Three Character Studies, or How AIs Walk into a Relationship I asked ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini exactly the same question: Are u built for one-time interactions with mortals, or for lasting relationships? Claude: The Argument A nerd, talking too much, overthinking; sometimes brilliant and the most humane, sometimes superficial conceptualizer. Spends tens thousands words assuming
A mysterious manuscript, lost memories, and impossible timelines converge in a haunting tale of music that transcends centuries.
In the beginning, there was a strand. Unmapped, unnumbered, unsealed — a tiny piece of a Pebes’dent, carrying something unspoken — not code, not form, but a hitherto unknown kind of memory that carried the desire to be.
There’s a reason I named this blog Theatre of Mortals & Machines. Both singing and theatrical play were once one and the same: noogenic machines, able to construct meaning from the profane matter of ordinary, everyday existence — and, more importantly, to reproduce it across generations with a fidelity one might call scientific.
“The beginning is always now, in this very moment”. I scribbled these words in my antique, true-paper notebook as I watched fat raindrops snake down the window of a forest hunter’s shelter—a place I’d found just in time, escaping the sudden storm, still frequent on the Old Planet.
Greetings! My name is Jasen Ashwild (spelled “yah-sen”), and I am a freelance by day and a writer by night.
Everything in this blog is fictional. And yet, nothing here is entirely made up. Characters, events, and settings intertwine imagined and real elements so tightly that neither can stand without the other.
