LJ Amber
@ljamberfantasy.com
#1 Best Rated Tragic Fantasy Author on Royal Road
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Queer Irish author living in Scotland. I write fantasy fiction for adults using accessible language.
www.ljamberfantasy.com
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
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"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," 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
Really, word? In what world–
November 20, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Really, word? In what world–
Dear Patreon: I do not care about my total earning across the last thirty days ($1.5k), I care about my total earnings from active pledges ($1.34k).
There is no fucking world where earnings over a rolling 30 day period is a useful metric. Why show it prominently on the App, without context??
There is no fucking world where earnings over a rolling 30 day period is a useful metric. Why show it prominently on the App, without context??
November 17, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Dear Patreon: I do not care about my total earning across the last thirty days ($1.5k), I care about my total earnings from active pledges ($1.34k).
There is no fucking world where earnings over a rolling 30 day period is a useful metric. Why show it prominently on the App, without context??
There is no fucking world where earnings over a rolling 30 day period is a useful metric. Why show it prominently on the App, without context??
I always describe it as "Does the image on the screen look like you could smell it?" I don't mean in a bad way. Too much modern film is visually sanitised, wiped down, to the point that if it does have a scent, it's blandly inoffensive.
This is a really remarkable video essay on contemporary film and the theories of Laura Marks. It's making me think about movies in a new way.
Why Movies Just Don't Feel "Real" Anymore
YouTube video by Like Stories of Old
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I always describe it as "Does the image on the screen look like you could smell it?" I don't mean in a bad way. Too much modern film is visually sanitised, wiped down, to the point that if it does have a scent, it's blandly inoffensive.
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"Why do you write about this so much? It's uncomfortable."
Well, you see, therapy failed to convince my brain that all the bad what happened wasn't my fault. But writing others going through it continues to assure me that monsters are real and I was around too many during my formative years.
Well, you see, therapy failed to convince my brain that all the bad what happened wasn't my fault. But writing others going through it continues to assure me that monsters are real and I was around too many during my formative years.
November 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
"Why do you write about this so much? It's uncomfortable."
Well, you see, therapy failed to convince my brain that all the bad what happened wasn't my fault. But writing others going through it continues to assure me that monsters are real and I was around too many during my formative years.
Well, you see, therapy failed to convince my brain that all the bad what happened wasn't my fault. But writing others going through it continues to assure me that monsters are real and I was around too many during my formative years.
I don't understand why the secret rulers of America from Metal Gear Solid 2 are going to be popular this Christmas, and at this point, I'm afraid to find out.
November 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I don't understand why the secret rulers of America from Metal Gear Solid 2 are going to be popular this Christmas, and at this point, I'm afraid to find out.
I had a very weird dream last night where Obama (yes, that Obama) was making a prestige film in which he acted as himself, wherein he never became President and instead went out to California to participate in a new gold rush.
...It's just his post-presidency media career.
...It's just his post-presidency media career.
November 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I had a very weird dream last night where Obama (yes, that Obama) was making a prestige film in which he acted as himself, wherein he never became President and instead went out to California to participate in a new gold rush.
...It's just his post-presidency media career.
...It's just his post-presidency media career.
Call me the Titanic the way I'm meant to be unfuckable, and yet...
Call me the Edmund Fitzgerald the way twenty-nine good men lost their lives going down on me.
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Call me the Titanic the way I'm meant to be unfuckable, and yet...
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Uh oh, you scrolled too far, too greedily, too deep: you have encountered a balrog.
November 12, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Uh oh, you scrolled too far, too greedily, too deep: you have encountered a balrog.
Here we go again.
The word I typed: shouldn't
The word that Microsoft Word decided I'd meant:
The word I typed: shouldn't
The word that Microsoft Word decided I'd meant:
November 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Here we go again.
The word I typed: shouldn't
The word that Microsoft Word decided I'd meant:
The word I typed: shouldn't
The word that Microsoft Word decided I'd meant:
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"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," 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
July 23, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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"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," 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
I am thirty dollars away from paying my monthly rent with Patreon income.
And my rent is fucking bullshit!
And my rent is fucking bullshit!
November 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I am thirty dollars away from paying my monthly rent with Patreon income.
And my rent is fucking bullshit!
And my rent is fucking bullshit!
Having one of those "If only the Chinese government wasn't homophobic and repressive to the LGBT community," moments.
November 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Having one of those "If only the Chinese government wasn't homophobic and repressive to the LGBT community," moments.
My Halloween costume is Boo Radley.
October 31, 2025 at 4:24 PM
My Halloween costume is Boo Radley.
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I believe people who misuse Tolkien to advance fascism should have a brief but life-changing encounter with World War II–era Christopher Lee
October 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I believe people who misuse Tolkien to advance fascism should have a brief but life-changing encounter with World War II–era Christopher Lee
Been thinking a lot about this, and I've reached the conclusion that calling Tolkien a principled conservative is a bit unfair on him. I think the correct label is traditionalist and conservationist, with a tendency toward reaction.
It might seem like splitting hairs, but his works had empathy.
It might seem like splitting hairs, but his works had empathy.
October 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Been thinking a lot about this, and I've reached the conclusion that calling Tolkien a principled conservative is a bit unfair on him. I think the correct label is traditionalist and conservationist, with a tendency toward reaction.
It might seem like splitting hairs, but his works had empathy.
It might seem like splitting hairs, but his works had empathy.
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I FOUND THE BOOK WITH THE ORB
October 28, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I FOUND THE BOOK WITH THE ORB
I was burned by believing that Obama might just be the real thing before he was elected. But damn, do I really, really want to believe Zohran is...
The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker.
And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.
No more.
And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.
No more.
My Message to Muslim New Yorkers — and Everyone Who Calls This City Home.
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
www.youtube.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I was burned by believing that Obama might just be the real thing before he was elected. But damn, do I really, really want to believe Zohran is...
There is no higher praise, is there?
I have written something in a creative, narrative, non-work sense for the first time in damn near 20 years because your writing was so effective at helping me remember how much I enjoy prose when I can find the brain for it!
Its four or so paragraphs and super niche, but it's something written!
Its four or so paragraphs and super niche, but it's something written!
October 25, 2025 at 4:35 AM
There is no higher praise, is there?
Funny I'm called an inspiring writer, because I can't for the life of me find the words to say how deeply this touches me.
This might sound twee or glib, but I really do look up to the indie writers on here, just like YOU, person-whom-I-follow, who are working very hard to put their creations out into the world. Like @ljamberfantasy.com working hard to support TEWWBAD.
I admire that grit; it inspires me to be brave…
I admire that grit; it inspires me to be brave…
Who are the writers you look up to the most? What do you enjoy about them? #WritingPrompt
October 25, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Funny I'm called an inspiring writer, because I can't for the life of me find the words to say how deeply this touches me.
My leaked texts would reveal dozens of authors writing in barely comprehensible gibberish riddled with emojis, periodically interrupted by excerpts of pristinely written, highly readable works in progress.
My leaked texts would reveal thousands of messages by grown ass adults, several of them highly trained logistics specialists, failing to successfully coordinate brunch.
if all my group chats were leaked tomorrow I don't know that I could say for certain that my career would necessarily retain the trajectory it's currently on, but I will say I'm pretty sure I've never mentioned Hitler in any of them, so at least that's something
October 20, 2025 at 10:40 PM
My leaked texts would reveal dozens of authors writing in barely comprehensible gibberish riddled with emojis, periodically interrupted by excerpts of pristinely written, highly readable works in progress.
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If only there'd been a good guy with a ladder to stop the heist, but Europeans don't value Freedom
October 20, 2025 at 1:09 AM
If only there'd been a good guy with a ladder to stop the heist, but Europeans don't value Freedom
If everyone under 35 treated anyone older than them as time travellers from the past (which they are), and everyone 35 or older behaved as though they're visiting the future (which they are), the world would probably be a happier place.
October 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
If everyone under 35 treated anyone older than them as time travellers from the past (which they are), and everyone 35 or older behaved as though they're visiting the future (which they are), the world would probably be a happier place.
I'm definitely on my way toward making it as a professional author writing under a name I own.
October 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I'm definitely on my way toward making it as a professional author writing under a name I own.
Over 420,000 words of The Elf Who Would Become A Dragon have been published on the Patreon. I'm quite proud of that.
📣 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," 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
October 19, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Over 420,000 words of The Elf Who Would Become A Dragon have been published on the Patreon. I'm quite proud of that.