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[xp_tarot]

Before I run to the mall to take care of a promise someone made me. More on that later, as it'll be obvious.

Is it overstepping bounds of privacy to cast the cards for people without asking first? I can only do so many for myself...

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[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Nah, feel free to card me whenever you feel like it. :)

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[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

It was more of a general philoshopical question - Ethics class makes me think too much sometimes.

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[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Oh! Well . . . in general, probably. It's kind of like going and digging up stuff about people's pasts without asking, only in reverse.

But in specific, feel free on my end. Just tell me if you get anything cool. :)

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[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

That is pretty much what I thought myself - though it is kind of a hard question to answer, because I can't help the dreams from happening, and those can be just as privacy-breaking as a reading...

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[x-skin.livejournal.com]

But you don't have the dreams on purpose. Bit different from sitting down and actively doing a reading, I'd've thought.

[x-rogue.livejournal.com]

I think it might be if you don't ask, but you can do mine whenever you feel the urge to do so. What if you did them for celebrities or for entities like the church or the government and things like that? Or fictional characters. You could tell us what happens at the end of the Wheel of Time series!

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[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but that's more like . . . accidentally walking in on somebody naked, or something. Maybe not. But it's not something you're doing on purpose, anyway. When you read for someone, you're actually sitting down and saying, OK, I want to know about this person. Which would be, to extend the bad metaphor, like lying in wait for somebody to be naked and taking pictures of them. So, in the first case, you should probably apologize to them if it bothers them, but it'd be a lot bigger invasion of privacy to do the second one.

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[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

I am told I could do things to stop the dreams though - which would prevent breaking people's privacy that way.

I need to deal with this. I need to think about these things. I just do not -want- to. Ugk.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know what happens at the end of the Wheel of Time. Robert Jordan is disgustingly wealthy, and then is murdered by a mob of angry fans who have had their intelligence insulted and their time wasted.

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That series was fantastic for the first few books. Now... *shudder* Maybe it is just the translation quality. Maybe the English ones are better?

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Min already told us what happens at the end of the Wheel of Time series. The real trick is predicting how many more books it'll be nefore we get there, and whether the last one will take two thousand pages to cover fifteen minutes in the life of a hundred different characters, all of whom have single-shot differentiating mannerisms and (for the women) lavishly described necklines.

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't count on it. Once Perrin got married, the whole world went to hell.

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[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

Damn. Damn, damn, damn.

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[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

And yet, sometimes lying in wait for someone and taking potentially-naked-pictures of them is funny and not horrible. Or at least, pictures of them using a dress as a towel. ;)

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[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Pthththbthtbhbt.

Although I gotta admit, that was pretty funny. :)

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[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

I am sorry I missed it. Well, sort of. I like you, but I have no real want to see you in any state of undress. Or, I suppose in a state of dress, in this case.

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[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Heh. Understand completely. My expression was hilarious, though. Doug's still got the pics somewhere.

I wonder if Kitty ever wangled the poster out of him that you were trying to threaten me with?

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[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

If he did, I am unaware of it. I could still use the poster-sized printer if she wanted me to though.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

But tell me you don't think Min is kinda cool, except where her weakness for a certain messianic figure is concerned. :)

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

She was. Then Jordan got sucked back into his neckline obsession and stuck her in a dress. Elmindreda was nearly as stupid an idea as Faile.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

Hrm. Good point. Min was cool until she started wearing dresses again. Aviendha was cool while she was still hating Rand. Elayne...not so cool. Faile is been and _gone_ from cool.

And there's nothing wrong with appreciating necklines, but yeah, I think Jordan takes it a little far.

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Jordan takes necklines a little far like Mercedes Lackey uses a couple unnecessary apostrophes in her fictional languages. :)

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

Faile needs to have an axe to the head.

Min ...

... I am suddenly glad my precognition doesn't work like THAT!

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[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

I am not touching -her- with a ten meter pole. Ick. I heard rumors. Bad ones.

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[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

They're all true.

(I went through a very brief extreme-escapism phase right after my mutation kicked in. Also, the cover art had babes on it. But good God.)

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[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

Better or worse than McCaffery or Eddings?

I am suddenly overcome with the thought that the only thing keeping me from the label of 'nerd' is that I do not play video games and I have leather pants.

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[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Worse than both.

Well . . . hm. McCaffrey on a bad day is right around there. Eddings is sort of a different genre of bad, if you know what I mean--he's bad about repetitive plots and national stereotypes, but he has some pretty good dialogue and he isn't teenybopper horsie-birdie-love environmentalist-sledgehammer shallow simplisticism.

[x-blink.livejournal.com]

you can read me if you want...I don't think I'd cause you nightmares.

[xp_daytripper]

Maybe if you get a list of people who don't mind you doing a reading, so you have more to practice with? This post is turning out that way any way...

And you already know I don't mind you using me as a guinea pig. Tho' next time maybe we stick to something that's easier to clean up than the I Ching straws. Or I throw them a bit less hard...

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[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

The readings actaully don't give me nightmares - just headaches a little, sometimes. They actually help sometimes, to be honest.

The nightmares happen all by themselves.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

I should do that. The list, I mean.

The straws were funny. I still want mice. Myomancy is just too funny -not- to try.

[xp_daytripper]

And if it don't work, you have yourself a new pet. *grins* Let me find out if it requires special fortune-telling mice, or whether regular pet shop mice are okay. ;)

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[x-blink.livejournal.com]

oh. um....as long as I'm not the cause?