X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Ffriendship-practices-of-the-secret-sharing-plain-speech-valley-squirrels.md;h=0f36741c04dd297998a925f920d0f34b2d46286b;hb=HEAD;hp=1efbc3fa787210e4b7547076b420d2a8af9f3e5b;hpb=57e2d78cd90419b62a353428ec81bce028f08555;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/content/drafts/friendship-practices-of-the-secret-sharing-plain-speech-valley-squirrels.md b/content/drafts/friendship-practices-of-the-secret-sharing-plain-speech-valley-squirrels.md deleted file mode 100644 index 1efbc3f..0000000 --- a/content/drafts/friendship-practices-of-the-secret-sharing-plain-speech-valley-squirrels.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,25 +0,0 @@ -Title: Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels -Date: 2017-01-01 5:00 -Category: fiction -Tags: epistemic horror, deniably allegorical -Status: draft - -In the days of auld lang syne on Earth-that-was, in the Valley of of Plain Speech in the hinterlands beyond the Lake of Ambiguous Fortune, there lived a population of pre-intelligent squirrels. Historical mammologists have classified them into two main subspecies: the west-valley ground squirrels and the east-valley tree squirrels—numbers 9792 and 9794 in Umi's grand encyclopædia of Plain Speech creatures, but not necessarily respectively: I remember the numbers, but I can never remember which one is which. - -Like many pre-intelligent creatures, both subspecies of Plain Speech Valley squirrels were highly social animals. Much of their social lives - - -(well, there's a reason the ascension of Earth-than-was would be sparked by the _H. sapiens_ line of hominids some millions of years later, rather than by the Plain Speech species 9792 and 9794.) - - -sharing secrets - - - -"I wish I had a special friend. Someone who understood me. Someone to share my secrets with." - -And beside them, a friend or a mate - -"_I'm_ your friend. _I_ understand you. You can share your secrets with _me_." - -"That's not what I meant."