Missing art

content/stories/meeting.md

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+---
+title: Meeting
+author: Madison Rye Progress
+character: "True Name — 2326"
+spoiler: "*Mitzvot:* light"
+type: story
+---
+
+<style>
+figure.story {
+    display: block;
+    max-width: 40%;
+    float: right;
+    padding: 0.25rem;
+    margin: 0 0 0 1rem;
+    border: 1px solid #ccc;
+    text-align: center;
+}
+
+figure.story:after {
+    display: table-cell;
+    clear: both;
+}
+
+@media (max-width: 1000px) {
+    figure.story {
+        position: relative;
+        float: none;
+        max-width: 100%;
+        width: 100%;
+        margin: 1rem 0;
+        text-align: auto;
+    }
+}
+</style>
+
+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?
+
+<figure class="story">
+    <a href="/gallery/bad-day.png" target="_blank"><img src="/gallery/bad-day.png" alt="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" /></a>
+    <figcaption>True Name having a real one — art by <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/enbydergstrous.bsky.social" target="_blank">enbydergstrous</a></figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+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.

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
 
@@ -373,6 +400,14 @@
   url: /gallery/ranger.png
   description: End Waking and a night stalker from Fallout in an uneasy truce.
 
+- title: A Bad Day
+  collection: fan-art
+  authors:
+  - enbydergstrous
+  image: /gallery/thumbs/bad-day.png
+  url: /gallery/bad-day.png
+  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
   authors:

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/

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