V-Day, and Hallmark Poets Anonymous!

[mylittleredgirl]

Mwah ha ha, you all are totally allowed to defriend me after you read this, as I was totally SHUNNED by most people at work yesterday for saying so, but I LIKE VALENTINE'S DAY.

Especially as a single person, because that way there's no obligation to do or fret about anything. I don't actually feel at all oppressed by Valentine's Day. It is sad that all of my local friends are either 1) with someone, and therefore busy, or 2) DEADLY MOROSE, and therefore busy, and so I have no one to play with today, but that's okay. EVERYTHING has become sappy romance, and you know me, I heart sappy romance and kitschy (sp? I swear there's a z in that somewhere oh, it's an s, according to wiliqueen) flowers and hearts and dorky love songs on the radio and TERRIBLE romantic movies on television.

Of course, with the exception of that one year my watch tried to kill me (seriously. my watch had a text function along with the alarm and was sending me death threats -- some kind of swim team prank or something), nothing bad has ever happened to me on V-day, so, yes. It's not yet a doomful anniversary.

That said, "Happy V-Day To Everyone And SAPPY SAPPY Hearts And Flowers For All!" SO THERE.

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AND NOW, for the REEEEEEALLY important holiday that falls on February 14th and why I *really* love this day...

Hallmark Poets Anonymous

This FINE King House tradition, credited to froggoddess, declares that we friends gather together around the fireplace to feast on heart-shaped goodies and admire the tacky decorations... or, well, gather together ON THE INTARWEB and feast on comments, and share our WORST HIGH SCHOOL LOVE POETRY.

The angstiest shmaltz. The most embarrassing I-love-him-for-the-way -we-danced-in-the-GYM. The most profound declarations of TRUE LOVE FOREVER FOUND IN HOMEROOM.

(Sadly, I think the internet may not be the best venue for this, because we are inundated with bad love poetry all the time AND because they lose some of the tackiness without the DRAMATIC READINGS, but oh well. It's the thought that counts. And it's the one day of the year when really bad fanfic poetry is in season!)

I am remarkably lame in reporting this to you for two reasons: 1) it's actually VALENTINE'S DAY itself by the time I mention it, and how many of us remember by heart our angsty high school love poetry? and 2) I CAN'T REMEMBER THE WORDS TO "BLACK", which is the quintessential angsty love poem (not penned by anyone we actually know, ALAS) recited at every HPA. EDIT: noradannan remembered!!

Black.

Black.
Black as my soul.
Black as the Metallica T-shirt he wore.
He didn't invite me to the prom.
He didn't invite me to the prom.
Dance.
I shall dance on his grave.
And I shall wear
Black.

Comments

[liminalliz.livejournal.com]

*madly cherishes&adores you like the good little sinful lj girlfriend that she is*

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

YES!! This is a truly delightful valentine's day because of the rampant online lesbianism!! We really should page back and figure out when we became SINFULLY GIRLFRIENDED, so that we can have like three-week anniversaries and stuff and annoy others with our cuteness on calendrically (NEW WORD for forget the old word) designated days! Except that would take work. So *omg random valentine's day LOVE* instead!

[liminalliz.livejournal.com]

Gmail RULES. searched for "livejournal red sin" and BINGO!. HAHAHAH.

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

*laughs* OMG YAY!!! Gmail DOES rule! December 18th it is. HEE.

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

You are cute beyond the telling of it. :: glomps you ::

(And you're looking for an 's' to put in 'kitsch', rather than a 'z'. :-D )

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Yes! YAY!! *grins*

[roothekittykat.livejournal.com]

LoL:)

you are *so* wonderful! :D

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

*laughs* YAY! So far have not been defriended for my ridiculous and random Valentine's Day joy ;)

[lisayaeger.livejournal.com]

*hugs you on Valentine's Day*

:-D

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

*HUGS BACK and an extra hug for CASSIE*

[nikej.livejournal.com]

*shakes head* You are so weird and wonderful and HAPPY VALENTINE'S!! ;D

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Hee. Thank you! :) But all HPA credit goes to froggoddess and whoever wrote that delightful poem that we found in someone's high school lit mag...

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

That poem really incorporates the dramatic-readingness in the text itself. It is totally impressive bad high school poetry. I only WISH I was cool enough to have written something that bad, but ALAS, I did not try to pour out my heartbroken sorrow into poetry when I was a teenager! If ONLY I HAD KNOWN that it would impede my ability to celebrate HPA in the future!! *wails*

[sakuracorr.livejournal.com]

*dies laughing* I should say something in the realm of "bestz peom EVAR!!!11!!1!!" except in 1337, which I really don't get and can't read.

I like Valentine's Day too! Not that I have good reasons besides that fact that holidays are teh good.

P.S. Notice the journal lurkage! Fear!

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Notice the journal lurkage! Fear!

*ph3arz*!! Okay, I just made that one up.

Holidays are teh good! W00t!!

[sakuracorr.livejournal.com]

I read phasers (sp?), you know the little guns (I think on Star Trek).

Oh wait! I get it, you are planning to shoot me -_-

Yes, holiday fun! *I got chocolate*

[msraven929.livejournal.com]

I've always loved Valentine's Day...because I am also a total sucker for sappy romance in any form. This year, I'm waiting and hoping for more Shep-Weir funfic to come flowing in. :)

share our WORST HIGH SCHOOL LOVE POETRY

Oh God...my brain has thankfully erased the lame-as-lame-can-be poetry I wrote back in high school. I will confess to writing them, but I'd have to do some digging (literally - through piles of HS papers I never tossed) to find them.

And I don't know if this just made the rounds at my high school, but does anyone else remember an angsty poem called "Class Ring"? (I think that was the title.) It was about some guy taking back his class ring and you think he and the girl are breaking up, but it turns out she's dead?

Is it sad that's the only poem I remember from high school? Now I'll probably have to spend part of my day searching for the thing on Google. Ugh.

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

because I am also a total sucker for sappy romance in any form.

I KNEW we would get along :)

AND YES! More Shep/Weir fic!! *giddies*

You know, I think I *do* remember that Class Ring poem...

[msraven929.livejournal.com]

I found it! Although it's not quite what I remembered it being. From what references I found online, they've apparently turned the poem into an anti-Drinking and Driving message.

Class Ring
--Author Unknown

Close by the door, he passed to stand
As he took the class ring off her hand
All who were watching didn't dare to speak
As a silent tear ran down his cheek
All through his mind, memories ran
Of the times they laughed and walked hand in hand
But now her eyes looked very cold
He'd never have her again, never to hold
All were silent as he bent down near
To whisper "I love you" in her ear
Touching her face, he started to cry
He put on his class ring and wanted to die
And just as the wind began to blow
They lowered her casket into the snow

[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

I would defriend you, but my coworker brought in chocolate and I'm currently on an endorphin buzz so there's nothing but the luuuuuuuuuurve.

Or something like that. Hee.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

I am SAVED BY CHOCOLATE! :)

Yay. Happy V Day!!!

[j-guda.livejournal.com]

I'm an utter sappy romance junkie. I love terrible romantic movies. I was expecting Lifetime to have a marathon but they don't! *whines* Not even a single Melissa Gilbert movie, the bastards. Guess I'll have to pull out the trashy romance novels. What a sacrifice. ;)

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

WHAT!??? No movie marathon? *beats Lifetime*

The Hallmark channel will save us. They have to have one.

[wisdomeagle]

I like Valentine's Day. Never really disliked it, even when I was single. Hearts and flowers and cuddles and puppies!

I must go find my middle school poetry now... since I typed it ALL UP and it's lying around on a CD-R somewhere. *shame* :p

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Wheeeeee for impending bad poetry! *gleees* redbeard made the meme much prettier for sharing if you want to see it here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/redbeard/20875.html).

And yay for hearts and flowers and cuddles and puppies!! All these things are necessary. Squeee.

[ex-spockette108.livejournal.com]

Happy Valentine's Day! *sexes you*

Actually, I am disliking Valentines this year, because it's looking exceedingly likely that for the entire rest of my life, I will never have sex with something that isn't battery-operated (the USB powered one I bought last week not withstanding) ever again. Hmph.

And I'd post my crappy high school poetry, but uh, they're oh-so-slightly embarrassing. (especially since I only graduated high school um not even a whole year ago. Meep. I am ickle and small)

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Yay! *is sexed by spockette on Valentine's Day!*

USB powered!?? *is curious and afraid* Is this one of those you hook up to an X-box? (I'm not kidding -- there's totally a game-controlled vibrator... being marketed under the idea that this way the girlfriend will let her boyfriend play as much video games as he wants, and she will get off on it, and the man will feel Extra Super Powerful because him blowing up video game baddies makes his girlfriend scream for God.)

And crappy high school poetry is SO MUCH LESS SHAMEFUL when shared! Because we are sharing it ironically. But perhaps would be easier to wait and share it next year :)

Black

[noradannan.livejournal.com]

Disclaimer: For the love of god, I didn't write this. It appeared in the highschool lit magazine of a friend of mine, years ago

Black.
Black as my soul.
Black as the Metallica T-shirt he wore.
He didn't invite me to the prom.
He didn't invite me to the prom.
Dance.
I shall dance on his grave.
And I shall wear
Black.

Re: Black

[liminalliz.livejournal.com]

Sheer brilliance! :is in awe:

Re: Black

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

*edits post* THANK you!!

Re: Black

[greywords.livejournal.com]

Yay! Thanks for introducing me to the poem originally, too.

MEME!!!!!!

[redbeard.livejournal.com]

OK, I have now formally meme-ized-this - let's see if it takes hold. Anyone? Anyone?

Re: MEME!!!!!!

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, I hope so! *bounces*

Although now you make me want to go trolling through bad fanfic archives for Marcus/Ivanova poetry, and that is just CRUEL AND UNUSUAL.

I am really sad that I was unable to locate that website of "internet love" related bad high school poetry, OMG... It scrolled my heart a road DIRECTLY TO YOU!

Re: MEME!!!!!!

[redbeard.livejournal.com]

scrolled my heart a road DIRECTLY TO YOU

??? I think your exitement just wounded your english ability.

Re: MEME!!!!!!

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

OH NO. THIS is what wounded my English ability: (I found it I found it I found it!!)

Scrolling (http://www.angelfire.com/az/yazzz/romance.html)
by Mas-ash

Was it the words that made me think about him all night
or was it the smile that he brought to my face when I saw the E- Mail
message that seem to shine so bright.

Yes I feel so confused, How could it be?
He stole my Heart away with the stroke of his computer keys.
We chat, we talk its just not the same, there should be no reason I get so
excited when I see his chat name.
We are in a private room, designed for two, sometimes I think they
designed one especially for me and you.
We are chatting for hours when I realize, oops, I'm on the computer, I was
lost there for a while, but His words they really make me smile.

Communications is the key to unlock my heart,
It's funny the computer has enable to get thus far.
Cyber space is strange and that is true,
But guess what - It Scrolled My Heart a Road Directly to you.

Re: MEME!!!!!!

[polkadotsnplaid.livejournal.com]

(((((((Sachi)))))) you rock! and thanks, Serin, for getting the actual poem to us, complete with history--I'll be reading it at HPA...among other things...hehehehe....happy valentines to yall...

*claps gleeefully*

[w0lfstar.livejournal.com]

Yay for Black! And I thought I'd miss it this year *grins*

I actually like V-Day as well, ESPECIALLY since all the yummy chocolate is on sale the few days following *evil, sinful grin*

To be honest

[dingc.livejournal.com]

Okay, admitting I hate V-Day. But it was funny, my roommate offered to buy me dinner on Sunday for taking him to Walmart/other stuff. So I walk in and I'm like, wait, is it V-Day? We weren't going to eat together if it was V-Day. Thankfully it wasn't, so we got food!