Thanks, and yeah. I see what some of the other dolls have grown and has had to resign myself to the fact that a late start and genetics mean this is probably the best I get. Just making the best of them.
I’ve been really hungry the last few days and I have a completely irrational hope that it’s a growth spurt. (It almost certainly isn’t.)
Abalyn, with her glasses on, in a yellow dress and brown cardigan. Her dress is unbuttoned but not terribly revealing. She definitely has tits, though.
It got me these, though admittedly it takes an impressive push up bra to make them look like this.
I just take a 200 every day, and it’s been fine? Willing to accept there may have been a more optimal way to do it.
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This machine kills fascists.
You’re welcome! I enjoyed the excuse to put down some of the thoughts rolling around in my head as I’m investing more energy into tarot.
This. This. This.
Abby is showing the cover of Finding the Fool: a tarot journey to radical transformation, but Meg Jones Wall. She’s reading it in the bath, and out of focus in the background you can see her right leg (with thigh tattoo); a can of Sunshine La Croix; and shampoo, conditioner, and body wash.
I just started reading Finding the Fool, and so far I’m a fan.
It is canonically The Best Deck. I will not be taking questions.
The Numinous Tarot’s art style is pretty hit or miss with me, and I don’t love the renaming of cards from RWS. But I’m giving it a chance.
The Queer Tarot’s Riso art makes me sad (though I love a good Riso). Its queerness feels a little shallow. But again, I’m giving it a chance.
I like the Modern Witch a lot, but I’m still settling into it. It’s the deck I gave my daughter when she left for college, but I’m pretty new to it personally. I like the art, but so far find the LWB to be less queer than This Might Hurt.
This Might Hurt is on there twice because I literally own one for Massachusetts Home and one for Utah Home. The LWB is glorious. I love the art. It’s queer af while grounded in RWS tradition. I will nearly always do my weekly 3-card spread with it. I will ALWAYS go to it for Serious Questions.
My current top decks for Serious Questions™:
1. This Might Hurt
2. This Might Hurt
3. Modern Witch
- The Numinous Tarot
- The Queer Tarot
*Legit, not “left.” I need a Bluesky post button that asks if I checked for typos. Then tells me to check again.
3.2. The people in the deck should be of various ethnicities and genders. They should have haircuts I’d see at a dyke bar.
3.1. It doesn’t have to be explicitly queer nor is queerness limited to sexuality. But it needs to feel like I could have a lively discussion with the creator about the cishetero patriarchy.
2.2. I own decks that “fail” (for me) in 3 different ways artistically: too cartoony; distracting line work (sometimes just sloppy, busy, or distorted); too abstract. I still occasionally read from them. (I keep a beekeeper deck at work for use there.) But my go-to decks fit the art style described.
2.1. I tend to be drawn to art that includes people and has clean visual design. A semi-realistic color palette is good, too. I want the art to be engaging, but not a distraction from the themes in the cards.
1.2. Starting from RWS means launching from years of tradition, which I fully intend to subvert. But I don’t want actual RWS, because I want to incorporate the work others have already done. The quality of the LWB comes in to play here. (Also, the RWS art makes my eyes bleed. See 2.)
1.1. My spirituality lives in the tension of queering traditional systems. Like, I go to a Christian church and identify as an atheist (and a witch).
Left. I can share my biases, which might not be yours:
1. Based at least roughly on RWS (but not actually RWS).
2. An art style I vibe and that is consistent.
3. Queer.
I’m happy to give more tailored ideas, too, depending on where you’re starting from.
Honestly, find a deck you like, and do some readings for yourself. Maybe just a single card to start, if you want. The book the comes with most decks will often have a few simple spreads, if you want to do more than one card. My 3-card readings are typically past/present/future.
Set up a separate account for tarot shit, in the hopes of encouraging me to engage with the cards more.
For me ::table => (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
As of last night, I have written seven poems since December first. A slow roll, sure, but not bad for being decades out of practice and having a day job.
⸘en español, también‽
You’re welcome! My Text Replacement is full of gems, like Zealand->Aotearoa, :insha:->إِنْ شَاءَ ٱللَّٰهُ, eg.,->e.g., interrobangs, and a bunch of neopronouns that “replace” to themselves to keep autocorrect from “fixing” them.
Most of the roses for sale in the US are raised in hideous labor and environmental conditions in Colombia and Ecuador before they're loaded onto 747s to fly here. I know because I visited one of the rose plantations/sweatshops for my book Orwell's Roses. Give your love a book or something.
