update from sparkleup

.tags

@@ -156,6 +156,7 @@ fiction	writing/no-thoughts-our-own/index.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/no-thoughts-our
 fiction	writing/not-all-of-this-is-yours.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/not-all-of-this-is-yours\twriting/not-all-of-this-is-yours
 fiction	writing/post-self/apres-un-reve.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/post-self/apres-un-reve\twriting/post-self/apres-un-reve
 fiction	writing/post-self/assignment.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/post-self/assignment\twriting/post-self/assignment
+fiction	writing/post-self/harlequin.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/post-self/harlequin\twriting/post-self/harlequin
 fiction	writing/post-self/index.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/post-self/index\twriting/post-self/index
 fiction	writing/post-self/qoheleth/Carter/001-a.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/post-self/qoheleth/Carter/001-a\twriting/post-self/qoheleth/Carter/001-a
 fiction	writing/post-self/qoheleth/Carter/001-b.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/post-self/qoheleth/Carter/001-b\twriting/post-self/qoheleth/Carter/001-b
@@ -434,6 +435,7 @@ polyam	writing/sawtooth/a-theory-of-attachment.md	3;"	vimwiki:writing/sawtooth/a
 post-self	writing/harlequin.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/harlequin\twriting/harlequin
 post-self	writing/post-self/apres-un-reve.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/post-self/apres-un-reve\twriting/post-self/apres-un-reve
 post-self	writing/post-self/assignment.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/post-self/assignment\twriting/post-self/assignment
+post-self	writing/post-self/harlequin.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/post-self/harlequin\twriting/post-self/harlequin
 post-self	writing/post-self/qoheleth/Carter/001-a.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/post-self/qoheleth/Carter/001-a\twriting/post-self/qoheleth/Carter/001-a
 post-self	writing/post-self/qoheleth/Carter/001-b.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/post-self/qoheleth/Carter/001-b\twriting/post-self/qoheleth/Carter/001-b
 post-self	writing/post-self/qoheleth/Carter/002.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/post-self/qoheleth/Carter/002\twriting/post-self/qoheleth/Carter/002
@@ -598,6 +600,7 @@ scifi	writing/harlequin.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/harlequin\twriting/harlequin
 scifi	writing/no-thoughts-our-own/index.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/no-thoughts-our-own/index\twriting/no-thoughts-our-own/index
 scifi	writing/post-self/apres-un-reve.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/post-self/apres-un-reve\twriting/post-self/apres-un-reve
 scifi	writing/post-self/assignment.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/post-self/assignment\twriting/post-self/assignment
+scifi	writing/post-self/harlequin.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/post-self/harlequin\twriting/post-self/harlequin
 scifi	writing/post-self/index.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/post-self/index\twriting/post-self/index
 scifi	writing/post-self/qoheleth/Carter/001-a.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/post-self/qoheleth/Carter/001-a\twriting/post-self/qoheleth/Carter/001-a
 scifi	writing/post-self/qoheleth/Carter/001-b.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/post-self/qoheleth/Carter/001-b\twriting/post-self/qoheleth/Carter/001-b
@@ -669,6 +672,7 @@ short-story	writing/belek.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/belek\twriting/belek
 short-story	writing/harlequin.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/harlequin\twriting/harlequin
 short-story	writing/post-self/apres-un-reve.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/post-self/apres-un-reve\twriting/post-self/apres-un-reve
 short-story	writing/post-self/assignment.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/post-self/assignment\twriting/post-self/assignment
+short-story	writing/post-self/harlequin.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/post-self/harlequin\twriting/post-self/harlequin
 short-story	writing/rum-and-coke/again.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/rum-and-coke/again\twriting/rum-and-coke/again
 short-story	writing/rum-and-coke/how-many.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/rum-and-coke/how-many\twriting/rum-and-coke/how-many
 short-story	writing/rum-and-coke/what-i-expected.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/rum-and-coke/what-i-expected\twriting/rum-and-coke/what-i-expected
@@ -733,6 +737,7 @@ writing	writing/paw-to-print.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/paw-to-print\twriting/paw-to
 writing	writing/poetry/index.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/poetry/index\twriting/poetry/index
 writing	writing/post-self/apres-un-reve.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/post-self/apres-un-reve\twriting/post-self/apres-un-reve
 writing	writing/post-self/assignment.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/post-self/assignment\twriting/post-self/assignment
+writing	writing/post-self/harlequin.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/post-self/harlequin\twriting/post-self/harlequin
 writing	writing/post-self/index.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/post-self/index\twriting/post-self/index
 writing	writing/post-self/qoheleth/Carter/001-a.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/post-self/qoheleth/Carter/001-a\twriting/post-self/qoheleth/Carter/001-a
 writing	writing/post-self/qoheleth/Carter/001-b.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/post-self/qoheleth/Carter/001-b\twriting/post-self/qoheleth/Carter/001-b

writing/post-self/harlequin.md

@@ -25,9 +25,9 @@ Too much time was spent changing trains or navigating the mindless mobs of other
 
 The last step was easiest, at least. Just a ten minute bus ride from the station to the stop just up the block from his apartment. He bore it in patience, relying on the blur of colors from the signs of the restaurants they passed to keep him company on the way. His gloves were too hot, his face itched, he was bored, but he was also almost home.
 
-Home was where it was cool. Home was where he could change clothes and make a quick dinner. Home is where he could take off his gloves and sit at his deck without it being on-the-clock work. It was nice to take a moment to actually relax, no more bearing the weight of the hundreds of emotionless looks one gets while traveling through city.
+Home was where it was cool. Home was where he could change clothes and make a quick dinner. Home is where he could take off his gloves and sit at his rig without it being on-the-clock work. It was nice to take a moment to actually relax, no more bearing the weight of the hundreds of emotionless looks one gets while traveling through city.
 
-Nicky took a few minutes to clean his contacts, swabbing each of the implants with a sterile, alcohol-dipped swab, before settling in comfortably in front of his deck. There was always this meditative moment, he had discovered, before heading in, where one was confronted with the enormous complexity and expense of all of the gear required. The rig itself had been three months of saving, and the current set of implants nearly two years --- though thankfully those could be built up one part at a time.
+Nicky took a few minutes to clean his contacts, swabbing each of the implants with a sterile, alcohol-dipped swab, before settling in comfortably in front of his rig. There was always this meditative moment, he had discovered, before heading in, where one was confronted with the enormous complexity and expense of all of the gear required. The rig itself had been three months of saving, and the current set of implants nearly two years --- though thankfully those could be built up one part at a time.
 
 It was way more than one needed for a simple security job. Most of his time was spent at a keyboard --- real or virtual --- at a command line, typing, rather than delved in.
 
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ He just needed it to be fast.
 
 Nicky blinked away the afterimages of his exocosmic room.
 
-His own personal space this side of the deck was simple, spartan. The walls were white and the floor wood, but now, in the dark, the white of the walls had settled into a cool, comfortable gray, and the floor lost detail in dimness.
+His own personal space this side of the rig was simple, spartan. The walls were white and the floor wood, but now, in the dark, the white of the walls had settled into a cool, comfortable gray, and the floor lost detail in dimness.
 
 Throughout the room was suspended a constellation of his current work. Business-card sized slips of paper connected by thin strands of fillament that shone of their own accord. He prowled around the display, turning cards this way and that to peek at their titles and get a glimpse of their contents, before allowing them to snap back into place.
 

writing/sawtooth/happy-lesbians.md

@@ -287,4 +287,12 @@ She looked between the badger and her laptop, then shrugged and closed the lid,
 
 -----
 
-!{Two weeks after figuring things out, the lesbians are cute again (as if they ever weren't)}
+The Book and The Bean was not enough to carry Winter, but it was enough to allow her to be more selective in her jobs. She still occasionally drove, but mostly focused on tasks when she wasn't working at the coffee shop.
+
+What it offered was a sense of stability that the gigs could not. She could always rely on at least a little bit of money to help supplement Katrin's income from Middagsbord. She could trust that a few shifts would help cover her share of rent, and that anything else would be covered by one-off tasks.
+
+More than that, it eased tensions between her and Katrin.
+
+She hadn't realized how tense the lack of security made her wife until she had regained it. The vixen once again became easy to talk to. She laughed more easily. She gushed about new recipes and bitched about customers. All those little things that are part of daily interactions that had been tamped down in the face of trying to make ends meet were suddenly back and in full force.
+
+That Winter was now working in food service as well certainly helped her case. They could commiserate in ways that neither had expected.

writing/sawtooth/index.md

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ In which sad queer animals experience Idaho.
 * [.] Story: [Ritual](ritual)
 * [.] Story: [Robbed (WT)](robbed)
 * [o] Story: [Running Away (WT)](running-away)
-* [o] Story: [*untitled happy lesbians*](happy-lesbians)
+* [O] Story: [*untitled happy lesbians*](happy-lesbians)
 * [o] Story: [Aposematism](aposematism)
 * [X] Flash: [Valentimes](valentimes)