diff --git a/content/core/006.md b/content/core/006.md index 4f8e269..f831e1f 100644 --- a/content/core/006.md +++ b/content/core/006.md @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Surely that's not all on me. You must play some role in it. I was talking with m > I'm the observer and the mirror. All I can do is reflect your choices back at you. Choice itself is not my department. -After getting *Restless Town* finished, I needed something to do. Some other project that would make me feel like I was being productive. +After getting [*Restless Town*](https://makyo.ink/publications/restless-town/) finished, I needed something to do. Some other project that would make me feel like I was being productive. > Feel, or seem? @@ -23,11 +23,11 @@ Both. If I sat still, I'd burn up. If I was seen sitting still, clearly I'd be w Right. -So I started digging through stuff I'd already done, seeing if any of it could be cleaned up and turned into a new project. I stumbled across *Rum and Coke* and found it mostly clean as it was, so I decided to publish it as a book. Paperback and ebook, I mean, not just the stories online. +So I started digging through stuff I'd already done, seeing if any of it could be cleaned up and turned into a new project. I stumbled across [*Rum and Coke*](https://makyo.ink/publications/rum-and-coke/) and found it mostly clean as it was, so I decided to publish it as a book. Paperback and ebook, I mean, not just the stories online. > Were you proud of them? -To an extent. A different me wrote them. A lesser me, in some ways. I was younger, I hadn't quite found my voice and tone. No *Arcana*, no *Disappearance*, no *Getting Lost* or *Post-Self*. All I had was a few scattered tidbits and my mom's words ringing in my ears: "You wrote your own wedding vows, right? I could tell." +To an extent. A different me wrote them. A lesser me, in some ways. I was younger, I hadn't quite found my voice and tone. No [*Arcana*](https://makyo.ink/publications/arcana), no *Disappearance*, no [*Getting Lost*](https://writing.drab-makyo.com/fiction/getting-lost/) or [*Post-Self*](http://post-self.io). All I had was a few scattered tidbits and my mom's words ringing in my ears: "You wrote your own wedding vows, right? I could tell." A me with a different identity, too. A me that was working on gender through small steps. I hadn't yet picked up the word 'trans' for myself. I was non-binary, presenting male, writing to justify myself. Or maybe to hype myself up. I was writing works about gender and poly problems being worked through to convince myself it was possible. @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Of course. I was too...something. Too busy, too preoccupied. I was focused too much on identity, too much on The Work, as it were, to reflect. Maybe I was moving too quickly to notice my choices being shown to me. -> You'd mostly stopped [adjective][species] by then, too. +> You'd mostly stopped [[adjective][species]](https://adjectivespecies.com) by then, too. Life got weird. I was transitioning-- diff --git a/content/core/013.md b/content/core/013.md index 15ee27f..ec69174 100644 --- a/content/core/013.md +++ b/content/core/013.md @@ -5,7 +5,9 @@ weight: 13 I won't repost them, because they're direct logs, shortly after the conversation mentioned before, the issue of Michael bringing another partner to the queer group we were a part of came up. How would we work a situation where I, coming from a monogamous point of view, would be in the same room with my partner and metamour? Would we split our time? Would one of us get ignored while the other got attention? Would we both get attention? Would we just plain avoid it? -> It's surreal, even for me, to hear you talk about this today, given your [current situation](https://makyo.io/polycute-old). +> It's surreal, even for me, to hear you talk about this today, given your current situation. + + Suppose that the young man, Matthew, is in a monogamous relationship with someone. As the years go by the relationship begins to change, fades, and is replaced by a new one, more open than the last. After a decade or so, all of the parts have been replaced and Matthew, now Madison, is in a polycule the size of Rhode Island. Is Madison still the same person as Matthew?