I'm just gonna throw in the bit of historical trivia that the ancient (pre-Republic) Roman calendar *didn't have months* for January and February -- that whole time of year was just called "winter" ("hiems") and not worth keeping track of until the Kalends of Marchhttps://twitter.com/Hal_Duncan/status/1315751438673379336 …
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All of the stories about Valentine being associated with romance are very very recently written, from like the 19th century, greeting-card bullshit The idea that the girl whose blindness he healed in the original legend he was secretly in love with, etc
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The idea that "pagan Rome" literally banned men and women from marrying each other and having children is so amazingly ahistorical it almost dignifies it too much to even try to argue against it
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That was a glorious thread.
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