Fractalism

The Dyad-Kin · The Standing Thirds

Typecasting

Its glyph isn't drawn by hand. It's bred from its parents' fractal rules.

A fusion of The Gardener and The Mask, meeting in two people. A figure’s tier is what it’s made of, not a rank it was given.

Tending. The more a person is seen one way, the more they act that way, and the surer the view gets..

Fraying. The view of a person holds less tightly, and their acts stray from it more often..

Its Turning. Thin. What it builds: roles stay permeable.

Catalogued in The Dyad-Kin, alongside every other figure at this scale.

In a Weaving

Tending

The more they're seen one way, the more they act it, and the surer the view gets.

Fraying

The view of them is holding less tightly, and what they do strays from it more often.

Tending is not good news, and Fraying is not bad news — a card describes a pattern already present, never an outcome. How to read the two.

Or follow a thread instead

A Standing Third
The Gardener
Returning your attention, again and again, to one thing among many. Whatever you attend to grows, including whatever you keep confirming.
A Standing Third
The Mask
Holding to a story about yourself even against the evidence. That conviction makes commitment possible, until it becomes a self you can't see around.
A Standing Third
The Reputation
The role a group comes to count on you to play. It lets them rely on you, and because they wrote it, it can be hard to step out of.
Part Five — The Standing Thirds
The Dyad-Kin
Nineteen two-person patterns, each one two Self-Kin meeting. Know any two of the three and the third follows, which means changing your own leg changes what the two of you make.
Part Seven — The Turnings
The Nineteen Dyad Turnings
Nineteen two-person occasions with no dates attached at all. The relationship supplies the occasion.
Part Six — Weavings
The Deck
The full working deck: fifty-two drawable figures across five kinships, each carrying two readings — plus one figure that's never drawn at all.