update from sparkleup

writing/post-self/mitzvot/036.md

@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ Sasha nodded. "I understand."
 
 "Wait, what?" Ioan said. May edged around a little ways behind em, clutching at eir arm.
 
-"You are too entangled in the matter. No contact with this situation means no contact from you, May Then My Name Die With Me, or E.W. *n* Do I Know God After The End Waking. This request is in effect until further notice, and applies to our stanzas on Castor and Pollux as well. None of us are on Artemis, but I will also be passing this request on to Sorina Bălan. This also applies to general intraclade communication; we will add visibility exceptions to our messages and request that you do the same."
+"You are too entangled in the matter. No contact with this situation means no contact from you, May Then My Name Die With Me, or E.W. *né* Do I Know God After The End Waking. This request is in effect until further notice, and applies to our stanzas on Castor and Pollux as well, where Dear, Also, The Tree That Was Felled will be presented with the same request. None of us are on Artemis, but I will also be passing this on to Sorina Bălan. This includes general intraclade communication; we will add visibility exceptions to our messages and request that you do the same."
 
 "I understand, accept, and offer you my best," Sasha said, bowing once more.
 
@@ -430,9 +430,7 @@ Ey waited until ey could breathe properly after the squeeze, then kissed the top
 
 She nodded once more, relinquished her grip on em, and nudged em out toward the back door and outside.
 
-Sasha had set up a tent similar to E.W.'s though she had skipped the process of building it herself, instead creating from similar materials off the exchange. She'd set it up nearly on the other side of the lake from their house, so that she could have the solitude that she needed without having to create some new sim of her own.
-
-When the need for solitude struck her, it never quite got to the point that it did with E.W.. She would need away from their presences, she would say. They felt like a constant weight on her shoulders. Light, yes, but continually present.
+Sasha had set up a tent similar to E.W.'s though she had skipped the process of building it herself, instead creating from similar materials off the exchange. She'd set it up nearly on the other side of the lake from their house, so that she could have the solitude that she needed without having to create some new sim of her own. When the need for solitude struck her, it never quite got to the point that it did with E.W.. She would need away from their presences. They felt like a constant weight on her shoulders. Light, yes, but continually present, she would say.
 
 Ah well. This was the first time that May had overflowed in this living situation --- and so dramatically, too; she'd never given em so little notice --- so perhaps it would be helpful after all.
 
@@ -450,13 +448,13 @@ She frowned, nodded. "That bad?"
 
 She laid her ears flat. "We are perhaps both overflowing in our own ways."
 
-"Oh, shit. I wasn't thinking. Douglas--" Ey made as if to stand, but she grabbed eir wrist.
+"Oh, shit. I wasn't thinking. Douglas--" Ey moved to stand, but she grabbed eir wrist.
 
 "I had seen this coming, if I am honest, so it is not hitting me quite so hard as her. I will be okay."
 
 Ey nodded, slowly settled back onto the step. "If you say so."
 
-Sasha patted eir hand and bade em stay while she got up to stoke up the fire in her stove and fry up a simple meal of potatoes and vegetables. Ey couldn't tell if it was bland as E.W. preferred or if eir mind was too busy to process taste, so ey mostly just pushed the food around on the plate.
+Sasha patted eir hand and bade em stay while she got up to stoke up the fire in her stove and fry up a simple meal of potatoes and vegetables. Ey couldn't tell if it was just bland--- as E.W. preferred --- or if eir mind was too busy to process taste, so ey mostly just pushed the food around on the plate.
 
 "Without contraries is no progression," Sasha murmured after they'd finished. "Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence."
 
@@ -464,11 +462,11 @@ Ey started to ask what she meant, paused, then looked the words up in the perisy
 
 She chuckled and elbowed em in the side. "This may be a True Name thing."
 
-"Are you leaning into the "Good is the passive that obeys reason; Evil is the active springing from Energy" on this, then? Zacharias is evil for all his conniving?"
+"Are you leaning into the "Good is the passive that obeys reason; Evil is the active springing from Energy" on this, then?"
 
 "Nothing is so simple, dear," she said, shaking her head. "Blake was not of our kind, he would not have understood. He did get that right, though, in that we are a people of dualities. May sees in Zacharias all that she cannot --- must not --- be. In Dreams and Hammered silver see in me that which they are not, and yet we are not what we are without our opposites. Every idea's opposite is just the absence of the idea itself."
 
-Ey sighed. "Maybe. It's all a bit over my head."
+"Maybe." Ey sighed. "It's all a bit over my head."
 
 "I am also a little bit all over the place," she admitted. "These events have me going in three different directions at once. The Ode clade is crumbling and I cannot deny that some...that much of that is on me. I am sorry, Ioan."