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Isis E. "Dread Dragon" Prosser

@isisstormdragon.bsky.social

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Ace demi-aro lesbian in love with Samus Aran. Writer, artist. 30, white, autistic. She/her, xe/xyr/xyrs. Dragon who hoards lots of things. Avatar by me; header by a friend: https://hushthelatesunart.tumblr.com/ My website: https://lairofthestormdragon.com/

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Isis E. "Dread Dragon" Prosser @isisstormdragon.bsky.social · Oct 21

Yes hello hi I'm Isis E. Prosser the Storm Dragon and I write books about dragons! You can find my two fantasy novellas here:

The Dragon of Crystal and Frost: lairofthestormdragon.com/2023/01/28/t...

The Dragon of Winter and Night: lairofthestormdragon.com/2024/06/01/t...

Cover art for my debut novella The Dragon of Crystal and Frost. It depicts a silver-blue dragon flying from behind a white stone tower with a snowy mountain and cloudy sky in the background. The title is in gold lettering.

Cover art for my second novella The Dragon of Winter and Night. It depicts a purple dragon flying away from a black stone tower. The background is wintery mountain and forest with a purple hue, and behind the dragon's head is the moon. The title's lettering is silver.

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Isis E. "Dread Dragon" Prosser @isisstormdragon.bsky.social · 2d

with the landlord wanting to up the rent + add other monthly extras, and an ongoing family emergency, i'm going to keep posting this daily. looking to raise $500 this month if i can. the more the better until my job hunting finally succeeds.

$50/$500.

Isis E. "Dread Dragon" Prosser @isisstormdragon.bsky.social · 12d

well, september's almost over and i didn't hear back from a single job. thankfully a few i can apply for opened up, but uh, we'll see.

in the meantime, i'm gonna post this here again. i should be able to pay my bills in october but it'll be tight and unless i land a job i won't-

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Isis E. "Dread Dragon" Prosser @isisstormdragon.bsky.social · 7h

"designed with gamers in mind" is a warning sign. that's what they put on the fence blocking a radioactive wasteland. what lies beyond is not a place of honor.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 7h

Don’t feel stupid but delete immediately you know, tell people, and on here, block anyone who refuses to take down the fake.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

Don’t feel stupid if you fell for fake video. It can be really hard to tell these days. But we do have to try and be careful with what we share because there’s so much AI video out there.

It’s just the world we live in now.

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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 23h

You don't become an artist who's any good if you don't love the work itself. Even the parts that are a struggle.

What we don't love is the marketing, promo, admin, etc. When you start, you don't think you're signing up to be a wildly underpaid arts admin, but 80% of professional art time is this.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 8h

What makes a rescuer?

Some insights from the Holocaust.

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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · 8h

'Black Cat' - Hasegawa Sadanobu IV, late 1900s.
#Caturday #JapaneseArt

Black cat licks its paw. Muted yellow background.

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Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 22h

It looks like blue sky is dying because of management decisions... unless we can put on the best talent show that this town has ever seen

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Isis E. "Dread Dragon" Prosser @isisstormdragon.bsky.social · 8h

ICE must be destroyed.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 13h

Let's make a promise here, friends... we ARE going to abolish ICE. Not REFORM it. ABOLISH it. And we're going to put that massive budget back into funding all the things that actually HELP people.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 19h

i really have nothing to post about so uh space is cool and look at these pretty pictures of it thank you

$A wider field view of Westerlund 1. A dense cluster of bright stars, each with six large and two small diffraction spikes, due to the telescope’s optics. They have a variety of sizes depending on their brightness and distance from us in the cluster, and different colours reflecting different types of star. Patches of billowing red gas can be seen in and around the cluster, lit up by the stars. Small stars in the cluster blend into a background of distant stars and galaxies on black.$

A nebula made up of cloudy gas and dust in the form of soft and wispy clouds and, in the center, thin and highly detailed layers pressed close together. Large, bright stars surrounded by six long points of light are dotted over the image, as well as some small, point-like stars embedded in the clouds. The clouds are lit up in blue close to the stars; orange colors show clouds that glow in infrared light.

A star cluster within a nebula. The center of the image contains arcs of orange and pink gas that form a boat-like shape. One end of these arcs points to the top right of the image, while the other end points toward the bottom left. Another plume of orange and pink gas expands from the center to the top left of the image. To the right of this plume is a large cluster of white stars. There are more of these white stars and galaxies of different sizes spread throughout the image.

$Red dual opposing jets coming from young stars fill the darker top half of the image. At bottom center is a glowing pale yellow, cave-like structure, its top tilted toward two o’clock, with a bright star at its center. The dust of the cave structure becomes wispy toward eight o’clock. Above the arched top of the dust cave, 3 groupings of stars with diffraction spikes are arranged. A dark cloud sits at the top of the arch of the glowing dust cave, with one streamer curling down the right-hand side. The dark shadow of the cloud appears pinched in the center, with light emerging in a triangle shape above and below the pinch, revealing the presence of a star inside the cloud. The largest jets of red material emanate from within this dark cloud, thick and displaying structure like the rough face of a cliff, glowing brighter at the edges. At top center, a star displays another, larger pinched dark shadow, this time vertically. To the left of this star is a more wispy, indistinct region.$

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🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 22h

I was just laid off from my job with no notice so if anyone can give anything to help me stay afloat until I can find something else I would really really appreciate it. No amount is too small ko-fi.com/impavidus/go...

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Isis E. "Dread Dragon" Prosser @isisstormdragon.bsky.social · 8h

this false autumn vexes me. i want the weather to be for hoodies and soup forever.

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Mark Jarrell @markjarrellart.bsky.social · Jun 18

Castle Dleth
2019

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𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · May 25

Tekla Aleksieva, cover art for Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, 1988

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tom @tomwalker.bsky.social · 10h

Scheming beast. What foul plan hatches from the swamp of your mind

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Spider. @vaspider.gay · 10h

We are at $644/$3000 (our first goal, to help James recoup most of the money they've already spent on his care). Thank you all so much!

I didn't know GFM has a $5 minimum - to send a smaller donation, hit up the link below & put "for James" in the note - I'll add it to the total.

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 1d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 9h

The Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) in Near Infrared - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/eaDxth

This image shows the Great Nebula in Carina (NGC 3372) in infrared light. This majestic nebula is one of the largest nebulae in the sky and lies about 7,500 light years distant in the Southern constellation of Carina, The Keel. Several star clusters containing some of the brightest and most massive stars known are found here, including the extremely luminous hypergiant star Eta Carinae - one of the prime candidates for the next supernova explosion in our galaxy.

Traditional images of the Carina Nebula taken in visible light primarily display the striking magenta colour from glowing Hydrogen gas, as well as large dark obscuring clouds of dust.
But infrared light penetrates these clouds better and allows for a deep peek into the heart of the nebula, revealing complex details and thousands of young stars that are otherwise completely invisible.
These stars shine primarily in the infrared and appear as golden red in this image. Only a minority of these are even visible in traditional images.

The infrared region seems largely unexplored by amateur astronomers. But using a filter that only allows infrared light (>700nm) to pass through allows for obtaining an image of these hidden features. Effectively the band observed is 700-1100nm since the sillicon CCD chip is not responsive to wavelengths longer than that, and this band is called NIR (Near Infrared). One issue arising from this technique is that the NIR band does not have a colour as such, since it lies outside the v...

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Isis E. "Dread Dragon" Prosser @isisstormdragon.bsky.social · 1d

"i just ask chatgpt-" yeah well i trust in the heart of the cards which makes me stronger than you so don't try any shit

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Margaret Owen @what-eats-owls.bsky.social · 1d

“Too many districts to keep track of. Can we make it 5? And just one kid from each district. Our commercial readers would want a stronger romantic throughline. Let’s age up everyone to 19 so we can add spice. We might lose commercial readers with all the politics. Katniss isn’t relatable.”

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Margaret Owen @what-eats-owls.bsky.social · 1d

Texting with another YA author friend this morning about the rough state of the market, and our consensus was, publishing keeps looking for the next Hunger Games, but they wouldn’t acquire the original if it were in their inboxes today

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

dear Supreme Corut i am NOT owned. do NOT give my website to that guy i'm serious!!!!! stop!!!!

Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 1d

Alex Jones has asked the Supreme Court to immediately put his almost $1.5 billion defamation judgment on hold, citing the imminent threat of InfoWars being handed over to The Onion.

If there isn't a stay, "InfoWars will have been acquired by its ideological nemesis and destroyed," the filing says.

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🐴 Jam 🎃 comms open! ⭐ @wyrdlittleguy.bsky.social · 2d

I GOT THE ROOM!!!! but I still can't afford the deposit! Please help me out it would mean the world!!
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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 2d

As well as this, I feel quite strongly that the increased prominence in recent years of social media influencers who engage in nothing but ragebait content and harassment has proverbially sucked all the air out of the room, content mills producing bullshit at speed who dominate gaming conversations.

Jennifer/Aster Unkle 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔪 @spookycutewitch.bsky.social · 2d

“Why isn’t anyone covering our indie games?”

1. The gaming press has been decimated by business suits, and the whims of an uncaring search engine behemoth
2. Doing the job means you get death threats and harassment
3. There are more games released in 1 week than there were in entire months in 2015

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The Ghost Of Cohost. CoGhost. Gohosohssosost @ceresultra.bsky.social · 1d

How do I explain to offline people that my favorite Japanese mascot said "we can only be liberated from queer oppression if we are truly seen as human" and then started wielding fireworks like a rocket launcher on the side of a mountain without sounding like I've totally lost it?

Chiitan forever

Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 2d

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports

Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

www.consumerreports.org

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