How NOT to Save the World
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How NOT to Save the World (S2, Season Finale)
Season Content notes: fictional bigotry, Joan waited in the darkness of the tunnel, and prayed as she hadn’t prayed in years. She’d stopped believing in God years ago and without God, she hadn’t seen the point in keeping the traditions and rituals. It hadn’t been until years later that she realized in walking away from…
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How NOT to Save the World (S2, E5)
Season Content notes: fictional bigotry Ho’neheso frowned as she listened to the transmission. Her ‘games’ with Wu had taught her to break security from the inside. No one in her father’s organization was better. But from the outside, she was a lot weaker. So there were a lot of reasons her bug might have gone…
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How NOT to Save the World (S2 E4)
Season Content notes: fictional bigotry T-minus 1 year 65 days Amal squatted down in the middle of the room and looked at his team. Joan held up the wall while she fiddled with her tablet. Amal didn’t ask what she was doing — he knew he wouldn’t understand anyway. On the chair next to her,…
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How NOT to Save the World (S2, E3)
Season Content notes: fictional bigotry “Thank you for meeting with me after hours, Major,” Colonel Bo Cheung, commander of the Space Forces, said as Major Shin of M9 slid onto the bar stool next to them. A public bar might have seemed an odd place for two high-ranking military officers to meet. Especially these high-ranking…
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Happy (Belated) Birthday to Me! (Have a Party Favor)
I debated a lot about what I wanted to do for today’s newsletter, and then a PTSD flare-up made it impossible for me to get any writing done. So the decision taken out of my hands (somewhat). If you haven’t yet, remember to pick up a copy of Bound by His Oath on Smashwords, Amazon,…
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How NOT to Save the World (S2, E2)
Season Content notes: fictional bigotry T-minus 1 year 85 days Lerato Schlender squeezed her partner Johlene’s hand and looked around the room. Officially, the cell network that supported the coup was dismantled. The message boards were made semi-public so most anyone could join. Unofficially, Lerato and a few others had pulled together a new,…
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How NOT to Save the World (S2, E1)
They’re back! You can re-read Season 1 on my website. You may recall that last year our Evil Overlord had a different name/gender on the website and newsletter. This year we’re flipping them. So Newsletter Season 2 has Ameohne’e/she and Website Season 2 will have Ma’evoto/he. I’d say sorry for any confusion but… T-minus 1…
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How NOT to Save the World (S1, Season Finale)
Season Content Notes (incomplete): violence, anti-nonhuman bigotry, consensual violence After Cheung left, Ameohne’e paced the room, eventually finding herself standing in front of her framed copy of The Evil Overlord List. “Number 15: I will never employ any device with a digital countdown.” She shook her head and checked the countdown tracker. Of course, it…
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How NOT to Save the World, S1 E11
Season Content Notes (incomplete): violence, anti-nonhuman bigotry, consensual violence T minus 1 year 235 days Ameohne’e welcomed Colonel Cheung and their subordinates into her office and waited until Wu left the room. Colonel Cheung’s eyebrows rose as they realized that Ameohne’e was meeting with them alone. Even with modern security, that was a significant sign…
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How NOT to Save the World, S1 E10
Season Content Notes (incomplete): violence, anti-nonhuman bigotry, consensual violence T-Minus 1 year 240 days Though the public didn’t know it, the two dozen people gathered in the large dining room were most of the true leaders of the rebellion-turned-dictatorship. Two-thirds of them were magic users or mystics, three-quarters non-humans. They sat in a circle in…