#pro-purple

[piratewinzer]

I was so absolutely targeted and gobsmacked off my rocker by the very specific "mid-00s horse RPers know what I'm talking about" and the example that is straight out of something my indeed 12 year old self not only wrote but ADMIRED in others writing at the time.

This is a dangerous sentiment for me to express, as an editor who spends most of my working life telling writers to knock it off with the 45-word sentences and the adverbs and tortured metaphors, but I do think we're living through a period of weird pragmatic puritanism in mainstream literary taste.

e.g. I keep seeing people talk about 'purple prose' when they actually mean 'the writer uses vivid and/or metaphorical descriptive language'. I've seen people who present themselves as educators offer some of the best genre writing in western canon as examples of 'purple prose' because it engages strategically in prose-poetry to evoke mood and I guess that's sheer decadence when you could instead say "it was dark and scary outside". But that's not what purple prose means. Purple means the construction of the prose itself gets in the way of conveying meaning. mid-00s horse RPers know what I'm talking about. Cerulean orbs flash'd fire as they turn'd 'pon rollforth land, yonder horizonways. <= if I had to read this when I was 12, you don't get to call Ray Bradbury's prose 'purple'.

I griped on here recently about the prepossession with fictional characters in fictional narratives behaving 'rationally' and 'realistically' as if the sole purpose of a made-up story is to convince you it could have happened. No wonder the epistolary form is having a tumblr renaissance. One million billion arguments and thought experiments about The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas that almost all evade the point of the story: that you can't wriggle out of it. The narrator is telling you how it was, is and will be, and you must confront the dissonances it evokes and digest your discomfort. 'Realistic' begins on the author's terms, that's what gives them the power to reach into your brain and fiddle about until sparks happen. You kind of have to trust the process a little bit.

This ultra-orthodox attitude to writing shares a lot of common ground with the tight, tight commodification of art in online spaces. And I mean commodification in the truest sense - the reconstruction of the thing to maximise its capacity to interface with markets. Form and function are overwhelmingly privileged over cloudy ideas like meaning, intent and possibility, because you can apply a sliding value scale to the material aspects of a work. But you can't charge extra for 'more challenging conceptual response to the milieu' in a commission drive. So that shit becomes vestigial. It isn't valued, it isn't taught, so eventually it isn't sought out. At best it's mystified as part of a given writer/artist's 'talent', but either way it grows incumbent on the individual to care enough about that kind of skill to cultivate it.

And it's risky, because unmeasurables come with the possibility of rejection or failure. Drop in too many allegorical descriptions of the rose garden and someone will decide your prose is 'purple' and unserious. A lot of online audiences seem to be terrified of being considered pretentious in their tastes. That creates a real unwillingness to step out into discursive spaces where you 🫵 are expected to develop and explore a personal relationship with each element of a work. No guard rails, no right answers. Word of god is shit to us out here. But fear of getting that kind of analysis wrong makes people hove to work that slavishly explains itself on every page. And I'm left wondering, what's the point of art that leads every single participant to the same conclusion? See Spot run. Run, Spot, run. Down the rollforth land, yonder horizonways. I just want to read more weird stuff.

[hinamie]

can't believe im saying this but long time no megumi

[sistertonin]

drewpunk but make it reality

[nailsandinspo]

[serthra]

Springtime Colours - Purple

Had a short walk around and spotted signs of springtime. Some pretty grape hyacinths or muscari flowers.

The cherry blossoms are out too, will have to try and grab my camera for them, but it is also raining so....will wait for dry weather, hopefully they'll wait for me :)

iPhone, Vancouver, BC, March 2024

[vhaena-targaryen]

Three of my favorite women and their purple eyes💜

edited by me :)

[olenvasynyt]

HELLO I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SEE ELAIN IN MORE PURPLE DRESSES

[pro-royalty]

Halle Bailey x SAG Awards (2024)

[raccaryusui]

お花好きな住宅の玄関先にあった

鉢植えで咲いていた、

「シャガ(射干)」の花。

アヤメ属。

別名：コチョウカ(胡蝶花)。

学名：Iris japonica

撮影：iPhone14 Pro Max

[pixelatedraindrops]

Yuma Month: Day 16: Detectives

Learning to be a Pro Amnesiac Detective 🔎

[ladydeatharcheron]

“Nesta is a bitch so you’re probably a bitch too” and you stan Rhys, where are the victims you roofied??

[rosesncarnations]

Speak no evil

Hear no evil

See no evil

[raccaryusui]

駅に向かう途中にある住宅の

小さな花壇で咲いていた、

紫色が鮮やかな「アサガオ(朝顔)」の花。

サツマイモ属。

学名：Ipomoea nil

撮影：iPhone14 Pro Max

[wrestlingarsenal]

Zach Reno suffers a humiliating beating by the massive" Van Gore" in this video recently posted to Weekend Wrestling. Zach wears skimpy little purple briefs that can barely stay up around his hips as the big man twists and stretches him in various and sundry contortions.

The theme of the match seems to be the placement of Zach's banging body on full display, while his manhood is always just millimeters from full exposure.

Both Van Gore and Zach Reno are fantastic in their respective roles (i.e., gigantic Heel beast vs. gorgeous out-matched stud), but I also want to give kudos to the camera crew in this one! They do a stellar job bringing our eager eyes right inside the ring, practically rubbing our faces against Zach's treasure trail, our noses nearly brushing his spandexed bulge several times.

To the Weekend Wrestling guys, if you're reading this, I don't know if you've hired a new camera guy, or maybe you're just trying out some new angles, but keep doing what you're doing! I noticed and I appreciate it!

[pro-royalty]

Halle Bailey

[queenofqueensarcheron]

Can we please stop putting Nesta in only black. Girlie wears colour you know. It’s not because she has a harder exterior that she only wears black. Nesta can keep her feminine dresses while still be a warrior.