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Last NDK NYE tonight! Semi-formal attire and masks required. I’m doing tarot readings! See https://ndknye.org for more info!

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NDK NYE 2018

NDK NYE is happening tomorrow! I will be on staff, and this year I’ll be doing tarot card readings! I’m even named as one of the people doing it on the website. O_o

Be forewarned: it’s at the Denver Marriott by Park Meadows this year, NOT the Renaissance hotel like before.

https://ndknye.org

*edited because I got ahead of myself and put 2019 instead of 2018.

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Tarot Panel Addendum: The LWB

During the tarot panel at NDK, I brought up the topic of what is known as the “Little White Book,” or LWB. Tarot decks either come by itself (with a LWB the size of the cards about 50-60 pages long, depending on how many languages are included) or as a boxed kit, which would include the deck plus a longer companion book. The LWB is bare bones and normally just contains keyword meanings to the cards, a blurb about tarot’s general history or a introductory blurb about the particular deck’s conception, and maybe a spread or two; the companion book is a little more elaborate about what the cards mean and more beginner friendly.  My co-panelist, having been taught by members of her coven, doesn’t have any sort of use for either kind of book and in fact just detests the LWBs; I don’t feel quite so strongly against them, except for one in particular.

Introducing the Favole Tarot.

The Favole Tarot is published by Fournier and is a dark, gothic arts style deck illustrated by Victoria Frances. The art’s neat, but it is rather bleak, if you’re not used to it:

Even the sun card is a little dreary:

Anyway, the Favole Tarot is a pips deck, i.e. the minor arcana aren’t illustrated and only show the number of the suits on the cards. Also, the suits are not the usual wands/cups/swords/pentacles; rather, they are crosses, masks, flowers, and butterflies:

Now, if you’re wanting to see what the LWB says corresponds to these new suits, you’re out of luck. The LWB that comes with this deck looks like this:

Innocuous enough, except that it literally doesn’t use the terms crosses, masks, flowers, and butterflies. It explains the suits as if they were still the traditional wands, cups, swords, and pentacles:

Another look:

If a person new to tarot were to pick this up and expect to use this deck to read with by reading this LWB first, they’d be lost. How’s a newbie supposed to know what’s supposed to correspond with the new suits? GG, author of this particular LWB.

Needless to say, this is probably the one exception (so far) to me not minding the LWBs so much, and the only reason I keep them is because usually they do have some insight from the artist about their process and a spread or two that I might like. Sad tarotist is sad.

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Nan Desu Kan 2018

If you’ve been directed here from the tarot panel, welcome! I'm still tired from Nan Desu Kan, but I had to open this morning and I forgot to set my alarm! >_< I woke up and got in on time, thankfully.

It was a FULL PANEL for “What Do You (Think You) Know About Tarot” on Saturday! I was floored at the line to get in! Not to mention that NDK guest Sandy Fox wanted to sit in on it. I'm told that she enjoyed the panel very much. I didn't realize how many shows she's been voicing for until I looked her up after the fact. Also, I'm tickled at how many people I know (some of them staff members) have told me that they've been interested in tarot for a while or were interested in reading with them again. I’m super glad that people seemed to enjoy the panel overall.

Anyway, it was a good time! Feel free to send some asks via Tumblr or DM me or whatever. :)

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Tarot Panel at Nan Desu Kan 2018

Nan Desu Kan 2018 is quickly approaching (Labor Day weekend!) and my tarot panel is on Saturday! Although originally intended to be an 80-minute panel, it got scheduled as a 50-minute panel instead, but there should still be plenty of material, whether you’ve seen the panel last year or if you are going for the first time this year. It’s also smack dab in the middle of the cosplay contest, so I’ll see how that works out--can’t avoid being scheduled next to one of the big draws. I’ve had a couple of people (some staff who’re above me, some not) who have told me that they have been reading with or collecting tarot for years and want to come to my panel; that tickles me. :) 

Let my co-panelist and I know what you thought of the panel if you go! I’m on Press Staff so I won’t have a lot of time to give people readings while I’m there, but my co-panelist can!

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I’m doing a panel on tarot once more with a friend of mine, at this year’s Nan Desu Kan. In “What Do You (Think You) Know About the Tarot,” we’ll discuss the depiction of the tarot in anime/manga versus the real-life counterpart. Panel room 3 at 5:30 on Saturday at NDK 2018!

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Mystical Manga Tarot is here! Can't wait to use it.

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You know that feeling when you’re really hungry but nothing sounds good? Thats what depression feels like

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A little singing bowl that arrived today!

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Tumblr mobile app ate my post, so I’m doin’ it again, on my computer!

This Sunday at Nan Desu Kan, I’ll be doing a tarot panel with a friend of mine!  Tarot images are used in anime and manga, but how true-to-life is most of that representation? Join us for this hour-long introduction to what a tarot deck is, the history of tarot, and how people use it!

I’ve been collecting and learning about the tarot for almost 10 years, and my friend Alex has been studying it for 17!

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So much for doing a drawing a day. LMAO. Copic markers in my Stillman & Birn Zeta series sketchbook.

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You could say that the dragon died from a bad burn....

I'll see myself out.

You insulted the dragon so hard that he died.

-DM after Vicious Mockery robbed the red dragon of his last three HP, exactly.

Good job bard, good job.

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D'aw.

Rowlet & friends.

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"I've seen the cat do this, I can too!"

Perfect superhero landing.

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Me: *Pulls a clarification card*

Tarot: The Tower.

Me: *Slides card back into deck* I don't need clarification.

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I’m pretty sure the best part of tonight’s debate will be when BadLipReading posts their video tomorrow.