#vinegar valentine

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It's January, but I don't care. I found out about vinegar Valentines. I thought of two ships and one being Sebard. If you add Agni into the equation, I feel like they'd just get a regular Valentine for him, not because he couldn't handle the vulgarity but because he's just so nice.

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vinegar valentines

It's February 14th, Valentine's Day, and love is in the air. Today is the day to send flowers, share chocolates and, perhaps most famous of all, to find the perfect card to express your deepest feelings to the ones who have been on your mind forever.

Welcome to yet another tradition of the Victorian era that lasted from the 1840s to the 1940s.

That's right, for the price of only a penny, you could send scathing 'valentines' to the people you felt deserved it. Some friends took advantage of this to send joking cuts to their fellows. Most Victorians took it a bit more seriously however.

The nicknamed 'vinegar valentines' were usually printed like postcards, single-side on cheap paper and could be sent through the mail. There were occasions when a postmaster or mail carrier would refuse to deliver them but that was rare.

Anyone that didn't fit into society's expectations of the time was subject to them, bullying through the mail long before doing it online was available.

Granted, sending the valentines was often considered outside of polite society too, so most of these cards were sent anonymously. One would hate to get a 'valentine' of their own for being catty.

Eventually, the tradition fell out of favor and then out of the public's memory. These days any salty valentines we send to our friends are usually done in good humor.

The anonymous ridicule is saved for online.

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Victorian-era vinegar valentine

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Vinegar valentines were a type of cheeky postcard decorated with a caricature and insulting poem that gained popularity in the Victorian era. Cheaply made, they were usually printed on one side of a single sheet of paper and cost only a penny.

The unflattering cards reportedly created a stir throughout all social levels, sometimes provoking fisticuffs and arguments. The receiver, not the sender, was responsible for the cost of postage up until the 1840s.

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The Rude, Cruel, and Insulting 'Vinegar Valentines' of the Victorian Era - Atlas Obscura

The Rude, Cruel, and Insulting ‘Vinegar Valentines’ of the Victorian Era – Atlas Obscura

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The Rude, Cruel, and Insulting 'Vinegar Valentines' of the Victorian Era | Atlas Obscura

Valentine to a Suffragette

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Illustrations by Justin Witte. 

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MISS VANITY

Your living image here you see, A portrait true, Miss Vanity. You are as homely as you’re vain, A sight to give a man a pain.

Vinegar Valentine, ca. 1910s-20s

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Vinegar Valentine 

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