Since I'm clearly not getting anything else done today

[melannen]

Who wants a cartomancy reading? Pick a deck, I'll do a basic four card draw, we can all interpret it together. Offer good until Monday night. Offer closed, but will be finishing up the requested readings soon!

Choice of decks:
1. Audubon's Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America
2. Modern Art
3. Iraqi War Criminals c. 2003
4. Computer House of Cards
5. 1982 Chippendales
6. Iraqi and Afghan Heritage Resource Preservation
7. The Game of Authors
8. Forgotten English Insults
9. Sesame Street: You're a Grouch
10. Radacad Radioactive Materials Security Training
11. Geology Knowledge Cards
12. Women Who Dare
13. Random

Comments

[alexseanchai]

…I am curious about 7, 8, 9, 11, and 12

this narrows it down so much doesn't it

[melannen]

7 is a reproduction of a deck my mom remembers playing in the 50s/60s, so expect books old white guys liked (though I did shuffle in the 'lady authors' expansion deck with it at least). 8 will get you something out of a Shakespeare comedy. 9 is a deck I played as a toddler, though interesting there's exactly enough Muppets in it for a perfect Major Arcana. 11 will get you trivia questions you need to answer! And I havent played with 12 enough to have a good idea.

[alexseanchai]

8 sounds like fun!

[melannen]

You're next up!

[melannen]

Okay, bearing in mind if you ask for the insults deck you're going to get insults. :D



Where you've been: queere-duke: A poor decayed gentleman; also a lean, half-starved fellow. Dictionary of the canting crew, 1699.

You've fallen on hard times in the recent past. Alternatively: you've been queer. :D

Where you are: Slackumtrance: a slovenly or dirty woman. Dictionary of the Isle of Wight Dialect, 1886

Is there cleaning or other housework you could be doing instead of playing with card spreads? There is definitely cleaning or other housework I should be doing instead. BRB, switching laundry over.

Where you are going: pregnant scholar: One who was drunk by the middle of the morning. Morris Marple's University Slang, 1950.

Maybe a warning to stay away from addictive substances or behaviors? Maybe it's asking about what you're usually doing in the middle of the morning: do you need to work on sleep schedule or something like that?

What you should be doing: spatherdab: A chatterer, gossip, scandal-monger: a woman who goes from house to house dispensing news.

This is either saying you should work on your social ties and networks (online or not), or telling you you spend too much time on them, I think. Or maybe it's just telling you to be thoughtful about your conversations and connections in general.

[kore]

"spatherdab" totally sounds like Twitter cleanse

[melannen]

Or Tumblr cleanse, maybe. (But then both of those are probably always good advice for everyone.)

[kore]

Tumblr for me is like the exact mental equivalent of eating a whole bag of red Twizzlers. Tasty! So good! Keep going!....and then there's an empty crinkly bag and regrets of the stomach.