So even though Fift-Shria mancers claim to love them the MOST, the fact is that they are making their lives harder! They’re saying the exact same thing orderist, repressionist, vailarch, gender-reactionary bodycut-apologists say (these are all words I learned because of mancing, by the way, so it is very educational!). Those flowblocking chaots love to imply that Fift is a toadclown and Shria is a despoiler of innocence, a rattler of the balance. The Fift-Shria mancers are just giving them more thread to weave cloth with!

And it hurts the movement! It hurts what Fift and Shria are trying to do. Because at the end of the day, storytelling is just storytelling. I mean, I love it, and it’s brought me a lot of joy . . . but if it starts to interfere with the real work of changing the world . . . well, that’s where I draw the line.

Fift and Shria are best friends, and their friendship is something pure that people can believe in. The Midwives claimed for so long to be the only true guardians of balance between the genders . . . but they do it with rigid rules and suffering. When you watch Fift and Shria, you believe another kind of balance between Staid and Vail is possible, one that could get us out of this mess.

But not if those mancers ruin it.

LEAVE THEM ALONE, Fift-Shria mancers!

In conclusion, the Unraveling is a big topic and has had many implications for me, my family, and society. Sometimes I wish it had never happened and that everything was the way it was when I was little. But other times I feel like the world is moving forward in a new way.

The feed just went out again so I am writing this in cached memory. I will submit it when the feed is back on. It’s that familiar empty feeling of the great big world suddenly gone invisible, and everything shrunk down to just my apartment. I know things are happening out there even if I can’t see them. Umis is outside in all vir bodies. I hope ve doesn’t get mixed up in anything. I hope we don’t have to move again.

Fift and Shria are out there, too. They have been under a lot of pressure lately, and some people claim they are arguing. I hope everything is all right.

Now, in case you are curious, I am going to work on something new for storytelling. It’s about Emim traveling to see Tusha, Shria’s abandoned sibling, and how ze tries to help heal the rift between Tusha and Shria. I was really sad when Fnax cohort was disbanded after fighting so hard to stay together. I wanted to imagine a happy ending. I just wish it could come true in real life, too. I’ve done a lot of research for it, and I can’t wait to get started.

Book Two

Afterwards

Thirty Years After the Unraveling

Chapter 22

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