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Originally Posted by Erzebet
I'm weird. When a deck has real people in it if their dead and long ago, doesn't affect my readings. In fact it enhances them! But if the people are alive people or people I know even slightly it ends up ruining the card(s) for me!
Would it be possible to put spoilers on posts that talk about people on the forum who are in the deck? I thought it was a deck that completely used personages from a certain time period, I had noooo idea! 
If not, I'll deal.
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They're all long-dead peoples faces, but I'm pretty sure I've mentioned several times that a few faces reminded me of living people I know - eg, Jasper, Mary Greer (twice!), Dan - so I used those faces in cards where they felt right.
Since it was like a casting process, it was influenced by many subjective factors. And I think whether they're historical or living people that I was thinking of, both of those would bother some people as it would add a personal bias. This deck is full of personal bias. Someone mentioned that even 'recognising' their friends in a particular card would make the deck too biased for them. eg 'the Queen of Coins looks like my Aunty Myrtle, now every time I get that card I think it means something about her!'
And fair enough, it's that sort of deck - relating it to real people (who happen to resemble the faces) is part of what it's about. The tagline '78 friends you hold in your hand' gives an indication of how I intend that to happen.
If that doesn't suit someone's reading style, then probably another, less personal, deck would suit - eg Golden.
PS - the World LOOKS more like Jasper (lucky me, young hunk of a husband that he is), but the Fool has more of his... umm.. personality. So I think of him when that card comes up. Not him in person necessarily - it depends on the reading - but I think of his personality in the meaning of the card, and it gives me a deeper, fuller understanding of the card's complexity.
I think it's a bit hard to decide what needs a 'spoiler alert' because different things are significant to different people. eg, some people would probably prefer to not know that the Happy Squirrel is from a Simpsons episode. Or who the historical characters are. That's what you get for reading the board - I'm going to talk about pretty much every aspect of the deck here. I'm a 'cards on the table' kinda gal!
