LONG, LEAN, HUNGRY ONES In 1245, Pope Innocent IV composed a letter to Güyük Khan, requesting that the Mongols cease attacking Christian lands in Eastern Europe. This letter was carried all the way from Lyon to Karakorum, where it was read to the Khagan... www.greaterrealityarea.net/long-lean-hu...

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Bestiary writers from Pliny on through DaVinci wrote of the legendary battles between elephants and dragons; two titanic beasts, evenly matched, their corpses found entangled throughout Africa and Asia. We can presume the surviving species of Proboscidea... www.greaterrealityarea.net/an-elephant-...

Would anyone subscribed to my work be opposed to an every-other-week collection of interesting notes getting sent out? I find lots of cool things I’m not necessarily going to use that might be interesting to the kind of person who reads NoR or GRA

the situation here in minneapolis is disgusting, and the air is filled with perpetual tension. there is very little tolerance for the creeping threat, but you always know it's close at hand. horns and whistles and helicopter blades. everywhere is emptier than normal, everyone's eyes are wider.

An amusing small finding: an extinct crocodilian known as "necrosuchus," meaning "dead crocodile," got this name because someone asked the paleontologists if it was dead while they were collecting the fossil, and they found this funny enough to immortalize: digitallibrary.amnh.org/items/eef9a4...

Bestiary writers from Pliny on through DaVinci wrote of the legendary battles between elephants and dragons; two titanic beasts, evenly matched, their corpses found entangled throughout Africa and Asia. We can presume the surviving species of Proboscidea... www.greaterrealityarea.net/an-elephant-...

the spirit of the city sent ice fog in retaliation for our unwanted guests

The Agartha shit is going to evolve into an op to convince American kids to try and move to Greenland

The author of the great North of Reality blog launched a new project. Great to see such a playful, cock-eyed imagination return with fresh words.

If you missed it yesterday, the new era begins!

this is live today, and trust me when I say you need some skillful weird fiction with soul more than ever

heck of a thing to read after finishing @qntm.org's revised edition of There Is No Antimemetics Division, whose cosmic ecology these little guys would neatly slot into also i just now noticed the banner says "BACK TO REALITY - FRONT TOWARDS ENEMY" which is fucking FANTASTIC

And with that, we embark on our journey into the GREATER REALITY AREA. For those who have signed up, be sure to check your junk and spam folders to ensure that these are being received. Thank you for reading!

And with that, we embark on our journey into the GREATER REALITY AREA. For those who have signed up, be sure to check your junk and spam folders to ensure that these are being received. Thank you for reading!

The bicephalous jackalope leads a complex and short existence due to only one of its heads being materially real. Though it may at first seem cumbersome, this grants it an evolutionary advantage over its better known cousin, the common jackalope, as the... www.greaterrealityarea.net/an-endangere...

my first recommendation: the long-awaited return of one of old-school weird twitter’s best writers. uel’s work is strange and luminous and I am looking forward to it

UEL IS BACK!

highly anticipated, highly worth checking out

THE GREATER REALITY AREA begins 1/3! Three pieces a month free, one more for those who want to subscribe. There is no such thing as fiction, but there might as well be, so you can find it here. BACK TO REALITY, FRONT TOWARD ENEMY. www.greaterrealityarea.net

[shonen anime writer's room] "okay so the main character is getting too powerful" "why don't we let how powerful he is be part of the next arc?" "what if we give him an enemy who renders his strength useless?" "okay? then what happens?" "well, his friends lose. then he loses until he wants to win."

I AM GETTING PUMPED UP

This was a sad day in St Paul… now there’s only one of these left

pronouncing "footage" like "karaage"

The world begs for adventurers to at least try

When an author writes an unfinished story, but there is a promise it will continue, imagination is licensed to the audience. When the story ends, the license of the audience to imagine is revoked. This is the impossible problem of franchise fandom; you cannot reclaim territory ceded to imagination.

Pretty much everyone being bad faith of Pluribus is critiquing it with a “here is what I would have done” which means they should just go watch something like Death Note or Code Geass instead. Art isn’t about minmaxing, go somewhere else for protagonists gaming rules

ambiguum (n): a problem space best treated as unsolvable for the sake of problem solving

I stopped using substack because it only cared about money in stoking fires, most of which were not worth stoking. These days, all these pieces are free to peruse and enjoy.

in case you missed it last night, some codes for my album Flattener

Me at 5: I can't wait for Santa to get me a new lego set! Me at 15: Santa isn't real Me at 25: Santa isn't real, but we can collectively make him real through our actions Me at 35: The ways in which Santa is real are myriad and disturbing. The Wild Hunt rides again, wearing the mask of a Saint

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In anticipation of The Greater Reality Area, and in the spirit of the Holiday Season, I have stripped the entirety of paywalls out of my old compartive tarot publication, Compound Eye! Total jubilee! All missives are now fully available to the public! compoundeye.substack.com

some of the best tarot writing you're going to find, treat yourself

In anticipation of The Greater Reality Area, and in the spirit of the Holiday Season, I have stripped the entirety of paywalls out of my old compartive tarot publication, Compound Eye! Total jubilee! All missives are now fully available to the public! compoundeye.substack.com

The thing from the Luigi case that is most curious, who were those two people in McDonald's who insisted a random vagrant in Altoona looked like the CEO shooter, and why did they need an employee to call it in for them? Could there be a reason they knew beyond having perfect, eidetic eyebrow recall?

DAY TWELVE You thought you could handle him... but you were so very, very wrong. It's: CHEEP TRICK Genus: Cyanoramphus auriceps (parakeet) Art origin: Painting from Natural History of Parrots (1801—1805) by Francois Levaillant, collaged with a sword Motto: "You get what you pay for"

an obelisk appears: it is a pillar of inspiration that transports your mind to fascinating worlds and fills you with wonder, intrigue, and awe. (if you follow me and don't know uel's writing, then you're in for a treat)

North of Reality was some of the best short fiction on the net so this is truly gonna fuck

On this, the day of my birth, I am pleased to announce that I will be launching my next publication, THE GREATER REALITY AREA, on JANUARY 3RD, 2026. It has been several years since NORTH OF REALITY, and here shall begin my long awaited return to the fray! New logo by @tinyobscurae.bsky.social

they’re eventually going to drop the net and just be flix

Good things coming in the new year. The culture is too fucked. The only option is just to make it myself

game features PvG (player versus God)

met my parents for lunch at the mall of america. we walked by ebisu. my mother, a woman in her seventies with no knowledge of anime, pointed at a life size statue of roronoa zoro and said “you should start dressing like that”

bluesky seems to also be deeply bot captured, but because the bots aren't ragebaiting or longthreading pseudo-intellectual screeds, they're seen as a nonissue. I do wonder what kind of research is being done with all these...

youtubers seem to think any story where not everything is fully explained is cosmic horror

green olives are artichoke eyes zucchini noodles are artichoke intestines the remaining anatomy is left as an exercise for the reader do not insert the artichoke’s heart until all vital organs are accounted for

expedition 33 is that good and every attempt to find a reason to say otherwise right now is producing some really remarkable gymnastics. the game is great regardless of geoff games sowing the annual discord

All of these desperate pleas in the dark for a partner from the psuedointellectual class, patting each other on the back with vouchers over their date me docs… it is all to try to transmute their alienation into value. Obviously it doesn’t result in love; just celebrating the self in its absence.

We need legislation for shopping with dignity. The amount of anti-theft lockers, banning of personal bags, etc. is unreasonable and dehumanizing. somehow stores like target or cvs haven't figured out that people won't even bother going from the absurdity, even as their businesses collapse