Here they are! 15 Tactical Breach Wizards themed tarot cards out of 22, not bad! Anyways there's a LOT of text about the thought process of choosing each character below the cut, so, enjoy! And Happy Holidays, everybody!
THE FOOL: You know how the OG Fool card is a dog watching as the guy is about to fall into the abyss? Yeah. Role reversal and it mirrors Rion's Whole Thing!
THE MAGICIAN: I MEAN, DUH. yeah she's a witch and whatever but Come On. Also drew her pointing towards the sky and the ground, "as above so before", etc.
THE LOVERS: Duh, again. Only sad thing is that there's literally no image at all of Jida (IIRC?) so, purple ghost it is!
THE CHARIOT: Of COURSE the woman whose whole thing is charging up ahead and Never Stopping is The Chariot.
STRENGTH: Ok so the original concept was Rion "wrestling" with his "dog side", but not only was that a bit silly, it also would be redundant after I came up for the idea of The Fool. And then I realized that there's a more significant person Rion overcome to be who he is... So yeah. don't ask me about his broken arm though
THE HERMIT: ok so now I can't find it in the TBW dialogue document but I'm PRETTY SURE it's implied Zan's been stuck at his ma's place feeling guilty for everything until like 3 months pre-game. And also, you know, his arc is partly about looking at himself, and the truth of what he's done, etcetera,
JUSTICE: I honestly just wanted to do the gag with the Jen post-it, and I GUESS if I drew Liv and Bori I had to draw Steve too, so here he is. "But wait," you may ask, "if Jen's writing that note, does that mean the cards are canon in-universe?" And to that I say, *noncommittal noises and so-so hand-waving gesture*
THE STAR/THE MOON/THE SUN: Okay, so, my literal thought process with these three was like:
Oh darn, Jen and Dessa are the only protagonists without a second card > Well Star fits Jen (or at least she has the stars tattoos for a cool visual) and I guess you could assign Moon to Dessa as well, why not > Wait, since Bori is already the Sun card, does that mean that they're literally that meme--
Yup. This was mostly done for a meme. Checks out!
DEATH: Again, DUH. The necromancer is the Death card. Obviously. Anyways, she's also in front of the breached door Liv blows up before killing (almost everyone), representing cycles and life and death (and is also kind of a nod to Death's Door).
THE DEVIL: Yeah, of course the woman doing magic drugs to get incredible power and colonize a country via a military coup is the Devil. She's sitting on that one room where she kills the group, and showing clear symptoms of mana usage. unfortunately(?) Rion didn't fit in the composition of dead bodies at her feet.
I drew Death and the Devil to be parallels to each other, since they are key moments in game that directly precede one another. Unfortunately they're out of order in the standard tarot deck, but oh well!
THE TOWER: gee, Zan, how come Tumblr user waterdroid has drawn you experiencing the worst moment of your life TWICE??? Anyways. Self-explanatory.
JUDGEMENT: Honestly this was made to fill a slot but if anyone deserves a Judgement card it's Moss and the Medilian Militia. And also they DO want to send Liv to trial if you spare her, so.
THE WORLD: The map, our main characters, the journey they made and the people they helped (or defeated). Funnily enough, the first sketch that I did for this was weak as hell and sucked, but this ended up being my favorite card of the bunch :]
And if you've read this far: I really hoped you like it! and also does anyone have any suggestions for the remaining cards. I mean I have Ideas but I'd like to hear you guys' opinions!
It peeves me when something I misunderstood has already been clarified, and having admitted that I was in the wrong, I try to explain what my misconception was, to explain the internal logic of why my clearly erroneous first assumption felt sensible before, and the other person keeps arguing that my original wrong idea is wrong like you're both still arguing about it.
Like no mf I'm not trying to tell you I'm right, I'm explaining why I was wrong, because I don't want someone thinking that I'm just arbitrarily stupid. But here I was wrong again in worrying about you thinking I'm an idiot, you'd bark at an idiot if you saw one in the mirror.
This is PART ONE. PART TWO will be as a response in the REBLOGS. A link to a free PDF version of this comic will be available in the responses/comments!
⚡AND THAT'S ALL FOLKS!💀 After three months!!! Hope you liked it!!
MANY SPECIAL THANKS to all the people that commented and showed their support, to anyone who has ever even written anything remotely nice on my tags-- truly, your kind words mean the world to me!! even if im to shy to show it lol </3 Also, many thanks to @/ralofofriverwoods and @/returnofforgotten for the feedback on this comic, which I truly, really appreciate, and to my friend @/ariiamgoblin, who has steadily supported me through all these months. This comic wouldn't be what it is without y'all!! <333
This is Probably Not the end of my tactical wizard posting, but who knows!! Anyways I'm going to sleep now. SEE YA!
💀⚡ HAPPY ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF SOFT SHOCK EVERYONE!!! 💀⚡
It's honestly kinda crazy that's been one year already!! Time sure does fly, huh? Unfortunately I don't really have anything new or prepared for this day, since I've been busy with IRL stuff. BUT!! I've been asked a couple times about prints and stuff, so I'll say this here:
I'm giving EVERYBODY permission to print my Tactical Breach Wizards fanart as long as it is for NON COMMERCIAL OR PERSONAL USE!!!!
Yup, you read it right! Hang it in your room, eat it, play an incomplete tarot deck, print this whole dang comic (there's a PDF in the comments!), do what you like! As long, as, AGAIN, it's for personal use! Also if you do end up printing anything I'd like to see it. I'm nosy like that.
And again, that's all! Thank you for reading and supporting me!! <3
Analyzing the politics of a work that's meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be "political" in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator's beliefs?
Angrily lashing out at the suggestion that it's possible to do basic media analysis was foundational to the ragebait ecosystem of the 2010s, from which we got basically the entire culture of modern far right politics, btw.
I went outside and got an education, that's where I learned that you can obtain knowledge and insight through analytical methods, then noticed that some people who sit on the internet yelling at strangers get really mad about that constantly.
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