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:bademoticon: Greetings! I know its a bit early for Valentine's day, but I just wanted to say hello to my friends and watchers!:bademoticon:I know I've been a little spotty on here, quite busy with school I'm afraid. However, that doesn't mean I've forgotten about you all! In fact, I've missed talking to everyone.
So lets change that! I've made a little list of conversation topics below, but basically I just want to have a chat with you guys! New friends, old friends, random stalkers... All are welcome!
Conversation Topics (lol)
What your plans are for Valentines day?
What have you been up to? Anything exciting?
:bademoticon: Do you want to help with the next ROTS?
Do you know how Valentine's Day came to be?
What book have you been reading recently?
Any new movies you've seen/ are waiting for?
Have you found any awesome artists recently?
Have YOU made any awesome pictures? (Show me! ^^)
Anything else I haven't mentioned... Honestly I just want to hear you!
Okay I'm going to stop using all these adorable emoticons now and let you reply (please... reply... I want to talk to you!) If you decide not to... Happy Valentines Day anyways!
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Thats awesome!
You should totally make that available for the Valentine exchange! I would totally use it!
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Yesss Im about to send this to EVERYONE
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I will spend Single Awareness Day playing "Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep" on my PSP, clearing the Mirage Arena in Critical Level 1 mode and die a lot of times
I will wait for my classmates to come back from the 50 Shades movie and tell me how psycho weird and pornographic it was. Jeez. Watching porn with a lot of strangers must be something different
and I will totally work for school projects. that's Single Awareness Day for me
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That sounds like a rather fun Single Awareness day! However, mine will involve less Kingdom Hearts and more chocolate XD
Oh yeah, I've hear about that. I REALLY don't see the appeal in watching porn with strangers. At ALL. I mean, seriously.... Its one thing reading that book in public places (which made everything weird for.... Everybody). Its another thing to go to a theater and sit with people you dont know and... Watch that. Ugh.
Woo hoo! Sounds like lots of fun!
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I haven't been around on DA much because my computer is stupid.
And I wanted to do something for valentines day that I've been planning for a few months, but I just haven't gotten it to come out right yet.
SO MUCH SAD STUFF!
But overall, I'm happy!
'Cause I'm sitting around obsessing over my cartoons!
Anyway, yeah.
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Aw, its sucks that you havent been able to get it to come out right 
Obsessing over cartoons is awesome! Which one did you say you were on right now?
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PINKY AND THE BRAIN VALENTINES!!! NARF!
It's another cartoon I like... heheheh...
Anyway, those two little mice are just difficult to get right!
Recently I picked up "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" (the 2012 Nickelodeon version) but I also obsess over "Phineas and Ferb" and "Pinky and the Brain."
ESPECIALLY "Phineas and Ferb."
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Hey, it's good to see you again~ ^_^
I haven't really been up to anything. Just school. And my volunteer job. I've been re-watching "Merlin", which is one of my favorite TV shows that I've finally bought all 5 DVD season box-sets of. So, I've been quite happy with that. ^_^
My plans for Valentine's Day include eating chocolate and watching Starkid's Oregon Trail musical when it comes out on Youtube. I'm really excited for that. >w<
Funny thing about the history of Valentine's Day. I recently did a project on it, so it was pretty interesting to discover exactly how it developed almost accidentally from a legitimate celebration to a commercial "holiday". XD
The most recent book I've been reading is "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond for my World Civilization class. It's not that bad. It mostly talks about the evolution of humans and how civilizations developed over time. I find it kind of interesting. ^_^
I've also read a lot of Shakespeare. Mostly for pleasure because I love the plays, but also for my Literature class. We studied "Othello" in depth and I love the play even more than when I read it myself over the summer. We also read some of Shakespeare's sonnets and I found it kind of hilarious that the most beautiful ones that get quoted all the time about women were actually the ones Shakespeare wrote for a "young man". Whereas the sonnets Shakespeare wrote for a woman read something like "girls are terrible and gross, but I like you okay". At least, that's what I got out of them. XD
As for movies... I'm just waiting patiently for the next Avengers movie. ;w;
And on the topic of art, I actually just finished a ref sheet for a character I adopted and I'm really proud of it because it took me almost two weeks to draw, color, and write a bio for.
wolfiegrrrl.deviantart.com/art…
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Its good to see you too!
SERIOUSLY? YES MERLIN IS AMAZING WOO HOO! I LOVE Merlin with a passion, so its nice to find a fellow fan!
Thats the best plan I've heard all day! I actually had forgotten about the Oregon Trail musical, so thank you for reminding me. I would be so ashamed with myself if I had missed that completely
Oh you did? Thats so cool! So, when did it first begin, hm? What culture, what time period? I'm super curious now XD
That is completely crazy, we were just watching that in my World History class! Haven't got around to actually reading the book, but I might now that I watched it. It was quite interesting, although they said "Jared Diamond" and "Guns, Germs, and Steel" more then literally any other series of words in there XD
Yeah, I don't like his view on women from the plays I've read. Maybe it all hinges around Taming of the Shrew, but my opinion on him is rather... Low XD I mean, some of his stuff is beautiful, but all I remember is the crude humor and sexist insults.
Yes yes yes! I can not WAIT for the next Avengers move! I really cant wait to see what happens with this new villain, although I'm a little nervous for how they will bring in any newbies to the team. I kind of like the already established dynamic, although I do know the original comic brought in and took out new people all the time. We'll see, we'll see.
Oh good gracious, that looks awesome! No wonder you won XD I'm rather envious, I wish I could draw like that! The bio is great, you've got a lot of creativity in there
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AH! A FELLOW MERLIN FAN! I can't seem to find any in the wild, so I agree it's good to finally come across someone who shares my passion for the show~ >v<
Heheh... It was a pretty awesome plan! My day was fantastic~
You watch Starkid, too? Two for two~ XD I'm glad I could remind you! I wasn't able to watch A Very Potter Senior Year for some time after it was uploaded on Youtube and it made me so anxious. I also had the same problem with Twisted. XD But The Trail To Oregon was hilarious. Call me childish, but I watched each of the different endings and laughed through all of them. XD
Okiedokie... I'll start from the beginning of what I know about Valentine's Day and end at the end. XD This may get a little long, though...
Not much is really known about the history of the "holiday", but its roots are in an ancient Roman fertility celebration, the festival of Lupercalia, which was commemorated annually on February 15. But somewhere around 496 AD, Pope Gelasius I declared the festival a Christian feast day and dubbed February 14 St. Valentine's Day.
No one is sure exactly which St. Valentine the day was named after. There were three of them who were all martyred on February 14, but the one that's famously associated with the holiday was a priest who was very disliked by the Roman emperor Claudius II around 270. There are a few legends surrounding him that you may be familiar with. A popular one involves Valentine secretly performing marriage ceremonies when Claudius II had made it illegal for young men to marry because bachelors were believed to make better soldiers and so Valentine was martyred for breaking the law. Another popular legend claims that Valentine was imprisoned and he fell in love with his jailor's daughter, so he sent her a letter before he was executed and had signed it "from your Valentine". But while those are nice stories, it's believed that the most plausible story surrounding St. Valentine is that he died for refusing to renounce his religion, like most martyrs were, instead of for romantic love.
St. Valentine's Day is no longer on the liturgical calendar for the church, though. The Catholic Church got rid of it during their "spring cleaning" in 1969 where they removed feast days that had questionable origins, so because they weren't sure about St. Valentine, they dumped his day. XD
St. Valentine's Day only became definitively associated with love during the 14th century thanks to Geoffrey Chaucer. In 1381, Chaucer wrote a poem to honor the engagement between England's Richard II and Anne of Bohemia. Since it was the poetic tradition to associate the occasion with a feast day, Chaucer linked the royal engagement, the mating season of birds, and St. Valentine's Day in his poem "The Parliament of Fowls".
The lines in question:
"For this was on St. Valentine's Day,
When every fowl cometh there to choose his mate."
So, centuries went by, the holiday evolved, and by the 18th century, exchanging gifts and handmade cards on the holiday was common in England. Eventually, the phenomenon spread to the American colonies, and everyone was hand-making cards of lace and ribbons, and iconic pretty pictures of cupids and hearts. It wasn't really a widespread tradition in the United States, though, until the 1850s, when a woman by the name of Esther A. Howland began mass-producing valentine cards. And that is how the holiday became such a commercial success.
Yeah, that did get pretty long. Well, anyway, that's all I know about it, so I hope that was interesting. ^_^'
Oh, I didn't know there was a film for it! Heheh... But that's pretty funny that they title dropped and name dropped so often. XD
Hm, well, actually, Shakespeare had a pretty decent opinion of women. And he gave some of his best roles to female characters.
For example, in "Taming of the Shrew", Kate (the shrew of the title) ends up being the better wife than the supposedly "perfect" or "desirable" girls like her sister. She is a strong female character, well-written, and she got a pretty decent ending... one of the only decent endings for married couples in Shakespeare's plays, if I remember correctly. Everyone else either dies or is miserable... or both. She and her husband ended up becoming a pretty awesome team in the end.
Also, in "Othello", the best female role in the play goes to Emilia (the wife of the villain, Iago) and she gets some of the best lines that show she has the best character in the play. While the other characters are plain background characters or are easily corruptible/manipulated, she remains the strongest character out of everyone. She isn't a main character, so there was no reason she should have gotten the most important lines instead of the main female lead, but yet Shakespeare gave them to her. Shakespeare wrote her to be loyal to her husband, but not to the point where she would let him get away with murder; to be smart enough to piece together all the clues to realize that her husband was behind everyone's deaths; to be brave enough to do the right thing even if it meant her life would not be spared; and to defend the innocent even after they had died and could no longer defend themselves. Shakespeare really loved Emilia and he really showed it in how he gave her the most brilliant mind in the play even though her husband didn't treat her well. He didn't write a pretty marriage for her, but he gave her a good head on her shoulders and that says a lot, especially how she put society bluntly into perspective without hesitation.
Yes, in Shakespeare's plays, there is a lot of crude humor and sexist remarks. But the funny thing about Shakespeare is that he is known for being able to write male and female parts equally well. So, scholars believe he might have had some androgynous qualities to him that enabled him to easily slip himself into each character's head regardless of their gender and write them well. And you know one of the challenges of being a writer is writing narrators of the opposite gender of yours in a believable way. Because men and women think differently (in a way, that's true because there are some things women understand that men wouldn't think of and vice versa because we face different sets of problems - societal and biological and the likes). Yet Shakespeare manages to write male and female characters without seeming to have that problem. So, scholars who believe Shakespeare is one man (and not various people writing under the same alias or something like that) also believe that this means Shakespeare had some androgynous qualities to him.
And my point about that is he knew what was up during the time period he wrote in. He understood men's issues and women's issues. And he knew how to write those characters in those situations. So, the crude humor and the sexist remarks may not have been Shakespeare's own thoughts reflected into his writing. He's clever like that. He needs characters to be the voice for society so that he can have characters come in later to deliver the ultimate smackdown the audience needs in order to understand "wake the hell up, you're doing it wrong, you turds" because Shakespeare was eloquent like that and a witty little shit.
Not that people really respected or appreciated his writing back then much - there were people who would come to his plays just to fornicate in the audience and he got a lot of backlash for having the male actors play female parts in women's clothes (even though it was traditional)... because "if it looks like a woman and acts like a woman, the penis will think it's a woman, and then the men in the audience will be turned on by men and do gay things, which is deplorable, huargh, huargh, huargh"... *rolls eyes*
Okay, so that was a rather long explanation, too. ^_^' Can you tell how much I love Shakespeare? XD Also, that wasn't meant to be me yelling at you or anything. I respect your opinion of him and figured I'd share what I've learned from my studies of his work over the years.
Exactly! I'm excited to see where the storyline will go, especially the whole bit about the Infinity Stones. I'm really looking forward to that. ^^ The next movie is going to be the first of two parts, so I'm not exactly looking forward to having to wait for the conclusion, but at least we'll get other Marvel movies in between to keep us occupied. >.< I love the team dynamic as it is now, but I am very curious to see how they introduce the new members. I've watched some of the Marvel cartoons with The Avengers where they've pretty much got everybody at one time or another and I like how the dynamics are in those, so I'm hoping the Cinematic Universe will also be able to pull it off as well as they have so far.
Aw, thank you! >v< It took a lot of effort to draw and cobble together a bio for, but I always put a lot of effort into my characters. They're my babies and somehow all those art classes I've been taking lately have improved my skills enough to make sheets as nice as the one I drew for that adopt. The best part is getting to write about them later, though~ ^^
Again, sorry my response ended up being so long. I, uh, guess I had a lot to say. o.o
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I am going to avoid it and study for my tests, and maybe have a silly fake-snowball fight with my parents because they are silly. And maybe watch an episode of the Batman Animated Series or something.
I got to dissect a sheep's heart! It was great. 
Assisting in the next ROTS challenge would be very fun!
Apparently there was a Saint Valentine and he died on February 14th or something? I remember something like that from Trivial Pursuit. XD
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I do not watch a lot of movies.
is an amazing artist, though I discovered her talent quite a while ago.
All of my neat pictures are photographs. You can find them in my gallery.
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That sounds delightful! Whats a fake-snowball fight? Do you only fake throwing snow at each other?
Oh whoa seriously? That sounds... Icky But I'll be honest, I'm a bit of a wimp. I'm hoping assuming it was for school, so what class?
Trivial Pursuit! Woo hoo! Okay, that makes some level of since. But why love? Was he a saint of love or something?
Woo hoo textbooks -_-
Okay, okay. I feel it
Oh, I'm going to go check her out!
Okay, I'll definitely take a look at some of your photographs!
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There are these giant pom-pom balls that look like snowballs. Though I suspect they will not be thrown very well.
Anatomy and Physiology lab.
I HAVE NO IDEA IT WASN'T PART OF THE QUESTION
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Valentines day for me isn't much different than a regular day, only difference is more sugaaaar!!
Lately, my life has been one big mess of things. I've had school to do, stuff to take care of on other sites, sprites I have to make for a comic, and on top of all that I'm auditioning for the school play this year. Plus I've had a cold (which sucks), but I'll find a way to make it all work out. I somehow always do.
Ooh, I wouldn't mind at all helping with the next ROTS~!
I don't know, but I may or may not have a theory~
Ooh, books! One of my favorite topics. Lately, I've read Deep Blue, Looking For Alaska, and right now I'm reading The Book Thief. And that's only some of the books I got for Christmas. And there are books that I don't have but want to read so badly!! Namely Warrior Cats. There are some others, but Warrior Cats is the main one.
I'm terribly lazy when it comes to movies tho xD
Uh, I've found some awesome story writers, does that count?
Actually, I do have one drawing finished that I haven't posted yet!
And since I know how much you like riddles, I have one for you~!
Cleopatra and Anthony are found dead on the floor, killed by Caesar. On the floor near them is only some broken glass and some water. All three live in a nice home in the city. How did Caesar kill Cleopatra and Anthony?
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YES MORE SUGAR AND CHOCOLATE YES
I feel it... Work and having a cold
Awesome! Mooneh and I are trying to plan some stuff out, but if we need help with either this one or the next one, you're the top of the list!
A theory, eh? What might this theory be?
I have to say, transitioning from the Book Thief to Warrior Cats will leave something to be desired... As much as I liked the series, I will admit that its aimed for a young-ish audience. Read Looking for Alaska and The Book Theif, but I must say, I've never heard of Deep Blue. What is it about?
Psh, don't even worry! Book reading is better than movie watching any day!
It does indeed! Writing is a form of art!
Ooooh, can't wait for you to post them!
Okay, okay, okay. Well, considering its Caesar, I would LOGICALLY say he came back from the dead and stabbed them both multiple times to rid himself of the terrible memories of his own tragic backstabbing (literally, tee hee!). However, as this is a riddle, I don't think thats the answer.
Hmmmm, broken glass and water. Well, the water could have been ice... Maybe he stabbed them with ice and then let it melt? But then, I don't see where broken glass would come in. Uh... I mean, depending on how they were killed (stabbed, hung, strangled, etc), I guess he could have put nooses around their necks and let them stand on ice but as the ice melted they slowly ended up being hung... And they knocked over a glass? Lol, I have absolutely no idea XD
Whats the answer?
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Sugar is love, sugar is life. lol
Don't blame me, I got the virus from someone on a Mario forum. (Not really tho) And thanks for the luck~!
The theory.. Oh boy, this is gonna be weird. OK, so as we all know Venus is the Roman goddess of love. Venus, or Saint Valentine, made sure everyone had a lover. But then one day she mwt her demise and that day just happened to be February 14. So that's how Valentine's Day came to be! (Yeah not really xD)
Deep Blue is only the first book in a series called the WaterFire Saga, which is about six mermaids that have to basically combine their powers to stop a sea monster and a human (or as merfolk call them terragoggs) working together and save the sea. It's one of my favorite books, and I need to read the second one!
OK, the answer is Cleopatra and Anthony were fish, Caesar is a cat, and Caesar knocked the fishbowl off a table and broke it.
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My plans for Valentine's Day are.. being forever alone.. and maybe eating some candy. XD
I've been reading Treasure Island recently. Goin' back to the classics, brah.
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Good plan, good plan! I was going to do the same, but I didn't end up actually getting barely any chocolate (my parents are on a health streak -_-). So just... You know, being forever alone.
Treasure Island, man! I remember reading that! I don't think I fully understood it when I read it originally, but I enjoyed it all the same. Hbu? Are you enjoying it?
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Yeah, there are some words that I have had to look up the meanings of, but it's a pretty good book. I like it. X3
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It won't let me copy and paste!
* Nothing. Stay home and do HW. You?
* Um...second semester of 9th grade. I joined Drama at school. Trying to get art done. That's all.
* Sure, if you need me. If not I'll just play
* Nope. How did it?
* Percy Jackson second series, and Shadow Falls series (AWESOME) How about you?
* Nope.... You?
* You! JK. Not really....
* Um...recently I've posted stories. But I'm drawing two things right now.
* *poke* Got you!
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Basically the same XD I got a bit sick, so lazying around is all I have the energy for at the moment
DRAMA YES JOIN THE CLUTCHES OF US CRAZY DRAMA PEOPLE. I mean... Um... COol! Are you enjoying it?
I'll let you know! Moons and I are trying to figure out an interesting idea, so if we need help we'll let everyone know
I'm actually still trying to figure that out, I've heard four different stories so far XD
Shadow Falls, eh? DO you recommend to moi, someone who needs a good book to read?
I just saw 'The Bird cage' yesterday, and it was quite humorous XD Other than that.. Uh, nope! Not really!
Ooooh, I can't wait to see them!
I've been SUPER GLOMPED XD Well.... Well...
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Feel better!
YES! I've done drama before in school and camp -- small plays -- and I went to a drama camp (musical theater camp) for 3 summers, 4 performances. But this drama...it's great. We are doing One Acts, so my play is just me and one other person, and the director and author are both students. It's interesting.
Keep me informed
Mix info 
YES! If you like paranormal stuff.
What's it about?
You're kinder! I toss you what you deserve.
If I ever finish them...and I'm starting a collab with someone soon
EEEH GLOMP
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I actually had to read an article about Valentine's Day this week.
Apparently it's unknown how it came to be.
I don't remember them all that well, but a lot of the stories were really creepy XD
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That's super interesting, I've never heard that! I heard something about a massacre, but I don't thinkit had anything to do with modern day Valentines day XD
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That's cool XDXDXDXD One story was like this one dude named Valentine sent a letter to the jailer's daughter before being executed on February 14th. He signed it "From your Valentine" and we still use it today, which I found really creepy XD And there were like...3 different saints named Valentine? It's so weird XD
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Oh that IS creepy XD
Three saints? That might make sense why there is so many inconsistencies... One was love, and two were for different things, but we get them mixed up!
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