cranky tarot analysis

Interesting analysis of very very early Tarot imagery. Contains lots and lots of casual bitching about later deliberate misinterpretation by mystics of the 1700s and beyond.

I find the Tarot imagery fascinating because it's just so rich in layers - it's a structure to hang a sequence of images on, and to read your own meaning into. The layers and layers of meaning that people have interpreted into these oblique little engravings over the centuries is endlessly potent. It's like fairy tales: a seed to grow something around.

This time, I'm thinking about using it for a series of images on FC07's theme of spy stuff. A bunch of furry noir images. Discovering that the Sicilian name for the first trump is "The Fugitive" rather than the more familiar "Fool" made me cackle with delight. I love it when things synchronize like that!

linkspam

Hey, it's USB memory sticks from Sandbenders. (Idoru reference.)

On (x) I am... - a website to let you easily link all your online identities. Honestly, I'm not entirely sure this is a good idea. Do I want people to know who I am in every context? Mostly I just point things back to my own website, where I show my LJ and my various IM addresses. But I really don't want to list each and every account on everywhere. I suppose this might be good for people who don't have any kind of web presence, where they can have a centralized list of what they want to expose.

Anyone want to do porn of these? "It would be fun to draw nasty, yiffy, kinky porn of them. Except I'd imagine just about all of them would realistically be voyeurs." - me when protocat IMed me about this. Also, Crypto Cat™ is trans: I remember seeing an earlier version of the NSA.gov kids section, featuring a definitely male mascot named Crypto Cat™. She got a sex change along with her redesign, I guess!

I'd definitely make her a pre-op if I drew any CryptoKids™ pr0n.