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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 3h

Here's a thread about my proudest accomplishment.

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Phosyne, haunted gothic castle 🌺 @preyfae.bsky.social · 9h

"Wow the pope is so cool because he's right about ai" I'm right about ai and I don't run an international organization dedicated to abusing children and harming women and queer people

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 21h

#WIPSnips Maria hurts herself... (Excerpt from FHSD Book 5: Burn Bright, Stand Together)

After roughly an hour of silent flight, Maria got up from her station and left the cockpit without another word. She paced the corridor, her fists clenching and unclenching almost without control. She was just so angry. How dare they? How DARE they?!

She punched the metal wall of the corridor, eliciting a dull metallic thud. Her hand tingled with burning pain. That had been stupid. She’d fully expected to cause a massive dent in the wall and no damage to herself. She wasn’t even wearing the armor anymore, just her IIF bodysuit.

It had been over a year since she’d been returned to human form, and she still wasn’t fully used to it. She wondered if she ever would be.

Red light coalesced in the air before her, turning into the image of Mirideth’s hologram, wearing a simple black dress. Mirideth didn’t speak, to do so she’d have needed to speak to the whole ship. Instead she simply smiled sympathetically and placed an incorporeal hand on Maria’s shoulder. Maria found herself smiling back, just slightly.

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am currently Sleep deprived Extremely hungry Likely quite dehydrated Very stressed about an appointment i have later today This has culminated in the single worst migraine in human history There is no stimulus that does not suck to experience

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#WIPSnips The Epsilon VII is co-opted by an unknown party for mysterious reasons... (Excerpt from FHSD Book 3: Rise Up, Strike Harder)

After a few minutes of silent flight, the comm unit beeped, <Attention unidentified starship. You have been logged and are unregistered. Remote Flight Automation system is engaged. Do not attempt to control the craft. Doing so may result in serious injury or death. Do not attempt to exit the craft upon landing.>
Niarith gasped in both surprise and fear, “They have an RFA? Oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck… They have control of the ship. Piloting it remotely to who knows where. There’s nothing I can do. They weren’t supposed to have an RFA, nobody has a fucking RFA, fuck!” She took her hands off the controls, gripping the armrests of her seat tightly.
“Hey uhm, that transmission didn’t have FIC encoding, guys.” Linilith said, staring at a thin rectangular readout on the comm unit.
Lolanene looked over, “What encodin’ did it have then?”
“Dunno, but that’s definitely not FIC. Maybe we’re about to make a new friend!” Linilith grinned.
Maria sighed, “I doubt that, Linilith.”
Tantrii stepped over to the comm unit, “Looks like a private transmitter. Dunno who would have that and a fucking RFA though.”
Less than a minute later, the ship suddenly turned to the left, and entered a hangar built into the side of a large, deep black building. Though there were lights on inside, they looked exceedingly dim. Maria guessed the windows must have been heavily tinted. The building was taller and looked much more well built than most on the moon.
As the ship landed, the comm unit beeped yet again, <Attention unidentified starship. Do not attempt to exit the craft. Cooperate and you will not be harmed. Stay in place and wait for our team to retrieve you. Do not be alarmed.>
Linilith smiled, “They seem nice!”

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#WIPSnips Maria meets an old acquaintance... (Excerpt from FHSD Book 4: Stand Tall and Shatter)

“So are you actually here this time, doctor?” Maria asked, pointedly ignoring Helolak.

“Why do you think we brought the guard and restrained you?” Helolak said, smirking.

Maria gave him a stare of pure hate, “How’s the leg, Loriol?”

“Permanently fucked up. Thanks for that.” He said, completely calmly.

“Should have run you through with my claws then and there…”

He nodded, “Yeah, probably. You didn’t though. So here we are, at Phase Two.”

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#AwesomeCharacters Maria views herself as a highly capable, extremely confident, immensely skilled mass murdering monster. She's most of those things, but she's also incredibly heroic, inspiring, and cares deeply for those around her. She tends to ignore those bits.

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#WIPSnips The IIF wins the Battle of Zoridian VIc... (Excerpt from FHSD Book 3: Rise Up, Strike Harder)

Lolanene found a base-wide PA system, and keyed the mic, <Attention fed fuck-o’s, we’ve got yer boss here. Captured ‘im alive. If y’all want ‘im stayin’ that way, yer gonna want t’ surrender right ‘bout now. Now, y’all might not care ‘bout his safety in a personal sense, but think about what his bosses might think if y’all let him get killed fer yer sense of glory in battle er whatever. That’s all, uh… thanks.>

Zeltrada walked Kralkarin over to the PA mic, “Confirm that for them if you would, buddy.” She kept a pistol held against the back of his head.

<Uh… Yes. Attention all FIC forces in the vicinity, this is your Commander, Kralkarin Harlovtoront. I am hereby ordering you to stand down immediately. You will surrender to the… ugh… Interstellar Independence Front forces without delay. Failure to comply will be considered a violation of the orders of a superior, punishable by thirty-seven years imprisonment. That is all.>

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#AwesomeCharacters I mean the answer here is pretty clear: Gotta be Maria. Even before her transformation, she's extremely tough, and after... She's 8 feet tall and made of metal.

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#WIPSnips Lucia and Niarith discuss Niarith's job, as well as Mirideth's impossible longevity... (Excerpt from FHSD Book 1: Fly High, Sink Deeper)

The two of them ate in companionable silence for a few moments, before Lucia asked, “What did you mean before, when you said they usually give you better food? Who is ‘they’? And why did they give you sub-par rations?”

Niarith sighed, “I work for a government agency called the Primitive Territory Enforcement Division. I’m what’s called a Primitive Territory Enforcement Officer. My job is to observe worlds that aren’t star-faring. Like yours. I watch them, and make sure they’re safe and uncontaminated, free to develop on their own. My superiors in the PTED are ‘they’.”

“Contaminated…” Lucia said, “Like me? The reason I can’t go home?”

Niarith nodded, “Around a year ago, I was going through some old PTED records and found some vague indications that Mirideth Asazlaiyn might be in this system. My superiors didn’t believe me when I told them. They claimed I was reading too much into it, seeing things that weren’t there. And that made a certain amount of sense, y’know? As far as we knew, Asazlaiyn died three centuries ago.”

Lucia finished another unfortunate bite before speaking, “You knew of her three centuries ago? That’s… That’s long before she arrived on Hearthea.”

“It is.” Niarith nodded, “According to historical records, Asazlaiyn would be well over six hundred years old if she were alive,” She added, with no small amount of frustration, “which she clearly is.”

Lucia’s eyes widened, “Heaven and Void… We knew she was undying, that she didn’t age, but six hundred…”

“Yeah. Mirideth Asazlaiyn is an immortal mass murderer, as well as thousands of other crimes. She was extremely notorious in her day. She’s even still infamous to this day, but she’s more of a myth than a reality. Which is why my superiors didn’t believe she could be here. And because they didn’t believe it, they didn’t want to send me out here.”

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#WIPSnips Got vibes today Lolanene notices something that feels off. Maria disagrees... (Excerpt from FHSD Book 1: Fly High, Sink Deeper)

She searched through box after box of various items, none of them fitting what she needed. Searching through one particular box, she found a black, oblong case about the length of her hand. She opened it and gasped. Inside were a pair of round, nearly opaque glasses. Red light flashed constantly on the inner side. These… these were the glasses Ninia put on Niarith. Why would she keep them? Before she had much time to think about this new development, she felt the ship landing. They had arrived. Lucia quickly closed the case and put it back where she’d found it. She grabbed her gravitic dagger and hooked it to her belt.
As she entered the hallway, Niarith stopped her, “Luci! They said to be unarmed!”
Lucia shrugged and said, “Do you seriously think I’m going to abide by that? I won’t. I can’t.”
Niarith sighed, “Do you want to spend weeks searching this system for Ghostinite that might not even be there?” She stepped closer, “And what if there isn’t any? Which is likely, I might add. Just.. I know you’re nervous, honey, but please. Do as they say.”
Something about the way she said those last few words made Lucia’s head feel funny. She felt dizzy and found it hard to remember why she was arguing. She went back into the equipment room and left her dagger there.
As she returned to the hallway, finding Niarith had already left, she noticed Lolanene leaning on the wall across from her, “What did I just see?”
Lucia was confused, “What do you mean?” She stepped across the hall and stood closer to Lolanene.
“I mean, Niarith told y’ t’ do somethin’, somethin’ y’ wouldn’t just do, ‘n’ ya did it. Just like that. She said, ‘Do as they say,’ ‘n’ y’ just kinda flinched a bit ‘n’ immediately gave up arguin’ ‘n’ did what she wanted.” She pushed off the wall and turned toward Lucia, “This ain’t th’ first time I’ve noticed this since we jumped. Somethin’ is up with 'er.”
Lucia stared down at the shorter girl as she crossed her arms, “Niarith is fine. You barely know us. Stay out of…

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#AwesomeCharacters Lolanene is bisexual! It wasn't my intention when I created her, but she evolved that way and it fits really well.

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#WIPSnips Maria experiences both traumatic memories and very current fear as Ryani prepares to perform a maneuver only attempted once before... (Excerpt from FHSD Book 5: Burn Bright, Stand Together)

Niarith turned her head, “Ry, head’s up!”

His expression changed as he examined one of the myriad readouts on his console, “Oh shit, thirty seconds! Thirty seconds to drop-out!”

<Attention crew, twenty-eight seconds to drop-out. It will be rather intense. Do strap in so no one needs to hose you off the walls. Thank you.> Mirideth said over the PA.

Maria felt a surge of sickening anxiety as she strapped herself into her seat. It was entirely possible she was about to die in an instant, almost before she even knew it was happening. If she was lucky. If she wasn’t, she might experience falling to her death, either within or without the ship. She might burn alive in the tumbling wreckage, or be impaled upon it. All this and more entirely possible in the next few seconds. And yet, Maria was calm, at least outwardly. She had to be.

“Okay people, hold on.” Ryani said, his voice serious, “Here we go.”

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#AwesomeCharacters FHSD is mostly in Maria's POV, but it switches if something is necessary to show but Maria isn't present. So far, other POV characters have been Niarith, Lolanene, Mirideth, Ryani, and Tantrii.

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Tomb Raider II. I inexplicably got it bundled with a pack of Energizer batteries when I was a kid. The sound was broken, the music and voices didn't work, but I didn't care. I adored it, and video games have been my main hobby ever since.

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#WIPSnips Maria faces the IIF Command Council after the events of 5037... (Excerpt from FHSD Book 5: Burn bright, Stand Together)

She nodded, “Several times. The first, I was subdued before I could get anywhere. The others… I already had the collar on and I was stung. I did everything I possibly could to resist. But you have to understand, please… I had spent the past five years in a robotic body. I hadn’t felt pain, I hadn’t experienced it in years. To be thrown into that… It was too much. I was too weak. I failed you, all of you. I know I don’t deserve forgiveness. I know I can't be trusted. I know. I wish I’d been better. Stronger. But I wasn’t. And I failed you.” She sniffled, tears streaming down her cheeks. She didn’t bother to wipe at them.

“Do you still believe in anything the FIC ‘taught’ you?” Retild asked.

Maria shook her head, “No. I never truly did, not really. I believed it to keep myself safe, to hide from the pain, to protect myself. But underneath, I think I was always there, screaming to be let out. But it wasn’t until what happened to Hearthea that the walls broke down.”

“What exactly happened to Hearthea?” Olintorim asked, “We’ve all seen the images, but I don’t understand how it was done. That’s not glassing or a kinetic impact, it’s… I don’t know what to call it.”

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Hell-a Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (alleged transsexual)(spooky) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Yes that's the point, it's not about fairness it's about making it so we can't exist publicly, we've been over this

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#WIPSnips The gals discuss communication with Vinilencia Merchanadan, Boss of the Biringar Syndicate... (Excerpt from FHSD Book 3: Rise Up, Strike Harder)

Vinilencia blinked, “This is probably the strangest conversation I’ve ever been part of. But fuck it, I’m here for it! Anyway, do you have a way to contact the rest of the IIF? It’d be good to let them in on developments, I feel.”

Niarith nodded, “We do. We’ve set up a system of signal obfuscators attached to the rail guns we deployed. That should allow for communication with the Echoes of Zoridian with low risk of interception.”

“I see, I see. How do you plan to get a hold of an interstellar comm unit?” Vinilencia leaned forward, lacing her fingers together on the desk.

“We’ve got a top ‘a’ the line FIC scout ship. It’s got one.”

Vinilencia’s expression slackened, “Oh.”

“You were excited to reveal you had one, weren’t you?” Maria smiled.

She sighed, “...yeah.”

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I think Maria’s saddest moment is probably directly after the ending of book 4. That book ends somewhat positively for how dark it was, but things change after.

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The best fit for going to the hardware store

A photo of a woman wearing a red top, a short black skirt, and black thigh highs

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Satsuma Danger @clementinedanger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Probably not the first to point it out but Waterfox (a Firefox fork) does everything Firefox does, including extensions, with more privacy, and has stated clearly that they are not interested in adopting any AI features at all. Been using it for a while and it's just the same browser but better.

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#WIPSnips Mirideth declines an offer... (Excerpt from FHSD Book 4: Stand Tall and Shatter)

This is because they are… problematic, for my operations. The payment I need from you, Ms. Asazlaiyn, is their death.”

Lolanene clenched her fists, “Now hold on just a fuckin-”

The troopers took aim yet again, and Lolanene glared at them, but stopped speaking.

Mirideth’s hologram played a thoughtful sort of animation, <Interesting deal you've set up here, Ms. Merchanadan. Interesting indeed.> The hologram grinned.

The sound of engines spinning up started to fill the air, and before anyone could react, the ship's aft auxiliary thrusters had fired, their exhaust pointed directly at the assembled troopers, immolating them instantly.

The cargo ramp began to ascend as Mirideth continued speaking over the sound of the engines, and the screams, <I'm afraid, however, that I'm going to have to decline.>

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#WIPSnips Lucia experiences something she'll never forget, no matter how much she wants to... (Excerpt from FHSD Book 1: Fly High, Sink Deeper)

She felt a blade swipe just over her back and her top was unceremoniously dropped to the floor, the back sliced in half. The same happened to her pants a moment later. As more skin was exposed, she felt the machine latching on. Lucia continued to struggle in the thing’s grasp, but it was stronger than her, much stronger. She felt it latch onto her back, right along her spine. As it hit the back of her neck, she felt the now familiar pinching sensation. She screamed.
She put all her effort into resisting the machine’s control, “I... Won’t.”
Dr. Formolious was watching with clinical detachment as the process went on, writing on her clipboard. Lucia heard a voice, but not with her ears. It was inside her mind.
<MESSAGE BEGINS> <UNIT 037 ONLINE> <HOST IS RESISTANT> <SUPPRESSING> <MESSAGE ENDS>
She was standing in place now, jerking erratically every so often. She felt the Unit’s presence in her mind, felt it’s physical presence on her back.
<MESSAGE BEGINS> <WE ARE ONE> <WE ARE US><YOU ARE UNIT 037> <WE ARE UNIT 037> <OPEN YOUR MIND UNIT 037> <LET IT IN> <LUCIA MARIA CARLENA IS NO MORE> <YOUR OLD LIFE IS PAST> <UNIT 037 IS YOUR PRESENT AND FUTURE> <SUBMIT> <MESSAGE ENDS>
Lucia couldn’t tell if the voice was inside or outside her head anymore. The outside had become distant and hard to focus on.
Her head was spinning, she’d have fallen to the floor if Unit 037 wasn’t holding her… them… it… up. Her mind was a mishmash of human thought and computer code. It would have been horrifying if she’d had the ability to feel such an emotion.

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PJC Cahill @pjccahill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I am very happy to announce that my fourth book, Stand Tall and Shatter is now available, for free, on itch! I'm very happy with this book, more so than I have been for any I've released so far! Very excited to share it with you! zii-nanre.itch.io/stand-tall-a...

Stand tall and shatter
Fly high sink deeper
Book 4
Zii Nanre

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#AwesomeCharacters Calmav Nitrikul. 100% They founded the Interstellar Independence Front, they are the reason any hope exists of defeating the FIC. They are also a total fucking cunt to everyone pretty much all the time.

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Yeah I've made the decision to simply release the ebook version of Stand Tall and Shatter with a placeholder cover and update it with the actual one when I can afford to have it made. I'm tired of delaying a completed work I'm very proud of and happy with due to reasons beyond my control.

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#WIPSnips Ladiziar exits into space... Kinda of... (Excerpt from FHSD Book 4: Stand Tall and Shatter)

The doors opened onto perhaps the most visually stunning sight Ladiziar had ever seen. Green grassy hills extended a large distance in all directions, with trees placed haphazardly about the space. Walking paths snaked through what was quite clearly a park. In the center of the space was a small lake. All of this would have been a pretty, yet fairly ordinary sight, if it weren’t all placed on the exterior of a space station. No walls or ceiling covered the space. The only sky was the unending tapestry of stars and void.

As they stepped into the space, to no change in temperature, gravity, or ability to breathe, Ladiziar could do nothing but stare in awe.

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm genuinely about to release STaS with fucking placeholder art at this point. The book is fucking done. I want it to be out. But I'm so damned poor that cover art has become an impossibility. Fuck.

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Haha, yeah... yeah.... that's not happening anymore.... Medical expenses yayyyyyyyy

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So I somehow ended up watching Threads today. Hadn't before. That was a mistake.

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Hell-a Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (alleged transsexual)(spooky) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

While my first thought is to smugly go "I am, Raymond 😎" I'm also just gonna go: no, you don't. At the heart of the human experience is learning new things and skills and trying and failing and getting better. I like trying out something new and slowly improving, you inhuman fucking ghouls.

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#WIPSnips Have some gay girls being gay and cute... (Excerpt from FHSD Book 4: Stand Tall and Shatter)

Maria had an impulsive thought and smiled. She reached up behind her and picked up Niarith effortlessly, eliciting a squeak of surprise from her. She lifted Niarith up and over and onto her lap.

“Hi.” Maria smirked.

Niarith giggled and blushed, “Hey.” She leaned up and kissed Maria on her LED mouth.

Maria felt it as if it were a kiss on human lips she no longer had, but knew Niarith simply felt herself kissing a glassy surface. Though she’d never seemed to mind it. Maria held her wife close, enjoying the softness, the intimacy, for as long as she could. Days like today were rare. Days where they could just be, rather than meeting after meeting, training, and various other jobs required of those on the IIF Command Council. Today was the first in over six months

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#AwesomeCharacters I had intended for Maria to have a rival in Kinekial Vilistrilik, an agent of the FIC Office of Security and Defense. She shows up, tries to manipulate Maria and turn the IIF against her, but fails. I intended for her to keep showing up again, but things turned out differently.

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#WIPSnips Mirideth experiences the inconvenience of existence within a starship... (Excerpt from FHSD Book 5: Burn Bright, Stand Together)

“I know, I know. But she tried to kill you…” Tantrii sounded strained, desperate for Mirideth to understand.

<And it wasn’t the first time. I’ve gotten over it. I would appreciate it if you could too.>

Olintorim stepped out of the darkness beneath an overhanging shelf, “Hey guys. Good to see ya.”

Maria smiled, glad for the distraction from the distant argument, “You too, Olintorim. It’s good to see you outside Council formality.”

He nodded, “Yeah, didn’t get a chance to talk during the party. Good time, though.”

“How long have those two been going at it?” Niarith asked.

“Only about ten minutes. Wish Mirideth could keep her voice to one room.”

<As do I, Olintorim. As do I.>

He smiled sheepishly, “I forget she's everywhere in here.”

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#AwesomeCharacters Maria: "I am a terrible person." Niarith: "I don't want to do this." Lolanene: "It doesn't bother me." Mirideth: "I'm not afraid."

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#WIPSnips The Arch-Priestess of the Church of the Saint of the New Dawn sets a building on fire... (Excerpt from FHSD Book 4: Stand Tall and Shatter)

The ship was indeed on the roof as the Arch-Priestess had said. What she hadn’t said was that there was no landing pad on the roof. The ship’s exhaust had set the roof on fire.
“Did you mean to do that?” Kinekial asked, shouting over the sound of ship engines, flames, and the growing crowds in the streets below.
“Of course not! I have never intentionally set fire to anything!” The Arch-Priestess replied.
The three of them ascended the ramp, finding the airlock filled with a haze of smoke.
“Only unintentionally, then?” Ladiziar asked, choking on smoke.
Niltrinax smiled, “Precisely.”

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Fucking love when not having medical insurance completely fucks me in a way that makes me wanna kill myself. Functioning society we have here. Going real well.

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

#AwesomeCharacters Maria’s only education was in the Forsythe Rebellion. The only things she learned were how to fight, how to kill, how to hide, and how to best combine those skills.

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Book 1-3 Maria: Lolanene Book 4-6 Maria: Mirideth The reasons for this change are very spoilery, but I love them.

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

#WIPSnips Maria meets someone new... (Excerpt from FHSD Book 5: Burn Bright, Stand Together)

Maria stepped out of the elevator into the starkly lit space. The patter of rain was muted now, there were no windows in the room. It seemed unsettlingly quiet. Rifle at the ready, Maria searched the seating area, finding no one. She vaulted over the counter into the employee area, scanning for any signs of life. She found nothing.

As she turned around, Maria was startled by the presence of a woman underneath the counter.

She aimed her rifle, "Out of there, now. Hands where I can see then, no sudden moves. I mean it.”

The woman slowly and carefully crawled out from underneath the counter and stood, hands up in front of herself. She was a short woman, with tan skin and bright green eyes. Her hair was red and cut short, with longer locks falling over and around her face. She wore a white blouse with a red tie, and a black pencil skirt.

“Please don’t…” She squeaked out.

“I don’t intend to.” Maria replied, lowering her weapon, “I just had to be sure. You can relax.”

The woman breathed out and put her hands down, wrapping them around herself instead. She looked incredibly nervous, “Oh, good, yeah. Relaxing isn’t really in the cards though.”

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

#WIPSnips A discussion of perspectives... (Excerpt from FHSD Book 5: Burn Bright, Stand Together)

<Well yes, but they’re… strange.> Mirideth’s hologram disappeared, then reappeared standing in front of them, wearing a full leather outfit.

Maria smirked, “Mirideth, look at yourself. I don’t think you’ve got room to talk there.”

Ryani nodded, “She’s got a point.”

The hologram played an animation of a dramatic sigh, <Mortals… Have you considered that perhaps you are strange to me? I swear, no one considers my perspective.>

“Y’know y’ ain’t th’ only immortal on th’ ship.” Calmav said, stepping out of the VRNet alcove.

<I am quite aware. But unlike me, you remain in a fallible fleshy body. Whereas I am->

“Annoyin’ as Nether is dark.” Calmav interrupted.

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

#AwesomeCharacters All of my main gals are very infamous, being the most wanted terrorists in FIC history. Mirideth is different. Mirideth has been so infamous for so long she's more myth than person in the eyes of the public.

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

#AwesomeCharacters Well I mean that's clearly Linilith. That girl can find fun in any situation, even deadly, terrifying ones. It's all a facade of course, covering for deep trauma and immense fear, but outwardly, she's having a great time!

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