Laurel Amberdine

Laurel Amberdine

@amberdine.bsky.social

Nerdy Catholic (OCDS). SF/F writer. Work at Locus Magazine. Agent: Eric Smith

2,411 Followers 527 Following 348 Posts Joined Jun 2023
1 year ago

Ha! I like CS Lewis’s SF trilogy where the main character travels from earth, has confusing encounters with extraterrestrials, and realizes with some embarrassment that only earthlings fell from grace at all…

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😭

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1 year ago

Kind of a new genre. Deals with protagonists getting stuck in various RPG worlds where they get real skills and level up. Humorous and fast paced. I liked Dean Henegar’s Limitless Lands series. Dungeon Crawler Carl is very popular, as is The Wandering Inn. Mostly self pub and cheap on Amazon.

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1 year ago

How do you feel about LitRPG?

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1 year ago
Gold Banner on Red Background:

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!
Nobody Asked For It; Everyone Hates It

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

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Some Advent humor

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1 year ago

What a country :(

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1 year ago

Just learned that in Isan, Thailand, Western foreigners are called “mangoes” and I can’t say I really mind that.

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Article screenshot: Adobe's stock drop highlights a fundamental disconnect over AI. Adobe's management team is bullish on the AI opportunity in creative services, but Wall Street is growing impatient on the revenue Runway.

A chart shows Adobe is down 16% the past five days, a sharp decline and loss of $87 a share.

A gentle breeze rocks the house of cards.

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Sun Fragments

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1 year ago

??????

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1 year ago

What could go wrong?

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1 year ago

Yeah, I can’t think of any fallacy like that. It’s just straight up lying

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1 year ago

Whenever I see this come up, it reminds me of Twitter on Jan 6. There was the expected shock and outrage and a few jokes, and one little corner of LawyerTwitter going “Oh no you morons, stop incriminating yourselves!!!”

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1 year ago

If you're ever told to be outraged about anything having to do with health insurance and the sole source of the outraged framing is the American Society of Anesthesiologists, just move on because you're being played like a fiddle by the major cause of out-of-network balance billing

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1 year ago

I remember seeing Sweet at on a convention panel once, and there was a lot of talk about inspiration and what kinds of work artists like to do, but he was all "Nope, don't care what it is. You pay me, I'll paint it."

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1 year ago

It’s gorgeous!

Sorry about your poor fingers

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1 year ago

What the heck?

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1 year ago
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I will never, ever get over this.

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Preview
Issue 767 Table of Contents, December 2024 The December 2024 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Paolo Bacigalupi and Vajra Chandrasekera, a spotlight on artist Christine Mitzuk, and a spotlight on book subscription box service Illu…

Issue 767 Table of Contents, December 2024 locusmag.com/2024/12...

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1 year ago

(But… you could probably just ask for a copy too….)

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1 year ago

We are ready to take your order. 😃

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1 year ago

Post an Onion headline that lives in your head rent-free

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1 year ago

There are a lot of different theories! But Catholics always believed he was buried in Rome, and a mausoleum and bones that seem very plausible were accidentally discovered during construction under St. Peters around 1950.

I can't guess who is really buried in Lebanon.

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1 year ago

Catholics believe St. Peter was martyred and buried in Rome, at St. Peter's, in what is now the Vatican. This is a Muslim site.

That said, nobody should be happy about it.

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1 year ago

In a rare alignment, the First Sunday of Advent *is* the first of December, so the “Advent” calendars are actually accurate this year. One less thing for me to annoyed about.

Until next year.

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1 year ago

If I heard this music without the video, I would never have guessed that the instrument looked like that.

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1 year ago
A full size truck hauling an extremely large yellow Lego.  The text at the top: The final weapon of mankind.  To deal with Godzilla.

I love me some good memes.

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