#digimon tarot project

[deer-head-xiris]

✨THE FOOL✨THE MAGICIAN✨THE HIGH PRIESTESS✨

I've been working on a pretty big project- a Digimon Tarot deck! Starting with just Major Arcana for now, but I aim to draw the entire deck!

Check out WIPS + previews of more cards on my Patreon as they're made! https://www.patreon.com/deer_head_xiris

[astrcthesiai-archived]

Alias/name: Mage, Miwa, …

Birthday: February 17

Zodiac: Aquarius Sun/Rising, Scorpio Moon. Metal Horse. I have more Capricorn and Scorpio in my natal chart.

Height: 5'1”

Hobbies: Writing, drawing, listening to music, cardslinging Tarot/Oracle (I don’t really do it for free for others much, and I’m rusty), lurking on tumblr (being a scared kitten in a bathtub for the first time/an old, tired cat, basically). No in-between.

Favorite color: Turquoise, Teal, Black or Silver

Favorite Book: I don’t have one even though I’ve said Sailor Moon for this at one time.

Last Song: “MWTWB (Messing With The Wrong Bitch)” AmaLee from her Vtuber character, Monarch’s origin story album

Recent Read: I haven’t the spoons to read much lately but Astrology for Writers by Corinne Kenner. It’s been helping me get to know some of my characters outside of role playing. I do share questions from it with close friends.

Last movie/show: One Piece Live Action

Inspiration: Women who can kick my sorry ass into next year. Men who are just tired of the norms, and just want to sleep or in Roberto’s case, drink. Chaotic women and non-binary people. Uh, music is a good way to get inspired, as well as anything dark, the macabre.

Story behind url: I’m like everyone else when it comes to space and the constellations. I love them too, and my url comes from the Greek word for the spirits of those constellations, astrothesiai. I might do a project regarding the constellations, though right now they’re terribly inspired by Saint Seiya and Sailor Moon…

Fun Fact: First anime was the first English audio of My Neighbor Totoro. Then, I got into Pokémon and Digimon. Toonami took me by storm with its anime, especially Sailor Moon and Gundam Wing. Watched Hamtaro with my childhood best friend. She was not much of an anime fan then.

I prefer the first English audio of Kiki’s Delivery Service.

tagged by: @chatcambrioleur, stolen from @queenharumiura and @whiskeysmulti

tags : Those who have not done this yet.

[dragonwolf360]

Just playing with some styles n colours while rotating the digimon tarot project in my brain kofi / Shop

[astra-andromeda]

Still going on the digimon tarot project! 

We have three arcana's left to sketch.

[citrus-cactus]

I know I just made a post talking about burnout and wanting to focus more on personal art next year, but here is a list of collaborative fandom projects (mostly Digimon) I would be Super Into, Actually:

1. FRONTIER ZINE!

Especially since the 20th anniversary is coming up. ‘Nuff said (note that I do NOT have the time or knowledge to be able to organize this, sorry! But I would want to contribute art like WHOA).

2. CHOSEN CHILDREN TAROT CARDS!

Waaaaay back in the LiveJournal days I came across a fanart project for a different fandom, where each major arcana tarot card was represented by a different character, and each card was illustrated by a different artist. I think it would be really neat to do something like that with the Chosen Children…? Maybe it could be multimedia and involve fanfic too…? Anyway, the nebulous and idealized version I see in my head is inclusive of all seasons, though a rather significant problem is that there are so many seasons/Chosen these days, it might be hard to make sure everyone is represented 😭 (just talking about it and sharing opinions on which character(s) could be which card is fun by itself though!).

3. DIGIMON AUDIO DRAMA COMIC ADAPTATION!

Along similar lines as the above, I think it would be neat to organize a comic project where you have a bunch of artists working off the same script, and each page is drawn by a different artist. Armor Evolution Into The Unknown, anyone? Or maybe Adventure drama 3, the New Year one featuring Bakumon and the talent show? IDK, the crackier Adventure audio dramas seem like they would be PERFECT for something like this XD

(never mind that I have the Adventure New Year drama on the brain EVERY year around this time. Happy 2022, btw!)

4. LAID-BACK CAMP ZINE!

Laid-Back Camp (or Yuru Camp) is an incredibly chill and cozy anime about girls going on camping trips in the winter. The show places a lot of emphasis on making camping approachable; the characters explore different types of camping gear, and go on a handful of trips in which they hang out in beautiful places, read books, meet dogs, and eat delicious-looking food, all while being bundled up in layers of scarves, hats, and blankets. So I would want a zine that recreates that vibe! Cozy camping illustrations and comics, essays or stories about good trips, recipes, maybe a few knitting/crochet patterns thrown in for good measure? Honestly my ideal vision for a zine, something lifestyle magazine-esque that brings a bunch of my hobbies and interests (travel, camping, cooking, fiber, anime, and romanticism) together in one place ☺️

[indominusart]

Part of a Digimon Tarot Project

Which border fits best?

[eriisaam]

Something something Tarot Card Project something.

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Context under the cut, in order of appearance:

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Kyo - The Fool (  Hear me out.)

Symbolizing new beginning, adventure, opportunities, pleasure, etc. It reflects how when Lifonse and Kamui first met him (from his perspective), he suddenly took a drastic turn in his life with opening new opportunities (becoming a summoner, stabilizing his power to go from a ditto to a ditto-mew, getting his first legendary in Zacian and encountering others, finding his ex and making amends to be on surprisingly good terms with him, having lovers who immediately love him, etc), of which his stinkiness nearly self-sabotaged in his apprehension, his guardedness, and (more sympathetically) him managing his past experiences and traumas, of which had Lifonse and Kamui not been so patient, supportive and loving as they had, there were so many opportunities he could've ruined for himself. This incarnation of him even gained more lovers than his past self (in Eclair and then Kaze), and in a moment of humbling himself and realizing in full of the weight of his failings and foolishness, it had a profound effect in Zacian for her to knight him, proclaiming herself as his to officially train.

For the reverse, this also winds up heavily symbolizing his past-self, who became present-Kyo's fallen alt, who did wind up self-sabotaging things by causing a lot of trauma that lingered in Kamui and Lifonse, who went a completely different direction in life from the present Kyo, and was woefully apathetic and uncaring to Lifonse and Kamui as a whole compared to present-Kyo not only opening up and genuinely loving them more, but making strides to change himself for the better for their sake, too. There were many scars he left behind in Lifonse and Kamui that negatively impacted even present-Kyo’s relationship with them, and the only moment he had a saving grace was just before his death, and ruined just as quickly when Hel claimed him as one of her new cohorts. Worth also noting that unlike the present Kyo, whose power stabilized his ditto genes to be mew-like, past-Kyo didn’t develop nearly as pronounced a bond to do the same, and thus, lacked their connection to a mew.

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Ephrel - The Chariot

In reverse, the feeling of defeat, being vanquished, lost, etc. Were all feelings that reflected how Ephrel was in the eyes of Sparrow's Order of Heroes prior to Sparrow's official status as summoner (of which Chrom's was unofficial before her). They were completely forgotten to the point they didn't even have a name attached other than "former summoner/previous summoner", the circumstances of why they were gone were almost entirely unheard of or guesswork, and there seemed far too much haste to try to forget them as much as possible in favor of moving on with Sparrow, satisfied to keep their fate unknown with very few to give a fuck otherwise (like Chrom, then Sparrow based on Chrom's own unwavering hope to find out what happened once learning Ephrel had a life after their robinsona).

The process of finding Spectabilis, then deciding to redeem them rather than kill them (which would be far easier and inconsequential), was what flips The Chariot upright: Reflecting the long, rocky road Chrom persevered to press forward to, and meet up to free Ephrel from a fate of stagnancy, rather than just leave it at accepting his replacement Robins and moving on without them like everyone else. This action was what allowed Ephrel's live to continue forward, and to reveal more of themself they didn't flesh out even in their robinsona days.

Initially, I debated on whether or not Chrom and Ephrel fit to be literally riding something, but I find it even more fitting that Chrom himself served as “the chariot”, having carried the toils and burdens from the point he lost Ephrel, to the long, exhausting journey to retrieve them again. 

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Erin - The Hanged Man

As her supports (but especially Lif, Ryoma, and to some degree Camilla from the start) knew too well (and Hrid eventually caught up on and was rightfully horrified of and clingy afterwards about), Erin came from a very harsh life prior to being a summoner, where she was suffocated, controlled, manipulated, and worked to the ground, to the point she nearly made a very costly, risky mistake of her own self prior to her Breidablik summoning her (of which I'll remain brief and vague here as it's not the biggest point this time). The damage was still done, as she still was left a broken shell, fully welcoming anyone to pull her strings as she was heavily conditioned to expect, all with a weak will, self-worth and agency. All of which line up with the reversed Hang Man's meaning of useless sacrifice, unwillingness to change, and knowingly heading on to bad decision after bad outcome. The arms of her past try greedily to drag her back to the life she had once escaped from.

The upright version of this reflected readjustment, improvement, and rebirth: All of which carried the same elements to how her supports could see she was a completely different person underneath the broken mess she was initially left as, and needed support, love, and gentle coaxing to come out in her own accord. This then led to a very massive shift to what she later turned into presently from where she started off before: As someone bold, brash, more willing to show herself, and more engaged as her own self with her own decisions. Even in free-fall, she gained her freedom, and more, thanks to her supports, gained her wings figuratively and literally (as a manakete) to take flight by her own will.

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Teru - Death

In reverse, Teru had indeed followed a lot of relationships that couldn't fully serve him or be as realized as he needed them to be at the time he needed it most (Kyo, before The Incident nearly ruined even their friendship, and definitely ruined their relationship. Then Ryoma, before Garon took that away from him as well.). His Order of Heroes failed him, his initial Askr was doomed, and he had to be a pillar of strength and protection to his pokemon and them in a time he himself desperately needed someone to rely on and protect him instead in his ailing strength and health. In the form he took prior to decimating his former connected World of Fates, one prominent feature in the missingno form he took at the time was carrying the fragmented headgear of his fallen past lover.

Upright, even in the point where Teru changed his life for the better, it took massive sacrifices and struggles on his part to get there. He has a chronic illness that can make him incredibly godly in power in the best of times, but also worryingly and critically frail and weak in most other times, all through his missingno powers he's still not able to entirely control. He had done the impossible in cheating death so many times from being a missingno, to surviving Conquest, to taking the Heart's Rite head on and living to tell the tale, but such bragging rights rang hallow for the sacrifices he made and the unspeakable levels of agony and pain he endured while subjected to them. He cheated death, yet at what cost? But even when he reached his lowest, his life did start anew as he grew past his traumas just enough to learn to grow and feel again, and for the better. After all, "third time's the charm".

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Sparrow - The Star

Where she started, she was homeless, abandoned by the world, and left to die. Forgotten. Uncared for. Unconcerned. Just another number and another sad life wasted. Like the reverse, she started in a point she was made acutely aware how little her skills mattered (it certainly didn't spare her the life of poverty), how bad her luck was (despite her best efforts, she still failed), and her only future was one that was coming to an end (crushed dreams unrealized in favor of being left to starve to death to the harsh elements outdoors). In her hands were the concept of a Crest of Fate bestowed to her, marking her as a digidestined. But even this “blessing” was in actuality a fake crest of the Grimeal, and what led to long-term damage to her and her digimon when the ruse was up.

It was Chrom who summoned her, and it was because of his patience to help save her and get her on her feet again did her hopes turn around, and her card meaning with it. Upright, she had a second chance in a new life, a new environment, and with opportunities she only barely touched the surface of that were fully realized in looking to it again in Askr (her digimon, who she didn't physically interact with until Chrom upset her digimon partners upon realizing why Sparrow didn't check up on them (of which she downplayed her life cuz, well, she thought it was a game), revealing themselves in full). She found love, she found insight, and she found a new power she learned to harness to make a better use of her skills when she thought a more direct approach was lacking (a healer, when she wasn't physically strong enough to take up another weapon yet). She stayed calm, positive, hopeful, and tried to extend the same hope Chrom shared to her to others she found along the way, which led to Robin, Lyon, and then Ephrel finding their own hopes as well. In her hands was a digi-egg of Destiny (sometimes alternatively known as the digimental of fate), which manifested itself when Breidablik resonated with both Sparrow and Ephrel. As a united force, they finally gained the hard-earned role of digidestined as a duo legendary-mythic unit.

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Eclair - Judgement

A lot of Eclair's point of major growth in power and character all fell back on Thorr's most powerful ability: Judgement. This power was the power that could completely and utterly decimate entire countries with the single swing of her hammer, and she isn't afraid to flex, and in ways Eclair saw for himself are fickle and self-righteous (particularly as she and Teru declared war on one another for the sake of protecting Nohr or wiping it off the face of Fates, but did nothing to interfere with the Nohr Teru himself destroyed in his own world). This fickle nature, this self-serving attitude and logic path Thorr decides when to enact her judgement or not, struck the biggest fear in Eclair and caused untold amounts of stress, worries, and panic attacks of being his greatest failure of seeing everyone wiped away from his life (like the fate he himself escaped as a forma) if he couldn't successfully stop his own mother. All of which are fears of the reverse Judgement. Even when she left her mark in other timelines and what-could’ve-beens, she struck fear in Eclair’s supports making such outcomes prominently known for them to stew on. Including an alternative outcome of her taking hold of some manner of Alfonse and overloading him into a temporal threat.

But upright, it also reflects awakening, renewal, a better health and mind fully realized. The point Eclair began fearing his mother and aunt most was also the point his powers started manifesting the most when his family, friends and supports made their own will clear of wanting to protect him. It was also the point he fully realized that form of will that comes from love and the power it held that heavily contrasted the will Thorr took interest in that comes from despair. This eventually was fully realized in his fully powered form, Magni, and his power as the Divine Shield to completely cancel out Thorr's Judgement attack, and thus, force her to bring herself down to the same even footing as the mortals when she can't simply delete them off the earth with a swing anymore. This resolve is also what resonated with why Zamazenta similarly trusts him, and thus, fully established Eclair's mythic alt.

[fireflysummers]

Fanzine Projects I’d Consider Organizing in the Future When I Am Not Dying

Discworld Tarot Card Project

Supergiant Games Zine (Bastion, Transistor, Pyre)

Digimon: Digital World Tourism and Travel Zine

Golden Sun Zine

Cat Themed Zine

[velkynkarma]

Got tagged by @butteredonions so let’s do this! 5 things you’ll find in my bag pockets (since I don’t use a bag):

Library card

Phone (assuming I’m out and about)

MP3 player

spare change

Tiny bottle of hand sanitizer (it’s vanilla scent!)

5 things you’ll find in my bedroom:

A cool floor to ceiling bookshelf, stuffed with books & comics

Swords

My wacom intuos tablet

Four special stuffed animals (including a custom-made hyena plush)

Mini-fridge & my secret stash of hidden snacks

5 things I’m currently into

Voltron...but you probably knew THAT already

How to Train Your Dragon

World of Warcraft

Digimon

Batfam

5 things on my to-do list:

Taxes

Car inspection is due this month

Those fic zombie prompts...no really, I haven’t forgotten!

Big Bang fic & various other fic projects on my brain

Get more characters to level 110 in WoW! Must...see...other...order hall campaigns!

5 things people may not know about me:

I can partially dislocate my left shoulder, crack my hips, and I’m pretty sure there’s something in my right arm that snaps when it’s not supposed to. None of it actually hurts but it sure is fun to watch peoples’ reactions to the noises.

I can read Tarot cards. I don’t actually believe any of it though, I learned them purely for symbolism in fiction. I actually enjoy the psychological aspect of it much more, by seeing how people react to certain cards to determine what’s on their mind rather than actually seeing any sort of future or guidance.

When I was in high school I made a whole bunch of bracelets out of the blue plastic discs beneath soda bottle caps by biting out the interiors and stretching them until they JUST fit over my hand. I couldn’t get them off again and I refused to cut them, so I wore those things every day for nearly 10 years 24/7 until they wore down and fell off on their own. People kept asking me where I bought them, it was quite funny.

I am so blind to romance cues it’s a little ridiculous, both from myself and others. My retail coworkers often asked how I felt about people flirting with me or joked about me flirting with others, to my intense confusion. I once apparently went on a date without realizing it? This is kind of one of the reasons I can’t be bothered with ships, honestly...

I have this weird amazing ability where children instantly like me or watch me the moment I enter a room. Restaurants? The kids at the table next to me will stare the whole time. Amusement parks? Kids tell me about their day. I’m told I’m extremely gifted with kids and am often encouraged to be a teacher or some other similar working-with-kids profession. The catch? I really, really hate kids and never want any of my own. It’s a curse really.

@maychorian and @noisypaintersong you get tagged yet? Come play :D

[deer-head-xiris]

🕊️THE EMPRESS🐉THE EMPEROR✨

ft Angewomon, Holydramon, Angemon, and Goddramon! I am thrilled with how these cards turned out 😭💕

These are the last full card previews I'll post publicly for a long while, please consider supporting me and this project on Patreon! Future card WIPs and previews will be visible to my patron tiers!!

[dragonwolf360]

Replacing Greymon with Gammamon in the digimon tarot project c:

Ko-Fi | DeviantArt

[ahiddenpath]

Major Arcana is Complete!

Take a rest, Daisuke.  You earned it!

The Major Arcana is complete, but I am considering doing some Minor Arcana exploration, too.  If you’re interested in my upcoming content, check out this survey- I’m checking interest levels to help direct me towards my next project.

I hope you enjoyed the Major Arcana!  I put a lot into it.  Thanks for sharing this with me!

Oh, btw, I’ve had a few people ask me if I know about the Persona series and how they use tarot cards.  I do, yes!  I’ve played 3, 4, and 5.  I use a lot of the Persona music in my Chosen Playlists!  The Persona series also makes use of Jungian psychology elements.  And yes, I agree, a Digimon x Persona crossover would be epic!  

Let me know if you’re interested in the Minor Arcana/if you enjoyed the Major Arcana!  I’m also open to take questions about tarot/do posts about tarot in general. 

I’m working on a post Major Arcana reflection with some new ideas about characterization that occurred to me while I worked on this series.  Please look forward to it!   

[dragonwolf360]

Starting a bit of a project with @Astra-Andromeda hopefully gonna finish a full digimon tarot card deck :0 We're aiming to post three sketches a day till we finish the deck!

[citrus-cactus]

Kizuna Countdown (20th Anniversary/20 Questions) #21

Freebie! Talk about something else not covered

Heeee-eey, we did it!! (minus the fact that I was zero for three on Fridays, but still). Tons of thanks to @takerusfedora and @gossipchii​ for putting it together, and everyone else for their fantastic and insightful answers, all of which I enjoyed reading! The fact that we all have so much to talk about really goes to show why this fandom is still going after 20 years. I guess if I’m going to talk about something today, it’s some of the random ideas for projects I’ve had over the years.

Most of these have fallen by the wayside because of the time, energy, and sometimes $$ that would be involved in producing them. But they’re still things I think about every once in a while-- and in some cases, the recent waves of merch actually made some of these far-out-there ideas a reality, which is incredible!!

Crest-themed jewelry. I took some jewelry-making classes in high school, and if I ever went back to it, I would totally be making some bespoke digimon pendants or charms. But amazingly enough, both Tri AND Kizuna made Digimon jewelry exist! Not that I seriously considered dropping a small fortune to own one, but cool nonetheless!!!

Or I could just run to the bead store. Anyway, there are options, and I should exercise them one of these days!!

Adventure-themed menu. This was before I knew pop-up cafes were a thing in Japan, and definitely before there were Tri cafes! So this one got fulfilled in spades. But they don’t include really expensive things like steak and starfruit, which would be my #1 must-get for a Taichi entree and a Takeru dessert, respectively. Did you know I made crest pancakes one time with color-appropriate toppings? I did!

Digimon Tea Blends. At one point, someone had actually done this (with really cute art too!), but it seems to have been taken down. It may be time for a second attempt... too bad I don’t know anything about making tea DX

Making My Own Digimon Doujinshi. I mean OBVIOUSLY that’s the dream. It would help if I actually sat down to draw shorter comics periodically, so I can’t see this realistically happening at this point ^^; I DID have an idea for a story that primarily involved Shakespeare references and Daisuke being overdramatic and thinking his sister had bewitched Taichi and Yamato to fall in love with her a la A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which I ended up drawing a LOT of concept art for back in 2011/2012. I was CONVINCED that it would make a much better comic than a fanfic, but clearly that has been stalled for years. I still kind of like the idea though. Maybe I’ll try to dig up some of my old sketches. “Alas, poor Ken-chan... I knew him, V-mon.” “Uh, Daisuke... I’m right here.” -_-;

Chosen Child Tarot cards. Once upon a time, I saw a Harry Potter-themed Major Arcana deck that was basically a collaborative fanart project, with each artist contributing a card. I always thought that would be so cool to do with Digimon! There would have to be some decisions made beforehand (like which character for which card?), but that would be part of the fun. I definitely had some thoughts and strong candidates in mind for an all-seasons deck when we only had 5 seasons, but an all-Adventure deck would be great too!

Love Letter reskin. Love Letter is a quick and easy elimination-style card game that is only played with 15 cards. The goal is to be the last one standing so you can win the favor of the princess, and there have been TONS of fan-created decks based around specific fandoms. Again, some interesting discussions to be had about which character is which card, but 8 roles + 8 original Chosen seems like you’ve got yourself a game. I was actually thinking of doing a variant based on the early Myotismon episodes, with Sora being the top card (Crest of Love Letter?). The variant would be that if the player holding the Myotismon card is the last one standing, actually nobody wins (also note that this would NOT be for sale or even general online distribution. But maybe as a one-time giveaway or a couple of packs handed out at cons? If the game sounds interesting, I really encourage you to go buy the original, it’s very fun and easy to play a couple of rounds in single sitting!).

Anyway, if anyone is interested in hearing more of my thoughts on this or has any other ideas for fan projects involving the Adventure kids, PLEASE hit me up! I am always down for discussing or contributing ideas to that kind of thing ;)