Wanna show your favorite geek that you get them and that you care? Then try one of these awesome Valentine’s Day cards spotted on The Mary Sue.
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Then get your special someone one of these absolutely terrible gifts or experiences. Sure, you have to spend a little money, but they’re guaranteed to piss off your partner more than the gift of nothingness, which is saying quite a lot.
Generally, eating restrictions are a drag, but when it comes to Valentine’s Day, they are often a necessary evil if you don’t want to end up to bloated and nasty to even make out with your special someone. Buzzfeed has a great list of what not to eat cleverly illustrated with adorable little hamsters.
Epic Meal Time knows how to make a Valentine’s dessert infinitely more manly (read: utterly disgusting). At least it has a lot of heart…literally.
I got my first article published on Geekosystem today and I think you’ll all like it as it features a great variety of foods to make your sweetheart this Valentine’s Day. Tasty and romantic -how perfect.
Admittedly, it’s a little late to start shopping for gifts for your favorite nerd, but this list is too great not to share -especially these Dalek earrings. I would so buy these for myself.
I may not know you personally, but I can pretty much guarantee that these pooches are already better prepared for Valentine’s Day than you are.
Wanna impress your geek girl this Valentine’s Day? Then forget flowers, instead, grab her one of these great plush unicorn bouquets from Think Geek.
Poor Tard, she can’t even enjoy Valentine’s Day, but it’s a complete loss -at least he has a great set of cookies to celebrate the holiday.
Wrapping up our Valentine’s Day posts, Mental Floss has a great article detailing the strange role the flea once played in romantic poetry:
The most famous of these poems is The Flea, by John Donne. The poet’s narrator, struggling with a woman who wishes to hold on to her virginity, compares its loss to a fleabite: small and insignificant. When a flea actually does bite them both, he notes that their blood has mingled inside it. He just wants to mingle other bodily fluids anyway, so sex should mean neither sin nor shame nor loss of virginity at this point. Other writers imagined themselves as fleas exploring their lovers’ bodies, or bemoaned the fact that they were not fleas able to explore the secrets of a woman’s body without detection.
Fleas were symbols of love outside of poems, too. Some Frenchmen would pluck fleas from their lovers’ flesh and keep the insects as pets—it was a way to have a small piece of their beloved with them always. The fleas lived in tiny gold cages worn around the neck and were fed a daily meal of the man’s blood.
Here’s hoping you don’t get bit by any literal “love bugs” this year.
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