Ammonite Groan
@ammonitegroan.bsky.social
#AmWriting an adult dark fantasy novel. Lover of speculative fiction, rich, thoughtful writing, learning new things and all things old and spooky.
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Ammonite Groan
@ammonitegroan.bsky.social
· Feb 18
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 💙📚
11/20
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11/20
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March 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 💙📚
11/20
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11/20
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Late to the party, but this story by PH Lee is gut-wrenching and gripping.
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The V*mpire - Reactor
The vampires aren't even the worst part about being a teenage trans girl on tumblr.
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March 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Late to the party, but this story by PH Lee is gut-wrenching and gripping.
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Ammonite coded characters
February 28, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Ammonite coded characters
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 💙📚
10/20
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books
10/20
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books
February 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 💙📚
10/20
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books
10/20
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books
If people demand that intellectual activity is only practical, they're demanding that all imagination can only be practical.
February 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
If people demand that intellectual activity is only practical, they're demanding that all imagination can only be practical.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 💙📚
09/20
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books
09/20
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books
February 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 💙📚
09/20
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books
09/20
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books
Reposted by Ammonite Groan
Today on Eruditorum Press, Last War in Albion returns with a chapter on Sandman and Neil Gaiman. Strap in. This goes hard. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-cud...
The Cuddled Little Vice (Sandman)
Previously in The Last War in Albion: Alan Moore wrote Watchmen, which, for complicated reasons involving William S. Burroughs and the weak nuclear force, ended the Cold War and replaced it with a mag...
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February 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Today on Eruditorum Press, Last War in Albion returns with a chapter on Sandman and Neil Gaiman. Strap in. This goes hard. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-cud...
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 💙📚
08/20
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books
08/20
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books
February 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 💙📚
08/20
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books
08/20
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books
"The great appeal of Gormenghast has nothing to do with what happens in it. It’s all about those great intangibles that you cannot quite put your finger on."
Author @premeemohamed.com examines the endurability of Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast series:
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Author @premeemohamed.com examines the endurability of Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast series:
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The Great Intangibles of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast Series - Reactor
The other day I made a note in my book review spreadsheet to the effect that if I had read that book aged (say) ten, I would have been doomed with a very particular doom—I would have made it my entire...
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February 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
learning about AI
fifty pages of baseless hype
still don't know how AI works
- an (almost) haiku
fifty pages of baseless hype
still don't know how AI works
- an (almost) haiku
February 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
learning about AI
fifty pages of baseless hype
still don't know how AI works
- an (almost) haiku
fifty pages of baseless hype
still don't know how AI works
- an (almost) haiku
Learning to question yourself is itself a skill. Growing up conservative essentially gives you a degree in it.
I have a theory that people who grew up conservative or at least grew up in conservative households make better liberals in the end because they questioned their beliefs, unpacked their programming, and questioned that shit, whereas those who grew up liberal rarely question themselves.
February 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Learning to question yourself is itself a skill. Growing up conservative essentially gives you a degree in it.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 💙📚
07/20
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books
07/20
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books
February 25, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 💙📚
07/20
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books
07/20
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books
Reposted by Ammonite Groan
Narration: The pleading hand stretched towards Mab, and she did not take it.
Dialogue: 'Forgiveness.' #writing #writesky 🩷🧙♂️⚔️
Dialogue: 'Forgiveness.' #writing #writesky 🩷🧙♂️⚔️
What is your first line of narration vs. your first line of dialogue? #WritingPrompt
February 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
ain't no party like a living mud party
February 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
ain't no party like a living mud party
Narration: The pleading hand stretched towards Mab, and she did not take it.
Dialogue: 'Forgiveness.' #writing #writesky 🩷🧙♂️⚔️
Dialogue: 'Forgiveness.' #writing #writesky 🩷🧙♂️⚔️
What is your first line of narration vs. your first line of dialogue? #WritingPrompt
February 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 💙📚
06/20
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books
06/20
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books
February 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 💙📚
06/20
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books
06/20
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books
Reposted by Ammonite Groan
Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
![[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreihuubdwcftfkvvlnepoaf6pfxqulryfp7ydrydi5fe2pflwz63wgm@jpeg)
February 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
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Goodnight.
🖼️ Palace of the Snow Queen, Hermann Wöhler, 1942.
🖼️ Palace of the Snow Queen, Hermann Wöhler, 1942.
February 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Goodnight.
🖼️ Palace of the Snow Queen, Hermann Wöhler, 1942.
🖼️ Palace of the Snow Queen, Hermann Wöhler, 1942.
The first time the reader meets my MC, she's knowingly committing murder.
...It does not get better from there. 😆 #writing #writesky
...It does not get better from there. 😆 #writing #writesky
We're cancelling characters today. What do your MC(s) do that makes them problematic? #WritingPrompt
February 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 💙📚
05/20
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books
05/20
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books
February 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 💙📚
05/20
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books
05/20
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books