Tarot Stories: A New Hobby

[rowyn]

[This is from a prompt by Argonel. I drew the King of Cups, the Five of Cups (reversed), and the Nine of Cups (reversed) for it (photo of the cards at the bottom of the post). I had some trouble deciding what to write, until I remembered Crow-Woman, who to me is a very Five-of-Cups-reversed character. This ended up a lot more like a sequel to the previous

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[rowyn]

I'm glad you enjoyed it! I had a great time writing it.

[terrana]

Perhaps a little redundant, given that appears to be one of Tod's, but that icon is perfectly adorable.

[rowyn]

I adore the icons he did for Delight even more. :)

[tuftears]

Nifteh! ^_^

I'm thinking things like Crow Woman must be not too uncommon in this universe. I picture learned scientists writing knowledgeably about 'animating anthropomorphic principles' and 'biomagnetic forces conforming to acccreting psychoholographic data'.

[rowyn]

Yes, the setting has enough "monsters" of this sort that people don't freak over them, although not so many that they are treated as an ordinary part of life.

[tuftears]

And maybe G-men run around trying to put down rumors that the government is trying to create an army of supernatural witch-things. >_> Trust no one! Keep your laser handy!

[rowyn]

I don't think the mortal government has that kind of authority over the monsters. c.c

[the_vulture]

I'm really liking the overall story arch. I'm looking forward to seeing how you develop it. :D

[rowyn]

Thanks! I like this setting -- I'll have to revisit it again at some point. :)

[terrycloth]

Creeeepy. She's acting in completely alien ways so there's no way to know when she's going to suddenly do something horrible.

[rowyn]

So that means you like her, right? }:)

Crow-Woman: "I have not done anything horrible in forty-two years, three months, seven days, and fifteen hours."

[terrana]

Something I'm increasingly noticing, with the Crow-Woman and the viper dragons and so on, is that you're good at evoking a sense of otherworldliness, of a thing that is just familiar enough to seem utterly alien. And I like that.

[rowyn]

Thank you! I like the way you phrased that -- I was trying to explain to Bard what I liked about this setting, and I think you captured it better than I did. :)

[terrana]

Glad I could help! It was just meant as a compliment.