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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

(And of course, how many are from scalpers who need to artificially inflate the demand for this thing so they can flip it for twice the price without being undercut by official sellers offering it at a discount just to be rid of it?)

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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 · 03/06/2026

My own LOIM isn't exactly efficient but it's definitely more reliable than an overhyped and overly-costly spell-check with delusions of grandeur and hallucinations of everything else.

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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 · 13/05/2026

The university where I did my BA straight up wouldn't let us use Grammarly. I don't think I missed out on anything.

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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

(Actually it may have been Prilla who cut them off for her; either way, hardcore.)

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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 · 03/04/2026

Is the badge for anyone who joined during beta or just for people who joined in 2009?

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Cullen's Optimus, as the saying goes, would not fragging say that. Hemsworth's Orion would and has. Watching the latter grow and mature into the former is part of why the story works.

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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 · 26/03/2026

An important addition: Ahab in this case was never all that invested in the whole 'whaling' thing and has actually only been on a boat maybe once in his life but still has VERY STRONG OPINIONS about all these whales doing normal whale things without him.

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Molly Encrypted @mollyencrypted.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I think about the fact that Beast Hunters Soundwave is the closest thing we have to a Botanica toy a very normal amount for someone who hasn't seen Beast Machines. (Soundwave continues to be the MVP of the franchise.)

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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 · 14/03/2026

Transformers: has multiple major characters who haven't had any toyline rep ever (or what they have is widely considered lacking). Third party: 'Y'all want a seventeenth Masterpiece-scaled Optimus?'

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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 · 08/03/2026

I miss Cherry Vanilla, although I can no longer remember if I ever actually saw a bottle of it or just acquired it through the drinks alchemy of the fancy dispensers.

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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 · 04/03/2026

I suddenly had a Vision of a world where they did the extremely minor work to retool a current Optimus into Thunderclash (red, white, blue and over-the-top) for Muricaformers instead. Then I remembered the problem with this is that Thunderclash is canonically One Of Us (English).

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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

The way the human picks up Princess to show her off to the camera!!!

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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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