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Valentine's Day is my personally second most important holiday of the year, right behind Resurrection Day. Originally in honor of Saint Valentine, a Roman bishop and martyr known for his commitment to performing marriage ceremonies in the face of opposition, the day has more or less become meaningless in popular culture. A holiday, a holy-day, a day set apart for remembrance, is only useful so long as there is something worth celebrating. It is a day of emphasis, for there is no authenticity in celebrating something that does not apply at other times (if you only give thanks on Thanksgiving, you aren't really thankful). For me, this day is an opportunity to reflect on love--what it is, where it comes from, and the ways I am blessed with it in my life. I'm short on time, or I would leave the text of 1 John 4:7-11 as reference. I've yet to have the beginnings of a romantic relationship; I esteem the concept too much to risk being flippant. What I do have is six younger siblings and two loving parents; I am very close with my family, and so I use this holiday for the purpose of celebrating that familial love that I've been blessed with. Not everyone is blessed in this way; some are blessed with friendship, others may be limited to memories of past expressions of love that are no longer present. But even in worst case scenario when someone hasn't personally experienced love, there yet exists the ultimate love of God from which all other forms of love proceed, which is applicable to everyone. So while my celebration may not be as large or spectacular as that for Christmas (traditions die hard), internally I consider this to be the more important concept, and take joy in the opportunity to reflect upon it with other people.

I’m doomed… I forgot that it’s today and I have nothing to offer I think that people don’t mind anymore about Valentine’s day my friends always say that it’s just a useless festivity and it’s just about spending money into insignificant presents… we don’t need a specific day to love someone more than the other days and I think it’s important to remember that before loving someone, we have to love and cherish ourselves or else it’ll create a toxic relationship :3

Technically I thought I should have started with good night( because its night rn so thought it would have been fun) So, like the title says, Hello I found this website as I was searching for someway to download EoSD, and I stumbled upon this place Looking to have fun meeting with you people!

I feel like my mood is rather mixed as I already passed into Tuesday. Oh boy, this Valentine's Day sure will be brilliant... I am in the middle of my two weeks break from the courses, so far from anyone I know or I could meet (Romanian academic autonomy made it so my break did not coincide with that of my closest friends). And since I do not have anyone to cherish this day with, all I can do is just stay in front of the computer and watch some more anime (probably Amagami) and wait to attend an introductory course in the evening. Usually, I just do not care about this day, and just treat it like any regular day in the week and calendar - so completely dismissing all the meaning and symbolism it was given. However, I do have some momentary slips every now and then and...maybe start regretting I do not have to to cherish this artificially fabricated festivity day with? So... how are you going to be spending this day? For me, I will just be at home, focusing on the beginning of the next college semester. I just want a break, and forget of everything for a couple weeks before going back to hell. Since we are finally having our courses face-to-face, but literally nobody attends the courses (usually due to professors asking for just low attendance or no attendance at all), I still did not manage to meet and befriend many of my new colleagues. Especially with the "do not date group colleagues" getting so staunchly reinforced, I still have to look in other places for that someone special. So no Valentine for me this year... But I grew kind of used to it, and only hope remains for the next year. Maybe next time...

As with most other people, I may not have much to celebrate on this holiday, but based on what you've just said, I realize that the modern view on the somewhat nonexistent meaning of this holiday is much undeserved. As a fellow Christian, I do believe that some of our holidays deserve recognition from those with other religious views. Even if people don't believe in Christianity, there are still moral values that are relevant to the atheistic world. While most countries have no reason to celebrate days such as St. Patrick's Day, which marks the death of a missionary who preached in Ireland, it can still be used to celebrate and acknowledge Irish culture, much like how here in America people are currently celebrating Black History Month. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I agree with what you say. Holidays, religious or not, may not be as much appreciated as some of the others. Even though I believe some holidays really don't need to be widely recognized to the point of being on our calendars (looking at you, Columbus Day), it may be worthwhile to remember why said day is a holiday to begin with.

Sorry in advance, I’m replying to you really really late and I’m writing this message on my phone so it’s not really convenient ^-^ So thank you very much for all the information you’ve bring me (I’ve never heard of Paul Cabanes before), I was thinking about the topic and kinda came to the conclusion that, it’s not the culture itself which have a negative impact but the value or moral teens learn with it. Anime sometimes revolve around sexualizing normal and innocent stuff (like school uniforms lol) and pretend that there’s nothing wrong about it, also I often see some kids acting like psycho just because they think it’s cool and normal :/ So, it’s not specific to Japanese culture I guess because I’ve seen recently that some Japanese girl who like French culture (the fake one) dress up like princess because they think it’s the way we dress up in France. Here, the impact of French culture is also negative on those girls because they tea live far away from the reality and it’s kinda ridiculous ^^

Yeah, it is actually quite a surprise that LostWord (out of any Touhou media, official or fan-made) has decided to actually go with the canon designs of those two nameless mid-bosses for their units from the EoSD retro universe. I also posted a fanart based on that sprite in the previous reply. It is a nice design, I will not lie, even if most likely it was not supposed to be anything special when the original game came out back in 2002. The only difference is that in my post I have also added a few more canon depictions of "Koakuma", in other outfits she was dressed in for official sources. It is just that her most recent official art (besides any feature in CDS), the one from Strange Creators of Outer World, has decided to fixate her outfit to the business lady tuxedo one people got so used to due to g=fan culture gathered in almost 20 years between EoSD and first edition of Who's Who of Humans & Youkai.

It surely is weird, it also reminds me of stuff i see in my daily life, like when i go to work, there's a girl that usually leaves her house in the same time i arrive at my work, and she basically dress herself as a cat (nothing against it, i love cats, but isn't too much to dress the same thing everyday like if she was a cartoon character?), and also a friend i had that used to call me senpai, it never bothered me but nowadays i find it so weird It is actually something interesting, some people start thinking that people are the way they learned with something that isn't even from the country itself =') French culture is nice but i don't think that people should think of people because of what their culture is, i know a French comedian that came to Brazil, he's called Paul Cabanes, and he says some stuff from France that i never heard about before, and i think the effect would be the same with Brazilian stuff in other countries, just like with Japan stuff, but well, most people that says to admire Japanese culture has all their basis into kawaii waifus and anime =') Ngl, they're not soooo wrong xd When you go somewhere like Rio De Janeiro, you'll find a lot of people that are similar to the stereotypes you find out there xd Yup, not only Tik Tok, but every social media (just to remind, i got into hentai in a time i didn't even know what a social media was), since if it's already easy to find it without contact with social media, just imagine having that contact, knowing the lots of people that talk about that kind of thing like if it was normal? I remember seeing something about a forum in a Youtube video about a VRChat iceberg, and the video just said it was something so bad and that you shouldn't look for it, but without explaining what it was, so i searched and easy like that, it was a fucking lolicon forum, with people that were talking about their gross wishes (thankfully i didn't look deeper than that, and it was already enough to have me shocked for some hours) It's the classical thing, isn't the thing said, is the person that's talking about it, if a adult talk about hentai, he more likely will tell you to get away from this because is something bad, but a teenager, that doesn't has such conscience about it, will just talk about it like something normal, making more people falling into this, and more people spreading the worst part of Japanese media and it's fans Exactly, is like what North Korea does basically, they hide the truth but part of it is already shown The difference is that Japan has it completely shown, but they hide it so well with the nice stuff they do that hardly someone will see all the horrible things that exist there, like their laws about "artistic freedom", that allow you to do absolutely anything, as much as it is a cartoon It was nice to read btw! =D