#history of roses

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The Timeless Elegance of Wedding Roses

The most popular flower stealing the show in wedding bouquets is still the lovely, ever-fragrant rose—also known as the drama queen of the floral world! Whether it’s a bouquet that looks like it’s on a strict rose-only diet or a wild party with other flowers crashing the scene, the traditional rose knows how to shine. It’s the go-to for bridal bouquets, bridesmaids’ bouquets, boutonnieres, table…

[biophonies]

when I drew this comic 3 years ago I had NO idea how far it would reach. I'm happy to finally share a corrected version with proper abbreviations, and even MORE state names of indigenous origin ♥️

however, the goal of this comic was to inspire people to do your OWN research on indigenous history. To question everything we have been taught, and everything that has been pointedly left out. This erasure, this “forgetting”, of history is not just of the past… it is happening now. - Across so-called Canada, the US, and US-occupied islands, native women are victims of murder at 10-12x the rate of non-native people, and are the most likely to go missing without being searched for by the law. - Native reservations have the highest rates of poverty in the US, with over HALF of tribal homes with no access to clean water (with more joining this list by the year) - Native people are 6-10x more likely to be unhoused than the rest of the population, and native teens suffer suicide rates higher than any other demographic. This list of modern day genocide goes on (thank you for compiling @theindigenousanarchist <3) and yet take a look at those environmental stats!

Native people manage to do SO much for the planet as a whole - thanklessly - and with all this stacked against them. Don't even get me started on kin fighting in south america. Could you imagine if there was help? #landback is resistance to genocide, and it is the key to saving our warming earth.

So look into it and the other hashtags, cuz a cartoon goose ain't a substitute for a proper education. Love to my grandparents who always kept a map of tribal territories of turtle island on their wall, to speaking on our Tsalagi & Saponi heritage. Love & solidarity forever, happy research, and happy #indigenouspeoplesday

LANDBACK.ORG

(Also, if you care to support the artist, I'm publishing a book ! and writing another - a fantastical afroindigenous graphic novel - that I post exclusively about with tons of other art on my patreon.)

[fulldlscl0sure]

rose quartz

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"I really value when people use violence and raise their voices for me. It's actually one of my love languages."

Havana Rose Liu as ISABEL in Bottoms (2023)

[eirene]

The Rose of all Roses, 1889

Willhelm Menzler

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[rockrosethistle]

I think one of the slept on things that makes The Secret History feel like a real world is Donna Tartt's willingness to introduce a character that is just never brought up again (or brought up once or twice again.)

Because i'm real life, not every person you meet is going to have significance in your life. Not everyone is going to change that plot. Think about the teacher that takes over when Julian leaves. Or the farmer who claims to have seen Bunny. Or Richard's one night stand. Even the man stalking Henry and Bunny in Italy doesn't show up later.

And not only does this fill the gaps in the world, it absolutely helps build suspense. You never know if a character might have significance later, because there's simply no pattern to follow. It keeps you guessing.

Did I mention I started rereading The Secret History

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Elizabeth of York, fashion character design, c. 1481.

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Details from a floral still life by Karl d. Ä. Schweninger (Austrian, 1818—1887)

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Detail: The Roses of Heliogabalus (1888)

— by sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

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[thomascromwelll]

Happy Birthday, King!!! SLAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!

Richard Plantagenet — Richard III Born in 2 October, 1452.

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Drawings by Rose O'Neill (American, 1874-1944)

[wh0-is-lily]

Sylvie Vartan on her wedding day, 1965

[eirene]

A Beauty In Pink Marie Félix Hippolyte-Lucas

[laurapetrie]

The girls were addicted to perfumes, and when they bathed at night, the water was perfumed and softened with almond bran. They always used Coty. Tatiana favoured Jasmin de Cors; Olga, Rose Thé; Marie constantly changed her perfumes, but was more or less faithful to Lilas, and Anastasia never deviated from Violette.

Lili Dehn, The Real Tsaritsa (1922)