From e548837cea5484a037136f914f2f5141bed07aa0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Madison Scott-Clary Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 00:50:05 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] update from sparkleup --- writing/post-self/toledot/index.md | 2 +- .../post-self/toledot/launch/sys/Ioan/012.md | 24 ++++++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/writing/post-self/toledot/index.md b/writing/post-self/toledot/index.md index 6e4d01a5..e9ea00b4 100644 --- a/writing/post-self/toledot/index.md +++ b/writing/post-self/toledot/index.md @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ Nearing the 200th anniversary of System secession from humanity, the System and * [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 and Jonas together, 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] [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 - 2234 + * [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 * [ ] [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) * [-] REJECTED - combined with previous Ioan chapter * [ ] [Launch: phys-side: Douglas](launch/phys/Douglas/009) - Douglas uploads on one year anniversary, talks about necessity of not being on launches, met by Ioan (who organized it as a surprise and gave him basic instructions on how to be clothed and presentable right off the bat) and May in dandelion sim (as TN met Yared), learns about Michelle/Ode Clade via how they got their names. (learning = irreversibility) diff --git a/writing/post-self/toledot/launch/sys/Ioan/012.md b/writing/post-self/toledot/launch/sys/Ioan/012.md index 0bf938d9..bb3e4d30 100644 --- a/writing/post-self/toledot/launch/sys/Ioan/012.md +++ b/writing/post-self/toledot/launch/sys/Ioan/012.md @@ -160,7 +160,29 @@ Later, as they sat on the bench swing, looking out over the dandelion-speckled y "Color me surprised." -Ey chose to let the comment pass. "Does Michelle's sim still exist?" +Ey chose to let the comment pass. "Dear kept talking about irreversibility at its death day party." + +"It was declaiming," May murmured. "It has a way of doing that." + +"No kidding." Ey reached a hand up to ruffle it over May's ears. "But I guess this is irreversible, too, isn't it?" + +"What, you finally figuring out that we have been dating for like two years?" + +"Kind of." + +May elbowed em in the side. "You are kidding, right?" + +"No, seriously," ey said, rubbing at eir side. "Codrin forked to work on the Qoheleth project, *then* got in a relationship with Dear." + +A spark of recognition lit up May's eyes and she grinned wide. "But you didn't." + +"No." Ey shrugged. "I was the Balan who didn't wind up in a relationship with Dear, because that was my up-tree instance. I can't go back and fork before we met or started working together or dating." + +She laughed and shook her head, draping herself across eir lap. "There is no going and there is no back. You are stuck with me, Mx Balan. Pet my tail, please." + +Ey did as ordered, brushing fingers through thick fur as ey thought on the phrase. The fox had been right, ey supposed. There was at least some beauty in the irreversible. + +One more one-way act floated to the surface in eir mind. "Does Michelle's sim still exist, by the way?" May frowned. "Yes. Why?"