Silver Lining · Stillcraft

What's inside

Everything Silver Lining does.

Shuffle and cut

Shake the phone or rub the deck with a finger to shuffle, then cut it towards yourself. The cards land face down and you turn each one over yourself. A candle burns on the table next to a glass of lemon tea.

No bad cards

Each of the 78 cards has two readings: upright, and upside down, where the worst is already behind you. The frightening-looking ones, like Death or the Ten of Swords, she explains with extra warmth and a joke.

An omen for today

There are 936 omens, twelve to a card. Not fate or fortune, just small things that really can happen today: someone rings just because, the sun comes out, you're offered a seat on the bus.

“Well, did it come true?”

In the evening she asks about the omens. If one came true, write a line about how. If not, no matter: “then it's saving up, tomorrow twice over.”

The box

Everything that came true is kept here with your lines. On a hard day ask her to read you what already happened, and she'll take out three omens that came true.

A deck that wears

Cards that come true often wear: soft corners, a crease, then a ring from a glass of tea. The one that comes true most becomes your card and falls a little more often.

Spreads

The card of the day, a question answered “yes, and here's how”, spreads for the road, for a meeting and for the week, and the lucky cross. At Christmastide, at Midsummer and on your birthday special spreads appear.

A reading for a friend

Lay three cards for someone who could use some support and send them as a postcard with their omens.

Screens

Captured in Silver Lining.

Silver Lining: The table — **The table**Death, and why it's good news.

Silver Lining: The lucky cross — **The lucky cross**Five cards for something big.

Silver Lining: Evening — **Evening**“Well, did it come true?”

Silver Lining: A question — **A question**Yes, and here's how.

Silver Lining: The box — **The box**What came true, in your words.

Silver Lining: The deck — **The deck**All 78, worn where they came true.

Silver Lining: Your card — **Your card**The Sun, true seven times.

Silver Lining: The Auntie — **The Auntie**Fifty years at the cards.

The frightening cards

Card	What's drawn	What the Auntie says
Death	A skeleton on a white horse	Look at the sunrise between the towers: something worn out is leaving by itself
The Tower	Lightning, fire, a crown flying off	That crooked tower needed knocking down long ago
Ten of Swords	A man with ten swords in his back	Ten was overdoing it. The worst has happened, and there's a gold dawn
The Devil	Two figures chained to a block	The chains are so loose you can lift them off

Get it

Get Silver Lining.

Install

Version: v1.0.0
File: SilverLining.apk
Requires: Android 9.0 (API 28) or newer. No Google services needed.
Permissions: Notifications, only for the evening question. No internet access at all, no account, no ads, no analytics.
License: MIT · fonts Old Standard TT and Marck Script (SIL OFL) · the 1909 deck by Pamela Colman Smith is public domain

Download the APK on your phone.
Open it and allow installs from this source when Android asks.
Meet the Auntie, shake the phone and turn over the card of the day.

It isn't real fortune-telling, and the Auntie doesn't pretend it is. The cards are there to give your eye a small task for the day.

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Build from source

JDK 17+ (Android Studio's bundled JBR works) and the Android SDK. Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Room, DataStore; the table and the Auntie are drawn in code, the cards are the 1909 scans, and every reading and omen is in TSV.

git clone https://github.com/bigdevwhale/silverlining.git
cd silverlining
./gradlew testDebugUnitTest assembleDebug
./gradlew assembleDebug -Pdemo              # app.silverlining.demo: six weeks of readings and a worn deck
./gradlew testDebugUnitTest -Prender --tests '*RenderArtScreens*'   # every screen to PNG, EN and RU

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