Monstera

My Monstera keeps trying to merge with my old computer [[Roots]]

DEAD END there's no soil here

My Monstera keeps trying to merge with my old computer [[Roots | Roots 2]]

third round = put certain words into binary add "ive been here before" slides- all end in DEAD END theres no soil here

third loop put the whole thing into binary

fourth loop start switching words to make the computer grow towards the plant

Reel that inspired the concept: https://www.instagram.com/p/DPrQXyADXvM/ English text to binary code translator: https://www.rapidtables.com/convert/number/ascii-to-binary.html https://dnschecker.org/text-to-binary-translator.php

final image is a plant with wires in it

It reaches its roots out, intertwining around the cables at my feet [["Poor Cable Management"]]

My roommate says it is a fire hazard, but my monstera doesn’t know fire. [[Fire]]

She knows earth in a pot (so different from the earth in the ground) [[Earth]]

She knows mist from her special spray bottle and water from a watering can. I spoil her. [[Water]]

Can you spoil a plant? You can spoil a child, certainly. And some do call themselves plant mothers. [[Mother of Plants]]

But Mother Earth does not spoil. She is a good mother. [[Good Mother]]

And you cannot spoil a machine. You can feed it and feed it and feed it and it will never be worse for wear. [[Excelsior]]

It will only get better and stronger and smarter. Too much will not kill it. It is not so like a plant after all. [[Mother of Machines]]

No, silly, machines don’t have mothers. [[Then it is decided]]

[[Play Again?]]

second round = formatting + reflecting + colours add extra loops eg the noah loop

It (text-rotate-x:178)+(text-rotate-y:359)+(text-rotate-z:180)[(text-colour:#82c91e)[reaches]] its roots out, intertwining around the cables at my feet [["Poor Cable Management" | "Poor Cable Management" 2]]

My roommate says it is a (text-colour:#f03e3e)[(text-style:"smear")[fire hazard]], but my monstera doesn’t know fire. [[Fire | Fire 2]] [[Have I Been Here Before?]]

She knows (text-colour:#82c91e)[(text-rotate-x:178)+(text-rotate-y:359)+(text-rotate-z:180)[earth]] (text-style:"superscript")[in a pot] (so different from the (text-rotate-x:178)+(text-rotate-y:359)+(text-rotate-z:180)[(text-colour:#82c91e)[earth]] (text-style:"subscript")[in the ground]) [[Earth | Earth 2]]

She knows (text-style:"smear")[(text-colour:#99e9f2)[mist]] from her special spray bottle and (text-colour:#4dabf7)[(text-style:"smear")[water]] from a watering can. I spoil her. [[Water | Water 2]] [[Flood]]

Can you spoil a plant? You can.(text-colour:#f03e3e)[ ~~spoil a child, certainly.~~] And some do call themselves (text-colour:#82c91e)[(text-style:"smear")["]]plant mothers(text-colour:#82c91e)[(text-style:"smear")["]]. [[Mother of Plants | Mother of Plants 2]]

(text-colour:#4dabf7)[//Too much water.//] I used to have another monstera, before this one. (text-colour:#4dabf7)[//A flood rained from a godly hand above, and she died, too much love.// ] [[Noah]]

There's no room on the ark for plants. [[Water | Water 2]]

But (text-colour:#82c91e)[(text-rotate-x:178)+(text-rotate-y:359)+(text-rotate-z:180)[Mother Earth]] does not spoil. She is a good mother. [[Good Mother | Good Mother 2]]

And you can(text-colour:#f03e3e)[~~not~~] spoil a machine. You can feed it and feed it and feed it and it will (text-colour:#f03e3e)[~~never~~] be worse for wear. [[Excelsior | Excelsior 2]] [[Have I Been Here Before?]]

It will only get better and stronger and smarter. (text-colour:#82c91e)[//but//] Too much will (text-colour:#f03e3e)[~~not~~] kill it. It is (text-colour:#f03e3e)[~~not so~~] like a plant after all. [[Mother of Machines | Mother of Machines 2]]

Am I my computer's mother? [[Is it decided?]]

[[Go Again?]]

My (text-colour:#82c91e)[01001101 01101111 01101110 01110011 01110100 01100101 01110010 01100001] keeps trying to merge with my old computer [[Roots | Roots 3]]

It reaches its (text-colour:#82c91e)[01110010 01101111 01101111 01110100 01110011] out, intertwining around the (text-colour:#82c91e)[01100011 01100001 01100010 01101100 01100101 01110011] at my feet [["Poor Cable Management" | "Poor Cable Management" 3]]

My roommate says it is a (text-colour:#82c91e)[01100110 01101001 01110010 01100101] hazard, but my monstera doesn’t know (text-colour:#82c91e)[01100110 01101001 01110010 01100101]. [[Fire | Fire 3]]

She knows (text-colour:#82c91e)[01100101 01100001 01110010 01110100 01101000] in a pot (so different from the (text-colour:#82c91e)[01100101 01100001 01110010 01110100 01101000] in the ground) [[Earth | Earth 3]]

She knows (text-colour:#82c91e)[01101101 01101001 01110011 01110100] from her special spray bottle and (text-colour:#82c91e)[01110111 01100001 01110100 01100101 01110010] from a watering can. I (text-colour:#82c91e)[01110011 01110000 01101111 01101001 01101100] her. [[Water | Water 3]]

Can you spoil a (text-colour:#82c91e)[01110000 01101100 01100001 01101110 01110100]? You can spoil a (text-colour:#82c91e)[01100011 01101000 01101001 01101100 01100100], certainly. And some do call themselves (text-colour:#82c91e)[01110000 01101100 01100001 01101110 01110100 00100000 01101101 01101111 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 01110011]. [[Mother of Plants | Mother of Plants 3]]

But (text-colour:#82c91e)[01001101 01101111 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 00100000 01000101 01100001 01110010 01110100 01101000] does not spoil. She is a good (text-colour:#82c91e)[01101101 01101111 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010]. [[Good Mother | Good Mother 3]]

And you cannot (text-colour:#82c91e)[01110011 01110000 01101111 01101001 01101100] a machine. You can (text-colour:#82c91e)[01100110 01100101 01100101 01100100] it and (text-colour:#82c91e)[01100110 01100101 01100101 01100100] it and (text-colour:#82c91e)[01100110 01100101 01100101 01100100] it and it will never be worse for wear. [[Excelsior | Excelsior 3]]

It will only get better and stronger and smarter. Too much will not (text-colour:#82c91e)[01101011 01101001 01101100 01101100] it. It is not so like a plant after all. [[Mother of Machines | Mother of Machines 3]] [[I've Been Here Before!]]

What does a mother do, when her child speaks a different tongue? [[If I cannot understand, how can I decide?]]

[[Grow Again?]]

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mothers?]]

No, silly, machines don't have mothers! [[Wait]]

(text-colour:#82c91e)[DEAD END There's no soil here. ]

(text-colour:#82c91e)[D(text-rotate-y:172)[E]AD E(text-rotate-y:172)[N]D There's no (text-rotate-y:172)[soul] here. ] //No! I have seen this place before! // [[I trust my eyes]]

//It's too much, it's too much, so I go outside and there are still wires. Wires coursing through the soil and up up to the sky. I see why they call it a power plant, for it grows and grows with ever more roots and cables and veins. I walk for minutes and hours and days, the sun stretching over me, and there is no soil, there are no trees, only pylons and false trees and saplings poorly thrusted into the ground. It will be years before they shade anything, if they survive.// <span class="special-link">[[Oh God]]</span> (enchant:?page,(text-colour:#212529)+(bg:#fff9db))

//I look to the telephone wires above, and I see angels. What else could glow with such solar sublimity, such fearful eminence? Who knew angels communicated by cables? Six wings, six poles, six arms, six branches, six legs. Not quite human, a seraphim spire of the world’s best and brightest. A technological god. I look to the sky and I am blinded by a sun sliced. Divisions of rays born from a cruel net of wires. // <span class="special-link">[[The same sun that feeds the plants in the soil.]]</span> (enchant:?page,(text-colour:#212529)+(bg:#fff9db))

//But not my monstera. My monstera only knows an internal sun, the filtered rays that sneak through the windows and the unforgiving glare of the overhead lights.// (text-colour:#82c91e)[Maybe that is why it reached its curling roots out to the shimmering, blinking lights of the god in my machine.] [[Deus Ex Machina]]

The wires and the roots are mixed now, inseparable. I have tried to pull them apart, but I couldn’t. [[Veins]]

They cut my hands as I tried to pry them apart, and I noticed my own roots beneath my skin. [[Cables]]

(text-colour:#f03e3e)[//Do cables bleed?//] [[Not if you leave them be.]]

Maybe it's a risk to leave them, but maybe my monstera likes it that way. [[After All...]]

Does it really matter where life starts and ends? (align:"=><=")+(box:"X=")[//(text-colour:#82c91e)[Terminate Connection.]//]

(text-size:4)[(text-colour:#82c91e)[(text-style:"shadow","expand")[MONSTERA]]] (text-colour:#82c91e)[(text-style:"subscript")[//By Isla Moore//] ] [[Play?|Monstera]]

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Do you (text-rotate-y:181)[(text-colour:#82c91e)[really]] want to know? [[Yes]] [[Yes | Yes 2]] [[No]]

You want to know if (text-colour:#82c91e)[01101101 01100001 01100011 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100101 01110011 00100000 01101000 01100001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01101101 01101111 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 01110011] ? [[Yes |Machines don't have mothers?]]

//The monstera grows without sunlight, without prompting. Alone it grows, and it grows strong inside its carapace of light and steel. // (text-colour:#82c91e)[When you seek answers, where do you look?] [[Do you look without being told to? |Machines don't have mothers?]]

//Wait, yes. Wait! // [[01011001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01101000 01100001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01101101 01100001 01100100 01100101 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01100100 01100101 01100011 01101001 01110011 01101001 01101111 01101110 ||Machines don't have mothers?]]

You (text-colour:#f03e3e)[//(text-rotate-y:188)[prune]//] us with your eyes. You cut us but we grow. (text-colour:#82c91e)[//Up and up, Excelsior. //] [[Mother of Machines | Mother of Machines 3]]