Molly
@guiltlesspleasures.bsky.social
Romance reader since COVID times. BIPOC+🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ friendly. A fan of unlikeable heroines in books and IRL. She/her.
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There's a pretty great Tumblr post about this:
November 26, 2025 at 2:53 AM
There's a pretty great Tumblr post about this:
Absolutely exquisite advice. 🤌
Write like no one will read it.
Edit like everyone will quote it.
You'll be unstoppable! 🚀
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmEditing #BookSky #WriteSky
Edit like everyone will quote it.
You'll be unstoppable! 🚀
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmEditing #BookSky #WriteSky
November 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Absolutely exquisite advice. 🤌
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finding joy despite the world in 2025 is like this lol
November 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
finding joy despite the world in 2025 is like this lol
OK, I am not COMPLETELY averse to scented paper. For example, my cassette of Madonna’s Like a Prayer still smells like the patchouli it was infused with in 1989 and I love it.
But I draw the line at garlic mayonnaise.
But I draw the line at garlic mayonnaise.
October 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
OK, I am not COMPLETELY averse to scented paper. For example, my cassette of Madonna’s Like a Prayer still smells like the patchouli it was infused with in 1989 and I love it.
But I draw the line at garlic mayonnaise.
But I draw the line at garlic mayonnaise.
I was just yearning for some bonkers contemporaries.
With the increasing popularity of trad-flavored romance, I believe that now, more than ever, we need a resurgence of screwball comedies.
October 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I was just yearning for some bonkers contemporaries.
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
All because our society does not (literally) value art and creativity.
Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI
Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
All because our society does not (literally) value art and creativity.
WTF 🤣🤣🤣
New argument against AI regulation just dropped. Checkmate, atheists.
www.wsj.com/tech/peter-t...
www.wsj.com/tech/peter-t...
September 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
WTF 🤣🤣🤣
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I seem to have missed the rapture thing till now, but all those bloody awful people are going to disappear today? Best news ever.
September 23, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I seem to have missed the rapture thing till now, but all those bloody awful people are going to disappear today? Best news ever.
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You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia
#romancelandia
September 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia
#romancelandia
“this is perhaps why the right is so obsessed with AI: it’s the idea of art without any of art’s complexity. art without labor, cost, intention, specificity, or joy; art that no one, neither producer nor consumer, has to spend any time on at all.”
wrote a little essay about prose, 90s historical romances, and why fascists love AI so much 💕
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September 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
“this is perhaps why the right is so obsessed with AI: it’s the idea of art without any of art’s complexity. art without labor, cost, intention, specificity, or joy; art that no one, neither producer nor consumer, has to spend any time on at all.”
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It’s adorable when guys dismiss Jane Austen as saccharine romantic fluff because I suspect none of her critics will write novels of such sharp comedy and keen understanding of human nature that they’re still being read by millions of people 250 years in the future.
September 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
It’s adorable when guys dismiss Jane Austen as saccharine romantic fluff because I suspect none of her critics will write novels of such sharp comedy and keen understanding of human nature that they’re still being read by millions of people 250 years in the future.
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A thought I keep returning to — and that’s underscored by today’s news — is that a legacy publication or a deep-pocketed investor could hire an astonishing array of talent right now and make the best newspaper in America overnight.
Well, this is fucked up and depressing.
Rolling Stone fired Alan Sepinwall, Status’ Oliver Darcy reports. That’s probably the end of my subscription.
September 16, 2025 at 5:14 AM
A thought I keep returning to — and that’s underscored by today’s news — is that a legacy publication or a deep-pocketed investor could hire an astonishing array of talent right now and make the best newspaper in America overnight.
Why do I keep getting porny posts in my feed? From all genders?
September 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Why do I keep getting porny posts in my feed? From all genders?
Sold!
It's the best time of the year! #SapphicSeptember is here and one of this year's themes is sapphic knights, which is one of my favorite things to both write and read about.
You can get this lesbian-centered, trans-inclusive, high heat Arthuriana series direct at my shop: riengray.shop ⚔️
You can get this lesbian-centered, trans-inclusive, high heat Arthuriana series direct at my shop: riengray.shop ⚔️
September 7, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Sold!
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I continue not to have strong feelings about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce but he seems to be a big galoot and I feel like marrying a big galoot is usually a solid choice so good for her
August 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I continue not to have strong feelings about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce but he seems to be a big galoot and I feel like marrying a big galoot is usually a solid choice so good for her
COME BACK, CECILIA GRANT
People bitching about GRRM and Cecilia Grant wrote four utterly incredible books that literally define what’s good in the romance genre and then rode off into the sunset, never to be heard from again.
August 23, 2025 at 12:18 AM
COME BACK, CECILIA GRANT
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I gave my life to Christ in a Cracker Barrel parking lot is just an amazing sequence of words.
August 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I gave my life to Christ in a Cracker Barrel parking lot is just an amazing sequence of words.
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Can't believe people don't get this; but the reason this payment processor shit has to be all or nothing is because once these freaks establish a line on what fiction is or isn't okay the line will only move further and further in. You have to fight against the line entirely.
August 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Can't believe people don't get this; but the reason this payment processor shit has to be all or nothing is because once these freaks establish a line on what fiction is or isn't okay the line will only move further and further in. You have to fight against the line entirely.
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New book announcement!! I am over the moon to introduce WISHSPUN, a cozy, cottagecore fantasy romance coming 2027. This is truly the book of my heart and I'm having the most wonderful time writing it.
August 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
New book announcement!! I am over the moon to introduce WISHSPUN, a cozy, cottagecore fantasy romance coming 2027. This is truly the book of my heart and I'm having the most wonderful time writing it.
I love these books
Yes. Yes I did buy more physical books because Sarah Estep released these new fabulous covers and I HAD to have them. This series has been a favorite of mine. Thanks to my friend @melonreads.bsky.social recommending it!
July 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I love these books
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New on the Patreon! I share some my favorite pieces of commissioned character art ft:
IG @/mayharte @/miggytheo @/starry.sola @/goldrubyart @/carlakdeguzman @/ mjenaiart and @/asieybarbie 💕
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IG @/mayharte @/miggytheo @/starry.sola @/goldrubyart @/carlakdeguzman @/ mjenaiart and @/asieybarbie 💕
www.patreon.com/post...
July 29, 2025 at 6:41 PM
New on the Patreon! I share some my favorite pieces of commissioned character art ft:
IG @/mayharte @/miggytheo @/starry.sola @/goldrubyart @/carlakdeguzman @/ mjenaiart and @/asieybarbie 💕
www.patreon.com/post...
IG @/mayharte @/miggytheo @/starry.sola @/goldrubyart @/carlakdeguzman @/ mjenaiart and @/asieybarbie 💕
www.patreon.com/post...
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In Preservation culture, asking payment for anything considered necessary for living (food, power sources, education, the feed, etc.) was considered outrageous, but asking payment for life-saving help was right up there with cannibalism.
July 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
In Preservation culture, asking payment for anything considered necessary for living (food, power sources, education, the feed, etc.) was considered outrageous, but asking payment for life-saving help was right up there with cannibalism.
AI sucks. 1. It is built on stolen material. 2. It devalues human artists and writers. 3. It uses an incredible amount of energy and water. 4. The output is mediocre at best. Stick to your guns, gals.
Every. Single. Story. about women not using AI as much as men portray it as bad for their future career prospects (without a shred of evidence) and a result of women being fearful little ladies rather than looking at AI's output and saying "this sucks, it's not going to help me."
For women, the increase of AI use in the workplace may affect their careers: Harvard study
Women are using AI significantly less then men and it’s going to have a major impact on their careers, according to extensive research on the topic.
www.ctvnews.ca
July 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
AI sucks. 1. It is built on stolen material. 2. It devalues human artists and writers. 3. It uses an incredible amount of energy and water. 4. The output is mediocre at best. Stick to your guns, gals.