Visual Inspiration2025-05-23 #VisualInspiration prompt:
What do you want to do on your birthday?
Use this image as inspiration to write a very short story based on it.
C. Knodel- Not bad, Zoroaster, blow again!
- Phh…ewww – seems, I need to take a breath first. It’s kind of crowded in here.
- Never mind. By the way, do you think the cake will be enough for us all?
- Hard to tell. Hope so.
- Excuse me, may I?
- What? Jesus F***ing Christ – you multiplied the cake!
- Oh, that was nothing. I've done that before. A piece of cake, as it were.
- Make it three thousand! This should be enough.
- I’m not sure. Kali is coming with ten plates in her hands.
- Holy shit!
- Zorro, the Spaghetti Monster just called. He might be a bit late.
- Thanks. Ask him if he can bring some Chianti for supper. – If you don’t mind, Jesus.
- No problem. I’ll have one, too.
- Does anybody know if Bob Dylan’s coming?
- Don’t think so. Tomorrow’s his own birthday. I’m sure he’s figuring out the guest list right now.
- Any of us invited?
- Nope. Jesus was, some thirty years ago.
- Oh yeah, that one was boring!
- So anyone up for some party crashing tomorrow?
@knodel this could be perfectly on of those surreal Bob Dylan songs!
Maybe that was the reason he was knocking on heaven's door.
@MiBro54517@VisualInspiration
Dionysos didn't like the wine. He wondered if Jesus' twin Christ had transformed water to wine instead of Jesus himself - Christ really wasn't skilled enough to do it well. On the other hand Christ would take care of the food so there would be plenty of it, and not just bread and fish this time. The cake looked good indeed.
Well, as soon as Buddha blew out the candles he'd get some cake and then catch up with Quetzalcoatl. And maybe ask Jesus for some good wine...
Dionysos didn't like the wine. He wondered if Jesus' twin Christ had transformed water to wine instead of Jesus himself - Christ really wasn't skilled enough to do it well. On the other hand Christ would take care of the food so there would be plenty of it, and not just bread and fish this time. The cake looked good indeed.
Well, as soon as Buddha blew out the candles he'd get some cake and then catch up with Quetzalcoatl. And maybe ask Jesus for some good wine...
@MiBro Jesus Twin Christ 😂 I guess the second one is for the Second Coming.
Here's some water from Him:🍷
Hands off that goblet! The wine could turn into blood quite unexpectedly.
GuitarsophistWhose the party for?
Some new god. One of those Americans. He hasn't shown up yet. He's having a military parade. That's like a triumph for you Roman gods.
An American! What's he called?
My English is not so good. I think I heard "Trumpet," but that can't be right. That's some kind of horn.
What are his teachings?
Never back down, never apologize, always fight, take revenge on your enemies.
Is he a war god? That sounds like Ares or Huitzilopochtli.
No, he's some kind of a business god. That's what Americans are into these days. Forget about honor and sacrifice. Forget about humility and duty. Forget about love. It's all about the deal. If you're not making money, you're a sucker.
Does he take care of the poor?
No, they're suckers as far as he's concerned. No money, no respect.
Do people pray to him?
Yes, but he doesn't listen unless they have money and give him some of it. He's a con artist.
Sounds like my kind of guy!
Yes, Loki, he's your kind of trickster, except that your kind of con always has some poetry in it. Like when you hired a man to build a strong wall around Asgard and promised him Freyja, the sun, and the moon if he finished it in eighteen months. When it looked like he was going to finish on time because of his special horse, you turned into a very attractive mare and seduced his horse away. This American god is not as subtle as that. He would just let the guy finish and then refuse to pay him.
That would indeed be dishonorable! Even for me!
Why did we invite him to a birthday party?
Actually, we are not fans of this god. We thought that if he saw Artemis, the virgin huntress, he would chase after her. That would not end well for him. But he is still at his military parade.
@jredlund if you put it that way I'm finding it hard to find a difference between a real God and an imposter. Maybe there's none? 🤔
@VisualInspiration Have you read Neil Gaiman's _American Gods_? In that book a god becomes a god when people believe in him or her, the more people, the stronger the god. Most foreign gods are weak in America because they have few believers, but the Norse gods are stronger now because they are part of the Marvel Creative Universe. I think the concept is that a god is a focus for social energy and desire. Anyway, that is the way I was thinking when I wrote this. The image itself was pantheistic and pagan, so any story written about it would also be so.
@jredlund not read the book nor watched the series but your micro story conveyed the idea perfectly. Good job.