Predicamental

you know what would be really great? to just be an augur in ancient rome and get prophecies from birds. just get to hang out in my ceremonial clothes looking for vultures all day and every once in a while say something profound when i see a sparrow or w/e, and nobody will bother me because if they piss me off i can just tell them that they can’t lead a military expedition against the gauls because my sacred chickens don’t like them. what a life

some crusty old roman general: please augur, consult your chickens, for i desire to wage the greatest of wars against the wretched, barbaric carthaginians

me, hanging out with my pigeons, remembering last week when he cut me in line at the market and bought the red figure vase i wanted for his 8th country villa: unfortunate

Peter Parker, a Gen Z kid, screws up: Fuck, guess I’ll kill myself.

Steve Rogers, an artist during the 30’s and a soldier during WWII who knows full well what Dadaism and fatalistic humor are: There’s bleach under the sink–

Bucky Barnes, the guy who listened to Steve’s art rants in the 30’s, watched his back in WWII and went through 70+ years of shit: –And a rope in the supply closet if you want options.

Rest of the Avengers: ?????!!!!!!!?????

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never seen someone provide a solid example with this tweet so here it is

Thank you to whoever made this im so excited

Older forms of English kept Latin’s gender-specific suffixes -tor and -trix;  tor is for men and trix is for women. So a male pilot is an aviator, a female pilot is an aviatrix. A male fighter is a gladiator, a female fighter is a gladiatrix.

This contrasts with the modern system, where tor is for both men and women, and trix are for kids.

Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones (1981/1984)

MASH memes though.

i made more 

I almost just had Speirs start a sentence with “bold of you to assume I’m ____.” Regrettably I had to stop myself for reasons of anachronism, but can we all just agree that this would absolutely be the best meme for Speirs?

Lipton: hey just FYI some if the guys think you may have traded your soul to the devil. might be good for morale if you could just deny some of the rumors.

Speirs: bold of you to assume I was on the human side of the deal

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