Presentation QA Mascots 014: Read-First Review of 6 Records

Maintenance ID: 0.1.00184.mascots-014 Date: 2026-10-08 Scope: content/mascots/ — the 6 records assigned by workload issue #741 (064.porty-mcbankrupt.md, 065.clicky-the-orphaned-ui.md, 066.malrex-voidrender.md, 067.vexsys-antagon.md, 068.veritas-rituallis.md, 069.vanda-uiguard.md)

What changed

• Read all six assigned records in full, frontmatter through the final limerick line, including embedded secondary-artifact sections.
• 065.clicky-the-orphaned-ui.md line 18: bolded "evidence that flows can outlive their own destinations" — the description block's landing beat, the thesis the aphorism (line 33) and the limerick (lines 338–339) repeat. Asterisks only.
• 066.malrex-voidrender.md line 15: bolded "He is the entropy Bricky fears but cannot name." — the biography's closing line and the record's definitional pivot. Asterisks only.
• 067.vexsys-antagon.md line 14: bolded "false success signals just before deployment" — the biography's landing beat, the sabotage signature echoed by limerick 5 (*false success*). Asterisks only.
• 068.veritas-rituallis.md line 14: bolded "Bricky reports to her, though he'd never admit it." — the biography's landing beat, the hierarchy reveal echoed by limerick 3 (*never admits it*). Asterisks only.
• 069.vanda-uiguard.md line 14: bolded "Her rage against !important is divine." — the biography's closing punchline. Asterisks only.
• 064.porty-mcbankrupt.md: reviewed unchanged. The record opens directly into ## Aphorisms with no prose description block; the headed-section template leaves no earned pivot, and the limericks already carry italic stress throughout.

What was deliberately left alone

• All frontmatter, canonical IDs, tags, titles, anchors ({#...}), quoted/documentary material, headings, stat-block labels (**Biography:**, **Failure Signature:** etc.), every existing emphasis marker, and all two-space verse hard breaks.
• 068.veritas-rituallis.md lines 170–230: the embedded ### LLG-0383-RAW limerick block uses **bold** stress (**stamped**, **proof**, **jerked themselves off**, **circle-jerked**) where every other limerick block in the collection uses *italic* stress — and inconsistently at that (three of the eight stanzas are plain; the eighth mixes **flaw** with *own witness*). Possibly intentional residue of the raw import, possibly an emphasis defect. Protected verse markup — flagged needs decision, not normalized.
• Aphorism lines that are collapsed haiku rendered as prose sentences (064 line 20, 066 line 26, 067 line 25, 069 line 25): the dominant aphorism convention across these records, not a defect.
• Embedded secondary-artifact sections — ### Form 12-A (065), ### Relief Watermark (067), ### Appeal Feather and ### Witness Dispute (068), ### Policy Afterglow (069), ### LLG-0383-RAW (068) — are structural documentary content, not extra edit targets.
• Existing voice and residue: "His breeding? Substantial / Risk of contagion" (064), "His breeding's disputed" (067), the curly/straight apostrophe mix (066), period-terminated haiku lines in ### Appeal Feather (068), and the crude registers in the Form 12-A and LLG-0383-RAW verse.

Verification performed

• Read-only line scans of all six files enumerating every non-blank line lacking two-space hard breaks; every flagged line inside a verse region was stanza-final — no run-on rendering defects (#824 untouched).
• git diff review: exactly five one-line hunks, each adding only ** emphasis markers; no word, order, frontmatter, anchor, or spacing changes.
• BORIS_BIN=/Users/tbuddy/dev/filed.fyi/bin/boris ./bin/validate_graph.sh — passed (Verse residue check passed; HTML ID audit clean; Filed certification passed; 🎉 Filed graph, HTML IDs, and publication checks passed.).
• Compiled-article inspection of dist/cantilever/mascots/M-0064.html through M-0069.html: all five new pivots render as <strong> (including the nested <code>!important</code> inside M-0069's pivot), <br> hard breaks intact throughout verse, and the flagged LLG-0383-RAW bolds render exactly as authored — confirming the anomaly is pre-existing markup, not a rendering defect.
• python3 scripts/check_collection_counts.py — PASS after merge of origin/main.

Unresolved follow-up

• The needs decision item above (LLG-0383-RAW bold-in-verse convention) awaits maintainer ruling on whether the bold stress is intentional raw-import residue to preserve or an emphasis defect to normalize.