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- 2020-04-10
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- Patreon.com/Makyo
- Mic diff --git a/writing/index.html b/writing/index.html index 22738d468..3f3fdc310 100644 --- a/writing/index.html +++ b/writing/index.html @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
- First pass
- Second pass
- Sawtooth Universe
- Post-Self @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
Zk | stream
Stream notes
+Stream notes
Collections, universes, and larger works
+Collections, universes, and larger works
Individual stories
+Individual stories
- The Presence Between the Pages
- Missives diff --git a/writing/post-self/index.html b/writing/post-self/index.html index 44c5f9c95..6d138d93a 100644 --- a/writing/post-self/index.html +++ b/writing/post-self/index.html @@ -14,14 +14,14 @@
- Novel: Qoheleth
- Story: Apres un reve
- Story: Assignment
- Novella: Gallery Exhibition
- Write
- Typeset @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
- Market
- List with FP, etc
- RJ Brewster (patient 0224ebe8 \ptRJ)
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- Ioan Balan
- Journalist, storyteller @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
- Qoheleth, ne Life Breeds Life, But Death Must Now Be Chosen of the Ode Clade
- Act I
- Thread 1
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Synopsis
+Synopsis
RJ Brewster is a sound technician for a theater and pioneer of a type of virtual reality that involves integration with a system in a non-human fashion - when ey works sound for the theater, ey is essentially the room. When not working, ey spends much of eir time online with friends, also in VR, where ey is a genderless fennec fox. Recently, Cicero, one of eir friend group has 'gotten lost': while he was interacting with the VR system, the system crashed and, even when removed from it, he was left still 'inside', with no way to remove him. RJ (AwDae when online, due to the limitations of a canine muzzle on pronouncing letters), eir best friend and ex Sasha (a skunk), and Cicero's partner Debarre (a weasel) have been trying to figure out what they can about Cicero's circumstances and how he can be rescued. After digging into the research, RJ emself gets lost during that night's rehearsal at the theater.
Dr Carter Ramirez is a scientist at the University College of London working on studying the lost. She is head of the research team and focuses specifically on the statistical, psychological, and data science side of the research. Her coworker, Dr Sanders, leads up the neuroscience side of research. When RJ gets lost, Sanders mentions that 'another furry' has gotten lost, and Dr Ramirez gets a hunch that there might be some social vector to the lost. When she starts investigating along those lines, however, she meets strange amounts of pushback from both Sanders and the grantors funding the research. She pushes on with a reduced team of Avery, a nonbinary statistician, and Prakash Das, a neuroscientist. Avery discovers that RJ's case may be unique in that eir marketing trail has been influenced by eir nonbinary gender as well as eir aromanticism, meaning that ey is both easy to track and unique in eir social circles.
Nearly two hundred years in the future, Ioan Balan, an historian living as an upload in a computer system, is contacted by an enigmatic fennec fox named Dear, Also, The Tree That Was Felled, who is looking to hire em as an amanuensis, someone to help both investigate and to witness the investigation into a problem that its "clade", the Ode clade, is running into. A clade is the set of individuals in the system forked from a common ancestor, with "forking" meaning that the individual makes a copy of themselves who is unique from that point on. Some unknown person has allegedly spilled a secret of some importance to the Ode clade, namely the name of the author of the Ode to the End of Death after which they are named, someone who died before uploading. While Ioan is initially skeptical of being used as a private investigator, ey quickly becomes interested in the strange intricacies of the Ode clade and the mystery itself, which primarily takes place as a playful puzzle using various forms of encryption set forth by someone who will only identify himself as Qoheleth.
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@Carter makes it to the UMC and, taking a risk, logs in to meet up with Sasha and Debarre to pass on what has happened at her work and what she knows of RJ. Part way through explaining what is happening, Sasha falls over in pain and then her system crashes, and Carter and Debarre deduce that she has gotten lost as well and both log out immediately. When Carter goes to visit RJ, she finds both the police and Johansson and Caitlin there already. Johansson distracts the police while Carter sets up a 'mirror rig' with RJ, a training device for those who are learning to use their implants which allows an instructor to help control RJ, acting on a hunch from seeing Sasha disappear. She logs into the mirror rig with RJ and finds herself in a confusing, dreamlike place with AwDae at the center of it all, spouting lines from a poem that we now recognize as the Ode. Carter struggles to convince em to come with her, and eventually succeeds. She immediately dives back in and publishes via the DDR what she has learned as well as how to free the lost.
Debarre frees Sasha, finding that she is similarly affected by the mirroring experience, though to a lesser extent than RJ. All of those who were lost are forever changed, and few for the better. Cicero finds it to be too much and kills himself. Shortly before his funeral, Sasha receives a letter from RJ mentioning that ey must go back to that mirror world and has volunteered to be an early subject for uploading tech that will lead to the world Ioan and Dear inhabit, a process that will kill eir body and, unless everything goes right, ey will not be able to see her again. The letter includes the entirety of the Ode, and we learn that Sasha is Michel Hadje, the basis for the common ancestor of the Ode clade. Sanders winds up in prison along with several who instigated the plot to remove that vote from the records. Prakash winds up back in the Sino-Russian Bloc (where, it is implied, RJ's procedure will take place). Ioan winds up eir job as amanuensis with Dear and begins to write up eir report/essay on the subject but, on a whim, contacts Dear and its partner to ask if ey might create a long-lived fork (eir first), Codrin Balan, to work with them both on the project.
The final scene shows Qian Guowei, the assassin who destroyed Qoheleth, getting another assignment.
-Todo
+Todo
- RJ = would have listed Sasha as a contact along with parents. She should know (even if not at first) that ey was lost
- If Sasha is Michel and Dear is Michel, then Sasha should have thoughts on being an artist. Perhaps held back by need to survive, thus teaching? @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@
- If Ioan is Romanian, eir last name should be spelled Bălan
- Ioan and dear need to work on the Solitaire encryption, and mention of PGP stuff needs to come up later
Order and status
+Order and status
Check when edited
- Epigraph --- Ecclesiastes 3:15 diff --git a/writing/sawtooth/aposematism.html b/writing/sawtooth/aposematism.html index fc8179bff..d6d1ab13c 100644 --- a/writing/sawtooth/aposematism.html +++ b/writing/sawtooth/aposematism.html @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
- Skunk - Kira - ascerbic personality, violent and punky?
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-She gets drunk, angry and blames him for soemthing another dog did to her years ago, and sprays him in a drunken fit ? Like say she was young and one picked on her and stuff in school, its why she is how she is currently. And because of this, it creates her personality complex, due to the hateful way she was treated by a dog, and Riley might have a superficial similiarty, like same speices.
Story
+Story
"Alright, bid phase."
Kira scowled down at their hand, their pile of tokens in ones and fives, and listened to the bids go around the table. Once more, when the bid reached them, they were out of their price range. They had the cash, but not if they still wanted to purchase the ornithopter card down the line.
"Pass," they grumbled.
diff --git a/writing/sawtooth/happy-lesbians.html b/writing/sawtooth/happy-lesbians.html index 9793f5616..04cac1c7b 100644 --- a/writing/sawtooth/happy-lesbians.html +++ b/writing/sawtooth/happy-lesbians.html @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@writing in-progress short-story sawtooth furry
-Notes
+Notes
Lesbians whomst happy???
- Winter - lynx - gig economy Simpletask (fiverr) and GetThere (uber, lyft), etc @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
- Collection: Restless Town
- Story: Disappearance @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
- Story: untitled happy lesbians
- Story: Aposematism
Rules
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Gig Economy Problems * A lot of standby time. Have to be available without necessarily having any tasks - splitting time between Simpletask and GetThere only works so well. * No representation
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Well, shit.
Winter trudged heavily through the piles of dead leaves lining the gutter, the lynx's broad paws crunching through them. There was a sidewalk, but this wasn't a mood for sidewalks. This wasn't a mood for keeping clean, staying out of the way. This was a proper sulk.
She pulled her phone out for the umpteenth time and thumbed at the screen, tapping out yet another message to Katrin that she wouldn't send. Deleted message. Put phone away.
diff --git a/writing/sawtooth/index.html b/writing/sawtooth/index.html index 6619faef7..4a3f16063 100644 --- a/writing/sawtooth/index.html +++ b/writing/sawtooth/index.html @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@writing furry fiction sawtooth universe
In which sad queer animals experience Idaho.
-Titles
+Titles
writing fiction incomplete short-story sawtooth furry romance
-Notes
+Notes
- Thread 1
writing fiction scifi book
In which Maddy mushes together some stories into a post-human romp of a book.
-Parts
+Parts
Tasks
+Tasks
Back blurb
+Back blurb
diff --git a/writing/post-self/qoheleth/Qoheleth/001-b.html b/writing/post-self/qoheleth/Qoheleth/001-b.html index e5f78cb47..7d522b7c4 100644 --- a/writing/post-self/qoheleth/Qoheleth/001-b.html +++ b/writing/post-self/qoheleth/Qoheleth/001-b.html @@ -13,10 +13,10 @@"All artists search. I search for stories, in this post-self age. What happens when you can no longer call yourself an individual, when you've split your sense of self among several instances? How do you react? Do you withdraw into yourself, become a hermit? Do you expand until you lose all sense of identity? Do you fragment? Do you go about it deliberately, or do you let nature and chance take their course?"
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Limited sensory data provided by dual security cameras and microphones.
@@ -42,9 +42,9 @@Given the trouble of maintaining this shitty archive, I just transcribed it so I don't have to host the data.
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Transcript of Ioan Balan and Dear, Also, The Tree That Was Felled speaking at a cafe.
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Expand allwriting post-self qoheleth fiction scifi outline novel
The basic structure is in two threads: the plot from Qoheleth intertwined with the plot from Exocortices, with the shared theme of memory and forgetting. Dear can't forget RJ, RJ can't forget information while lost. The lost lead to tech required for uploading.
Includes appendix about both threads.
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Plot 1: