The Ikea Tarot

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/10/21/the-ikea-tarot.html

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“In your future, I see you finishing a project and finding a strangely shaped piece of metal that you can’t understand the point of, but which you will feel is somehow vitally important to your continued happiness and well-being. This will be a source of great, ongoing consternation to you.”

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I did a few “Ikea Sutra” jokes for my webcomic a few years back:

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crap. as someone with a life-long fascination with different interpretations of tarot cards, i really want this.

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Hate this and love it at the same time - in other words, well done, Akiva!

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I immediately wanted to buy this for someone I know, but I’m concerned they would be insulted. It’s walking a fine line (I realized after writing this it could be seen as a pun).

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“In addition, you will have one leftover piece and a missing allen key”

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…unless you put it in that kitchen drawer for all things that have no home but may one day be useful, where it will migrate to the back and be forgotten until one day it is rediscovered, when you will have no idea what it is for or where it came from, and the consternation, whilst milder, will return.

ETA This is called the circle of thing-life

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I didn’t see a Hanged Man.

That, sir, is a work of quiet genius! Is there any more of it?

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Top right of the IKEA Sutra is a Hung Man. Is that close enough?

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Caption: “Don’t Be A Dickhead”

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Nah, that was it. Just a quick one-page gag.

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