update from sparkleup

writing/post-self/index.md

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 * [ ] Podcast: [Gallery Exhibition (audio drama)](ge-cast) | [Fountain version](ge-cast-fountain)
 * [o] Story: [*untitled story for Harlequin*](harlequin)
 * [ ] Story: [Merge Conflicts with the Truth](truth) (by lorxus)
-* [ ] Podcast episode: [April 2022 Q&A](april-2022-q-and-a)
+* [X] Podcast episode: [April 2022 Q&A](april-2022-q-and-a)
 * [ ] Podcast episode: [The Post-anthropocene](post-anthropocene)
 * [X] Flash fiction: [Reading](reading)
 * [ ] Story idea: [Pinocchio](pinocchio/index)

writing/post-self/marsh/index.md

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 ## Other stuff
 
 * [Audiobook samples](audiobook-samples)
+* [Kickstarter retrospective](kickstarter-retro)

writing/post-self/marsh/kickstarter-retro.md

@@ -33,4 +33,27 @@ Post-Self has always found appeal for plural and median systems, and many of tho
 
 As such, Post-Self saw a boom in popularity and reach, and it was perhaps misguided of me to maintain that assumption that a less furry book would not find a place.
 
-The *Marsh* Kickstarter once more found success within the first few minutes, and the first three stretch goals were met by the end of the first day, and I added stretch goals to $2,500 by January 2nd.
+The *Marsh* Kickstarter once more found success within the first few minutes, and the first three stretch goals were met by the end of the first day, and I added stretch goals to $2,500 by January 2nd, and again in the last few days, with the two most exciting being an audiobook of *Marsh* and an additional novella, *Motes Played*.
+
+((funding progres))
+
+I offered rewards for:
+
+* The *Marsh* ebook, paperback, and hardcover
+* The Post-Self cycle in ebook, paperback, and hardcover
+* The *Motes Played* ebook and paperback
+* A Post-Self TTRPG module based on the events of *Marsh*
+* Stickers and bookplates
+* One's name in the credits, with a personalized message at the higher tiers.
+
+### Motes Played
+
+Over the last week of December and the first two weeks of January, I hammered out a novella surrounding And We Are The Motes In The Stage-Lights of the Ode clade, an exploration of childhood sys-side.
+
+This was written on a whim after a conversation with The Lament during a long drive. We had been talking about what sorts of taboos might remain sys-side and why. In a queer-normative society, what remains transgressive? Is there a reason for it not being accepted? How does that play out amongst the cladists?
+
+The obvious example is that of intraclade relationships, a taboo that only started loosening up after True Name's 98.14% successful assassination in 2350. This was mentioned briefly in *Nevi'im* and more in depth in "Selected Letters" as Serene winds up in a relationship with the Dear 'cule on Pollux. I wanted to explore it more directly, though, and so the relationship that existed in protocanon between Beholden To The Heat Of The Lamps and Time Is A Finger Pointing At Itself was elevated to canon, and the complication of a family dynamic within a clade was added on top of that.
+
+It was super fun to write and a very worthwhile experience. It was also something that I was not planning on doing much with beyond posting the story as a bit of canon writing to Post-Self site in the [stories](/stories) section, maybe release as an ebook on the Itch.io store. It was already done, after all, and has even already been edited and read by several of those on the Discord.
+
+This, however, was an opportunity to push that a bit further and get it pulled together into a full paperback, complete with a cover. I'm really excited to have the chance to do that! Even though, as a novella, it will be much shorter than the other Post-Self books, and even though it follows along from *Mitzvot* in such a way as to require having read the cycle, I still hope that folks will enjoy it.