From 0f438c96f1c64a8c76850d64bb1e501287894019 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Madison Scott-Clary Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2022 19:21:59 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] update from sparkleup --- writing/post-self/artist-references.html | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/writing/post-self/artist-references.html b/writing/post-self/artist-references.html index bbf801e38..2b622a839 100644 --- a/writing/post-self/artist-references.html +++ b/writing/post-self/artist-references.html @@ -112,9 +112,9 @@

Codrin, on learning that the prairie outside Dear’s house is essentially procedurally generated, has been walking and exploring to see if there are any non-prairie features like creeks or rock outcroppings. As ey goes, ey’s been building cairns every hundred paces to show where ey’s already been. It’s primarily a solo activity for em to think and process out loud without bothering Dear or it’s partner.

After a particularly rough interview, Dear joins Codrin on one of eir walks to find a spot without a cairn so that they can make up and talk about potential interview candidates.

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~~True Name greeting Yared after upload~~
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True Name greeting Yared after upload
After the System secedes, Yared Zerezghi, the politics nerd on the outside who helped write the secession amendment, uploads and finally meets with True Name, who he’s only talked to over text. They meet in a dandelion-speckled field.
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~~Ioan standing at the forest creek with End Waking~~
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Ioan standing at the forest creek with End Waking
One of the interviews Ioan conducts is with an Odist named Do I Know God After The End Waking (or End Waking), a male skunk in stereotypical ranger garb. He lives in a forest, designed rather like Dear’s prairie, hiding from all the manipulative bullshit he pulled in the past. Toward the end of the interview, they walk to the edge of a ravine and talk for a bit. Perhaps some variation in the landscape.
Sasha, Debarre, and dandelion crowns.
Sasha and Debarre meet at one point in the same dandelion speckled field to catch up, and Sasha makes him a flower crown.
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Ideas

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When May finally allows them back, Sasha requests some time to talk with just her about some lingering processing of Zacharias business, so Ioan and a fork of Sasha go for a walk out to the boulder at the end of the lake where they discuss the final outcome, Ioan’s love for May, their complicated feelings for each other, and the book ends with Ioan once more wondering how this has become eir life.

Ideas

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~~True Name does a screm~~
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True Name does a screm
Jonas seems to have gotten all that he wanted out of True Name, so the inciting incident of the story is him attempting to assassinate her. Her final instance is rescued by Ioan who brings her to the lake that has featured in other stories and on the back cover of Nevi’im to get away from the assassin. Realizing just how totally fucked she is, she’s overcome by emotion and wades out into the water until it’s nearly up to her hips and screams in frustration. I picked this one as I feel that it continues on from the overwhelming emotion on the cover of Nevi’im and also allows for further messing with the shape of the letters.
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~~May merges down~~
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May merges down
True Name agrees to let May merge down with her for the first time in 245 years. They kneel together on a bed, facing each other while True Name struggles to accept that many memories, May trying to be comforting as she can, while Ioan watches from the side. I like this because the rest of the book is more focused on emotions and how they tie in with memories, which is way more sedate than assassination attempts (plus, double the Odists that could be cut into by the letters).
Zacharias is a piece of shit
True Name has been spending in the woods around the lake with her newfound desire for solitude, getting away from May and Ioan. What none of them realize, however, is that the sim isn’t as private as expected, and one of Jonas’s cronies (and True Name’s ex), Zacharias, comes to visit and taunt her. True Name panics and messages May and Ioan, who arrive to confront Zacharias. May tries to taunt him in turn and he gets frustrated enough that he slaps her across the face. There’s quite a bit to the scene, some of which may make for cover material.
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~~Ioan talks with Jonas~~
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Ioan talks with Jonas
twice — once on the balcony of eir home with Jonas sitting on a deck chair and Ioan standing nearby (it’s winter, so probably snowy out), once in a pub. Both times, Jonas is insufferably smug and Ioan is frustrated/upset.
Physical affection??? How even??¿
After the merge, True Name has picked up May’s affectionate streak and gets all cozy on Ioan a couple of times (a few times as Sasha; see the characters section below). The mood is kiiind of cuddly but also super awkward because neither of them know what to do about it at all given a) their fraught history together with her as True Name, but also b) her having May’s memories of being in a relationship with Ioan
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~~May’s monolgue~~
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May’s monolgue
May gives a monologue at one point, looking drunken and melancholic in a bar-setting on a stage
Ioan and TN get coffee
To go with #1 but less actiony, True Name and Ioan meeting for coffee that day. Ioan’s eir usual natty self, but True Name’s a real mess. They usually meet at a coffee shop which has an L-shaped couch in the corner, and they each sit on a branch of it to work.