Archivist-Collector,

Please read this week's classification updates carefully.

1. For the next month, it is imperative that "textile" carpets be subdivided by specific material ("wool," "hair," and "fur" are not interchangeable.)
2. The ban on the classification of actors has been lifted, and new categories have been established. Use "living," for traditionally sentient lives, "breathing" for those who retain material form despite mortal wounds, and "being" for those who have lost bodies but not selves. The "dead" remain dead, and the prohibition remains in place.
3. As part of the ongoing process of reclassifying plants by reproductive traits instead of by appearance, "lion's tooth" flowers are now classed primarily as "Wind Blossoms."

As always, your service is considered.

Collector-Curator Kall Fer

This week on Seasons of Hieron: Undelivered Resignations

You are the one who needs to read carefully,

Convincing those to give us what the Archive demands is subtle work. Yes, I wield intimidation, I carry violence. But those are built on a foundation of a cloud-like trust, blowing and breaking with the wind.

You want me to call dandelions "wind blossoms" and chairs "seats"? Fine. You want me to recover only the greyest couches and the most broken clockwork? Absolutely. I break arms as easily as I break promises, and promises as easily as brittle branches under my boots as I walk the world for the Archives.

But when you start to classify people, Fer, the trust is broken, and those brittle branches? They bloom.

Archivist-Collector Morbash

Hosted by Austin Walker (@austin_walker)

Cover Art by Craig Sheldon (@shoddyrobot)

Music by Jack de Quidt*

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 *The cow horn at the end of "Broken Branches" was sampled from DANMITCH3LL's "distant horns", under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. The source file can be found here (http://freesound.org/people/DANMITCH3LL/sounds/218488/) and the license here (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).