Valentines from the Universe

Are you up to the challenge of creating the story of love behind each one? ❤️

Cupid's little prank

Cupid's little prank

What's a warm up?

Prisoner of Love

Prisoner of Love by Paul Manktelo

Love, AKA The God or Goddess of Love, has imprisoned your character. Why? Has Love fallen in unrequited love? Or is your character a threat to Love? Or a threat to love? Is the imprisonment intended as permanent? Or temporary until some event passes?

Below is a list of the gods and goddesses of love throughout the ages. (Perhaps one Love has captured another Love.) Feel free to use one or come up with your own.

List of love and lust deities (from Wikipedia)

Albanian folklore

• Prende, goddess of love

Armenian mythology

• Astghik, goddess of fertility and love

Aztec mythology

• Xochiquetzal, goddess of fertility, beauty, female sexual power, protection of young mothers, pregnancy, childbirth, and women's crafts
• Xochipilli, god of love, art, games, beauty, dance, flowers, maize, fertility, and song
• Tlazolteotl, goddess of lust, carnality, sexual misdeeds
• Ixcuiname, goddess of the carnality.
  • Tiacapan, goddess of sexual passion.
  • Teicu, goddess of sexual appetite.
  • Tlaco, goddess of sexual longing.
  • Xocotzin, goddess of sexual desire.

Buddhism

• Aizen Myō-ō or Rāgarāja, a deity who transforms worldly lust into spiritual awakening; his red-skinned appearance represents suppressed lust and passion

Canaanite mythology

• Astarte, goddess of sexual love, fertility, and warfare
• Qetesh, goddess of love, beauty and sex

Celtic mythology

• Aine, Irish goddess of love, summer, wealth and sovereignty
• Cliodhna Irish goddess, sometimes identified as a goddess of love and beauty

Chinese mythology

• Yue-Lao, a Chinese god of love who binds two people together with an invisible red string
• Tu Er Shen, a Chinese deity who manages the love and sex between homosexual men
• White Peony (Bai Mudan), a chinese godess who tempt men specifically the ascetic

Egyptian mythology

• Bes, god of music, dance, and sexual pleasure
• Hathor, goddess of the sky, love, beauty, and music
• Bastet, goddess of felines, love, sexuality, protection, beauty, and dance

Etruscan mythology

• Albina, goddess of the dawn and protector of ill-fated lovers
• Turan, goddess of love and vitality

Greek mythology

• Aphrodite, goddess of love, lust and beauty
• Hera, goddess of marriage, which is a lifetime of love and compromise.
• The Erotes
  • Anteros, god of requited love
  • Eros, god of love and sexual passion
  • Himeros, god of sexual desire
  • Hedylogos, god of sweet talk and flattery
  • Hymen, god of marriage and marriage feasts
  • Pothos, god of sexual longing, yearning and desire
• Peitho, personification of persuasion and seduction

Guaraní mythology

• Kurupi, god of sexuality and fertility

Hindu mythology

• Kamadeva or Manmadhan or Kama, god of love
• Rati, goddess of passion and lust

Lithuanian mythology

• Milda, goddess of love and freedom

Mesopotamian mythology

• Inanna or Ishtar, goddess of sexual love, fertility, and warfare

Moroccan mythology

• Qandisa, goddess of lust who first seduces men then drives them insane

Norse and Germanic mythology

• Frigg, goddess of romance, marriage, sex and reproduction, married women, household duty, and divination.
• Freyja, goddess associated with magic, shamanism, seiðr, sacrifice, war, death, and sexuality.
• Freyr, worshipped as a phallic fertility god, he was said to "[bestow] peace and pleasure on mortals"
• Sjöfn, goddess associated with love

Roman mythology

• Cupid, the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Eros
• Venus, the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess Aphrodite

Slavic mythology

• Dogoda, Polish spirit of the west wind, associated with love and gentleness
• Dzydzilelya, Polish goddess of love and marriage and of sexuality and fertility
• Lada, fakeloric goddess of harmony, merriment, youth, love and beauty
• Siebog, god of love and marriage
• Živa, goddess of love and fertility

Vodou

• Baron La Croix, loa of the dead and sexuality
• Baron Samedi, loa of the dead, sex and resurrection
• Erzulie Freda Dahomey, loa of love, beauty, jewelry, dancing, luxury, and flowers

Yoruba mythology

• Mami Wata, a pantheon of water deities sometimes associated with love and lust
• Oshun, goddess of love, intimacy, beauty, wealth and diplomacy

Affectionately alliterative

For each letter of the alphabet come up with an affectionately alliterative sentence in honor of Valentine's Day.

Chocolate bits

What if Hershey's, Godiva, and Dove chocolates were people? How would their personalities differ? What would chocolate talk about? If you need some specific ideas, what if the chocolate people were:

• kids at a playground.
• siblings.
• discussing their love lives.
• soccer moms.
• working at Starbucks.
• working at Weight Watchers.

• watching Chocolat with Johnny Depp. (Or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.)
• at their weekly NaNoWriMo write in. (Who else is there?)
• all interviewing for the same job.
• meeting for drinks on Valentine's Day.
• mother, father and child.
• old friends and rivals, getting together for hot chocolate in their sunset years to reminisce.
• entertaining the troops with the USO (United Services Organization).
• discussing the new "chocolate" who has just moved into the neighborhood.
• at the funeral of a mutual acquaintance. (Nestle? Cheapo waxy chocolate?)

Immortal Love

Immortal Love, the vampire dating site has just opened up. Write several vampire singles ads. Vampires seeking vampires ... Vampires seeking humans (or other creatures of the night) ... Humans (or others) seeking vampires ... Wherever the imagination leads. :-E

Okay, personal ads are old school. Singles now write online profiles with pictures, but the short ones are more fun to write. :-)

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If you'd like examples to get the creativity flowing, here's some that are safe for work and kids:

• SWM, old, fat, balding, many disgusting habits seeks SWF with money. Send pictures of your house, car, RV. This could be your lucky day.
• JELLO BOY-SWM who likes to slowly fold canned fruit into jello, seeks female partner for distinctly American activities. Dirty pigeons need not respond.
• Hideous-looking, obese, smelly, ill-tempered, lazy, cowardly, chronic, and a complete liar seeks total opposite.
• SWM into chainsaws and hockey masks seeks likeminded SWF. No weirdos, please.
• SWM seeks 300lb+ woman to sit and squash doughnuts on me.
• I like eating mayonnaise and peanut butter sandwiches in the rain, watching Barney Miller reruns, peeing on birds in the park and licking strangers on the subway; you eat beets raw, have climbed Kilimanjaro, and sweat freely and often. Must wear size five shoes.
• Small lumpy squid monkey seeks healthy woman with no identifying scars, any age. Must have all limbs. Recommend appreciation of high-pitched, screeching noises. Must like being bored and lonely. Must not touch the squids, EVER. No tongue.
• Mmmm Pez! Rabid Wonder Woman fan looking for someone in satin tights, fighting for our rights and the old red, white 'n blue. You look like Linda Carter? Big plus. Know all words to theme song? Marry me.
• Gentle, middle-aged teddy bear with unfortunate flatulence challenge seeking olfaction-impaired ourdoors girl for good times and possible matrimony. Must enjoy open-air activities and prefer spending time alone as a couple.
• Jungle girl seeks Tarzan for swing through the trees. Must look good in a loincloth.

Many of these are supposedly from: Professional Stool Sampler Looking For Place To Sit: A Collection of Personal Ads From Alternative Newspapers by Skippy Williams and Zohre Crumpton, 1996, Simon and Schuster. I don't see the book, even used, actually existing anywhere other than cited with the same few excerpts.

If you get inspired for a more fleshed out love lorn vampire, there's some amusing dating profiles at Nothing Personal Ads and Advice: "Take a break from your quest for long walks on the beach and candle-lit dinners. Meet some people you've probably met -- and hope to never meet again."

And two longer singles ads: "I need an unstable woman ..." and "Single black female ...".

Kisses

Moro absolutely adores himself, thinks the world of himself.

In a paragraph, convey Moro's love by describing just his actions, no thoughts.

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Inspired by #127 in Unjournaling: Daily writing exercises that are Not personal, Not introspective, Not boring! by Dawn DiPrince and Cheryl Miller Thurston.

Moony for the moon

Write a love letter to the moon.

Maybe you're a dog or a werewolf or some other creature of the night.

Maybe you've returned from a galactic trip where other moons are lumps of rock. (Our large round moon that perfectly eclipses the sun may actually be quite unusual!)

Maybe it's the moon of your own world and not Earth's your love letter is to.

Maybe the moon is a methaphor for something else you're in love with.

Maybe the moon was a constant in your life when nothing else was.

Maybe the moon was full on several wonderful events in your life.

Maybe you've been Moonstruck :-)

I should have posted this Tuesday when the moon was full but it's just 2 days past. So go check it out :-)

What we love

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe   

So many possibilities! An object? A person? An idea? A moral tale? An immoral tale?

Surreal compliments

Write a love letter containing one or more of the following. Is the sender serious and think his compliments will be well received? Does the recipient appreciate them?

• Your eyes glow like naked livers burning in the sun.
  
• Seven donkeys and a concubine cannot compare with the tarnished sheen left in your path of combustion.
  
• Your timeless negligence has a way of arousing my palliative inuendo.
  
• Your legs are like threads of cotton, though much thicker, and filled with weevils.
  
• The microfine network of eyes traversing your shoulders causes me to shudder in anticipation of the coming of the wondrous season of jaundiced eskimos and impotent Anglican priests.
  
• My eyelids belch with effluvial afterthoughts when you tease me with gelatin and congealed chicken rinds.
  
• Madame, ist thou donning space underwear? For thine ass doth lie beyond the physical boundaries of this world!

From The Surrealist Compliment Generator.