Vintage Valentine Cupid with Heart Basket Greeting Card

There's an unsettling cheerfulness to this scene — a barefoot, pink-winged cherub in a flowing green frock has apparently decided that love is best expressed by triumphantly hoisting a heart skewered on an arrow while standing next to a wicker basket absolutely stuffed with more arrow-pierced hearts, because the way to romance, according to this card, is clearly a bulk shipment of impaled organs. She's even dropped one on the grass, presumably a free sample, and is trailing what appears to be a ribbon like she's about to gift-wrap this entire crime scene. The smug, self-satisfied expression on her face paired with the caption 'Accept my love' reads less like a Valentine and more like a hostage negotiation where the hostages are your cardiovascular system. Victorian courtship, everyone: where 'I like you' was apparently conveyed through symbolic mass cardiac violence.