Red and Blue make Purple

[doodlemeimpressed]

no one can stop me from dressing bad

n o one

watch me wear clashing patterns

fashion is fake

theres a line between confidence and not caring and i walk it like a tightrope

[katie-wants-donut]

[liftedandgiftedd]

that “you’re always invited” stuff doesn’t work for me you have to personally invite me or else I’ll feel like I’m showing up uninvited

[hilarioushumorfromouterspace]

[doodlemeimpressed]

[newteft]

all of these memes going around asking one to label themself with typically negative describers of bitch, bastard, dumbass etcetera…… where’s the positive self talk. love yourself

[newteft]

here is my new positive alignment chart. i love you

[alphatoronado]

[satanpositive]

Roses are red, that much is true, but violets are purple, not fucking blue.

[feels-for-the-fictional]

I have been waiting for this post all my life.

[marzipanandminutiae]

They are indeed purple,
But one thing you’ve missed:
The concept of “purple”
Didn’t always exist.

Some cultures lack names
For a color, you see.
Hence good old Homer
And his “wine-dark sea.”

A usage so quaint,
A phrasing so old,
For verses of romance
Is sheer fucking gold.

So roses are red.
Violets once were called blue.
I’m hugely pedantic
But what else is new?

[ineptshieldmaid]

My friend you’re not wrong
About Homer’s wine-ey sea!
Colours are a matter
Of cultural contingency;

Words are in flux
And meanings they drift
But the word purple
You’ve given short shrift.

The concept of purple,
My friends, is old
And refers to a pigment
once precious as gold.

By crushing up molluscs
From the wine-dark sea
You make a dye:
Imperial decree

Meant that in Rome,
to wear purpura
was a privilege reserved

For only the emperor!

The word ‘purple’,
for clothes so fancy,
Entered English
By the ninth century

.

Why then are voilets
Not purple in song?
The dye from this mollusc,
known for so long

Is almost magenta;
More red than blue.
The concept of purple
is old, and yet new.

The dye is red,
So this might be true:
Roses are purple
And violets are blue

.

[squeeful]

While this song makes me merry,
Tyrian purple dyes many a hue
From magenta to berry
And a true purple too.

But fun as it is to watch this poetic race
The answer is staring you right in the face:
Roses are red and violets are blue
Because nothing fucking rhymes with purple.

[cryoverkiltmilk]

Originally posted by enjoythebits

[hopelessromanticinspace]

Hirple - To limp or walk awkwardly

Cirple - An old Scots word for the hindquarters of a horse

[nobodybetterhavethisoneoriswear]

“Roses are red, violets are purple,

My boner for you has caused me to hirple.”

…

My, how romantic!

[wouldthatcreationhadformedmeman]

DYING. I AM DYING.

[kiranovember]

Calling theshitpostcalligrapher! We need @theshitpostcalligrapher

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

@kiranovember u better buy this as a commission lmao

[simonalkenmayer]

This post has evolved.

[jumpingjacktrash]

when i was a wee smeet i wrote my mom this poem:

roses are red

violets are violet

if i had a jet plane

i’d let you be the pilot

[kyoshu-koi]

[steampunk-medusa]

“If your friend is crying over a break up in the middle of the night, and you have a Psychology final at 6 AM.. it’s okay to choose the test and support her in the morning. If you’ve promised someone that you would see a movie with them but stayed up all night coughing your brains out.. it’s okay to reschedule. You do not need to feel obligated to sacrifice your own self for the sake of someone else all of the time. The only person I was born to nurture is me.”

— disappoint people and be okay with it (what I’m learning)

[thanotaphobia]

[goodnightgoodbye]

wow aj

[princelotorshair]

this is why they killed lotor

[godasenpai]

[impetuositys]

somethin rly quick for that new chapter

[felidaereverse]

[mohtz]

Νύξ : Nyx “Night”, goddess of the night

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