August 14th, 2003
 senji
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2003/08/14 11:28:00 - My Little Pony Tarot Cards?
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With one of those free association things that seem to happen a lot on IRC,  lark_ascending and I ended up talking about My Little Pony Tarot cards.
lark_ascending thinks it is probably impossible to get proper balance on a set (and she's probably right), but the comment that sticks in my mind is:
Hanged Man is a card about having perspective on the world. It'd probably be a pony hanging by its knees from a tree, like a kid.
(Aww, cute...)
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 ex_lark_asc
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2003/08/14 07:22:34
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I think it would be *difficult* to get proper balance. But if you read old MLP comics and so on, it's not all totally sugar-coated; there's a lovely little rendition of the story of the Discordian apple in one book I've got at home.
I think with a little creativity you could come up with quite a strong deck - it would be heavily influenced by the same values the MLP world was created to express, namely friendship, sharing, exploration and learning, cooperation to overcome bad times and innocence - but that's not necessarily a bad thing in a tarot deck.
A My Little Pony *collector's* Tarot, on the other hand, would be far more flexible - "XIII. Child with Scissors."
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senji
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2003/08/14 08:33:01
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VIII: Elder Brother (or possibly 0?)
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ex_lark_asc
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2003/08/14 09:04:00
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Surely the older brother would be XV ;)
0: Spike the Dragon
XVII: The Pony Collector
.. this is all far too plausible :)
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senji
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2003/08/14 09:08:15
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Ooo, I'd forgotton about Spike. Aww...
I think XV is probably reserved for younger brother...
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ex_lark_asc
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2003/08/14 09:10:38
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I'd guess that depends on what your little brother was like..
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