When I first thought about creating a website, I knew that since my main hobby
is anime and manga, that I would have a lot of sites devoted to that. However,
I didn't want my main collective name to be Japanese or anime/manga related. I
planned on eventually having other things, such as the
Galapagos scrapbook, personal sections on
my writings, or rants. So I wanted a name for the collective that was something
general and for a long time I simply just could not come up with anything at all.
Finally, I thought to myself, I like pansies, pansies are something general, and
I could make a pretty layout with them. That's it. I am going to name my site
whatever the scientific name for pansies is and that's that. No matter what
it is.
I was happy with myself. I thought there'd be a pretty name. I love pansies,
I happen to be quite fascinated with taxonomy and phylogeny, and as much as I'll
complain about Latin, I like that too. It seemed to be the perfect solution.
So I took out my uncle's good old Oxford dictionary, and looked up pansies. There
in the microscopic type was "Viola tricolor."
My jaw dropped. That was not the kind of name I had envisioned for this
site. There were other pansy variations, but the particular one I was looking up
was Viola tricolor. I double-checked online to see if V. tricolor was
legitimate and it was.
Anyone who knows me, knows I can be quite stubborn. I defiantly regarded the
information with determined glare and said, you just see if I don't name my
site Viola Tricolor! And I cackled maniacally.
Hence, here is the site as it is today. I love the initial page design, and the
pastel colors serve as mockery to my original intentions.
A last note on pronounciation: if read with English sounds, Viola Tricolor
sounds like either "VIE-oh-la TRY-color" or "VEE-oh-la TRY-color." With a more
Latin pronounciation it would be "vee-OH-la tree-coh-LORE." That's how I meant
the site to be pronounced. Sounds a tad bit more diginified, plus I hate adapting
foreign words to English sounds.
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