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I was dissatisfied with all the other Touhou tarot decks out there.

The one that is widely available online does not do a very good job of matching cards with characters in a manner that preserves the occult meaning. The one that was commercially available was a bit better, but it sold out quickly.

So, I decided to make my own deck.

>> No.2954687
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I borrowed Rider-Waite-Smith deck proportions and mostly used beautiful ZUNart for the pictorial portion of each. Characters were matched to cards in accordance with the popular 1911 interpretations, though I did not preserve much of the original pictorial symbolism. Each Touhou character comes preloaded with a lot of context, and I tried to take full advantage of that.

>> No.2954695
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I chose a black and gray backing with vertical and horizontal symmetry. A black border with beveled corners was left around each in order to better disguise my horrendous cutting. The face and backing were printed separately on glossy photo paper. The sides were pasted together with white glue before the cards were cut to size.

>> No.2954702
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The finished product exceeded my expectations. Somehow, the deck looks a thousand times better on paper than it did on my screen. The shit tier resolution of ZUNart from the Touhou wiki is almost endearing. The cards are nice and heavy, yet hold together well. Their only disadvantage is the occasional spot of glue and the fact that glossy photo paper has a tendency to be a bit sticky.

>> No.2954707
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The deck itself reflects both the nature of Gensokyo as I understand it and my own occasionally very sick sense of humor. The backing works well both with my household decor and and my penchant for shades, the darker the better.

>> No.2954711
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Though I didn't take this too seriously when I started, I actually like the result. Enjoy!

>> No.2954717

I have the doujin one by the circle U235.

Only the major arcana, though, shame Remi and Flan had BOTH single cards and another one that featured both of them together.

>> No.2954718
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If there's one real man in Gensokyo, it's got to be her.

>> No.2954730
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It's popular to portray Sanae in this position, but we know that Reimu is the real self-proclaimed authority around those parts.

>> No.2954731

>>2954718
Rinnosuke for Empress?

>> No.2954751
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I thought long and hard about this one, and settled on RemiXSakuya. I wanted to depart from the conventional meaning of the card anyway, and stacking several different kinds of love: master-servant, 'child'-caretaker, etc. seemed like a fine thing to do.

Romantic love is overrated.

>> No.2954752

/jp/ - Blog/General

>> No.2954758

>>2954731

lol

Satori, with her 'pets', clairvoyance and all seemed like a more natural choice. We're talking about the power of the feminine with that card, and I wanted to spin it a bit darker than it's usually made out.

>> No.2954781
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This card took five fucking hours of solid, uninterrupted contemplation to find anything suitable for. The frog-snake duality, stubborn personality and general thickheadedness of this very good girl eventually won me over.

>> No.2954785
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Straightforward girl for a straightforward card.

>> No.2954795
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An obvious choice that others have made and I had no inclination to dispute.

>> No.2954806

At least he is using the games' portraits.

>> No.2954810
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Manipulation of fate and all that jazz is her province. I have a total of two cards with Remilia on them, but I judged that to be acceptable given what I wanted to do with the meanings.

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Another obvious choice.

>> No.2954848
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Suspension of events in time, a shiftless situation, a suggestion of death, yet no obvious signs of suffering...

Fits the bill.

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>> No.2954860
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Some characters beg to be used in a certain way.

>> No.2954873
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There were a couple of options for this one, but this works pretty well on several levels.

>> No.2954880
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2954880

People tend to think the Scarlet sisters for this position, but neither of them do justice to the concept behind the card. Orin does a better job.

>> No.2954887
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Everything about this card works well. However, we have no good ZUNart of that damned cherry tree.

>> No.2954896
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2954896

Another choice that was made in at least one other deck. However, it works well both on the surface and beneath.

>> No.2954904

I approve, both for using the ZUN art, as well as using the actual meanings of what the card is supposed to represent, rather than just what fits with the name.

>> No.2954911
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2954911

What can I say, I went straight for a princess of the place.

>> No.2954929
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2954929

This choice is slightly amusing to the casual eye, but is deeply disturbing if you dig into the meaning of the card. Aforementioned sick sense of humor really shines here, at least for those who care to look just a little bit beneath the surface.

>> No.2954952
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I have a total of four cards in this deck that do not use ZUNart. This is one of them. It was painfully hard to find a good Peaches for this sort of a portrayal.

It was also painfully hard to to choose the character for the card, given that its more interesting meanings go deeper than than the Abrahamic Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, and quickly get very confusing. However, a celestial who seemingly has nothing better to do than to impel all of Gensokyo to action seems fitting here.

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2954953

Who cares about the occult meaning?

>> No.2954963

>>2954953
Looks like the OP does.

>> No.2954969

The first thing I thought is "Why the FUCK isn't Kaguya the Empress?"

>> No.2954970
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2954970

I couldn't resist a final bit of levity with this card, especially given my skepticism regarding the supposition of there being an ultimate end or harmony to anything. Not content with the original concept of the card, I wanted to inject the idea that behind every apparent harmony there inevitably lies a giant DERP.

>> No.2954975

>>2954969

... and now you know:
>>2954911

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>>2954969

because she's the moon I guess. Really, I don't think too hard about how to combine Touhou with other shit.

>> No.2954985

derp hur opinions

not your blog

>> No.2955025

>>2954985
>>2954752

Same person.

>> No.2955026

>>2954981
>>2954975


The way I saw it, there should be a figure of royalty in the position.

>> No.2955044

>>2955026

The card has less to do with royalty and more to do with power, as I see it.

>> No.2955067 [DELETED] 

OP here. Stop spamming your retarded piece of shit on the superior board:

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>> No.2955382

>>2954752

/jp/ - Touhou/General

>> No.2955833

>>2954682
Any chance you posting up a .rar of, at the very least, the fronts?

You just made me want to go out and buy cardstock. Also, I have a printer that can do duplex so I REALLY want to do this right.

>> No.2955864

I approve of this.

>> No.2955887

Hey! You actually have Justice as #11. I respect you even more now.

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