#im3: where tony is just barely the hero of the story and it’s glorious
#no but see #that’s the thing about telling someone your own story #you don’t see yourself as the hero #you see the people you love and admire as the heroes #Rhodey and Pepper are Tony’s heroes
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flower language has always been an intense source of disappointment for me
like, they all mean really generic things like “love” or “forever” or “i’m sorry”
i thought you could combine flowers
like you could just send someone a bouquet and from the combination of hibiscus and posies and tulips they’d understand “the rebel leader is dead, rendezvous at the docks at 8, bring the dog, you will need lighter fluid and a large tomato”
I really hope no one’s answered this for you yet, I saw this and got so excited that my obscure knowledge base might come into use. I had to stretch a few flowers so to speak but Victorian flower language allows for alteration in meaning depending on colour, fruit, flower, bud, steam, leaves and thorns, so I didn’t feel I was too far out of line. This message would work best as two bouquets bound together. First red Nasturtium with no leaves (red denotes a leader, the nasturtium a patriot) mixed with white or red Mask Flowers (rebellion, red if you want to emphasize fighting, white martyrdom) around Cypress (death). Then Chick weed (rendezvous) and Blue Convolvulus (night) surrounded by eight White Popular Leaves (symbolises the time: eight), Yellow Iris (flame, and a flower that grows by rivers) and Yellow Prarie Dock Flowers (this was closest I could find to docks)and one large Tomato Leaf, all bound in Dogwood Bark. Dogwood represents deceit, but as far as I could find the bark wasn’t used symbolically, and as you referred to the dog instead of a dog, I thought it was likely the pun should be a dead giveaway.
So there’s your rebel message!
the fastest word i can type is motherlode
almost 70,000 people get this joke like is a fandom thing or can you all must type motherlode really fast what is going on
NO ONE SAY ANYTHING
Old West Insults
- He made an ordinary fight look like a prayer meetin’.
- He was mean enough to steal a coin off a dead man’s eyes.
- He has teeth so crooked he could eat corn on the cob through a picket fence.
- She’s so ugly, she could back a buzzard off a gut-wagon.
- She’s so ugly, she’d make a freight train take a dirt road!
- He’s as crazy as popcorn on a hot stove.
- His knife’s so dull it wouldn’t cut hot butter.
- He had a ten dollar Stetson on a five-cent head.
- He’s as slow as molasses in January.
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