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The symbolism of flowers

Flowers have a long history of symbolism that you can incorporate into your writing to give subtext.

Symbolism varies between cultures and customs, and these particular examples come from Victorian Era Britain. You'll find examples of this symbolism in many well-known novels of the era!

Amaryllis: Pride

Black-eyed Susan: Justice

Bluebell: Humility

Calla Lily: Beauty

Pink Camellia: Longing

Carnations: Female love

Yellow Carnation: Rejection

Clematis: Mental beauty

Columbine: Foolishness

Cyclamen: Resignation

Daffodil: Unrivalled love

Daisy: Innocence, loyalty

Forget-me-not: True love

Gardenia: Secret love

Geranium: Folly, stupidity

Gladiolus: Integrity, strength

Hibiscus: Delicate beauty

Honeysuckle: Bonds of love

Blue Hyacinth: Constancy

Hydrangea: Frigid, heartless

Iris: Faith, trust, wisdom

White Jasmine: Amiability

Lavender: Distrust

Lilac: Joy of youth

White Lily: Purity

Orange Lily: Hatred

Tiger Lily: Wealth, pride

Lily-of-the-valley: Sweetness, humility

Lotus: Enlightenment, rebirth

Magnolia: Nobility

Marigold: Grief, jealousy

Morning Glory: Affection

Nasturtium: Patriotism, conquest

Pansy: Thoughtfulness

Peony: Bashfulness, shame

Poppy: Consolation

Red Rose: Love

Yellow Rose: Jealously, infidelity

Snapdragon: Deception, grace

Sunflower: Adoration

Sweet Willian: Gallantry

Red Tulip: Passion

Violet: Watchfulness, modesty

Yarrow: Everlasting love

Zinnia: Absent, affection

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My girlfriend is turning 32 soon… 

I’ve told her not to get her hopes up. “After all,” I say, “we’re only going to celebrate it for half a minute” when she asked what in the world I was talking about, I pointed out “This is your thirty-second birthday”

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hey there, especially goyim, the antisemitic nonsense being spewed by celebrities and politicians right now is truly out of control. this is hate speech, and it is dangerous. it is actively harmful to jews.

if you're wondering what i'm talking about because you haven't heard anything, you need to educate yourself on the kind of dogwhistles and "subtle" tells that can go overlooked. the christian hegemonic majority has been ignoring us for years when we have spoken up about the violence and hatred we've been facing, but it's actually vital right now that you pay attention.

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A survivor drags a former concentration camp guard by the hair while American troops look on at the newly liberated Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp, April 1945.

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this website is fascinating because it puts some of the most narrowminded, sheltered, pearl-clutching weirdos on the planet right next to one million devoted sexual deviants

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Apart from all the other horseshit, another problem with Disney locking MCU actors down with million-movie contracts and playing stupid games with the definition of “movie” to keep them in the role forever is that it’s a real barrier to having tetchy arguments over who did it best. Spider-Man and Batman are basically the only superheroes who’ve been played by enough actors in film for the “who did it best” argument to have any meat to it – and maybe Superman, if you count cameos in movies he isn’t headlining – and I think we’ve been robbed by not living in a world where we can have ridiculous nerdfights over which of half-a-dozen different Captain Americas is objectively superior.

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Broke: Ash Ketchum has been 10 for 20 years. Woke: all that shit happened during the wildest fucking year of that kids life.

#pokemon

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my personal favorite interpretation of kobolds are the ones that look like nothing humanoid, but more like scaly raccoons that JUST evolved sapient intelligence and proper hands, and are gonna make it everybody's problem

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I love that Bilbo came back Deeply Changed™️ from his harrowing adventure but not in the sense of being haunted or traumatized or damaged so much as How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Being The Town Eccentric

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Shout out to the ten primate species, four bat species, elephant shrews, and the Cairo spiny mouse. Nobody else gets it

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tumblr marking new blogs with a new arrival banner has the same vibe as someone putting a "kick me" sign on your back

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"I want horror lesbians" I say. "Have you seen Bly Manor/Fear Street?" you ask me. Yes I have. I don't want a sweet sapphic love story as a ray of hope in a horror show. I want monstrous women with Hannigram-esque toxic codependency and knife play and blood over their hands. I want women who poison each other and women who haunt each other. I want lesbian monsters and lesbian vampires and lesbian serial killers. I want body horror and grotesque sapphic imagery. I want them sexual and depraved and hungry. Hope this clears it up <3

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THE LOST BOYS (1987) dir. Joel Schumacher

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I hate when cartoons have a kid and the kid is a clone of one parent

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I hate you wizard council I hate you spell regulations I hate you familiar rights I hate you banned potion ingredients I hate you geneva convention

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If there’s anything I want anyone to know about bisexual and nonbinary identities, it is that ambiguity is good. We don’t need the exact nuances of our identities to be encapsulated within the label we choose. If you take a hundred nonbinary people or a hundred bi people, they are going to have as many differences as they do similarities and that isnt a flaw: it’s a strength. The diversity within our communities is amazing and it is amazing that a label can remain useful for so many people despite how different we all are.