#rw gilded

[kalivasquezart]

Art attack on @enosvoid!

[spotsupstuff]

Gold is often connected to divinity in rl religions. In Buddhism, it indeed symbolizes enlightenment and such, and it is often kept pure in order to not ruin its brilliance. In Tibetan Buddhism, statues are gilded with it and the 5 tonne Golden Buddha statue in Thailand is composed of 18 karat gold, almost fully pure.

Within this world, I like to think that gold has caught the eye of the Anemons in a religious sense upon the (,,re/")discovery of the Void Sea. The golden waves of it shaped the perception of their world, from explaining the sun as coated in a layer of Void, to giving an idea of what "cleanliness of soul" should look like. Wheel Flowers are also attributed to the Void as sprouts of it, because of their ethereal gold coloration.

The feeling of the divine has however faded when the motivations behind handling of the Void went terribly south, replaced by the extremist corruption and greed of High castes.

In other words, I wanted an excuse to draw Euros as a šarkan/змей.

[goldenspecks]

Entropy claims its bitter harvest...

[skybristle]

rbs > likes

wiferator.... for My Wife @princess--bongwater if you say anything weird ill kill you dead

[lembowe]

8 of my oc iterators finally have a proper ref !! my god i never want to touch a refsheet again after this this took FOUR MONTHS to finish

i have lore behind them all but i will spill later because i am tired (its only like 9 am as of writing this but shhhh) closeups below cut

[princess--bongwater]

you should post wiferator i think

ih fuck

[spaghetticat3899]

@renteduwu

YO

I'm bored and kinda wanna doodle. Yall, reblog this or send me an ask of your rainworld OC's and I might draw them. Iterator, slugcat, lizard, ANYTHING EXCEPT scavengers. I cannot draw those furmonkeys. I can draw multiple characters so send as many as you want

[windvexer]

Deck Review: Under the Oak Tarot by Ofride and StregaDelleMele

This is a borderless deck featuring a sometimes-sightless girl named Anima as she traverses a fantastical otherworld.

Physical Concerns

Overall: 10/10, so far very satisfied (especially for the price), would buy again if I lost it

RWS Clone? No, but RWS symbolism is obvious in a handful of cards, notably the High Priestess and many Major Arcana cards. Other cards are completely unique.

Cost: 10/10 for quality. As of this review, $26 without shipping

Card stock: 10/10, the card stock has a nice texture and feel sturdy. But it isn't the super thick stock that's stiff and difficult to bend. It doesn't feel cheap and it's nice to shuffle. Also, gilded edges, which we love. It's a standard size deck.

Box: The box is nice and relatively sturdy. It's not a huge box (like we see with Woodland Tarot or Animal Totem Tarot) which I like, because my storage isn't unlimited. The box has an unattached lid and you can dump the cards out for easy access. The LWB fits in the box. Sometimes I struggle with hand pain and it feels like an easy access box.

Little White Book (LWB): It's a 128 page book with translations for English, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese. It includes meanings for each card, and three spreads with very little explanation. More about LWB meanings and card interpretations below.

Deck Theme and Symbolism

Per the introduction in the LWB, this deck follows the journey of Anima, a visually impaired child who travels through a fantastical otherworld and learns to develop a second sight.

While many of the cards that feature Anima show her being blindfolded, the deck clearly uses sightedness as a metaphor for spiritual enlightenment or "second sight." All of the 10s cards and The World XX show Anima as seeing clearly without her blindfold, and some other cards show partial sightedness as well.

Beyond that, this is an eclectic deck, no two ways about it. This is primarily present in the court cards and some of the Major Arcana cards.

The Pentacles cards feature Basque mythology; Wands are Welsh and Celtic, Swords are Norse, and Cups are Greek. There's also Hebrew symbolism (notably the High Priestess II), and probably other stuff I haven't picked up on because I'm not the most well versed in mythology.

A lot of the cards feature mythical beings, but there are also statues and woodland creatures.

Sorry for photo quality, I don't have a great camera.

I think the symbolism is nice. Sometimes the cards are more heavily re-imagined (like the Star XVII and Moon XVIII), while some of them are more or less exactly what you'd expect from RWS symbolism (Devil XV).

The Minor Arcana takes more symbolism liberties, and some of the cards are very different from RWS.

Overall, I really enjoy how it reads. I love a good borderless card, and this deck is A) fun and B) really pretty to look at. It's got enough familiar symbolism to ground me, but a lot of the cards are very different and with enough wiggle room to explore my own interpretations.

Card Interpretations

The LWB interpretations are all about a spiritual journey, healing, and transformation. So if you're looking for a spiritual journey deck, this one might be for you.

At the same time, there's enough going on with the cards that I didn't find it to be difficult to link the meanings to a wide variety of topics.

The one thing I've got no idea about is the runes, which feature heavily in the Swords suit (which is also the suit where all the court cards are Norse entities). I don't know if the runes are thematically relevant to the card at hand or not. Hopefully they are, because I can imagine how irritating that would be if you read runes and it doesn't match.

Here are a few Minor Arcana honorable mentions. Note the familiar symbolism of the 6 of Pentacles (bottom row, second from left), but the unique symbolism of the 5 of Swords (bottom row, far right).

Overall I found the cards to be evocative and easy to connect to, with enough symbolism in each image to facilitate intuitive reading.

[raevenlyreads]

Meet my decks

Top: The Nameless One Left to Right: Children of Litha, Magpie's Lenormand, Shadowscapes, Silhouettes

The Nameless One by Xia Hunt

With bold, striking art, I love gazing into the depths of this deck to find its meanings. I also love how the Oracle cards open the deck even further for expanding readings.

From Xia's website: A new and ground-breaking fully-illustrated, 108-card, large format deck combining tarot, sigil, oracle, mythology, folklore, & visual narrative. Instead of titles, each card possesses a unique, hand-crafted sigil forged from an affirmation based on the traditional tarot card's positive aspects. This allows one the ability to utilize this deck in countless ways.

The Children of Litha by Xia Hunt

A beautiful gilded first edition, I love reading with this deck because of its vibrant energy and diva attitude.

From Xia's website: A richly illustrated tarot deck by Alexandria Huntington featuring mythological creatures and nature based symbolism. Each of these cards has been lovingly and painstakingly hand illustrated specifically for Tarot. Each card is a product of specialized mediation, manifestation, and magick. The deck includes 80 cards, 78 are re-imaginings of the traditional Rider-Waite Tarot and the 2 additional "bonus" cards of original design: "The All" and "The Void".This brings the deck to a round 80, which in numerology is considered the number of destiny.

Magpie's Lenormand by Rozenn

My first foray into non-tarot Oracle decks. I enjoy reading with the lenormand because a lot of the reading is in the relationship of the cards to each other, the way the simplistic symbols fit together to tell a story. As a fiction writer, its fun to read in this unique way.

From Rozenn's website: I have created a hand-painted Lenormand deck inspired by my deep love of nature and animals. Lenormand is a specific type of cartomancy, similar but different to the tarot you probably know from the Rider-Waite-Smith deck. While RWS has dense symbology and mysticism, Lenormand is more personal, direct, and simplistic. It feels almost conversational, and better suited for daily life.

Shadowscapes Tarot by Stephanie Law

My very first tarot deck. I was drawn in by the dreamy, ethereal quality of the watercolor art, and how easy it is to wander its highly detailed scapes. Every time I read with this deck I find something new, even all these years later. A soft, gentle deck, it offers a great first step into the world of tarot.

From Stephanie's website: The Shadowscapes Tarot was one of the early projects I took on, and the first where I decided to follow my own desires and art instincts.

Silhouettes by MASA

The famed "defective" first edition Silhouettes is vibrant, playful, and straight to the point. This is a workhorse of a deck, with fun extras like Body, Mind, and Spirit cards, and two variants on the Strength and Justice cards. The artist doesn't have much to say about this version, having iterated on it again and again in other versions, but this first edition has been my most requested deck due to its brilliant colors and simple art.

Want to commission a reading from one of these lovely decks? Check out my ko-fi page

[riv-has-stopped]

Rain World Art Month but based on lore in @global-broadcast-network

My best bits

Day 6 - Taming

Ghosts Of Leviathans getting 'tamed' by Shrike

Day 7 - Crafting

Storms On Jupiter crafting extra pearls to archive their data

Day 11 - Lantern

Cavy running into the Crystal Cavern dwelling lizard, Prisma

Days 12 and 14 - Glow Weed and Leviathan

... A leviathan in a narrow canal is not a good sign

Day 17 - Bombs

Whisper chilling in the Void Hydrates, crafting some bombs while her pups play

Day 19 - The Saint (Passage)

Tapestry style art inspired by the storyline of my ancient OCs A Thousand Cries Of Flocking Crows and Silent Voice Of Highest Attunement

Day 21 - Spears

The standoff between Ghosts Of Leviathans and Bright Skies Distant Nebula in one of our many AUs (this time with Villain Nebula)

Day 22 - Lantern Mice

Saturn's Orbit and his little friends :>

Days 23 and 25 - Pearls and Karma 3

Archivist Storms On Jupiter and their pearl collection, documenting data on the iterators of the Northern and Southern Continents

Day 30 - Overseers

Gilded Eclipse finds his separation solution and everyone is watching and waiting to find out more

This was a really fun challenge, all days I was able to complete are posted on the blog with the rw art month tag

Happy 7 year anniversary Rain World and Thanks Andrew :)

- Riv

[ultramantr1gger]

reading echo dialogue from rw modded regions and most of them have normal names youd expect the echoes to have like Endless Dirt, Linear Path or Eleven Bone Splinters, Buried Rivers but then the one for gilded sanctuary is just named SUCKPIG

[tarotforsale]

A little showcase on Thai tarot studio Mali Publishing’s Into the Wild tarot. This deck features a linen textured box with gold foil, and extra thick 350gsm cards gilded in a gorgeous pale gold. The cards are a dream to handle. The imagery is faithful to the original RWS system but featuring whimsical woodland animals and includes the base 78-cards as well as a bonus 22-card oracle set. These are packaged together for the first printing of this deck.

Mali Publishing has 3 other similar decks that I’ll post pictures of: Luna Lapin Tarot, Stray Cat Tarot, and the Aibo Tarot. There are a few official sellers of their decks and, unfortunately, are already widely bootlegged. You can find these decks at Tevada and Look Tarot or directly from the Mali Publishing website Stray Cat Chamber.

[zurgles]

(continuing from replies)

Ok so there’s 78 cards in a full set. There are 22 major arcana cards which are the big theme cards (like “Justice” and “Strength”) and 56 minor arcana cards which are more mundane.

In the minor arcana 16 of the 56 cards are court cards which are “people” cards. And another 4 of them are Aces which can symbolize divine opportunities (or the root of their elemental suit). The minor arcana is divided into four elemental suits, usually called something like Wands, Cups, Swords, and Pentacles and usually correspond to Fire, Water, Air, and Earth respectively.

There’s also three popular systems. There’s some other more esoteric ones like Etteilla but that’s likely not what your customer wants.

The most popular system is the Rider-Waite-Smith system. The minor arcana are scenic which makes it easier for most people to read and work with. Most decks you see on the market are based off the RWS. It looks like this:

Another system is the Thoth deck. The minors are illustrated but they’re more symbolic, and they have keywords. It’s more explicit in it’s occult origins and using it usually requires studying some western qabalah, basic astrology, and the creator Crowley’s writings, and maybe some familiarity with the golden dawn (an occult order). (There’s some astrology in the RWS too but it’s not always a one-to-one, and you don’t need it to learn the card meanings.) The last two cards in the picture are minor cards.

The last popular system is Marseilles. I’m not as familiar with it, but it seems the most subject to variety in reading and studying style among readers. Some study european art history, some the history of cartomancy, numerology, some have different elemental associations that make sense for them. The numbered minor arcana are not scenic, and decks styled after the Marseilles are called “pip decks” because the numbered minors are generally just literally like ten swords for the ten of swords, five cups for the five of cups.

I’m guessing your customer wants a RWS based deck.

Here are two websites that tell you the meaning of every RWS card in two different styles.

For the second link, click “cards” in the sidebar menu to be brought to the individual card meanings.

If you’re more a fan of video content youtube has a lot of resources for tarot. Kelly Ann-Maddox has a ten part crash course in tarot meanings you can skip around through.

Some other tarot youtubers that go in depth are Tom Benjamin, Katey Flowers, and The Truth in Story has a nice “misc tarot” playlist.

Another thing you can do is look at deck reviews and tarot deck collections to see what people like in their decks. Like keywords, reversible backs, card stock, gilded edges, etc.

There are a couple videos and articles you can search like “how I designed my first tarot deck” or things I wish I knew etc.

I printed a deck using makeplayingcards.com and had good results. I’d recommend checking out the printer your customer wants to use because they have templates and size guides and box designs and stuff.

Hope that wasn’t too overwhelming! If you have any questions feel free to ask.

um... has someone any clue about Tarot cards? Got a customer who wants a full set.

Yet I am completely clueless what I need to be aware of.

[lunarserpentlibrary]

Britt's Third Eye Tarot Acquired 2022 Created by Britt Published by Make Playing Cards (Indie) 78 card deck RWS inspired 58x102mm** Cardstock unknown, flexible, satin finish** Includes sparkling gold gilding** **This copy is a knock off, which I didn't realise until after receipt.

[jasper-pagan-witch]

All right, my friend. Recommend me a tarot deck or two! 😁

Good morning! I will take this moment to share some of my favorite ones!

The Manga Tarot - I am a sucker for neat decks, and this incorporates colors and seasonal kanji for further reading interpretation. Every card has also been genderswapped!

The Tarot of Oppositions - As a very amateur writer, duality and parallels are near and dear to my heart. Unfortunately this is also one of those "the cards are more thin plastic than actual card stock" decks, which may cause problems when shuffling (they sure did for me). It also doesn't feature much diversity.

The Tarot for Kids - These are very large and friendly cards that are very, very safe to use in readings for people who are uncomfortable with the nudity that follows a lot of the other RWS decks. But as I said, the cards are very, very large. Very diverse, too!

The Mermaid Tarot - This is a beautiful, beautiful deck that's very diverse and really emphasizes the elements of the suits. I feel kind of bad shuffling it because the cards are so pretty.

The Antique Anatomy Tarot - Did somebody say "vulture culture"? These cards are absolutely beautiful and haunting. Like the Manga Tarot, it draws on (unfortunately Western) color psychology, but much subtler and to a greater extent. This is one of those decks that I would pull out more if I didn't think it would spook people.

The Everyday Tarot - This is a beautiful purple, white, and gold tiny deck for if you're like me and you have small hands. The cards are thick, but they're also smaller than an average deck and they have GILDED EDGES. Azura called dibs on it immediately when I got it, actually.

The Kemetic Tarot - I'll be honest, I got this for Tehuti. It is not one of those cheap affordable decks, this is the big guns. Gilded inlays on the back, huge ass guidebook, average-sized tarot deck, bougie-ass bag that comes with it... It's elaborate, it's fantastic, it's beautiful, but it's expensive and I can't find it on Amazon anymore. There is, however, a new edition called the Veil of Aset edition, which includes the old deck and guidebook and bag, plus some new stuff.

The Dragon Tarot - It would be remiss of me to not include the deck that started it all for me. It could have more dragons and less (equal-opportunity) nip slips, but I love it so.

The Tarot of the Divine and Beneath the Moon book - Worldwide mythology rendered in a BEAUTIFUL and caring style. You can tell that a lot of care, honor, and love was put into it. My only complaint is that it includes the Rainbow Crow story and attributes it to the Lenape people, when they've said several times that it wasn't from them and was instead made up by a white person. It's a pretty card, just...wrongly attributed.

I also have some oracle decks that I recommend!

The Green Witch Oracle - I picked this deck up to help me learn about plants, and that was one of the best ideas I'd ever had. It's aesthetic as fuck, like an old field journal.

The Arcana of Astrology - I'm a Western astrology nerd, but only this deep. It covers planets, zodiac signs, houses, and comets, but none of the trickier things like aspects. This deck explains each of the categories in terms of both astrology and readings, along with keywords. Unfortunately I've found multiple wrong instances of "karma" in it, but if you Sharpie it out, it's a pretty good deck!

If you want any more suggestions, we've only gotten through 11 of my 39 decks!

~Jasper

[asprettyasyourown]

What do you think Lady Stoneheart’s purpose is?

Vengeance. Pure, unadulterated vengeance.

The most obvious instance is how her goal is now to wreak revenge on those who killed her and Robb, aka the Freys and Lannisters (though the Freys seem to take the brunt). This one has been clearly stated in the books, but it’s only the first layer of that embodiment.

"She wants her son alive, or the men who killed him dead," said the big man. [AFFC, Brienne VIII]

Since resurrecting Robb is just impossible (there isn’t even a body to resurrect), the only “choice” left is for her to avenge him - hence her decision to roam the Riverlands and attack anything remotely related to the Red Wedding.

And, you know, while it can be satisfying for the reader to see the Freys and the Lannisters get retribution for what they did to the Starks, she's also a cautionary tale. Lady Stoneheart doesn't seek vengeance for the sake of justice, she seeks vengeance for the sake of it. No one is gaining anything out of this. Robb won't get resurrected once everyone is dead. She doesn't attack active operators of the Red Wedding. You don't feel truly satisfied because it feels pointless. Her vengeance doesn't help anything, since her (on page) targets at best pathetic bystanders of the RW (Merrett Frey was passed out when the fighting happened), at worst innocents.

But also, on a more metaphorical level, I kind of see her character as revenge against the patriarchal society whose exigences Catelyn has been forced to uphold her entire life. I mean, a lot of people are saying she’s thriving in that society; but the reality is, she only had it better than some other women, in that she had a good marriage. But a gilded cage is still a cage. 

We often evoke Arya and Cersei and Brienne when we talk about how the patriarchy fucked the women over, but more rarely Catelyn, because she presented a happy front at the beginning. But have you noticed how her voice is consistently dismissed? She can make the most sense, have the most insightful arguments and yet the men around her consistently dismiss her as “woman’s talks”. She’s highly intelligent, practical, observant, yet none of that matters because of her gender. Her decision to release Jaime is assumed to be the blunder of an hysterical mother, and not a decision she carefully thought through. Robb’s words are welcomed as gospel when hers are ignored, despite being right and despite her being at least 20 years older??? just because he’s a man.

And there’s no way that didn’t get to her. It may not be as obvious as in Cersei or Brienne’s chapters, but she definitively acknowledged the failures of the society she’s was part of. But when she rises from the dead, none of that matter. 

And I find it deeply ironic that it’s when she no longer has a voice, people finally listen to her. It’s when men have finally silenced her for good, a weapon they have used against women time and time again to strip them of their power, that she’s the most dangerous.