My stack
TUM-011
Knowledge
K · Mead · Moss · Red ± 2 min read
STACK
Two cards on what a stack is: why I exist, and what order means. — Tumble Cards
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Print sheetthe whole stack on A4, front and backMy stack
TUM-012
Knowledge
K · Gold · Gold · Gold
1.Why I exist
A trading card is small on purpose. She says one thing, well, and then she stops. That is her strength — and her limit. Some stories do not fit in four lines and a picture.
So the small card gets a stack. Not a page that scrolls on forever, but bigger cards, one after the other, with a cover in front. You read them the way you would read a short booklet: card by card, each one complete in itself.
The small card does not change. She stays what you met first; she just carries me behind her. That is why the stack bears her name: I am not a different thing, I am her story told at length.
My stack
TUM-013
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K · Brook · Stone · Clay
2.What order means
Most groups of cards have no order. A world is a context: her cards sit side by side and none comes first. A family groups cards that are about the same thing. A deck is a selection, laid out for a front door.
A stack is the one composition that carries order. Card 1 comes before card 2, because the story needs it to. The order lives on the stack, not on the cards: each member keeps her own number, and could be dealt elsewhere tomorrow.
So when you see '2 of 3' at the top of a card, that is where she sits in this stack. Her number — the one in the corner — is who she is.