#st. patrick’s day

[chenoahchantel]

My birthday is in 6 days I would love to keep the lights on as a gift to myself. I’m $70 short and anything helps.

Happy early St. Patrick’s Day

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[prolifeproliberty]

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

[womenclature]

Color Monologue

Because color is one of my obsessions, I figured I’d share this. It’s nice to have names for the colors we don’t often have words to describe.

Below are some charts for examples, followed by a personal monologue.

List of Colors: 550 Color Names and Hex Codes

(If you can distinguish between these shades of black, let me know…. I can’t! Lol)

Finding My Favorite Color

Spoiler alert: It’s #E0EE00

Their “summary” color charts don’t include my favorite color, so I went into their more in-depth lists and found Bitter Lemon, which I think is about right. Actually, this “traditional” Chartreuse is likely closer:

My Favorite Color is an Experience

When people ask me what my favorite color is, I may come off as ridiculous when I respond “the color of new spring leaves when sunlight shines through them,” but it’s really the truth.

I care a lot about that exact sensation. It’s very captivating to me. I don’t even have to get on a plane to witness it. I can just go down the street or to a local park.

The experience of standing under a tree and gazing up through its branches is enchanting, and this array of color tones glows around me and inside of me. The below image kind of communicates this idea.

I particularly like the yellower green, right where the sun hits the leaves. Source

The term “chartreuse” is still inexact because the examples provided are usually not yellow enough.

This next pic is just for fun:

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Using a Color Picker to Find My Favorite Color

Here are some more examples of my favorite color.

Color Picker Source I’m aware these are multiple shades, but oh well. I’m searching.

Sometimes I feel like I get to my favorite color fastest if I go to yellow first, then darken it a little.

Funny how this color now looks worse as I place it against the dark background of Tumblr. In fact, it looks like boogers and I don’t like it as much at all.

The hex code “E0EE00” is really satisfying. Old Macdonald had a farm, E-0, E-E, 0-0…..

I think I’ll settle there for now.

Clothing With (Almost) My Favorite Color

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It’s very, very difficult and rare to find clothing in my favorite color.

Is Chartreuse Green or Yellow?

(and who cares?)

Sometimes I wear a sweater from F21 that is pretty close to my favorite color, and people compliment me on my “yellow sweater,” at which I am always amused. To me, the sweater is green. So I have fun randomly asking people if they think the sweater is yellow or green. I just like to see which one they say. There are no wrong answers. I, too, remain uncertain as to which general category my favorite color inhabits. Relatedly, “Chartreuse” falls under “Green,” while “Chartreuse (traditional)” falls under “Yellow” on the first website I linked, List of Colors: 550 Color Names and Hex Codes. (Their version of “Chartreuse” I do not like at all. It is way too blue-green and not yellow at all.) Well, It’s a good thing that the determination of whether this shade is “yellow” or “green" is not particularly important one way or the other, because if people cared about this, I do think they’d never come to a consensus.

Clothing Website Color Pickers

I do, however, wish clothing websites would recognize “chartreuse” in a keyword search or have a more intelligent color picker when filtering results. It would not be too hard to code a tool that analyzes each clothing image and provides 10-20 color names depending on the hex codes it picks up. One could build in a “margin of error” where hex codes that are within a few degrees of variation are also included under those names. So the user could actually use a color picker (or a longer selection of specific colors, at least) to filter by color, and all matching or near-matching clothes would be included in the results.

Thanks for coming to my color monologue!

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[dnpanimationstudioclone]

Meet Johnny 13 & Kitty🏍️🍀

    Since today is St. Patrick’s Day, the day all about luck, thought I’d introduce my takes on the luck themed ghost couple, Johnny 13 & Kitty!!!!!!!🏍️🍀🏍️🍀🏍️🍀❤️💚❤️💚❤️💚❤️

All kinds of trouble seem to follow their path….usually just Johnny’s. I wonder why.

What do u think? I’d love to know💖💖💖

[punkbakerchristine]

wouldn’t be st. paddy’s day without a little loaf of soda bread (with some raisins, too!) ☘️🍞

[voraciouskingdom]

Happy St. Patrick’s Day to one and all!🍀🍀🍀

[askaceattorney]

Dear Thebestnerd-critic,

I think I’ll just get my emergency stash and pretend the snakes aren’t there.

(Hopefully, they’re not poisonous.)

- Phoenix Wright

[coffee-and-uhg]

[juniorcaptain]

Had a St. Patrick’s dinner with my parents and joked we needed to listen to some Hozier only to discover my mom has never heard of him. Now, this happens all the time (she rarely knows the names of “new” artists) so I clarified he’s the guy who sang “Take Me to Church” and she never heard of it?!?

Where was my mother in 2014?!??

[timmurleyart]

Pot of gold McNuggets. 🍀🥇🍗☘️

[xtruss]

9 Surprising Facts About St. Patrick’s Day

Who Was the Real St. Patrick? Was That Legend About the Snakes True? And Why Did So Many St. Patrick's Day Traditions Start in America?

— By History .Com Editors | March 7, 2024

Photograph By Anna Usova/Getty Images

While St. Patrick’s Day is now associated with wearing green, parades (when they're not canceled) and beer, the holiday is grounded in history that dates back more than 1,500 years. The earliest known celebrations were held in the 17th century on March 17, marking the anniversary of the death of St. Patrick in the 5th century. Learn more about the holiday’s history and how it evolved into the event it is today.

1. The Real St. Patrick Was Born in Britain

Much of what is known about St. Patrick's life has been interwoven with folklore and legend. Historians generally believe that St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, was born in Britain (not Ireland) near the end of the 4th century. At age 16 he was kidnapped by Irish raiders and sold as a slave to a Celtic priest in the area now known as Northern Ireland. After toiling for six years as a shepherd, he escaped back to Britain. He eventually returned to Ireland as a Christian missionary.

2. St. Patrick Was Never Canonized

Despite his status as a patron saint, St. Patrick was never actually canonized by the Church during his lifetime. This was primarily because such a process did not exist when he died in A.D. 461. It wasn’t until 993 that St. Ulrich of Augsburg became the first saint to be formally canonized, and it was not until the 12th century that the Church established an official canonization process overseen by the Pope. While St. Patrick has not been formally canonized, many consider him to hold saintly status.

3. There Were No Snakes Around for St. Patrick to Banish from Ireland

Among the legends associated with St. Patrick is that he stood atop an Irish hillside and banished snakes from Ireland—prompting all serpents to slither away into the sea. In fact, research suggests snakes never occupied the Emerald Isle in the first place. There are no signs of snakes in the country’s fossil record. And water has surrounded Ireland since the last glacial period. Before that, the region was covered in ice and would have been too cold for the reptiles.

4. Leprechauns Are Likely Based on Celtic Fairies

The red-haired, green-clothed Leprechaun is commonly associated with St. Patrick’s Day. The original Irish name for these figures of folklore is “lobaircin,” meaning “small-bodied fellow.” Belief in leprechauns likely stems from Celtic belief in fairies— tiny men and women who could use their magical powers to serve good or evil. In Celtic folktales, leprechauns were cranky souls, responsible for mending the shoes of the other fairies.

5. The Shamrock Was Considered a Sacred Plant

The shamrock, a three-leaf clover, has been associated with Ireland for centuries. It was called the “seamroy” by the Celts and was considered a sacred plant that symbolized the arrival of spring. According to legend, St. Patrick used the plant as a visual guide when explaining the Holy Trinity. By the 17th century, the shamrock had become a symbol of emerging Irish nationalism.

6. Ireland’s Only Female Patron Saint, Brigid, Has Her Own Holiday

One of Ireland’s three patron saints, alongside St. Patrick and St. Columcille, St. Brigid (or Bridget) is the patron saint of Irish nuns, newborns, midwives, dairy maids and cattle. Believed to have been born in Ireland sometime around A.D. 450, Brigid was the daughter of a pagan king and an enslaved woman. She grew up to serve the church by building a church in Kildare, which was the site of a former shrine to the Celtic goddess, eponymous to her.

Said to have died in A.D. 524, Brigid's memory was kept alive by the church, which canonized her as St. Brigid. In 2023, Ireland designated February 1 a permanent public holiday in Brigid’s honor.

7. The First St. Patrick’s Day Parade Was Held in America

While people in Ireland had celebrated St. Patrick since the 1600s, the tradition of a St. Patrick’s Day parade began in America and actually predates the founding of the United States.

Records show that a St. Patrick’s Day parade was held on March 17, 1601, in a Spanish colony in what is now St. Augustine, Florida. The parade and a St. Patrick’s Day celebration a year earlier were organized by the Spanish Colony's Irish vicar Ricardo Artur. More than a century later, homesick Irish soldiers serving in the English military marched in Boston in 1737 and in New York City on March 17. Enthusiasm for the St. Patrick’s Day parades in New York City, Boston and other early American cities only grew from there. In 2020 and 2021, parades throughout the country, including in New York City and Boston, were canceled or postponed for the first time in decades due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus. They returned in 2022.

8. The Irish Were Once Scorned in America

While Irish Americans are now proud to showcase their heritage, the Irish were not always celebrated by fellow Americans. Beginning in 1845, a devastating potato blight caused widespread hunger throughout Ireland. While approximately 1 million perished, another 2 million abandoned their land in the largest-single population movement of the 19th century. Most of the exiles—nearly a quarter of the Irish nation—came to the shores of the United States. Once they arrived, the Irish refugees were looked down upon as disease-ridden, unskilled and a drain on welfare budgets.

9. Corned Beef and Cabbage Was an American Innovation

The meal that became a St. Patrick’s Day staple across the country—corned beef and cabbage—was an American innovation. While ham and cabbage were eaten in Ireland, corned beef offered a cheaper substitute for impoverished immigrants. Irish Americans living in the slums of lower Manhattan in the late 19th century and early 20th purchased leftover corned beef from ships returning from the tea trade in China. The Irish would boil the beef three times—the last time with cabbage—to remove some of the brine.

[thesiouxzy]

[nickelodeonshows]

Johnny & Friends: St. Patrick’s Day ☘️

[aquamarine-dream-queen]

Happy St. Patrick’s Day from my old friend, Victoria McCarthy!

[punkbakerchristine]

chocolate irish coffee cake: chocolate cake laced with bailey’s and espresso with a buttercream spiked with the liqueur and a chocolate ganache in the middle

happy st. paddy’s day! ☘️🍻☘️🍻