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[youresovein]

[ your narrator: reclining in the black leather interior of his parked car, rain beating on the windows. it's the middle of the night, but he is wearing sunglasses, because he's very cool. #lestatuesque ]

Did you know it's one week until Valentine's Day? Of course you did, don't pretend you're too fascinating to remember important trivialities like that. Who has plans, who needs to get their life in order and make plans, and who expects they'll be spending the night at home eating their feelings? Go on, let it all out, I won't judge.

[ yes he will. ]

I'll even share my honest advice on all matters of or adjacent to the heart until morning. Or until I get tired of it. Whichever happens first.

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[flightforfreedom]

Is it really that important a thing? We don't have it back home, and mostly it seems like an excuse to sell chocolate, as far as I can tell.

What exactly are the sort of plans you're supposed to make for it, anyway?

[youresovein]

Oh, but the crass commercialism is half the appeal! It's a romance holiday, you do romance things, and then you complain about how crowded and stifling and unromantic it is, because everyone else is doing them at the same time and ruining the moment. It's an important rite of passage.

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[drivesadesk]

I've never done that before! I've never made plans. I've never had a reason to make plans. I should make plans!

[youresovein]

Are congratulations in order?

permavid

[killtime]

Liar. [ With a fond wryness: ] You love judging.

[youresovein]

All right, yes, but I'm not in love with it.

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[desmodusdraculae]

Not everyone's lives are wrapped up in romantic aspirations.

[Consider him firmly on team "eating their feelings", Lestat. A little bit harder than usual this year, considering what's happened to him recently.]

[youresovein]

I just said not to pretend you're too interesting for this subject.

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[melodramagic]

[ A small, blond teenage girl peers back semi-amused. ]

I'm making homemade chocolates to give out to my friends. What are your plans?

[youresovein]

Homemade chocolates! [ look, he's avoiding the question. ] How entirely wholesome. How can we be friends?

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[crassidy]

[Your responder: reclining in the grottiest looking couch, no sunglasses because he's distinctly not cool, and vaping because he really, really isn't cool. Ever.]

This your shitty attempt at tryna get someone to ask you to the ball?

[youresovein]

Correct me if I'm wrong — people traditionally exchange nudes as the precursor to that sort of thing nowadays, don't they?

[hampire]

Ah. The definitive perspective on les affaires de coeur that we've all been waiting for.

[youresovein]

What can I say? I'm a hopeless romantic.

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[h2no]

Time for your annual romantic navel-gazing broadcast, eh?

[he remembers last year. he also feels the exact same as he did last year.]

[youresovein]

It could be worse. I could get into Christmas.

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[solarcharged]

...Why are you wearing sunglasses at night?

[ Except what Apollo is really asking is 'oh my god, why are you the type of person who wears sunglasses at night' ]

[youresovein]

Why aren't you?

[permavoice| id: kasia nyx]

[iliveidie]

This Valentine's Day does not exist where I'm from so I fail to understand it's supposed importance.

[youresovein]

Are you after an explanation, or justifying yourself?

[restingstitchface]

[Crane is still inside his pokey university office, books and notes on every portion of shelf, looking like he might well sleep there.]

I think I'll be spending my night at home, eating the fears of poor losers dumped on the day. [A beat.] If that's what you mean?

[He might not be actibg entirely serious.]

[youresovein]

[ well, lestat seems amused by the answer, anyway. ]

Whatever turns you on, as the saying goes. How's that for company?

[vanto]

Why only until morning? Make a living out of it.

[youresovein]

Ah, I would be remiss if I didn't take this moment to plug my lifestyle and advice column! You can read it in the Heropa Daily.

As for why morning... I'm afraid I have a very strict curfew.

[choosetruth]

Wow, another shill for Hallmark. You and that other guy bother coordinating at all?

[youresovein]

I coordinate with no one.

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[dragony]

Ugh.

[ that's it that's her contribution. ]

[youresovein]

Bold yet succinct.

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[mildmanneredwriter]

Count my in for that last options. It's not going to be the same without my wife here.

[youresovein]

My sympathies. It's about the furthest sort of distance there is, isn't it?

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[burlyboy]

We didn't have Valentine's Day where we're from so, uh, no, I didn't know. Until last week. Then everyone wanted me to know. A lot.

[ Magnus shrugs. ]

Sounds like it'd be fun, if you had the right person to spend it with. And I'm guessin' by your tone that, uh, that's not super the case for you.

[youresovein]

Keen observation. It isn't the case for me, no, but that's all right. One of the effects of having a long, long life is that holidays don't matter in quite the same urgent way.

It also happens to complicate dating.

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[sanguinespell]

Dunno? Probably doing something with the girlfriend. Not much different from usual, I guess.

[ unless karolina has something specific planned, she thinks. ]

You?

[youresovein]

Oh, I suppose you can count me in for eating my feelings.

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[bassriff]

[ ugh. yeah she's really loved thinking about valentine's day, all right. marceline blows a lock of hair out of her face. ]

It's not a thing back home, but the person I'd have plans with isn't here, so... yeah, prob'ly just me, Netflix and a tub of ice cream.

[youresovein]

Ah, welcome to the club, my fellow romantic unfortunate. Agonizing, isn't it, to be subject to the cruel whims of fate, torn mercilessly apart from those we treasure most, left to drift alone on an endless and uncertain nighttime sea.

What's good on Netflix?

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[isthatyou]

[Grass Boy Time.]

I'm not "too fascinating," I just I hadn't heard of it before.

[Shrugging.]

I'm just gonna treat it like any other day.

[youresovein]

So many people missing out on frivolous holidays! And what does any other day look like to you, my verdant friend?