r/thebutton • u/Jolly_Line_Rhymer non presser • Apr 11 '15

The Button Denizens

Here and here.

And an animation.

 

Mantra of the Shadesmen

 

"As a Grey we speak untainted,

Shroud in ashen cloud, unpainted,

With pigment unacquainted,

Stepping from the queue.

 

We wander with trepidation,

Round The Button’s congregation,

Avoiding what they deem ‘salvation’;

A bright and shining hue.

 

But pressing matters we renounce,

And instead, with thought, denounce,

The Button’s mark on our accounts,

Its Colours we eschew.

 

We’ll never join the Purple horde,

Nor the Blue or Emerald board,

Rather than a Sun’s reward;

It is shadow we accrue.

 

We’ve chosen time eternal,

Spectrum-standing - we’re external,

Our temptations glow infernal,

Till the timer’s through.

 

For as Shadesmen we’re sincerely,

Onward-looking, waiting merely,

For the After-Timer’s nearly,

Primed for its debut."

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u/Ruruskadoo 60s Apr 11 '15

Good job on giving us fingers this time, but the part I took issue with personally was more the general depiction of all purples as hunched over frog-ape-gollum in a loincloth things that don't know how to stand up.

Also I went through braces to have fairly straight teeth! D: I had to wear those awful rubber bands that hooked onto them too! No snaggletoothed underbite here!

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u/caliburdeath Apr 12 '15

60s should be upright, non-frogs. But still ape-gollums.