(set: $myVar to "One")<tw-link class='cyclingLink' data-cycling-texts='["One", "Two", "Three"]' onclick='clickCyclingLink(this, "$myVar");'>$myVar</tw-link>
(set: $haircolour to "Dark")<tw-link class='cyclingLink' data-cycling-texts='["Dark", "Red", "Blonde", "Light"]' onclick='clickCyclingLink(this, "$haircolour");'>$haircolour</tw-link> hair frames your face.
[flower]<shout|
(click: ?shout)[ (replace: ?shout)[daisy] ]
you are sitting on a (set: $divide to "picket fence")<tw-link class='cyclingLink' data-cycling-texts='["picket fence", "nebulous precipice"]' onclick='clickCyclingLink(this, "$divide");'>$divide</tw-link> next to a (set: $partner to "boy")<tw-link class='cyclingLink' data-cycling-texts='["boy", "girl", "beauty", "destroyer of worlds"]' onclick='clickCyclingLink(this, "$partner");'>$partner</tw-link> dipping your (set: $limb to "toe")<tw-link class='cyclingLink' data-cycling-texts='["toe", "foot", "whole glorious body"]' onclick='clickCyclingLink(this, "$limb");'>$limb</tw-link> into the milkiest of ways
[[nice]]
things are pretty nice up here twirlin' stars on your $divide
kinda quiet
[[yeah real nice love stars love quiet]]
(if: $partner is "boy")[
(set: $pronoun to "he")
]
(elseif: $partner is "girl")[
(set: $pronoun to "she")
]
(elseif: $partner is "beauty")[
(set: $pronoun to "they")
]
(elseif: $partner is "destroyer of worlds")[
(set: $pronoun to "the destroyer")
]
hey $pronoun handed you a [flower]<flower|(click: ?flower)[(replace: ?flower)[daisy]] that was extra nice
[[you're gonna pick those petals off aren't you]]
(if: $pronoun is "he")[
(set: $love to "loves")
]
(elseif: $pronoun is "she")[
(set: $love to "loves")
]
(elseif: $pronoun is "the destroyer")[
(set: $love to "loves")
]
(elseif: $pronoun is "they")[
(set: $love to "love")
]
[$pronoun $love you]<petal|(click: ?petal)[(replace: ?petal)[$pronoun $love you not
[$pronoun $love you]<petal2|(click: ?petal2)[(replace: ?petal2)[$pronoun $love you not
[$pronoun $love you]<petal3|(click: ?petal3)[(replace: ?petal3)[$pronoun $love you not
[$pronoun $love you]<petal5|(click: ?petal5)[(replace: ?petal5)[$pronoun $love you not
[this blows]<petal6|(click: ?petal6)[
besides it's not like a chance-based petal system is going to tell you whether or not $pronoun actually $love you
it's like you've always said:
[it is precisely my body which perceives the body of another]<mpp|(click: ?mpp)[
[and discovers in that other body a miraculous prolongation of my own intentions,]<mpp2|(click: ?mpp2)[
[[a familiar way of dealing with the world]]
]]]]]]]]]]]
[[ha ha yeah I guess]]
anyway that $partner is [[leaning in]]
anyway that $partner is leaning in
[[like real close]]
anyway that $partner is leaning in
like real close
[[like really close]]
I mean, obviously you're going to say, "(set: $remark to "hey if you lean in too close my shoes are gonna fall right into this black hole")<tw-link class='cyclingLink' data-cycling-texts='["hey if you lean in too close my shoes are gonna fall right into this black hole", "bring it on in to smoochin town"]' onclick='clickCyclingLink(this, "$remark");'>$remark</tw-link>"
...[[right?]]
(if: $limb is "whole glorious body")[
(set: $limb to "whole DANG body")
]
(if: $pronoun is "they")[
(set: $pronoun to "them")
]
(elseif: $pronoun is "she")[
(set: $pronoun to "her")
]
(elseif: $pronoun is "he")[
(set: $pronoun to "him")
]
[henceforth, as the parts of my body together compromise a system,]<mpp|(click: ?mpp)[[ so my body and the others are one whole,]<mpp2|(click: ?mpp2)[[ two sides of one and the same phenomenon,]<mpp3|(click: ?mpp3)[ (text-style: "blur")[and the anonymous existence of which my body is the ever remembered trace henceforth inhabits both bodies simultaneously]
[[that's what I been saying]]]]]
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RIGHT
you do have to watch out for your $limb hanging off that $divide but you know how it goes
[[I'm careful I'm careful]]
(if: $remark is "hey if you lean in too close my shoes are gonna fall right into this black hole")[
(set: $kiss to "that $partner leans in so close you can smell their breath and it lights up your freckles tip to toe like a christmas tree and you burn all the way down into that puddle of stars and lose your dang shoe on the way
to
go
and the $partner comes tumbling after")
]
(elseif: $remark is "bring it on in to smoochin town")[
(set: $kiss to "you lean in bringing your nose to touch the $partner's nose and gosh dang if that nose isn't the c u t e s t nose you have ever seen and that $partner got a face like a moonbeam which makes sense out here and ooh that $partner is lighting you UP from the inside and your mouths touch in the best way
(and I mean the BEST way if you know what I mean)
(it's the kissing way)
and your shoes come flying off and you just about lose your $limb off that $divide")
]
I hope you are cos $kiss
(if: $kiss is "that $partner leans in so close you can smell their breath and it lights up your freckles tip to toe like a christmas tree and you burn all the way down into that puddle of stars and lose your dang shoe on the way
to
go
and the $partner comes tumbling after")[
(set: $end to "It's nice to exist on this physical plane together")
]
(elseif: $kiss is "you lean in bringing your nose to touch the $partner's nose and gosh dang if that nose isn't the c u t e s t nose you have ever seen and that $partner got a face like a moonbeam which makes sense out here and ooh that $partner is lighting you UP from the inside and your mouths touch in the best way
(and I mean the BEST way if you know what I mean)
(it's the kissing way)
and your shoes come flying off and you just about lose your $limb off that $divide")[
(set: $end to "I'm glad I get to touch you")
]
[[gosh]]
you just gotta say to $pronoun
[[no matter what|nm1]]
$end
oh my GOD [[no matter what|nm2]] $end
[[no matter what|nm3]] $end so hard I can't even start
[[that's what I been sayin]]
[[henceforth, as the parts of my body together compromise a system,|gosh]]
[[so my body and the others are one whole,|gosh]]
[[two sides of one and the same phenomenon,|gosh]]
it's quiet out here in space and you are so (set: $feelings to "in love")<tw-link class='cyclingLink' data-cycling-texts='["in love", "over it"]' onclick='clickCyclingLink(this, "$divide");'>$feelings</tw-link>
[[and the anonymous existence of which my body is the ever remembered trace henceforth inhabits both bodies simultaneously]]
you say
"What we have is not jealousy aroused by
love and exerting its own counter-influence, but a certain way of loving in which the whole destiny of that
love can be discerned at a glance."
the $partner agrees. "$end," they say
who needs that $limb anyway.
end