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@greaterrealityarea.net
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uel aramchek. tarot, writing, high weirdness. minneapolis based. greaterrealityarea.net, formerly compoundeye.substack.com, northofreality.com

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saltmarsh art @thesaltmarsh.bsky.social · 1h
I've made a helpful graphic of what is in the Lubanko Tarot! A lot of folks wanted to know what the cards were like all laid out, so I made a graphic with all of the paintings, plus some book and card details! Also updated the website with more deck pictures and reviews. www.emilylubanko.com#/tarot/
Lubanko Tarot image that shows what the deck is comprised of: the box art, the 244-pg full-color guidebook, 80 cards with borderless art and black edges, and fully-illustrated cards – no pips, all full narrative illustrations for coherent and rich readings. You can also see the design on the back of the cardsAtmospheric image of the deck box and some cards scattered about it. This is from the Llewellyn order page!
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 1h
When it comes to the ouroboros, a taxidermist’s job is never done.
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 29/09/2026
starting a tech company called "balrog" for the thiel money. our business model is blocking isolated roads and rural bridges and killing anyone who doesn't give up their baubles and jewelry as they pass.
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 29/09/2026
if you're having trouble killing enemies quickly in control resonant, get ignite. when it turns off, build power and use it again. eventually you'll be killing them too fast
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 29/09/2026
Hada a dream that in Control: Resonant there was a resonant named "The Falling Man" like the famous photograph, and it was a guy just falling and screaming in an endlessly looping pit
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 29/09/2026
infinite recursion: the jailhouse of the cell
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 28/09/2026
The platforms want total capture. Having your own website locks them out of their precious surveillance, and protects your IP from being misused or defaced. I love writing on my own site and have no intention of stopping, but I have noticed that traffic is harder to come by.
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 28/09/2026
sometimes I think the plan was to lock all of us in with each other
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 26/09/2026
THE WRONG KIND OF FIRE September's subscribers-only story. www.greaterrealityarea.net/the-wrong-ki...
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THE WRONG KIND OF FIRE
Strange fiction and fiction-adjacent works posted weekly by Uel Aramchek.
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 26/09/2026
why be double good when you can be thrice great
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 25/09/2026
DYLAN: "Zoe. I'm at the field hospital. It's... not looking good." ZOE: "Shit. Is there anyone alive?" DYLAN: "There's someone here, at the front desk." ZOE: "And the staff?" DYLAN: "One doctor. He's okay. Just distressed." ZOE: "And the civilians?" DYLAN: "Only one. A woman on a bed. She's crying."
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 25/09/2026
when I accidentally neglect the livelihoods of shrimp in my moral calculus
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 25/09/2026
Hit a really fucking emotional moment in the game for me and man. Someone give Dylan a hug
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 24/09/2026
control resonant spoilers: new york got that blue caelid
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 24/09/2026
Been filling in my instagram with historical adventures of mine and nightly tarot studies in stories. Come follow along! www.instagram.com/p/DdptK3-O0y...
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Sam/Uel on Instagram: "THE EIGHT OF SWORDS Who gets to say you can’t move? Taken somewhere in San Diego. Can’t recall the conditions of the night. One of my last great prowling cities before the wor...
6 likes, 0 comments - knightofstaves on September 23, 2026: "THE EIGHT OF SWORDS Who gets to say you can’t move? Taken somewhere in San Diego. Can’t recall the conditions of the night. One of my las...
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 24/09/2026
every copy of bluesky is personalized
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 23/09/2026
Control Resonant sick as hell out the gates
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 22/09/2026
I can lie better than you can hallucinate, and I can hallucinate better than you can lie.
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 22/09/2026
For those curious, this is pretty decent old summary (with some side characters you may recognize): fredwynne.medium.com/an-open-lett...
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An Open Letter to Vitalik Buterin
I hope this letter finds you in good health. Unfortunately, the topic of this letter is grim. Your $4.4million dollar donation to the…
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 19/09/2026
SCHEHERAZADE NUMBERS In Buckminster Fuller’s Synergetics, there is a section titled “Numerology,” serving as a strange appendix to the compendium of his knowledge and beliefs. In this section of the book, he preserved several of his more unusual... www.greaterrealityarea.net/scheherazade...
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SCHEHERAZADE NUMBERS
In Buckminster Fuller’s Synergetics, there is a section titled “Numerology,” serving as a strange appendix to the compendium of his knowledge and beliefs. In this section of the book, he preserved sev...
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 19/09/2026
norwood is clearly just aping "westwood." only an uncreative person could have done this
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 19/09/2026
A couple weeks ago I had a dream that I needed to come up with a new pen name. In the dream, there was something about it that made it clever. That name? Guy Güyuga
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 16/09/2026
when it’s us, they give us pancakes www.reddit.com/r/StrangeEar...
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From the StrangeEarth community on Reddit: Joseph Simonton holding a pancake that he received as a gift from the Aliens who were inside the UFO.
Explore this post and more from the StrangeEarth community
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 16/09/2026
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 15/09/2026
Determining whether or not it would be ethical to eat each member of the Smash Bros. roster is a more complicated problem than you might think. For instance, while King Dedede has human-like intelligence, eating him has occasionally proven morally imperative.
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 15/09/2026
There’s a good chance in my estimation we are in the twilight of the internet as we know it, and the protocols we rely on come undone like a latticework of shoelaces.
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 13/09/2026
I hate it when I show up to my AirBNB and it’s the Water Temple again
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 13/09/2026
The CEO of Soup is concerned that a new form of life is forming in the company's billion gallon soup centers, and may produce a pathogen that wipes out all life before they can solve world hunger. As such, it's their responsibility to hoard all the soup and manufacture novel bacteria before China.
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 12/09/2026
AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE BLACK VOLGA It was after three in the morning in Chicago, probably a Thursday, when that vintage Soviet car pulled up alongside me, its exhaust sweet with sulfur. I knew the old tales from Eastern Europe during the Cold War: the... www.greaterrealityarea.net/an-encounter...
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AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE BLACK VOLGA
It was after three in the morning in Chicago, probably a Thursday, when that vintage Soviet car pulled up alongside me, its exhaust sweet with sulfur. I knew the old tales from Eastern Europe during t...
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 11/09/2026
At last, that magical day is here, the day I watch Southland Tales every year
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 10/09/2026
The Myrmecoleon Effect documented on youtube in delightful fashion by Professor Oddfellow: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPFT...
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The Bizarre Origin of the Antlion or Myrmecoleon, on Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia
YouTube video by ProfessorOddfellow
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 10/09/2026
I’ve been posting some nightly tarot thoughts over on instagram, for those who want to learn or sharpen skills. Find me at knightofstaves.
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 10/09/2026
I’ve been posting some nightly tarot thoughts over on instagram, for those who want to learn or sharpen skills. Find me at knightofstaves.
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 09/09/2026
me but it’s #blades68
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 07/09/2026
is there anything that won’t be abandoned? www.startribune.com/pearsons-can...
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Pearson’s, a St. Paul institution, is closing its candy factory
The maker of the Salted Nut Roll and other treats is laying off 80 employees in September.
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 07/09/2026
the zohran guillotine image done up like the shinzo abe meme, have sex, see you space cowboy
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 07/09/2026
the beatdown poets
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 06/09/2026
remember data? from star trek? his last name is “center”
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 06/09/2026
ONE HAS A VOICE VEGETA
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 06/09/2026
I’m Uel in Minneapolis, and I like how DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing ends with Twin Peaks’ “It is happening again” before you go back and play it all again, making Transmission 3 the perfect end to any playlist left on repeat, including Endtroducing itself, while dislocating the listener in time
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 06/09/2026
Remake and remaster culture sucks, but at least nobody’s had the balls to attempt it with Goncharov.
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 06/09/2026
if you want to support independent non-slop fiction, boy do I have the website for you
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 06/09/2026
Guy who gets inverse Mandela-effected every time he calls a customer service line because he actually believes the voice telling him the menu options have changed
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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Literary fiction is coming. It is going to revolutionize the economy. We know that China has already got a start on literary fiction. We can’t afford to be left out of the literary fiction economy. Think of your kids. They might already be engaging with literary fiction.
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Deep Hell Skeleton @deephelldotcom.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
this might be one of my favorite pieces of writing of all time
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 05/09/2026
PLACES TO BE There are zones within Wyoming’s midsection where the sky is too slippery for satellites to hold steady, and even the most detailed surveyors made errors which were copied from one cartographer to another. While driving across those moonscapes... www.greaterrealityarea.net/places-to-be/
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PLACES TO BE
There are zones within Wyoming’s midsection where the sky is too slippery for satellites to hold steady, and even the most detailed surveyors made errors which were copied from one cartographer to ano...
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neotl @ctrlcreep.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"Brutalism only good with plants" discourse is erasure of fungus brutalism. Imagine: beautiful concrete house, veiled in lichen, mushrooms erupting from the cracks like fire
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 04/09/2026
quandary is a unique talent and if you love chill beats that are also deeply creative I recommend digging in. criminally underrated and great background for anything you’re working on.
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 04/09/2026
in case you ever wondered why I sound like that
dialect map that outs me as north dakotan
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 03/09/2026
I hate it when I'm trying to drive to work in the morning and I see the sky knife spinning up ahead
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