Publishing Goblin
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13 days ago
Project Update: Misery Monday IX | The Suit of Nails Immaculate
My dear Miserrians,
First off, my infinite brain kept me up till 6am last night to work through the intricacies of two collectible card games I have had kicking around for 2 years now. It apparently doesn't matter I have 9 other projects in action at the moment, and soon to be a 10th. Brain will always find more to do. If you want to see more about those, check out the patreon post for Wednesday this week!
At the moment, Enoch and I have kicked it into gear and are about to be done with the Suit of Rust. We are getting ahead of ourselves so we can get that early printing of the deck done sooner than later. Let me know your favorite tarot youtubers and instagrammers etc, so I can reach out to see who might like to have their hands on an early print of this deck in March. If any of you are those exact kind of tubers or content creators, let me know! We will be doing deck packaging and tarot cloth and all the extra goodies when we get the deck done in the background, which means Enoch is almost done with all their work.
I will also be doing a final deck pass through to make sure each card is done and correct shortly, which is a fun finalization experience.
But more importantly, ENOCH's BIRTHDAY is this week! So wish Enoch a happy birthday. I might even let Enoch live without sicking a horrid creature on them when all is said and done. Maybe.
- 5 The Excess
In our suit of Nails, we have The Overhope. In excess, Nails begins to gather all their hope into impossible tasks. It's an easy trap, when we finally have hope, to begin making infinite plans and using our nails on concrete blocks that can't receive them. Make reasonable plans! Do not hope to suddenly become everything you waited for. It is still a slow build, friends. - 6 The Ecstasy
In our suit of Nails, we have The Making. The ecstasy of hope, an upward turn, is having the tools to keep ourselves dry in the rain. Knowing that we can make something small, a simple shelter for our hearts. It seems like not much to others, but for us who have suffered, it is such a balm and hope that anything can still happen again. We are freed to heal and grow. Good for us, truly. - 7 The Finale
In our suit of Nails, we have The Planning. To come out the other side of this suit, once again, can have two meanings. One is to become one with the House, the overplanner who maps every part of our brains. But that is more the Denizen here than who we are. The other meaning is to gain a lesson from our time in the house, and here it is to make a roadmap of our goals. Reasonably and over time, piece by piece, to rebuild ourselves and our lives. We can dream again. - Denizen
In our suit of Nails, we have The Precise Fool. This person has overplanned everything. They believe they can map out every piece of what can happen ahead. With their nail, they have carved in stone what will happen for the rest of their lives, with star charts and runes and happiness meters. But of course, we cannot plan our lives in stone. Anything can happen. Have goals and dreams, work towards them, but know that they may change, or you may decide you don't want them. Life is meant to be lived, not charted. So make bullet points, then go live towards them. - Ruler
In our suit of Nails, we have The Guiltless Queen. At her best, she has gained the understanding that she is not guilty. That is not a bad thing, it can be something we often struggle to accept when bad things happen. That it wasn't our fault. But at her worst, she is Guilty of things she has brushed aside with her new slate approach. She worked through the hard feelings of the badness of the situation, and now she emerges into the light unblemished. But in the dark, we still see the thick stake in the back of her head, scrambling her thoughts. Accept her nail, but do not stay with her and buy into her guiltless narrative. No one is perfectly faultless in life. We must find our wounds to know what even needs healed. Hope is not all there is, there is still the moving forward to enact it. She will stay here instead, always in the infinite dream of what hope offers, never in the actuality of affecting it.
Now in the stark reality of life, in the greyness of all things, we have learned that there is an upward swing. That in the grey concreteness of the world, we have hope. Our next path is to step into the Rusted world we find ourselves in, the wreckage of what went to decay when we left it to fall into the pits of despair. Only there can we gain understanding of what our real world looks like now that it has faded down to nubs. What are the bare bones of tradition? What will it take to rebuild from the ashes, the nails now in hand?
A teaser of RUST, my friends.
That's all for this week, see you next week as we dive into The House of Rust proper. We're ever so close now.
Have a great week, and apparently, Go Birds!
7DA
Your Pub Gob
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