Rose-colored

In France under Louis XV it was Madame de Pompadour who made pink the fashion for furnishings and decor. She loved to combine it with sky blue, two tones that won her favor and that rapidly became the rage throughout Europe. But with regard to clothing, it was as much the men as the women who wore pink; that color was not in the least especially feminine yet. On the other hand, it was no longer considered a particular shade of yellow, but was now firmly seen as a mixture of red and white. Our modern pink was thus born sometime toward the middle of the eighteenth century. In French it was given a new name, no longer derived from the facial complexion but from the color of flower petals: the rose created the French color rose. Over the course of decades, botanists and gardeners had succeeded in creating increasingly numerous varieties of roses, and roses that were truly rose, unknown in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, had become common. These changes, however, took place very, very slowly. In the French language, the adjective and the noun rose were not definitively established as descriptors of the color we know by that name until the nineteenth century. The same is true in Spanish (rosa), Portuguese (cor-de-rosa), and German (rosa). As for the English word pink, for a long time it designated only the dyestuff extracted from brazilwood, before -belatedly- it came to describe the color obtained from that same wood.

Michel Pastoureau - Red, the History of a Color

Sometimes when I'm birdwatching

I recently bought a new PC and now I'm in this limbo where I don't want to play any of my games because I'm waiting for the better graphics but I want to play something

The duality of family meetings when you have social anxiety.

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"How was your half prom?"

"Pretty good" It was hell.

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"You draw, don't you?"

"Just a bit, so not really" All the time and I love it.

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*family joking about making games, even that if I draw I might want to join this, but out loud stating that I don't*

*stays silent* It's one of my dreams.

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Or when you smile and wish you could just go away or stay in the toilet the whole time.

waking up with the sun, going on walks to old cemeteries, writing in coffee-stained notebooks, reading oscar wilde, classical music

actually i might still stream today just bc i need one more day of streaming then i can apply for affiliate

I am genuinely so worried for all the young horny dykes going into adulthood thinking there's something "problematic" / "wrong" with them for being horny because fucking tiktok lesbians think any horny dyke content is "male gaze fetishitic"

on identity, healing the inner child, fursonas, and cringe culture

israel has now officially been announced as one of the countries participating in eurovision 2024

meanwhile russia is still banned, for the third year in a row. the double standard is just sickening

With the Reddit 3rd party app crackdown and the ongoing horseshit Elon Musk is pulling with "X", I realize a lot of people here might be pretty new. So I put together a quick and easy guide for using Tumblr for anyone new who might need it.

Tumblr was made by David Karp and we call him Daddy around these parts (^///^)

You are not safe from fandom-gif attacks ( •̀ ω •́ )✧

Speaking of fandoms, the tumblr fandoms are always ready to grab their [object] and go to war against the Beliebers ╰(*°▽°*)╯

The only safe refuge from fandom tumblr is with hipster tumblr. If you can get a cool alt-girl to take you under her wing, you might be safe... for now (●'◡'●)

You will watch the first episode of Supernatural... and then you're part of the Winchester family. (Or if you skip right to season 4, we don't blame you. It's where Destiel starts (*/ω＼*))

This is not a glomp-free zone ☆*: .｡. o(≧▽≦)o .｡.:*☆

Use missing e. It's the only way to make Tumblr useable on Internet Explorer (this is the most popular browser and you're probably using it right now) :-D

Our only adult-supervision is John Green... and even then does that REALLY count as supervision? DFTBA! φ(゜▽゜*)♪

Just this once, everyone lives. It's bigger on the inside. Elementary, my dear Watson.

If you see Misha Collins staring at you, the polite response is "Saving people, hunting things, the family business." O.O

I might lose followers for this, but this blog supports gay rights, and yours should too (14 gifs of Sherlock and The Hobbit)

Tumblr will teach you more about the world than you'll ever learn in school. ○( ＾皿＾)っ

Tread carefully... we have teh yaoiz O.o. Oh you don't know what that means? Well let's just say... it's full of lemons here.

If you see Hannibal Lector in a flower crown, tell him it looks very nice. His boyfriend Will Graham made it for him. (´▽`ʃ♡ƪ)

Do not enter the dog park. The dog park will not harm you.

he’s the moment

Very much inspired by that Valentine Pin-Up Alastor merch where the only significant change is him having his bow-tie unclipped.

Anyway, happy valentine day sike, it's Aro week and we are begrudgingly going on dates to help our friends with their heist. Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 (end)

I love the Nintendo switch but the Nintendo switch doesn’t love me, you know? I felt like the wii loved me

i cannot stop thinking about the scene where peter b turns around like he just realized miguel is genuinely insane it is so funny

like ohhhhh. okay. yeah he’s gonna maim that 15 year old.

i was thinking about that post comparing Jessica Rabbit as an asexual to Barbie and an asexual and then i thought of the Neil Gaiman post (was it a post?) about Crowley and Aziraphale being asexual sexless and then this happened.

anyways. thoughts?

sorry it took so long I meant to do this a week ago but my brain is full of rocks.

[Image ID a three sided venn diagram. the big circles show Margot Robbie's Barbie sitting in front of a mirror, Jessica and Roger Rabbit from the poster of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Aziraphale and Crowley from Good Omens standing back to back. Between Barbie and Jessica Rabbit it says "sexualised by society". Between Jessica Rabbit and Aziraphale and Crowley it says "Knows what sex is". Between Aziraphale and Crowley and Barbie it says "no reproductive system(?)". the center is the asexual flag. End ID]

Also i haven't seen the Barbie movie as of this edit so at least please tag your spoilers.

some dunmeshi height/age stuff from the adventurer's bible