diff --git a/content/stories/meeting.md b/content/stories/meeting.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1047c43 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/stories/meeting.md @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +--- +title: Meeting +author: Madison Rye Progress +character: "True Name — 2326" +spoiler: "*Mitzvot:* light" +type: story +--- + + + +Some centuries ago, who cares how many, Jonas and True Name decided that they would not call meetings "meetings" for just how official that sounded. Let meetings be the thing that the Council of Eight did. Let meetings be what phys-side did. Let them have meetings and conferences and conventions. Let them have boards and clerks, minutes and agendas. + +What she and Jonas were doing was moving too much like a stream to have a meeting. They were flowing. They did not stop to have meetings; to stop would mean that one had frozen. They might catch up in an eddy somewhere, of course, but they did not have *meetings.* + +It did not last. It could not last. As what they were (what *were* they?) solidified into something more active, more deliberate, they started to speak more often of meetings. + +Some of it was necessity. One met with others. One simply had to. The Council had meetings, and so they had meetings with the council. When the Twelve Hours' War broke out, when Lagrange — known then only as the System — cemented itself in the minds of the governments as a fine mediator, a political player on the stage of the world, then they had meetings with phys-side. + +The more serious they got, these two people scattered across however many individuals, the more the idea began to take hold within them, and so, soon, Jonas and True Name had meetings, too. + +Such was the way of the world. + +Sometime in there, Zacharias joined, as well. He, too, became a force to be reckoned with, just as had True Name and Jonas. He, too, flowed like water. + +As Jonas, True Name, and their ilk — the Jonas clade, the eighth stanza and the first and second, some select few others — became a force to be reckoned with, they grew from a stream to a wide, wide river. A slow moving river, but one with such power. Working groups were carved out into oxbow lakes. Reservoirs of committees formed. Meetings and meetings... + +But always, True Name and Zacharias flowed. They, more than anything to do with work, anything with Jonas, with the three of them together, with all of the eighth stanza, with all of their combined clades, resisted the idea of stopping. + +It was easy to fall in love with him, built to be loved as he was. Built to be loved *by her.* + +But they never stopped. They never *dated,* since that would mean stopping to go on dates. They were never partners, and *certainly* never married — how many Odists ever got married? Two? Three? + +
+ A skunk sitting on a chair in a field of dandelions. She is spilling her coffee, and her head is going up in abstract smoke, teeth bared as though crying out +
True Name having a real one — art by enbydergstrous
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+ +No, they flowed together, bubbling over the rocky points together, carving canyons in stable ground. They had their meetings with Jonas, yes, but together, they were unstoppable. Glances in the office. Nights on the town. The years they lived together, the years they were apart. The love that they shared. They flowed together. + +But now, here, after some centuries, who cares how many, Jonas had called them both together for a meeting and given his smirking announcement with Zacharias wearing a patently false grin beside him — oh, she could see the ache in those eyes she knew so well — and True Name finally, *finally* stopped. diff --git a/data/art.yaml b/data/art.yaml index 82fd4af..7169fc0 100644 --- a/data/art.yaml +++ b/data/art.yaml @@ -281,6 +281,14 @@ url: /gallery/what_right_have_i.png description: What Right Have I in the midst of some dance or another. +- title: What Write Have I + collection: additional-art + authors: + - Lunegrimm + image: /gallery/thumbs/what_write_have_i.png + url: /gallery/what_write_have_i.png + description: Okay, bad joke. Still, skunks do a write. + - title: Beat Saber v49 collection: additional-art authors: @@ -305,6 +313,25 @@ url: /gallery/chalk.png description: Motes's favorite pastime. +- title: Seras Frame + collection: additional-art + authors: + - Roxanna + image: /gallery/thumbs/seras.png + url: /gallery/seras.png + description: Train skunk also likes planes, turns out! Seras makes an appearance in ["A Well-Trained Eye"](https://marsh.post-self.ink/stories/a-well-trained-eye/). + +- title: Skeletal flower + collection: additional-art + authors: + - Voksa + image: /gallery/thumbs/flower.png + url: /gallery/flower.png + description: | + > "And Warmth In Fire came over, too, so that it could sit at our table and weep rather than eat. Ey wept, and then asked to retreat, and we guided her up to Should We Forget's room so that they could lay in her bed for a while in silence. When it came back downstairs, ey thanked us kindly and left, and when we went back upstairs to look, there was a flower wrought out of some subtly glowing metal left on Should We Forget's pillow. It lays there still." + + As seen in [*Idumea*](https://idumea.post-self.ink) + ######### # Fan art @@ -379,7 +406,7 @@ - enbydergstrous image: /gallery/thumbs/bad-day.png url: /gallery/bad-day.png - description: True Name having a rough one. + description: True Name having a rough one. A bit of art that led to the drabble ["Meeting"](/stories/meeting). - title: What's inside? collection: fan-art diff --git a/data/creators.yml b/data/creators.yml index 7899db0..1533324 100644 --- a/data/creators.yml +++ b/data/creators.yml @@ -12,3 +12,5 @@ biddyfox: https://www.tumblr.com/biddyfox enbydergstrous: https://bsky.app/profile/enbydergstrous.bsky.social Seþþe: https://meemu.org/@seyye Fudge: https://vulpine.club/@fudge_the_sphinx +Lunegrimm: https://bsky.app/profile/lunegrimm.bsky.social +Voksa: https://vox-space.neocities.org/ diff --git a/data/works.yaml b/data/works.yaml index e52656a..bc1b3c2 100644 --- a/data/works.yaml +++ b/data/works.yaml @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ - title: Coffee Leak url: /stories/coffee-leak + image: /gallery/thumbs/coffee-leak.png authors: - Krzysztof "Tomash" Drewniak type: short story @@ -72,6 +73,7 @@ - title: For Old Times New url: /stories/for-old-times-new + image: /gallery/thumbs/sierra.png authors: - JL Conway type: short story @@ -104,6 +106,18 @@ - Scout By The Washes-Away-Paintings Beach description: Wherein the bacon lady goes missing, is found, and embarks on a quest. +- title: Meeting + url: /stories/meeting + image: /gallery/thumbs/bad-day.png + authors: + - Madison Rye Progress + type: short story + years: + - 2326 + characters: + - True Name + description: Even if only for a moment, after that meeting, True Name finally, *finally* stopped. + - title: Meeting of One url: /stories/meeting-of-one authors: @@ -232,6 +246,7 @@ - title: Qoheleth url: https://qoheleth.post-self.ink + image: /gallery/thumbs/qoheleth-front.png collection: cycle authors: - Madison Rye Progress @@ -257,6 +272,7 @@ - title: "Gallery Exhibition: A Love Story" url: https://qoheleth.post-self.ink/gallery-exhibition + image: /gallery/thumbs/dear.png parent: Qoheleth authors: - Madison Rye Progress @@ -278,6 +294,7 @@ - title: Toledot url: https://toledot.post-self.ink + image: /gallery/thumbs/toledot-front.png collection: cycle authors: - Madison Rye Progress @@ -308,6 +325,7 @@ - title: Nevi'im url: https://neviim.post-self.ink + image: /gallery/thumbs/neviim-front.png collection: cycle authors: - Madison Rye Progress @@ -336,6 +354,7 @@ - title: Mitzvot url: https://mitzvot.post-self.ink + image: /gallery/thumbs/mitzvot-front.png collection: cycle authors: - Madison Rye Progress @@ -370,6 +389,7 @@ - title: Motes Played url: https://motes-played.post-self.ink + image: /gallery/thumbs/motes-played.png authors: - Madison Rye Progress - Samantha Yule Fireheart @@ -406,6 +426,7 @@ - title: In it for the long haul url: https://motes-played.post-self.ink/long-haul + image: /gallery/thumbs/skateboard.png parent: Motes Played authors: - Madison Rye Progress @@ -455,6 +476,7 @@ - title: Idumea url: https://idumea.post-self.ink + image: /gallery/thumbs/flower.png collection: hashichzur authors: - Madison Rye Progress @@ -498,6 +520,7 @@ - title: Marsh url: https://marsh.post-self.ink + image: /gallery/thumbs/marsh-front.png collection: hashichzur authors: - Madison Rye Progress diff --git a/static/gallery/flower.png b/static/gallery/flower.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..15e3bf1 Binary files /dev/null and b/static/gallery/flower.png differ diff --git a/static/gallery/seras.png b/static/gallery/seras.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6cf41b8 Binary files /dev/null and b/static/gallery/seras.png differ diff --git a/static/gallery/sierra.png b/static/gallery/sierra.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..387756d Binary files /dev/null and b/static/gallery/sierra.png differ diff --git a/static/gallery/thumbs/flower.png b/static/gallery/thumbs/flower.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a96fd31 Binary files /dev/null and b/static/gallery/thumbs/flower.png differ diff --git a/static/gallery/thumbs/seras.png b/static/gallery/thumbs/seras.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3b42c29 Binary files /dev/null and b/static/gallery/thumbs/seras.png differ diff --git a/static/gallery/thumbs/sierra.png b/static/gallery/thumbs/sierra.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6ef6f4c Binary files /dev/null and b/static/gallery/thumbs/sierra.png differ diff --git a/static/gallery/thumbs/what_write_have_i.png b/static/gallery/thumbs/what_write_have_i.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9f2cf42 Binary files /dev/null and b/static/gallery/thumbs/what_write_have_i.png differ diff --git a/static/gallery/what_write_have_i.png b/static/gallery/what_write_have_i.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fa1d87a Binary files /dev/null and b/static/gallery/what_write_have_i.png differ