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.
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Hey! Northern hemisphere folks:
this is my annual reminder to myself and perhaps also to you that if you have the schedule autonomy to permit it, get out for a walk or whatever during daylight hours! It's important!
You can work more when it's dark but you need whatever sunlight is available!
this is my annual reminder to myself and perhaps also to you that if you have the schedule autonomy to permit it, get out for a walk or whatever during daylight hours! It's important!
You can work more when it's dark but you need whatever sunlight is available!
November 18, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Hey! Northern hemisphere folks:
this is my annual reminder to myself and perhaps also to you that if you have the schedule autonomy to permit it, get out for a walk or whatever during daylight hours! It's important!
You can work more when it's dark but you need whatever sunlight is available!
this is my annual reminder to myself and perhaps also to you that if you have the schedule autonomy to permit it, get out for a walk or whatever during daylight hours! It's important!
You can work more when it's dark but you need whatever sunlight is available!
This is an incredibly convention with truly amazing paneling.
Scintillation is a small convention in Montreal in June, focused on reading and writing SF and fantasy. It is a lot of fun, and all people of goodwill who like reading and talking about books are welcome. Membership for 2026 is now open
www.scintillation.ca
www.scintillation.ca
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Scintillation is a small literary convention taking place in Montréal in June.
www.scintillation.ca
November 17, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This is an incredibly convention with truly amazing paneling.
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2025 Awards Eligibility
Magical Girl Antifa War Machine on @escapepod.org
The Shabbos Bride in the anthology Amplitudes, edited by @leemandelo.bsky.social
And a mysterious story in @strangehorizons.bsky.social under a pseudonym… DM about it I guess?
Magical Girl Antifa War Machine on @escapepod.org
The Shabbos Bride in the anthology Amplitudes, edited by @leemandelo.bsky.social
And a mysterious story in @strangehorizons.bsky.social under a pseudonym… DM about it I guess?
November 17, 2025 at 9:56 PM
2025 Awards Eligibility
Magical Girl Antifa War Machine on @escapepod.org
The Shabbos Bride in the anthology Amplitudes, edited by @leemandelo.bsky.social
And a mysterious story in @strangehorizons.bsky.social under a pseudonym… DM about it I guess?
Magical Girl Antifa War Machine on @escapepod.org
The Shabbos Bride in the anthology Amplitudes, edited by @leemandelo.bsky.social
And a mysterious story in @strangehorizons.bsky.social under a pseudonym… DM about it I guess?
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ONE OF THE BOYS has landed on another best of 2025 list! thank you, chicago public library!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Best Teen Fiction 2025 — a staff-created list from Chicago Public Library
Chicago Public Library recommends these titles as the very best fiction published for teens in 2025.
chipublib.bibliocommons.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:54 PM
ONE OF THE BOYS has landed on another best of 2025 list! thank you, chicago public library!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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All these attempts to frame it as “oooh, scary foreigners are bringing foreign diseases!” No, you miserable little bookend, pushing the screwworms south was an incredible feat of international cooperation, and the minute it broke up, the screwworms were always coming home again.
November 17, 2025 at 10:55 PM
All these attempts to frame it as “oooh, scary foreigners are bringing foreign diseases!” No, you miserable little bookend, pushing the screwworms south was an incredible feat of international cooperation, and the minute it broke up, the screwworms were always coming home again.
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because I posted about that "AI"-using romance bookstore in Seattle yesterday, I feel compelled to say that someone told me there is ANOTHER romance bookstore in Seattle! which presumably actually does its own stock selection.
About
Seattle's 1st Brick and Mortar Romance Bookstore
www.lovestruckinseattle.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
because I posted about that "AI"-using romance bookstore in Seattle yesterday, I feel compelled to say that someone told me there is ANOTHER romance bookstore in Seattle! which presumably actually does its own stock selection.
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Calling LLMs AI has to be one of the greatest marketing “successes” of all time.
People, including ones who run companies, have been hearing the phrase “AI” in pop culture for 60 years.
They hear about AI, assume the product is what the term has always meant, & proceed as though it’s fucking Data.
People, including ones who run companies, have been hearing the phrase “AI” in pop culture for 60 years.
They hear about AI, assume the product is what the term has always meant, & proceed as though it’s fucking Data.
November 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Calling LLMs AI has to be one of the greatest marketing “successes” of all time.
People, including ones who run companies, have been hearing the phrase “AI” in pop culture for 60 years.
They hear about AI, assume the product is what the term has always meant, & proceed as though it’s fucking Data.
People, including ones who run companies, have been hearing the phrase “AI” in pop culture for 60 years.
They hear about AI, assume the product is what the term has always meant, & proceed as though it’s fucking Data.
I’ve had success within the US ed. system and the single reason for this is I was allowed to use an mp3 player and headphones in class, and to test out of material.
My roommate is fucking brilliant but struggled in a HS that didn’t let her do that.
My roommate is fucking brilliant but struggled in a HS that didn’t let her do that.
One more detail: I've heard from a friend about accommodations for young children that would never have happened when we were kids—noise-suppressants available for kids who have sensory issues etc. It's so clear that making this stuff widely available, and nbd, is the answer!
November 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I’ve had success within the US ed. system and the single reason for this is I was allowed to use an mp3 player and headphones in class, and to test out of material.
My roommate is fucking brilliant but struggled in a HS that didn’t let her do that.
My roommate is fucking brilliant but struggled in a HS that didn’t let her do that.
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Someone said on here recently that the NYT has around the same proportion of bad writers as any paper but they all cover politics and I mean, yeah.
November 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Someone said on here recently that the NYT has around the same proportion of bad writers as any paper but they all cover politics and I mean, yeah.
This book is fucking incredible.
You know that thing, at a con, where you're having the best most interesting conversation of your life with the smartest nerds you'll ever meet and your brain is basically exploding? & you'll never think about SFF the same way again?
This is 356 pages of that.
You know that thing, at a con, where you're having the best most interesting conversation of your life with the smartest nerds you'll ever meet and your brain is basically exploding? & you'll never think about SFF the same way again?
This is 356 pages of that.
50 copies of our essay collection Trace Elements to give away on Goodreads, sign up for it and maybe you will be lucky enough to win! @adapalmer.bsky.social on manga, me on romance, both of us on protagonists, the history of SF publishing, the author-reader contract www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
Book giveaway for Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy by Jo Walton Nov 10-Dec 01, 2025
Enter to win one of 50 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Nov 10-Dec 01, 2025. From two of the most acclaimed writers in the field today, a groun...
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November 15, 2025 at 4:19 AM
This book is fucking incredible.
You know that thing, at a con, where you're having the best most interesting conversation of your life with the smartest nerds you'll ever meet and your brain is basically exploding? & you'll never think about SFF the same way again?
This is 356 pages of that.
You know that thing, at a con, where you're having the best most interesting conversation of your life with the smartest nerds you'll ever meet and your brain is basically exploding? & you'll never think about SFF the same way again?
This is 356 pages of that.
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the day after winning the Seattle mayoral race Katie Wilson is joining a Starbucks picket line and loudly boycotting
I just think she’s neat
I just think she’s neat
November 14, 2025 at 8:29 PM
the day after winning the Seattle mayoral race Katie Wilson is joining a Starbucks picket line and loudly boycotting
I just think she’s neat
I just think she’s neat
Flawless encounter.
reboot that xkcd with the Doctorow cameo but set it at the dogging site
internet is crazy
November 15, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Flawless encounter.
Frazier, 30, lives in a micro suburban lesbian commune in the heart of the PNW with, inexplicably, zero cats and THE CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE and THE FOOD OF SICHUAN--two books they were reading while editing--lay on the floor. Filing their calluses, like an Ani Difranco song come to life.
h/T to @baddestmamajama.bsky.social who did this and really made me laugh:
Olivia Nuzzi bio Mad Libs
GO
Olivia Nuzzi bio Mad Libs
GO
November 15, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Frazier, 30, lives in a micro suburban lesbian commune in the heart of the PNW with, inexplicably, zero cats and THE CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE and THE FOOD OF SICHUAN--two books they were reading while editing--lay on the floor. Filing their calluses, like an Ani Difranco song come to life.
Reading something for market research & it’s…so bad. Why. Why. Urgh.
November 15, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Reading something for market research & it’s…so bad. Why. Why. Urgh.
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This is the first time I've ever seen journalistic confirmation (apart from rampant rumors) that MXTX was actually imprisoned. That is just astonishing and horrifying and a brutal reminder that no one is safe under authoritarianism, no matter how popular or successful they are.
the first (to my knowledge) western reportage that yes, MXTX was detained in 2019, sentenced to 3 years in prison, and paroled in 2021; now with a link that actually works:
apnews.com/article/chin...
apnews.com/article/chin...
November 15, 2025 at 1:27 AM
This is the first time I've ever seen journalistic confirmation (apart from rampant rumors) that MXTX was actually imprisoned. That is just astonishing and horrifying and a brutal reminder that no one is safe under authoritarianism, no matter how popular or successful they are.
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It is 1998. I am at the kitchen table writing Batman fanfic but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
It is 2025. I am at the kitchen table writing a canonical Bat-book but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
It is 2025. I am at the kitchen table writing a canonical Bat-book but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
November 15, 2025 at 1:34 AM
It is 1998. I am at the kitchen table writing Batman fanfic but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
It is 2025. I am at the kitchen table writing a canonical Bat-book but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
It is 2025. I am at the kitchen table writing a canonical Bat-book but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
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Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; the grim god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories.
November 14, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; the grim god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories.
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I think about this tweet every day
November 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I think about this tweet every day
Die heretic die etc
Today's heretical opinion: Milk chocolate is better than dark chocolate and expensive chocolate is so very rarely worth the additional expense. Most chocolate more costly than a Lindt bonbon is a waste of money.
Also white chocolate is perfectly fine. Not real chocolate, okay, whatever. But fine.
Also white chocolate is perfectly fine. Not real chocolate, okay, whatever. But fine.
November 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Die heretic die etc
HELL FUCKING YEAH SEATTLE LETS GO!
longest yeah boiiiii ever
Katie Wilson has been elected Seattle's next mayor
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
HELL FUCKING YEAH SEATTLE LETS GO!
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
VIN DIESEL BOND
HELEN MIRREN BOND GIRL
WE ARE COOKING WITH ROCKET FUEL
HELEN MIRREN BOND GIRL
WE ARE COOKING WITH ROCKET FUEL
November 12, 2025 at 1:20 AM
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
I’m going to fucking bite someone
November 12, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I’m going to fucking bite someone
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the tops to their bottom in the werewolf spit-roast: "inside you are two wolves..."
November 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
the tops to their bottom in the werewolf spit-roast: "inside you are two wolves..."
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Have now become obsessed with the Goodreads Giveaway page for Trace Elements. It was 872 people when I went to bed, and I was hoping it would be over 1000 by breakfast time, but it's a suspiciously round 980.
Still, 980 people wanting our book is pretty good www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
Still, 980 people wanting our book is pretty good www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
Book giveaway for Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy by Jo Walton Nov 10-Dec 01, 2025
Enter to win one of 50 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Nov 10-Dec 01, 2025. From two of the most acclaimed writers in the field today, a groun...
www.goodreads.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Have now become obsessed with the Goodreads Giveaway page for Trace Elements. It was 872 people when I went to bed, and I was hoping it would be over 1000 by breakfast time, but it's a suspiciously round 980.
Still, 980 people wanting our book is pretty good www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
Still, 980 people wanting our book is pretty good www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
Investing in this chain at 4 posts….
i recently read the first dorley hall book and it’s made me idk 5% more insane
November 10, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Investing in this chain at 4 posts….