Mosylu
@mosylu.bsky.social
Librarian and fangirl. I drop thoughts on here so I don’t annoy people in real life. Read a girl’s AO3 if you’ve a mind to. https://archiveofourown.org/users/mosylu
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Fatphobia is rampant.
September 2, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Fatphobia is rampant.
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January 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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"It’s a particular feeling when a book sinks straight into your bones, and in order to write about it, you have to pull it back out again."
@mollytempleton.com reviews Rachel Hartman's Among Ghosts, the newest YA novel from the author of Seraphina and Tess of the Road
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@mollytempleton.com reviews Rachel Hartman's Among Ghosts, the newest YA novel from the author of Seraphina and Tess of the Road
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We Are All of Us Haunted: Rachel Hartman’s Among Ghosts - Reactor
A novel that unfolds slowly and patiently, tracing the threads of history…
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August 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"It’s a particular feeling when a book sinks straight into your bones, and in order to write about it, you have to pull it back out again."
@mollytempleton.com reviews Rachel Hartman's Among Ghosts, the newest YA novel from the author of Seraphina and Tess of the Road
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@mollytempleton.com reviews Rachel Hartman's Among Ghosts, the newest YA novel from the author of Seraphina and Tess of the Road
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I know it’s a good MG book when I’m tempted to put my head in my hands and groan, “oh honeeyyyy” every other page
August 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I know it’s a good MG book when I’m tempted to put my head in my hands and groan, “oh honeeyyyy” every other page
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Me, an autistic:
Here are your footnotes, mid-conversation.
Here is your citation you didn’t ask for.
Here is the backstory.
Here is the dramatis personae.
Here is the novella about this one little detail that will make this tangent relevant.
Missing: a short summary.
Here are your footnotes, mid-conversation.
Here is your citation you didn’t ask for.
Here is the backstory.
Here is the dramatis personae.
Here is the novella about this one little detail that will make this tangent relevant.
Missing: a short summary.
August 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Me, an autistic:
Here are your footnotes, mid-conversation.
Here is your citation you didn’t ask for.
Here is the backstory.
Here is the dramatis personae.
Here is the novella about this one little detail that will make this tangent relevant.
Missing: a short summary.
Here are your footnotes, mid-conversation.
Here is your citation you didn’t ask for.
Here is the backstory.
Here is the dramatis personae.
Here is the novella about this one little detail that will make this tangent relevant.
Missing: a short summary.
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I think the best book to give a young reader is the book you think *they* are going to genuinely like. With fiction, I firmly believe focusing on reading great books is less important than becoming a person who thinks of reading as pleasurable.
August 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I think the best book to give a young reader is the book you think *they* are going to genuinely like. With fiction, I firmly believe focusing on reading great books is less important than becoming a person who thinks of reading as pleasurable.
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Hard fucking same. The way that people talk about homeless people--like pests to be eradicated, or like threats to housed people--sends me into a rage. Treat people like people, you absolute gremlins.
the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back
August 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Hard fucking same. The way that people talk about homeless people--like pests to be eradicated, or like threats to housed people--sends me into a rage. Treat people like people, you absolute gremlins.
Library patron: “this place is full of deplorables” (read: human beings in rough situations using one of the few places they can go for a/c in 100+ weather) “so I’ll go somewhere else”
Me: okay! Sounds good! 😁
Me: okay! Sounds good! 😁
August 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Library patron: “this place is full of deplorables” (read: human beings in rough situations using one of the few places they can go for a/c in 100+ weather) “so I’ll go somewhere else”
Me: okay! Sounds good! 😁
Me: okay! Sounds good! 😁
Yesssssssss 👀🍿🍿
Fiiiine, apparently half my readers enjoy an info dump, so here we go!
Grasslands Sequester Carbon Too or “Why trees are not the be-all and end-all.”
Ahem. *takes a sip of water*
Grasslands Sequester Carbon Too or “Why trees are not the be-all and end-all.”
Ahem. *takes a sip of water*
I THINK they’re mad because of the hardscaping? Not entirely sure.
(One guy tried to claim it didn’t store CO2. Do you want a lecture on prairie carbon sequestration? Because this is how you get a lecture on prairie carbon sequestration.)
(One guy tried to claim it didn’t store CO2. Do you want a lecture on prairie carbon sequestration? Because this is how you get a lecture on prairie carbon sequestration.)
July 26, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Yesssssssss 👀🍿🍿
Something about Spotify popping the vaguely unsettling Saja Boys Soda Pop song onto an “energetic happy mix” is so on the nose I can’t even stand it
July 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Something about Spotify popping the vaguely unsettling Saja Boys Soda Pop song onto an “energetic happy mix” is so on the nose I can’t even stand it
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100 is too many degrees. Take some back.
July 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
100 is too many degrees. Take some back.
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If you don’t want your kids to leave the religion you raised them in, don’t raise them in a sucky religion that only takes hold if they never learn anything new.
You don’t have a right for your kids not to question you.
You don’t have a right for your kids not to question you.
June 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
If you don’t want your kids to leave the religion you raised them in, don’t raise them in a sucky religion that only takes hold if they never learn anything new.
You don’t have a right for your kids not to question you.
You don’t have a right for your kids not to question you.
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people: mamdani is going to turn NYC into a theocracy!!!!
SCOTUS: it's ok if ur religion thinks being gay is evil and don't want ur kids to read about it in school
SCOTUS: it's ok if ur religion thinks being gay is evil and don't want ur kids to read about it in school
June 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
people: mamdani is going to turn NYC into a theocracy!!!!
SCOTUS: it's ok if ur religion thinks being gay is evil and don't want ur kids to read about it in school
SCOTUS: it's ok if ur religion thinks being gay is evil and don't want ur kids to read about it in school
Librarian: hi guys! 😀 Do you mind putting a lid on your giant sticky sugary slushies while using our public computers? 😄
Patrons: 😒💀🤬🔪🔪🔪
Patrons: 😒💀🤬🔪🔪🔪
June 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Librarian: hi guys! 😀 Do you mind putting a lid on your giant sticky sugary slushies while using our public computers? 😄
Patrons: 😒💀🤬🔪🔪🔪
Patrons: 😒💀🤬🔪🔪🔪
Reading a fic for a new ship and finding your NOTP in the middle of it is like biting into an olive in your salad. You can spit out the olive but the taste is still all over
June 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Reading a fic for a new ship and finding your NOTP in the middle of it is like biting into an olive in your salad. You can spit out the olive but the taste is still all over
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But please fucking THINK. Do you know how bloody and awful civil war would be? Even the bluest states have large swathes of red country. Even the reddest of states have very blue cities.
June 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
But please fucking THINK. Do you know how bloody and awful civil war would be? Even the bluest states have large swathes of red country. Even the reddest of states have very blue cities.
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The most popular thing I ever said on Tumblr was this:
Fanfic is the triumph of character-based relationship building over the need for clever plot or pretty cinematography. It says “I don’t care what they do; I care about what they feel, and how that makes me feel.”
Fanfic is the triumph of character-based relationship building over the need for clever plot or pretty cinematography. It says “I don’t care what they do; I care about what they feel, and how that makes me feel.”
I would take this even further. Chase scenes, big set piece battles, confrontations, etc. are INTERRUPTIONS to character’s regular lives. Half of fanfic is like “we wanna see these beautiful dorks eating shawarma together.” The “downtime scenes” in the main story are rewards for the audience.
Your 'downtime' scenes have to advance the story just as much as a chase or confrontation does. They advance the intellectual/emotional aspects.
Never think of them as filler.
Give them purpose.
Never think of them as filler.
Give them purpose.
June 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The most popular thing I ever said on Tumblr was this:
Fanfic is the triumph of character-based relationship building over the need for clever plot or pretty cinematography. It says “I don’t care what they do; I care about what they feel, and how that makes me feel.”
Fanfic is the triumph of character-based relationship building over the need for clever plot or pretty cinematography. It says “I don’t care what they do; I care about what they feel, and how that makes me feel.”
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Me to everyone I know this week, trying to be casual: oh heeeey are you watching Murderbot? Here's why you'd love it.
June 6, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Me to everyone I know this week, trying to be casual: oh heeeey are you watching Murderbot? Here's why you'd love it.
They literally could have asked a librarian for book recs. It’s our job and we love it. Actually I have to be forcibly restrained from giving book recs. WTF
May 21, 2025 at 3:47 AM
They literally could have asked a librarian for book recs. It’s our job and we love it. Actually I have to be forcibly restrained from giving book recs. WTF
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Are we all doing the thing where we all stand in complete and utter support of Carla Hayden (newly sacked by 47)? Damn right we are.
May 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Are we all doing the thing where we all stand in complete and utter support of Carla Hayden (newly sacked by 47)? Damn right we are.
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