You’re all a bunch of Pansies

15 comments

Skip to comment form ↓

1. 1
   

   Butch Pansy

   July 5, 2012 at 8:56 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment

   I am honored; you are too kind.

2. 2
   

   catburns

   July 5, 2012 at 9:06 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment

   Hehehe, Yep!

3. 3
   

   Anne C. Hanna

   July 5, 2012 at 10:10 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment

   <like> :D

4. 4
   

   Mattir

   July 5, 2012 at 10:12 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment

   I like it.

5. 5
   

   hotshoe

   July 5, 2012 at 11:34 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment

   That’s an astonishingly lovely picture. Brilliant.

   I never heard that pansy stood for freethought. The wikipedia article linked says its name is from the French pensée (thought), so that makes sense.

   Now I know!

6. 6
   

   mandrellian

   July 6, 2012 at 12:48 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

   I am a pansy and proud of it.

7. 7
   

   embertine

   July 6, 2012 at 3:41 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

   Little grumpy faces! Quite apt, really. ;)

8. 8
   

   Magicthighs

   July 6, 2012 at 8:00 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

   Well, guess I’m proud to be a pansy then! ;)

9. 9
   

   Katherine Lorraine, Chaton de la Mort

   July 6, 2012 at 8:59 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

   See I actually knew that the pansy was a symbol of thinking, but not necessarily freethought. Interesting.

10. 10
    

    Paul Hunter

    July 6, 2012 at 10:11 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

    And even more attractive if you’re a Bee

11. 11
    

    RR

    July 6, 2012 at 1:57 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment

    Indeed, the pansy’s name in spanish is “pensamiento” (Thought)

12. 12
    

    Tyrant

    July 7, 2012 at 5:48 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

    So we’re free pansies…

13. 13
    

    smhll

    July 7, 2012 at 11:43 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

    @5
    Yes. And in Hamlet, in Ophelia’s speech about flowers, Shakespeare is playing off of the French word when she says “Pansies, that’s for thought.”

14. 14
    

    Stacy

    July 7, 2012 at 9:38 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment

    I am so glad to know this! Thanks.

15. 15
    

    flowers4

    July 23, 2012 at 9:37 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

    Cool find. Strangely it appears to be more because of its distinctive facial markings as it nods forward in Autumn than any deeper meaning. But, I’ll take it!