Mal Frazier (they/them)
@malf.bsky.social
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Mal Frazier (they/them)
@malf.bsky.social
· Sep 13
Recent reads:
Flip by Ngozi Ukazu--utterly lovely YA about a Black girl and white boy who swap bodies. Fandom inflected, balances artfulness and tropeyness perfectly. Asks more questions than it answers. Just great.
Flip by Ngozi Ukazu--utterly lovely YA about a Black girl and white boy who swap bodies. Fandom inflected, balances artfulness and tropeyness perfectly. Asks more questions than it answers. Just great.
breaking news: he’s sleepy
January 19, 2026 at 6:43 PM
breaking news: he’s sleepy
Plant people, help! Found an orchid today in NorCal, redwood forest. See pics.
January 19, 2026 at 5:27 AM
Plant people, help! Found an orchid today in NorCal, redwood forest. See pics.
everyone posting about books read last year and best of and whatever and I completely just fucking lost the plot and stopped tracking anything
January 16, 2026 at 9:20 PM
everyone posting about books read last year and best of and whatever and I completely just fucking lost the plot and stopped tracking anything
Just got back to town to find my ARC copy of this amazingly beautiful book arrived.
Everyone--this is so good, it's so good. It's about helplessness and fear and hope and resistance and it's so fucking hooky and pacey and smart. Naomi's writing hits like a fucking bolt gun.
Everyone--this is so good, it's so good. It's about helplessness and fear and hope and resistance and it's so fucking hooky and pacey and smart. Naomi's writing hits like a fucking bolt gun.
So it feels very weird to be talking about anything other than the ICE occupation right now, but the ARCs of my new book arrived on Saturday. I'm going to do a giveaway.
January 16, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Just got back to town to find my ARC copy of this amazingly beautiful book arrived.
Everyone--this is so good, it's so good. It's about helplessness and fear and hope and resistance and it's so fucking hooky and pacey and smart. Naomi's writing hits like a fucking bolt gun.
Everyone--this is so good, it's so good. It's about helplessness and fear and hope and resistance and it's so fucking hooky and pacey and smart. Naomi's writing hits like a fucking bolt gun.
Hunting down your authors is an art much like trapping feral cats—next time try a churu
Publishers Break Down Door As George R.R. Martin Escapes Through Bathroom Window https://theonion.com/publishers-break-down-door-as-george-r-r-martin-escapes-through-bathroom-window/
January 6, 2026 at 5:26 AM
Hunting down your authors is an art much like trapping feral cats—next time try a churu
sometimes love is sucking alien eye goop off one another's fingers
The SFF Bestiary's exploration of Moby Dick-shaped leviathans takes a turn in outer space with @quicunquevult.bsky.social's upcoming novel Hell's Heart, featuring: Greenland sharks, lesbians, and missing limbs 🐳
Hunting the Great White Whale-Thing on Jupiter - Reactor
A reimagining of Moby-Dick that takes the classic whale hunt into space...
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January 5, 2026 at 11:57 PM
sometimes love is sucking alien eye goop off one another's fingers
Recognized the art at ten paces. Yes, yes you do.
Look you need to buy this book. Really, you do.
It’s truly the graphic novel I most enjoyed over the past year—stunning art, compelling and deeply felt stories, enviable worldbuilding
It’s truly the graphic novel I most enjoyed over the past year—stunning art, compelling and deeply felt stories, enviable worldbuilding
WE HAVE A GARDEN OF SPHERES!!! Lots of you have been asking for it and we finally have them in stock so if you've been waiting for Linnea Sterte's new story published by @peow.bsky.social you can get it from us today!
shop.crowsnest.quest/products/a-g...
shop.crowsnest.quest/products/a-g...
January 5, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Recognized the art at ten paces. Yes, yes you do.
god help me someone asked what i'm looking for in short fiction. how do i say: horror but not like that, questions without answers, short, and fucking weird. the thing that makes good short fiction to me is that the final act of the story is in your head, not on the page
January 5, 2026 at 11:34 PM
god help me someone asked what i'm looking for in short fiction. how do i say: horror but not like that, questions without answers, short, and fucking weird. the thing that makes good short fiction to me is that the final act of the story is in your head, not on the page
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The man would like to register his discontent
January 2, 2026 at 7:22 PM
The man would like to register his discontent
Everyone please do enjoy my mother’s monstrous son
December 31, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Everyone please do enjoy my mother’s monstrous son
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my favorite pieces from 2025
December 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
my favorite pieces from 2025
Making a playlist of all of the gayest florence+the machine songs in order. Suggestions for top rankings happily accepted.
December 16, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Making a playlist of all of the gayest florence+the machine songs in order. Suggestions for top rankings happily accepted.
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hello
December 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
hello
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I tried to pitch so much coverage of this book, which is alarmingly relevant to day in light of the government’s attacks on disabled people esp children. Crickets. Glad to see the NBCC doing its job and elevating it.
December 16, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I tried to pitch so much coverage of this book, which is alarmingly relevant to day in light of the government’s attacks on disabled people esp children. Crickets. Glad to see the NBCC doing its job and elevating it.
PERFECT pairing
Jam Advent Calendar, Day 15, Orange, Guava and Lime jam, with Jennifer Crusie's Faking It
December 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM
PERFECT pairing
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this is the best thing I have ever seen!!!!! thank you @annehelen.bsky.social
Photos: When the Polar Bears Move In
The photographer Vadim Makhorov, while recently cruising on the Chukchi Sea, noticed a group of polar bears that were taking shelter inside an abandoned research station on Russia’s remote Kolyuchin I...
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December 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
this is the best thing I have ever seen!!!!! thank you @annehelen.bsky.social
The little toes are killin me
It would be nice to have just one day without Saja-related drama BUT NOOOOOOO
December 7, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The little toes are killin me
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I'm convinced this will not change in book two:
December 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I'm convinced this will not change in book two:
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Oh captain my captain
December 5, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Oh captain my captain
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every year I agonize over trying to pick my top (x) number of photos I took in the previous year, and I'll probably do that again this time, but I will admit this is the easiest slam-dunk favorite I've had in a couple of years.
(Fujica GW690i | Kodak Ektar 100 #filmphotography)
(Fujica GW690i | Kodak Ektar 100 #filmphotography)
December 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
every year I agonize over trying to pick my top (x) number of photos I took in the previous year, and I'll probably do that again this time, but I will admit this is the easiest slam-dunk favorite I've had in a couple of years.
(Fujica GW690i | Kodak Ektar 100 #filmphotography)
(Fujica GW690i | Kodak Ektar 100 #filmphotography)
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This week on Seeds of Story, Ada Palmer's Inventing the Renaissance is a science-fictional look at history: reactormag.com/infernal-gra...
Infernal Gravity and the Logic of Death Scenes: Ada Palmer’s Inventing the Renaissance - Reactor
A fascinating look at how societies manufacture the myth of a Golden Age
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December 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
This week on Seeds of Story, Ada Palmer's Inventing the Renaissance is a science-fictional look at history: reactormag.com/infernal-gra...
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There will be a worldwide eARC giveaway happening in my discord shortly. discord.gg/fmPTWSZfT6
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December 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
There will be a worldwide eARC giveaway happening in my discord shortly. discord.gg/fmPTWSZfT6
this book is SO STUPIDLY GREAT and I’m so excited for all of you to read it
US people: there is a Goodreads giveaway for 50 print ARCs of HOW TO FAKE IT IN SOCIETY (which releases next April so don't miss). Get your "nervous nouveau riche x flagrant con artist" Regency romance here!
(US only, not in my control, sorry.)
(US only, not in my control, sorry.)
Book giveaway for How to Fake It in Society by K.J. Charles Dec 01-Dec 31, 2025
Enter to win one of 50 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Dec 01-Dec 31, 2025. Enter for a chance to win an ARC of HOW TO FAKE IT IN SOCIETY!“A...
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December 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
this book is SO STUPIDLY GREAT and I’m so excited for all of you to read it
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i am not usually shrill about media consumption as a moral metric. i read historical romances, a genre riddled with colonial fantasies and gender essentialism! but the thing is that none of those authors are billionaires converting my money directly into anti-trans violence
December 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
i am not usually shrill about media consumption as a moral metric. i read historical romances, a genre riddled with colonial fantasies and gender essentialism! but the thing is that none of those authors are billionaires converting my money directly into anti-trans violence