Tarot of Eons

Tarot of Eons

Tarotwolf said:
It started growing on me and by the time I finished viewing I would have bought a copy if available. To be honest though, much of the appeal is due to the deck's not too subtle flaming "gayiocity". Yes, I think that's an actual word! Which makes me wonder, why doesn't the lovers card show two men embracing in each others arms?
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And what made you think that the person with long hair is not a man?
 

gregory

Tarot of Eons said:
And what made you think that the person with long hair is not a man?
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The body shape, since you ask. If it were a man - it would have to be one who had transgendered recently. The waist; the shape of the buttocks.... It's not the hair or anything (lord knows I know MANY men with that kind of hair !) - it's that body shape.
 

Dee Ell

gregory said:
The body shape, since you ask. If it were a man - it would have to be one who had transgendered recently. The waist; the shape of the buttocks.... It's not the hair or anything (lord knows I know MANY men with that kind of hair !) - it's that body shape.
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Exactly. As an artist, the contrast between the clear male character in the card to the arms, legs, hips and waist of the clearly female character in the card are what signals this. Even a very slender male does not have that body shape unless they have super high estrogen levels and low testosterone.

Regardless, it reads as a woman so if your intent as the artist is to have it be 2 males (or you decide to change it to 2 males given feedback you're receiving on the deck) then those would be the things that need to be addressed. The hair is a non-issue.
 

Laura Borealis

*nods* If the artist had wanted to depict two men on the Lovers card I think they would have made it unambiguous.
 

gregory

Laura Borealis said:
*nods* If the artist had wanted to depict two men on the Lovers card I think they would have made it unambiguous.
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The artist was the one who asked us how come we thought it was a woman. So either it was a trick question or....
 

Laura Borealis

Oh, I missed the name. Thanks for pointing that out.
 

Achlys

I'm not particularly fond of the art style...It reminds me of a simplified but worse digital quality of the art of the Tarot Apokalypsis. It's kind of like a poor quality video game from an older system. While it's nostalgic, it's also somewhat cringey,
 

gregory

I LIKE Eric Dunne's work.

THIS one reminds me much more of the Tarot of Heroes.... though it mercifully fails to top that Page of Swords...
 
deck id? Book of Shadows 2 - So Below deck