[android1000]

*survives another year*

[unusualrussia]

It’s a pine fall day today in Russia.

[officialtomselleck-deactivated2]

Things just happen in Russia in a unique way that I’m not sure can ever be explained. Like how a fucking meteor landed in the middle of the Russian wilderness and resulted in the equivalent of a nuclear bomb going off but no one really even noticed.

[small-funny]

russia requiring drivers to have dashcams for insurance purposes is literally the best law ever enacted bc we get to see shit like this

[math-is-magic]

In a terrible way, I appreciated the scared/startled screams because like. It showed that this was unusual and maybe scary? So many of these thigns have the Russians just. Completely unphased has things tear apart around them.

[dwight-schrutes]

[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

.

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]

[young-il-long-kiyoshi]

IT GOT SO MUCH BETTER.

[farrentalon]

My reaction, only with coffee.

[thetiredpianist]

Hang on, need to send this to my literature prof

[autohaste]

I don’t know what’s going on but it’s a lot

[cartel]

“You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress, simultaneously.”

— Sophia Bush   (via thatkindofwoman)

[dulect]

plot twist: you are everyone’s first choice.

[thelannistersroar-deactivated20]

Reblog if your best friend is pretty.

[kind-cult]

sometimes i try to scroll past this but then i feel guilty

[sunnieblues]

[suspend]

NEVER SCROLL THROUGH OLD MESSAGES I SWEAR U WILL STUMBLE UPON ONE THAT WILL BREAK UR HEART

[vanmorison]

my life is constantly just an inner monologue of “why did I do that”

[m--xx]

Co-napping is a beautiful thing. Knock out with me so I know it’s real

[eversncenewyork]

are u ever too stressed to do anything like ur literally so stressed that it has reduced u to someone who stares at the wall for two hours instead of doing the things u need to do that will make u unstressed

[doublehoseven-deactivated201812]

[madlori]

I love posts like this that require like six levels of meta understanding to comprehend them.

[strikezilla01-deactivated202308]

Give less fucks. Get fucked more.

New Years Resolution (2017)

[v3nice]

Someone: Are you taken? Me: Ya for granted

[flowerfae]

wait… if you have social anxiety… and i have social anxiety…

then who’s going to order the food?