if that sewer clown makes himself an image of your worst fear before he eats you, i could kick his ass. what’s he gonna do turn into the physical manifestation of being abandoned by your closest friends? gonna turn into an ooky spooky visual representation of catastrophic failure and loss? jokes on you dumbass the only thing im afraid of is myself
Time to kick my own ass. Bitch had it coming for too long
ever think about the fact that there were never any doomed versions of the alpha kids shown in dream bubbles bc their session was so boring that it was nearly impossible for them to make doomed timelines
ever think about how a sburb session without a time and space player is doomed from the start but the real reason hussie didn’t make Dirk a time player is because the idea of Dirk “anything I do is right because the ends justify the memes” strider being able to time travel is such a horrifying concept that the alpha kids needed their parents to come pick them up from sburb school early
JUST realized I said the ends justified the memes and I am so sorry
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.
IT GOT SO MUCH BETTER.
My reaction, only with coffee.
Hang on, need to send this to my literature prof
While it’s true that this lyric presents with a hurdle
that nothing can ostensibly rhyme up with purple
That is only if one, poetic conceits disregards
Like “assonance”, which matches the vowels in words.
roses were pink until bred for their hue;
violets can come in a perfect sky blue;
nitpicking flowers is a little bit silly
when there exist things like a lime-green daylily.
just moving along like everyone else 