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wintercompanion fic, which is stalled out at the point where I need to either just turn it into fluffy porn (porny fluff?) or create an actual actiony plot.
So, of course, I pulled out the Tarot of the Cat People, which has become my "writing deck." This led me to wondering about a Doctor Who tarot (which there should totally be) and who would be what cards.
In Torchwood, we canonically see Jack turn up as the Knight of Swords, but I'd be more inclined to give that to Rory and find another for Jack. There are a few reasons I might go with him as the Hanged Man, but also many reasons that wouldn't quite work. Why actually work on the story when I can waste time on this, right? *facepalm*
There's a reason I delayed beta-reading an o-fic for someone today on account of brain-friedness.
In other news, I'm all kinds of psyched about going to see![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rm's play, Dogboy and Justine on Wednesday, and then meeting up with a friend I haven't seen in 12 years on Saturday. Squee! For either of those things to happen, my car needs to be fixed tomorrow, preferably without breaking the bank. There's only so much money I'm willing to put into a 12 year old 200k+ miles Chevy, but it's actually running fairly well and it would be good if it were also able to stop without making grinding noises worse than the TARDIS' time rotor. (I do not leave the brakes on! However, they do need to be put on occasionally.)
That's the state of things here. Hope all is well with all of you. And if anyone has thinky-thoughts about who to put on what card on a completely hypothetical Doctor Who tarot, I'd love to hear them!
wintercompanion fic, which is stalled out at the point where I need to either just turn it into fluffy porn (porny fluff?) or create an actual actiony plot.So, of course, I pulled out the Tarot of the Cat People, which has become my "writing deck." This led me to wondering about a Doctor Who tarot (which there should totally be) and who would be what cards.
In Torchwood, we canonically see Jack turn up as the Knight of Swords, but I'd be more inclined to give that to Rory and find another for Jack. There are a few reasons I might go with him as the Hanged Man, but also many reasons that wouldn't quite work. Why actually work on the story when I can waste time on this, right? *facepalm*
There's a reason I delayed beta-reading an o-fic for someone today on account of brain-friedness.
In other news, I'm all kinds of psyched about going to see
rm's play, Dogboy and Justine on Wednesday, and then meeting up with a friend I haven't seen in 12 years on Saturday. Squee! For either of those things to happen, my car needs to be fixed tomorrow, preferably without breaking the bank. There's only so much money I'm willing to put into a 12 year old 200k+ miles Chevy, but it's actually running fairly well and it would be good if it were also able to stop without making grinding noises worse than the TARDIS' time rotor. (I do not leave the brakes on! However, they do need to be put on occasionally.)That's the state of things here. Hope all is well with all of you. And if anyone has thinky-thoughts about who to put on what card on a completely hypothetical Doctor Who tarot, I'd love to hear them!
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Date: 2012-06-11 04:37 pm (UTC)0 The Fool - Donna Noble
1 The Magician - The Doctor
2 The High Priestess - River Song
3 The Empress - Rose Tyler
4 The Emperor - ?
5 The Hierophant - Torchwood Institute
6 The Lovers - ?
7 The Chariot - The TARDIS
8 Strength - Amy Pond
9 The Hermit - ?
10 Wheel of Fortune - ?
11 Justice - ?
12 The Hanged Man - Rory Williams
13 Death - Jack Harkness
14 Temperance - Martha Jones
15 The Devil - ?
16 The Tower - Temporal Rift
17 The Star - ?
18 The Moon - ?
19 The Sun - ?
20 Judgement - ?
21 The World - ?
If any of them make no sense at all, I can probably explain my reasoning, but if they don't make sense, it's probably not right.
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Date: 2012-06-12 02:01 pm (UTC)The Lovers could easily start a ship war of epic proportions. Personally, I'd lean towards Eleven/River, not because they're my favorite ship but because of the weirdness of their relationship and the way they keep coming back together over time, or perhaps through time is a better way to say it.
The Master would have to be The Devil, I should think, though the original looks the part more than John Simm. I'd be tempted to put Simm's Saxon as The Emperor, though that doesn't quite fit.
Rory, I'd be more inclined to see as The Hermit than The Hanged Man, though I can see your logic there. Strength is another toughie. I'd be inclined to put Martha there more than Temperance, but Amy fits as well. Jack as Death looks a bit over-simplified at first, until I really thought about it, and then that's almost as painfully good a fit as Donna for the Fool.
Justice, I'd lean towards Bad Wolf!Rose, I think. Or maybe Judgement?
Wheel of Fortune would have to be the Time Rotor, I think, since it so often takes the Doctor et al not so much where they want to go as where they need to go. Or maybe the personified Heart of the TARDIS.
Celestial body-related cards are a bit harder to pull off in a 'verse where people actually travel amongst the stars, I think. I'm tempted to go with Sarah Jane for the Moon, though it's hard to explain why.
What are your thoughts on the Torchwood Institute for The Hierophant? And image-wise, would you go for the original Torchwood House up in Scotland, or Canary Wharf or the Cardiff Water Tower?
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Date: 2012-06-12 02:24 pm (UTC)I put Martha as Temperance for her talents in having a foot in two worlds, and the adaptations of alien tech to human purposes--alchemy.
Hierophant is a force for conservative order, presumably created to protect and guide the people, but prone to over-reaching. The Torchwood Institute blowing up the aliens in the transition between 9th and 10th Doctor is an example of "we know what's good for the people, and they will learn to understand that eventually."
No idea what image would be good; I've never seen a full episode of Torchwood.
For the Lovers, I'm tempted to say Rose/Mickey, with the Tardis spinning overhead, showing the tension between earthly and celestial desires.
(Donna and Jack were both cases where I stared at the list until they fell into place and then it was painfully obvious.)
... I have more thoughts but have to get ready to go now; can't let myself get distracted. Is fun game!
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Date: 2012-06-13 02:32 am (UTC)Probably Canary Wharf, looked at that way, though that could as easily be the Tower, imagery-wise. Torchwood Cardiff was at least *trying* not to be like Torchwood London.
I'm now picturing the ever-exploding TARDIS from the end of S5 for the Sun.
So, let's see what we've got so far:
0 The Fool - Donna Noble
1 The Magician - The Doctor
2 The High Priestess - River Song
3 The Empress - Rose Tyler
4 The Emperor - Harold Saxon?
5 The Hierophant - Torchwood Institute/Canary Wharf
6 The Lovers - Eleven/River or Rose/Mickey with the TARDIS overhead
7 The Chariot - The TARDIS
8 Strength - Amy Pond
9 The Hermit - ?
10 Wheel of Fortune - The Time Rotor or Idris!TARDIS
11 Justice - ?
12 The Hanged Man - Rory Williams
13 Death - Jack Harkness
14 Temperance - Martha Jones
15 The Devil - Classic!Master
16 The Tower - Temporal Rift
17 The Star - ?
18 The Moon - Sarah Jane?
19 The Sun - Exploding TARDIS
20 Judgement - Bad Wolf!Rose
21 The World - ?
The "Christmas Star" from Runaway Bride probably wouldn't work as The Star. I'm really stuck on that one. Unless, ooh, Van Gogh's Starry Night with TARDIS could work, though not so well if the exploding TARDIS is also being the Sun.
I still have no justification for Sarah Jane as the Moon other than "feels right."
Well, we've got a couple different forms of the same character already, so maybe Martha in her "walking the world" for the Hermit? Either that or, to take the image more literally, Tom Milligan standing on shore with a light waiting for the fabled Martha to arrive.
Trying not to use different incarnations of the Doctor, since all of them should probably be on the Magician card, though there are a few specific scenes that would make sense for Justice.
It doesn't quite fit, but the scene from Gridlock when all the "cars" finally soar up out of the motorway in New New York on New New Earth seems like it could work for The World, somehow.
Which just led me to the Face of Boe as The Hermit. 0.0
Must get back to beta-reading. And possibly writing. But this is fun. Thanks for playing!