this is my fav video now

I watched WITHOUT sound at first and can I just say, big mistake.

Don’t judge her, she probably couldn’t afford adoption papers

More cat snaps

Fluffy cows are the best cure

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

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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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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

I will be wearing my birthday suit

This put a smile in my face

So yesterday my grandparents found a big box of old 78s that they’ve had in an attic for years, and wanted me to transfer them to CDs. Most were in pretty great shape, no cracks and few scratches. Lots of 1930s sweet/hot jazz, British big band & swing and a few Decca classical ones. This one had its label peeled/scratched off on the a side, on the reverse was a Parlophone march.

90% sure by playing it it’s unleashed some kind of 70 year old curse.

Oh my god  D:

here’s a bad idea: listening to this in the dark by yourself

I heard that some records made during the 30s had laughter on them because they believed that listening to laughter would make others laugh along.

My God, they were wrong.

i just scared the fuck out of myself

#oh my fucking god #it’s like listening to some sort of funeral #where the guests are all on acid #and then they eat the corpse and drink the blood like wine #while laughing like maniacs #shit maybe they’re cannibal clowns #oagdshfgahrkjafgda

jesus christ yes

Play this outside your house on halloween. 

ohfuq

JESUS SHIT THE BED NOPE NOPE NOPE

tumblr in 2017: “cursed post”

this ancient and forgotten horror, an abomination scratching at the walls of time itself, forbidden by the laws of gods and men, unearthed and resurrected from the archive of my blog in late 2013: “hold. my. fucking. beer.”

Why the fuck did they think people would enjoy listening to this even back then

I need a download of this IMMEDIATELY.

Gays are only acceptable in the form of Soviet propaganda

every time i see that last picture it completely baffles me as to what ELSE it could possibly be meant as does anyone know what the children are supposed to represent?

what a beautiful family

Share this. People’s whole Google accounts are getting banned for an absolutely stupid reason.

Tag absolutely anyone you know! I forgot about this

@marksandrec @fischyplier @incorrect-ego-quotes

shout out to the funniest tag ive ever fuckin seen

Where to begin with all this

Sometimes I purposely have headphones in with no actual music to stop people from trying to talk to me. Enraging.

What incel wrote this article.

This is the only appropriate reaction since he wanna be all up in my face.

Even that image they have, the woman looks SUPER UNCOMFORTABLE. How do you even justify this garbage???

Starting a Coven

We’ve got pillow forts.

Reblog to join.

No cult-members allowed.

Here’s some hot choccy.

Reblog to enjoy.

ONCE A CULT-MEMBER~

ALWAYS A CULT-MEMBER~

YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED~

Those primitive, back-wards thinking cultists think they can just burn our fort now?

Do they not realize that our coven has surpassed them long ago?

Quickly, my coven! Reblog to enter the pillow fort vault!

Those imbecilic, barbaric cultists cannot burn steel!

Also there are fresh mallows inside with choccy and gram grams for s’mores!

NO CULTISTS ALLOWED~

WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE~

NO!

We’ve been betrayed from within!

Damn you cultists! All we wanted was to live in peace and comfort! Look at what you’ve done!

Run my coven! Reblog to FLEE!

Our coven is no more but you can still survive! Though I die here, you shall live on!

Goodbye my comfy friends...

...goodbye~

Starting a Cult

Reblog to join.

We’ve got snacks.

Here are the snacks.

Reblog to eat.

Here’s some drinks.

Reblog to drink.

We love you.

My friends.

I’ve heard tell that a coven has formed.

That news alone concerns me. However my closest allies have informed me that some of you have betrayed your oaths to the cult.

It goes without saying that we shall conduct no business with any debased and diseased coven. And yet I hear that some of you are double dealing.

This will not be tolerated.

Take this torch.

We will purge this evil from within us and then we will burn this coven’s pillow fort to the ground.

Reblog to stay loyal.

My friends...

We’ve done it.

We’ve purged every trace of that disgusting coven from this land.

And what better way to celebrate after a long hard day of snacking and purging than...

A pool party.

Reblog to jump on in.

Be sure to grab a mouthful of snacks before you do. And remember.

We love you.

Remy from Rattatoullie says gay rights!

please put some respect on patton oswalt’s name

I’m not sure whether I should laugh or cry.

Is OP aware that oh so many books exist on this subject?

And that almost universally the ones authored by people with doctorates in classicism and mythology disagree with OP?

Including the… epic hymn that first told this story? You know what’s in that original source material… right?

Abducted, yes. Demeter mourned? Definitely. Rape, no.

So here’s some info on Ancient Greek wedding traditions which (oh my stars and garters!!) included abducting the bride. With the father’s permission, which Hades got before he took her away.

Here’s a whole book on the subject of Ancient Greek wedding custom and its conflation with funeral rites. (Which sounds a bit like Hades and Persephone to anyone who’s ever dabbled in things like explication and context)

Here’s a link to another book that talks about Persephone’s rise to power as a result of her willingly eating the pomegranate seeds.

Oh shit!!

Here’s a whole bunch of myths and hymns that talk about her Queen of the Underworld badassery!!

Holy pug tacos Batman!!

Here’s another book about the myth focusing on the seasonal religious and liminal rites. WHICH TAKE PLACE IN THE DRY SUMMER (not the fucking winter), which you know if you read a book.Way to go, OP!

All these fucking books!  What could anyone possibly do with them all?!?!?!?! Do you eat books to absorb their powers instead of read them?

A better guess would be that you got into a moral panic over the name of a certain Renaissance statue and maybe after reading three pages of Edith Hamilton or the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article. And then used that to castigate and demean not only the people who actually take their limited time to create gorgeous art but also to denigrate modern day worshippers of Persephone and Hades?

Maybe next time, you stringy piece of over-boiled okra, you might want to take your own advice and pick up a book, instead of reducing the feared and respected Queen of the Underworld who held power equal to or in many interpretations GREATER than her husband into a meaningless pastiche of female disenfranchisement that you seemingly plucked from your own ass.

JESUS CHRIST THANK YOU

I don’t often reblog posts of people getting owned, but when I do…

man the ancient greeks didn’t dare to speak persephone’s name she was that powerful and venerated (they called her Kore, “the maiden”), hades didn’t get that honour

Rebagel for those book links, I find the Persephone and Hades stuff on here fascinating and I want to research it more

Book links, owning and the sheer badassery that is Persephone.

reblog forever

Reblogging for the links until this misapprehension finally ceases.

See also: Seduction and Rape in Greek Myth and Predatory Goddesses, both by classicist Mary Lefkowicz.

EDIT: Finally put together a bibliography of scholarly works about Hades and Persephone with the help of @coloricioso to help refute these old, tired accusations: https://honorthegods.tumblr.com/post/174794576611/honorthegods-hades-and-persephone-side

Update!

#mr city was my father please call me owl

reblog if ur mom is smart and beautiful