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<p>We continue on.</p>
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<p>We don’t find the next Jesus-based coffee shop, but we do agree to meet tomorrow to try again.</p>
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<p>I continue to meet with My — or at least a fork of her — daily for the next week or two.</p>
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<p>She’s old, it turns out, nearly three centuries. One of the first uploads, back in 2117, when the System had yet to blossom to its full potential. She’d been up here, riding along in the hardware that had been floating up by the moon since before my grandparents had been born. Since before my grandparents’ grandparents had moved north to Saskatchewan.</p>
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<p>Old and wide-spread, too. The Ode clade has at least a hundred instances — “nominally one hundred, do not ask me the total; it is probably in the thousands” she says — scattered about on Lagrange.</p>
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<p>The more I talk with her, the more worldly she seems, and the more of a hick I feel. Here’s this trans gal out here living her best life like there’s just nothing to it, getting coffee with me every day, taking me out to ridiculous restaurants every evening — “I am just a fork,” she says, “so you need not worry about keeping me from anything” — and having increasingly deep conversations about the vagaries of life.</p>
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<p>She’s a weird bird, but I can forgive much from someone more than ten times as old as me.</p>
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<p>And this whole time, even past my one-week-iversary of uploading, I keep forking and changing, forking and refining, forking and tuning. My hair could be this long, right? Or…well, no. Maybe it could be a touch shorter. And my eyelashes could be a bit longer. And the hairs that make up my unibrow could be thinner — not gone, no, just enough to shape an impression of a face. And my cheeks could be maybe just a little rosier. Which maybe I could do by keeping them as they are but toning my skin a little lighter, perhaps?</p>
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<p>It’s infuriating. It’s <em>more</em> than infuriating. It’s crazymaking, forking and changing, forking and changing, hunting for ever finer lines of exploration, going down blind alleys of gender, making U-turns in front of piles of identity that make me wince and squirm.</p>
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<p>My doesn’t need to say anything, she just keeps on talking to me, keeps on spending time with me. She just keeps on being around me as someone </p>
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<p>Page generated on 2023-09-20</p>
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<li class="done0"> <a href="100days/index.html">A Century of Days (WT)</a></li>
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<li class="done1"> <a href="marsh/index.html">Marsh</a></li>
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<li class="done0"> <a href="embodied-exegesis.html">Embodied Exegesis</a></li>
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<h2 id="other-bits">Other bits</h2>
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<p>Page generated on 2023-05-10</p>
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<p>Page generated on 2023-09-20</p>
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<li class="done0"> <a href="006.html">006</a> — Reconciliation of a sort between Lily and Dry Grass as they meet up for dinner, talking about what it means to be a clade without a root instance.</li>
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<li class="done0"> Part 2 — Phys-side is being a little sketchy about what happened, turns out there was a reset and a lot of work behind the scenes after a coordinated attack between phys- and sys-side, taking the form of a generalized weapon that wiped out most of the System. Large chunks of it were restored after a lot of work and help from the Artemisians, but not total success — virus loophole was fixed (incl. singular attacks), but no guarantee there won’t be another work-around, plans to split the System into smaller pieces, move some of them to Earth/Sun Lagrange points<ul>
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<li class="done0"> Part 2 — Phys-side is being a little sketchy about what happened, turns out there was a reset and a lot of work behind the scenes after a coordinated attack between phys- and sys-side, taking the form of a generalized weapon that wiped out most of the System. Large chunks of it were restored after a lot of work and help from the Artemisians, but not total success — virus loophole was fixed (incl singular attacks), but no guarantee there won’t be another work-around, plans to split the System into smaller pieces, move some of them to Earth/Sun Lagrange points<ul>
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<li class="done0"> <a href="007.html">007</a> — Dry Grass loops Reed & co into discussion with phys-side engineers (maybe she’s been booted from her stanza anyway for talking with the 8th?)</li>
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<li class="done0"> <a href="008.html">008</a> — Huddle to talk about why they’re being so cagey</li>
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<li class="done0"> <a href="009.html">009</a> — Larger meeting with other representatives of clades with missing members, bit more info (loophole was patched, but no guarantee), introducing concept of splitting the system up</li>
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<p>Page generated on 2023-09-14</p>
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<p>Page generated on 2023-09-20</p>
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