Best images of canceled BTVS Tarot

There was going to be a BTVS tarot once, but it, in the manner of all good things, got cancelled. Saddened at the abortion of a promising artistic project, I collected the highest quality images I could find of the cards that had been previewed. Please take the links to admire the files in their full glory. The existence of almost half the Major Arcana makes me think that the art for the entire deck was completed, and we will never see it, sob sob sob.

• 0. Fool. Here is the first Slayer at the beginning of her kind's fateful journey.
• 1. Magician. Buffy wields stupendous magic power in the first female interpretation of this card I've seen.
• 2. High Priestess. Willow is the feminine magical principle.
• 6. The Lovers. According to an interview with deck designer Rachel Pollack, this card shows Buffy and Angel.
• 10. Wheel of Fortune. The Master rules the cycle of judgment, death, transformation and undeath.
• 11. Justice. According to Pollack, this card shows Willow.
• 13. Death. This looks like the ritual that created the first Slayer.
• 14. Temperance. Angel in vamp mode represents a balance between all desires and duties.
• 15. Devil. Buffy and Spike [in vamp mode] are tempted to sick carnal delights.
• 16. Tower. This looks like Buffy sacrificing herself at the end of season 5.
• 19. Sun. The death-dealing, life-saving power of the Slayer smites the evil vampire.

Hellboy 2: The Golden Army

Yay, I finally saw Hellboy 2, in which Hellboy, Abe Sapien, Liz the firestarter and Dr. Strauss the ectoplasmic comic relief race to keep an insane elf, Prince Nuada, from activating mechanical warriors and destroying the world. Meanwhile, Hellboy and Liz have domestic disputes, which are magically resolved when Liz gets pregnant with two devil/human halfbreeds, and Abe goes gooshy and loses all dignity for the insane elf's twin sister, Princess Nuala. Cigars are chomped; monsters are dispatched; quips are tossed off, and everyone has a silly good time.

This movie is amusing, diverting and charming, and it could be even better with a reduction of romantic goop, which is out of character for all the characters, and a greater focus on Nuada and Nuala. They're actually interesting, since they know they're part of a dying kind; even though Nuada fights back, both he and his sister seem to know that the elves and all the magical creatures that they represent are doomed. Thus the film argues for a manifest destiny sort of colonization of the imagination, with Hellboy et al. in especially weird positions because they're on the colonizers' sides. But the film ultimately prefers to wallow in sluggish love songs, rather than this interesting thematic tension.

Today's riddances: 10

10 1:6 clothing items donated
5 1:6 accessories donated
Total 15 riddances
Grand total 95 riddances