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.
And this is the Black women they don’t want you to see. Look at us.
This fake.
@starslicer You probably think this is fake because you’re one of the men who are preying on these little black girls. Boy, bye. ✋🏿We must protect our little girls at all costs.
Lmao, the amount of times I’ve seen women come out and help people they don’t know, never mind how often women have helped children they didn’t know on occasions I could see is astronomical
When you’ve survived/are surviving victimization you look out for the ones coming behind you. In this case that translates to women helping a girl from their community because they saw sus behavior.
Here’s me question: how many dudes stood around and saw the same thing that woman did and said or did nothing?
Who was checking their boys, huh?
Wanna talk about some fake shit, let’s talk about all the fake woke niggas™ who wouldn’t have seen nothing wrong with grown ass dudes preying on children.
Did you know they’re asexual? Now you do! This is very important because just as there as Lesbians in our favorite games, there are also lovely aces!!
What is Asexual? One who does not participate in sexual activity as it doesn’t appeal to them. It’s natural and very important.
Please join me in defending these characters as they are VERY important, as a gray Ace I would very much appreciate your support!!!
Looking at you fans of Jathena or moonlesbians. You’re needed to back our cause, just as Athena’s sexual orientation is important, Maya and Zero’s are also.
FIRE AT WILL!!! DISMANTLE THE SEXUAL NORM!!! ANARCHY FOREVER!!
Want me to go all in on a pairing? Just make one a dark-haired, morally ambiguous warrior woman who started fighting at an early age and tries to block out her emotions and the other an idealistic, non-combat-specialized blonde who encourages her to feel again only to get drawn into her world of violence and death. Because apparently I still have a type.
