Noah Medlock
@noahmedlock.bsky.social
Author of queer weird fiction - he/him
A BOTANICAL DAUGHTER - March 2024
A BOTANICAL DAUGHTER - March 2024
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Noah Medlock
@noahmedlock.bsky.social
· Jan 11
A Botanical Daughter is cheap on Kindle US at the moment!
Go fill your boots with plant-based Frankenstein realness — two gay dads grow themselves a daughter… of sorts 🌿 💀 🥀
If I say it has the found family trope I mean, like, found with a shovel
#queerbooks #horror
Go fill your boots with plant-based Frankenstein realness — two gay dads grow themselves a daughter… of sorts 🌿 💀 🥀
If I say it has the found family trope I mean, like, found with a shovel
#queerbooks #horror
The main characters in A Botanical Daughter both have silent letters in their names, X+Y:
Rievaulx is a ruined abbey in Yorkshire, gothic and austere like Simon
Sandys sounds like Sands, a reference to ‘Inspector Sands’ which is a common code for a fire (iykyk)
Art by @angellilou.bsky.social
Rievaulx is a ruined abbey in Yorkshire, gothic and austere like Simon
Sandys sounds like Sands, a reference to ‘Inspector Sands’ which is a common code for a fire (iykyk)
Art by @angellilou.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The main characters in A Botanical Daughter both have silent letters in their names, X+Y:
Rievaulx is a ruined abbey in Yorkshire, gothic and austere like Simon
Sandys sounds like Sands, a reference to ‘Inspector Sands’ which is a common code for a fire (iykyk)
Art by @angellilou.bsky.social
Rievaulx is a ruined abbey in Yorkshire, gothic and austere like Simon
Sandys sounds like Sands, a reference to ‘Inspector Sands’ which is a common code for a fire (iykyk)
Art by @angellilou.bsky.social
The pain of writing a banger of a sentence knowing no one will read it for probably years at this point!
October 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The pain of writing a banger of a sentence knowing no one will read it for probably years at this point!
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Spotted at Queer Lit Manchester by amazing shelf neighbour @noahmedlock.bsky.social.
🧛🏻♂️🦇🌕🩸🌺🌸🌿💀
Still crazy to see BLOOD out in the wild.
Go Queer Team @titanbooks.bsky.social!
🧛🏻♂️🦇🌕🩸🌺🌸🌿💀
Still crazy to see BLOOD out in the wild.
Go Queer Team @titanbooks.bsky.social!
September 6, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Spotted at Queer Lit Manchester by amazing shelf neighbour @noahmedlock.bsky.social.
🧛🏻♂️🦇🌕🩸🌺🌸🌿💀
Still crazy to see BLOOD out in the wild.
Go Queer Team @titanbooks.bsky.social!
🧛🏻♂️🦇🌕🩸🌺🌸🌿💀
Still crazy to see BLOOD out in the wild.
Go Queer Team @titanbooks.bsky.social!
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Human authors cannot coexist with GenAI.
The gardener carefully removes all invasive, self-sowing species of plants. If she didn’t, her whole garden would become a monoculture of weeds.
If we want richly diverse human stories tomorrow, we cannot tolerate GenAI today.
The gardener carefully removes all invasive, self-sowing species of plants. If she didn’t, her whole garden would become a monoculture of weeds.
If we want richly diverse human stories tomorrow, we cannot tolerate GenAI today.
May 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Human authors cannot coexist with GenAI.
The gardener carefully removes all invasive, self-sowing species of plants. If she didn’t, her whole garden would become a monoculture of weeds.
If we want richly diverse human stories tomorrow, we cannot tolerate GenAI today.
The gardener carefully removes all invasive, self-sowing species of plants. If she didn’t, her whole garden would become a monoculture of weeds.
If we want richly diverse human stories tomorrow, we cannot tolerate GenAI today.
Human authors cannot coexist with GenAI.
The gardener carefully removes all invasive, self-sowing species of plants. If she didn’t, her whole garden would become a monoculture of weeds.
If we want richly diverse human stories tomorrow, we cannot tolerate GenAI today.
The gardener carefully removes all invasive, self-sowing species of plants. If she didn’t, her whole garden would become a monoculture of weeds.
If we want richly diverse human stories tomorrow, we cannot tolerate GenAI today.
May 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Human authors cannot coexist with GenAI.
The gardener carefully removes all invasive, self-sowing species of plants. If she didn’t, her whole garden would become a monoculture of weeds.
If we want richly diverse human stories tomorrow, we cannot tolerate GenAI today.
The gardener carefully removes all invasive, self-sowing species of plants. If she didn’t, her whole garden would become a monoculture of weeds.
If we want richly diverse human stories tomorrow, we cannot tolerate GenAI today.
Shout out to my therapist who researched some literary references I’d made last session, and came back armed with profound insight into the characters and how they relate to me 😭😭😭
May 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Shout out to my therapist who researched some literary references I’d made last session, and came back armed with profound insight into the characters and how they relate to me 😭😭😭
I let my main character edit the trope map for his own book:
May 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I let my main character edit the trope map for his own book:
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can I just. listen. *cups your face in my hands* l i s t e n go read @noahmedlock.bsky.social's book. it's ADHD x autistic gay couple. it's our marriage is kinda failing but surely having a baby will fix it. it's let's frankenstein the baby out of plants and fungi. shit fuck bad idea abort abort
April 29, 2025 at 3:00 AM
can I just. listen. *cups your face in my hands* l i s t e n go read @noahmedlock.bsky.social's book. it's ADHD x autistic gay couple. it's our marriage is kinda failing but surely having a baby will fix it. it's let's frankenstein the baby out of plants and fungi. shit fuck bad idea abort abort
My writing is the most vulnerable part of me. I share myself gladly with readers, in the hope that they might resonate with my pain and my hope. Meta has stolen that work and used it to power their chat bot.
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April 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
My writing is the most vulnerable part of me. I share myself gladly with readers, in the hope that they might resonate with my pain and my hope. Meta has stolen that work and used it to power their chat bot.
www.change.org/p/protect-au...
www.change.org/p/protect-au...
Just seen my book for sale second for the first time — which is thrilling! We’re permeating the ecosystem 🌿 🍄
If you can get down to The Bookish Type in Leeds today, you can grab a bargain and support the store!
If you can get down to The Bookish Type in Leeds today, you can grab a bargain and support the store!
February 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Just seen my book for sale second for the first time — which is thrilling! We’re permeating the ecosystem 🌿 🍄
If you can get down to The Bookish Type in Leeds today, you can grab a bargain and support the store!
If you can get down to The Bookish Type in Leeds today, you can grab a bargain and support the store!
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I finished reading it and it was SO DAMN GOOD! This was the best book I have read in a very long time. The story is well-paced, the characters are perfectly imperfect and the language is so delightfully witty! Go read „A Botanical Daughter“ !!! #ABotanicalDaughter
If you’d like a big hug from a plant monster, can I suggest Cʜʟᴏᴇ from A Botanical Daughter?
🌱 tender and inquisitive
🌱 made from 100% recycled materials
🌱 biological imperative to kill for you
🌱 mossy in all the right places
🌱 tender and inquisitive
🌱 made from 100% recycled materials
🌱 biological imperative to kill for you
🌱 mossy in all the right places
January 31, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I finished reading it and it was SO DAMN GOOD! This was the best book I have read in a very long time. The story is well-paced, the characters are perfectly imperfect and the language is so delightfully witty! Go read „A Botanical Daughter“ !!! #ABotanicalDaughter
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Over 30 million users on Bluesky now, so I'm bumping the starter packs, starting with my OG: Queer Masculinity in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. Both authors and subject matter, people doing great work with exciting perspectives!
go.bsky.app/32GAjzH
go.bsky.app/32GAjzH
January 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Over 30 million users on Bluesky now, so I'm bumping the starter packs, starting with my OG: Queer Masculinity in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. Both authors and subject matter, people doing great work with exciting perspectives!
go.bsky.app/32GAjzH
go.bsky.app/32GAjzH
Yeah I didn’t hit my chapter goal for this week. But I’m cutting myself some slack, given… *sigh*
Well anyway I’m cutting myself some slack
Well anyway I’m cutting myself some slack
January 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Yeah I didn’t hit my chapter goal for this week. But I’m cutting myself some slack, given… *sigh*
Well anyway I’m cutting myself some slack
Well anyway I’m cutting myself some slack
If you’d like a big hug from a plant monster, can I suggest Cʜʟᴏᴇ from A Botanical Daughter?
🌱 tender and inquisitive
🌱 made from 100% recycled materials
🌱 biological imperative to kill for you
🌱 mossy in all the right places
🌱 tender and inquisitive
🌱 made from 100% recycled materials
🌱 biological imperative to kill for you
🌱 mossy in all the right places
January 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
If you’d like a big hug from a plant monster, can I suggest Cʜʟᴏᴇ from A Botanical Daughter?
🌱 tender and inquisitive
🌱 made from 100% recycled materials
🌱 biological imperative to kill for you
🌱 mossy in all the right places
🌱 tender and inquisitive
🌱 made from 100% recycled materials
🌱 biological imperative to kill for you
🌱 mossy in all the right places
Time to write the most crucial component of any Noah Medlock novel:
A tersely worded and devastating letter
A tersely worded and devastating letter
January 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Time to write the most crucial component of any Noah Medlock novel:
A tersely worded and devastating letter
A tersely worded and devastating letter
I am VIBRATING with excitement to say that I’ll be playing Puck in a few months here in York!
Calling it now — 2025 is my goblin era
Calling it now — 2025 is my goblin era
January 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I am VIBRATING with excitement to say that I’ll be playing Puck in a few months here in York!
Calling it now — 2025 is my goblin era
Calling it now — 2025 is my goblin era
My plan is to have a pretty clean draft of this eldritch ballet horror by the one year anniversary of A Botanical Daughter
I just need to get a chapter out a day (these chapters are short at ~1000 words each) ?
I just need to get a chapter out a day (these chapters are short at ~1000 words each) ?
a black and white photo of a man with curly blonde hair and a mustache .
ALT: a black and white photo of a man with curly blonde hair and a mustache .
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January 14, 2025 at 7:50 AM
My plan is to have a pretty clean draft of this eldritch ballet horror by the one year anniversary of A Botanical Daughter
I just need to get a chapter out a day (these chapters are short at ~1000 words each) ?
I just need to get a chapter out a day (these chapters are short at ~1000 words each) ?
Reposted by Noah Medlock
Sketching out issues with AI technologies as they stand in 2025:
INFORMATION
🤔 AI powered search is frequently inaccurate, and if it doesn’t know something it will make it up
😳 Surrendering your sensitive data to it trains the model
📱 Many apps are junking up with useless AI functions
(1/3)
INFORMATION
🤔 AI powered search is frequently inaccurate, and if it doesn’t know something it will make it up
😳 Surrendering your sensitive data to it trains the model
📱 Many apps are junking up with useless AI functions
(1/3)
January 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Sketching out issues with AI technologies as they stand in 2025:
INFORMATION
🤔 AI powered search is frequently inaccurate, and if it doesn’t know something it will make it up
😳 Surrendering your sensitive data to it trains the model
📱 Many apps are junking up with useless AI functions
(1/3)
INFORMATION
🤔 AI powered search is frequently inaccurate, and if it doesn’t know something it will make it up
😳 Surrendering your sensitive data to it trains the model
📱 Many apps are junking up with useless AI functions
(1/3)
Sketching out issues with AI technologies as they stand in 2025:
INFORMATION
🤔 AI powered search is frequently inaccurate, and if it doesn’t know something it will make it up
😳 Surrendering your sensitive data to it trains the model
📱 Many apps are junking up with useless AI functions
(1/3)
INFORMATION
🤔 AI powered search is frequently inaccurate, and if it doesn’t know something it will make it up
😳 Surrendering your sensitive data to it trains the model
📱 Many apps are junking up with useless AI functions
(1/3)
January 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Sketching out issues with AI technologies as they stand in 2025:
INFORMATION
🤔 AI powered search is frequently inaccurate, and if it doesn’t know something it will make it up
😳 Surrendering your sensitive data to it trains the model
📱 Many apps are junking up with useless AI functions
(1/3)
INFORMATION
🤔 AI powered search is frequently inaccurate, and if it doesn’t know something it will make it up
😳 Surrendering your sensitive data to it trains the model
📱 Many apps are junking up with useless AI functions
(1/3)
A Botanical Daughter is cheap on Kindle US at the moment!
Go fill your boots with plant-based Frankenstein realness — two gay dads grow themselves a daughter… of sorts 🌿 💀 🥀
If I say it has the found family trope I mean, like, found with a shovel
#queerbooks #horror
Go fill your boots with plant-based Frankenstein realness — two gay dads grow themselves a daughter… of sorts 🌿 💀 🥀
If I say it has the found family trope I mean, like, found with a shovel
#queerbooks #horror
January 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
A Botanical Daughter is cheap on Kindle US at the moment!
Go fill your boots with plant-based Frankenstein realness — two gay dads grow themselves a daughter… of sorts 🌿 💀 🥀
If I say it has the found family trope I mean, like, found with a shovel
#queerbooks #horror
Go fill your boots with plant-based Frankenstein realness — two gay dads grow themselves a daughter… of sorts 🌿 💀 🥀
If I say it has the found family trope I mean, like, found with a shovel
#queerbooks #horror
Having a very disordered day after yesterday’s high. Feel like my nerve endings are tied in knots.
Fighting back with a cosy cardigan and a new nail polish colour. Might have a bath later. Take THAT, central nervous system!
Fighting back with a cosy cardigan and a new nail polish colour. Might have a bath later. Take THAT, central nervous system!
January 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Having a very disordered day after yesterday’s high. Feel like my nerve endings are tied in knots.
Fighting back with a cosy cardigan and a new nail polish colour. Might have a bath later. Take THAT, central nervous system!
Fighting back with a cosy cardigan and a new nail polish colour. Might have a bath later. Take THAT, central nervous system!
Just wrote up three stonking chapters if I do say so myself. SUCH a good feeling as it comes together.
For a musicological horror, it’s coming out very pacey. I think this bonkers idea might work!
For a musicological horror, it’s coming out very pacey. I think this bonkers idea might work!
January 8, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Just wrote up three stonking chapters if I do say so myself. SUCH a good feeling as it comes together.
For a musicological horror, it’s coming out very pacey. I think this bonkers idea might work!
For a musicological horror, it’s coming out very pacey. I think this bonkers idea might work!
“I’m using ‘dick’ as a placeholder until I can find something better to shove in there”
is something I just said out loud.
Author problems…
is something I just said out loud.
Author problems…
January 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
“I’m using ‘dick’ as a placeholder until I can find something better to shove in there”
is something I just said out loud.
Author problems…
is something I just said out loud.
Author problems…
Throwing my hat back into this platform for now — didn’t quite “get” it first time around
Hi hello hi, it’s me Noah; I wrote A Botanical Daughter, a gothic horror about plant gays and gay plants
Hi hello hi, it’s me Noah; I wrote A Botanical Daughter, a gothic horror about plant gays and gay plants
January 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Throwing my hat back into this platform for now — didn’t quite “get” it first time around
Hi hello hi, it’s me Noah; I wrote A Botanical Daughter, a gothic horror about plant gays and gay plants
Hi hello hi, it’s me Noah; I wrote A Botanical Daughter, a gothic horror about plant gays and gay plants
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Wednesday I’m in conversation with @noahmedlock.bsky.social, author of the fabulous A BOTANICAL DAUGHTER! Please come join us if a queer horror tale about a pair of Victorian gentlemen dabbling in weird plants (and weirder science) is your thing!
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March 18, 2024 at 9:12 AM
Wednesday I’m in conversation with @noahmedlock.bsky.social, author of the fabulous A BOTANICAL DAUGHTER! Please come join us if a queer horror tale about a pair of Victorian gentlemen dabbling in weird plants (and weirder science) is your thing!