Happy Valentine's Day!

[Tailsteak]

Valentine's Day!

What's your take on it?

[Globus]

Someone, anyone tell me why does that exist, and I might even bother to form an opinion.

[doctor100]

It exist because someone died for marrying people who were forbidden from marriage. Later, the authorities that killed him felt bad, and decided that he was actually an okay guy.

[snowyowl]

I know that the general opinion among my friends is that it's a commercial stunt, that you shouldn't need a special occasion to declare your love for your significant other, and that I should be proud of my independence as a single male, and I shouldn't buy into the idea that there's nothing for me to do tonight - it's just an ordinary Tuesday.

However, my natural (read: deliberately though carelessly engineered) compulsion to go against the majority opinion means that I actually want to buy into the sense of occasion, that I don't get out often enough and need any excuse for a party that I can get, and there's nothing wrong with a day dedicated to the person who makes you happy. Which would be a great mindset to have but for the fact that - as previously mentioned - I'm single.

So I mostly spent today browsing the Internet and wondering how relationships work while making absolutely no effort to find out.

[Sorcyress]

So I mostly spent today browsing the Internet and wondering how relationships work while making absolutely no effort to find out.

Similarly to magnets, as it turns out.

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I'm poly, and most of my partners are of the non-romantic type. Generally, I don't celebrate it, or if I do, I celebrate with whichever partner happens to naturally be at hand (rather than doing any sort of complicated "who do you love most!" negotiation.) This year, I was given a soldering iron, a cattle prod, and a vacuum cube by one of the boys, primarily because he didn't want to take them home on the plane. He's likely to give me a jar of hammers next year, thanks to xkcd. In the evening, I went dancing with many of my friends, and the person I have an unrequited(?) crush on, and passed out hilariously terrible square dance valentines, a la third grade cartoon character mandatory valentines. Then I went home and watched anime over Skype with aforementioned unrequited crush, and slept alone. It was cozy!

I think I've decided that I like Valentine's day best as a kindergarden level holiday --you have to give everyone silly and ridiculous valentines, and there's candy everywhere. I can deal with candy everywhere. As alternatives go, I like Batman Sticker Day and The Emperor's Birthday (observed) (The latter of which I just learned about this year, and am absolutely okay with making into a bigger movement, because unf, anything that has to do with Joshua A. Norton makes me a happy happy person.

~Sor