#i love floriography <3333

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I started crocheting and I made some gay flowers for my gay books!

Im about to rant about flowers and gay people so when youre done looking at my awsome flower book marks scroll if you dont wanna read like 4 paragraphs

So fun facts about these flowers in case you didn't already know!! As we all know some flowers mean different things (you can go deeper with floriography which is so neat) and they are just generally used in symbolism. We know lillies, specifically white ones, are used for funerals (at least in the west) and red Roses are for love we assign flowers and plants for roles often times by their looks, locations, and histories.

First we will talk about the Violet. So back in yee olden days in ancient Greece around 600-500 bce there was a poet named Sapho. She is important for a couple reasons 1) she was a woman and misogyny has been around since before Jesus (literally) ancient greece had some cool stuff and had some cool policies like that they (from what ive read) were pretty considerate of different religions even having some temples for immagrants for them to pray in but they also had stuff like slavery and generally hated women. And 2) she was the first ever documented woman who explicitly liked other women and wrote about it.

Sapho, being the pretty popular poet she was, made poems about her love of women and in one of them she talked about a beautiful woman wearing violets. That line is where we get the connection of violets to lesbians (and wlw people in general). People have refrenced her violets a lot in history some have also used diffrent purple flowers as well to show their love to other women.

Next we got the Pansy. This connection has been around for at least a little over a 100 years. Pansy has been used as an insult for queer men bc theyre delicate flowers and such and grrr flowers are feminine men are are big and strong hrumph. The term "pasny craze" was made in like the 20s bc queer people were really coming full swing well not really but more and more people knew of our existence and they weren't happy about it (shocker i know). To sum it up its more of a reclaiming something that was used against us there was even a bar named after the flower. To add on there is another flower used to represent gay men and this one was a bit more like flagging. This being the Carnation(my personal favorite flower) specifically the green one. The one and only *Oscar Wilde* wore one in his breast pocket which in turn trickled down to the every day gay mans consciousness.

Maybe we should think about flowers more i know i do. I cant grow a garden bc i dont like to go outside and bc the sun here is evil but someone should grow a gay garden for me. That would make you a real horticulture lad *ba dum tisk*

Bla bla bla rant info dumping all in all i crocheted gay flowers and put them in their respective gay books

- xoxo gossip girl

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Can you give 10 random facts about yourself now? :)

i CAN AND I WILL 

1. I am very interested in Floriography and flowers in general (: Floriography is about the language of flowers. Every flower has its own meaning, and i just think its really interesting to know what they mean, why they do, and why and how they got their names ! :D I own 8 books about Floriography and flowers in general (:

2. i started getting into Greek Mythology when i was like 12 and still have my first book about it ! It was in the perspective of an Archaeologist that went to Greece to many excavations to examine some stuff, the book was practically his diary. it is a fantastic book for children, since it has a lot of pictures and even a card game with the olympic Gods and their charasteristics ! (:

3. i always look at other peoples handwriting. i think it says a lot about their personality

4. thats not really a fact about me, but theres a small open library at an egg farm near my hometown. A friend of mine showed it to me, and since that i go there whenever the weather is good enough (it is quite far away when you go by foot; 1.5 hours). its actually just a small room, maybe 1.5 x 1.5 meters, you cant really call it a library. but there are a lot of books, about anything you can think of (i got one of my books about flowers from there !). You can just take a book if you like it and you can bring it back if you want to, but you dont have to. you can bring your own books and leave them there, for other people to read. i just really like this place, since its literally in the middle of a field and quiet. i havent been there in quite some while....

5. and when were already at it, i love taking walks. i REALLY love taking walks. taking a walk is my dream date. there are just so many beautiful places that i would like to show to my s/o. and im not afraid of getting lost (except its dark. im scared in the dark). i sometimes just walk straight up into the forest and walk and walk and dont care where i will land :D walks are good man

6. i really, really fucking hate it when people are late. i just. REALLY hate it. i mean, if im trying to be on time, then the very least what you can do is to try to be on time too. its ok if the train or bus is not working (*aggressively side eyes DeutscheBahn*) but gdmit at least try to be on time. or at least tell me that youre going to be late on time, so that i dont have to be all that hectic n shit.

7. there are caramel-mint toffies here, and i really fucking love them. it tastes so good ?????????? its like god put a piece of heaven in them

8. i love sculptures. it fascinates me how sometimes they look much more alive than real human beings. this actually blows my mind. like, how sometimes the muscles look like they will twich because they were frozen for so long, and how the curves of the body look soft like real flesh, and how the veins look llike theres blood pumping through them. i am really fascinated by sculptures

9. already as a kid i was interested in poetry and writing. i used to write poems and stories all the time. looking at that is so embarrassing :D

10. i love it when people are expressing themselves through fashion in any way. when they have a unique style, when they have an unusua haircut or similar things. whenever i see that i just wanna *insert nut-button-meme here*

THANK YAOU SO MUCH