#dane asmund

The Hot Housewives Tarot launches August 19th on Backerkit. If you get ready now by placing a $2 reservation, you'll get this free gingham drawstring bag for your deck! And what's more 50's than that?!

Join us soon to welcome in an incredible 98 card deck with a reimagined major arcana, and suits that explore America as Centreville remembers it! Pies, Baseball, The Future, and BOMBS, of course!

And just like that, we’re nearly funded and officially a Project We Love on Kickstarter!

Come one and come all-- get your goblin poetry here!

Print proofs of all 5 books from my latest poetry Kickstarter arrived, plus the foil broadsides!

The main two books look fantastic, and represent 1100 pages of poetry from across my career. Very exciting for me to hold under my new name like this. 

This Map is Just a Suggestion is a selected and edited book of poems from a dozen of my old books, plus 50 pages of a strange new piece at the end.

Every Day in Love: Love’s Dead is a collected version of the three Every Day in Love books, the third one itself releasing just now alongside the full collection. I decided to reprint the first and second books as well to clean up a couple errors. In this series I marry Freddy Krueger and Pinhead. These poems are domestic, funny, and sometimes really endearing. We adopt kids, we have a nosy uncle, and chaos ensues!

You’ll be able to buy them here as they go live, though note that EDiL 2 and the full collection are delayed a few days as I had to fix an error in the table of contents of that book. And I will offer signed copies on my website once I place an order for books, as well as those foil broadsides.

Well well well. What have we here?

Oracle dice? Like tarot, but using dice? What a fun idea.

Oh wait, it’s my idea and I’m being a huge jerk right now, pretending it’s not. Well then.

Kickstarter has finally accepted this project, which means it could go live any minute now. But it won’t. No, I have a plan. A very special plan. One that states it will go live.... *checks notes* on the 20th. Ish. I am talking to someone wonderful about making it look a bit snazzier.

So what is the project? It’s a custom 10-die set of oracle dice, which will come with a 100~ page book at the core pledge explaining the dice, their use, and how to do readings with them.

Oracle dice are a project I sort of began about 6 years ago, but which just went to the back burner. I’ve practiced tarot and magic on and off for 15 years, and as a game designer, I always wanted to work dice into it. These oracle dice each have unique faces on all six sides, and each die carries with it a theme or idea. Where they land, how they group, and what quadrants they end up in help you to understand the reading. The die in the center is the core identity of the reading, dice to the left are within, focused on your inner journey, and dice to the right are without, focused on forces beyond you. The seasons play a quadrant game around the whole reading, further emboldening some dice and weakening others. You do not always need to throw all 10, you can focus your reading for particular smaller readings, or include them all to get the large view of the situation. The readings even take into account dice that wander away, perhaps off the table onto the floor.

I see a bunch of new followers coming in from the Caretaker. Welcome! I’m just a humble trans nerd, writing books, making games, and sometimes publishing things on behalf of others.

If you’re interested, take a look at some of my stuff, all of my books (more or less) are available as free PDFs in this google drive folder to help yall make it through quarantine: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1TVDerQgO9nev3OoKvMooc6u46C5zUJ8k

Or if you want to pay for some stuff, here are my books of poetry:

https://www.lulu.com/search?adult_audience_rating=00&contributorId=1483667&q=dane+asmund

The caretaker’s tarot, books, and one of my novels (which is about to have a 2nd edition up, so wait on that):

https://www.drivethrufiction.com/browse.php?author=Dane%20Asmund

My table top roleplaying games, including a brand new Zine where you are a psyche stopping a mental rot from hitting your world, a small book game where you play moth-hearted vampires, a time travel card-based role playing game, and more:

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/10101/Cosmic-Mirror-Games

My redbubble, which also includes some official Normal Horoscopes merch:

https://www.redbubble.com/people/DaneAsmund/shop?asc=u

....and my itch, where I have a couple small bitsy games, including a decently popular FNAF fangame called Clearing Your Name (You can find a let’s play from Dawko and FusionGamerz and others!):

Soon (aiming for the 5th of January), I’m launching This Map is Just a Suggestion, a 500~ page volume of selected poetry from my first 12 books. It’s a solid, very exciting read, and will feature some new work from 2021!

At the same time, I’m relaunching Every Day in Love 1 and 2, my poetry project about domestic life with my husbands, Freddy Krueger and Pinhead, and our children, Jason, Samara, and Samhain! And to top it off, I’m ALSO releasing the third and final book in that series, plus a Collected version of all 3, featuring lovely art from HumanPerson!

If you’ve liked the things I’ve made, the Oracle Dice, the Normal Tarot, consider supporting one of my MANY other endeavors! I have a Masters in Poetry, have written novels, made card games, small video games, music, and more-- and this is a great way to learn about one of my many other creative outlets.

This means a lot to me because I get to bring my old work and recent work under my new name as a trans person, which lets me feel like I’m reclaiming it from old book covers with my deadname. 

@normal-horoscopes

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Hardcovers are now available, so you can get a soft or hardcover (or pdf!) of your favorite blog, now in book form! Get at it and help us stay at #1 on the site!

Do you love @normal-horoscopes ? Have you appreciated all of the awesome content that the raving Caretaker has gifted to the internet? Do you want to show your support?

You can pledge just a dollar today, yes, just $1. Pledging a single dollar to the Kickstarter campaign will let the Caretaker know that you appreciate what they do and give to the world, and it will get your name in the physical book that you are supporting!