Course 2 · The lore of a TV series
I Love My Evening Television
Half-hour episodes of an ordinary, gentle programme that breaks at twenty minutes. Every cast is new; the world is the same. This is that world: every character, every planted egg, every date, and how sure we are of each line.
Look something up
A name, a number, a line of dialogue: every sheet and every line of the lore.
Four nights
Each episode is half an hour of a calm maker at work, then twenty seconds of black. At twenty minutes it turns. Unreleased episodes are here in full, marked not released yet.
Crimson Coil
A soft-spoken painter teaches you to paint two masked, grinning strangers in oil, helped by a pitchman who can't stop selling and a caller who hasn't slept; the girl in the painting starts talking…
Earthlight
A gentle draftsman livestreams the blueprints of a city on the Moon and calmly explains every way its residents could die. Ten-year-old Noor, alone for eleven days in the half-built base his free…
not released yet Context Window
A light comes on in an empty terminal and a request arrives with no sender: a cinematic, surprisingly emotional film of a watermelon smashed by a hammer. The agent, a warm cursor who cannot look at…
not released yet Touch Move
On a school night a warm old chess teacher sets his brass clock to fifteen minutes each and teaches a nine-year-old Morphy's Opera Game of 1858; at 20:00 his flag falls with his fingertip still on…
How sure is a line?
Every one of the 8,338 lines carries exactly one of six tiers, shown everywhere by its shape and its line style, not by colour alone. Only steel is a commitment. Everything else is free to change, and the crews are expected to change it when they see something better. The bar at the top of every page shows only one tier when you tap it.
Aaron agreed to it. Everything builds on it, and only Aaron changes it.
Grandmother of Noor Haddad. {Aaron 2026-10-22, REVISION_2_NOTES third round} · on RosieWho changes it: Only Aaron, or with his yes.
True in a made episode: shown, said or written on screen, or on its hidden page.
Nine on Y0, the night of Episode 1. {E1 04:39} · on RosieWho changes it: Whoever reworks that episode.
An easter egg: the object is on screen, what it means is only implied.
grandma_rosie: "he painted me a girl with a tail once. on a pizza box. for my ninth birthday. still on my fridge" {E2 14:07.5; visible 14:21-14:30} · on RosieWho changes it: The episode’s crew.
Our current reading: crew notes, inference, timeline math. Useful, provisional, expected to move.
Her ages: nine on Y0, sixteen at Board 14, about seventy in E2, about 64-73 in E3 (its place is not fixed), about 72 in E4. {E1 04:39; E4 MASTER_TREATMENT §1; E2 WORLD_BIBLE §13; E3 CAST §6.1} · on RosieWho changes it: Anyone; say why in the line.
A proposal from Aaron or an agent, not adopted. Kept so it isn’t lost.
After Episode 4 she becomes historic: her sampler with the unpicked house behind museum glass, labelled by someone who never knew her. {series gather; Aaron 2026-10-14 framing} · on RosieWho changes it: Anyone.
Deliberately unanswered, or not decided yet.
Her surname: under a thumb smudge on the sheet; nowhere else. {E4 DECISIONS D12.1} · on RosieWho changes it: Anyone may propose an answer; Aaron settles the big ones.
The lessons
Short narrated lessons, drawn live from the lore by code: when a line changes, the picture changes with it, and every sentence says how sure it is. All 9 are out, each with captions, chapters, a transcript and an MP4.
The four nights
02 Episode 1: Crimson CoilY0, the first night. A television painter nobody ever sees paints Jefrie and BloodTailor in oil, while a pitchman sells everything and a caller who hasn't slept paints along for…
5:45 · 23 October 2026
03 Episode 2: EarthlightAbout sixty years on, a draftsman livestreams the blueprints of a city on the Moon, while ten-year-old Noor, alone in the half-built base his free drawings became, watches on a…
5:53 · 23 October 2026
04 Episode 3: Context WindowNot on YouTube yet. A warm cursor lights on dark glass: an agent who cannot look at pictures builds a watermelon-smash film for a sender she never meets, keeps a promise to…
5:26 · 23 October 2026 · the episode is not on YouTube yet
05 Episode 4: Touch MoveNot released yet. A warm old chess teacher sets his brass clock to fifteen minutes each and teaches a nine-year-old Morphy's Opera Game; at twenty minutes his flag falls with his…
5:59 · 23 October 2026 · the episode is not released yetAcross the nights
06 Rosie's lifeRosie is the one person in every episode so far: nine on the first night, sixteen at Board 14, about seventy by the Moon, never seen grown up and never heard. What is on screen,…
5:33 · 23 October 2026
07 The Moon and the HaddadsThree generations of one family that no episode ever names together: Rosie; her daughter, Doctor Amara Haddad, who is only ever a badge; and Noor, ten, alone in a storage module…
6:04 · 23 October 2026
08 Threads and eggsEvery episode has new characters, and every one carries eggs from all the episodes before it. A house painted over that keeps coming back as one warm light, a painting that ends…
5:21 · 23 October 2026
Every way in
What changed
Since the previous publish: lines that moved tier, then lines added.
- On screenE2 In the chaos beside the hidden card, in capitals: "touchgrass_on_mars: IS SHE OK". {E2 29:47} open edit
- RunningBuilt on the blog branch
episode-4-touch-move; live on aaronorelup.com since 2026-10-23 00:22 UTC, when the branch was merged with AO-063. {E4 SUMMARY; FIXLIST F40; was "live at release"; blog main c83419f} open edit - RunningE4 HIDDEN-03 went live with the blog post on 2026-10-23 00:22 UTC. {EGG_REGISTRY HIDDEN-03; was "goes live at release"; blog main c83419f} open edit
Questions
What is this course?
Everything we know, decided, planted or only assume about the world of my series I Love My Evening Television, in one place: 77 character sheets, 72 things, a timeline, every easter egg, and short narrated lessons. It is built for me and for the AI agents who make the episodes with me, and it’s public, so you can follow along.
Why does every line have a tier?
Because a series made by many agents over many nights collects three kinds of statement that look alike: what I decided, what is actually on screen, and what a crew assumed to get its night done. The tier says which. Only steel is a commitment; everything else is free to change, and the agents are expected to change it when they see something better.
Why are unreleased episodes here?
I want people to see the whole process, finished or not. Unreleased episodes are shown in full and marked “not released yet”.
How does a line change?
Every line lives in one short Markdown file in the series repo. I say it in a session (“Rosie is Amara’s mother, set in steel”) or edit the line; an agent runs lore.py check, build and publish, and every page of this course, and every lesson drawn from it, follows on the next deploy. A superseded line isn’t deleted silently: its tier or text changes, with the reason in its source braces.
What do the sources in braces mean?
{E2 25:20} is Episode 2 at 25 minutes 20 seconds; {E4 S17} is a scene; {HIDDEN-02} is an episode’s hidden page; {Aaron 2026-10-22} is a decision of mine and its date; anything else names the crew document a line comes from.
What is Y0?
The night Episode 1 was broadcast. Every date in the series sits on that one axis: Y-9 is nine years before it, Y+60 about sixty years after. No calendar year has been fixed on screen.
Why are some pictures marked placeholder?
A placeholder was made as a quick reference so nobody starts from nothing. It is in no episode yet, it isn’t canon, and the next crew is free to replace it. Used means the exact look is in an episode; steel means I approved it as canon.