From 804eee08988f86a9dc39340d6d610a9362c8c7ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Madison Scott-Clary Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2022 22:20:05 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] update from sparkleup --- writing/post-self/neviim/index.md | 22 +++++++++---------- writing/post-self/neviim/ioan/009.md | 14 ++++++------ writing/post-self/neviim/local/codrin/010.md | 2 +- writing/post-self/neviim/local/tycho/011.md | 2 +- writing/post-self/neviim/local/tycho/012.md | 2 +- writing/post-self/neviim/remote/codrin/006.md | 2 +- writing/post-self/neviim/remote/codrin/007.md | 2 +- writing/post-self/neviim/remote/codrin/008.md | 2 ++ writing/post-self/neviim/remote/tycho/003.md | 2 +- 9 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) diff --git a/writing/post-self/neviim/index.md b/writing/post-self/neviim/index.md index f54a0f33..db238550 100644 --- a/writing/post-self/neviim/index.md +++ b/writing/post-self/neviim/index.md @@ -158,18 +158,18 @@ Stolon talking with Tycho very informal and slangy, also a bit spotty on English * [O] [Tycho Brahe#Artemis](remote/tycho/002) --- Watches TN try to have a discussion with Turun Ka regarding history, and it is an exercise in mutual misunderstanding, starting to feel out of his league with #Artemis being about social aspects - 1725 * [O] [Ioan Bălan](ioan/010) --- Ioan, May, End Waking, A Finger Pointing, Douglas meet up to talk about thing; what does it feel like, etc - 1938 * [O] [Tycho Brahe#Castor](local/tycho/010) --- Compares utility differences between forking/time manipulation (mostly Tycho, but also TN/WAQ) (day 3 after lunch) - 1965 - * [o] [Codrin Bălan#Castor](local/codrin/009) --- After watching similar discussion of TN misunderstanding, meets up with Sarah Genet over break, discusses note from Codrin#Artemis (day 3 lunch) - 2251 - * [o] [Codrin Bălan#Artemis](remote/codrin/004) --- Talks about current status during break, suggests ideas to Tycho about what he could be paying attention to re: politics/society/history in terms of the stars, leads to question of whether there were others that they've met along the way but didn't join them arising, but told not to ask yet - 3208 + * [O] [Codrin Bălan#Castor](local/codrin/009) --- After watching similar discussion of TN misunderstanding, meets up with Sarah Genet over break, discusses note from Codrin#Artemis (day 3 lunch) - 2251 + * [O] [Codrin Bălan#Artemis](remote/codrin/004) --- Talks about current status during break, suggests ideas to Tycho about what he could be paying attention to re: politics/society/history in terms of the stars, leads to question of whether there were others that they've met along the way but didn't join them arising, but told not to ask yet - 3208 * [-] MERGED ABOVE - * [o] [Tycho Brahe#Castor](local/tycho/011) --- Tycho, getting bored, directs talk to origins and path they've taken. Inexact answers, which has TN intrigued. She talks with the group after to discuss possibility that they might be being shady rather than just leaning on "oh we manipulate time" (day 3 after lunch/break) - 1635 - * [o] [Ioan Bălan](ioan/011) --- Ioan and Codrin#Pollux exchange notes - 3124 - * [o] [Tycho Brahe#Artemis](remote/tycho/003) --- There's a conversation between TN and Turun Ka around how the various races manage sentiment. Tycho is surprised at it being frank, Sarah suggests that she might be working on many levels, Codrin starting to worry about their sanity - 1764 -* [o] Intensity - manipulations fail b/c whoops the Artemisians are way, way better at this - * [o] [Codrin Bălan#Artemis](remote/codrin/006) --- Discusses openly about news from Artemis and some of the problems the Systems have had in the past, Artemisians describe some of their own. AWNH and TN are both struggling now, each getting occasional flickers of Sasha/Michelle. They call a brief break, Turun Ko says take as long as you need b/c time is maleable, AWNH cries, refuses. - 1963 - * [o] [Tycho Brahe#Castor](local/tycho/012) --- Writes #Artemis a note during a lull about what the two parties are learning and how he's reevaluating the History. (day 3 afternoon break) - 1304 - * [o] [Codrin Bălan#Artemis](remote/codrin/007) --- AWNH breaks down (revealing she's AWNH, not WAQ), quits, break immediately called, TN is having a REALLY HARD TIME, Turun Ka shows up, TN comes clean, talks about getting lost, Turun Ka says Artante's race ran into similar, but stops her from talking about AWNH further for now - 2109 - * [o] [Codrin Bălan#Castor](local/codrin/010) --- TN gets news re: AWNH (a fork enters the space, quits, merges - Artemisians like huh???), calls halt to meeting, preempts everyone getting news separately by announcing what happened, Codrin and Sarah confirm they've heard, tries to gloss over the swap quickly (b/c of course she's planned), but Turun Ka speaks up, says that this is part of confirmation required. For what? Tune in next time... - 1884 - * [o] [Ioan Bălan](ioan/009) --- Ioan meets up with True Name at a neutral place to talk about the cracks showing, death of Death Itself and I Do Not Know; growing empathy for True Name - 2326 + * [O] [Tycho Brahe#Castor](local/tycho/011) --- Tycho, getting bored, directs talk to origins and path they've taken. Inexact answers, which has TN intrigued. She talks with the group after to discuss possibility that they might be being shady rather than just leaning on "oh we manipulate time" (day 3 after lunch/break) - 1635 + * [O] [Ioan Bălan](ioan/011) --- Ioan and Codrin#Pollux exchange notes - 3124 + * [O] [Tycho Brahe#Artemis](remote/tycho/003) --- There's a conversation between TN and Turun Ka around how the various races manage sentiment. Tycho is surprised at it being frank, Sarah suggests that she might be working on many levels, Codrin starting to worry about their sanity - 1764 +* [O] Intensity - manipulations fail b/c whoops the Artemisians are way, way better at this + * [O] [Codrin Bălan#Artemis](remote/codrin/006) --- Discusses openly about news from Artemis and some of the problems the Systems have had in the past, Artemisians describe some of their own. AWNH and TN are both struggling now, each getting occasional flickers of Sasha/Michelle. They call a brief break, Turun Ko says take as long as you need b/c time is maleable, AWNH cries, refuses. - 1963 + * [O] [Tycho Brahe#Castor](local/tycho/012) --- Writes #Artemis a note during a lull about what the two parties are learning and how he's reevaluating the History. (day 3 afternoon break) - 1304 + * [O] [Codrin Bălan#Artemis](remote/codrin/007) --- AWNH breaks down (revealing she's AWNH, not WAQ), quits, break immediately called, TN is having a REALLY HARD TIME, Turun Ka shows up, TN comes clean, talks about getting lost, Turun Ka says Artante's race ran into similar, but stops her from talking about AWNH further for now - 2109 + * [O] [Codrin Bălan#Castor](local/codrin/010) --- TN gets news re: AWNH (a fork enters the space, quits, merges - Artemisians like huh???), calls halt to meeting, preempts everyone getting news separately by announcing what happened, Codrin and Sarah confirm they've heard, tries to gloss over the swap quickly (b/c of course she's planned), but Turun Ka speaks up, says that this is part of confirmation required. For what? Tune in next time... - 1884 + * [O] [Ioan Bălan](ioan/009) --- Ioan meets up with True Name at a neutral place to talk about the cracks showing, death of Death Itself and I Do Not Know; growing empathy for True Name - 2326 * [o] [Codrin Bălan#Artemis](remote/codrin/008) --- Codrin, Sarah, Turun Ko, Artante meet up (while TN talks with Turun Ka, Iska, and Tycho chills with Stolon) and discuss actual point of meetings: to determine whether humanity is a suitable fifthrace. None of the Artemisians know/will say what the gating factors are, but think they're close - don't tell TN (are they supposed to know? Shrug, but implied if they tell TN, that's a point against them) - 2046 * [-] MERGED ABOVE * [o] [Codrin Bălan#Castor](local/codrin/011) --- Codrin gives Turun Ko a copy of *On the Origin of Our World* (against TN's suggestion, but she is in damage-control mode), which, after it reads it, turns out to be the penultimate step towards moving forward with accepting as fifthrace. Yay Codrin - 2599 diff --git a/writing/post-self/neviim/ioan/009.md b/writing/post-self/neviim/ioan/009.md index 3741f4fa..14e2bb42 100644 --- a/writing/post-self/neviim/ioan/009.md +++ b/writing/post-self/neviim/ioan/009.md @@ -96,13 +96,13 @@ Looking down to where she held her mug against her front, True Name blinked rapi "Something with Jonas, perhaps?" -She looked away, ears pinned flat. +She winced and looked away, ears pinned flat. Ey had to resist the urge to reach out and offer her eir hand to hold for comfort as ey did so often with May. They looked so similar even still, and all the more so when struggling with overwhelming emotions. -She must have caught some slight movement or hint of this on her face or in eir posture, as she grinned to em. "If I were built more like your May, then perhaps I could more easily accept comfort, but I am not. Thank you for listening, though. I cannot talk about these things with Jonas." +She must have caught some slight movement or hint of this on her face or in eir posture, as she chuckled. "If I were built more like your May, then perhaps I could more easily accept comfort, but I am not. Thank you for listening, though. I cannot talk about these things with Jonas." -Ey laughed, shrugging sheepishly. "Sorry, True Name. Long habit. Still, I'm happy to listen, I suppose. I know that my relationship puts us in a precarious position and there are still some aspects about our history that are...difficult to internalize, but, well--" Ey sat up straighter at a sudden memory. "Hey, have you talked with In Dreams yet? Or this Sarah Genet?" +Ey laughed, shrugging sheepishly. "Sorry, True Name. Long habit. Still, I'm happy to listen. I know that my relationship puts us in a precarious position relative to each other and there are still some aspects about our history that are...difficult to internalize, but, well--" Ey sat up straighter at a sudden memory. "Hey, have you talked with In Dreams yet? Or this Sarah Genet?" "I have spoken with In Dreams, yes," she said, tilting her head. "Though I am not sure in what capacity you mean. She has kept me up to date on the cross-clade issues. I only know the name Sarah Genet from the communications from Castor." @@ -122,17 +122,17 @@ Ey shook emself from eir own rumination and back to the present. "I'm sorry?" True Name smiled. "You said that you were happy to listen to me. Your partner hates me --- let us not mince words: she hates me and I have grown to accept that as best I can. You are close, as partners should be, and you have as much reason to hate me as anyone, and yet you met me here --- asked to meet me here, even --- and say that you hare happy to listen. Why?" -"Oh. Well," ey began, then stalled out. Ey raced through eir memories for a reason ey could articulate. "It was something that Codrin#Castor said. Em and Dear both, actually. Codrin passed on a letter that Codrin#Emissary sent, saying that it has been difficult emotionally to watch what ey remembers from Michelle in your cocladists. When ey mentioned the time skew to it, Dear said to be watchful around your counterpart, saying, "remember what I said: even True Name has emotions, even she will be affected"." +"Oh. Well," ey began, then stalled out. Ey raced through eir memories for a reason ey could articulate. "It was something that Codrin#Castor said. Em and Dear both, actually. Codrin passed on a letter that Codrin#Artemis sent, saying that it has been difficult emotionally to watch what ey remembers from Michelle in your cocladists. When ey mentioned the time skew to it, Dear said to be watchful around your counterpart, saying, "remember what I said: even True Name has emotions, even she will be affected"." -She sat back, looking stunned, then choked out a half-laugh-half-sob, setting her mug down on the table so that she could rub her paws firmly over her face, leaving them to cover her face. "Even I have emotions. Even I!" she said between deep breaths. "I know that your cocladist and Dear meant well by this, but how damning an indictment. *Even I.*" +She sat back, looking stunned, then choked out a half-laugh-half-sob, setting her mug down on the table so that she could rub her paws firmly over her face, leaving them to cover it. "Even I have emotions. Even I!" she said between deep breaths. "I know that your cocladist and Dear meant well by this, but how damning an indictment. *Even I.*" "I'm sorry, True Name." She shook her head, took a moment to regain her composure, and said, "No, I suppose I do, at that. It is difficult to remember even from the inside, my dear. Thank you for reminding me, and thank you for listening." -The skunk reached out a paw toward em and, after a moment's hesitation, ey took it and gave it what ey hoped was a comforting squeeze. +The skunk reached out a paw toward em and, after a moment's hesitation, ey took it and gave it what ey hoped was a comforting squeeze. Ey was once more startled by the similarity of her to May, the softness of her fur. -She laughed and shook her head, pulling her paw back. "How silly. I believe I stand by my assessment that comfort through physicality is not for me, but thank you all the same. That you have the capacity to comfort, well, even me does mean a lot, Mx. Bălan." +She laughed and shook her head, pulling her paw back. "How silly. I believe I stand by my assessment that comfort through physicality is not for me, but thank you all the same. That you have the capacity to comfort, well, even me does mean a lot, Mx. Bălan. I appreciate your empathy." Ey smiled cautiously. "Worth a try, I suppose." diff --git a/writing/post-self/neviim/local/codrin/010.md b/writing/post-self/neviim/local/codrin/010.md index 22f0749b..e2f7df95 100644 --- a/writing/post-self/neviim/local/codrin/010.md +++ b/writing/post-self/neviim/local/codrin/010.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Codrin Bălan#Castor --- 2346 - Convergence T-0 days, 1 hour, 2 minutes + Convergence T-0 days, 2 hours, 2 minutes "To begin with an example concept, I have noticed that your common language is very irregular and relies heavily on a small vocabulary and nominal compounding," Why Ask Questions said. "As we classify our languages into families based on several factors, including compounding, can each of the races expand on various features of their languages?" diff --git a/writing/post-self/neviim/local/tycho/011.md b/writing/post-self/neviim/local/tycho/011.md index 9a9fc7c0..9e1a0f3e 100644 --- a/writing/post-self/neviim/local/tycho/011.md +++ b/writing/post-self/neviim/local/tycho/011.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Tycho Brahe#Castor --- 2346 - Convergence T-0 days, 1 hour, 13 minutes + Convergence T-0 days, 3 hours, 13 minutes Tycho had spent his share of time in conferences, both phys-side and sys-side. They all came with their exciting parts and their boring parts. They all came with peaks that left him completely rapt, and valleys that were so excruciatingly boring that he had, on more than one occasion, feigned illness to step out of a talk or away from a panel discussion or a lecture. diff --git a/writing/post-self/neviim/local/tycho/012.md b/writing/post-self/neviim/local/tycho/012.md index 48b6c2cf..517f50a4 100644 --- a/writing/post-self/neviim/local/tycho/012.md +++ b/writing/post-self/neviim/local/tycho/012.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Tycho Brahe#Castor --- 2346 - Convergence T-0 days, 1 hours, 28 minutes + Convergence T-0 days, 2 hours, 28 minutes "This has...wait, don't leave yet, #Assist," Codrin said. "Is this really a clade-eyes-only message for both True Name and Turun Ka?" diff --git a/writing/post-self/neviim/remote/codrin/006.md b/writing/post-self/neviim/remote/codrin/006.md index 065b8816..df532664 100644 --- a/writing/post-self/neviim/remote/codrin/006.md +++ b/writing/post-self/neviim/remote/codrin/006.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Codrin Bălan#Artemis --- 2346 - Convergence T-0 days, 1 hours, 32 minutes + Convergence T-0 days, 2 hours, 32 minutes The next note that came from Castor included a block of indecipherable text that was marked as clade-eyes-only for Turun Ka. diff --git a/writing/post-self/neviim/remote/codrin/007.md b/writing/post-self/neviim/remote/codrin/007.md index 8f2f0be0..e24d8a10 100644 --- a/writing/post-self/neviim/remote/codrin/007.md +++ b/writing/post-self/neviim/remote/codrin/007.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Codrin Bălan#Artemis --- 2346 - Convergence T-0 days, 1 hour, 12 minutes + Convergence T-0 days, 2 hours, 12 minutes During the short break, Codrin helped True Name compose her letter and, after ey sent it, simply sat with her in quiet. The skunk remained still throughout, sitting on the edge of the bed and staring down at her knees. She looked small, and some part of em wanted to sit beside her and try to comfort her, but for the emotional and social distance between them, as well as her still jittery form. diff --git a/writing/post-self/neviim/remote/codrin/008.md b/writing/post-self/neviim/remote/codrin/008.md index 2d4a7ee4..2f3b31c5 100644 --- a/writing/post-self/neviim/remote/codrin/008.md +++ b/writing/post-self/neviim/remote/codrin/008.md @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ # Codrin Bălan#Emissary --- 2346 + Convergence T-0 days, 1 hour, 58 minutes + As suggested, Codrin and Sarah wound up in the courtyard. There seemed to be no immediate recovery from the events of the past hour. There was no conversation to be had, no words that could be spoken to express so singular an event. There had been a...was it a death? And then a cryptic pronouncement. And ey had watched True Name...was it sharing in confidence, a request for companionship, or something else? diff --git a/writing/post-self/neviim/remote/tycho/003.md b/writing/post-self/neviim/remote/tycho/003.md index b7a694f7..7142032a 100644 --- a/writing/post-self/neviim/remote/tycho/003.md +++ b/writing/post-self/neviim/remote/tycho/003.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Tycho Brahe#Artemis --- 2346 - Convergence T-0 days, 1 hours, 38 minutes + Convergence T-0 days, 2 hours, 38 minutes Over the last hour of common time, what tension was bound within True Name seemed to have been refocused from struggling quite so hard to maintain herself into being present and taking part. This meant that, while she was more susceptible to waves of shifting form and the occasional gasp or shudder, she grew far more intent on the task at hand, of learning from the discussions with the Artemisians.