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# Uncategorized
- title: Arise to Oath and Office
url: /stories/arise-to-oath-and-office
authors:
- Krzysztof "Tomash" Drewniak
type: short story
years:
- 2401
characters:
- Tomash
description: As the 25th century dawns on Lagrange, the pack of Scout instances roaming around the System are seeing many strange things, and their up-tree, Tomash, can't seem to go long with another panicked message.
- title: Assignment
url: /stories/assignment
authors:
- Madison Rye Progress
type: short story
years:
- 2273
characters:
- Ioan Bălan
description: Ioan Bălan, tasked with investigating a flash-cult, tries to figure out what the heck just happened.
cw: brief violence
- title: Coffee Leak
url: /stories/coffee-leak
authors:
- Krzysztof "Tomash" Drewniak
type: short story
years:
- 2299
characters:
- Tomash
description: Not every object works quite as you expect it to.
- title: Dreams for Breakfast
url: /stories/dreams-for-breakfast
authors:
- Alexandria Christina Leal
type: short story
years:
- 2183
characters:
- In All Ways
description: An unsettling dream, a conversation over breakfast.
spoilers: references to material in *Qoheleth*
- title: Error Bell
url: /stories/error-bell
authors:
- Krzysztof "Tomash" Drewniak
type: short story
years:
- 2373
characters:
- Cyan-Less-2-Green
description: A story of those who try to make sure everyone makes it up to the System and some of the troubles they face.
- title: Fever Dreams
url: /stories/fever-dreams
authors:
- Ember "Hieromech" Cloke
type: poem
years:
- 2399
characters:
- Hieromech
description: A poem written twelve hours before uploading.
cw: references to some of the grosser aspects of having a body
- title: For Old Times New
url: /stories/for-old-times-new
authors:
- JL Conway
type: short story
years:
- 2207
characters:
- Sierra
description: From old body to new, from old life to now.
- title: Hues
url: /stories/hues
authors:
- Madison Rye Progress
type: short story
years:
- 2350
characters:
- True Name
description: After so much trauma, True Name sees the world in new hues...
spoilers: lots of *Mitzvot*
- title: Hunting Dogs
url: /stories/hunting-dogs
authors:
- Krzysztof "Tomash" Drewniak
type: short story
years:
- 2294
characters:
- Scout By The Washes-Away-Paintings Beach
description: Wherein the bacon lady goes missing, is found, and embarks on a quest.
- title: Meeting of One
url: /stories/meeting-of-one
authors:
- Madison Rye Progress
type: short story
years:
- 2309
characters:
- Ioan Bălan
description: Quakers? In space? It's more likely than you think.
- title: Opportunity Paralysis
url: /stories/opportunity-paralysis
authors:
- Madison Rye Progress
type: short story
years:
- 2368
characters:
- Rena Hatch
description: Uploading to transition is not at all uncommon. What you do when you get there, though, is a story you will have to live.
- title: The Party
url: /stories/the-party
authors:
- Krzysztof "Tomash" Drewniak
type: short story
years:
- 2323
characters:
- Scout At The Party III
description: The Party *never* stops. There is a dog in this one~
- title: To — in the days after her death
url: /stories/to---in-the-days-after-her-death
authors:
- Madison Rye Progress
type: poem
years:
- 2306
characters:
- ██
description: And I, Atropos to such dreams as these, find shears on golden thread...
cw: reference to suicide
- title: Regret of Potential
url: /stories/regret-of-potential
authors:
- Madison Rye Progress
type: short story
years:
- 2258
characters:
- Unknown
description: Cladist who regrets.
- title: Scan
url: /stories/scan
authors:
- Voksa
type: short story
description: "*Scratch* — something's gone wrong..."
cw: surgery, mild body horror
- title: Shared Moment
url: /stories/shared-moment
authors:
- Madison Rye Progress
type: short story
years:
- 2326
characters:
- Ioan Bălan of the Bălan clade
description: An exploration of the sensuality of sensorium play between skunks and Bălans.
cw: vague description of sex
spoiler: mild references to *Toledot*
- title: Unintended Tendencies
url: https://jessfluf.itch.io/unintended-tendencies
authors:
- JL Conway
type: novella
years:
- 22xx
characters:
- Airah
description: This is the story of one soul, shortly after upload to a vast digital world, exploring themself and their identity. Checking the boundaries of who and what they are, peeling back the layers of gender, self, and species. All the while discovering the fractures that lay beneath along with the trauma carried from the years before upload as they grapple with their own life, past, and future in the unlimited world of the System.
cw: transphobia, PTSD, and visceral descriptions of panic
- title: When the Bough Breaks
url: https://read.post-self.ink/redcedars/when-the-bough-breaks
authors:
- Sheridan & Ovid Redcedar
type: short story
years:
- 2392
characters:
- Meristem
description: A root instance addresses her eldest daughter syndrome.
- title: A letter to Meristem's up-trees
url: https://read.post-self.ink/redcedars/a-letter-to-meristems-up-trees-systime-268-222
parent: When the Bough Breaks
authors:
- Sheridan & Ovid Redcedar
type: short story
years:
- 2392
characters:
- Haustor
description: Reality and Truth are siblings, not the same.
- title: Wrigglings Toward
url: /stories/wrigglings-toward
authors:
- True Name of The Lament
type: short story
years:
- 2324
characters:
- May Then My Name of the Ode clade
description: There was no dearth of proximity with Ioan, but still there was a lack...
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# Qoheleth
- title: Qoheleth
url: https://qoheleth.post-self.ink
collection: cycle
authors:
- Madison Rye Progress
type: novel
years:
- 2112
- 2112
- 2112
- 2305
- 2305
characters:
- RJ Brewster
- Dr Carter Ramirez
- Sasha
- Ioan Bălan
- Qoheleth
description: |
> "All artists search. I search for stories, in this post-self age. What happens when you can no longer call yourself an individual, when you have split your sense of self among several instances? How do you react? Do you withdraw into yourself, become a hermit? Do you expand until you lose all sense of identity? Do you fragment? Do you go about it deliberately, or do you let nature and chance take their course?"
With immersive technology at its peak, it's all too easy to get lost. When RJ loses emself in that virtual world, not only must ey find eir way out, but find all the answers ey can along the way.
And, nearly a century on, society still struggles with the ramifications of those answers.
- title: "Gallery Exhibition: A Love Story"
url: https://qoheleth.post-self.ink/gallery-exhibition
parent: Qoheleth
authors:
- Madison Rye Progress
type: novella
years:
- 2302
characters:
- You
description: |
> This gallery exhibition serves as the capstone for Dear, Also, The Tree That Was Felled, of the Ode Clade in its role as fellow. The fellowship in instance art was created specifically for Dear in recognition of the excellence it brings to the field.
>
> The Simien Fang school of Art and Design is proud to invite you to the opening of the exhibition. Location, time, and your ticket are attached to this message. We kindly request that you fork and send a non-#core/non-#tracker instance. We look forward to sharing this experience with you.
RSVP
When you can fork yourself - body and personality - at will, doubtless someone will make an art of it. How lonely is it to be so selfish?
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# Toledot
- title: Toledot
url: https://toledot.post-self.ink
collection: cycle
authors:
- Madison Rye Progress
type: novel
years:
- 2124
- 2124
- 2124
- 2325
- 2325
- 2325
characters:
- Yared Zerezghi
- True Name
- Michelle Hadje
- Ioan Bălan
- Codrin Bălan
- Douglas Hadje
description: |
> "I am saying that you trust me — really trust me — and that life in the System is more subtle than I think you know. You let me into your dreams, my dear, and your dreams influence this place as much as, if not more than, your waking mind."
No longer bound to the physical, what lengths should one go to in a virtual world to ensure the continuity of one's existence?
Secession. Launch. Two separations from two societies, two hundred years apart. And through it all, so many parallels run on so many levels that it can be dizzying just keeping up. The more Ioan and Codrin Bălan learn, the more it calls into question the motivations of even those they hold most dear.
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# Nev'im
- title: Nevi'im
url: https://neviim.post-self.ink
collection: cycle
authors:
- Madison Rye Progress
type: novel
years:
- 2346
- 2346
- 2346
characters:
- Tycho Brahe
- Codrin Bălan
- Ioan Bălan
description: |
> "Do you know how old I am, Dr. Brahe? I am 222 years old, a fork of an individual who is…who would be 259 years old. I am no longer the True Name of 2124. Even remembering her feels like remembering an old friend..."
The cracks are showing.
Someone picked up on the broadcast from the Dreamer Module and as the powers that be rush to organize a meeting between races, Dr. Tycho Brahe is caught up in a whirlwind of activity. And as always, when the drama goes down, there is Codrin Bălan to witness it.
When faced with eternity in a new kind of digital world, however, old traumas come to roost, and those who were once powerful are brought to their knees
Growth is colliding with memory, and the cracks are showing.
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# Mitzvot
- title: Mitzvot
url: https://mitzvot.post-self.ink
collection: cycle
authors:
- Madison Rye Progress
type: novel
years:
- 2350
- 2350
characters:
- Ioan Bălan
- Debarre
description: |
> "To be built to love is to be built to dissolve. It is to be built to unbecome. It is to have the sole purpose of falling apart all in the name of someone else."
Even the grandest of stories can feel small and immediate when it's just one person's life.
One of the most well-known names from one of the most well-known clades on the System, the avatar of political machinations and cool confidence, has been brought low. With help coming only from Ioan Bălan and the most grudging of support from her cocladists, all True Name has left to save herself is the ability to change.
- title: Selected Letters
url: https://mitzvot.post-self.ink
parent: Mitzvot
authors:
- Madison Rye Progress
type: novella
years:
- 2346–2355
characters:
- The Bălan clade
description: Selected correspondences of the Bălan clade systime 222–232.
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# Motes Played
- title: Motes Played
url: https://motes-played.post-self.ink
authors:
- Madison Rye Progress
- Samantha Yule Fireheart
type: novel
years:
- 2362
characters:
- Motes
- Beholden
- A Finger Pointing
description: |
> Motes played.
>
> She played because she was play. She played because that was her role in life, because that is just who she was. She played with color, played with life, played with death.
>
> She played with fire.
>
> Motes played, because how could she not?
- title: Milestones of Memory
url: https://motes-played.post-self.ink/milestones-of-memory
parent: Motes Played
authors:
- Madison Rye Progress
- Samantha Yule Fireheart
type: short story
years:
- 2382
characters:
- Motes
- Beholden
- A Finger Pointing
description: Some musings from Beholden, A Finger Pointing, and Motes on what it might mean to grow up after so long.
- title: In it for the long haul
url: https://motes-played.post-self.ink/long-haul
parent: Motes Played
authors:
- Madison Rye Progress
type: short story
years:
- 2295
characters:
- Motes
description: A short drabble written to go along with a piece of fan art by biddyfox.
- title: Thoughts on Motes
url: https://motes-played.post-self.ink/thoughts-on-motes
parent: Motes Played
authors:
- Madison Rye Progress
type: essay
years:
- 2024
characters:
- Madison Rye Progress
description: An essay about the creation of *Motes Played* what Motes means to the authors.
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# Kaddish
- title: Kaddish
url: https://kaddish.post-self.ink
collection: hashichzur
authors:
- Madison Rye Progress
type: novel
years:
- 2402
characters:
- What Right Have I
description: |
> I remember most of all, though, the first wail — the first recognition of loss and the first wail of despair and pain that rang out into the night — and the bright arc of a firework soaring into the sky, bursting, and then the sudden disappearance as the show was canceled.
>
> I remember hearing the wail, seeing the sparks and then sudden dark, and then stepping to my room to hide under my desk, letting flow tears of confusion, frustration, and terror.
What Right Have I's life is wrapped in the comfort of texts and surrounds the rhythm of interpretation. Having set aside her work as rabbi and taken up that of the scholar of Beth Tikvah, her life is one of routine and familiarity, of a life dedicated to reveling in neurodivergence and unmasking. She is the one who lets herself dwell in hyperfixation and releases the onus of optics.
What, then, is one such as her to do when confronted with the end of the world but try her best?
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# Idumea
- title: Idumea
url: https://idumea.post-self.ink
collection: hashichzur
authors:
- Madison Rye Progress
contributors:
- Samantha Yule Fireheart
- Krzysztof "Tomash" Drewniak
type: novel
years:
- 2403
- 2409
characters:
- End Of Endings
- Rye
description: |
> The Woman was too present. She was too much herself, too human, too embodied within her vessel as it spiraled out of control, too stuck in her mind as it twisted in on itself.
>
> Readers, you must understand that she was in so many ways whole still!
>
> I think that The Woman would say, however, that she was too whole. I think she would say that she was too full, too much, too alive. I think she would say that almost three hundred years of a life that was lived as hers was too much life. I think she would laugh that hoarse, dry laugh that always sounded like tears were on the way and say that thirty years was probably too much for her.
>
> But me, friends? What will become of me?
A tale of the escape from suffering in a digital world — and the effects of trauma on the functionally immortal.
cw: themes of self harm, suicide, and poor mental health
spoilers: mild spoilers for the Post Self Cycle
- title: Reading
url: https://idumea.post-self.ink/read/13/
parent: Idumea
authors:
- Madison Rye Progress
type: short story
years:
- 2273
characters:
- Rye
description: All readings are the same, as Dear The Wheat And Rye Under The Stars well knows...
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# Marsh
- title: Marsh
url: https://marsh.post-self.ink
collection: hashichzur
authors:
- Madison Rye Progress
contributors:
- Samantha Yule Fireheart
type: novel
years:
- 2401
characters:
- Reed
description: |
New Year's Eve, 2399, and Lagrange is celebrating centuries of relative peace. Life has been, by and large, good for those who chose to upload their consciousnesses. They mark milestones, fall in and out of love, dwell in peace. They fork, copying themselves for specific tasks or to go live separate lives. Memories pile up as they carry on.
And then everything grinds to a halt.
One year, one month, and eleven days have gone missing…and so has one percent of the population of Lagrange. 23 billion souls lost.
Marsh is a new novel in the Post-Self universe, following Reed and the rest of his cocladists, fellow instances forked from the original uploaded mind of Marsh, as they strive to discover what has happened and where Marsh has gone, rendering them unmoored: five unconnected instances with no root to connect them.
- title: Feeds
url: https://marsh.post-self.ink/read/6/
parent: Marsh
authors:
- Samantha Yule Fireheart
- Madison Rye Progress
- Caela Argent
- Andréa C Mason
- J.S. Hawthorne
type: short story
years:
- 2401
characters:
- Lagrange Public Feeds
description: The residents of Lagrange come to terms with so many missing lives.
- title: Nasturtiums
url: https://marsh.post-self.ink/read/12/
parent: Marsh
authors:
- Madison Rye Progress
type: short story
years:
- 2401
characters:
- Beholden
description: Beholden To The Music Of The Spheres bemoans the loss of her partner to her down-tree.
cw: suicide
- title: Columbines
url: https://marsh.post-self.ink/read/18/
parent: Marsh
authors:
- Samantha Yule Fireheart
type: short story
years:
- 2401
characters:
- A Finger Pointing
description: A Finger Pointing remembers the lives of the lost for those who cannot.
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# Stories From After
- title: Game Night
url: https://marsh.post-self.ink/stories/game-night/
parent: Marsh
collection: stories-from-after
authors:
- Michael Miele
type: short story
years:
- 2401
characters:
- Joanna
description: A polite rivalry encounters the end of the world.
- title: Home From the Game
url: https://marsh.post-self.ink/stories/home-from-the-game/
parent: Marsh
collection: stories-from-after
authors:
- Caela Argent
type: short story
years:
- 2401
characters:
- Sadie Amara
description: A long-diverged up-tree returns home.
- title: The Party at the End of the World
url: https://marsh.post-self.ink/stories/the-party-at-the-end-of-the-world/
parent: Marsh
collection: stories-from-after
authors:
- Krzysztof "Tomash" Drewniak
type: short story
years:
- 2401
characters:
- Scout At The Party V
description: It may stumble, but nothing stops The Party.
- title: A Well-Trained Eye
url: https://marsh.post-self.ink/stories/a-well-trained-eye/
parent: Marsh
collection: stories-from-after
authors:
- Andréa C Mason
type: short story
years:
- 2401
characters:
- Lucia Marchetti
description: Lucia's confessional takes on a new tenor when she is confronted with what the world has become.
- title: Toward Eternity
url: https://marsh.post-self.ink/stories/toward-eternity/
parent: Marsh
collection: stories-from-after
authors:
- Thomas "Faux" Steele
type: short story
years:
- 2401
characters:
- Aurélien Delacroix
description: The privacy settings make finding lost ones difficult, but Aurélien will do all they can.
- title: Prophecies
url: https://marsh.post-self.ink/stories/prophecies/
parent: Marsh
collection: stories-from-after
authors:
- Madison Rye Progress
- Samantha Yule Fireheart
type: short story
years:
- 2401
characters:
- Slow Hours of the Ode clade
description: Slow Hours and If I Dream hunt down a missing cocladist, weeks after a loss.
cw: discussion of suicide
- title: Journal of Diago Pereira
url: https://marsh.post-self.ink/stories/journal-of-diago-pereira/
parent: Marsh
collection: stories-from-after
authors:
- Nat Mcardle-Mott-Merrifield
- Sarah Bloden
type: short story
years:
- 2400–2401
characters:
- Henrique Pereira
description: Henrique remininiscies about uploaded family while preparing to upload, himself.
- title: Millwright
url: https://marsh.post-self.ink/stories/millwright
parent: Marsh
collection: stories-from-after
authors:
- Andréa C Mason
type: short story
years:
- 2401
characters:
- "Andréa C Mason#Millwright"
description: One of the few remaining members of one of the hardest-hit clades considers the past and finds a path forward to the future.
- title: Sentences
url: https://marsh.post-self.ink/stories/sentences/
parent: Marsh
collection: stories-from-after
authors:
- Krzysztof "Tomash" Drewniak
type: short story
years:
- 2405–2406
characters:
- In All Ways of the Ode clade
description: In All Ways must be there for those who upload, no matter who they are...
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# Clade
- title: Sufficiently Advanced
url: https://clade.post-self.ink/sufficiently-advanced/
collection: clade
authors:
- Rob MacWolf
type: short story
years:
- 2343
characters:
- Theodred
description: Sometimes, conversing with oneself can lead to unexpected changes.
- title: Genre Clade
url: https://clade.post-self.ink/genre-clade/
collection: clade
authors:
- Nathan "Domus Vocis" Hopp
type: short story
years:
- 2251
characters:
- Dante
description: Writing is a fantastic way to explore oneself, as Dante learns well.
- title: Après un rêve
url: https://clade.post-self.ink/apres-un-reve/
collection: clade
authors:
- Madison Rye Progress
years:
- 2196
characters:
- Sylvie
description: Uploading to meet one's love once again comes with high stakes.
cw: surgery, death
- title: Support Group for Anomalies in Forking
url: https://clade.post-self.ink/sgaf/
collection: clade
authors:
- Michael Miele
type: short story
years:
- 2328
characters:
- Ernie
description: Forking is not always so easy as they say...
cw: alcohol abuse, body horror, a car accident and injuries, and medical debt
- title: Cowboy
url: https://clade.post-self.ink/cowboy/
collection: clade
authors:
- Alexandria Christina Leal
years:
- 2200
characters:
- Peace System
description: Life sys-side wreaks havoc with the walls of dissociation for the Peace system.
cw: manipulation, cPTSD, emotional flashbacks, a severe panic attack, and mentions parental death
- title: True Love Lies Within and Without
url: https://clade.post-self.ink/true-love-lies-within-and-without/
collection: clade
authors:
- Thomas "Faux" Steele
type: short story
years:
- 2286
characters:
- Caspian Sunspear
description: So much in life is easier, sys-side, but finding love remains as difficult as ever.
- title: The Big O
url: https://clade.post-self.ink/the-big-o/
collection: clade
authors:
- Evan Drake
type: short story
years:
- 2291
characters:
- Walter
description: Sometimes, one must use the trappings of capitalism to truly rid oneself of it.
- title: She Who Haunts the Storm
url: https://clade.post-self.ink/she-who-haunts-the-storm/
collection: clade
authors:
- JS Hawthorne
type: short story
years:
- 2309
characters:
- Livia
description: Struggling against oneself takes new dimensions for Livia, sys-side.
cw: depression, self-hate, coercion, intimidation, suicidal ideation
- title: Earthbound
url: https://clade.post-self.ink/earthbound/
collection: clade
authors:
- Kergiby
type: short story
years:
- 2364
characters:
- Jonathan Miller
description: The world is not what it was, both on a grand scale and an intensely personal one.
cw: death and depression
- title: Cascade Failure
url: https://clade.post-self.ink/cascade-failure/
collection: clade
authors:
- Joel Kreissman
type: short story
years:
- 2302
characters:
- Gregory
description: Simulating an ecosystem sometimes needs a little something extra.
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