Just another face in the crowd

I love witty text posts

[catchymemes]

[asia1ei]

past tense of william shakespeare? william shookspeare

[the-cloud-road]

Wouldiwas Shookspeared

[canthinkofaurl-deactivated20221]

delete this

[coolsaddad-blog]

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

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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

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[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]

[last-flight-of-dickarus]

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.”

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My, how romantic!

[wouldthatcreationhadformedmeman]

DYING. I AM DYING.

[munsonhoneybaby]

I’M DEAD.

[sherlock5countdown]

This took a fucking turn

[morethansherlocked]

THAT is why I’m on Tumblr

[princesstigerbelle]

Look at this fluffy tug boat 🚣‍♀️😹 toot toot

[princesstigerbelle]

Can anyone do the thing with this pic and photoshop her drifting on water like a boat

[icanspeaktocats]

is *this* what you had in mind

[princesstigerbelle]

TOOT TOOT

[memescomedy]

[shegs]

Her tail went from ? to !

[memescomedy]

[find-the-beauty-within]

The person I reblogged this from deserves to be happy.

[operafantomet]

The Eiffel Tower was finished in 1889.

The Phantom of the Opera takes place around 1881.

SO WHY…

…DOES THIS…

…KEEP HAPPENING…?!?

[innerwreck]

[oceanssapart]

#i was about to scroll past this venomously but omfg

[whitepeopletwitter]

Insulin shots?

[whitepeopletwitter]

End of an era

[memescomedy]

[ruinedchildhood]

[animateglee-archived]

closing the 20 tabs you used for a finished essay = euphoric calmness

[langsandlit]

SO I’M NOT ALONE

[diaryofamolecularplantbiolo-blog]

Nirvana.

[txmriddlx]

Can you please reblog if your blog is a safe place for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, asexual, aromantic, pansexual, non binary, demisexual or any other kind of queer or questioning people? Because mine is.

[perhapsarat]

The boy has never had anything nice and the second he gets his hands on some money he tries to buy a fucking solid gold cauldron like started from the bottom now we here I love him so much

[paulrudo]

Honestly Hagrid saved Harry from so much embarrassment. Can you imagine him turning up to his first potions lesson with a fucking solid gold cauldron??? Like Snape already hated Harry think about what he would have said if Harry just plonked that on his desk

[perhapsarat]

I think he would have said fuck it to his promise to dumbledore and murdered Harry on the spot

[perhapsarat]

AGAIN WITH THE SOLID GOLD POSSESSIONS HARRY. I’m surprised he never replaced his glasses with solid gold ones the boy clearly has a taste for the finer things in life. Or when he had his bones removed by Lockhart in second year, he probably had to stop himself from asking Pomfrey to just fill his arm up with gold instead of bones.  

[perhapsarat]

NO WONDER HE CAN SEE THE FUCKIN SNITCH SO WELL HE’S ON THE HUNT FOR GOLD 

[bixgirl1]

Harry Potter: Actual Niffler.