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## Do you prefer alternative card suggestions/reasoning be sent in as an ask or some other method?

Feel free to send asks with suggestions, but bear in mind that the current assignments were settled on by a team of over a dozen people (with experience close-reading tarot interpretations and history as well as Homestuck analysis) over the course of two months. If there is a character you feel would be better suited for a given card, feel free to suggest it, but chances are pretty good that it has already been considered, as most cards went through several iterations before the assignments listed on the blog were decided.

Here are a few questions which were considered in each assignment, and which you should be prepared to answer if you have an alternative suggestion:

1. Why does the current assignment not fit the card? How is the new character or scene closer to the card than the current assignment? (Cite your sources, for real. We used a lot of online tarot resources as well as actual, physical real-world books.)
2. Is the new character not adequately represented in the extant deck? Why does this character deserve another card? Why does the original character deserve one less card?
3. If the new character throws off the balance of the deck (i.e., if the character is already placed on 2 or 3 other cards, or if they are displacing a character who only appears on this card), how will the other cards have to be adjusted to compensate? You might have to rewrite the entire deck.