such_heights | i don't believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now

So, it's my personal opinion that Valentine's Day is by and large a crass commercialisation of romance. (I mean, how anti-romantic is it to feel obligated to pull the stops out in order to validate your feelings on some arbitrary day?) But you can either feel angry about it, or you can co-opt it.

I always enjoy a good co-opting*.

Therefore! As I am fan of telling people that you like and appreciate and love them any time, and this Saturday is supposedly about just that? I'm there.

svmadelyn has a Valentine's Day Game, open until 6pm GMT tomorrow - you go, you email her up to fourteen valentines for eljay people you like, she posts them on the 14th!

So I'm going to go take a break from the bodyswap story I'm writing** and do that.

* Speaking of co-opting. I've never seen an episode of Smallville in my life, but I've got to tell you:

bop_radar's vid I Kissed A Girl is my new favourite. Every time that bloody song comes on the radio now, I shall smile loftily, sit back, and think that secretly it is all about Clark Kent and his experiments with heterosexuality. (he kissed a girl! he liked it! he hopes his boyfriend don't mind it! \o/) Also, hilarious editing is hilarious.

** This is the year in which I write all the fic cliches, apparently? I bet a million of your finest internet pounds that nobody will guess who's getting swapped, though. It's not crack or anything (ha, okay, that's a clue, it is not at all cracky in this particular fandom), but still. You won't guess. Sekrit characters are sekrit, and also remain platonic throughout, is that very odd?

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You're quite welcome, such glory must be shared! :D

Hee, my little sister

sarkastic always talks about that vid.

Ha, that's cool! It's just so great.

I'm totally with you on Valentine's Day. My brother broke up with his girlfriend of four months yesterday. Only a few days before V-Day! I didn't even like her (Twilight fan) but I feel really bad for her, ahaha.

Lol, that vid was great. And I also have never seen Smallville! Haha.

Oh, damn! That's not good - I reckon being newly dumped is the very worst place to be in for this coming weekend.

That vid has no context - it needs no context! It features Superman being totally terrified of girls, ahahaha.

I mean, how anti-romantic is it to feel obligated to pull the stops out in order to validate your feelings on some arbitrary day?-- WORD. THIS. SO MUCH WORD. &hearts!

It's crazy! If ever (well, when, I hope) I have a date for Valentine's, it seems that even celebrating the day after or doing something deliberately obtuse on the 14th itself would make everything much better.

I loved that vid! (I've always hated that song.) Thanks for the link. M.

You're very welcome - I had no idea anything could reconcile me with that single! Bless fandom, really.

Blimey, Smallville is RAUNCHY! shoulda watched it!

And anyway, cliches are cliches for a reason, we know this. I've never got the whole "blah blah derivative" thing anyway - if it's well-written I don't care if the story is similar to something else.

Haha, I know! My my.

Oh, true - I actually love the idea of fic cliches, the tropes that get told time and again in different fandoms, it's pretty cool. Not to mention that TV shows themselves do it all the time. It's just a case of sprucing them up sufficiently to make them readable!

Woah, I didn't realise Smallville had so much sex! Thank you for sharing the video, it'll stop me grinding my teeth and glowering every time I hear the song...

Seriously! Smallville's actually one big glitzy college party, who knew? But yes, now I'm much more at risk of bursting out laughing whenever the song comes on, which is better if embarrassing.

Oh dear god body swapping, I can't wait for this!

Haha, I love it so much. :D

The Smalville video is made of win. And then some.

Like you, never seen an episode before (Lois Lane is blonde ftw?) but somehow the show seems much more sex-centered than I had imagined.

And Valentine's Day is as much commercialised as Christmas nowadays. Or perhaps even more.

I know! I really don't know anything about it, apart from the fact it seems enormously cracky.

Christmas, at least, has a much stronger tradition in the first place that's been overrun with commercialisation. Valentine's feels like nothing but, really. Oh well!

Pleased Fresh Year[url=http://sdjfh.in/flexpen/],[/url] harry! :)

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Vita subsided hall narrowed you try which leads her natural mbc.