From 1113c9eb781b0c8eb8c5b8313ece05f9eac66516 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Madison Scott-Clary Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 22:00:07 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] update from sparkleup --- writing/post-self/mitzvot/027.md | 2 +- writing/post-self/mitzvot/029.md | 2 +- writing/post-self/mitzvot/030.md | 6 +++--- writing/post-self/mitzvot/index.md | 2 +- 4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/writing/post-self/mitzvot/027.md b/writing/post-self/mitzvot/027.md index a118b5e2..a1564d74 100644 --- a/writing/post-self/mitzvot/027.md +++ b/writing/post-self/mitzvot/027.md @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ May, who had been quiet up until then, said, "Thank you for coming back." True Name tilted her head. "It was not safe there, May Then My Name. This will be better." -"Yes, but thank you all the same." She laughed and waved a hand. "I am sorry, disregard me. I am still not yet at baseline, myself, and it has me feeling emotional." +"Yes, but thank you all the same." She laughed and waved a hand. "I am sorry, disregard me. I am still not yet at baseline and it has me feeling emotional." The other skunk's expression softened and she leaned forward to give one of her paws a squeeze. It looked stiff and awkward, but it was at least an attempt at a gesture that was more in line with May's mode of interacting. diff --git a/writing/post-self/mitzvot/029.md b/writing/post-self/mitzvot/029.md index 9e198eab..4a0e0e3e 100644 --- a/writing/post-self/mitzvot/029.md +++ b/writing/post-self/mitzvot/029.md @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ She sat down and let Ioan rub her back. Only once she could manage a sip or two Ey was still teasing apart the day --- or perhaps the last month --- but all the same, ey did eir best to respond to what ey suspected lay beneath the surface of the question. "Do you think she resents you for not just letting her be True Name?" -May whined and set the water glass aside, shifting on the beanbag until she could rest her head on eir thigh. "I worry that the real reason she wanted to do this was because there is no going back to who she was. One of those "fuck it, burn it all down" situations." +May whined and set the water glass aside, shifting on the beanbag until she could rest her head on eir thigh. "I worry that the real reason she wanted to do this was because there is no going back to who she was. One of those 'fuck it, burn it all down' situations." "There could be some of that, but is that so bad?" diff --git a/writing/post-self/mitzvot/030.md b/writing/post-self/mitzvot/030.md index bd271dfd..95234b9a 100644 --- a/writing/post-self/mitzvot/030.md +++ b/writing/post-self/mitzvot/030.md @@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ The last thing ey remembered before falling asleep was watching the way True Nam Waking brought confusion. Something about the inversion from their normal bed, of having fallen asleep on eir other side than ey usually did, induced a subtle sense of vertigo at first. The pajamas were also bunched up around em strangely, adding a subtle sense of constriction. As sleep slowly seeped away, though, the feeling lessened and ey was able to relax in the warmth beneath the covers. -Warmer than expected, perhaps. May was still in eir arms, as expected, but the position felt off with the addition of a second warm bulk. +Warmer than expected, perhaps. May was still in eir arms, as usual, but the position felt off with the addition of a second warm bulk. Ey tried to puzzle it out through the fog of doziness that still surrounded em. Eventually, ey gave up and levered eir eyes open, blinking a few times to bring the world into focus. @@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ May nodded. "I was wondering if you didn't know about...all that before last night, honestly," Ioan said. -"I have been fed bad and incomplete information for years now. I had not suspected just to what extent. I am still frightened, if I am honest, but I will trust you two on this. It is complicated, and bound up in emotions I do not understand, but I will trust you." She shook her head. "But I cannot speak of it any more right now." +"I have been fed bad and incomplete information for years now. I had not suspected just to what extent. I am still frightened, if I am honest, but I will trust you two on this. It is complicated and bound up in emotions I do not understand, but I will trust you." She shook her head. "But I cannot speak of it any more right now." "Heading outside?" ey asked. @@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ True Name sniffled and lifted her head. "Sorry?" "Right. May," True Name said, gingerly resting her paw in her up-tree instance's. -"I do not know how you get from this world to that one, either, should that even be something you want, but," she said, taking a deep breath. "So long as you come by that path earnestly and we discuss it in the moment, it is your path to take. Do you have any thoughts, Ioan?" +"I do not know how you get from this world to that one, either, should that even be something you want, but," she said, taking a deep breath, "so long as you come by that path earnestly and we discuss it in the moment, it is your path to take. Do you have any thoughts, Ioan?" Ey held up eir hands. "Don't look at me. I don't have a clue." diff --git a/writing/post-self/mitzvot/index.md b/writing/post-self/mitzvot/index.md index 75e47837..e0397a90 100644 --- a/writing/post-self/mitzvot/index.md +++ b/writing/post-self/mitzvot/index.md @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ Wherein True Name and May reconcile, and we deal with the problem of the ownersh * [X] [They meet, they talk, TN changes](035) --- Jonas talks about how the upcoming changes require a different kind of stability for continuity and TN just isn't gonna cut it, gives ultimata for her continued existence. TN becomes Sasha, and now she's all asmirk. * [X] [Something innocent](036) --- The aftermath. They get Serene to basically duplicate Arrowhead Lake in place of Sasha's field, etc Sasha works on finding a new purpose, realizes it's going to be a long process. * [X] [Epilogue](037) Ioan and Sasha are drifting closer together as hinted at in 002, but this should a) look like it's going to end happily and b) be an active and open conversation because I am completely unwilling to lose any of them. - * [X] *To deny the end is to deny all beginnings, / and to deny beginnings is to become immortal, / and to become immortal is to repeat the past.* --- It has been a quarter of a millennium since their death, and yet less than a quarter of a thousand people know their name. Fitting, then, that I tell you the story of the poet and the one true origin of our world, of our very own ghost in the system, of the whispers in your dreams and the one who binds us to immortality. (2365/systime 241+21) + * [X] *To deny the end is to deny all beginnings, / and to deny beginnings is to become immortal, / and to become immortal is to repeat the past.* --- It has been a quarter of a millennium since eir death, and yet less than a quarter of a thousand people know eir name. Fitting, then, that I tell you the story of RJ Brewster, of the poet and the one true origin of our world, of our very own ghost in the system, of the whispers in your dreams and the one who binds us to immortality. (2365/systime 241+21) * [Synopsis](synopsis) * [Cover ideas](cover-ideas)