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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
pepperstrawberry
satanpositive

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

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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

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Originally posted by enjoythebits

young-il-long-kiyoshi

IT GOT SO MUCH BETTER.

farrentalon

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Originally posted by alepeterslove

My reaction, only with coffee.

thetiredpianist

Hang on, need to send this to my literature prof

Source: katelizabeth
pepperstrawberry
rrojasandribbons

I tried to explain to a friend of mine who has never ever been poor in his life why it is that poverty is a cycle, and why it’s so difficult to escape poverty. 

His response was, “just save money”. I kept trying to explain that when you are living paycheck to paycheck, there really is no saving money because most of your income is being spent on basic needs: food, shelter, clothing, transportation. 

So, then he responded, “well, why can’t you just save $5 every week”. Well, a lot of poor people do try to save. I would manage to get a few hundred in my savings account, but then you get a flat tire, or you end up getting sick and missing a week of work, or you have an unexpected bill. And, that few hundred dollars suddenly disappears. I tried to explain to him that when you’re poor, unanticipated expenses can very quickly and easily blow through what little you have in your savings account and put you back at square one. 

I also tried to explain that when you are that poor, you need to make purchases while you have the money. Like, if I needed a new pair of jeans and I had an extra $30 that week, I would buy myself a new pair of jeans that week because I didn’t know when I would have an extra $20 or $30 to spend. So, he countered that with, “You don’t need to buy clothes. You could have put that $30 in your savings.”

To which I responded, “Well, if it were socially acceptable to walk around without pants on, then maybe poor people could climb out of poverty, but until then, when your jeans have holes in them, or don’t fit you anymore, you need to get some new ones.”

Then it kind of clicked for him.. a little. 

So, I went on to talk about the sociological aspects of poverty, like how growing up poor, or growing up as part of a marginalized demographic pushes your starting block 100 feet behind your peers.. how our educational systems are set up to fail impoverished children. The light bulb flickered, but never fully turned on. 

And, then he said, “I still can’t believe you were ever on food stamps.” 

Yes, my friend, poverty and I get a nice little reunion every few years. I know it intimately, which is why you should sit back, relax, and just listen. 

I never understood how it was so difficult to see the realities of poverty. To me, it is sort of common sense. And, what is irksome is that poverty doesn’t always present itself as an old beat up car, and falling apart sneakers. People who grow up middle class and financially secure seem to think that poverty looks a lot like dirty children with dirty clothes, and no shoes. But, it doesn’t. It can be that, but it’s often not. 

I grew up in a nice house in the suburbs, but we were poor. We were very poor for a long time, in part due to my medical issues. People assume that because we went to Catholic school, and had a nice house that we were well-off. We weren’t. My mother worked 2-3 jobs, and my parents took out loans to pay for our school tuition. My mother’s parents helped pay for some of our education, even though they were also incredibly poor. My parents sometimes struggled to put food on the table. 

I never had clothes that were dirty or falling apart, but most of my clothes and shoes were hand-me-downs from my older cousins. In fact, a lot of my toys were, too. 

Both of my parents grew up in poverty. My father, especially, grew up in complete and abject poverty. Their parents grew up in poverty, and so did their parents. My parents made immense sacrifices to set us up for financial success, but life always finds a way to intervene. 

Personally, my health issues have been the driving factor behind my own financial issues. I have amassed thousands of dollars in medical debt. I work a job that doesn’t use my degree at all because I can work part time and still get benefits, and because I know I won’t get fired if I need to take extended absences due to my health. 

So, when you say, “I still can’t believe you were ever on food stamps,”  you are really saying, “I have this picture in my head of what poverty looks like, and you don’t fit that image.” 

That idea we have about what poverty is supposed to look like is a big reason why people in the middle class are so content with cutting safety net programs, even though they are one medical problem, one car accident, or one lay-off away from complete financial ruin. What does poverty look like, then.  How do you “just save money”, then. 

jumpingjacktrash

poverty in the developed world doesn’t look like a refugee child with flies on their face.

it looks like a normal person in normal clothes, in a normal apartment, with their bills spread out on the kitchen table, crying.

daftpunk-delorean

That last sentence, bruh

Source: rrojasandribbons
magicjudge

Deck Talk: Aluren

jqlgirl

Hey all, since I wasn’t able to get to any questions over on @magicjudge today, I figured that I would write about the legacy deck I’ve been putting together for tomorrow.

What is this Deck?

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Aluren is a Sultai/BUG creature combo deck that takes its name from its key card, Aluren. (Aluren is an old English word meaning “paradise”.)

So yeah, that’s one hell of a card. They sure don’t make cards like this anymore. But this is legacy, so how do we break the parity that this card provides?

The Combo

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Cavern Harpy and Parasitic Strix, in combination with Aluren, provide us with our game-winning combo. The loop goes thusly: With Aluren on the battlefield, you cast Parasitic Strix for free. If you control a black permanent, you’ll drain your opponent for 2 life. This isn’t strictly necessary on the first loop, though. Next, you cast Cavern Harpy for free. When its ETB trigger resolves, you return Parasitic Strix to your hand. You then re-cast Parasitic Strix and drain 2 life, since you now control Cavern Harpy. You then pay 1 life to return Cavern Harpy to your hand, then re-cast it for free and bounce Parasitic Strix. Repeat this loop until your opponent is dead. (The great thing about Aluren is that it lets you cast your 3 CMC creatures for free and as though they had flash, so you can wait to combo out until your opponent starts pointing removal at one of your combo pieces.)

What Else Does it Do?

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Don’t worry, Cavern Harpy is a ridiculous value engine that can generate real card advantage even without Aluren on the battlefield. Just combo Cavern Harpy with Baleful Strix to draw cards, or with Shardless Agent for more free spells, or with Trophy Mage to search up more Shardless Agents and Parasitic Strixes. 

Other Cards

These synergies buy you time to find your combo pieces and just grind value, with the deck including cards like Ancestral Vision for Shardless Agent to cascade into. The deck also features the usual suspects of any Sultai/BUG legacy deck, namely Leovold, Deathrite Shaman, Brainstorm, Force of Will, and Abrupt Decay. The mana base is composed entirely of dual lands, fetch lands, and basic lands.

Decklist

I’m just listing my main deck here since the sideboard options are broad and mostly the usual suspects available to these colours in Legacy.

4 Baleful Strix
2 Parasitic Strix
4 Shardless Agent
4 Cavern Harpy
4 Deathrite Shaman
2 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
2 Trophy Mage

4 Aluren
4 Abrupt Decay
4 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
2 Ancestral Vision

1 Forest
2 Island
2 Swamp
1 Bayou
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Polluted Delta
2 Tropical Island
2 Underground Sea
2 Verdant Catacombs

Source: jqlgirl
moxperidot
thebibliosphere

Me modding skyrim: I love immersive mods like realistic needs and enhancements, they add a whole new level of depth and complexity to the game.

*Ten mods later*

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That’s…that’s too much depth, no, stop reel it back…

thebibliosphere

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Fuck. 

thebibliosphere

I’m in a vampire den and just got my period. This is fine. Also does anyone have a tampon.

thebibliosphere

Fucking up in here running around doubled over with cramps and some edgelord goth kid is shooting lightning bolts at me. Fucking dick.

thebibliosphere

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Protip, bandits carry a good supply of tampons. Which is great cause nowhere seems to sell them, or if they do they’re in some back alley where I can’t find them. Also you have to make your own contraception, cause apparently Skyrim is the Bible Belt of Tamriel. 

thebibliosphere

Found some fucking witches in the wild brewing contraception over a fire and selling “abortus” spells. Fucking bad ass bitches. #Istandwithplannedparenthood

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Shame I had to murder them for eating people.

thebibliosphere

So to summarize I’ve got soul destroying depression, I’m hungry and I have to keep murdering people for tampons, but at least I can fuck my werewolf boyfriend without consequences 👍👍👍

thebibliosphere

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Some of the instructions for this mod are a little unclear but if I am reading this correctly I have a 61% increased chance of random sperm encounter from being at the Docks.

I am uncomfortable.

systlin

Joy I just want you to know that I am literally crying from laughing right now and also tea just came up my nose thank you for this.

Source: thebibliosphere
nbvagabond
unpretty

for a long time i did not actually watch supernatural and the fandom wasn’t as unavoidable but i kept seeing bits and pieces of the same rerun where they’re in an office au, so for all that time i thought supernatural was a show about like accountants or it guys or something who would go fight demons and shoot ghosts after work. like shooting ghosts was their passion but it didn’t pay the bills so they still had to clock in from nine to five and deal with that one asshole always stealing food out of the fridge. it turned out that was not actually what supernatural was about but it was a fun misapprehension while it lasted.

unpretty

i like how apparently everyone who watched supernatural would have been much happier watching The Office But Jim And Dwight Secretly Fight Monsters After Work

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