Pretentious Word Nonsense

The vibes of this deck are surprisingly rancid. Maybe you're into that sort of tarot deck, though.

Planned Parenthood (https://www.plannedparenthood.org/): you know these
Southern Poverty Law Center (https://www.splcenter.org/): you know these

Yellowhammer Fund (https://www.yellowhammerfund.org/): "abortion advocacy and reproductive justice"
Atlanta Solidarity Fund (https://atlsolidarity.org/): funds bail for protestors
The Bail Project (https://bailproject.org/): funds bail for protestors
National Bail Fund Network (https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/nbfn-directory): funds bail for protestors
Undue Medical Debt (https://unduemedicaldebt.org/): buys and forgives medical debt
National Abortion Federation (https://prochoice.org/): professional association of abortion providers
CHIRLA (https://www.chirla.org/): supports immigrants
Al Otro Lado (https://alotrolado.org/): supports immigrants
Mid-South Immigration Advocates (https://miamemphis.org/): supports immigrants
Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights (https://www.theyoungcenter.org/): supports immigrant children
We are CASA (https://wearecasa.org/): supports working-class Black, Latino/a/e, Afro-descendent, Indigenous, and Immigrant communities
HireAutism (https://www.hireautism.org/): helps autistic people in jobhunting

PbtA
-Apocalypse World
-Monsterhearts
-The Veil
-Dream Askew
-blades in the dark
Fate
Perfect, Unrevised
Burning Wheel
-Torchbearer
-Mouse Guard
GURPS
Nobilis
Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine
Dogs in the Vineyard
The Quiet Year
Ryuutama
Technoir
Stars Without Number
The Sprawl
Genesys
Tekumel
Polaris
My Life With Master
Fireborn
Ars Magica
The Dying Earth
Microscope
Sorcerer
Exalted
Fiasco
Leverage
Smallville
Golden Sky Stories
The Mountain Witch
Gumshoe
Bluebeard's Bride
Questlandia
Magical Burst
Swords without Master
Poison'd
Shadow of the Demon Lord
Spider Dance

Because it's always good to have a backup.

A Grubby Inquiry - "Sir."

The Secret of Your Success - The Adventuress' Correspondence Course

Rattus Faber: Threat or Menace? - "Rats are people, too."

Surface Ties: The Assailant - A maniac... again

Surface Ties: The Seeker - Someone who you sent looking for secret knowledge

Surface Ties: The Admirer - The true love that you had to abandon

Detective to Detective - The Unconfined

Adopt a Training Profession - Become an Enquirer

A Lofty Invitation - Coax tricks of the trade from them

Aconite (Key V)
Key of Rage

Fury
-soldier
-a warrior of Heaven
-[nemesis]

What Lets me Oppose It
-this beautiful world
-[corrupting influence]
-i'm better than you
("Can I stop?")


Alyssym (Key XVI)
Key of Destiny Fulfilled

My Destiny
-a perfect blossom
-a message from Heaven
("What's beyond it?")

[Shadow]
-it's not MY destiny
-still tied to this world
-[cleave of the botanists]

Epic, Inhuman, Powerful
Something really strange
Light Side of the Human Experience
You Can Point To
Extraordinary Life (three contacts)
aconite...nemesis
alyssum...disciples
The Song of the Wild



Superior Lotus Blossom in the Void 5
Skill: Bladework 3

Affliction: The aroma of my flowers has a tendency to entrance. (1)
Affliction: The Devil's child, Seven-Handed Zethe, still intends to carry our battle through to the end. (2)
Bond: The Excrucian Pasques Gilde duels me to draw me closer, and I do the same. (2)
Affliction: Those fucking Botanists won't leave me alone. (1)
Affliction: In Heaven I am either a hero or a whore, depending on who you ask. (2)
Bond: In my hands, steel can cut anything. (2)
Affliction: Those around me are filled with that numinous sentence, "you wouldn’t unsay it now, even if you could". (3)

Magical Symbol 1
Durant 1
Elusive 1
Immutable 1

Aspect 3
Domain
Persona
Treasure 0



Scripture of the Expectant Maiden
Scripture of the One-Handed Maiden

Vervain, Truth
-ruler of the Unreal City
-The Court of Names (followers)
-a tender of men
("Is it good?")

Vervain, Shadow
-bound by duty
-set apart
-rituals and games
-bound by birth


Hollyhock, Truth
-becoming a fisher queen, bringing water to this dry land
-becoming a squamous spirit of the deep
-becoming a monster and a mother of monsters (manufactured army)

Hollyhock, Shadow
-self-doubt
-changing hurts
-i don't want to go
-awkward cultists (mystery cult)
("Can I stay?")



In Love With Something (My World)
Painful Side of the World
Something You Live
Extraordinary Life (three contacts)
vervain - followers
hollyhock - manufactured army
mystery cult, organization, legacy
The Song of Heaven

Once, there was a drying, dying world. As the oceans turned to deserts of salt, the people huddled in their cities and cried out in fear. The ruler of the Unreal City heard. She believed that the land belonged to her, so she set out to save it.
The quest was long and difficult. It taxed her resources and required more from her than she had thought possible to give. In the end, she alone found the grotto harboring a wounded god. It had enough life left in it to instruct her how to take its power into herself.
A woman strode out of the gates of the Unreal City, and a woman returned with the oceans behind her; but whether they were the same person, not even she could say.

Maristela, Empress of the Unreal City. Regent of the Abyss

Aspect 0
Domain 2
Persona 0
Treasure 5

The Abyss
The Abyss holds secrets.
The Abyss gazes into you.
The Abyss clings to that which falls into its grasp.
The Abyss destroys the unwary and the outsider.
The Abyss can be closed only with great effort.
The Abyss resounds with an unending stillness and silence.
The Abyss shows you a vision of yourself.

Bondafflictions
Affliction: I can traverse the darkness beneath the waves and between the stars with equal ease. (2)
Affliction: In your dreamless sleep, you see my face. (1)
Affliction: My Estate is viewed with suspicion re: the Outside and Excrucians. (1)
Affliction: My monstrous nature can't be hidden. (1)
Affliction: The oceans of my world are bound to my existence. (2)
*Bond: I am the rightful ruler of the Unreal City. (2)
*Bond: I am a mother to monsters, especially my squamous army of the deep. (2)
*Bond: I tend to The Court of Names as a gardener tends to their garden. (2)
*Bond: I'm perpetually bemused by the efforts of the Ichorous cult to gain my favor. (2)
*Bond: My firstborn, Sangith, is my blood and a representation of my former quest. (3)

*I can't believe these are all Anchors or Anchor-ok. Wow.

Mortal Traits
Shine (1)
Passion: I deserve this world and everything in it. (2)
Skill: Adventurer (2)
Skill: Royalty (3)

Gifts
Immutable 1
Shapeshifter (Monster) 1
Glorious 2

Transhumanist Science Fiction That Is Not About The Transhumanists, Mostly:
-need to worldbuild a post-war transhuman society
-need to research Amish, Mennonite and other isolationist frozen-tech simple living cultures
-need to research sustainable eco-communities

Indulgent Fanfiction With The Canon Filed Off:
-need to plan out structure of secret underground research base, both physical and social
-need to develop character A a bit more
-need to think up outside cultural context/decide exactly how to file off the canon bits

Even More Indulgent Noncon BDSM AU Bullshit:
-need to research prisons, especially japanese ones
-need to research stockholm syndrome, post-incarceration syndrome
-need to figure out exactly how this AU works