Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress

Sick
Kinda feel like my skin is too tight
And also every inch of it hurts
Yay

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The gals are only enemies with the largest government to ever exist, no big deal.
It was never really intentional, they just kinda fell into it over time.

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Ah, it's one of my favorite bits from this book!
(Excerpt from FHSD Book 2: Sink Deep, Rise Higher)

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To an extent, but they're much less powerful.
She can use hypnosis to manipulate people into doing things she wants, but she can't simply wave a hand and make things happen instantly.

Most of my characters would probably just wait, though some would be more grumbly than others.
Mirideth, however, would simply tell the worker that she didn't have to wait, and the worker would agree, unwillingly.

Here's a Health to the Company.
Always that for all of FHSD.
Not sure why, but it just always has been to me.

Calling your member of congress only takes a minute, you can probably leave a message without having to talk to anyone, and you can find your representative with this handy website.

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Oh that's so neat! I love it!

Transgender people are fully accepted and respected as the gender they say they are, without question, and with legal protection.
...but if they want to medically transition, they're an abomination in the eyes of the Church of the Saint of the New Dawn and must be 'purified' by any means necessary.

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Maria and Mirideth talk about something deeply intimate, that most people will never experience...
(Excerpt from FHSD Book 5: Burn Bright, Stand Together)

Exactly the point!

It happens, pretty often, but not usually to important characters.
If an important character dies, it needs to be a huge deal that changes the entire story permanently.
I've only done a single MAJOR character death in 4.5 books so far.(In book 4)
Minor characters die much more often.

I once wrote a short story entirely without narration. Just dialogue and the POV characters' real-time thoughts. It was interesting, but ultimately kinda confusing and weird.

A silly thing I find interesting in FHSD is the difference between a civilization being space-faring or star-faring.

A space-faring civilization has colonized some or all of their system. Thousands exist.

A star-faring civilization is capable of fast interstellar travel. Only one of these exists.

Indeed she is!

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

This is an attack on human rights.

Kansas is stripping trans people of their drivers licence unless they change it to the wrong gender.

This will make it so they can’t drive and can’t vote.

Get loud.

If they can take rights away from trans people, they can take them from you.

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Ladiziar and Kinekial prepare to do their job...
(Excerpt from FHSD Book 4: Stand Tall and Shatter)

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It's so hard to edit when you've seen your own work hundreds of times already....

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Lucia and Lolanene have a heavy conversation shortly after they first meet...
(Excerpt from FHSD Book 1: Fly High, Sink Deeper)

Mirideth treats others as pawns, objects to be used for whatever purpose, then discarded. They aren't real to her. In her mind, the only real person that actually matters is her.

This very much changes, as she meets and falls in love with Maria, discovering that others are just as real as she is.

“As we prepare for more waves of bad news, I’m remembering that there is always a next right thing to do, that I am never alone in my despair, and that when we come together, we can create new worlds that are kinder and more of what we all deserve." - B Loewe

Gosh thank you so much!

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The IIF Command Council makes an important decision...
(Excerpt from FHSD Book 3: Rise Up, Strike Harder)

Oh I'm definitely doing this...

FHSD has so far spanned roughly 7 years of Maria's life. But 3 of those years were during a time skip, so it's really more like 4.

Cute!!

The bed was incredibly comfortable, though less so given Lucia was still wearing all her clothes. It hadn’t felt right to disrobe in what was essentially Niarith’s home. The revelations of the past hours played in her mind over and over. She was in a ‘ship’, floating freely in the Heavens themselves, her world far below. It was madness, it was impossible, but here she was, nonetheless. She had failed in her mission. The Corruptor was still alive. But this woman, this Niarith, claimed they could still stop her. But to do so, they’d need to perform the impossible feat of penetrating the Void itself. Lucia groaned in exasperation. None of this made any sense. How could everything she’d been taught, everything she’d ever believed, be wrong? How could her people have been wrong? All this time? If there were others, somehow, beyond the Void, what did that mean for Hearthea? Where did these others come from? Hearthea was the sole home of humanity, created by the Void in desperation. …Wasn’t it? It had to be. She’d always been taught as such. But… Niarith and her bizarre, unbelievable technology said otherwise. Niarith’s Forsythian was spoken with an accent that Lucia had never heard before. No one in Forsythe had technology like this. No one anywhere on Hearthea did. That left one logical conclusion: Niarith was from another world. Which would mean… that others did indeed exist. Which threw everything Lucia had ever believed into question. Which created a terrifying possibility. The possibility that Niarith was right.

I've been working on and off on something I'm very excited about...
That something being a rewrite of my original two books, to make them more cohesive with the rest of the series in terms of both setting and writing quality.
This is an excerpt from a completely new chapter in book 1!