Hey folks, I hate to interrupt all this showering with friends and stuff, but I have to ask...

Say, are you someone who ran off to the Big City and are now being sent back to your small town to adopt your estranged sister's daughter? Are you an artisanal chocolate whisperer whose beloved family-owned chocolate shop is about to be taken over by EvilCo, whose CEO is so hateful because they've never known love (and certainly not because your small town can't afford some bougie chocolate whispering)? Are you secretly royalty who has run away from your small European country to find true love (or their betrothed who was just left at the altar)? Or perhaps even a Cupid desperately trying to earn your wings and this is your LAST CHANCE to make sure that people fall in love (not that you ever could find love yourself!!!)?

Well. You're about to be.

This weekend, February 10-11, everyone (who wishes to participate) is going to turn into a stock character from a Valentine's Day Hallmark Holiday movie. Look, the best part about Hallmark Holiday Movies is that they're so cheesy and formulaic, you can can adapt them to pretty much ANYTHING. Which includes Valentine's Day! Our quaint little Fandom Town will suddenly be overrun with Big City People who have to come to this crazy backwater town because of career reasons/family crisis Townies who have whimsical jobs like "chocolate sculptor" and "dairy farmer" where the cows are fed on love and there are like 400 bakeries per capita, all of which are in danger of going under for some reason or another!

Will these high school exes find a second chance after she ran away To The Big City and broke his heart? Could that secret prince really be happy with a small-town bespoke hug designer? Is it possible for this star-crossed Cupid to get their wings after all by getting two people who hate Valentine's Day to fall in love? Can she win the Most Perfect Rose contest and save the public garden? Can the Cupid work together with the Valentine's Day-hating baker to make a cookie so delicious it makes people fall in love????

It's just ridiculous Hallmark Holiday tropes given a Valentine's Day makeover and people encouraged to be as nonsense as possible. There is no "how much nonsense is too much nonsense" here. Instead of snow, there are floating cherry blossoms. Do we have cherry trees? Who cares! It's ~*aesthetic*~ and that's what counts! Bust out those overwrought fanfic tropes! Second chance romance! Fake dating! Enemies-to-lovers! Incredibly terrible decision that you will regret on Monday! Go wild!

For anyone who isn't sure, here's a list of common tropes found in Hallmark Holiday movies. Feel free to adapt any and as many as you want and give 'em a special Valentine's Day flair. (Or don't! Maybe be a wandering Santa Claus clearly confused by the date. I'm not the boss of you.)

As always:
- Participation is completely optional.
- If you choose to participate, your character will wake up as an Au Hallmark Holiday version of themselves on Saturday morning and stay that way the whole weekend until waking up back to normal on Monday morning.
- This is open to alumni and expats as well!

(Credit for this idea goes to badassprodigy for turning one of our D&D sessions into exactly this)