#tarot card motifs

[dr-aegon]

the sun and the moon

original post: here

[outeremissary]

Day 3 of OC Kiss Week: Cailo blows a kiss to YOU! She sees you out there. Go take a break and do something for yourself.

[sillyboysinc]

i can't think of a name for this one... alex again though! <3

[mazziemay]

𝑬𝒎𝒑𝒚𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒏'𝒔 𝑬𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒕

[aslanvlad]

my sun and my moon ☀️🌙 for day 7 of @ftf-appreciationweek

[gwinverarrouz]

3, 2, 1... 

Back on my “I want to make vaguely tarot-adjacent cards for my OCs” thing from... eh... a long time. Was going to wait until I had more but I haven’t posted about my favourite conman in a while, so here he is. On the job. Sneaky thing.

[mantisgodsdomain]

30, 21, 14 for the art ask game!

For this ask game (which is supposed to be hosted on our art blog but this works too we suppose!)

30. What piece of yours do you think is underrated?

...well realistically this would probably be either a fic or a list of fics but look at our watercolor pearlescent effect on Survivor and while you're at it look at our cool shading on this art.

21. Art styles nothing like your own but you like anyways?

...that's honestly a bit of a tough one! Our own art style is sort of an amalgamation of every cartoony to pseudo-realistic style we've ever liked, and we tend to experiment with imitating other art styles often enough that we aren't sure we can really pin down what "nothing like our art style" would look like! We suppose... @boiledegghole's forays into stylized art would work for this? cosmopoliturtle's Pokemon redesign works in particular are excellent, and though our appreciation for formline is a bit more general than linked to a specific artist we do wish to point you to telekitnetic-art's works.

14. Any favorite motifs?

...like, in visual art or in general? We'll be real with you, our symbolism is usually mostly localized to writing, not visual art. We love a good decay motif in writing, we guess? We like using specific colors to mean things? Even if we're specifically doing art for symbolism purposes (generally for the sake of interconnecting with written work) we tend to have different "libraries" of what means what by character, so, uhh... there's a lot of ground to cover there and what the "favorite" recurring thematic and design element is is gonna vary by story, universe, AU, et cetera...

We generally have favorite symbolism for given universes but those are specific for a given universe and would take, like, way too long to list, even beyond the fact that 99% of our favorite flavors of Recurring Theme don't transfer well to visual art or are a wild bitch to draw, and again... inconsistent between different 'verses, and the way that any sort of symbolism is a tool for whatever story you choose to tell makes this question insanely broad in a way that makes it hard to answer.

Kjdrira uses decay and disassembly as control and self-definition of identity. Half of Mothiva's specific symbolism library revolves around the concept of the exotic pet. Selkieverse Vi gets a massive amount of mileage out of every stripe of fire symbolism imaginable. What are we meant to narrow this down to? Incredibly broad conceptual strokes like the vague idea of destruction? The word "blood"? We've got way too much going on in this department! This question's not made with us in mind! They might as well ask us, like. "hey, what words do you like using in your work". Easier to answer.

[random-conspiracy]

If you were a character (as if you weren't haha) what would be your motifs and leitmotifs?

Answer in tags

[hotfudgecherryrosy]

I just realized i can ask on here: any writing tips for characters with psychosis?

Rambles/ context/ art of her after break because im very long winded

I could just talk to irl friend/s but im too shy and this will have better reach anyways.

I have an OC with psychosis (schizoaffective disorder) and id like tips for writing her respectfully and accurately as possible.

I tried for awhile to find resources online but most “how to write characters with psychosis” is specific to horror media which… what?

Anyway, Charlotte was my first OC which was originally made in middle school. So obviously shes gone through a lot of rewrites as i got better with writing and better understood myself and the world around me. Originally she just had undefined mental illness since at the time i had a very vague understanding of it at the time due to being like 12.

Heres a recent drawing of her (she/ they btw). I will field some questions about her please interact with me what who said that?

[dr-aegon]

xiii death

original post : here

[femmesandhoney]

dreamt of a tarot card except someone was like and this is the hierophant she often supports *insert name idr* religiously who was kinda like an evil mastermind figure and she the hierophant was like their prophet if you will. the evil girlbossification of the hierophant my inner psycye knows what we need.

[ghostjustliketherest]

it's been over 5 years and i'm still plagued daily by my ghost quartet tarot deck plans......

[narrated]

i got a tarot card comm of matthias years ago. but what if i did it again

[neofeliis]

When you gotta get up at 530 for work but the VOICES

[sidhedust]

What inspired Luana's name?

Oh, it's nothing too big.

Luana in universe is from a country that's mostly analogous to our Hawai'i, with a few key differences that I won't get into or we'll be here forever.

Her name means "happiness," and it's a feminine Hawai'ian name. Google NOW has many sources saying it has many origins, (such as being a variante of Luanne) but I'm confident in her name's meaning and in the Polynesian origin.

She actually used to be called Tala, because one of the names sites I used when Tovera was a baby listed the Tagalog star goddess' name as a Polynesian one. I called her this for most of Tovera's lifespan actually, until around 3ish years ago when I realized I want my work to feel like it isn't phoned in-I didn't want to come off as a writer that just mish mashed what I wanted together because it sounds or looks cool, as that's already done WAY too much when it comes to non-white cultures and people in fiction.

All this being said, one thing that Luana inherited from her former name is her current star motif, which will become more notable as the story goes on.