i can now post the kpts secret santa gift i made for @no1petesimp 😊❤️

Aisles of Oak and Ash

One day this summer, I thought, KinnPorsche, but Porsche is Robin Hood. Then the next day, I thought, KinnPorsche, but Porsche is Robin Hood at a Ren Faire.

Thus was born the Robin Hood Ren Faire AU, my @kinnporschebigbang fic, illustrated by the incomparable @mohnikei.

The plot: Kinn finds himself at a Ren Faire, for reasons. Porsche steals his watch, also for reasons. Chay reads tarot cards, Kim masquerades as a minstrel.

Read it here.

Thank you to Yves for illustrating this fic! Head over to their tumblr or twitter/X for more amazing artwork!

As well, a round of applause for the stellar KPTS Big Bang mods. Thank you for making this possible!

VegasPete brain rot is still very real so... I hope for VP piece for this special Capricorn month 👀

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Head, chest or the heart?

3 of swords keywords - heartbreak, grief, suffering

I think this is one of the most well-known cards - the heart pierced by 3 swords with storm clouds in the background. It's one of the worst cards to pop up in your reading as it indicates that you're dealing with some pretty heavy emotional pain. Unless the cards surrounding it are positive or (sometimes) it comes out in reverse, there aren't many cases in which you can interpret it in a positive way.

Vegas' line popped up in my head while I was trying to figure out which my next Pete-centric card should be and there you have it.

The devil keywords – temptation, corruption, your shadow self

The devil is one of the 22 Major arcana cards. The one in the Rider-Waite deck has an image of the devil sitting on a throne with a man and a woman chained at his feet. It looks like a dark version of the lovers (and the two are connected thematically and numerologically since the lovers is card no.6 and the devil no.15 – 1+5=6). To put it simply, the devil represents the obsessive pursuit of material goods/physical pleasure which, in the end, leads to the corruption of your spirit. It’s associated with the sign of Capricorn whose dark side can manifest as an obsession with money, social status and power (also fun fact - according to the novel Vegas’ birthday is December 31st which makes him a Capricorn sun according to western astrology). So, what does any of this have to do with the lovers and VP? The devil is also associated with dark sexuality and everything taboo. Also, as I mentioned above, it represents your shadow self aka everything you feel ashamed of and try your best to repress. In VP’s case on one hand, we have Vegas who uses his sexuality as a weapon, is interested in BDSM and enjoys torturing people. On the other hand, we have Pete, probably the most repressed character on the show, who suddenly has to come to terms with the fact that he is a person with desires and that those desires are pretty dark and unconventional. And all of this happens while he’s being held captive by Vegas in the safe house sex dungeon. Vegas, who tortured him almost to death and is now trying to seduce him with his little monologue and a lot of chin grabbing. Do you see where I’m going with this one? We can interpret Vegas as the devil figure from the card – he’s the one trying to make Pete take off the mask he wears around everyone else and stop hiding his dark side. Vegas has seen glimpses of Pete’s true self after all – first in ep. 7 and later in ep. 10 and 11, and is fascinated by it. He wants to see more of it and uses one of his preferred methods – sex, to achieve his goal (and probably starts to regret that decision after he sees Pete’s smile in ep.12 – is Pete truly someone he can handle? But that’s a discussion for another time.) Pete is one of the chained figures and he’s there because he chose so himself by forsaking his personhood and letting himself be seen as nothing more than a weapon by the main family, someone who fades into the background the moment he isn’t needed (is he real if no one can see him?). If you look carefully at the Rider-Waite card you can see that the chains are loose enough that the two figures can free themselves at any time if they wish so. Vegas is trying to make Pete do just that – drop the act and live his life as his authentic self, without shame. He’s also trying to set Pete free so he can put a chain on him himself. And we all saw how that plan backfired on him.

There's also another reason I chose this scene – when the devil shows up in a love reading (surrounded by positive cards) it can mean that the people involved have amazing sexual chemistry. And there are literally chained people drawn on the card. And we all know what happened 30 seconds later in the episode.

*I decided to retouch my old devil card a little to fit my new template instead of drawing a new one :))

For the WIP game: wheel of fortune 👀

thanks for the ask!!

since all my tarot inspired fanart so far has been vp centric, i thought i'd make a version of the wheel of fortune that's basically khun spikes running on a (hedgehog appropriate) wheel in his cage 🦔 sadly i suck at drawing animals so this is all i have for now lol

i really want to turn this into a series but i'm still not sure if i want to keep it strictly vp/minor family centric or to include the other characters too 🤔 we'll see

wip game