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i want a Superman story about Superman realizing she's a trans woman. how would she tell people? who would she tell? how could she tell them? through what possible ways would she transition? Kryptonian biology may not necessarily be compatible with human hormone replacement therapy and needles are certainly out of the question. if she figures it out, at what point does her presentation change? superman can't take a break, people need her, even if her haircut is getting awkwardly long and her body is uncomfortable to be in. everyone on earth knows who Superman is, knows her face. is her secret identity threatened if Clark Kent mysteriously starts to transition at the same time as Superman? if she only lets one be publicly out, which one? and what would it feel like to put on that costume -- in either case -- if so? if someone tries to attack her on the street, as Ms. Kent, how does she hide her secret identity? how would the world itself react to someone with the strength to juggle planets being a tranny? with her super-hearing there's nothing she wouldn't know about what people are saying, nevermind what's being written in the press. how does SuperMAN, one of the most definitive icons of masculine indomitability and resilience, cope with changing? would her strength, her confidence, her ability to do anything suddenly be used against her? why can't she be more like wonder woman? why is voice training so hard even for someone with super-ventriloquism? does anyone know what it's like to be able to run faster than a speeding bullet and leap tall buildings in a single bound but to not be able to find a cute pair of shoes that fits? to be indestructible but afraid to use a public bathroom? would even the most powerful person on earth not feel just as helpless as i do?

i want to stress that it is crucial, like genuinely imperative, for this story in my mind that magical super special magic sci-fi kryptonian HRT that instantly rewrites Kent's DNA does not exist. it is not on the table. the entire thing is that Kent would have to transition slowly and awkwardly just like everybody else while also bearing the nonstop pressures and responsibilities of being "The Man of Steel" to literally every single human being on the planet. she doesn't have time to agonize over whether her shave was close enough before leaving the house if a plane is about to fall out of the sky

"You know what's harder than Getting Better? Living Like That" is just the thesis for my whole shit going on right now honestly. You know what's harder than doing my physical therapy? Hurting All The Time. You know what's harder than addressing my gender dysphoria? Hurting All The Time

I'm Doing The Hard Thing and it's *easier* than how I was living before. If you make yourself feel better you will have more energy to spend on Getting Better. Nice inch nails - the upward spiral. Crawl out of your grave Thursday

Just gonna add that the IWW is still kicking and basically anyone who is not an employer can join.

pollo👍

I like how the snake is also a chicken.

The minors are also handy because they have a variety of natural subdivisions if you don’t have the time or energy to do the full set; for example, you could do just one suit (e.g., fancast the Swords), just the court (e.g. fancast the Kings, Queens, Knights and Pages), or even just one rank (e.g., fancast the threes).

Seeing folks joke about playing card games with a tarot deck and accidentally cursing themselves while knowing that the tarot actually originated as a card game and was only later adapted for divination makes me wonder which of our contemporary game night standards will be re-interpreted was occult rituals by future societies. Uno? Connect Four? Twister?

given the prevalence of the reverse card as a meme, uno for fucking sure

Seeing folks joke about playing card games with a tarot deck and accidentally cursing themselves while knowing that the tarot actually originated as a card game and was only later adapted for divination makes me wonder which of our contemporary game night standards will be re-interpreted was occult rituals by future societies. Uno? Connect Four? Twister?

Clone High style animated sitcom, except it's about those fuckers on the tarot cards. Strength still has the lion.

The nondescript background characters are clearly modeled on the minor suits.

There's a recurring gag involving an unnamed background character who's always carrying a bunch of swords whenever they appear getting bumped or jostled by whatever bullshit is going on in the A-plot and dropping all their swords, then being like "oh no, my swords!".

#the exact number of swords corresponds to a card which has some relevance with respect to the episode's plot for the attentive viewer (via @prokopetz)

The obligatory "the gang has beef with their eerily similar counterparts from a rival school" episode, except the rival crew are clearly based on the Crowley tarot instead of the main crew's Rider-Waite.

beautiful... if this were 2013 tumblr we'd get fanart depicting faux cartoon episodes, a kickstarter for a "pilot" made by some anonymous person, and then a youtube video 8 years later explaining how the dramatic aftermath went down

You know, every time someone brings this up I've gotta ask: where exactly were all these big dramatic Tumblr cartoon scams? I was there for that era, and as I recall, every last one of them fizzled quickly and with little or no harm done. Miss Officer and Mr. Truffles never made its funding goal, and the most "dramatic" thing that ever came out of it was when it turned out the campaign's creator was a minor at the time and had lied about their age to register a Kickstarter account. All or Nothing ironically didn't use an all-or-nothing funding model, so at least some money was actually collected, but by all reports they took in fewer than five thousand dollars, which wouldn't have been enough to produce anything regardless of whether the enterprise was legit. Was there one that actually went somewhere that I'm blanking on?

Official Post of Massachusetts

To expand on the "just cards" bit, the preponderance of evidence is that tarot cards were playing cards before they were an instrument of divination, and in many cultures they're still used more for games than for cartomancy. That's true of pretty much all extant cartomantic traditions: the games came first, and the cards were only later – sometimes much later – adapted for divinatory purposes. You could do readings with baseball cards or your favourite Pokémon deck, and this would be perfectly in line with the history of the practice.

To expand on the "just cards" bit, the preponderance of evidence is that tarot cards were playing cards before they were an instrument of divination, and in many cultures they're still used more for games than for cartomancy. That's true of pretty much all extant cartomantic traditions: the games came first, and the cards were only later – sometimes much later – adapted for divinatory purposes. You could do readings with baseball cards or your favourite Pokémon deck, and this would be perfectly in line with the history of the practice.

Three cards you must choose! Ah the tower, change is in your future. The hermit, you will become closer to yourself. Oho, what’s this? Mike Trout 2022 Topps Chrome #200 Pink Refractor… woe, baseball bat be upon you *thwack*

#See how its only move is Splash? That means there's nothing you can do in the meantime.

Literally I’m explaining this exact thing at a local pagan store later this year as a cheap class. Like check it out boys we raided the card shop for their $0.25 bulk cards now we are making decks to divine with.

To expand on the "just cards" bit, the preponderance of evidence is that tarot cards were playing cards before they were an instrument of divination, and in many cultures they're still used more for games than for cartomancy. That's true of pretty much all extant cartomantic traditions: the games came first, and the cards were only later – sometimes much later – adapted for divinatory purposes. You could do readings with baseball cards or your favourite Pokémon deck, and this would be perfectly in line with the history of the practice.

personally i just use a standard deck of playing cards for divination and it works fine

I was briefly acquainted with a guy who did readings with an English pattern deck whose method included the jokers, the rules card, and the publisher's trademark notice as trumps, though I cannot for the life of me recall what correspondences they'd assigned to the rules card.

To expand on the "just cards" bit, the preponderance of evidence is that tarot cards were playing cards before they were an instrument of divination, and in many cultures they're still used more for games than for cartomancy. That's true of pretty much all extant cartomantic traditions: the games came first, and the cards were only later – sometimes much later – adapted for divinatory purposes. You could do readings with baseball cards or your favourite Pokémon deck, and this would be perfectly in line with the history of the practice.

Three cards you must choose! Ah the tower, change is in your future. The hermit, you will become closer to yourself. Oho, what’s this? Mike Trout 2022 Topps Chrome #200 Pink Refractor… woe, baseball bat be upon you *thwack*