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The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood - A Deck Of Brilliant Cards [Review]

The Cosmic Wheel Keeps On Spinning and it shows us a game of politics, sisterhood and ideas. In this game you draw cards and gaze into the future and past to craft a brighter path forward for yourself, your sisterhood, and maybe all of existence. However, there is more pressing matters, Fortuna has been exiled for 200 years and she has 800 years more to go and she can't take it anymore so she does a forbidden spell and calls fourth a Behemoth to help set her free. Get revenge, hug some friends and get to reading the cards.

This game is presented in a visual delight with some of the best sprite work I've ever seen, it is truly a beauty to behold. That beauty stays with it's writing as well, the content warnings it has are no joke and the content is unavoidable so please do read them for your own safety but I do think they are handled well, their brief, they give you an idea of the character and they add to the story in a way I think they were needed.

The gameplay is fairly simple you read people's fortunes picking from a limited set of choices based on what card you drew for what questions, you make cards, and in the last parts of the game you are doing a political worker placement game where you try to win an election. All these elements are simple and basic enough that they would work for a mobile game. It's extremally fun and easy to play.

The world itself is delightful, it's the kind of thing you play and you wish is real, that you could ascend and become a space witch with your loved ones and live eternally. It gives the world real problems, flawed systems and let you shape your own opinions about it. You may not be able to fix all the problems with society and there are times where the game even outside of card readings will present you with having to choose something you might not agree with but the game lets you engage with it's world in big ways and make big decisions.

This game is pretty queer and engaged in queer reality, your character is from the 1960s and she's some flavor of queer, what that flavor is is up to you as far as I can tell, she reads to me as like Demisexual and a Lesbian but I think there is plenty of cases to be made for other sexualities. If you choose Romance as the option you want to size then you will get with a woman, the game only has women in it outside of the demon you summon all other men are off screen, mentioned to exist sometimes positively, something neutrally, sometimes negatively. The games queerness adds to the theme of Sisterhood both being queer in the relationships the women are looking for while having some women express desire in men that exist off screen. It also is queer in that you help a trans woman transition into her true self. She is definitively a woman and you will be helping her out and you can potentially have her at your side for the political campaign. The broader sense of sisterhood here and the different things relationships to womanhood and other women can mean are really strong here.

Politically this game ranges from like American Democrat to arguably anarchist positions. When setting up your policies and seeing the policies of others you'll get a range of politics to choose from but ultimately you do only have 4 choices in most sections for policy. That said policy isn't all there is to the politics of the world itself. The world is fairly nice as it is, far better than earth as it stands so the base line is good and the previously mentioned queerness is never a conflict. They live in an all women sisterhood and while people travel and there are men in other places, obviously queerness is the most common thing for witches. In fact even polyamory is totally normalized in this world and while you can't be polyamorous romance is not a focus and you stating desire in someone else does not in any negative way impact your romantic relationship that you can get into with a hot butch lesbian. Then the politics have one last layer which is the cards, what you choose from the cards readings can also show a range of politics, beliefs and more from you. Choosing the choice you think is best for you, for them or the world. These can all paint a political picture outside of the range of your political campaign although your choices are also more RNG dependent and also tied to your cards. Plus there was a non RNG point where I did have to make an argument I really did not want to make and it really did annoy me especially in retrospect when It didn't factor into the game at all. However, that was the only moment in the whole game I felt like that when it wasn't based on RNG from the cards.

Now, I did not like the ending I got the first time I played this game through, some people will find that a somber ending, not getting what you wanted or paying the price you promised will be fitting but not I. So I played the game again, I speed ran through the game knowing the future now, in a way it felt very thematic, to know all the players, all the twists, all the turns and to use that to craft myself a perfect ending for everyone, a true happy utopia no matter what it too and I did it. A very small percent of people have managed to craft a truly happy ending but I am among them! I do think if I did not have the time of will to basically just rush through the game a second time I might have walked away with a worse impression of the game having disliked my ending and knowing I wouldn't have liked the other somber options either. However, it was really satisfying to make my ending even if it required a few additional hours of gameplay in which some of it I was more on auto pilot. The game is not super long and if you do the second run right after the first you won't need to reread a lot of what is going on only the choices you make differently.

Overall, this game is really a delight and something special, I think anyone who wouldn't struggle with the themes in the content warnings will really gain something from this game and for me it was a 10 hour little adventure on my first run, with a lot of that being taking time to think between choices because every choice felt like it mattered even if I knew the choice maybe wouldn't ever come up in game the people felt so real I wanted the best possible futures for them. This game is really special and has such fantast design and visuals that it is probably worth buying just to stare at and then actually playing it is another even better experience. Check out this game!

[windvexer]

The Fool (very fitting) and the Chariot for tarot asks?

The Fool: Do you practice witchcraft openly or in secret?

Answered here

The Chariot: Favorite witchcraft tools to use?

Oof, that's a tough one. I'd say in general my favorite tools to use are the casting boards I've made. It's been a while since I had a photo of it up, but here's the Cosmic Wheel which I made in 2015 (sorry for poor photo quality).

Pictured front and back -

It combines the seven celestial bodies and four elements into an unwieldy and difficult design. Based on how I read with it, there are technically nearly 400 different "sections" that a marker can fall into. However, it's very excellent at certain types of readings - at a certain time I was doing well developing a "discover your magical talents" spread, but unfortunately each reading takes well over an hour.

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As I’m getting closer to the end of writing my sapphic folk horror novel I’ve been looking into how I’d want the cover to look. Probably going for a folk art style. It’s only fitting.

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Arianrhod with the Cosmic Wheel

Arianrhod with the Cosmic Wheel

Arianrhod, the Celtic/Welsh Goddess of rebirth or reincarnation, goes by many other names, such as the Moon Goddess, the Star Goddess and the Sky Goddess.  She is a primal figure of feminine power, a Mother Goddess who rules fertility and childbirth. Here, she is presented as a statue including the Cosmic Wheel of the year and of time. The wheel, according to one source, “may also refer to the oar…

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[djohnhopper]

NEW FICTION:

He sat there in a distant silence, sifting through piled on distorted memories. He had once been a fiery angel full of a gods glory and his never-ending spite - then he'd forgotten. He had once been a swaggering prophet in black, tasting the divine brutal and spitting out its salvation - then it had gone. He had once been an innocent child with eyes that sparkled with the serpent's venom and of instant revenge - then it had faded. Big lives, little lives in an endless ocean of waves of bewilderment. Then there was this life, full of confusion and missed threads - but it too was beginning to fade, beginning to be forgot, as he slumped down to the floor - last breath depleted, pulse diminished, the cosmos at the door.

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[djohnhopper]

***THE BIG WIDE WHEEL***

The big wheel spins and fizzes, it sparkles and bursts within excitement and anticipation. The big wheel of the cosmos floats in the wide ocean of ether, the big wide ocean of forgetting...and remembering. The moon is out and the trees are glistening as they sit within the thick lakes of mud. The sun always rises and the moon always sets...a circle, always a circle. It's never about you, it never was - it's always about what the eye sees at a mere glance. That look that you have - big orbs, heavy lids, must be like watching the world through a vaseline dream. Still, we may be dust and ashes, and we will be dust and ashes again, but we are now and we are the moment, the moon is out and the trees are glistening. It is the slice and it is the gathering, lives untold, lives unlost. We may take passage to the moon in a tin box, we may yearn to walk on worlds yet imagined, but it is all a distraction, all an illusion of the grandest of natures. We are bigger than our dreams and yearnings, bigger than the plans of another ego. We are the big wheel that spins and fizzes, sparkles and bursts. We are the big wheel of the cosmos, floating within the wide ocean of ether...always.

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