yeah. there are some artists who also learn tarot and design a deck as a way to practice both their tarot understanding and their art. some tarot readers learn to make photo collage/photoshopped art and make decks like that. they use their own photography sometimes, or they use free and stock photos.
hmmm. i do want a good deck in manga style, with a shoujo/isekai/shounen ai kind of feel. i also want a deck with magical girls in it. i don't have a particular artist in mind. i'd love a deck which just uses dolls and crochet objects to make the scenes in it!
i really love jasmine beckett-griffith's art but her art has been used for oracle decks and a tarot deck already. and i've ordered the beautiful creatures tarot which has her art; it'll come home by the end of this month.
yes! and someone else will have the same deck and it won't be the same for them, because it's not the same copy i suppose.
but sometimes even if it's the same copy- i often think about how my dreaming way was secondhand which means someone didn't connect with it and decided to resell it. and here i connect with it more than any other deck.
so i guess really it's an interaction between the deck and the reader which shapes a dynamic.
i used to call all decks 'it' but i find that i change the way i refer to them the more i get to know them.
i also think i've been influenced by owlmoon513 on youtube, since she refers to all her decks as 'she'.
the dreaming way is the only secondhand deck i have. i know that tarot readers in places like the US swap decks a lot, to exchange decks they aren't using for decks they really want. it's a way to bring new decks in without spending money, and passing on the decks you don't use to someone who does want them.
i actually bought my dreaming way used from amazon. there's very few people in india who collect decks and those who do are probably buying from amazon anyway. they often skip on indie decks because 1. they're pricier and 2. they'd have to pay for shipping to india. so they buy from whatever's on amazon and often all end up with the same decks
because of this i had trouble moving on a couple of decks i didn't want anymore. one of the decks went to a reader in israel, the other deck is still languishing in my cupboard because nobody wants to pay the shipping cost of sending the deck from india to wherever they are in the world.
recently i discovered betterworldbooks and i'm happy i did. they have free shipping to anywhere and although they don't always have the decks i want in stock, it's great when they do.
i also still check etsy cause sometimes the shipping isn't
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And its even worse for my parents- they only saw them every 3-4 years. 
And it's hard that you have to wait 5 more years but perhaps you can keep videocalling in the meantime. That's not easy with the timezone difference but it'll be doable sometimes. 
I'm sorry your grandparents passed without your family getting much opportunity to spend time with them. That's painful and regretful, the world being as big as it is, people end up scattering far away from each other.
