Molly Templeton
@mollytempleton.com
I read, I write, & I pet cats. Column, news, & book reviews at @reactorsff.bsky.social; publicity, prize, & more for @ursulakleguin.com. Once a bookseller, always a bookseller. PDX.
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There never seems to be a good time for anything online lately so I'm just going to throw this out here now:
I am looking for more work! I don't mean writing (though that too, sure!), but in the vein of the work I do for the Le Guin Foundation: organizational, practical, assistant-y, bookish work.
I am looking for more work! I don't mean writing (though that too, sure!), but in the vein of the work I do for the Le Guin Foundation: organizational, practical, assistant-y, bookish work.
FRIENDS you should come to this!!! not just because Perennial is rad but because my partner's band is ALSO playing!!!!
we love it when great things happen together!!!!
we love it when great things happen together!!!!
Portland Oregon friends!
Who are we seeing on our January 12th return to Rip City?
Tickets:
www.lonelygodpdx.com/events/peren...
Who are we seeing on our January 12th return to Rip City?
Tickets:
www.lonelygodpdx.com/events/peren...
December 29, 2025 at 8:39 PM
FRIENDS you should come to this!!! not just because Perennial is rad but because my partner's band is ALSO playing!!!!
we love it when great things happen together!!!!
we love it when great things happen together!!!!
acab includes the cop in your head who wants to direct how other people use social media
(yes this is a reminder for me as well as the specific person at whom I am quite irritated at the moment!!!!!)
(yes this is a reminder for me as well as the specific person at whom I am quite irritated at the moment!!!!!)
December 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
acab includes the cop in your head who wants to direct how other people use social media
(yes this is a reminder for me as well as the specific person at whom I am quite irritated at the moment!!!!!)
(yes this is a reminder for me as well as the specific person at whom I am quite irritated at the moment!!!!!)
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In some ways, the clumsiness of this administration can help us see what goes on in corporate boardrooms dadadrummer.substack.com/p/what-is-th...
What is the Artist to Fascism?
Richard Grenell explains
dadadrummer.substack.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
In some ways, the clumsiness of this administration can help us see what goes on in corporate boardrooms dadadrummer.substack.com/p/what-is-th...
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If you're wondering whether the "open letter about AI" on file 770 is worth reading and engaging, it is not. The whole thing is rhetorical mush so it was no surprise when I got to the end and she admitted "her" letter was itself written by AI. Useless bait.
December 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
If you're wondering whether the "open letter about AI" on file 770 is worth reading and engaging, it is not. The whole thing is rhetorical mush so it was no surprise when I got to the end and she admitted "her" letter was itself written by AI. Useless bait.
a very happy new Thermals song day to all who celebrate
In The Night Sky, by The Thermals
track by The Thermals
thethermals.bandcamp.com
December 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
a very happy new Thermals song day to all who celebrate
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It’s not “losing money” any more than air traffic controllers or public highways or street lights or fire departments are “losing money.” It is a government service. It’s not SUPPOSED to make money. It’s supposed to reliably deliver to anywhere in the US, even the unprofitable places.
The USPS faces a tight squeeze. With fewer people using the mail, it’s lost more and more money: $9 billion in the 12 months ending in September alone.
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
December 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
It’s not “losing money” any more than air traffic controllers or public highways or street lights or fire departments are “losing money.” It is a government service. It’s not SUPPOSED to make money. It’s supposed to reliably deliver to anywhere in the US, even the unprofitable places.
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
had this whole plan to go to all these movies over the holiday break and then it turns out every movie I want to see is leaving theaters 12/24 to be replaced by two movies I have zero interest in seeing, why must I be THWARTED LIKE THIS 😂
December 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
had this whole plan to go to all these movies over the holiday break and then it turns out every movie I want to see is leaving theaters 12/24 to be replaced by two movies I have zero interest in seeing, why must I be THWARTED LIKE THIS 😂
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From Susan Cooper's The Shortest Day, a poem of the winter solstice:
"They carol, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
and hope for peace."
That's really everything, isn't is. Not just today, but in life. Everything else either feeds into or draws away from them
"They carol, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
and hope for peace."
That's really everything, isn't is. Not just today, but in life. Everything else either feeds into or draws away from them
December 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
From Susan Cooper's The Shortest Day, a poem of the winter solstice:
"They carol, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
and hope for peace."
That's really everything, isn't is. Not just today, but in life. Everything else either feeds into or draws away from them
"They carol, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
and hope for peace."
That's really everything, isn't is. Not just today, but in life. Everything else either feeds into or draws away from them
please tell me your one (one!!!) number one cookie recipe
(the only thing I really do for The Holidays is take cookies when we go to the in-laws' for lunch and I need one more recipe to add to my chocolate chip / espresso brownie / snickerdoodle lineup for this year)
(the only thing I really do for The Holidays is take cookies when we go to the in-laws' for lunch and I need one more recipe to add to my chocolate chip / espresso brownie / snickerdoodle lineup for this year)
December 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
please tell me your one (one!!!) number one cookie recipe
(the only thing I really do for The Holidays is take cookies when we go to the in-laws' for lunch and I need one more recipe to add to my chocolate chip / espresso brownie / snickerdoodle lineup for this year)
(the only thing I really do for The Holidays is take cookies when we go to the in-laws' for lunch and I need one more recipe to add to my chocolate chip / espresso brownie / snickerdoodle lineup for this year)
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this is a stain on the Nebulas and should be reversed
Very disappointed in the new Nebula Award eligibility information from SFWA that allows partially-generated works to be on the ballot. See 9.11.2.
www.sfwa.org/complete-neb...
This shouldn't be difficult. #noAI
www.sfwa.org/complete-neb...
This shouldn't be difficult. #noAI
December 19, 2025 at 8:25 PM
this is a stain on the Nebulas and should be reversed
this is astonishingly beautiful
This essay by the author of a recent well-reviewed book about Tolkien starts modestly and then stabs you with a Morgul-blade halfway through, where you are pinioned by a twist in the telling. You may never recover. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
Opinion | Why I Keep Returning to Middle-Earth
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
this is astonishingly beautiful
sure it came out five months ago but for ME this is a last-minute top-five-songs-of-the-year contender okay
Jay Som - Float [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO]
YouTube video by Jay Som
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
sure it came out five months ago but for ME this is a last-minute top-five-songs-of-the-year contender okay
wow, I too thought the IRL hunger games thing was a joke
December 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
wow, I too thought the IRL hunger games thing was a joke
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To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
December 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
tbh my favorite moment in mainstream media this whole year is still yelena belova forgiving herself 😭
Sinners! Pluribus! Ladyknight books! Matt Murdock praying to the patron saint of lawyers! Aspect ratios! Yves from LOONA! The wedding music in Andor!
It's a weird, nerdy world. Here were some of our favorite examples from 2025:
It's a weird, nerdy world. Here were some of our favorite examples from 2025:
A Few Things That Brought Us Nerdy Joy in 2025 - Reactor
No matter how rotten the year is, we will still find joy in it
reactormag.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
tbh my favorite moment in mainstream media this whole year is still yelena belova forgiving herself 😭
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"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.
December 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.
shag marry kill Hamlet edition: Oscar Isaac, Ruth Negga, David Tennant
Shag marry kill Robin Hood edition: Oscar Isaac, Léa Seydoux, Cate Blanchett
December 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
shag marry kill Hamlet edition: Oscar Isaac, Ruth Negga, David Tennant
I love every Bora Chung book I've read so far and maybe this one most of all
"Here, the humans cause the haunting. The objects hold the memory."
@mollytempleton.com reviews Midnight Timetable, Bora Chung's new short story collection about a research center for haunted objects:
@mollytempleton.com reviews Midnight Timetable, Bora Chung's new short story collection about a research center for haunted objects:
Ghosts in the After Hours: Bora Chung's Midnight Timetable - Reactor
What becomes of an object that’s held a story for someone? Molly Templeton reviews Bora Chung's new "novel in short stories."
reactormag.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I love every Bora Chung book I've read so far and maybe this one most of all
it is two weeks until new year's even and I'm deeply not able to accept this as fact
December 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
it is two weeks until new year's even and I'm deeply not able to accept this as fact
sorry to brag but I've read this book and it rules and as I believe I have said previously, if you were an Anne Rice Teen (or adult, whatever) and/or grew up in the PNW and/or love books about women making deliciously poor decisions, this IS the book for you
would u like to see a very hot book cover for a very hot book that is available now for preorder here bookshop.org/p/books/poss...
December 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
sorry to brag but I've read this book and it rules and as I believe I have said previously, if you were an Anne Rice Teen (or adult, whatever) and/or grew up in the PNW and/or love books about women making deliciously poor decisions, this IS the book for you
just one (1) repost, for the mythical "morning crowd!"
There never seems to be a good time for anything online lately so I'm just going to throw this out here now:
I am looking for more work! I don't mean writing (though that too, sure!), but in the vein of the work I do for the Le Guin Foundation: organizational, practical, assistant-y, bookish work.
I am looking for more work! I don't mean writing (though that too, sure!), but in the vein of the work I do for the Le Guin Foundation: organizational, practical, assistant-y, bookish work.
December 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
just one (1) repost, for the mythical "morning crowd!"
Sinners
and then Sinners again
(and also Eno)
and then Sinners again
(and also Eno)
2025 has been a rough year. What's one piece of art that's brought you absolute joy despite everything?
December 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Sinners
and then Sinners again
(and also Eno)
and then Sinners again
(and also Eno)