Valentines Day is weird. It’s colloquially known as the day of love, but your parents give you valentines, we make kids at school give each other valentines, sometimes work gives you valentines.

And then you feel like an ass if you didn’t have one for them. Plus the added thing that you feel like you’re missing out if you’re single.

The origin is complicated and involves a martyr that performed marriages on christian soldiers against the will of Roman leadership. It also probably replaced a pagan holiday.

But this is a media blog! So here’s the most famous valentine in media by my measure.

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