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Academic advisor for the College of Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Recovering academic. PhD in Media Studies.

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Lesbian Culture versus Gay Culture
Last Chance Joe in Sparks NV Topsy the Clown in Reno NV
November 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Developing a robust typography of new Reno-area queer stereotypes.

For example: Lesbian culture is Last Chance Joe, Sparks’ giant plexiglass prospector.
Map of Reno-Sparks area with demographic data for lesbian residents Map of Reno-Sparks area with demographic data for gay male residents
November 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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You’ll be visited by three spirits

The three spirits
Willow, Tara, and Anya, singing in Once More With Feeling
November 25, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Tarot hot take: the fish in the Page of Cups is talking to the Page's hat. It looks like a fish!🐟
The Page of Cups from Waite-Smith
November 22, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.
The cast of 3rd Rock From The Sun
March 21, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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Loving my new card holder for my office desk tarot-card-a-day display. The five off-shoot branches are such a nice touch, feels like a very nature-y pentacle.

Purchased from The Wheyfarer in Reno, made by Wear ‘N Art.

#tarot #tarotsky
The Fool card from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer tarot deck, showing Xander Harris unaware he’s about to fall into an open grave, resting in a small wooden display, a cross-section of a two inch or so wide branch, with five branches (only three are visible from this perspective), radiating out. A small groove has been cut into the surface of the wooden display so that a card can stand up in it. The same card in the same display, rotated ninety degrees so you can see all five thin branches radiating out from the disk of wood. The underside of the wooden display, showing the artist’s mark burned in: WEAR ‘N ART
March 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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It’s anti Italian discrimination
March 8, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Have loved this spread since I first saw you share it a few months back. Decided to do a quick reading with my Wild Unknown cards, and I’m not sure I could have gotten a more apt card for “fuck” than The Devil, Reversed.
A six card tarot spread using The Wild Unknown Tarot Eight of Swords Eight of Wands Seven of Coins Reveresed The Devil Reversed Daughter of Swords Nine of Coins Reversed
March 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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A hopeful Terra Volatile tarot spread:

You’re on the path you need to be on
The journey will be long and meandering
Remember to relish the joyful moments

#tarot #tarotsky #terravolatile
The Universe, Knight of Coins, and Three of Cups from Terra Volatile tarot deck
February 25, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Day Seventy-Eight of my Card A Day project, using four tarot decks from my collection: Centennial RWS, Wild Unknown, Ethereal Visions Luna, and Spacious Tarot.

The final card: The Fool. Beginnings. Rebirth. Jumping in. Chaos. Pure potential. Zero. Nothing and no thing.
The Fool from four different tarot decks: Centennial RWS, Wild Unknown, Ethereal Visions Luna, and Spacious Tarot RWS: A blonde boy in ornate black and green and orange robes stands atop a precipice, his eyes looking up into the brilliant yellow sky. His white dog bounds up beside him. He holds a white flower in his left hand, a bindle with an eagle head design on it in his right, and a red feather in his hair. In the far distance, spiky blue mountains. WU: Against a background of horizontal lines going from yellow o black, a black and white chick perched precariously on a branch, one leg reaching out, ready to fly. EVL: A blonde young man with a starry-sky parasol, orange pants, and a vest dances at the edge of a cliff, his white dog bounding up and the sun rising behind him. ST: A POV image, looking out from the walk up to the very edge of a cliff. Beautiful blue and pink and orange sky, with far off forests and mountains.
February 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Day Seventy-Seven of my Card A Day project, using four tarot decks from my collection: Centennial RWS, Wild Unknown, Ethereal Visions Luna, and Spacious Tarot.

Five of Pentacles. Hardship and loss. Companionship during hard times. Not seeking out the help available to you. No help being available.
Five of Pentacles from four different tarot decks: Centennial RWS, Wild Unknown, Ethereal Visions Luna, and Spacious Tarot RWS: A pair of destitute individuals, both in rags, one on crutches, trudge through snow, an ornate stained glass window with pentacle motifs behind htem. WU: Under a strand of five pentacles on a chain, above which is white, below which is black, a wilting rose loses a petal. The red of the rose is the only color. EVL: Under an ornate design that resembles an art-nouveau interpretation of stained glass, a woman in rags holds her swaddled baby close. ST: A wounded wolf limps up a dusty brown desolate hill, towards a set of stone markers on the top of the hill, each with a different color of coin-like pentacle.
February 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Day Seventy-Six of my Card A Day project, using four tarot decks from my collection: Centennial RWS, Wild Unknown, Ethereal Visions Luna, and Spacious Tarot.

Two of Cups. Unity and partnership. Romance and alliances. Having a drink with your old pal, the floating lion-headed caduceus thing.
Two of Coins from four different tarot decks: Centennial RWS, Wild Unknown, Ethereal Visions Luna, and Spacious Tarot RWS: A man and a woman hold up cups before them, the man reaching out to the woman. A floating lion-headed caduceus thing is between and above them. WU: On a mostly black backrgound, two black-and-white cups, with a pair of roses crossed over them, their red petals the only color. EVL: A floating lion-headed caduceus thing between two cups, one light, one dark, on a purple background. ST: In a pond filled with lily pads, two cups sit on adjoining pads, a purple and pink lotus flower between them.
February 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Day Seventy-Five of my Card A Day project, using four tarot decks from my collection: Centennial RWS, Wild Unknown, Ethereal Visions Luna, and Spacious Tarot.

The Hermit. Soul-searching. A mentor figure. Guiding the way for other pilgrims. Withdrawal and solitude.
The Hermit from four different tarot decks: Centennial RWS, Wild Unknown, Ethereal Visions Luna, and Spacious Tarot RWS: An old man with a white beard wearing grey/brown robes leans against a walking stick in his left hand on the very summit of a mountain, holding a loft a lantern illuminated with a six pointed yellow star. WU: A black and white illustration of a large tortoise, its head just poking out from its shell. On its back, a gas lamp illuminating the space around. EVL: A wizard looking guy with a long bear and robes carries a walking stick in his left hand while holding a lantern aloft in his right hand. In the lower left corner, a skull. ST: In a empty dark purple woods, a lamp left on the ground, illuminating a small area around it.
February 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Day Seventy-Four of my Card A Day project, using four tarot decks from my collection: Centennial RWS, Wild Unknown, Ethereal Visions Luna, and Spacious Tarot.

King of Wands. Mature authority over elemental fire. Leadership, vision, daring. Having a cool salamander by your side.
King of Wands from four different tarot decks: Centennial RWS, Wild Unknown, Ethereal Visions Luna, and Spacious Tarot RWS: A red-haired man in a crown, red robes, and a yellow and black cape sits on a throne deocrated with lions and salamanders. He holds a wand in his right hand and look out to frame left. Next to him on the stone pedestal the throne is on, a small black salamander follows his gaze. WU: Called "Father of Wands." A hooded cobra rears its head back, tongue flicking out, with a white wand nestled between its coils, a red and orange lightning bolt striking in the background. EVL: A white guy in a crown holds a large stick. A holofoil salamander is next to him in the framing. Behind him, a stone pair of lion heads smile. ST: A salamander encircles a white wand standing straight up. In the sky above, fireworks.
February 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Day Seventy-Three of my Card A Day project, using four tarot decks from my collection: Centennial RWS, Wild Unknown, Ethereal Visions Luna, and Spacious Tarot.

The Lovers. Love, unity, balance. Making a choice. We saw you from the other side of the Garden of Eden, and we really like your vibe.
The Lovers from four different tarot decks: Centennial RWS, Wild Unknown, Ethereal Visions Luna, and Spacious Tarot RWS: Beneath a sun bursting forth with radiant energy, a flaming hair yellow angel floats on a cloud beneath two trees in the garden of eden. On the left side, Eve looks up at the angel, the tree of wisdom behind her, the snake near her shoulder. On the right, Adam looks at Eve, the flame like fruits of the Tree of Life behind him. A suggestively pointy mountain peak rises between them. WU: Two black-and-white canada geese in flight, with a sunburst of radiating yellow lines that transition to different colors of the rainbow further from the birds. EVL: A white couple embraces, the woman holding a white rose near her belly. ST: Two beams of light, wrapping around each other in the darkness, like double-helix DNA.
February 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Day Seventy-Two of my Card A Day project, using four tarot decks from my collection: Centennial RWS, Wild Unknown, Ethereal Visions Luna, and Spacious Tarot.

The Magician. Creation and willpower. The active principle. Alchemical transformation. Showing off your collection of ritual artifacts.
The Magician from four different tarot decks: Centennial RWS, Wild Unknown, Ethereal Visions Luna, and Spacious Tarot RWS: Surrounded by flowers both above and below, a black hair man wears white robes under a red cloak, a white headband, and a belt made of a snake. Over his head, a black lemniscate floats. In his right hand, he holds aloft a white, double-tipped magic wand; with his left hand, he points to the earth. In front of him, a table with a sword, cup, pentacle, and wand. WU: A black and white illustration of a cheetah, seated and perched up with its paws resting on a black and white pentacle before it. On the cheetah's chest, a lemniscate. Beside the pentacle, a sword, a cup, and a wand. Behind the cheetah, black lines burst out in a radial pattern, taking on yellow, red, and orange coloring around the edges of the image's frame. ST: A Black woman with voluminous natural curls covers the right side of her head with her right hand, has her left eye closed, and holds up a small brazier pillowing seafoam colored smoke in her left hand. She has a holofoil pentacle on the breast of her undershirt, and wears a pink dress around her waist as though shed pulled some of it off. Two pink flowers flank her hips, and behind her, the night sky. ST: A POV image looking up into the sky, where a sword, pentacle, cup, and wand float in the air, and a rainbow colored lemniscate hangs magically in the air. The edges of tree frame the image in the corners.
February 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Day Seventy-One of my Card A Day project, using four tarot decks from my collection: Centennial RWS, Wild Unknown, Ethereal Visions Luna, and Spacious Tarot.

Page of Swords. A student of elemental air. Curious, inquisitive, mentally sharp, perhaps ruled by their anxieties. Hamlet.
Page of Swords from four different tarot decks: Centennial RWS, Wild Unknown, Ethereal Visions Luna, and Spacious Tarot RWS: A young man with hair chaotically whopping in the wind stands atop a small knoll and holds up a sword in both hands to his left. His right left trails behind him in an almost coquettish way. The background shows wind swept trees in the distance and large billowing grey clouds. WU: Called "Daughter of Swords". A black and white illustration of a barn owl, perched atop a black sword. In the background, a dark night sky with seven stars of different colors. EVL: A woman with a long black braid climbs over a rocky outcropping while holding a small sword aloft in her left hand. In the distance, a body of water, distant mountains, and clouds behind her. ST: Called "Child of Swords." A crow, standing on the snowy ground, looking through its legs at the sword thrust hilt-first into the snow behind them. The air is filled with frosty breezes.
February 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Day Seventy of my Card A Day project, using four tarot decks from my collection: Centennial RWS, Wild Unknown, Ethereal Visions Luna, and Spacious Tarot.

Five of Wands. Competition, aggression, disagreement. A bunch of dumb kids beating the shit out of each other with sticks.
Five of Wands from four different tarot decks: Centennial RWS, Wild Unknown, Ethereal Visions Luna, and Spacious Tarot RWS: Five teenaged boys wearing tunics and tights of varying colors clash in mock combat in a field, each wielding a large wand as a staff. WU: Five black wands seem to be either flying about or held in status on a background of diagonal lines coming at various angles, many of them seeming to come off the wands like speed lines. EVL: Five teenaged boys wearing tunics and tights of varying colors clash in mock combat in a field, each wielding a large wand as a staff. ST: On a background of blues, five wands, two white, three black, cross over each other at various angles. One wand of each color, pointed in roughly opposite directions, are still illuminated with sparks, while the other three wands give off smoke as though they have just been extinguished.
February 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Day Sixty-Nine of my Card A Day project, using four tarot decks from my collection: Centennial RWS, Wild Unknown, Ethereal Visions Luna, and Spacious Tarot.

The Hierophant. Instruction, pedagogy, initiation into a ritual order. Mysteries and answers.
The Hierophant from four different tarot decks: Centennial RWS, Wild Unknown, Ethereal Visions Luna, and Spacious Tarot RWS: A pope like figure in red robes and an ornate golden crown sits in a throne between two pillars. In his left hand, he holds a scepter with a triple cross; with his right hand, he does a benediction-like gesture of holding up two fingers together. Beneath him, two tonsured initiaties bow, a pair of keys on the dais before them. WU: A crow perces atop an ornate antique key, as lightning crashes behind. EVL: An ornately deocarated brazier pillows seafoam colors smoke through a stone archway with spiralling stone pillars and carvings of a man and woman's faces in the corners. Through the arch, the nightsky and a falling star. ST: Under an impossible waning crescent moon, the moon pokes up over the horizon between the stones of a Stonehenge like druidic circle.
February 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Day Sixty-Eight of my Card A Day project, using four tarot decks from my collection: Centennial RWS, Wild Unknown, Ethereal Visions Luna, and Spacious Tarot.

Ten of Pentacles. Family, stability, security, ancestry. Pay attention to the dark stranger at the doorstep.
The Ten of Pentacle from four different tarot decks: Centennial RWS, Wild Unknown, Ethereal Visions Luna, and Spacious Tarot RWS: A family of three are talking under a richly decorated arch, with their two white dogs focused on the old man in ornately designed robes outside. A kabbalistic arrangement of the ten pentacles overlays the image. WU: At the center of concentric rings of rainbow color going from indigo to red at the center, a 3-by-3 diamond of black and white pentacles, with the pentacle at the very center of the pattern having a smaller star inside its star. EVL: A woman in orange clothes and her dog greet an old man in purple robes at an archway laden with grades. ST: The trunk of a tree, one branch growing off to the upper left. Other branches have been cut off all around the trunk, and at their stumps, pentacles of different design.
February 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Day Sixty-Seven of my Card A Day project, using four tarot decks from my collection: Centennial RWS, Wild Unknown, Ethereal Visions Luna, and Spacious Tarot.

The Wheel of Fortune. This too shall pass.
The Wheel of Fortune from four different tarot decks: Centennial RWS, Wild Unknown, Ethereal Visions Luna, and Spacious Tarot RWS: An orange wheel decorated with alchemical symbols, the Hebrew letters for YHWH, and TARO. Sitting atop it, a blue sphinx with a sword, descending down counter-clockwise on the left, a yellow snake, ascending up on the right, an orange Anubis-like figure. The sky behind has grey clouds in each corner, where different yellow figures sit reading books, starting with a winged human and eagle in the top corners and a winged cow and lion in the bottom corners. WU: A medicine wheel made of gnarled white and black branches, with rainbow colored string haphazardly strung up like webbing. From a branch on the top, an owl sits against the night sky. Below the wheel, the sun in the bright sky. EVL: A hooded green figure holds the holofoil wheel in their arms, a holofoil snack descending down their right side. In the backrgound, flanking either side of the hooded figure, are the four figures in profile: human, lion, cow, and eagle. ST: On an backrgound of dark blue with dark d\red in the center, a ring of brnaches, moving through the seasons, holly in the upper left, autumnal orange and yellow leaves in top right, fresh fruit in the lower right, and pink blossoms at thebottom. In the center, a spiral.
February 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Day Sixty-Six of my Card A Day project, using four tarot decks from my collection: Centennial RWS, Wild Unknown, Ethereal Visions Luna, and Spacious Tarot.

Temperance. Peace comes from finally finding the balance in your life and in your mind.
Temperance from four different tarot decks: Centennial RWS, Wild Unknown, Ethereal Visions Luna, and Spacious Tarot WU: An androgynous angelic figure in long white robes stands before a small body of water, pouring water back and forth impossibly between cups. They have one foot on the ground and one foot in the water. Their wings are beautiful, with shades of reds and blues. In the background, a path leading to far distant mountains, over which a shining illumination in the shape of a crown. WU: On a background of rainbow diagonal lines shaded from red to blue, a black and white illustration of a heron extends one wing out, sheltering a fire in front of it. Five large drops of blue water fall from the heron onto the flame. EVL: A feminine angelic figure in seafoam off-the-shoulder robes has water flowing at impossible angles between two cups in either hands. She has majestic holofoil wing, and behind her, a path leads to a far distant horizon, the sunlight just starting to be visible. ST: On a black background, flames flick up from below while icicles hang down, dripping water. In the middle, steam.
February 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Day Sixty-Five of my Card A Day project, using four tarot decks from my collection: Centennial RWS, Wild Unknown, Ethereal Visions Luna, and Spacious Tarot.

The Knight of Swords. Charging forward. Acting recklessly. Air of air.
The Knight of Swords from four different tarot decks: Centennial RWS, Wild Unknown, Ethereal Visions Luna, and Spacious Tarot RWS: A knight in light blue armor with a red cape flying behind him holds up a sword with his right hand, charging forward recklessly on his scared-looking white horse. In the background, trees lean as though he's charging into the wind. WU: Called Son of Swords. A black and white illustration of an owl swoops, with a black sword in its talons. EVL: An armored knight wearing an orange table with a white design on his chest holds a sword up before his face, while his white horse bows his head sadly. ST: Called Explored of Swords. A crow leans over the side of a cliff, investigating a sword that has been precariously placed by the precipice.
February 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Day Sixty-Four of my Card A Day project, using four tarot decks from my collection: Centennial RWS, Wild Unknown, Ethereal Visions Luna, and Spacious Tarot.

Today's card: Eight of Wands. Movement, speed, messages. Some sticks flying in the air! But like, esoterically!

#tarot #tarotsky
The Eight of Wands from four different tarot decks: Centennial RWS, Wild Unknown, Ethereal Visions Luna, and Spacious Tarot RWS: Eight wands fly into the image, coming from the left at about a 30 degree downward angle. The sky is clear blue, and in the background, a stream, a small hill, and a building on top. WU: This card was photographed upside, I only just noticed! I will describe the card as though it were right side up. Eight black gnarled branches are arranged in a radial pattern, their tips all pointed at a single point, where the background -- otherwise all speckled black -- is pure white. From th top of a card, a rainbow lightning bolt, starting at red at the top, strikes the top middle wand, which is illuminated with the green, blue, and purple parts of the spectrum. EVL: A while woman with long wavy brown hair rides a galloping brown horse. She wears a pink sports coat, a white colored shirt, grey jodhpurs, and black riding boots. Her left hand grasps the reins, while her right hand trails behind her, holding a stick. She wears a satchel with seven more sticks. Seafoam green smoke billows around the horse's hooves. ST: Eight shooting stars, their tails shaped like wooden wands. They fly to the left, with an illuminated spray of speckled energy trailing behind. The background is a purple and teal tinted night sky, with black tree outlines on the bottom.
February 4, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Day Sixty-Three of my Card A Day project, using four tarot decks from my collection: Centennial RWS, Wild Unknown, Ethereal Visions Luna, and Spacious Tarot.

Today's card: Knight of Cups. Air of Water. Listening to your heart, using your emotions as your guide.

#tarot #tarotsky
The Knight of Cups from four different tarot decks: Centennial RWS, Wild Unknown, Ethereal Visions Luna, and Spacious Tarot RWS: A white man in armor, seated upon a grey horse that seems to be moving slowly, each footstep with careful purpose. He wears a helmet with large wings swooped back out the top of the helmet, and a tabard decorated with red fish over blue wavey watery lines. He holds in front of him a large golden cup, which seems to occupy his attention. In the background, a small creek running through a desert-y environment, with a large hill to the right and far off trees and more mountains in the distance. WU: "Son of Cups". A white swam with a black beak floats by a cup, from which rainbow energy emanates. EVL: In profile, a white man in ornately decorated armor holds a cup to his chest and gazes out at the horizon to the right. His armor is covered in fish motifs, and on his pauldron, a horse head, also in profile. In the background, a small creek and far distant mountains. ST: "Explorer of Cups". A mostly white koi, with speckles of orange and black on its back, swims down into deeper water, towards a cup sunken to the bottom, nestled amidst rocks and seaweed.
February 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM