Im going through the reigns of Roman Emperors and jfc it’s either “rule: ~20 years in relative peace” or “rule: 3 months and 2 days. Stabbed to death by praetorian guard”, there’s practically no middle ground.
remembering that kakashi was fuckign 26 years old when he got assigned team seven is blowing my mind right now. I was naruto’s age when I got sucked into this shit and now I’m kakashi’s and like,,,I get it. my man got assigned the generation’s WORST of the WORST gremlin children and he did the best he fuckin’ could. he nearly dies on every mission because sasuke refuses to go to anger management and naruto is so dumb he probably can’t even read. he’s got like 7 summons that are dogs and he could be spending all his time with them but is he/?? no. he’s got a sharingan making him so Perpetually Exhausted it’s a straight up medical condition and he has to spend all his free time restraining the two finalists of Konoha’s Next Top Orphan from getting people killed instead of like….teaching them. 26 years old and all that unbelievable bullshit. god. and!! then when he finally gets to take a fucking nap they make him hokage I honestly can’t believe he did it. wasn’t even 30 fucking years old. I can’t believe he didn’t leave the damn village himself.
oh my god yamato got slapped with the job at 26 too!!!! damn!!!!! kakashi’s half dead in a hospital and yam’s first gig as the world’s worst babysitter is having to deal with with one of them turning into an actual literal demon. wrecking forests and bridges and shit. sakura won’t stop crying. sasuke put on a yet another shakespearean drama in his new toga. the new one went to work in that hideous crop top. yam should have stayed at the spa. yam should have quit.
Absolutely tear apart “I’m being forced to marry this woman” jokes. I hate them so fucking much. Do you know how much of a let down it is to see the person you love and share so much with turn around and rag on you to your friends as “the ol’ ball and chain”? Imagine trusting and respecting someone so much that you’re willing to commit your life to a union with them, and meanwhile they’re talking about how their life could only get worse if they were married to you. Destroy the idea that a man’s life is best when he’s a player, and that his life is “over” once he allows a woman into it. Destroy the idea that all women are controlling, horrible bridezillas. How disenchanting it is to see so many people shit all over the love between two people.
Respect your fucking wife. If you can’t do that, don’t get married.
Get you a man who
Additionally:
Destroy the notion that marriage is in any way trapping either party involved. If it is, then the relationship was never healthy to begin with, and marriage won’t fix an already unhealthy union.
i’m fairly confident the reason everyone assumes Curiosity is about the size of a dog is because informal NASA press (and by extension, the general culture of people who care abt what NASA’s up to) talks about Curiosity like it is, in fact, an unusually smart and self-aware pet, and i think that’s beautiful.
NOMINI MI BOS DVM NOX ORITVR CAELOQUE LVNA PROGREDITVR VIRIQUE LECTICVLOS QVAERONT EGO PERVIGILO PANEM LAMBO
oh dear god how have we reached this point
To clarify:
Tut, tut, tut. Classical Latin? Really? No, no, no. This meme, though it originated in a story of a reconstruction of an 18C French village, is itself firmly associated with 14C English. Therefore if you’re going to put it in Latin, it needs to look more medieval - ie, fewer majuscules, more flexibility with u/v. And, of course, a more vernacular word order, plus more emphasis on the tail-rhyme.
May I suggest:
nomini mi bos dum nox oritur caeloque luna progreditur et viri lectos quaerunt panes mihi lincti sunt
… no, still not right
what is missing I KNOW
it is the ABBREVIATIONS
okay here we go (and I shan’t even attempt the correct script since I can’t write neatly even nowadays):
(i know, i know, i can’t even keep my letters a consistent size.)
1) THEY MADE IT SO MUCH BETTER
2) saving this for reference re: paleography
3) @annleckie this might have reached sufficient absurdity to be ready for you to see now
Wow. I had no idea other countries didn’t surround their borders as we do.
There’s a border somewhere in Holland I forgot which other country but it like runs through the outside seating area of a cafe or something
Oh man I think that’s a part of the Dutch-Belgian border, but I’m not sure.
My favourite one is the
Nieuwstraat/Neustraße border between The Netherlands and Germany. One side of the road is in Herzogenrath (Germany) and the other side is in Kerkrade (The Netherlands). Niewstraat is literally the Dutch translation of
Neustraße. (In English: New Street).
Like…
See the cars with the white license plates? Germany. The cars with the yellow license plate? The Netherlands. You literally are in another country when you cross the road.
I used to live around there. It’s crazy where the border goes.
