Molly McGhee

werewolf transformation, but instead of being activated by a full moon you're activated by any guy taking a loud personal call at the coffee shop

the future is the past is the future is the past

Surprise ☺️

Just entered some of my writing into an AI detector to see if it would work before cross-checking my student's writing. 94% probability of being "written by AI." We're so fucked, aren't we?

Samhain Scottland honeymoon growing closer and closer

American-dystopian novels never address how badly sunburnt one would become walking our highway system in the Post-Apocalyptic world.

Checked out the demo for Welcome to Elderfield and I thought I was just going to be getting a gothy Stardew Valley clone and I am so glad to be wrong.

Anyways as with all things successfully industrialized the system allowed a huge production boom which helped centralize readers, but also created the typical problems of reproduction: dehumanization, extreme output, and the overwhelming similarity that emerges when someone tries to copy a form.

So this is a conversation that's actually two convos. One's a conversation about marketing, capital, production, and material industry. Which is hilarious and totally different than the conversation about when the genre first began to emerge due to writer's/reader's interest.

and the work created within the framework of the label ! Often when people say 'it didn't exist' I find they actually mean that the systems weren't supporting the production of material . . . of course readers have always known what they were reading for and publishing systems had to catch up!

and so we had these works that were being created and were being shelved in adjacent genre-systems (often children's lit, though occasionally romance, thriller, SFFH, etc) And now that we have market-wide categorization we can more easily discuss both the work that pre-dates the labelling

I love having this conversation with people; it's so interesting because it basically boils down to an etymological question: did the genre exist before we had collectively agreed upon name for it? And it's like, yes it did—but we didn't have nomenclature to actively sort at the industry-wide level

having a nice little life lately. butterflies and ladybugs find me where ever i go. suddenly florals compel me. as i write this a dog is crossing the park to say hello.

being shown fanart of the red sacrament like "wow yes that's my fuckin idiot right there"

[Exit Queen.]

Science is so cool! The middle school alchemist in me is screaming. www.the-independent.com/news/science...

Pleased to finally announce... Abdication, the last Southern Reach novel! "There will come the days of the watcher, the drowned woman and the shadow of a man who keeps falling apart with each step, but first comes the moment the birds appear at night from the gaps between the stars, far from home."

Summer's here! 🏖️ For the next three weeks I plan to be on social media as little as possible (🤞🏻) so I'm leaving you all with my beautifully curated reading pile, both physical and digital, plus four novels I read in recent summers which I thought were amazing 🌊

watching a slideshow at work

Hey, Portland, just a reminder to get your tickets now for this incredible event. Marlon James is amazing and I can promise as the in-conversation partner a rollicking good time along with some great and serious conversation about James' new novel and career. www.powells.com/events/marlo...

"To do such organizing work, however, we must first actually see these workers." Ashley Dawson reviews Kohei Saito’s "Capital From Zero" and Marx’s development as an ecosocialist thinker: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/kohei-saito-capital-from-zero/

He's credited by Japan's cultural historians as having personally saved enormous amounts of folklore from being completely lost, too. Hundreds of yokai legends are only known now because he collected them from remote communities that are themseles often gone.

No one will ever compare to him

The only useful mnemonic device for "continually" vs. "continuously" is to remember to look them up every single time, and you still won't know which one is which.

I can’t believe it’s finally here. This is the holy grail of all ARCs as far as I’m concerned. I have been waiting (and waiting) for the follow up to Gus Moreno’s THIS THING BETWEEN US for years. Years. Now it’s in my hands. I absolutely cannot wait to begin IF YOU THINK YOU’RE LONELY NOW. Feb 2027.

Letztlich gab es keine bessere Lösung.

so true, john keats. so true.

Remember the quote about how God must love beetles?

This is maybe my favorite horror novel of the year so far.

I reviewed Paul Tremblay's newest (and got off one of my favorite puns in recent memory) - gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/b...

I wrote a short story about the surveillance state 😇

Happy Valentine’s Day. Love always wins 🤍 sl1nk.com/4gY2X

Watch the full video here: youtu.be/dUp01MXUkpo

Thank you for being part of our twelfth anniversary, Mr. Mayor! It was an honor to have you officiate our marriage.

“I don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don’t take the toys out of their hands, we’re fools.” — Ray Bradbury

every morning I wake up, read the news, walk down into hell, share a strong cup of tea with the devil who assures me it will and can get worse, walk backwards out of darkness, and emerge into the light to witness the world collapse

I hope everyone has a nice sleep cycle tonight. Good luck in the ether.