Roses are red, that much is true, but violets are purple, not fucking blue.
I have been waiting for this post all my life.
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?
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
.
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.
There are, in fact, words
That rhyme with purple
It’s just that they’re things
Like “hirple” and “curple
.
And before someone says that “violets are violet”
Do you think someone could make a good love poem with the word “inviolate”?
Since ultraviolet has the word “violet” within it
That’s the only (singular) word left to be writ
.
At least, it is as far as I know
To find these words I used a site called Rhymezone
Perhaps some words were lost to the snow
Perhaps they were not, and I’ll just have to atone
all stories are about time loops, except for time loops, which are about grief
No but seriously, that’s why we use present tense to summarize plots. If you open a book to chapter one and the character is going to the store, the character will be going to the story every time you reread it, so it’s happening in real time for them. You are the only one who can make the character move forward
one of the greatest tragedies in life is that you will always be loved more than you will ever know. someone in class finds your presence inviting and warm, even if you’ve only ever exchanged a few words with them—maybe none at all. someone on the street loves your smile and it gets them down the next few streets. someone you used to be friends with still wishes to fondly call your name. someone you used to be friends with five years ago would give anything to be in the same room as you today. someone who regularly comes into work is disappointed when you aren’t there to brighten their day. someone missed you today. someone noticed you were gone. someone loves you when you’re there; someone loves you when you’re nowhere to be found at all. you think you have always disappeared when you’re no longer in the picture, but you’ve never left the frame.
bro are you okay you reblogged the post about being loved fifteen times again
I will reblog this as often as people need to understand this
I will reblog this
as often as people need
to understand this
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
one of the greatest tragedies in life is that you will always be loved more than you will ever know. someone in class finds your presence inviting and warm, even if you’ve only ever exchanged a few words with them—maybe none at all. someone on the street loves your smile and it gets them down the next few streets. someone you used to be friends with still wishes to fondly call your name. someone you used to be friends with five years ago would give anything to be in the same room as you today. someone who regularly comes into work is disappointed when you aren’t there to brighten their day. someone missed you today. someone noticed you were gone. someone loves you when you’re there; someone loves you when you’re nowhere to be found at all. you think you have always disappeared when you’re no longer in the picture, but you’ve never left the frame.
bro are you okay you reblogged the post about being loved fifteen times again
I will reblog this as often as people need to understand this
I will reblog this
as often as people need
to understand this
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
one of the greatest tragedies in life is that you will always be loved more than you will ever know. someone in class finds your presence inviting and warm, even if you’ve only ever exchanged a few words with them—maybe none at all. someone on the street loves your smile and it gets them down the next few streets. someone you used to be friends with still wishes to fondly call your name. someone you used to be friends with five years ago would give anything to be in the same room as you today. someone who regularly comes into work is disappointed when you aren’t there to brighten their day. someone missed you today. someone noticed you were gone. someone loves you when you’re there; someone loves you when you’re nowhere to be found at all. you think you have always disappeared when you’re no longer in the picture, but you’ve never left the frame.
bro are you okay you reblogged the post about being loved fifteen times again
I will reblog this as often as people need to understand this
I will reblog this
as often as people need
to understand this
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Yep. It also correlates extremely strongly with an increasing decrease of violent crime. One of the symptoms of low level constant lead exposure is increased aggression and volatility.
Gas companies are still so mad at him he’s “unknown scientist”, know his name
Daily reminder that health and safety standards like these are what politicians mean when they talk about “deregulation.”
Patterson died 5 December 1995.
Petition to make his date of death a Tumblr holiday celebrated by talking about cool shit the gas and petroleum industries don’t want us to know about, and fighting to continue his work.
Happy Clair Cameron Patterson Day! Remember to hold Big Business and our country’s leadership for safety regulation and environmental preservation standards!
Yep. It also correlates extremely strongly with an increasing decrease of violent crime. One of the symptoms of low level constant lead exposure is increased aggression and volatility.
Gas companies are still so mad at him he’s “unknown scientist”, know his name
Daily reminder that health and safety standards like these are what politicians mean when they talk about “deregulation.”
Patterson died 5 December 1995.
Petition to make his date of death a Tumblr holiday celebrated by talking about cool shit the gas and petroleum industries don’t want us to know about, and fighting to continue his work.
Happy Clair Cameron Patterson Day! Remember to hold Big Business and our country’s leadership for safety regulation and environmental preservation standards!
Intellectually, I know the song “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” does not contain the line “you’re a tursiops truncatus“, but I can hear it vividly all the same. I have no idea why my brain-gremlins are convinced a. that the speaker called the Grinch a bottlenose dolphin, and b. that this is a dire insult, but there it is.
It’s that time of year again that I must once again remind myself that Tony the Tiger does not at any point call the Grinch a dolphin.
Wait wait wait
Does the VA for Tony the Tiger sing that song? And is that how the TonyxGrinch thing started???
To answer your questions in order:
Yes; though How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966) is mainly narrated by Boris Karloff, apparently Mr. Karloff’s singing voice wasn’t up to the film’s big musical number, which is instead performed in an uncredited vocal cameo by Thurl Ravenscroft, better known as the original voice of Tony the Tiger.
look, I know I’ve talked about this essay (?) before but like,
If you ever needed a good demonstration of the quote “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”, have I got an exercise for you.
Somebody made a small article explaining the basics of atomic theory but it’s written in Anglish. Anglish is basically a made-up version of English where they remove any elements (words, prefixes, etc) that were originally borrowed from romance languages like french and latin, as well as greek and other foreign loanwords, keeping only those of germanic origin.
What happens is an english which is for the most part intelligible, but since a lot everyday english, and especially the scientific vocabulary, has has heavy latin and greek influence, they have to make up new words from the existing germanic-english vocabulary. For me it kind of reads super viking-ey.
Anyway when you read this article on atomic theory, in Anglish called Uncleftish Beholding, you get this text which kind of reads like a fantasy novel. Like in my mind it feels like it recontextualizes advanced scientific concepts to explain it to a viking audience from ancient times.
Even though you’re familiar with the scientific ideas, because it bypasses the normal language we use for these concepts, you get a chance to examine these ideas as if you were a visitor from another civilization - and guess what, it does feel like it’s about magic. It has a mythical quality to it, like it feels like a book about magic written during viking times. For me this has the same vibe as reading deep magic lore from a Robert Jordan book.
J. K. Rowling and Neil Gaiman are such a funny contrast to me, like
Rowling: Oh, and by the way, I put gay characters in my books. People: Is there anything… showing that? Rowling: No. Also trans women don’t deserve respect People: wtf
Gaiman: Here are some immortals that transcend all human concepts of gender and attraction who use a variety of pronouns, and also some clearly canon human queers. People: Are the immortals queer? Gaiman: That is an entirely valid way to view them. Other people: Ugh, pushing a modern woke agenda. It used to be- Gaiman: Fuck you
People can do a lot of different things and RPGs are usually not concerned with making up rules for every single possible action anyone could take.
There are some actions that are neither so common that it can be reasonably assumed that anyone can do them nor are they something that the game system concerns itself with.
Languages and artistic skills are pretty common examples that less complex systems usually don’t bother with. In cases like this, your background could give you the narrative permission to use these skills.
For example, if your Scoundrel character in Thirsty Sword Lesbians is a musician you have the narrative permission to play a song to impress the Baroness while other characters might not. Functionally, you are still just rolling +Heart for an Entice move, but you can flavour it differently.
Another type of narrative permission can be found in Call of Cthulhu.
While your skills are obviously mostly there so you can roll skillchecks, they can also grant various kinds of narrative permissions.
For example, while regular driving explicitly doesn’t require a skill check, you’re (usually) still going to require narrative permission through skill investment to drive anything that isn’t a car. For example, if you want to drive around in some kind of construction vehicle like an excavator, you’re gonna need a couple of skill points in heavy machenery, even if you don’t need to roll to drive it (again, assuming regular driving. If you’re in a desperate fight against a dark young and try to hit it with an excavator despite not having any experience controlling one, go ahead and roll for it)
High levels in skills can also give you narrative permission to know a guy. An average investigator probably isn’t going to know any professors of physics but if you have a high education stat, you might know someone.
Equipment in CoC is also mostly done through narrative permission. While you might name some important items explicitly during character creation, most possesions in the game are handled by asking “Would it be reasonable for someone like this to have this?”
Does the 1920s student own a truck capable of transporting a bunch of crates full of evidence? Probably not. Does the 1930s smuggler? Of course.
In ICON, there are many cases where narrative permission plays an interesting role.
Obviously they only matter for narrative play because in tactical combat, what you can and can’t do is pretty strictly defined. However, your abilities in tactical combat can influence your narrative permissions.
A spellblade with various teleport abilities has narrative permission to teleport. Depending on the GM, this may increase effect or decrease risk on some Traverse checks, or it might even remove the need for them entirely.
But this can only get you so far. If you didn’t put any points in Smash, no amount of arguing about being a Collossus who can do all kinds of cool Smash-adjacent things in combat is going to make it so you have more than 0 Smash in narrative. You need to select your narrative skills in a way that supports the fantasy of your character, including their tactical combat fantasy.
Also there is your narrative gear, which isn’t supposed to represent every single piece of equipment your character posses, just the stuff that really matters, and which broadly falls into two categories: Things that are listed there so you don’t have to argue about whether you have it (e.g. light sources, rations, a tent) and things that are supposed to inspire you (e.g. single-use flash bomb, copious sweets)
Both exist to grant you narrative permissions, but the first category is more about making sure you have narrative permissions you probably would have had anyway in a system without gear tracking (such as previous editions of ICON), the second category can actually expand your narrative permissions or give you new ideas for things to do.
Without your gear explicitly mentioning you have these things you might have never even gotten the idea of using a flash bomb to escape the guards, or use sweets to calm down a child. But even if you had gotten the idea on your own, explicitly calling out that you have these things can save a lot of time on trying to convince your GM that you have them.
However, the flipside to this is that having a gear system like this makes the gaps stand out more. I keep bringing up not having to convince your GM that you have something, but if there is something that you feel like you should have but that isn’t listed in your gear, the existence of the gear system might make it harder to convince them that you should have it.
The system is an interesting middle ground between gearing systems that make you track everything you have (e.g. dnd 5e) and one that barely makes you track anything (e.g. CoC)
Are there any intersting examples of narrative permission you know?
Yeah men with long hair are hot but are you normal about culturally specific gender presentations. Like are you respectful about men with culturally significant hairstyles or do you just want to fuck them. Do you think of long hair as intrinsically feminine. Are you normal about men of color
Like yeah sure I 100% agree it’s hot. You can think it’s hot. Literally I have long hair in large part due to cultural reasons & I consider it one of my Hot Traits. But can we not be racist about it. Can we stop objectifying people
Every time some white person is like creaming themselves posting about a male character of color (or god forbid a real alive human person) with long hair like “hnngghhgg he’s serving femme realness he’s gnc af I need to fuck him so bad 🥵” they should venmo me 20$
I love that BNHA is so popular but I’m kinda sad because it would be hilarious to show a picture of the classroom and go “who’s the main character?” Because Izuku isn’t special enough or bland enough to stand out. It’s amazing.
Proof:
If you haven’t seen it, point out the main character
please tell me it’s the demon pink smol thing
she is in our hearts
You’re all forgetting the anime seating chart
Clearly, the main character is Mineta.
That looks slightly outdated. I’ve noticed a rise in the main love interest having the seat right next to the main character so they can share books.
if you’ve ever thought i’m standoffish, politely distant, or generally hard to befriend, know in your heart that i’m exactly the same in real life. my neighbours just showed up at my door drunk on Canada Day celebrations and told me how desperate they’ve been to meet me for the past few months and then tried to fix the water pump in my basement
one of the neighbours returned today with heavy machinery and gravel and fixed my driveway. i feel like a feral animal they’re trying to coax with little treats
they’ve told me the gossip which is that a few years back a 70 yr old man collapsed the bridge at the end of my road by driving his tractor over it, lost his tractor in the river, climbed back up the cliff unscathed, walked an hour home, and then the whole road fell into disrepair and all the campgrounds closed and the once popular waterfall down the road became obscure and secret. so like, be the change you want to see in the world. collapse a bridge to chase out the tourists. also you can lose widespread knowledge in under 10 years if one old man collapses a bridge
also i met this bridge collapsing old man on a walk a few months ago and he said to me “you should check out the river at the end of the road, there’s a tractor in it!” like he wasn’t the one who put it there
Beware the Forest’s MushroomsYoko ShimomuraSuper Mario RPG
pikmin 1 and 2 and pikmin 3, pikmin new play control for the wii, pikmin 4 and 5, pikmin 6, pikmin 7, pikmin eighteen billion and eleven
pikmin 3 deluxe and hey pikmin, pikmin temptation and pikmin sin, pikmin on your ipad its called pikmin bloom, brand new crossover with Pikmin and Doom
LOST BROWSER GAME PIKMIN SPACE… FORCE…
pikmin fortnite pikmin loamy clay and pikmin sand, pikmin adventure (nintendo land), pikmin coming to super smash brothers brawl, new sport i made where you throw pikmin ball
pikmin on the gamecube where you can play it love it or hate it you will find it… pikmin on the gamecube where you can play it love it or hate it you will find it on there... (pikmin on the gamecube) (pikmin on the gamecube) (pikmin on the gamecube) (pikmin on the fucking gamecube)
I’m desperately trying to figure out how to translate the original post’s reply of “actually adding fat to your veggies makes it easier for your body to metabolize the nutrients they contain also you get more nutrients out of food you enjoy” into a similarly-worded point about how desperately trying to make a minority character (such as a trans character) “good rep” is a losing battle that ultimately reinforces Hayes Code like structures that will ultimately lead to actual minority voices getting silenced due to being “problematic” and I’m just not getting there.
Hey, y'all, does anyone know how to counter the Wall of Flesh opening????? The answer is time sensitive.
Feed your pawns into it to grant your king immortality. Then the rooks. The bishops, oh yes, them too, the old faith must be done away with for the ritual to work. And you can’t risk your knights turning on you out of some outdated sense of “right and wrong.” And the Queen? Your Queen?
You know what must be done.
You have to attack the eyes, they have the lowest defense
The protests that happened at the macy’s day parade are so important specifically because they tried to stop people from finding out about them. I watched the whole parade and didn’t see a single sign or protestor, because try as they may to claim the show is live, they’ve been doing this for decades, they have full control over what footage the camera’s capture and when ads conveniently cut away from what’s happening. I found out from the few people still talking about the protests that there were any happening at the parade today.
They know we’re all getting so tired and sad of hearing about what’s happening. They want to make it as difficult as possible for us to interact with it, in hopes that we give up. They want you to say “It’s Thanksgiving, we deserve a break from hearing about this.”
I know that it hurts and it’s stressful to try to help, but we have to keep going if we want anything to change. The writer and actor strikes were successful because they didn’t give in.
It doesn’t have to be much, you don’t have to spend your days doomscrolling footage and fighting zionists. Just email your representatives each day, boycott businesses that support Israel, and hang on tight. As long as there is hope, there is a way through. The Palestinian people will be free.
i love the song scarborough fair. it’s like hey are you going to the farmer’s market? get these herbs. and if you see my ex tell them to do something impossible.
Video description: A young woman, wearing a graduation hat with special sashes; one of which has a Palestinian traditional design on it; starts to take a video of herself -while she backs away from the camera and spins to her right to pose; her caption on-screen states:
did you know that Palestinians have one of the highest education rates in the world? 96% of the Palestinian population is literate. This rate is higher than the “high human development” average. We’re also known as the worlds most highly educated refugees. This is because we’ve heavily relied on education to maintain our culture, sovereignty, and dignity as the Zionist colonial regime attempts to ethnically cleanse us and erase our history [insert image-watermelon emoji].
#drifted off for like 15 minutes exploring watsonian explanations for the mousetrap desk #aristocratic emigré writes letters atop a stolen guillotine. athenian statesman repurposes the shield of a spartan who failed 2 kill him #it’s an intriguing setup!! to me!!! (via @sashayed)
hbomberguy’s latest video on plagiarism has made me completely rethink literature and writing. I have never once so much as considered intentionally plagiarizing anyone or anything, but I there’s something more that has come out of this and it’s the names of the people who created the works Somerton (and others) ripped off.
Plagiarism isn’t just bad because it is lazy and disrespectful, it’s bad because it buries the truth. If you can’t find a source, the conversation is over. Somerton’s sources are fairly easy to find by simply searching his plagiarized lines, but that isn’t true in most cases. Most of the time, the line is a lot less clear.
Today, I was writing a report on English Ivy, which is an invasive species here in the US. I wanted to know when it was introduced and I at last found a source claiming it was introduced to the US “as early as 1727” on a .net website that seems quite reputable (it has multiple major universities credited in its home page), but there is no citation for where this date came from. I dug deeper and found a pamphlet created by a city government in Virginia that made the same claim, only to discover the first source linked in their bibliography. Another website (a botanical garden’s page) gave the same date with the same source hyperlinked. Of course, I have classes to attend and things to do and probably not enough time to follow the lines back to where this 1727 date came from, but if I had not just watched this video, I wouldn’t have given that date a second thought.
Of course, it doesn’t matter in the long run exactly what year hedera helix was introduced to the US, but it makes you wonder how many facts have been so vaguely attributed that it becomes completely impossible to figure out where they originated (and further, whether or not they’re true at all).
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