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=fc7eb64ac8dc1b4c11b46b399a808f539bda64c3;hp=6cdc30bd0b499fc4acc544b422a6eadf0b7d3284;hb=75fc9e5f9fe264481c81acb78d6262e911068246;hpb=f94f6dbdbde7f2f907dd77daa7719bfa731f9e72 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 6cdc30b..fc7eb64 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 @@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ 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 +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-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.)