don't need no human race, don't need no pretty face

[kyraille]

Balloooons! This may be the cutest thing I have ever drawn. Could possibly be construed as a Valentine theme, since there is PINK INK and I feel stupid using pink at any other time of the year. Which is a shame, because I have masses (well, a bottle) of it.

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[sojisaanaru]

I always try to mention to people that Valentine's is *cough* a corporate holiday, and that it's really based off of Lupercalia, which is TODAY. And Lupercalia is a crazy pagan holiday where you slap each other with dried meat or something. Lemme look it up again. I knew all about it last year...

Here's a site that explains it better, . But it's based off Romulus and Remus, and it was a festival of purification and fertility. You can read the site to see what I meant about the meat slapping.

My friend even got me a piece of jerky last year on Lupercalia. Nice of her, huh? *laughs*

[sojisaanaru]

Ack. I forgot to close off the link. Ah well, it's still there, it's just ridiculously huge now.

[kyraille]

Oh, wow. Next year I'm going to give someone a heart-shaped box full of beef. Dead cow: the true expression of love.

Roman culture... so hilariously bizarre.

And yeah. Valentine's Day is a corporate bastardization and perversion of the sanctity of love! (And I can use big words to flaunt my vocabulary and declare my hate of V-day at the same time. Whee.) It is ever so cheering the day after to overhear girls squeeing about the teddy bear and fluffy pink whatsits their boyfriends got them. Cue gratuitous eyerolling.

[sojisaanaru]

It is ever so cheering the day after to overhear girls squeeing about the teddy bear and fluffy pink whatsits their boyfriends got them.

It's also slightly depressing when one does not *have* the aforementioned boyfriend to recieve the 'fluffy pink whatsits' from... if I even wanted them in the first place. (Which I would if it meant I had a boyfriend, but only then.)

But yes, I love Lupercalia. It's a great holiday. I think I'll try to inspire my love for it when I enter college next year, and then everyone will think I'm a weird pagan nerd chick. Hoo-hah.

Oh yes, the whole Photoshop thing. Anything you know would be nice, as I'd like to figure out how to make icons with it. So far, I've played around a lot and had fun liquefying everything. I'm still figuring out what everything does.

Hmmm. Broken Social Scene is odd. But I kind of like them. A friend is letting me borrow their CD and EP that came with the CD. Whoo hoo.

[kyraille]

It is slightly depressing, because I'm then reminded of how terribly dysfunctional I am at relationships, which is why I avoid romantic entanglements. Which also doesn't stop me from wanting one. Ffffwah