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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 08/09/2026

Happy birthday to Star Trek, as it happens I have a very obvious reason I'm glad that universe exists; without it, at the very least, one of my novels would have a very different title. Even without that connection, however, this universe has given me a lot of joy. Live long and prosper, Star Trek!

The cover to Redshirts, my Hugo Winning novel. "Redshirts" of course is a concept that comes from Star Trek - the expendable character who dies to up the drama for an episode.

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I bring a kind of 'the relationship dynamic between Christine Daae and the Phantom is actually more tragic and compelling if it's NOT romantic' vibe to the function that Andrew Lloyd Webber doesn't really like.

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Remember when BBC Sherlock was a weird outlier people laughed at because it had ridiculously short seasons with overly long hiatuses in between? Who exactly decided that all live action series should be like that?

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Has there ever been a *bad* version of Skimbleshanks The Railway Cat or does it just fuck by default?

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Something that is giving me absurd amounts of dopamine right now is assigning Disney 'I Want' songs to my wretched little Fallen London/Mask Of The Rose OC. She is a Lovecraft narrator firmly convinced she's in a sweeping fairytale romance-slash-adventure and making all her decisions accordingly.

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

The only thing worse than writing short stories in Fallen London is writing them in real life.

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

How many of the pre-orders for New Sentinel are actually from people who think the weirdly high price is acceptable, and how many of them are from people who already spent £150 just for the Zodiac in the hopes the combination gimmick would be worth it and can't bear to admit that it really wasn't.

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

New cryptid: the kids in the Childrensalon ads on YouTube. They're like the benevolent version of Black Eyed Kids to me. Too neat. Too placid. Not hostile or dangerous, but *uncanny*.

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

If your Phantom of the Opera adaptation doesn't acknowledge that one of the book's major characters is an Iranian immigrant you are weak and will not survive the winter.

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The real horror of rulespasta isn't the things the rules exist to protect you from, or the consequences of breaking them. It's the looming spectre of industry deregulation insisting that the rules aren't necessary.

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Ah, Springwatch: the time of year when I have to keep it straight in my head that the house martin and pine marten are two completely separate and unrelated types of creature.

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Wishbone was so based for giving Erik & Christine a happy ending that *isn't* 'actually she was in love with him the whole time' but instead 'they agree to stay friends even after everything; just because she's marrying someone else doesn't mean he'll lose her companionship forever'.

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

"Two replies. At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localised entirely within my obscure Bluesky post?" "Yes." "May I see them?" "No."

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

It's always 'did Christine betray Erik by not staying with him?' and never 'did Erik betray Christine first by hijacking the memory of her dad and pretending to be an angel sent to be her friend and mentor whilst spying on her, killing her coworkers, and trying to threaten her into marrying him?'

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The problem with Phantom of the Opera adaptations is that everyone wants the Christine-Erik dynamic to be some kind of sexy forbidden romance when really it's just a goth version of that one Lilo & Stitch meme.

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Would making a dig at Timothée Chalamet in my Phantom of the Opera modern AU be funny or has the moment passed

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

There's something very funny about hearing Optimus referred to as the Last of the Primes, because all I can think of is Rodimus and Primal standing off to the side like 'and what are we, chopped liver?'

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I feel like if GunnTech were a real show and not an edgy YA reimagining of a cute preschool cartoon the Lunakko/Lunalette shipping discourse would be a nightmare.

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Transformers is an isekai because a character (Megatron) goes to another world (Earth) after being hit by a truck (Optimus).

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I am convinced that the Liegian Darts are a Norse Mythology reference and I will not be told otherwise.

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

People don't talk about the fact that Temperance 'Bones' Brennan's great-niece is canonically a werewolf enough.

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Most of the Disney Fairies dolls I had as a kid were based on the books and not the films, and I was never really happy with the latter's character roster as a result. Silvermist is okay but Rani CUT HER OWN WINGS OFF to save the day and that's metal as heck.

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Does anyone else ever mourn for the bomb-ass fembots we could have had on shelves if we'd spent forty years iterating on Prototype Arcee instead of ten years iterating on Thrilling 30?

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

New conspiracy theory: the reason YouTube has started showing adverts telling you to watch YouTube on your TV is because the TV app has twice as many ads. Source: sweet Primus there are so many ads on the YouTube TV app.

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

It's almost impressive how obsessed That Guy is with Min-Maxed. He's like Captain Ahab, if Moby Dick didn't actually take his leg off and was just kind of in the general area when another unrelated whale did something similar.

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

She can do it with a broken heart but can she do it on a cold rainy night in Stoke?

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

"We can't give Arcee any vehicle parts on her legs or arms because she needs to be ✨feminine✨" - overdone, gross, skill issue "We're giving Arcee a meteor hammer and too many jutting edges on her limbs would interfere with her moves" - inspired, visually interesting, tell me more

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

...is Longtooth the Autobot Pretender technically a selkie?

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I think it's really quite odd that the Rescue Bots lineup doesn't have a lifeboat 'former. Their home base has a coastline!

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Why does my dog have opinions about the Kennedy assassination

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Some of the most random-ass Transformers have gotten good recent toys and yet we still haven't seen a single Velocity or Fulcrum, even by third parties, despite them having been major characters. Hell, Botanica's been waiting thirty years!

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Concept: MegaRod but specifically in the Worf/Ezri way.

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

If I had a nickel for every time a new Transformers continuity cast Perceptor in a role that would have made more sense for Moonracer I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice.

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

On a scale of G1 Skystar to IDW1 Simpatico how's your lab partnership working out

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 18/02/2026

This is Princess. She and her human work hard every day collecting trash at an apartment building. It is an often thankless job, but one kind resident thought the pair should know how much they are appreciated, and that Princess should get a uniform too. 13/10 for all (TT: oliviaolp)

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Getting into Transformers via Warhammer means that part of you will always misread Fulcrum as Fulgrim and you're just going to have to be okay with that.

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I saw Star Eagle and thought we were finally getting an Esmeral, and maybe I'm too not-American to Get It but I still think that's a better use than Murica Fuck Yeah. (Did they really have to give it a red cap? Questionable choice.)

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Whomst the fuck is Shawn Hatosy and why is he in my Transformers shipping tags.

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Today I learned that the Autobot Brawn has a weird half-human child out there somewhere, and I kind of wish I hadn't.

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I don't think I'm ever going to be over the fact that Brainstorm joined the Decepticons more or less to *scam them out of funding*. What a legend.

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Part of the reason I don't think Dion is Ultra Magnus is the colour scheme and the vibes. A larger part is that combining IDW1 and toyline gimmicks gets you 'fox-man in a mech suit inside a larger mech suit in power armour' and that is way too much fun to pass up. Bring back Minimus Ambus.

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Transformers is fun because where else can you find art of a guy using a microscope in a laboratory setting and genuinely wonder if what you're looking at is smutty or not?

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Newmann and Simpatico are the same ship in different fonts send tweet

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Is it just me who thinks that, if you block somebody on Pinterest, Pinterest should stop showing you their posts?

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

In another life, Damus of Tarn would have been a BookTok girlie.

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Tarnma Re-Animator AU is this anything

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

As an adult, I can comprehend that the post-Trapper seasons of MASH were the best ones. However, as a young teenager I was a PierceIntyre girlie and that has left too indelible a stamp on my soul for me to truly accept the truth. I can only sit and seethe.

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

ConstructiProwl Hallmark Christmas Movie AU, is this anything

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

In order for a ship to be MegOp, it is not enough for them to be former friends who must become enemies - in fact, whilst it's been pretty much ubiquitous as their backstory since the 2000s, it's not even true of a lot of MegOps!

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I haven't seen Earthspark yet but the impression I'm getting is that it's a Pacific Rim situation: only the first installment actually happened, and we acknowledge the rest just long enough to pick up the new characters before ignoring it again.

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