#im still on like ch5 of cant spell treason without tea and its soo sweet theyre so gay and in love<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

#i thi k queer history is soooo interesting #its been one of my hyperfixations #this is mostly me ranting so if it reads weird uuuuuh idk #i love floriography <3333 #also applying our names and concepts of sexuality onto people not of our culture and from like 2000 years ago isnt the best idea bc #again she was from 2000 years ago and a real person. that is to say its said she had loved both men and women. ovi shes very important to #the lesbain community shes literally why we use the term lesbian and call the romance sapphic #idk i just wanted to pit that out there #also i forgot to mention “horticulture lads” was also an insult for gay men in the early 20th century thats the reference #im not good at having a coherent long conversation that doesn't go all over the place you can really tell in the end #its a perk to being on the spectrum #i havent read so this is ever after yet but the description is so interesting #im still on like ch5 of cant spell treason without tea and its soo sweet theyre so gay and in love<3333 #ive never watched gossip girl idk why i wrote that