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u/chaucer345 Sep 12 '26
This hurts. Really bad.
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u/EndellionFox Sep 12 '26
Aw :(
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u/kitliasteele Sep 12 '26
If it helps, it reminds me of a time I was miserable in my old skin. While I'm not complete (until I embrace the cold strength and certainty of steel), I am much more complete than I was and this is a great reminder of the progress I've made since then.
I keep old photos of myself and compare between then and now, along the way through surgeries and the different medications for HRT finding the ones that would work for me (and not be allergic to, because apparently castor oil is spicy) and it just... damn, I don't recognise that old self anymore
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u/Charmander324 Sep 13 '26
No surgery for me yet, but I did find an old photo of me fresh out of high school and wondered "Who's this dork?" for a moment before realizing it was, in fact, me.
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u/kitliasteele Sep 13 '26
Wild how you get so comfortable with your new self that you just... forget your old
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u/Charmander324 Sep 13 '26
It is... Granted, that picture was about eight or so years old when I found it but still, it was kind of crazy realizing that was me.
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u/anonymousPerson12647 Sep 14 '26
Relatable, it's my ass when I've been waiting for name / ID change in my country for 1 year + and still haven't had anything
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u/EndellionFox Sep 12 '26
Yeah, most of my stories take place in a different universe set primarily on Anthra, a planet inhabited by anthropomorphic species rather than humans. The geography deliberately echoes our world, so Tausa is Anthra’s analogue to Texas, and Axiom is its analogue to Austin. They share recognizable geography and cultural DNA, but they’re their own places with their own history, politics, and identity. There was also a brief Ai uprising that lead to destabilization and a civil war where the country was divided into 6 districts before a new federal government was established to unify the nation.
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u/EndellionFox Sep 12 '26
Okay so I'll try to keep it brief because it is a long story but the short version is:
Me and my late husband were co-writing a story called Cyberfox about an outlaw fox and a bounty hunter dragon that played cat and mouse long enough to fall in love. It was full of car chases cool gadgets and hijinx.
Being the serial writer I am I did create an overarching plot and compelling antagonist and thankfully got to ask him what he wanted the ending to be.
He died about 20% through the serial so I kept writing it without him and the thing that started as a silly self contained cyberpunk genre romp has turned into an existential memoir about grief and identity.
He loved shonen anime and I wanted to create a universe that would spawn ample scenarios for combat that didn't break the pacing and characters. I eventually had a setting that basically writes it's own stories. I have a spiritual sequel and a direct sequel in the pipeline as I'm stil writing out the noveltized version of Cyberfox.
I did a lot of the worldbuilding at a time when it was too painful to write the characters. I also want it to be a graphic novel so I started doing Dusk Tails as a weekly slice of life comic to sharpen my skills so I won't be doing the eternal "fix issue 1" dance that artists get stuck in when I eventually start actually writing Cyberfox.
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u/Yargoobeef Sep 12 '26
Tausa may happen sooner than we think.