{"id":174,"date":"2023-08-28T02:02:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T02:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/syphoncontinuity.com\/blog\/swimming-against-the-current-and-swept-together-by-2\/"},"modified":"2023-10-26T17:35:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T17:35:20","slug":"swimming-against-the-current-and-swept-together-by-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/swimming-against-the-current-and-swept-together-by-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hatsumi Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"npf_row\">\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"2290\" data-orig-width=\"2292\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/b44a7f2f42c391aef382e53d59132cd5\/1c0aa13578fad266-18\/s640x960\/d4385de8e896b97680846919120954a8ffda72dd.png\" data-orig-height=\"2290\" data-orig-width=\"2292\" alt=\"Magic is here, ready to store your data and keep your cell phone charged... endlessly. And the inequities of magic are just another tool for the powerful to reinforce their privilege.\n\nHatsumi Date, childhood friend of Eika Fujiwara and Misora Toyama, is a journalist on the politics beat with anger issues and a tumultuous past.\"><span class=\"tmblr-alt-text-helper\">ALT<\/span><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"npf_row\">\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"2289\" data-orig-width=\"2292\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/a601f21742a48f28eb8227f59db9c0bb\/1c0aa13578fad266-81\/s640x960\/cc46d4cecd55ed0541705fb54b8fb52a55d77d25.png\" data-orig-height=\"2289\" data-orig-width=\"2292\" alt=\"She\u2019s chasing justice within the tangled organizations of the Tokyo underworld, determined to make things right no matter the cost.\n\nWhen opened doors create webs of obligation, Hatsumi\u2019s access risks abetting the very corruption that she abhors. Given the choice between righteousness and retribution, what path will she choose?\"><span class=\"tmblr-alt-text-helper\">ALT<\/span><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"npf_row\">\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"1116\" data-orig-width=\"1116\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/97018481019e3e5a733a58a8006a65c4\/1c0aa13578fad266-35\/s640x960\/30aec8b4b4b38c8ef0c6c386f5e3715e981d924c.png\" data-orig-height=\"1116\" data-orig-width=\"1116\" alt=\"Hatsumi: I\u2019m clearly main character material. Epic quest for justice, etc. I don\u2019t know why this description makes me sound so dodgy.\nEika and Misora: Well\u2026\"><span class=\"tmblr-alt-text-helper\">ALT<\/span><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Swimming against the current and swept together by circumstance, these six strange bedfellows have everything to lose.<\/p>\n<p>(Luckily, we all know that being a main character means that you never do anything wrong.)<\/p>\n<p>Starting September 12, we&rsquo;ll be posting The Butterfly Koi as a serial novel. Sign up now to read from the beginning at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/href.li\/?https:\/\/syphoncontinuity.substack.com\/\">https:\/\/syphoncontinuity.substack.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALT ALT ALT Swimming against the current and swept together by circumstance, these six strange bedfellows have everything to lose. (Luckily, we all know that being a main character means that you never do anything wrong.) Starting September 12, we&rsquo;ll be posting The Butterfly Koi as a serial novel. Sign up now to read from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/swimming-against-the-current-and-swept-together-by-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hatsumi Date&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":5,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[186,187],"tags":[39,26,29,16,41,47],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afterdark","category-prelaunch","tag-fiction","tag-novel","tag-original-fiction","tag-serial-fiction","tag-sh-afterdark","tag-syphon-continuity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}