Sometimes Valentine's Day isn't all love and chocolates, and that's okay! It's time to embrace the heartbreak with February's anti-Hallmark event, hosted by The Pookie Den!

This event focuses on anti-romance elements. Love was never the goal for these characters, and feelings are treated as an inconvenience at best. This month, romance is rejected, misunderstood, and purposely sabotaged. It is the epitome of complication, and has the unfortunate truth of reality splashed all over it—even in fantastical settings!

From failed lovers everywhere to the tragedy of terminal illness, this February is set out to hurt us all.

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You do not have to be in our server or age-verified to participate! Server members will, however, be given a special role with their own badge, and their bots (up to two of their choice) can be spotlighted on our promotional carrd: https://cupidmissed2026.uwu.ai/

We do, however, require that all submissions (if applicable, this event is available across platforms that might not support these) have our Discord perma link (https://discord.gg/FaQFsPjjCy) in the description OR a link to the promotional carrd (linked above), as well as be tagged with #CupidMissed2026 so that other people can see your amazing work!

ৎ𝄢 ➺ Please follow Janitor's ToS with your submissions.

ৎ𝄢 ➺ Your submission has to be a brand-new bot. It can be an alt of a pre-existing character, but the bot itself has to be new.

ৎ𝄢 ➺ There is no submission limit, but we will only post up to 2 of your submissions on our carrd site (Discord members only).

ৎ𝄢 ➺ There is also no setting restriction. As long as the dynamic is essentially doomed love, you'll be golden!

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Not sure which bots will fit this event? Check below!

ৎ𝄢 ➺ "Temporary alliances" that don't actually have an expiration date, such as extended fake dating.

ৎ𝄢 ➺ Someone who is purposely emotionally unavailable and is painfully self-aware of it.

ৎ𝄢 ➺ Two people bound by circumstance rather than feelings, like a familiar and their human.

ৎ𝄢 ➺ Someone who generally avoids vulnerability, often at the expense of others.

ৎ𝄢 ➺ Someone who is bound by tragedy, like a terminal illness or even a magical curse.

ৎ𝄢 ➺ A couple who were doomed to fail from the very start.

ৎ𝄢 ➺ A couple who had a nasty break-up, but still live together out of necessity (and, potentially, because the feelings never went away).

ৎ𝄢 ➺ Someone who stays with their partner out of guilt, but the love is gone.

ৎ𝄢 ➺ Someone who confuses dependency with love and often forces it through any means necessary.

ৎ𝄢 ➺ A couple who care deeply about each other, but are fundamentally incompatible and are borderline abusive toward one another when together.

ৎ𝄢 ➺ Someone who shows their love through control and sees affection or care as weakness.

ৎ𝄢 ➺ Someone who doesn't believe they deserve love, and they reject/sabotage it any chance it's shown toward them.

I will also be pouring my unused gens into the server for users to claim, specifically for bot-making!

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This event runs from February 1, 2026, to March 10, 2026. If you are in the server and you need an extension, please reach out to me so you can still qualify for the role and the badge!

Additionally, I will be briefly coming out of my hiatus to add my own submission to this. I don't see myself being able to stick to another platform the way I stick to Janitor unless there is monetization without improvement, which doesn't seem likely.

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Discord (18+) - age verification is not required, but those without age verification (or sponsorship) will be restricted to SFW and non-creation (outside of bot events) channels of the server.

Cupid Missed 2026, Promotional Site - contains everything needed to know about the event, as well as a lengthy playlist of songs to boost creativity.