From e34667b077409b11d279b7c2bf189a46559cf848 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Madison Scott-Clary Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2022 21:40:05 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] update from sparkleup --- writing/index.md | 4 ++-- writing/post-self/marsh/001.md | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/writing/index.md b/writing/index.md index 25973713..cae9822a 100644 --- a/writing/index.md +++ b/writing/index.md @@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ ## Current -* [o] [Mitzvot](post-self/mitzvot/index) -* [.] [Selected Letters](post-self/selected-letters/index) +* [X] [Mitzvot](post-self/mitzvot/index) +* [O] [Selected Letters](post-self/selected-letters/index) * [.] [BS and conducting](bs/conducting) * [.] [Heresiarch](heresiarch) diff --git a/writing/post-self/marsh/001.md b/writing/post-self/marsh/001.md index fe9d0da9..a65e8b5a 100644 --- a/writing/post-self/marsh/001.md +++ b/writing/post-self/marsh/001.md @@ -41,3 +41,21 @@ It was their turn to laugh. "Whatever." She laughed and shoved them away from her. "Now who's the nerd? Gross." Reed stumbled to the side, laughing. They're own champagne from earlier added a pleasant freedom of movement ey only ever noticed at two drinks. Any more and they became too loose and had a hard time staying upright. Any less and they didn't notice that any freedom was lacking. + +"Is that so bad?" they said. "Alternatively: am I not allowed to be a bit maudlin? It's fucking New Year's, Hanne." + +"Maudlin? Is that even the right word?" + +"What? Uh..." They hunted down a dictionary on the exchange, prowled through it. "Oh. Saccharine, maybe? I don't know. Maudlin still kind of works, doesn't it?" + +She titled her head at them. + +""Extremely sentimental," it says. Pretty sure that fits." + +Hanne rolled her eyes, grinning. "Okay, yeah, that fits you to a tee." + +----- + +All told, a fine way to spend the remainder of systime 244, almost 102 years since they --- or at least their down-tree instance, Marsh --- had uploaded. + +Take a human mind, crush it, compress it down to a dream, mix it all up, pour it into a system with however many billion others --- billion? Trillion? --- to let everyone dream within unison. Make yourself a