X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Ffriendship-practices-of-the-secret-sharing-plain-speech-valley-squirrels.md;h=6cdc30bd0b499fc4acc544b422a6eadf0b7d3284;hp=1420804eed84f2652a3d461412b4501c16f84c60;hb=212077a9a4b98a08fc382dc914e1fdcfbf18ebe1;hpb=aef2d79afbf3801d5784ca0f563df40d11a5fb99 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 index 1420804..6cdc30b 100644 --- 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 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Title: Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels Date: 2017-01-01 5:00 Category: fiction -Tags: deniably allegorical +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. @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ In the days of auld lang syne on Earth-that-was, in the Valley of of Plain Speec 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.) +(well, there's a reason the ascension of Earth-that-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 @@ -20,6 +20,6 @@ sharing secrets And beside them, a friend or a mate -"_I'm_ your friend. _I_ understand you. You can share your secrets with _me_." +"But _I'm_ your friend. _I_ understand you. You can share your secrets with _me_." "That's not what I meant."