I kinda got clowned on for saying this a few years ago but y’all don’t understand what someone like Optimus Prime saying “Freedom is the right of all sentient beings” did for my worldview.
For 3,000 years, only the rich wore colour.
Red was a beetle crushed by the thousand. Blue was a plant rotted in urine. Purple was a sea snail, and you needed 12,000 of them for the hem of one robe. Colour was not a taste. It was a rank.
Then at Easter 1856, an 18 year old in Shadwell was trying to make malaria medicine out of gasworks sludge.
He failed. He went to wash out the flask.
And it came out purple.
The colour emperors killed for... In a sink in the East End.
The reason it worked is the part nobody believes.
He was 18. He patented it that August, walked out of college, borrowed his father's money and built a factory. Within 2 years Britain had gone purple, the price collapsed, and a servant could wear a colour an empress had worn.
Look at what you are wearing. Nobody dived for it. Nobody counted shells for it.
Because a boy in Shadwell got it wrong. And instead of washing his mistake away, he gave the world colour.
That spirit was handed down. It is still in you.
Help us hand it to the next generation.
Everything we make is free.
It stays that way because of people like you: 🙏
https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf
Be part of us.
Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧
CTE’s true problem isn’t among NFL players but regular people who have it from playing as kids/during high school. nobody is ever gonna test them for it or realize that’s what’s wrong with them and there’s way more of them
RIP, Peter.
Our team teared up hearing you record as Thaedus the first time, and our eyes are misty again now.
You’ll ALWAYS have a coalition of fans in us.
Rest easy, friend.