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hamsterwoman

ASOIAF Tarot post of DOOM

Jul 31, 2009 12:46

So I said to myself, hey, the westerosorting Tully bonus is ending soon, I should make some icons with Tullys on them. Three days of frantic activity, blowing off my f-list, going to bed past 1 a.m. (in spite of having to get up at 5:30), and sore wrists later, I have this sprawling icon set, only 2 of which are in any way related to Tullys. It would've been ( Read more... )

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lodessa August 1 2009, 01:28:10 UTC

These are awesome. :)

Although I read The Devil really differently than it's presented here. For me it's all about temptation and longing and not so much "evil".

I might have gone with Oberyn.

hamsterwoman August 1 2009, 20:21:56 UTC

Thank you! :D

Hmm, I don't think I've ever seen a reading of The Devil that stressed longing... temptation, yeah, which is why I ended up going with Euron over some of the other villains, but the deck/book/etc. I use(d) always stressed evil and general darkness of the human soul above even temptation. But when I was Googling around for card descriptions to help me come up with some of the tougher ones, I saw a lot of different readings for The Devil -- that one was kind of all over the place, seems to be...

lodessa August 3 2009, 17:34:11 UTC

My first deck emphasized the temptation aspect very strongly. The others have been slightly more balanced but still I've definitely gotten a stronger sense of it being about the baser part of human nature as opposed to evil.

etrangere August 1 2009, 02:01:17 UTC

wow this is pretty awesome! I took the Strength, Death & Sun icons.

hamsterwoman August 1 2009, 20:19:08 UTC

Thank you! :DD I was really wondering what you would think, because I adore your HP Tarot matching and your look at ASOIAF Tarot, and you clearly know more about Tarot than I, so I'm glad you approve :D

If I do say so myself, Jaime makes a pretty good Death card. I'm still trying to figure out why Brienne seems like a good fit for the Sun, but she just did to me...

etrangere August 2 2009, 01:27:30 UTC

Yeah I think your pics are overall very good and suit the characters very well (I think Damphair as Hanged Man is the only one I'm a bit picky of).

And thank you #^_^#, I'm very far from an expert!!

Jaime's just awesome as Death. I dunno about Brienne either, but it really works well with her personnality.

hamsterwoman August 2 2009, 06:12:31 UTC

The Hanged Man was kind of funny -- when I was dabbling in the Tarot, I remember having a lot of trouble with that card -- it just didn't make much sense to me -- so I read up on it a bunch, and somewhere found the "idiosyncratic spirituality" definition, and that's the one that stuck with me. So Damphair seemed to fit that really well, but then when I went looking up definitions, I actually couldn't find that one anywhere. He doesn't fit the definitions I did find particularly well, but since those never made sense to me in the first place...

Who would be your pick for Hanged Man?

sheiannasherra August 1 2009, 16:09:45 UTC

As I've already stated elsewhere, I really love these.

So, now when are you starting on the rest of the Minor Arcana? (just kidding... sort of! ~_^ ) Wonder what images could be used for the various minor arcana cards... Ooooh, wouldn't that make an interesting discussion topic?

hamsterwoman August 1 2009, 20:24:20 UTC

I've actually considered the rest of the Minor Arcana --even though that's patently CRAZY! I mostly considered it because the Red Wedding would make SUCH a stellar Ten of Swords card -- wouldn't it just? In fact, the whole suit of Swords should be pretty easy with ASOIAF -- it's finding something to fill out the Cups with that might be a challenge. At least until the end of the series, and probably even then... Unless one goes for the time before the series actually starts, I suppose...

sheiannasherra August 2 2009, 01:57:24 UTC

Yes, you can't get much closer to the ten of swords than the Red Wedding. I do agree that finding images for the Cups suite would be a challenge. Swords and Wands would be fairly easy and even Coins not too difficult but Cups... a bit more of a problem.

hamsterwoman August 2 2009, 06:14:44 UTC

Yeah, Coins could be filled out between Lannisters, Tyrells, and various folks like Littlefinger and Illyrio and so on, and Wands or Swords wouldn't be a problem, but Cups would be kind of tough. I will probably end up thinking about it, even though I'm afraid I'll get sucked in to the same matrix as with the Major Arcana... :P

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