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

[chomiji]

Perhaps the Quadrupeds would like to talk to me about my fic writing prospects this winter?

[melannen]

Quadrupeds for fic writing!



Where you've been: Felis onca, Jaguar (Panthera onca). Jaguars are fierce and effective hunters, once worshipped as avatars of Tezcatlipoca. But they're also solitary stalkers, quiet and elusive, dragging their prey to hiding places.

I think maybe this is saying that you have been fierce and daring in your writing or your writing goals, but maybe also feeling, or actually being, isolated - keeping your writing close to your chest when you should be sharing it, or maybe feeling like when you did share it you didn't always get the response you'd like, or maybe you've just been in a phase in your writing where you're simultaneously quiet and daring?

Where you are now: Antelope americana, Prong-horned antelope (Antilocapra americana, pronghorn)

Pronghorns are fast, energetic prey animals that form large herds - especially in winter. They're agile and playful but can also be twitchy. So I think this is saying that as we come into winter, you are moving from feeling like the lonely hunter to feeling more like being one of a group - and you will be writing fast and having fun; just don't let anxiety get the better of you.

Where you're going: Cervus canadensis, American elk, or wapiti deer (Cervus elaphus, Elk, red deer, or wapiti deer.)

Elk are great! They are large, but not, like, monster large the way moose are. They are a lot like pronghorn, but far more majestic, and a lot harder to hurt.

What you should do: Lepus americanus, Northern hare (Snowshoe rabbit)

The snowshoe hare is known for being one of the animals that changes its coat color to white to match the winter snow, and also for being able to move quickly and effective in terrains other animals can't. (It's also one of the animals that's super-adapted to snowy winters and not doing so well turning white as winters get less white.) So I'd say, one of your strengths this winter is being able to adapt how you write into whatever you need it to be to match where you are - but be careful you don't change more than you need to.