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An internationally wanted thief, a copycat, an art insurance investigator, and an FBI agent, walk into a museum.
Alternatively: Art thief Regulus Black has a signature: upside-down frames. When a bold copycat starts playing his game, he's ordered to find them or pay the price. Art insurance investigator Sirius Black thought he'd left his past behind until a series of thefts pulls him back in.
A house of cards will always fall.
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Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.
— Oscar Wilde
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Hello! I originally thought about putting all of this in a google doc and then was like no lemme make it pretty, so here we are lol. Can you tell I’m an academic? lmao Yes I know this is all unnecessary and complex and extra but I DO NOT CARE. I’m having fun with it and that’s all that matters :)
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House of Cards ****employs extensive symbolism throughout its narrative, drawing from Greek mythology, literature, art, astronomical phenomena, astrology, and religious iconography to explore themes of identity, deception, love, and redemption.
The title House of Cards evokes a structure that appears impressive but is inherently precarious—built carefully, card by card, yet destined to collapse at the slightest disturbance. It speaks to the careful construction of lies and identities that can unravel with one wrong move, and the delicate balance between characters whose lives are built on secrets.
The card motif appears throughout in tarot imagery, Caravaggio's The Cardsharps (a painting about deception), and the high-stakes games characters play with each other. A thief, a copycat, an investigator, a federal agent. Each is holding their cards close, betting on outcomes they can't fully control.
The title also draws from BTS's “House of Cards," whose chorus captures the feeling of holding onto something fragile, knowing it can't last:
A house made of cards, and us inside Even if the end is in sight, even if it will collapse soon In the house made of cards, like fools, we Even if it's a vain dream, just a little longer
The house always falls. The question is who stays, and what they're willing to risk for just a little longer.
House of Cards contains 22 chapters representing the 22 cards of the Major Arcana (0-21) in tarot (Now, not all the chapters align 1:1 but that’s okay). In tarot, the Major Arcana itself tells a complete story, from The Fool (0) as pure potential to The World (XXI) as *“completing” the journey The Fool set out on and coming out on the other side. This also follows the Fool's Journey or Hero's Journey narrative structure in literature.
*I use “complete” because in tarot, technically the journey is never truly “complete”. It’s cyclical and endless.
In narratology and comparative mythology, the hero's quest or hero's journey, also known as the monomyth, is the common template of stories that involve a hero who goes on an adventure, is victorious in a decisive crisis, and comes home changed or transformed.
Earlier figures had proposed similar concepts, including psychoanalyst Otto Rank and amateur anthropologist Lord Raglan.[1] Eventually, hero myth pattern studies were popularized by Joseph Campbell, who was influenced by Carl Jung's analytical psychology. Campbell used the monomyth to analyze and compare religions. In his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), he describes the narrative pattern as follows:
A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.[2]
(Text taken from Wikipedia)
Note: Tbh I’m just a little bit insane and love me some symbolism mixed with religious and literary references hehe
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Rider-Waite Smith Tarot cards
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