Card deck inventory

[pengwern]

Tarot:

• Tarot Nova (tiny!)
• Shadowscapes Tarot
• Homestuck Tarot
• Morgan-Greer Tarot
• Student Tarot
• Prisma Visions Tarot
• Ostara Tarot 
• Byzantine Tarot
• Rider-Waite-Smith (probably a prop but hey it was literally $4 at halloween spirit)
• Hobbit Tarot
• Illuminated Tarot
• Marigold Tarot 
• Tarot of the thousand and one nights
• Cosmos Tarot
• Bharata Tarot (majors)
• Alexander Daniloff Tarot 2012
• Born in the USSR (majors)
• Jonasa Jaus Tarot
• Night Vale Tarot
• Neon Moon Tarot
• Tarot Nova fullsized (still palm-sized though)
• Zerner Farber Tarot 
• Tyldwick Tarot
• Silhouettes Tarot
• Visconti Modrone Tarot 
• Vertigo Tarot. Maybe in another few decades they'll rerelease the thing, in more durable cardstock? bless ebay

Oracle/Lenormand:

• Fantod Pack
• Dixit Revelations
• Dragon Age Inquisition poker decks
• Floret Oracle
• Silson Lenormand
• Chelsea Blue/Red versions:
• Mystical Lenormand
• Tessarae Charms
• Clow Cards (probably knockoff lbr)
• Malpertuis Lenormand
• Fatima Oracle
• Russian Fairy Oracle
• Open Portals playing cards
• Olde Fae Card Game

Playing cards:

• Tang Poetry/Song Verses/Filial Scenes/Fuchun Mountain paintings/Dream of the Red Chamber/Journey to the West/those plastic ones
• Dedalo Omega
• Lunatica
• Russian Folk Art / Russian Folk Art limited edition
• Little Atlantis Night
• Art Nouveau deck Bijoux
• Art Nouveau deck Perle
• Bijoux Nouveau Gemmes

Tarot Apps:

• Golden Thread Tarot
• Tarot Mucha
• Liber T Tarot
• Ostara Tarot
• Luminous Spirit
• Mystic Monday
• Tarot Sampler
• Seventh Sphere
• Scrying Ink
• Deviant Moon
• Epic Tarot
• Paulina Tarot
• Byzantine Tarot
• Mystical Tarot

Decks I'm waiting on from KS:

• Dreamer’s Arcana (apparently the person ran? not sure what happened with her.)
• Blood Moon Tarot (still waiting, love the pendant necklace

Decks about to be acquired:

• Fairy Tale Tarot, Yoshi Yoshitani, now completed
• Lubanko Tarot (kickstarter pending)

Decks I'm contemplating

• Joe Sparrow Tarot (nice chariot/hermit/
• Ladystuck Tarot (I went through the Act 6/7 tarot and while they finally had the right Fool (the character who STARTED this million word epic as a blank slate, associated with clowns and freedom rather than, you know, death, resurrection and dubiously useful self-sacrifice!!) I still prefer the ladystuck version)
• Everyday Tarot
• Urban Tarot (?)

Decks yet to be finished:

• fyodorpavlov's Tarot
• Botanica Tarot (when will he bring back the pins)
• MASA September's newer works

Decks impossible to obtain:
 I got both Silhouettes and Vertigo, my collection is complete.

Have I managed to figure out how cuts work, no. Can I make images appear when I'm not using my phone, also no. Put those together and I may as well straight up roll off the continental shelf QAQ Is it just that no formatting can be used under a cut? Whatever will I do without tag mumbling QAQ

Comments

[pengwern]

IT'S WORKING NOW *\\O//* THANK

The Urban Tarot has that incredible tarot cloth! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/278983245/the-urban-tarot-deck/posts/257969 But it's juuust to the left of my hashtag-aesthetic -- the concept is wonderful and I appreciate it as a work of art, of course! And yet New York isn't /my/ city nor paper collage my favorite craft (which is why I'm probably getting the app).

The Fantod pack isn't seeing much use, mostly since I am a rule-abiding soul who reads directions that directed me to \FLING THE CARDS INTO THE AIR/ It nearly crumpled the glorious sharp stabby corners T-T UNFORGIVABLE :< (no I mean it's the one deck I have with a Sea card, signifying vapors, secret enemies, estrangement, and loss of ears, and I would forgive more than overly glossy cardstock for that. The Effigy, with a 43 on its front, is useful too in my bricolage jengzai deck for The Heretic!)

The Marigold is just so pretty. And skully. I wish at times that the artist had kept that vibrant yellow of the first posts, since the gold ink she went with is way more muted, but :\

Which one is the pop-punk deck? (And could you maybe contact the artist to see if she has any plans to bring it back? Garish decks <3)

[vass]

Yay! \o/

PopPunk is actually PopGoth, I got the name wrong.

And this is the out of print Neon Nightmare deck. I think she does her own print runs, so it's probably a bigger financial deal than using a print on demand site.

And I just realised that the other one I've been pondering isn't the Urban Tarot, it's Next World Tarot. Which is very pointedly political, which I like but I'm not sure how well it'd work for me as a divination tool.

The Fantod pack isn't seeing much use, mostly since I am a rule-abiding soul who reads directions that directed me to \FLING THE CARDS INTO THE AIR/

IT DID WHAT D:

Actually that does sound like an instruction I can imagine Gorey giving. Was there perhaps another instruction about abandoning the cards for a week in mid-reading while having unrestful dreams in which you're being followed by an auk?

PS. I FINISHED THE BOOK WITH THE TERRIBLE ELVES. Everything but the appendices, which I am still faithfully reading and won't call the book finished until I've read that part too, because that's how I am with books. Now to read immense quantities of fanfic and also backread the tags before Tumblr deletes them and then self-immolates. I feel like I understand Dragaera better for having read this book, which is fucking weird since I last read any Dragaera WAY too long ago for me to properly remember any of it.

[pengwern]

oh, I've seen that deck! I love both of their aesthetics. For the next world deck - at this point of deck collection, I say, world weary, with one hand reaching out from under a mountain of cards -- would you like it just as a collection of 78 well executed paintings? Because I've got decks that that myself, and lump them in with art books :D

Re Silm \\o/// "And in the twilight of autumn they sailed out of Mithlond and that was an end to the eldar of story and song NOTES ON PRONUNCIATION" the quintessentially Tolkien bathos. I don't have the fortitude for appendices but I admire those who do! (and the silm appendices are...useful, unlike some random note buried in like volume six of the HoME set QAQ)

They are useful to compare against with each other! I remember having thoughts along those lines during a reread of some of ...Morgon? Morrigan, Morrolan, that guy with the night-dark fancy soul eating sword's younger days as a stealth human.

Let me find my Fantod pack and quote the actual thing tomorrow! If I've ever had dreams of auks they probably morphed into Discworldly farces of Unseen Academicals style orcs >:0

[vass]

You could stick a phone book at the back of a novel and I'd probably dutifully run my eyes across each line without actually thinking about the names and numbers, guiltily feeling like it didn't count as Really Read until I reached the last page.

...Morgon? Morrigan, Morrolan, that guy with the night-dark fancy soul eating sword's younger days as a stealth human.

!!!!!!!!

I'd noticed that the guy who named his floating castle Castle Black was doing just a bit of a send-up of brooding heroes, but I had not connected him to Turin until now. Fuck it, I really do need to reread those books and the new ones he's published since I last paid attention.

There are so many. And he's still not finished. (In happier news, speaking of long-expected sequels, Diane Duane just published a new novella in Tale of the Five and says Door Into Starlight is coming out next year, yes she knows she's said that like three times before over the past 26 years, but THIS TIME IT'S FOR REAL, she swears.)

would you like it just as a collection of 78 well executed paintings? Because I've got decks that that myself, and lump them in with art books :D

Fair point. I have Thomas Canty's art cards, and I blu-tacked them to paper and put them in picture frames. It never occurred to me to try using them for tarot readings. That could work.

[pengwern]

I - didn't much care for the latest, Vallista, which is Vlad-does-a-gothic-novel, down to the punny names of side characters. Like there's lots of important lore reveals, and the story is a murder mystery! (but ends on a somewhat dull miserable note, so it's not my favorite.) otoh the whole series on the Vlad side is a good turn-off-the-brains read for me, despite all his foreshadowing, as there's typically something entertaining happening on the surface. I'll have to reevaluate when the series ends, but for the present, Dragaera is solidly 7/10, the oyster crackers of long fantasy series that I follow. No one book is a scintillating treasure! Sometimes it's awkward, watching Vlad be fantasy prejudiced or Brust fail at the Bechdel test (the time Cawti, his estranged wife and her partner, the reinstated Dragon heir CONSTANTLY turned the conversation back to Vlad.) But together, it's rather enjoyable to watch Brust chisel what makes Vlad uniquely himself out of the generic marsh of assassin protags, and he makes all those - rpg elements? alien experimenters, famous named weapons, empresses, gods, substance of chaos - sound reasonable, by pacing out the revelations over like.....twenty books........

(My favorites are the ones with the fighty dragons! like Orca, Issola, Iorich, Jhereg.)

I.......have bought that whole series but have failed to read them for YEARS. One day, soon. (The best time to start a series: when the next book is on the verge of publication \o/)

Re Thomas Canty, I've seen those covers around but had no idea those were all by the same person! Oracle decks are whatever you want to say the card is \o/ One of my decks, Dixit Revelations, is a board game expansion, but I mean. It's 84 gorgeous cards and perfectly useful for divining that the story of the Cricket and the Ant should be heeded or that I continue to be susceptible to the combination of teal and gold.

[vass]

Dixit: where did I hear that mentioned before? Wait, I know! I went to a Halloween party and played a game called Mysterium which someone there said was like a combination of Cluedo (aka in the US as Clue) and Dixit.

The art was beautiful, and the game made no sense but was still fun. The cards definitely had a tarot/oracular feeling to them. If Dixit's like that, I can see the appeal.

(the time Cawti, his estranged wife and her partner, the reinstated Dragon heir CONSTANTLY turned the conversation back to Vlad.)

Yeah, it was such a waste of a Cawti and a Norathar.

(My favorites are the ones with the fighty dragons! like Orca, Issola, Iorich, Jhereg.)

I can't remember the last book I read. I'll have to go back through my yearly read lists and hope it wasn't before I started keeping those. I can't remember if I read Iorich or not. I do remember loving Issola because of Lady Teldra. (In some ways Zehun reminds me of her.)

I.......have bought that whole series but have failed to read them for YEARS. One day, soon. (The best time to start a series: when the next book is on the verge of publication \o/)

ohgod. Right, um, content note for The Door Into Fire: it was her first novel ever and she wrote it in 1979 and both of these things show a bit. Also I don't know if your copy has the foreword by David Gerrold, but if so, it is amazingly cringy.

And more serious content note for The Door Into Shadow, in which, um... In general terms, rape and child harm. I'll put more specifics in ROT13 so you can choose whether to read them or not:

Gurer'f n tencuvp qrfpevcgvba bs n puvyq orvat encrq, sebz gur ivpgvz'f CBI. Nsgre gung fur vf hanoyr gb hfr ure zntvpny cbjref hagvy fur erpbiref sebz ure genhzn, naq gb qb gung fur unf gb sbetvir ure encvfg. Jura fur vf fcvevghnyyl rayvtugrarq rabhtu gb qb fb, fur fubjf ubj zhpu fur'f birepbzr ure genhzn ol chggvat "encvfg" va fpner dhbgrf. Qvnar Qhnar jebgr fbzrjurer va erfcbafr gb pevgvpvfz nobhg guvf cybg cbvag gung vg jnf onfrq ba ure bja encr erpbirel, juvpu, hz... jungrire jbexf sbe ure ohg V pna'g erpbzzraq gur obbx jvgubhg tvivat n pbagrag jneavat orpnhfr lvxrf.

The whole book is not like that, but it is a major character and a significant plot point.

Thomas Canty: yeah, he's prolific. And easy to recognise once you realise that it's always pencils of people in mediaeval clothes with the most 80s hair possible. I imprinted on him from Pamela Dean's Tam Lin.