Tarot of the Mice Kickstarter

[snobahr.livejournal.com]

Howdy! I'm Amanda "Snobahr" Geyer, and I was inspired to create a mouse-centric tarot deck. Tarot of the Mice, which will be used at CaliFur 2016 in Los Angeles, California in the first weekend of June.

I started reading tarot sometime around 1974, when Santa left a Rider-Waite deck in my stocking. I learned the 10-card Celtic Cross spread first, and then put it aside, poking at it every now and again, but not really seriously. After I got married in 1990, I started working with my tarot cards again, and saw some lovely decks in a local book store. I picked up one illustrated by Mary Hanson-Roberts, and used that almost exclusively for several years, before I got the Robin Wood tarot, which I felt a stronger connection to. Now, I work with the Universal Waite deck, the Housewives Tarot, the Tarot of Pagan Cats, and the Robin Wood tarot.

It started with a furry convention.

No, really, it did. As part of Wulfenbahr Arts, I attended CaliFur 2015. This year's theme was "Manga & Anime" and it was cute and fun, but when CaliFur announced the theme for 2016, "High Fantasy & Renaissance Faire," one of my first thoughts was, "OMG, I need new garb! OMG, I could totally do a peasant fortune teller! OMG, I need to brush up on palmistry and do a whole booth as a furry fortune teller!" My husband, the Wulf of Wulfenbahr Arts (I'm the Bahr), suggested one of his Reaper miniatures, "Madame Gorgonzola" the fortune teller. So, I'm building my whole furry fortune-telling schtick around an anthropomorphic mouse. I will be cosplaying "Madame Provalone, Teller of Fortunes!" This got me thinking about how much fun I've had in the Southern California Renaissance Pleasure Faire.

For this, I need a deck. For this, I need a mouse deck. For this, I need Tarot Of The Mice! For this, I need to design it!

Comments

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

This is an adorable idea! But you are asking for a lot of money, and you have almost nothing to show people to inspire them to want it (the single illustration, a dusty pencil sketch poorly scanned/photographed, is not very enticing). You may want to plan for breaking this project down into smaller, cheaper chunks and having some of the illustrations done and ready to post before you launch. :)

[snobahr.livejournal.com]

I totally hear you, and I'm adding rough pencils in as they get finished, mainly to show that regardless of the campaign status, the deck is getting worked on. Inked work will start getting added at the end of this week.

Even if this campaign doesn't succeed, I will be presenting Tarot of the Mice at CaliFur 2016, even if it's just a run of 25 decks, printed/laminated in-house. I'm just busting my butt to have a pro-level deck, ready to present to retailers (and professional readers).

Wow!

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

That's adorable! One of my favorite decks is The Ferret Tarot.