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#1 Best Rated Tragic Fantasy Author on Royal Road The Elf Who Would Become A Dragon is free to read rrtewwbad.ljamberfantasy.com Queer Irish author living in Scotland. I write fantasy fiction for adults using accessible language. www.ljamberfantasy.com

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LJ Amber @ljamberfantasy.com · Jul 23

📣 READ FREE! rrtewwbad.ljamberfantasy.com

"The Elf Who Would Become A Dragon," is the #1 work of Tragic Fantasy on Royal Road.

A heartbreaking and heartwarming fantasy about rejection and belonging, power and consequence, and the cost of being ourselves.

More info and reviews 👇 #BookSky

"The Elf Who Would Become A Dragon," by L. J. Amber

A strikingly beautiful elven woman – with ankle-length, golden, wavy hair, pale skin, and green eyes, wearing a shimmering silken dress in a style reminiscent of antiquity – is facing away from you with her hands clasped, looking back at you over her shoulder. She standing beside a field of red hyacinths, surrounded by forest to her left and right. In the background, a section of distant woodland is burning down, and above the black smoke, the golden clouds resemble a massive dragon.

Yet, at her feet, in the foreground, is the same woman as a child. She ten years old, wearing a child's sundress with a brown-red coat. She is barefoot, and sits with one knee under her, the other drawn up to support her chin. A single red hyacinth, separated from the others, is growing right by her side. She too, is looking at you.

This is Saphienne. In each incarnation, is she sad or angry? You find it hard to say. No matter how she feels, her gaze is judging you, and inviting your judgement in turn.

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Elliot 🥕 @nameoftheyear.bsky.social · 2d

I challenge the methodology in this chart b/c there is nothing to distinguish online dating via mobile app (demeaning, soul-draining, numbers game wherein profit is leeched from your suffering) vs online dating via flirting in the DMs (principled, skill-based, derived from human traditions of rizz)

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 2d

The reason people do NOT opt out of online dating, despite its engineered horrors, is because increasingly it's the only dating. Period.

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LJ Amber @ljamberfantasy.com · 4d

Yep!

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Song of the Wild Knight – Song of the Squire

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LJ Amber @ljamberfantasy.com · 5d

They still do.

junkyard ambrose @caninebrainz.bsky.social · 5d

authors need to start beefing with each other via long-winded letters & essays published in "serious" magazines again

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 6d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

LJ Amber @ljamberfantasy.com · 5d

Even the elite of the Roman Empire knew that bread (social provision to live) and circuses (enjoyable quality of life) were necessary to keep the party going. The alternative approach of undisguised oppression, chosen by the likes of Sparta, spectacularly crashed and burned through instability.

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LJ Amber @ljamberfantasy.com · 6d

If I was in their position, I'd be furiously focused on installing the mildest social democracy with functional social safety nets based on collective wealth redistribution from the ultra rich. Why? Because it's stability insurance, and I'd still be on top in the end.

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LJ Amber @ljamberfantasy.com · 6d

Can someone explain why all the super rich appear to be really fucking stupid? Are they just all destroying their brains with drugs or what?

Anyone with half a brain can look at this 'plutonomy' shit and see it ends in violent revolution, but they're throwing their status away to achieve... what?

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 7d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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LJ Amber @ljamberfantasy.com · 7d

Princess this, puppy girl that...

Some of us just want to be sponsored to write long enough to make it self-sustaining.

LJ Amber @ljamberfantasy.com · 10d

something something medically confirmed gock syndrome

LJ Amber @ljamberfantasy.com · 10d

Ironically, my memory holds 1000 terabytes of breasts.

Rayna @queenrayna1337.bsky.social · 10d

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LJ Amber @ljamberfantasy.com · 12d

Increasingly I'm of the opinion that intelligence is useless without the confidence to say "I can figure this out for myself," the patience to review the subject carefully, the security to be willing to try and fail, and the determination to then try again.

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WeCreateTogether @wecreatetogether.bsky.social · 12d

The winner of our 'Locked Out' themed challenge was the brilliant @afrocommie.bsky.social !

Come hear our interview with them, and hear their thoughts on art, creativity, 'Your Party,' and Milkshakes!

youtu.be/uFRMtHjhlHE

Society Wants To Lock Me Out - A WCT Interview with Marlowe

YouTube video by WeCreateTogether

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LJ Amber @ljamberfantasy.com · 12d

If you post on a platform you own, you will go insane.

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LJ Amber @ljamberfantasy.com · 14d

A 7.77% reader-to-patreon-member conversion rate is really good, but I desperately need more readers to avoid going bankrupt.

If you haven't given this story a try, come see why it's earned the investment 👇

LJ Amber @ljamberfantasy.com · Jul 23

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LJ Amber @ljamberfantasy.com · 16d

Microsoft Word strikes again.

This actually *is* a word, being the simple past of "wardrive," which is a jargon word referring to driving around searching for a wifi network.

Why in the *fuck* is this in the dictionary?

Microsoft word failing to flag "wardrove" as a typo.

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LJ Amber @ljamberfantasy.com · 17d

Gock a song and make it better:

We Will Gock You

Valiant 🏳️‍⚧️ | Follow BOOM Goes the Bride on Backerkit! @valwrites.ca · 17d

Gock a song and make it better:

Gock me Amadeus

demon grrl 😈🏳️‍⚧️ @demongrrl.gay · 17d

Gock a song and make it better:

Another Gock in the Wall, Pt. 3

LJ Amber @ljamberfantasy.com · 17d

Scene: having to explain to an elderly family member what a "gock" is and getting asked all sorts of follow-up questions.

LJ Amber @ljamberfantasy.com · 17d

AI is a confidence scam. NFTs came before it. Next up is Quantum Computing.

It doesn't matter whether there's some theoretical marginal utility: it's going to be hyped up beyond all reality.

Because the second the music stops and the lights come on, the American stock market collapses.

LJ Amber @ljamberfantasy.com · 17d

AI is cooked.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 17d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

LJ Amber @ljamberfantasy.com · 18d

Secret ambition: get big enough that people make fan art of the characters in The Elf Who Would Become A Dragon.

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LJ Amber @ljamberfantasy.com · 19d

Very lovely, you're highly talented and should be extremely proud.

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Cackling O'Brien, Chief Witch-gineer 🔵 @radobrien.myatproto.social · 20d

ok this breakdown of AI writing indicators is incredible. Huge shout-out to the Wikipedia community for this

Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 21d

i'd love it if more people picked up (or reviewed lol) my sapphic ace romantasy with two disaster queers raising a baby dragon. also, you should go read @kurellian.bsky.social's work, especially death of mountains! #LateNightWrite
books2read.com/u/bpVEQ6
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LJ Amber @ljamberfantasy.com · 23d

This post is going to age like an exceedingly fine wine.

DracoDracul @mattilda-dracul.bsky.social · 25d

It feels like something akin to the subprime loan scheme

LJ Amber @ljamberfantasy.com · 24d

ahahahaha

News article:

Disappointed Christians say 'God is delaying the Rapture' until Epstein Files are released

After the rapture failed to happen on Tuesday, many Christians are blaming it on the fact Donald Trump hasn't released a trove of documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein

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Vyria Durav, Dragon Princess of the Night @vyriadurav.bsky.social · 26d

they really aren't making enough cursed dragon statues that you can pick up and be blessedly remade by. Instead, I'm expected to talk to a 'surgeon' to achieve my ultimate form? Fucked up.

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