From 0c20d0c4ce9fed15642543365aa4294a9643e01a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Madison Scott-Clary Date: Mon, 16 May 2022 20:55:28 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] About updates --- content/about/_index.md | 2 +- content/about/characters.md | 19 +++++++++++++------ content/about/universe.md | 4 +++- 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/about/_index.md b/content/about/_index.md index cd09461..f55399c 100644 --- a/content/about/_index.md +++ b/content/about/_index.md @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ The Post-Self universe is an open setting for exploring the ramifications of bei ## Fanfiction and universe fiction policy -Anyone's allowed to use it under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution license. You can check out the information below, or ask me anything you'd like at . This means that you can write all the fanfic you want of of the characters or set your own stories in the universe, but I'd greatly appreciate if you stated such and linked back to . +Anyone's allowed to use it under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution license. You can check out the information below, or [ask me](https://makyo.is) anything you'd like. This means that you can write all the fanfic you want of of the characters or set your own stories in the universe, but I'd greatly appreciate if you stated such and linked back to . Need more information? There's a few pages on that: diff --git a/content/about/characters.md b/content/about/characters.md index 4a9e348..59186f4 100644 --- a/content/about/characters.md +++ b/content/about/characters.md @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Michelle Hadje uploaded early on during the System's creation and is considered She is best known for being the founder of the Ode clade, and is no longer extant on the System as of 2306. -Due to her experience while lost, her and her up-tree instances have a 'unique relationship to language' that primarily manifests with a lack of contractions, florid speech with occasionally irregular word order (dative or ablative fronting, e.g: "I set up *for myself* an archetype"), and well-chosen uses of the word 'fuck'. She and her clade deal with the effects even within the System and will occasionally describe themselves as 'mad', for lack of a better term. Additionally, the experience left her struggling to maintain a single form post-uploading, often alternating between skunk and human form, which is described as extremely unpleasant. +Due to her experience while lost, her and her up-tree instances have a 'unique relationship to language' that primarily manifests with a lack of contractions, florid speech with occasionally irregular word order (anaphora using dative/ablative fronting, e.g: "I set up *for myself* an archetype"), and well-placed uses of the word 'fuck'. She and her clade deal with the effects even within the System and will occasionally describe themselves as 'mad', for lack of a better term. Additionally, the experience left her struggling to maintain a single form post-uploading, often alternating between skunk and human form, which is described as extremely unpleasant. * [*Qoheleth*](https://qoheleth.post-self.ink) * [*Toledot*](https://toledot.post-self.ink) @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ May Then My Name (or simply May to those with whom she is closest) is an author, True Name is a politician and one of the movers and shakers of the System as one of the Founders and member of the Council of Eight. She takes the form of an anthropomorphic skunk, though is taller and slimmer than her up-tree instance, May Then My Name. She is described wearing rather nice clothes; blouses and skirts or slacks. -She is in an on-again-off-again relationship with Zacharias. +She is/was in an on-again-off-again relationship with Zacharias, a dapper, snarky red fox. [![True Name as depicted on the back cover of Toledot](/img/truename1.png)](/img/truename1.png) @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ Do I Know God After The *End Waking* (he/him) * [*Mitzvot*](https://mitzvot.post-self.ink) (mentioned) That Which Lives is Forever *Praiseworthy* (she/her) -: Another skunk-type Odst, Praiseworthy focused on shaping sentiment early on in the System's history. No one's sure what she's up to now. +: Another skunk-type Odist, Praiseworthy focused on shaping sentiment early on in the System's history. No one's sure what she's up to now. * [*Qoheleth*](https://qoheleth.post-self.ink) * [*Toledot*](https://toledot.post-self.ink) (mentioned) @@ -132,6 +132,13 @@ That Which Lives is Forever *Praiseworthy* (she/her) * [*Nevi'im*](https://neviim.post-self.ink) * [*Mitzvot*](https://mitzvot.post-self.ink) +Time Is *A Finger Pointing* At Itself +: A human-type Odist who has devoted herself to theatre. She's described as a somewhat taller, somewhat more slender human Odist, dressing chic and modern, but with a simple desire to be everyone's friend. + + * [*Toledot*](https://toledot.post-self.ink) (mentioned) + * [*Nevi'im*](https://neviim.post-self.ink) + * [*Mitzvot*](https://mitzvot.post-self.ink) + ## Douglas Hadje (he/him) Douglas Hadje-Simon is Michelle Hadje's ancestor and the phys-side launch coordinator for the launch project. @@ -144,7 +151,7 @@ Douglas Hadje-Simon is Michelle Hadje's ancestor and the phys-side launch coordi ## Jonas Anderson (he/him) -Jonas Andersen was another member of the Council of Eight and worked to guide the System throughout the years. +Jonas Andersen was another member of the Council of Eight and worked to guide the System throughout the years. Described as lanky, 'well-preserved forties', tousled blond hair, the consummate politician. *Appears in:* @@ -157,7 +164,7 @@ Jonas Andersen was another member of the Council of Eight and worked to guide th ### Ioan Bălan (ey/em) -Ioan Bălan is a historian, investigative journalist, and writer. Ey uploaded in 2238 and began working with Dear, Also, The Tree That Was Felled of the Ode clade in 2305 on a project that resulted in the well-received book *On the Perils of Memory*. Later, while working on *An Expanded History of Our World*, ey entered into a romantic relationship with another Odist, May Then My Name Die With Me. Ey's described as of average height, a little soft, and with tousled blond hair. Ey has kept eir masculine name and relatively masculine appearance from phys-side, dressing in 'faux-academic garb' (usually slacks, a dress shirt, a sweater vest, a bow tie, and occasionally a jacket), though ey describes eir gender as fluid. +Ioan Bălan is a historian, investigative journalist, writer, and much later, actor and playwright. Ey uploaded in 2238 to help eir brother, Dragoş Bălan, after their parents' death, and began working with Dear, Also, The Tree That Was Felled of the Ode clade in 2305 on a project that resulted in the well-received book *On the Perils of Memory*. Later, while working on *An Expanded History of Our World*, ey entered into a romantic relationship with another Odist, May Then My Name Die With Me. Ey's described as of average height, a little soft, and with tousled blond hair. Ey has kept eir masculine name and relatively masculine appearance from phys-side, dressing in 'faux-academic garb' (usually slacks, a dress shirt, a sweater vest, a bow tie, and occasionally a jacket), though ey describes eir gender as fluid. [![Ioan as depicted on the cover of Qoheleth](/img/dearioan.png)](/img/dearioan.png) @@ -224,7 +231,7 @@ Sarah is a psychologist and one of the emissaries chosen to meet with the Artemi ### Debarre (he/him) -Having lost his boyfriend to the lingering effects of getting lost, Debarre uploaded along with Michelle Hadje. He's usually depicted as an anthropomorphic weasel dressed in all black. He's in an on-again-off-again relationship with End Waking. +Having lost his boyfriend to the lingering effects of getting lost, Debarre uploaded along with Michelle Hadje. He's usually depicted as an anthropomorphic weasel dressed in all black. He's in an on-again-off-again relationship with End Waking, along with a few others in the form of parallel monogamy. *Appears in:* diff --git a/content/about/universe.md b/content/about/universe.md index ca334e2..db8f94b 100644 --- a/content/about/universe.md +++ b/content/about/universe.md @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Created in the early 2100s, the System (a vague name to keep the original projec ### Uploading -Uploading is a one-way, destructive process. The body dies while the consciousness continues within the System. There is a small chance of failure (around 1% as of 2130, <0.5% as of 2140, <0.25% as of 2150, <0.0001% as of 2200). +Uploading is a one-way, destructive process. The body dies while the consciousness continues within the System. There is a small chance of failure (around 1% as of 2130, <0.5% as of 2140, <0.25% as of 2150, <0.001% as of 2200). Consciousnesses are uploaded to the system at the L5 point via the Ansible, a networked series of upload centers with a direct radio connection to the System itself. By the 2300s, this is largely automated and consists of signing a form and hitting a button. @@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ Introduced almost by accident, the concept of forking allows one to create a new An instance may *quit*. When they do so, their memories are provided to their *down-tree* instance to remember or not in a process called *merging*. A merge may be wholesale (sometimes described as *blithe*) or *cherrypicked*, wherein the down-tree instance is able to choose some of the memories but not others in a labor-intensive process. +The greater the individuation between and up- and down-tree instance, the greater the chance for *conflicts*. These occur when memories don't line up --- that is, the experiences may be of the same event, but the conclusions drawn from the event may be different. As time goes on, individuation will affect the entire personality of an individual, as personality is built in part atop memories. Cocladists who have diverged by decades or centuries may find such merges incredibly difficult. + The *root instance* of an individual will find it very difficult to quit as, to quote May Then My Name Die With Me of the Ode clade, "the System is not built for death". This applies to their *up-tree* instances as well; it is easier to quit the shorter one has been around or if a newer up-tree instance exists (for instance, if Jace Doe#Tracker forks into Jace Doe#1234abc, #Tracker may quit easily right away, though it will get steadily more difficult as #1234abc individuates; similarly, if #1234abc forks into Jace Doe#5678def and #5678def individuates long enough, #1234abc will find it difficult to quit). ### Clades and dissolution strategies