update from sparkleup

writing/post-self/toledot/index.md

@@ -103,12 +103,12 @@ Nearing the 200th anniversary of System secession from humanity, the System and
     * [O] [Launch: sys-side: Ioan](launch/sys/Ioan/010) - Ioan, getting really pissed at how Odists won't just answer eir fucking questions all the way and keep demurring at the last minute, interviews Jonas Prime, who has grown pessimistic, life wants to spread and multiply to make itself stronger, this is the root of the launch: offsite backups; thus why dreamer module was frowned upon: has broadcast w/ information about system, earth, interfacing, etc - 3375
     * [O] [Launch: launch-side: Codrin#Pollux](launch/launch/Codrin-pollux/007) - Interviews Ne Jonas, humanity best viewed as a resource to be used or a crop to be tended by System - 2752
     * [O] [Launch: launch-side: Codrin#Castor](launch/launch/Codrin-castor/007) - Interviews True Name for second time w/ more info, confronts for truth about the Odists' role in post-secession, confirms, laughs down concerns. - 1717
-* [o] Part IV - Arrival (all stories reach present, all discuss irreversibility)
+* [O] Part IV - Arrival (all stories reach present, all discuss irreversibility)
     * [O] [Secession: phys-side: Yared](secession/phys/Yared/010) - Vote passes with both secession and L5 amendments intact, those who know him are torn on whether he's a hero or villain; zero compensation/recognition from Demma, who derides the system, why don't you marry it if you love it so much. (secession = irreversibility) - 2192
     * [O] [Launch: launch-side: Codrin#Castor](launch/launch/Codrin-castor/008) - Interviews True Name for the last time, learning that True Name/her stanza and Jonas orchestrated the launch from the before the supposed beginning over long years of influence (incl nudging Douglas as soon as he got first job as ansible tech and Michelle nudging her toward the idea of divesting), have been in contact across sys/launch to ensure divergence remains at acceptable levels (irreversible), comes home to Dear, sighs, gets hugs, comfort that the ends aren't bad, even if the means are. - 2183
     * [O] [Secession: sys-side: True Name](secession/sys/True-Name/008) - Council meets, celebrates; after, meets with Jonas to discuss ways to ensure stability going forward (growth = irreversibility) - 1466 Expand?
     * [O] [Launch: sys-side: Ioan](launch/sys/Ioan/011) - Ioan interviews True Name, finds out they're still everywhere, steering system, difference between conservatives/liberals is scale of manipulation, liberals think too small (see quote below) - 1975
-    * [o] [Secession: sys-side: Michelle](secession/sys/Michelle/004) - Acknowledges a few years after dissolution of Council that the clade has gotten out of hand, hints that she basically died when forking, irreversible, muses on how broken she must have been to lead to this situation, goes largely into seclusion to keep herself calm/stable, talking only to May Then My Name and a few others - 1599
+    * [O] [Secession: sys-side: Michelle](secession/sys/Michelle/004) - Acknowledges a few years after dissolution of Council that the clade has gotten out of hand, hints that she basically died when forking, irreversible, muses on how broken she must have been to lead to this situation, goes largely into seclusion to keep herself calm/stable, talking only to May Then My Name and a few others - 1599
     * [o] [Launch: sys-side: Ioan](launch/sys/Ioan/012) - Discusses role of each stanza; kind of freaks out at May b/c like finding out your in-laws-ish are the illuminati, though ey comes around because a) she explains need for control as trauma response, and b) tells myth in progress, about how the gods created the world in an attempt to shape it to their will, but instead became impersonal forces in the face of absolute independence; Ioan and May finally fucking get together, discuss irreversibility of that act, since Ioan didn't fork like Codrin - 2455
     * [o] [Launch: launch-side: Codrin#Pollux](launch/launch/Codrin-pollux/008) - Interviews Dear about just how much influence the Ode clade had/still has, what's next (death = irreversible, basically a do-over of the first interview) - 2717
     * [-] REJECTED - combined with previous Ioan chapter <!--[Launch: sys-side: Ioan](launch/sys/Ioan/013) -if the clade exists to explore/exploit need as trauma responses, what do each of the stanzas do (True Name's: political machinations; Praiseworthy's: artistic machinations; Qoheleth's: history/memory machinations), liberal side (not always later lines) has grown more earnest, rebelling against need to control, discusses future with May; sets up visit to Michelle's meadow on one year anniversary as a meaningful thing (but actually to meet with Douglas)-->

writing/post-self/toledot/secession/sys/Michelle/004.md

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ May Then My name smiled shakily. "Taking over the world is not so bad."
 
 "The fuck-up, then would be the fact that I did not acknowledge that."
 
-In Dreams plucked a dandelion and threw it at her, grinning. "Do not mope. It does not look good on you."
+In Dreams plucked a dandelion and threw it at her, grinning. "Do not mope. It does not become you."
 
 Sasha/Michelle laughed, shrugged, and tried to tuck the flower behind her ear, but as soon as a shift of form rolled across her face, it fell to the ground.
 
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ Sasha/Michelle nodded.
 
 "Where do you think they came from, then? Where did we come from?"
 
-Michelle/Sasha laughed. "I have no idea. Maybe True Name is that bit of myself that always fears that asking for what I want is manipulation. Maybe you are the part of me that always wanted to be a mother. I really do not know."
+Michelle/Sasha laughed. "I have no idea. Maybe True Name is that bit of myself that always fears that asking for what I want is manipulation, or the mirror image of that. Maybe you are the part of me that always wanted to be a mother. I really do not know."
 
 "It is okay to have fears," Hammered Silver said gently. "Like, it is legal. You will not get arrested for being afraid."