Wendywu
So - why do you love the deck you think of as "your" deck, or your favourite deck? What is it about that deck?
Please no "what she said" replies if you happen to love the same deck as a previous poster - expand and tell me your version of "what she said". In gruesome detail. Your feelings about the same deck will be different in small ways.
Me - and as I have said before (ad nauseam) I love Ironwing. I love the enigmatic surface that seethes with meaning when you scratch it just a little. I love the way it shouts if it thinks I'm having a particularly dim day (rather frequent, I'm afraid). I love the jokes, the sadness, the compassion. And I absolutely adore the intricacy of the artwork that can lead me down so many paths of meaning. The cards have such a distinct voice. I never much cared for black and white decks but these cards showed me that when I can't be distracted by "oooh, pretty" colours and/or bling, I can focus so much more intently on what I see. In a way that applies more to the minors than the majors, because the minors are greyscale and much more muted than the full-on very densely black/red earth/white majors.
I found I resented it when others saw the cards very negatively or didn't see the intensity and beauty that I perceive in them, or interpreted them in ways that clashed directly with my limited understanding of them. That resentement was wrong of me. There are decks I look at that others rave about - and I see nothing, or just the merest glimmer or I don't perceive their beauty. That is a lack in me, not in the cards. Also, I now know that what others see in Ironwing is also true for them, just as what I see is true for me - even if it is in total opposition to my understanding of a card. So I don't resent that someone doesn't see her as I do anymore - instead I try and learn something from their vision of the deck.
So - teach me what you see in your deck? What lies beneath the obvious for you? How have you overcome obstacles with your deck?
Please no "what she said" replies if you happen to love the same deck as a previous poster - expand and tell me your version of "what she said". In gruesome detail. Your feelings about the same deck will be different in small ways.
Me - and as I have said before (ad nauseam) I love Ironwing. I love the enigmatic surface that seethes with meaning when you scratch it just a little. I love the way it shouts if it thinks I'm having a particularly dim day (rather frequent, I'm afraid). I love the jokes, the sadness, the compassion. And I absolutely adore the intricacy of the artwork that can lead me down so many paths of meaning. The cards have such a distinct voice. I never much cared for black and white decks but these cards showed me that when I can't be distracted by "oooh, pretty" colours and/or bling, I can focus so much more intently on what I see. In a way that applies more to the minors than the majors, because the minors are greyscale and much more muted than the full-on very densely black/red earth/white majors.
I found I resented it when others saw the cards very negatively or didn't see the intensity and beauty that I perceive in them, or interpreted them in ways that clashed directly with my limited understanding of them. That resentement was wrong of me. There are decks I look at that others rave about - and I see nothing, or just the merest glimmer or I don't perceive their beauty. That is a lack in me, not in the cards. Also, I now know that what others see in Ironwing is also true for them, just as what I see is true for me - even if it is in total opposition to my understanding of a card. So I don't resent that someone doesn't see her as I do anymore - instead I try and learn something from their vision of the deck.
So - teach me what you see in your deck? What lies beneath the obvious for you? How have you overcome obstacles with your deck?