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Author: Madame Ximon

Madame Ximon is an astrologer, Tarot reader, and visionary artist living in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

New Magic Card Alteration – Prime Speaker Zegana

Here is the most recent of my card alterations, commissioned by the same person who commissioned the “My Little Titans” set I posted about previously. Needless to say, I had a much more enjoyable time working on this card, since its subject matter is much more closely aligned to my usual style of work. Not that it was completely without hiccups – I tend to work on multiple card alterations at once, and for a while this one was my biggest frustration...

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The End of the Day

I just had the unsettling experience of driving home late at night after a long day and swerving around a cat lying in the road, and I found myself looking at him in the rear-view mirror at him thinking, “Oh no, that’s somebody’s kitty, somebody’s baby. What if he’s lying there hurt, not dead? And even if he is dead, I can’t just leave him there. Should I turn around?” I turned around in the parking lot of the nearby funeral parlor, drove back...

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My Little Titans, or Why I Shouldn’t Take Pony-Themed Commissions

For those who don’t yet know, I am a pretty geeky gal, having spent the past ten years co-directing the TempleCon retro-futurist gaming convention, the past four years as co-owner of The Temple Games store, and most of my life playing games and devouring science-fiction and fantasy literature and art. For nearly twenty years now I’ve played the collectible card game “Magic: the Gathering,” and in recent years there has sprung up a subset of...

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Icon Alchemy on Tumblr

I’ve finally gotten around to configuring my Tumblr account and posting on it. I figure it’s good for those days when I’m feeling purely visual and don’t want to talk much, as opposed to Twitter for when I’m feeling quirky and pithy. Or here when I actually get around to writing more than a sentence or two… 😉 While there will certainly be some cross-posting, especially in relation to art projects, I expect that the Icon Alchemy Tumblr will...

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