update from sparkleup

writing/post-self/toledot/index.md

@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ Nearing the 200th anniversary of System secession from humanity, the System and
     * [X] [Secession: sys-side: True Name](secession/sys/True-Name/006) - Meets with Debarre, who says he understands better now, thanks her for all her work; after he leaves, meets up with *Life Breeds Life,* But Death Must Now Be Chosen (human male, scholar type) to help keep up appearances during secession work that the clade isn't growing, minimize actions in history so that the clade doesn't appear to have done anything, that Michelle was on the Council and the clade just helped. - 2317
     * [X] [Launch: launch-side: Codrin#Castor](launch/launch/Codrin-castor/006) - Interviews No Jonas, hints at how big an influence he and Odists (not just TN!) had on both phys/sys side after secession, anything to keep System growing - 2471
     * [X] [Secession: sys-side: True Name](secession/sys/True-Name/007) - walks sims, thinking about what the System will look like after secession (doesn't share Yared's pessimism), how to keep it running, remembers conversation about birth laws in S-R Bloc, forks End Waking to investigate that, revealing that at some point, Jonas showed her how to manipulate reputation markets to make sure she could always fork. - 1378 Expand?
-    * [O] [Launch: phys-side: Douglas](launch/phys/Douglas/008) - Sabotage attempts, hinting that there are those phys-side who have also picked up patterns and really don't like System - 2802
+    * [X] [Launch: phys-side: Douglas](launch/phys/Douglas/008) - Sabotage attempts, hinting that there are those phys-side who have also picked up patterns and really don't like System - 2802
     * [o] [Secession: phys-side: Yared](secession/phys/Yared/008) - Sure enough, support rapidly swings sys-side, long conversation with TN/Jonas about what it means, starting to see how having his name on the amendment is diving people not just on the subject, but on him, starting to think about death, showing fear that he had at beginning - 2839
     * [O] [Launch: sys-side: Ioan](launch/sys/Ioan/010) - Ioan, getting really pissed at how Odists won't just answer eir fucking questions all the way and keep demurring at the last minute, interviews Jonas Prime, who has grown pessimistic, life wants to spread and multiply to make itself stronger, this is the root of the launch: offsite backups; thus why dreamer module was frowned upon: has broadcast w/ information about system, earth, interfacing, etc - 3375
     * [O] [Launch: launch-side: Codrin#Pollux](launch/launch/Codrin-pollux/007) - Interviews Ne Jonas, humanity best viewed as a resource to be used or a crop to be tended by System - 2752

writing/post-self/toledot/launch/phys/Douglas/008.md

@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ So, when he returned back to his room to a series of messages that felt loud, br
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 > **May Then My Name:** This is true! We are ghosts up here, haunting silicon and whatever else makes up the physical elements of the System these days.
 > 
-> **Douglas:** You may as well be ghosts, as far as people think planet-side. There have been various attempts at casting uploads in the light of ancestor worship in some places. I have no idea how those who are worshipped sys-side feel about being asked for courage or a healthy crop or whatever.
+> **Douglas:** You may as well be ghosts, as far as people think planet-side. There have been various groups casting uploads in the light of ancestor worship in some places. I have no idea how those who are worshipped sys-side feel about being asked for courage or a healthy crop or whatever.
 > 
 > **May Then My Name:** I would be honored, personally. I have no one to haunt after two centuries but you. I am afraid that you are stuck with me.
 > 
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ So, when he returned back to his room to a series of messages that felt loud, br
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 > **Douglas:** You're a pretty good ghost, I'd say. I'm looking forward to meeting you in person some day.
 > 
-> **May Then My Name:** I will beg you once more: please come join us soon. I know you said within a year, but if you do not live up to that promise, so help me God, I will move into your implants and never let you sleep again.
+> **May Then My Name:** I will beg you once more: please come join us soon. I know you said soon, but if you do not live up to that promise, so help me God, I will move into your implants and never let you sleep again.
 > 
 > **Douglas:** Don't worry! I promise. You'll see me within the year. I've already put in word with both the launch commission and the clinic here, and they're fine having me stick around station-side until I can upload, so it's already (loosely) scheduled.
 > 
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ So, when he returned back to his room to a series of messages that felt loud, br
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 > **Douglas:** Are you and Ioan in a relationship? I'm sorry if it's impertinent, feel free not to answer.
 > 
-> **May Then My Name:** It is not impertinent, but there is no easy answer. If asks if I would like that, I will say yes. If ey does not, I will still be content.
+> **May Then My Name:** It is not impertinent, but there is no easy answer. If ey asks if I would like that, I will say yes. If ey does not, I will still be content to be eir friend.
 >
 > **May Then My Name:** And if he does not know one way or another, as I suspect, I will ensure that ey makes the decision on eir own terms.
 > 
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ So, when he returned back to his room to a series of messages that felt loud, br
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 > **Douglas:** Why, though?
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-> **May Then My Name:** Two reasons. One: the one with the greater restrictions wins out, and I will say yes to almost anything and anyone. Ey would not. It is thus on em to make the choice Two: if ey really does not know, I will gain an absolutely enormous amount of satisfaction out of teasing em afterwards.
+> **May Then My Name:** Two reasons. One: the one with the greater restrictions in a relationsip wins out, and I will say yes to almost anything and anyone. Ey would not. It is thus on em to make the choice Two: if ey really does not know, I will gain an absolutely enormous amount of satisfaction out of teasing em afterwards.
 > 
 > **Douglas:** Of course you would.
 > 
@@ -216,6 +216,6 @@ Every time he talked with Ioan and May, he was once again faced with the realiza
 
 It wasn't quite charisma, as, whenever he tried the word on for May Then My Name, it carried far too many implications of manipulation, and the last thing he could picture her doing was being manipulative.
 
-She was weird, yes. Goofy, even. But there was nothing about her that was calculating or cold.
+She was weird, yes. Goofy, even. But there was nothing about her that was calculating or cold. Perhaps that's what she'd meant about it needing to be Ioan's choice. Perhaps she knew just how easy it would be for her to manipulate em into a relationship.
 
 *One more walk around the station,* he thought. *Then I'll get to bed. January can't come soon enough.*