Welp, here’s one for the paranormal conspiracy theorists. Aaaand this is awkward….
I’ve been receiving some highly entertaining feedback from the community of people working with the Black Ink Tarot deck. Some have had a rather challenging time getting this deck to make sense ever, exempting its favorite forms of expression to date: poignant shadow-work, saucy riddles, and deathy death jokes.
Please note that the quotes in this post come from a small crowd of people who’ve been working in depth with the deck over the course of months.
I’ve been receiving some highly entertaining feedback from the community of people working with the Black Ink Tarot deck. Some have had a rather challenging time getting this deck to make sense ever, exempting its favorite forms of expression to date: poignant shadow-work, saucy riddles, and deathy death jokes.
Please note that the quotes in this post come from a small crowd of people who’ve been working in depth with the deck over the course of months.
Some Snippets From Our Little Chats:
“this deck is weird bro”
“Haaaaave ya met the creator? Gesticulates wildly in Evvie’s direction”
“but like MANY tarot creators are weird, yet their decks don’t require these elaborate unlocking rituals 😂”
“Wouldst thou like some space music? Wouldst thou like things that are clearly distinct messages, untranslated to your specific ears? pointed inscrutability levels are high. . . . it does feel kinda like rhymes & riddles. I guess I’d say it feels like a person I find hard to read, not because their words aren’t clear but because we’re working on different threads??”
“serious question: is black ink a cat?”
“I can definitely tell that black ink stretches me to sort it out . . . and it’s also a little saucy.”
“Ok Black Ink, it’s time to talk about your favorite things: death and eclipses.”
“Thank you for all that you have given me and those I love with your creations. . . . I have never resonated so much with a deck AND its book. . . . It helped me talk to myself, it brought me here, it broke through some things I have been trying for decades to get a good grip on.” [😭 BLESS—sweetest feedback a designer could hope to hear. 🙏]
“I tried singing to it and the cards felt way more slippy and merry”
SO--
What can I say here?
I can say that your cumulative feedback—which I appreciate very much—follows patterns I’m familiar with, but did not expect to see play out quite this way. I can say you will probably understand the decks and books more easily once you’ve acquired some ✨folkloric sensibilities,✨ so brushing up on your folkloric tales and fables may help, most especially from pre-Victorian sources and scholars who cite historic and native texts.
I can say that ✨folkloric sensibilities✨ seem to be what this saucy, benevolent teaching deck wants to teach, more so than tarot symbolism, and that may be why it’s been behaving towards some of you, the tender-hearted, kind, and perplexed people who already bought it, by norms and protocols of ✨folkloric etiquette.✨ (Haha—big oops.)
Fear not, consumer! We’re gonna cover some Folkloric Etiquette & Safety 101 tips here, that should help you get along with these spooky-friendly decks in gentle, easy, fun ways if they turn out to be inscrutable saucy brats with you. There’s a lot of ground to cover here. 😅 This will be the first post in a little series. Today, we’ll cover the basics, then we’ll have a couple follow ups on deep-diving with the decks, aaaand… the back story on how they got so “quirky.” And hey, if these are perfectly normal decks behaving normally in your house (as they may well be), you never know when else these particular Folkloric Etiquette & Safety Tips could come in handy….
• Suitable Offerings To Try: Now, I did not tell them to do this, but some of my readership started spontaneously offering their Black Ink Tarot decks little offerings and rituals to try to get the cards to open up, with interesting results. So I can say that the Black Ink Deck might enjoy offerings of music, or a glass of cool water set out on the table to open up. It might like a nice black tea with sugar and/or milk if you’re an offers-offerings type person. IDK? In fact, it might appreciate an extra cool glass of water or cup of tea set out on the reading table every time you work with it, as that sets the stage for a pleasant and reciprocal exchange.
I’m suggesting tea here because that’s one of the things I set out daily in the studio where this deck was drawn. I drink tea all the time, so I fix a cup each for ancestors and muses once a day, while I’m at it. That means this deck grew up on black tea and sugar here. Earl Gray, and Irish or English breakfast are perennial favorites, and you can’t go wrong with a nice sweet chai. Fix one for yourself too! Make it a party. Remember to dispose of any offerings down the sink or out on the compost heap when you’re done. You do not want to ingest spirit offerings yourself!
What can I say here?
I can say that your cumulative feedback—which I appreciate very much—follows patterns I’m familiar with, but did not expect to see play out quite this way. I can say you will probably understand the decks and books more easily once you’ve acquired some ✨folkloric sensibilities,✨ so brushing up on your folkloric tales and fables may help, most especially from pre-Victorian sources and scholars who cite historic and native texts.
I can say that ✨folkloric sensibilities✨ seem to be what this saucy, benevolent teaching deck wants to teach, more so than tarot symbolism, and that may be why it’s been behaving towards some of you, the tender-hearted, kind, and perplexed people who already bought it, by norms and protocols of ✨folkloric etiquette.✨ (Haha—big oops.)
Fear not, consumer! We’re gonna cover some Folkloric Etiquette & Safety 101 tips here, that should help you get along with these spooky-friendly decks in gentle, easy, fun ways if they turn out to be inscrutable saucy brats with you. There’s a lot of ground to cover here. 😅 This will be the first post in a little series. Today, we’ll cover the basics, then we’ll have a couple follow ups on deep-diving with the decks, aaaand… the back story on how they got so “quirky.” And hey, if these are perfectly normal decks behaving normally in your house (as they may well be), you never know when else these particular Folkloric Etiquette & Safety Tips could come in handy….
• Suitable Offerings To Try: Now, I did not tell them to do this, but some of my readership started spontaneously offering their Black Ink Tarot decks little offerings and rituals to try to get the cards to open up, with interesting results. So I can say that the Black Ink Deck might enjoy offerings of music, or a glass of cool water set out on the table to open up. It might like a nice black tea with sugar and/or milk if you’re an offers-offerings type person. IDK? In fact, it might appreciate an extra cool glass of water or cup of tea set out on the reading table every time you work with it, as that sets the stage for a pleasant and reciprocal exchange.
I’m suggesting tea here because that’s one of the things I set out daily in the studio where this deck was drawn. I drink tea all the time, so I fix a cup each for ancestors and muses once a day, while I’m at it. That means this deck grew up on black tea and sugar here. Earl Gray, and Irish or English breakfast are perennial favorites, and you can’t go wrong with a nice sweet chai. Fix one for yourself too! Make it a party. Remember to dispose of any offerings down the sink or out on the compost heap when you’re done. You do not want to ingest spirit offerings yourself!
• Offensive Offerings To Avoid: But aw, lookout—this deck has thus far gotten a little spicy, and three-of-swords level offended, by offerings of “clothing,” such as deck bags—oops. 😬 (Sorry, gang. Shoulda seen that one coming? I did not, but hearing about it helped clarify a ✨pattern,✨ so thank you for your community service for trying. 🙏 Any beautiful tarot bags you may already have procured or made by hand would be beloved by other decks in your collection, I’m sure, if this deck ever stops cooperating in the face of them.) This deck comes with a hard box, decorated on the interior with night sky things. It likes to wear that, or even lie out on the table for a breather now and then. You may find that it makes less sense with you or goes on strike for bit in response to gifts of “clothing.” (Oops.)
• Good Housekeeping: It would be wise to keep your reading space tidier than not tidy when you go to work with this deck. This doesn’t have to be perfect! Cozy clutter’s fine, but you probs don’t want gross messes, like a sink stacked full of dirty dishes, smelly laundry heaps, stale food & drink lying around, or lapsed hygiene when and where you go to ask this oracle a question. I haven’t caught it doing this yet, but I would not put it past this deck to mess with your head on purpose or give you comically misleading, ambiguous answers if you did. 😆 LOL. A bit of pleasant background music on, and maybe some incense or a candle going—nice vibes for a nice space—will most likely enhance your reading and working experience here.
• Warding & Safety Resources: If you would like to prevent working with folkloric entities for any reason, keeping some iron and salt around usually help. 🤔 Personally, I’d store my iron and salt things somewhere else than where I store and use this particular tarot deck, as salt can be so terribly damaging to… “artwork.” Likewise, if any of the tables and chairs in your house have uncovered metal legs, frames, or edges with steel or iron content, you may find that this deck prefers to make sense with you at tables besides those ones for no reason. 🤦🏻
Consulting the thoroughly researched yet accessibly priced and phrased works of folkloric expert, Morgan Daimler is a fine idea if this is an area of interest or concern. If you’re already dealing with folkloric entities or stories for any reason, this deck & book situation could potentially come in handy within your practice. Lee Morgan and Emma Wilby are some fun, smart, intermediate to advanced sources worth consulting if you’re questioning whether you might be on the non-optional witch spectrum OR haunted by some spooky, old Western European folkloric shit you didn’t ask for. Note that Wilby is an academic scholar of witchcraft history, not a practitioner.
• Prediction: I sometimes use tarot as a tool for mapping trajectories. This deck is capable of accurate predictive readings, and may enjoy them. If your readings seem loaded or patterned but aren’t making sense in the moment, try jotting them down with dates and coming back later at the one week and one month marks. If your readings often clarify in hindsight, congrats! This deck most likely wants to work with you predictively, and it’s just running a little ahead of you.
When we ask our oracles to tell us true stuff we don’t know yet, and then they deliver, that can make our readings harder to understand in the moment. Journaling and reviewing your notes are your keys to figuring out how any willfully inscrutable, saucy-brat oracle wants to speak to you for this chapter of your journey.
• Of Riddling & Equivocation: Tarot speaks the truth, tells it like it is, and sasses back by nature. Folkloric personalities may enjoy to phrase truths in artful, ambiguous, and riddling ways, open to multiple or conflicting interpretations. They may phrase the truth in perfectly plain and clear ways that only make sense once you understand some of their culture and idioms. Or they might tell you a true thing right up front in a way that ensures you won’t believe it just to fuck with you—ha!—or to teach you some ✨invaluable lesson✨ you’ll cherish eventually later….
This deck is designed, as most tarot decks are, to tell the truth. But I did not tell it how it ought to do this, and it seems to be following its own discretion now that it’s in other peoples’ hands lol.
Each of this deck’s symbols is designed to mean multiple things, so you may need to sit with it and think about the stories that emerge between the cards in a full spread to trace which layers of meaning activate in response to your question.
• Good Housekeeping: It would be wise to keep your reading space tidier than not tidy when you go to work with this deck. This doesn’t have to be perfect! Cozy clutter’s fine, but you probs don’t want gross messes, like a sink stacked full of dirty dishes, smelly laundry heaps, stale food & drink lying around, or lapsed hygiene when and where you go to ask this oracle a question. I haven’t caught it doing this yet, but I would not put it past this deck to mess with your head on purpose or give you comically misleading, ambiguous answers if you did. 😆 LOL. A bit of pleasant background music on, and maybe some incense or a candle going—nice vibes for a nice space—will most likely enhance your reading and working experience here.
• Warding & Safety Resources: If you would like to prevent working with folkloric entities for any reason, keeping some iron and salt around usually help. 🤔 Personally, I’d store my iron and salt things somewhere else than where I store and use this particular tarot deck, as salt can be so terribly damaging to… “artwork.” Likewise, if any of the tables and chairs in your house have uncovered metal legs, frames, or edges with steel or iron content, you may find that this deck prefers to make sense with you at tables besides those ones for no reason. 🤦🏻
Consulting the thoroughly researched yet accessibly priced and phrased works of folkloric expert, Morgan Daimler is a fine idea if this is an area of interest or concern. If you’re already dealing with folkloric entities or stories for any reason, this deck & book situation could potentially come in handy within your practice. Lee Morgan and Emma Wilby are some fun, smart, intermediate to advanced sources worth consulting if you’re questioning whether you might be on the non-optional witch spectrum OR haunted by some spooky, old Western European folkloric shit you didn’t ask for. Note that Wilby is an academic scholar of witchcraft history, not a practitioner.
• Prediction: I sometimes use tarot as a tool for mapping trajectories. This deck is capable of accurate predictive readings, and may enjoy them. If your readings seem loaded or patterned but aren’t making sense in the moment, try jotting them down with dates and coming back later at the one week and one month marks. If your readings often clarify in hindsight, congrats! This deck most likely wants to work with you predictively, and it’s just running a little ahead of you.
When we ask our oracles to tell us true stuff we don’t know yet, and then they deliver, that can make our readings harder to understand in the moment. Journaling and reviewing your notes are your keys to figuring out how any willfully inscrutable, saucy-brat oracle wants to speak to you for this chapter of your journey.
• Of Riddling & Equivocation: Tarot speaks the truth, tells it like it is, and sasses back by nature. Folkloric personalities may enjoy to phrase truths in artful, ambiguous, and riddling ways, open to multiple or conflicting interpretations. They may phrase the truth in perfectly plain and clear ways that only make sense once you understand some of their culture and idioms. Or they might tell you a true thing right up front in a way that ensures you won’t believe it just to fuck with you—ha!—or to teach you some ✨invaluable lesson✨ you’ll cherish eventually later….
This deck is designed, as most tarot decks are, to tell the truth. But I did not tell it how it ought to do this, and it seems to be following its own discretion now that it’s in other peoples’ hands lol.
Each of this deck’s symbols is designed to mean multiple things, so you may need to sit with it and think about the stories that emerge between the cards in a full spread to trace which layers of meaning activate in response to your question.
More Shit-You-Not Testimonials From People Who Bought This Good-Boy Deck:
“I never go to this deck when I need straight answers, I go to it when I need a deck that vibes with plutonic shadow shit in a friendly way and is going to tell me rhymey truths I can’t understand, yet in a very consistent way.”
“Dear black ink tarot. Why you like these reversals so much??!?!?”
“The Black Ink Tarot became my confidant . . . [it] just kept telling me what was coming.”
“I now consider it to be extremely blunt, if often cryptic.”
“It’s not a deck I can do a quick pull with. It’s for sitting with.”
“I think I was looking for a more clear answer to all this and the deck was like 🤭😏 you know that’s not how we’re going to play this. Right?”
“I do love seeing the theme from [the] black ink deck of bluntness and folksy impishness and comfort preferences.”
“It’s also a radically different deck than my others. If I were you, I’d be watching with glee, eating snacks, probably popcorn, as my little minions take on a life of their own and run amok.”
• Your Field Guide: Fortune’s Inkwell is your translator! If the deck makes no fuckin’ sense to you whatsoever, use it together with the guidebook and pretend I’m giving you a reading. After a while of doing this, it should get much more intuitive. I use this technique myself, with decks that I don’t “get” on my own, or decks where I love the authors’ words and phrasings.
It is totally fine and worthwhile to draw on inspiration from folklore as literature, without believing in it in any literal or religious sense. The guidebook and spreads that accompany these decks give them structure and translation that should help them make sense, and keep them focused for you, without straying too far off the garden path, as it were. These projects are bilingual in workaday human and folkloric idioms. If you’d rather not get into anything too spirit work-y, I suggest using the spreads, book, and a literary-minded approach for safe boundaries and clarity.
• Some In Defense of Me Things: Now, In defense of me, I did tell you up front in the Kickstarter that I was folkloric crafter doing folkloric things with my folkloric, symbolic art. There are banners & blurbs stating much the same up front on all my websites. And then I covered the packaging in wingèd ARROWS and horseshoes. My homesite bio has stated some variation on thisssss for YEARS, and here was the New World Witchery interview where I laid out the core story, agenda, and personality situation behind this project before you backed the deck. So technically, this work is doing just about what it says right on the box… 😇 Anyhew…
It is totally fine and worthwhile to draw on inspiration from folklore as literature, without believing in it in any literal or religious sense. The guidebook and spreads that accompany these decks give them structure and translation that should help them make sense, and keep them focused for you, without straying too far off the garden path, as it were. These projects are bilingual in workaday human and folkloric idioms. If you’d rather not get into anything too spirit work-y, I suggest using the spreads, book, and a literary-minded approach for safe boundaries and clarity.
• Some In Defense of Me Things: Now, In defense of me, I did tell you up front in the Kickstarter that I was folkloric crafter doing folkloric things with my folkloric, symbolic art. There are banners & blurbs stating much the same up front on all my websites. And then I covered the packaging in wingèd ARROWS and horseshoes. My homesite bio has stated some variation on thisssss for YEARS, and here was the New World Witchery interview where I laid out the core story, agenda, and personality situation behind this project before you backed the deck. So technically, this work is doing just about what it says right on the box… 😇 Anyhew…
• Non-Perilous Compliments: The Black Ink Tarot Deck might enjoy occasional compliments, but probs NOT being spoken to in a drippy or patronizing fashion. Given how things are going, I strongly suspect this deck might enjoy being verbally appreciated now and then, but perhaps not thanked via phrases such as “thank you” ever. Try calling it a good deck! In a—not condescending—tone of voice. It’s not a pet, but it is a good deck! It’s here to help. If you would ever like to “thank” your deck for an extra helpful reading, you can say it with an offering of music, or tea and sugar lol.
• Clocking The Vibe: Most tarot decks sass back to some degree. So far, this one has shown a track record of sassing people in a classic vernacular unfamiliar to some. 🤷🏻 This understated little goth deck and I do genuinely love to help people. It would not be beneficial or necessary to approach it with fear, and it would not be courteous to get too whimsical, drippy, or twee with it once you clock the vibe.
• Clocking The Vibe: Most tarot decks sass back to some degree. So far, this one has shown a track record of sassing people in a classic vernacular unfamiliar to some. 🤷🏻 This understated little goth deck and I do genuinely love to help people. It would not be beneficial or necessary to approach it with fear, and it would not be courteous to get too whimsical, drippy, or twee with it once you clock the vibe.
Hint of All Hints, in case you haven’t “clocked the vibe” just yet: Starts with the “F” and rhymes with the “Heyyy…” 😉
Please note that folkloric sensibilities are perfectly normal and natural for some persons, spirits, and card decks apparently, to observe by innate wiring or practice. Folkloric sensibilities do not make one any better or worse than another by default. I believe it’s wise for folklore buffs to be very skeptical of the Demonic vs. Silly False Dichotomy plaguing most contemporary pop culture, fantasy, and neopagan views of folkloric entities. We’ll talk more about that later! Not all of the Good Folk are fun & friendly like this deck is, but They’re not all evil either. Historic lore suggests They are… complex. And so aren’t we all? I don’t speak for The Good Neighbors or the historic lore about Them! But I’m quite confident that a person, spirit, or tarot deck per se *could* harbor some baseline folkloric sensibilities—or opt to speak in folkloric idioms for purely creative & intellectual reasons—while remaining compassionate, lighthearted, and pro-social much to most of the time.
I could be mistaken, but it seems to me that this deck likes to be treated in *certain ways,* and that it likes to school lovable misfits in folkloric sensibilities and manners while supporting you through shadow-work, metamorphosis, rebellion, and creative development… with a spicy-morbid-saucy sense of humor. That seems to be the pattern, as far as I can tell, now that I’ve sold it to some people, who noticed it was weird and started asking pointed questions… SO--
As an Agnostic Smart Person throwing spaghetti at the wall, with no clue what I am doing at any given time, I legally cannot 1000% guarantee that this deck is not low-key haunted and in your house now. 😁
I am not *entirely sure* what I did here, metaphysically speaking. This deck could be inspirited, it could have an egregore, it could open lines of communication to external spirits for some people, or it could be strongly imprinted and encoded from the folkloric nerd research that symbolically stocks my arts practices. It’s been behaving rather like an inspirited deck, and organically prompting people to engage with it in spirit-work-y ways, as far as I can tell from the people I’ve heard from.
I designed The Black Ink Tarot to be a gentle, fun, teaching deck here for learning helpful things. And so it is! 😅
(I did not think to specify or dictate *what* it was here to “teach” per se.)
No bullshit though—this work has made me a stronger artist, and a wiser, more compassionate person than I was at the outset. I sincerely hope it will help others in turn.
• Pass It On: This deck won’t be for everyone, and that’s okay. While I do not have the margins to accept opened returns if you do perceive this deck to be both haunted and in your house now in a way that doesn’t work for you… I won’t take offense if you’d rather pass it off to someone else whose cup of tea it is. We have a deck exchange in my Discord forum, and you guys can network barters, deck trades, & buy-nothing giveaways right there if you want to. You could also enjoy it as artwork, without engaging it spiritually if you prefer. You could hang the cards up in frames as home decor, or use them as jaunty little bookmarks or alter charms on a card by card basis, without ever having to ask it questions and get wyrder answers than you wanna deal with. You could use it exclusively with the guidebook for safer, structured, human guidance.
If you do not engage this deck in spirit work-y manners, it will most likely behave as ink & paper in your house.
• Offerings of Coin or Barter:“folkloric” etiquette generally advises strongly against leaving offerings of money or coin for those who adhere to folkloric-type etiquette, but I would like it noted that I myself, a working class, human multimedia artist, DO enjoy offerings of money when left in a balanced exchange for goods and services rendered. (Proportional barters are cool too—love the barter system!) As an alive person in a late-capitalist primate skin-bag, I can use money both to buy things, and to pay my various & insufferable bills. This makes money a very fine and useful, and not at all offensive thing to trade to me in fair exchange for my services or my goods, such as understated, vibey little goth decks.
• This School Is Clown School: This work has always had a mind of its own and sometimes plays TRICKS—including on me—and I (an idiot) rarely spot them coming! But I do respect a good joke with rough edges and a loooong… setup. 😉 This school is Clown School and I am a muppet. 💫
I do stand by the merits and nurturing spirits behind this deck and Fortune’s Inkwell, but you guys have a right to know that this deck has some trickster energy and may open invitations into folkloric spirit work for some. We’ll talk more about deep-diving soon. It should be a sovereign and informed choice for you to go there if you want to.
✨This all✨ means that the game has just changed for me on Things I Have To Say Aloud & Things I Get To Teach Before The Public. What fun! It is true that we’re wrapping up Interrobang Tarot here, and aside for this last round of coaching on my finished decks, I am retiring from new creations and mentoring in tarot and witchcraft…
It is equally true that I am “switching departments,” and launching a whole-ass new blog & tomfoolery school—free for the working class—this summer… Get pepped and watch this space! And please feel free to drop any questions in the comments, or on Discord. I’ll most likely tackle questions in roundups and blog posts.
In light of this fun ✨surprise,✨ I am here to help people get along with these decks I’m still selling, even though I am wrapping up the rest of my tarot era.
I could be mistaken, but it seems to me that this deck likes to be treated in *certain ways,* and that it likes to school lovable misfits in folkloric sensibilities and manners while supporting you through shadow-work, metamorphosis, rebellion, and creative development… with a spicy-morbid-saucy sense of humor. That seems to be the pattern, as far as I can tell, now that I’ve sold it to some people, who noticed it was weird and started asking pointed questions… SO--
As an Agnostic Smart Person throwing spaghetti at the wall, with no clue what I am doing at any given time, I legally cannot 1000% guarantee that this deck is not low-key haunted and in your house now. 😁
I am not *entirely sure* what I did here, metaphysically speaking. This deck could be inspirited, it could have an egregore, it could open lines of communication to external spirits for some people, or it could be strongly imprinted and encoded from the folkloric nerd research that symbolically stocks my arts practices. It’s been behaving rather like an inspirited deck, and organically prompting people to engage with it in spirit-work-y ways, as far as I can tell from the people I’ve heard from.
I designed The Black Ink Tarot to be a gentle, fun, teaching deck here for learning helpful things. And so it is! 😅
(I did not think to specify or dictate *what* it was here to “teach” per se.)
No bullshit though—this work has made me a stronger artist, and a wiser, more compassionate person than I was at the outset. I sincerely hope it will help others in turn.
• Pass It On: This deck won’t be for everyone, and that’s okay. While I do not have the margins to accept opened returns if you do perceive this deck to be both haunted and in your house now in a way that doesn’t work for you… I won’t take offense if you’d rather pass it off to someone else whose cup of tea it is. We have a deck exchange in my Discord forum, and you guys can network barters, deck trades, & buy-nothing giveaways right there if you want to. You could also enjoy it as artwork, without engaging it spiritually if you prefer. You could hang the cards up in frames as home decor, or use them as jaunty little bookmarks or alter charms on a card by card basis, without ever having to ask it questions and get wyrder answers than you wanna deal with. You could use it exclusively with the guidebook for safer, structured, human guidance.
If you do not engage this deck in spirit work-y manners, it will most likely behave as ink & paper in your house.
• Offerings of Coin or Barter:“folkloric” etiquette generally advises strongly against leaving offerings of money or coin for those who adhere to folkloric-type etiquette, but I would like it noted that I myself, a working class, human multimedia artist, DO enjoy offerings of money when left in a balanced exchange for goods and services rendered. (Proportional barters are cool too—love the barter system!) As an alive person in a late-capitalist primate skin-bag, I can use money both to buy things, and to pay my various & insufferable bills. This makes money a very fine and useful, and not at all offensive thing to trade to me in fair exchange for my services or my goods, such as understated, vibey little goth decks.
• This School Is Clown School: This work has always had a mind of its own and sometimes plays TRICKS—including on me—and I (an idiot) rarely spot them coming! But I do respect a good joke with rough edges and a loooong… setup. 😉 This school is Clown School and I am a muppet. 💫
I do stand by the merits and nurturing spirits behind this deck and Fortune’s Inkwell, but you guys have a right to know that this deck has some trickster energy and may open invitations into folkloric spirit work for some. We’ll talk more about deep-diving soon. It should be a sovereign and informed choice for you to go there if you want to.
✨This all✨ means that the game has just changed for me on Things I Have To Say Aloud & Things I Get To Teach Before The Public. What fun! It is true that we’re wrapping up Interrobang Tarot here, and aside for this last round of coaching on my finished decks, I am retiring from new creations and mentoring in tarot and witchcraft…
It is equally true that I am “switching departments,” and launching a whole-ass new blog & tomfoolery school—free for the working class—this summer… Get pepped and watch this space! And please feel free to drop any questions in the comments, or on Discord. I’ll most likely tackle questions in roundups and blog posts.
In light of this fun ✨surprise,✨ I am here to help people get along with these decks I’m still selling, even though I am wrapping up the rest of my tarot era.
We’ll talk soon about how this all might have happened, and to what extent I did or did not know what I was doing the whole time. 🙃
Ooooo…. but then again: I might just might be a flaming small town huckster, and a closet *method actor* in this, not for heretofore undisclosed Good Neighborly reasons, but for heretofore undisclosed performance art reasons, which shall clarify in time, my loves. In fact, there’s a very fine chance that this entire post has been an elaborate performance art piece tailored to performance art specifications for performance art reasons (which shall clarify in time) and nothing you need to be concerned about as a consumer….
#PlausibleDeniability #Framing #GuessWhich
(Nothing says “def not in league with the fae” like plausible deniability, elaborate, interactive “performance art” ruses, and spooky little guessing games that invite you to question how haunted your house is now.💫)
So glad you’ve all enjoyed Interrobang Sure… Uh… “Tarot” over the years! 😉
Welcome friends & comrades, to Act II.
To be continued…
#PlausibleDeniability #Framing #GuessWhich
(Nothing says “def not in league with the fae” like plausible deniability, elaborate, interactive “performance art” ruses, and spooky little guessing games that invite you to question how haunted your house is now.💫)
So glad you’ve all enjoyed Interrobang Sure… Uh… “Tarot” over the years! 😉
Welcome friends & comrades, to Act II.
To be continued…
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