Sonnet

Written very quickly for the SeedComp 2024, entirely over the extra weekend...

The seeds I used:
Reverse a poem
Palates

Content warnings
Mildly nsfw for kissing and sexual references. In some playthroughs, a moment of violence. Occasional well-concealed snippets of Literature.

Feedback, bugs and comments
All gratefully received.

Notes
The core poem it responds to is Sonnet 128. But a certain amount of playful  imagining of the characters of the rest of the sequence snuck in too . Assuming there is a definitive answer to the question of who the real-life counterparts of Shakespeare's "dark lady" and "fair youth" may be is a fool's errand; they're literary constructs. But I've run with the thought that they may as well have been Henry Wriothesley, and the wife of John Florio (whose name history does not record, but I'm not the first to use Aline). Jack emerged from the poem's "saucy jacks" of the harpsichord. 

Credits and acknowledgments
Built in Twine Sugarcube on the foundations of Manonamora’s Ready-to-Use Sugarcube Tweego Folder;
I’ve used A W Morgan’s Twine/Sugarcube 2 Template with lots of the cleverer bits hacked off;
Colour palette Earthenware by Charm Cochran via the SeedComp.

It would not have been possible without consulting Manonamora’s 100% Good Twine Sugarcube Guide which is, as advertised, pretty good; the Twine Sugarcube documentation; and the brilliant Twine Games discord channel and NeoInteractives discord.

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