Scraps at the year's end

[radiantfracture]

It's been a pleasure this week to see folks exclaim over their yuletide fiction gifts. It's a beautiful idea, this giving each other stories.

I am still sick, though well enough to drag myself out to see a matinee of Mary Poppins Returns. I tried to cough only during the loudest songs.

These last few new year's eves I've spent playing tabletop games with LB and S, but this year LB is on an even smaller island at a birthday / new year's party, S took himself off to an important hockey game, and I am sick.

I wonder how one of those fizzy Vitamin C packets would taste mixed into champagne?

I just managed a jellyfish doodle for the new year:



I've also enjoyed seeing all of the Tarot deck postings lately. I don't have a large collection of decks -- I have a non-anthropomorphizing set from when I was anti-that, and an Aquarian from when I decided human faces on eternal principles were okay again. Since the advent of crowdfunding, so many beautiful decks have appeared.

A friend posted this non-predictive New Year Tarot Spread, so I tried it out, a little haphazardly, in front of RuPaul's Holi-Slay Spectacular. I am not displeased, which is pretty good for me and Tarot. Most predictive systems instruct me firmly that I will die alone, impoverished, loveless and forgotten. Bracing, I suppose, if one were to take on the lesson properly.

A very happy new year all the same.

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Comments

[sovay]

I just managed a jellyfish doodle for the new year

That's a good year-jelly!

Happy 2019.

[sperrywink]

Happy New Years!

It is always nice to see people get excited about their Yuletide and other exchange gifts. So sweet.

[highlyeccentric]

What a good jellyfish!

[naye]

Ahh, that's a very lovely jellyfish! So warm and kind-looking. Love the colors!

[eller]

Happy new year - and that's a nice jellyfish!

[sfred]

I hope you feel better soon!

[yarrowkat]

my oldest and most-loved Tarot deck is an Aquarian deck that came to me over 25 years ago.

i recently acquired the Stephanie Pui Moon Law deck, Shadowscapes, which is absolutely gorgeous.

[thewayne]

When I'm having a coughing problem and planning a movie, I carry a few peppermint/chocolate peppermint candies with me. I find them to be quite effective in suppressing coughs.

How did you like the movie? We haven't seen it yet but hope to get to it soon. Glad to hear that you seem somewhat improved.

[thewayne]

Speaking of Tarot decks, there's a role-playing game that is diceless and uses a Tarot deck for all resolutions. It's called Fortune's Fool and is rather interesting. Set in a fantasy renaissance era rather than a medieval period, it has your standard assortment of elves, dwarves, hobbits, etc and brings modern (for the era) religion into play. There's a couple of good quality reviews on rpg.net, unfortunately the publisher, Pantheon Press, went out of business a couple of years ago, so the PDF isn't easy to get but there are still print copies of the game available. I ran it once at a mini-game con that I ran for my 50th birthday a few years back, then a friend bought a copy and ran it regularly for the better part of a year. One interesting part is the GM never touches the deck. Characters are mostly designed on a points basis with Tarot draws for class and background info.

[radiantfracture]

That does, upon searching, look beautiful. I liked the Crow Tarot that yhlee posted a little while ago -- was thinking about that one.

[radiantfracture]

I just crunched an entire roll of Halls and hoped for the best.

I thought it was pretty good, and that it holds up as its own thing. Either I was tired or it dragged a bit in the second half, or both.

There was no "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious", but "A Cover is Not the Book" was pretty good.

[radiantfracture]

That does sound like an interesting mechanic. I like player independence.

brings modern (for the era) religion into play

Like a fantasy Protestant Reformation?

[thewayne]

Have you seen Saving Mr. Banks?  My wife and I watched it a few months ago and quite liked it, sort of a backstory behind the making of the original movie.  While I know I saw the original when I was a kid, I only have the vaguest memories of it.