the natural feel of both artists’ vocals to really shine.

In addition to the personable and edgy performance value, this release is also quite distinctive because of the sheer quality of the production. The mix is balanced and very detail-oriented, making for a lively, edgy and stark sonic approach. In other words, there are many subtle nuances in this release, which really add to the richness of the track when summed up together. The frequency spectrum of the mix is also very balanced, with a tight, yet deep low end working wonders along with a smooth top end, which adds a sense of clarity to the music.

"Hometown" stands out for its modern sound, but although the production is quite polished, it is never overproduced, allowing a lot of wonderfully organic and “human” elements to really add liveliness to the mix.

Ultimately, I’d definitely recommend giving this one a shot, particularly if you are a fan of artists such as Eli Fross, Sheff G and Sleepy Hallow. This is the kind of track that will surprise you for it sonic variety, and it will keep you on the edge of your seat due to its catchy, yet unpredictable arrangement. I always love to hear from artists who set the bar higher and push the envelope when it comes to their productions: this certainly appears to be the case!

Find out more about N.M. Ballin’ and do not miss out on the artist’s most recent releases, activities and events:

https://open.spotify.com/track/4IFgWlcFDRe7ewQxHUFppR?si=pkGSTQ-wT9emUcPwdYuPBg

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yayodancing · 3 years

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Just know, if WLR really does drop on Christmas, it will be the album of the year.

Edit: I told y’all

1. Playboi Carti - Stop Breathing

2. Headie One - Only You Freestyle (feat. Drake)

3. Roddy Rich - The Box

4. Drake - Pain 1993 (feat. Playboi Carti)

5. Lil Uzi Vert - Prices

6. The Weeknd - After Hours

7. 21 Savage - Glock In My Lap

8. Travis Scott - Franchise (remix) (feat. Future, Young Thug & MIA)

9. 645AR - Yoga

10. Young Thug - Out West (feat. Travis Scott)

11. Thundercat - Dragonball Durag

12. Zack Fox - Stick! (Feat. Fabo)

13. Lil Yachty - Flex Up (feat. Playboi Carti & Future)

14. King Krule - Stoned Again

15. Childish Gambino - 19.10

16. Baby Keem - Hooligan

17. Lil Baby - We Paid (feat. 42 Dugg)

18. Tame Impala - Is It True

19. Young Nudy - No Comprende

20. Don Tolliver - Cardigan

21. Slowthai - Enemy

22. Yves Tumor - Kerosene

23. Future & Lil Uzi Vert - That’s It

24. 03 Greedo - Bands In Da Basement (feat. Chief Keef)

25. Freddie Gibbs - God Is Perfect

26. Sleepy Hallow - Deep End Freestyle

27. StaySolidRocky - Party Girl Remix (feat. Lil Uzi Vert)

28. Sahbabbi - Purple Umbrella

29. Gunna - Blindfold (feat. Lil Baby)

30. Tisakorean - Did You Know (WiFi Password)

31. Lil Tecca - Dolly (feat. Lil Uzi Vert)

32. Partynextdoor - Loyal (feat. Drake)

33. Kid Cudi - Heaven on Earth

34. King Von - Gleesh Place

35. Chief Keef - Bang Bang

36. Frank Ocean - Cayendo

37. Future - Rockstar Chainz

38. Blood Orange - Call Me (feat. Park Hye Jin)

39. Nav - Yung Wheezy (feat. Gunna)

40. YN Jay - Coochie

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42. James Blake - Before

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44. Kenny Mason - PTSD

45. Meekz - Like Me

46. Pop Smoke - Yea Yea

47. Userdeleted_95 - Dark Mode

48. 42 Dugg - Palm Angels In the Sky

49. Juice WRLD - Blood On My Jesus

50. Internet Money - Lemonade (feat. Don Tolliver, Nav & Gunna)

51. Benny the Butcher - 3:30 in Houston

52. Rod Wave - Rags 2 Riches (remix) (feat. Lil Baby)

53. Bad Bunny - Safaera (feat. Jowel & Randy and Nengo Flow)

54. The 1975 - If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know)

55. DaBaby - Practice

56. Lil Keed - Wavy (remix) (feat. Travis Scott)

57. Kanye West - Wash Us In The Blood (feat. Travis Scott)

58. Jackboy - Like a Million (feat. Kodak Black)

59. Ty $ Sign - Ego Death (feat. Kanye West & FKA Twigs)

60. Hoodrich Pablo Juan - Tu Can Sam

61. Cardi B - WAP (feat. Megan Thee Stallion)

62. Sada Baby - Whole Lotta Choppas

63. Drakeo The Ruler - Ion Rap Beef (feat. Earl Sweatshirt & 03 Greedo)

64. BIGBABYGUCCI - Rest In Peace Miss Rose

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66. Kodak Black - Dummy Green

67. City Girls - Pussy Talk (feat. Doja Cat)

68. Boldy James - Scrape the Bowl (feat. Benny the Butcher)

69. Mulatto - Muwop (feat. Gucci Mane)

70. Lil Eazyyy - Onna Comeup

71. DDG - Moonwalkin in Calabasas (feat. Blueface)

72. Monsta - Spazzin (feat. Young Dro)

73. Billie Eilish - Therefore I Am

74. Marshmello - Baggin (feat. 42 Dugg)

75. Rahli - Clip Hangin (feat. Lil STL)

76. Jojo - Reanimator (feat. Yves Tumor)

77. Special Interest - Disco III

78. Grimes - 4AEM

79. Sech - La Luz (feat. J Balvin)

80. Gucci Mane - Nasty (feat. 21 Savage & Young Nudy)

81. M Huncho - Indulge (feat. D Block Europe)

82. Juicy J - Gah Damn High (feat. Lex Luger & Wiz Khalifa)

83. Masego - Mystery Lady (feat. Don Tolliver)

84. Father - Risotto

85. Money Man - 24 (feat. Lil Baby)

86. Duke Deuce - Crunk Ain’t Dead (Remix) (feat. Lil Jon, Juicy J & Project Pat)

87. Mac Miller - That’s On Me

88. Megan Thee Stallion - Savage

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90. Brent Faiyaz - Fuck The World (Summer in London)

91. 070 Shake - The Pines

92. Stunna 4 Vegas - Do Dat (feat. DaBaby & Lil Baby)

93. Z Money - Cold Cuts

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99. JPEGMafia - Rough 7 (feat. Tommy Genesis)

100. Mario Judah - Die Very Rough

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6. Drake - Dark Lane Demo Tapes

7. 21 Savage & Metro Boomin - Savage Mode 2

8. Tame Impala - The Slow Rush

9. Thundercat - It Is What It Is

10. Don Toliver - Heaven or Hell

11. Gunna - Wunna

12. Lil Baby - My Turn

13. Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon III: The Chosen

14. Sahbabbi - Barnacles

15. Mario Judah - Whole Lotta Red

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‘Exuma’ at 50: How a Bahamian Artist Channeled Island Culture Into a Strange Sonic Ritual by Brenna Ehrlich

The performer known as Exuma channeled his Bahamian heritage into a captivating 1970 debut. Fans and participants look back.

Chances are, you’ve never heard a boast track quite like “Exuma, the Obeah Man,” the opening song off Exuma’s self-titled 1970 album.

A wolf howls, frogs count off a ramshackle symphony, bells jingle, drums palpitate, a zombie exhales, all by way of introducing the one-of-a-kind Bahamian performer, born Tony Mackey: “I came down on a lightning bolt/Nine months in my mama’s belly,” he proclaims. “When I was born, the midwife/Screamed and shout/I had fire and brimstone/Coming out of my mouth/I’m Exuma, the Obeah Man.”

“[Obeah] was with my grandfather, with my father, with my mother, with my uncles who taught me,” Mackey said in a 1970 interview, referring to the spiritual practice he grew up with in the Bahamas. “It has been my religion in the vein that everyone has grown up with some sort of religion, a cult that was taught. Christianity is like good and evil. God is both. He unlocked the secrets to Moses, good and evil, so Moses could help the children of Israel. It’s the same thing, the whole completeness — the Obeah Man, spirits of air.”

The music world is hardly devoid of gimmicks, alter egos, and adopted personas. But Mackey’s Exuma moniker, borrowed from the name of an island district in the Bahamas, was never just that — he lived and breathed his culture, channeling it into a debut album so singularly weird, wonderful, and enchanted that it’s not surprising it’s remembered only by the most industrious of crate-diggers. A cuddly Dr. John dabbling in voodoo Mackey was not; Exuma is a parade, a séance, a condemnation of racist evils.

“The eccentricity of [Dr. John’s 1968 debut] Gris-Gris is, like, ‘Let’s roll a fat joint,'” says Okkervil River frontman and devout Exuma fan Will Sheff. “The eccentricity of Exuma is more like PCP.” Sheff became hip to Exuma when his former bandmate Jonathan Meiburg (singer-guitarist of Shearwater) happened to hear “Obeah Woman,” Nina Simone’s 1974 spin on “Obeah Man.” Sheff was entranced by Exuma’s debut, especially the sincerity of its lyrics and Mackey’s whole-hearted earnestness. “There’s something about when somebody is very devoutly religious, where you trust them not to sell you something,” he tells Rolling Stone. “I mean, they may be trying to sell you their religious beliefs, but their religious beliefs are so vitally important to them that they kind of stop trying to sell themselves.”

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“He was unique. He was good,” says Quint Davis, producer of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, where Exuma became a mainstay later in his career. “He was like a voodoo Richie Havens or something.”

Macfarlane Gregory Anthony Mackey grew up in Nassau, Bahamas, steeped in both Bahamian history and American culture. Each Boxing Day, he witnessed Junkanoo parades — a tradition dating back hundreds of years and commemorating days when slaves finally had time off — replete with music, masks, and folklore. At the movies, accessed with pocket money earned from selling fish on weekends, he saw performances by Sam Cooke and Fats Domino.

“Saying the word ‘Junkanoo’ to most Bahamians gets their hearts beating faster and their breathing gets shorter and faster,” Langston Longley, leader of Bahamas Junkanoo Revue, has said. “It’s hard to express in words because it’s a feeling, a spirit that’s evoked within from the sound of a goatskin drum, a cowbell, or a bugle.”

“I grew up a roots person, someone knowing about the bush and the herbs and the spiritual realm,” Mackey told Wavelength in 1981 of his life back home. “It was inbred into all of us. Just like for people growing up in the lowlands of Delta Country or places like Africa.”

In 1961, when he was 17, Mackey moved to New York’s Greenwich Village to become an architect, according to a 1970 interview, but he abandoned that dream when he ran out of money. He then acquired a junked-up guitar on which he practiced Bahamian calypsos and penned songs about his home. “I started playing around when Bob Dylan, Richie Havens, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Richard Pryor, Hendrix, and Streisand were all down there, too, hanging out and performing at the Cafe Bizarre,” Mackey recalled in 1994. “I’d been singing down there, and we’d all been exchanging ideas and stuff. Then one time a producer came up to me and said he was very interested in recording some of my original songs, but he said that I needed a vehicle. I remembered the Obeah Man from my childhood — he’s the one with the colorful robes who would deal with the elements and the moonrise, the clouds, and the vibrations of the earth. So, I decided to call myself Exuma, the Obeah Man.”

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Mackey’s manager, Bob Wyld, helped him form a band to record his debut album, including Wyld’s client Peppy Castro of the Blues Magoos. “It was like acting. Like, ‘OK, I’ll take a little alias, I’ll be Spy Boy,’ and all this kind of stuff,” Castro tells Rolling Stone. All the members of Mackey’s band adopted stage names, which wasn’t that strange to Castro, who originated the role of Berger in the Broadway show Hair.

“Then I met Tony and then I got into the folklore and I started to see what he was about — this history of coming from the [Bahamas],” he adds. “It was great. It was inventive. We would do a little Junkanoo parade from out of the dressing room, right up to the stage. It was about the show of it all. Coming from somebody who wanted to learn music in a more traditional form, that was kind of cool.”

The band recorded Exuma at Bob Liftin’s Regent Sound Studios in New York City — where the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, and Elton John also laid down tracks — giving the bizarre record a slick sheen. Mackey once said that the music came to him in a dream, and he set the mood in the studio accordingly. “It was so free form. We turned the lights out, we’d put up candles, he’d get on a mic and he’d just start going off and singing crazy stuff and we followed it,” Castro says. “You would go into trances. In those days, I was a little hippie, so yeah, we’d be smoking weed there and getting high. It became a séance almost. It was like, ‘We’re going into this mode and we’re going to see where it takes us.’”

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“There were no boundaries with Tony,” he adds. “It was free for him. It’s kind of like what people felt like when they played with Chuck Berry. If you talk to any of the musicians who played with Chuck Berry, you just had to be on your toes because he would change keys in the middle of the song. But there was also the spiritual stuff, you know, just the crazy voodoo-ish stuff. It was just so free for him.”

Everyone Rolling Stone talked with for this story compared Mackey to Richie Havens, but the similarities only really extend to, perhaps, Havens’ role in the Greenwich Village scene and the rich quality of his voice. “You can put on Dr. John and Richie Havens and water the plants. It’s good background music,” Will Sheff says. “But if [Exuma’s] ‘Séance in the Sixth Fret’ comes on shuffle, you’re going to skip it. It’s active listening; it sends a chill down your spine.”

Exuma is a kind of aural movie — fitting, as Mackey went on to write plays — that starts off boastful and proud with “Obeah Man” then descends into darker territory. The second track, “Dambala,” is a melodic damnation of slave owners: “You slavers will know/What it’s like to be a slave,” Mackey wails, “You’ll remain in your graves/With the stench and the smell.”

“It reminds me of Jordan Peele movies — movies that deal with sort of the black experience, a collective trauma,” Sheff says of the song. “He’s cursing a slaver and there’s something so intensely powerful about that.”

Then there’s zombie ode “Mama Loi, Papa Loi,” a frankly terrifying story of men rising from the dead, featuring guttural yelps and groans. “Jingo, Jingo he ain’t dead/He can see from the back of his head,” Mackey sings. That leads into the comparatively peppy “Junkanoo,” an instrumental that recalls the parades of the musician’s youth. Things get dark again with “Séance in the Sixth Fret,” which is just that — a yearning ritual in which the band calls to a litany of spirits. “Hand on quill/Hand on pencil/Hand on pen/Tell me spirit/Tell me when,” Mackey intones. The more accessible “You Don’t Know What’s Going On,” follows, leading into epic prophecy “The Vision,” which foretells the end of the world: “And all the dead walking throughout the land/Whispering, Whispering, it was judgment day.”

The strange, gorgeous record was released on Mercury Records, and at the time, the label had high hopes for its success, as it was apparently getting solid radio play. “The reaction is that of a heavy, big-numbers contemporary album,” Mercury exec Lou Simon said at the time. “As a result, we’re going to give it all the merchandising support we can muster.” But the album apparently failed to break through, and Mackey left Mercury in 1971 after releasing Exuma II. His legacy lived on in the corners of popular culture: Nina Simone covered “Dambala” as well as “Obeah Man,” with both tracks appearing on It Is Finished, a 1974 LP that failed to take off. Mackey himself went on to drop still more albums but mostly operated in a quiet kind of obscurity.

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“What he didn’t have was the commercial base, you know, the formula,” Castro says by way of explanation. “Let’s face it, the music business is very fickle and it boxes you in. And if you’re going to join that world, it’s in your best interest to commercialize yourself and to come up with a formula that works. He didn’t have that formula.”

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Mackey did find a home, though, at the newly minted New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 1978, an atmosphere that seemed more in keeping with his spiritual aesthetic than mainstream radio. “New Orleans is the most receptive place in the world to the artist, this music spirit that flies around in the air all the time waiting to be reborn and reborn,” he told Wavelength in 1981.

“He was a Caribbean Dr. John, so to speak,” festival producer Davis says. “When I heard [his album], I said, ‘Well, that’s us.’ This guy with feathers on his head, his big hat. Everybody loved him and he became part of the festival family.”

“I think he was the first Caribbean act that we had,” Davis adds. “I hesitate to say that he was a trailblazer because there weren’t a lot of people following in his footsteps.”

#bahamas #blue magoos #caribbean #exuma #nina simone #okkervil river #dr. john #obeah #richie havens #rollingstone #music #spirituality

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Lineup Lamentations - GW31+

Our Transfers, Captains, and Starting 11s for the week!

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WALSH

TRANSFERS:

OUT: Pukki and Grealish

IN (for -4 points hit): Richarlison and Connolly

I'm having a real fucking clunker of a season, worst of my FPL career by a lot, so I am feeling pretty loose. I'm backing what I saw with my eyes this weekend which, among other things, was that Grealish is an FPL non-option and Norwich are completely incompetent. The idea that Villa and Norwich would come back from the break revitalized and with a new fire burning was maybe too steeped in fairy tale than real life upon reflection, so, here we are. I'm not going to sit here and hope that either player turns it around and just fix the problem.

Rich looked really good against Livp, gets to play Norwich, and I guess I'm backing Everton and Carlo pretty hard here for the run in as he joins DCL in my team. Not the best fixtures but I am feeling them right now so we'll see how this goes. They are on a short break but DCL and Rich both seem like they could go 90 every day so I'm not too concerned with that. No FA Cup game so I'm not worried about Rich missing out.

I did spend more than a few minutes thinking of Alli in this spot but felt a bit too cute and leap-of-faithy with more question marks while Rich feels more of a sure thing with a similarly high ceiling.

Connolly is just cheap fuckboi who I will bury on my bench. Could've gone Necktie or something but figured that I'd rather have the extra change in my bank for what might be in my future.

GK:

de Gea (SHU)

DDG is a bit shit but he's gonna be between my sticks for the duration. Sheffu look like a beer league team right now so this clean should be extraordinarily easy.

DEF:

Maguire (SHU)

Slab makes it the double on their clean so depending on the way the wind blows here will have a big impact on my GW.

Doherty, Saïss, and Boly (BOU)

Speaking of wind and blowing, Wolves v Bournemouth. Woof. Treble Wolves D with the Dock, Saiss, and Boly get their second roll out.

Bournemouth looked holy shit all kinds of fucked up and bad against us last game and it seems like they will have an extremely difficult time finding a goal in this game. Clean feels like a pretty good shout here and I feel good with these three.

That's it for defense lol. It's just these two fucking teams. Eggs and baskets...

MID:

Mané and Salah (CRY)

Mane and Mo against my team. Whatever. Dunno what Livp will be up to or what XI he will pick after a very lethargic and shit performance against Everton. Feel like it might be enough to get them into gear before they face City the following gameweek, and with no FA Cup to distract them, they could disassemble us.

Richarlison (nor)

Rich is in against Norwich...ready to bang ok Richy let's go Rich.

Fernandes (SHU)

Lastly is Bruno. Don't really need to say anything about him. He's decent.

FWD:

Vardy (BHA)

Pretty fucking nervous about Leic and Vardy tomorrow in the early game with FA Cup for them this weekend and only two days off from the Watford game which was honestly pretty intense. Dunno what kind of XI Br0dge will select, but my hands are tied here. Much like my aggression in removing Pukki and Jack...if Leic don't pull it together quickly I could see Vardz being on the chopping block for Jesus or something soon mayb.

Calvert-Lewin (nor)

DCL looked really good to me against Livp - did his very difficult job well and nearly banged a worldy at the end of the game. Get in there lad.

BENCH:

Armstrong (ARS), Connolly (lei), and Egan (cunt)

It is harsh on Stuy that he's dropping to my bench, to be honest. It really was the biggest factor in my head towards saving, but realistically, he was always supposed to be my first shield on the bench and not someone who I rely on to start. Wouldn't be surprising if he came off anyway, but just wanted to give Stuy some words of encouragement because I love him so much. I love you Stuy, don't be mad at me kthx.

CAP:

Calvert-Lewin (nor)

I'm going to stick with DCL as shouted on the pod.

Hopefully he just like plays Bernard and Siggy with fucking like Andre Gomes and they just go into assault mode on Norwich. It'll certainly feel bad if/when Rich outscores DCL but its hard for me to justify going away from the tip of the spear for cap here.

—

ALON

TRANSFERS:

OUT: Mahrez

IN: Son

Planned switch and I made the move on Friday after Sonny boy looked good to me and came out of the match unscathed.

Mahrez is honestly one of my favorite FPL guys of all time and a true darling for me and he came through for me one more time but it’s time to go. Not really interested in Pep Roulette with him and Son to me is an easy and automatic pick from this moment through end of season. He will bang in loads of points. Simple.

GK:

Ederson (che)

Well this was supposed to be Leno but big RIP there.

I still back City to clean against like... every team in the.. world? Except Liverpool :).

So Eddy goes and will just be back there for the rest of season for me. If I need money at any point Leno down to a 3.9 might be where it comes from.

DEF:

Alexander-Arnold (CRY)

As good a clean fixture as there is in the league. Should be an easy job with upside of attacking returns and bones. Hopefully Trent’s shaken the rust off.

Maguire (SHU)

Blades are missing a lotttt of guys and they’re looking horrible so this will be the type of game where United need to just be mistake-free and not concede the oneish chance that Sheff U create and other then that should be an easy clean in complete control for 90′.

Doherty (BOU)

Doherty what a treat. No King for Bourney makes this an even tastier fixture... Hopefully Solanke starts and it’s just a shredding from Wolves. Also fingers crossed for Walsh’s treble to work out come on Wolves.

MID:

Son (WHU)

Go the fuck off Son it’s time.

Praying that Jose doesn’t maintain the Jose tactics and allows Son and Berg and Alli to run free in front of a passing midfield of Ndombele, Lo Celso, and Kane... I mean I can dream right?

Fernandes and Martial (SHU)

Plzplzpzplzplzpzplzlzplzz give me a Pogba start. I need a Pogba start so desperately... Otherwise we know what this will look like which is a dickless red devil humping a concrete wall for 90 minutes. Ugh.

Martial turnt up at the end of the Spurs match so I hope he can carry that momentum forward. Go on lads.

Traoré (BOU)

Adama! Was so thrilled when he came through for me. What a great lad. Love him. Now start him Nuno please sir.

FWD:

Aubameyang (sou)

Redemption arc begins here. No way he’s rested for FA cup right?????? (I’m terrified).

Jiménez (BOU)

Good ole Jim keeps Jimming it up. No problem gaffer.

Calvert-Lewin (nor)

Agree with what Walsh said above still love the look of this lad and think he’s got so much energy in those legs to go do it again against the by far worst defense in the division. Rip their hearts out and stomp on’em big Dom.

CAP:

Son (WHU)

I felt like I had at least 4 really good captaincy options and 2ish more then that still good sorta rogue ones too. So many good players with good fixtures in the team you love to see it.

I went to Son because Spurs must win and they have no FA Cup and he’s the best player of the group. All of those boxes being ticked swung me to Sonny boy and then for funsies I looked up his record vs West Ham which just further hammered (hehe) it home for me. This season he had a thirteen pointer goal and assist and in his seven career matches vs the bubble bois he has four goals and five assists... Absurd numbers. I usually dismiss these kinda stats but also, they’re not bad to have around, ya know?

Let’s go Son. Huge risk of ruining my week on the first day of the GW but fuck it I love the pick and loved the way he looked vs United. Cometh the hour cometh the man.

#fml fpl #lineup lamentations

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theoisyucky-blog · 4 years

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they duck their heads, peering out from behind the sloping rain gutters, the tapestry of telephone wires and power lines, and thick, heavy internet cables and cords connecting satellite dishes.

they live amongst the wires.

the wires are everywhere.

like the crows that are watching, spying, jerking their heads back, twitching.

the wires are alive.

forever wrapping, and tangling, and tying.

forever transmitting.

forever recieving.

like the fire lighting up my brain,

it is all schizo---the houses with their wires,

the downloads and news feeds.

the pop-up windows, and advertisements.

the crows are picking through the discarded waste---tearing out what's left of my---of our humanity.

everybody on earth is connected to some electronic wireless device that does nothing but create chaos and waste time and make us all ADD and ADHD and manic-depressive, neurotic, obsessive-compulsive, whatever.

i look at all these houses sealed tight in all their wires---the crows waiting to come and eat what's left of our atrophied brains.

people are lit up only by the hour of their televisions or computer screens, watching the lives of other people in reality shows and youtube videos---resentful that they themselves aren't the rich and famous ones with reality shows of their own, because somehow, in all these houses with all these wires, nothing is actually worth doing unless it is seen by other people.

and so our brains turn to mush, whilst our souls slowly fade along with it.

meanwhile, the crows peer and perch among the wires---waiting. biding their time 'til they can swoop in and pick clean our remains.

~ schizo by nic sheff

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hergrim · 5 years

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What was the range of the English Warbow?

(this is an answer I recently wrote on /r/AskHistorians)

To the best of my knowledge, there is only a single medieval source that gives us a good estimate of the range of a longbow in combat. Christine de Pizan's Le Livre des Fais d’Armes et de Chevallerie (The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry), a very interesting work written between 1410 and 1411 at the request of John the Fearless for Louis, Duke of Guyenne and heir to the French throne. The first part of the work is largely based on Vegetius, with elements from Frontinus and Valerius Maximus, but it contains a chapter dedicated to contemporary military practice and Christine often updates or else views elements of Vegetius through the lens of early 15th century Europe. One of these refers to English archers:

In this art young Englishmen are still instructed from early youth, and for this reason they commonly surpass other archers. They can hit a barge aimed at from a distance of six hundred feet.

The "foot" used by Christine was likely the Foot of Paris, which was 12.79 English inches, making the range 213 yards. However, while this is in the earliest extant - and perhaps the original - manuscript, there is another manuscript from almost the same period which instead says that the English archers could "place their arrow right where they want it" at that range. This might just be a variation on phrasing, since being able to reliably hit a barge at 213 yards could be said to be placing the arrow where you want it, or it could reflect the new French experience with English archers following Agincourt.

We can also compare this to 16th century sources, which are more numerous and also contain information on archery in the field. The source that provides the closest match to Christine de Pizan is Henry V's archery law of 1541, which forbids the practice of archery against static targets at less than 220 yards:

Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no man under the age of twenty four years shall shoot at any standing prick [target], except it be at a rover, whereat he shall change at every shoot his mark, upon pain for every shoot doing the contrary, iv d. (2) and that no person above the said age of twenty four years shall shoot at any mark of eleven score yards of under with any prick-shaft or flight, under the pain to forfeit for every shoot, six shillings eight pence.

The interesting thing here is that, although much has been made of the 220 yard minimum range, it was entirely acceptable to shoot military arrows at targets below 220 yards so long as you were participating in a sport known as "roving". Roving can be thought of as golf with a bow: it was a distinct course, and each mark (target) was at a different distance from the last. You followed the course from mark to mark, having to adjust your aim at every target and, according to the law, only being allowed to shoot once at each mark.

As you can see from the law, doing this with light arrows was expressly forbidden unless the mark was over 220 yards away, which very strongly suggests that the practice was specifically intended to foster useful skills for military archery. Targets over 220 yards, however, seem to have fallen into the category of flight shooting which, although it could be useful in a military context, was much more of a civilian sport.

Later 16th century sources, primarily military manuals or discussions of military matters by former soldiers, concur. For instance, Barnabe Rich writes that:

Suppose one thousande Archers shoulde be leuyed within any two Shiers in Englande let them vse no further regard in the choice then of ordinary they are accustomed: In the seruice of the Prince, let these Archers be apoynted with such liuery Bowes as the Country generally vseth to alow, let these Archers continnewe in the feelde but the space of one wéeke, abidynge such fortune of weather, with their Bowes and Arrowes, as in the mene time might happen. I would but demaunde how many of those thowsand men were able at the weeks end to shoote aboue x. score. I dare vndertake that if one hundred of those thousande doo shoote aboue ten score, that .ii. hundred of the rest, wyll shoote shorte of .ix. score, and is not this a peece of aduantage thinkest thou?

Cutting through the Middle English, Rich argued that, if you were to take away the every day bows and arrows of an archer, provide them with mass produced bows and arrows issued from the Royal Armouries, and then have them endured the hardship of being in the field for a week, 90% of all archers would be unable to shoot beyond 180 yards within a week. In another, slightly later book, Rich expands on this, saying that livery bows are made to be durable, not shoot well, while the livery arrows are "big timbered" and their feathers ruffled so that they create excessive drag.

Other authors paint an even more dire picture. Humfrey Barwick, one of the most vociferous opponents of the longbow, has this pessimistic description of the archer on campaign:

Fyrst, for that he coulde get no warme meate, nor his thrée meales euery daie, as his custome was to haue at home, neyther his body to lye warme at night, whereby his ioyntes were not in temper, so that being sodainely called vpon, as the seruice doth often fal out: he is lyke a man that hath the Palsie, and so benommed, that before he get eyther to the fire, or to a warme bedde, he can drawe no bowe at all.

And it is further set downe in the saide booke, that neyther Raine, Hayle nor Snowe, can hinder the Archers from shootinge, but I am not of that minde, for that the archer lyinge in Campe, where as hee maye not lye foorth of his appointed place, and hauing not to couer his Bowe nor scantlie his heade, then, I thinke his bowe to be in danger to dissolue the Glewe in the hornes of the bowe, and something hinder his stringe and sheffe of arrowes, whereof he dooth make his pillowe

Without steady meals and exposed to the elements, archers lost condition on campaign and were less capable of shooting their bows as the campaign dragged on. Bows and arrows also tended to degrade through neglect or lack of equipment, which reduced their range. Williams' assessment of an archers' range was the most pessimistic of the 16th century authors, at a mere 160 yards.

Others, however, were somewhat more generous. Robert Barret allowed that archers might shoot as far as 240 yards, although no further, while Roger Williams hints that some might have reached as far as 280 yards, although he assumes that they only became a danger to light cavalry at 240 yards.

The most interesting information, however, comes from Sir John Smythe, the best known of the longbow's defenders at the end of the 16th century. He praised the longbow to excess and tended to downplay the ability of firearms, but his assessment of the longbow was that archers could "direct their arrowes in the shooting of them out of their Bowes with a great deale more certaintie, being within eight, nine, tenne, or eleuen scores" than men with firearms could do at a shorter range. The list of ranges he gives, being between 160 and 220 yards, is precisely the variety of ranges we see in the sources for military archery in the 16th century, from Roger Williams' pessimistic 160 yards to Henry VIII's implied 220 yard maximum. Smythe was himself a veteran, so the fact that he acknowledged that archers might only be shooting at 160 yards suggests Williams was not being overly dramatic, even if he presented the worst case scenario.

What does all this add up to? Well, the evidence is that livery bows and arrows probably limited archers to somewhere between 200 and 220 yards under normal circumstances, unless the archers were lucky enough to get hold of a good one or were using their own bow with livery arrows. Even then, it's unlikely they were capable of shooting much past 240 yards. As time wore on, however, wear and tear on the bows and arrows, combined with poor, irregular, food and the effects of sleeping in bad weather, meant that most archers were unable to shoot much further than 180 yards and some may not have shot much past 160.

Bibliography

The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry, by Christine de Pizan, tr. Summer Willard

"The Battle of Agincourt" by Clifford J. Rogers, in The Hundred Years War (Part II) – Different Vistas ed. Andrew Villalon and Donald Kagay

Statutes at Large Volume 5, ed. Danby Pickering

A right exelent and pleasaunt dialogue, betwene Mercury and an English souldier contayning his supplication to Mars, by Barnabe Rich

A Martiall Conference, pleasantly discoursed between two Souldiers only practised in Finsbury Fields, in the modern Wars of the renowned Duke of Shoreditch, and the mighty Prince Arthur, by Barnabe Rich

A breefe discourse, concerning the force and effect of all manuall weapons of fire and the disability of the long bowe or archery, by Humfrey Barwick

The theorike and practike of moderne vvarres discoursed in dialogue vvise, by Robert Barret

A briefe discourse of vvarre, by Roger Williams

Certain discourses, by Sir John Smythe

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