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Molly Templeton
@mollytempleton.com
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I read, I write, & I pet cats. Column, news, & book reviews at Reactor (formerly known as Tor.com); publicity, prize, & more for the Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation. Once a bookseller, always a bookseller. PDX.

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is it a weird book I bought for shits and giggles years ago or is it the NYT opinion section
a small strange book titled "WOMEN pro & con." shockingly, no author is listed
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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:sobbing: BUT WHY DO THE EYES LOOK LIKE THAT

AND ALSO THE MOUTH

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the promo image from a toy lothcat, from Star Wars Rebels, which is generally a really wonderful little space creature - kind of like a cat-dog with big rabbit-ish ears - but this one has slightly terrifying, slightly human eyes, and a slightly human mouth, and I'm sorry but it's a little bit upsetting
November 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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why does every famous man in his 20s currently look like a dirtbag who was smoking by the shed behind the school in the ’80s
Jacob Elordi with a mullet and a mustache, appearing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
October 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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just got this one yesterday and I am obsessed with it!!!!
a white leg against a paper towel background. on the outside of the lower leg is a fresh tattoo of a baba yaga house with chicken legs and wings; inside the outline of the house there are several eyes and windows, a sacred heart, a little red flower, and a doorway that is also a ghost. the legs are a little askew and the chimney is crooked.
October 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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last night I said "hey Bat, say hi to @yashwinacanter.bsky.social" and this is what I got
a black cat with a frown on her little face sits on a kitchen island next to a paper towel holder. is this where cats go? technically, no. below her, a gray long-haired cat sneaks past, her tail curled like a question mark
October 17, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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oh no how did I leave this off!!!!
When Your Heartstrings Break by Beulah
October 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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ask again tomorrow and they might be almost entirely different but for starters:
Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone by Harvey Danger The It Girl by Sleeper Zopilote Machine by The Mountain Goats Retreat from the Sun by That Dog
October 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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many things are wrong with las vegas, including the fact that I just took a shower and now I feel as if all the moisture has left my body. i'm sorry, desert lovers, I am a child of the damp! I don't know how to live like this!!!!

however I did quite enjoy this sign
a big sign that says CASINO across the top and then, beneath that, in black letters, it reads "READ THE VOWELS IN CELINE DION OUT LOUD THANK YOU"
October 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Without downloading anything new, where are you mentally?
A shot of Taika Waititi in Our Flag Mean Death. He is leaning on the ship's wheel with a look on his face that is at once smug and panicked. The text above reads "Bothered. Dehydrated. Feral. In too many lanes. Distracted. Barely surviving. Unhinged."
October 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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post a you from a different era
a blonde white girl with a red barrette in her chin-length hair, wearing a black tank top and burgundy corduroy cutoffs, sits on one end of a picnic table in the sun. she is blissfully unaware that she is getting an epic sunburn on the part in her hair. this is siren festival, coney island, 2001.
October 2, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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can we bring back "author of book title, etc." on covers? it has a certain charm
a photos of the book Team Bells Woke Me and Other Stories by H.L. Davis, which says, under the author's name, "author of Winds of Morning etc." The cover is mostly a pale blue; the bottom third shows a scene of horses grazing on grass in front of a snowy field. with a man sitting near a wagon to the right. The sky is turning yellow behind the mountains.
September 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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which Expanse character do we think is Bat’s favorite
A troublemaking black cat sits proudly on a stack of the first three books in The Expanse: Leviathan Wakes, Caliban’s War, and Abaddon’s Gate (three Expanse books being the easiest way to get my laptop at Zoom height)
August 27, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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pretty sure this is the only book that will ever get me choked up about both a kraken and a prime minister (among other people and things, but those two in particular are an unusual pair!)
The book A Radical Act of Free Magic by HG Parry
August 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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lightly obsessed with how this dragon looks like a cat horking up a hairball
A section header in HG Parry’s book A Radical Act of Free Magic has a drawing - in a sort of woodcut style - of a dragon blowing a small fireball, but its slightly hunched pose is extremely feline
August 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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I would say "you have got to be kidding me," but at this point perhaps I should no longer be surprisable.

these icons! COME THE FUCK ON.

dear guests of honor, I guess you're the sheriffs now?!?
a screenshot of the LACon website has a sheriff's badge icon above the words "meet our guests of honor," a money bag over "register for the convention," a wagon wheel over "get involved with the conference," and a building that looks like a church over "meet and greet LACon V at events"
August 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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the NYT morning newsletter: "Trump was a gracious host, complimenting the German chancellor’s tan and the Finnish president’s youthful looks."

Heather Cox Richardson's newsletter:
By the late afternoon, the president was unable to recognize President Stubb, who was sitting directly across the table from him. “President Stubb of Finland,” Trump said. Looking around, Trump continued: “And he’s uh, he’s somebody that, where are we here? Huh? Where? Where?” Stubb said, “I’m right here.” Trump focused on him and answered: “Oh. You look better than I’ve ever seen you look.”
August 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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yeah, so, maybe this is the key part of this trump tantrum? put this in the headlines, you cowards
Mr. Trump’s latest comments came after he said that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had discussed the issue during their summit on Friday in Alaska. Mr. Trump said in an interview with Fox News that the Russian leader had agreed with him that the 2020 election had been rigged in favor of Mr. Biden. “He said, ‘Your election was rigged because you have mail-in voting,’” Mr. Trump quoted Mr. Putin as saying.
August 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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is counter where cats go?
NO!
is computer what cats lick?
NO!
A black cat is licking/rubbing her face on the corner of a laptop (that is open to Bluesky). Both laptop and cat are on a wood-topped kitchen island that is most definitely NOT where cats are supposed to be.
August 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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like, truly, who did this
a very bad cover for dodie smith's I Capture the Castle shows a brown-haired girl in a flowy pink coat apparently hovering over some water. it is minimalist and foolish
July 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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I thought "Wicked tie-in crocs" was going to be the thing that wrecked me from this image but then I looked more closely at the bottom right corner
An image of new Wicked tie-in crap includes pink- and green-stemmed wineglasses; hideous green Crocs; some Lego bits; a tarot deck, Funko pops, a gold necklace, and a microwavable cup of macaroni and cheese that comes in MYSTERY COLOR: will you get pink or green?
July 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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"only one thing could save them" and it's definitely this giant godlike space otter
the cover for Alien Art by Gordon R. Dickson is all in shades of brown and red and shows a landscape with mountains along one side, a glowing city in the distance, and a river snaking through it all; there is a figure in a cowboy hat in the foreground, and the sky features a red moon and a giant, no, seriously, really giant otter just floating in the clouds
July 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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the cat sat on my (home)work.
a black cat looks very proud of herself as she sits very upright on a stack of books. if you look very closely she has the tiniest blep.
July 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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her floof will not fit in frame
a very fluffy grey cat sleeping like a croissant, with her chin draped over the edge of a bookcase
July 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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the four genres
A screenshot of Bloomsbury's sale page, which has sections for Children, Fiction, Non-fiction, and Sarah J. Maas.
July 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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when you really gotta fit that "bestselling author" detail into the cover copy on your totally unrelated novel
the inside flap of World's End by Joan D. Vinge reads, "Now at last, Joan D. Vinge, bestselling author of The Return of the Jedi Storybook, returns to the universe of her award-winning Snow Queen, with a novel as dazzling, as compelling, as the 'future classic' (Arthur C. Clarke)."
July 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM