Molly Templeton
@mollytempleton.com
I read, I write, & I pet cats. Column, news, & book reviews at @reactorsff.bsky.social; publicity, prize, & more for @ursulakleguin.com. Once a bookseller, always a bookseller. PDX.
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Did you know that you, yes YOU, can vote in the Hugo Awards??
@mollytempleton.com breaks down the process, including how to register before the January 31st deadline!
@mollytempleton.com breaks down the process, including how to register before the January 31st deadline!
Anyone Can Vote in the Hugo Awards — And Here's How - Reactor
You — yes, you! — can nominate work and vote for the winners of the 2026 Hugo Awards!
reactormag.com
I only started participating in Hugo voting two years ago. It always seemed arcane and exclusive, and it never occurred to me that it might be otherwise. I was wrong! I'm glad I was wrong.
(I only went on about the Lodestar and YA a LITTLE here; please applaud my relative restraint, lol)
(I only went on about the Lodestar and YA a LITTLE here; please applaud my relative restraint, lol)
I'm so glad it's turned out to be useful!
January 11, 2026 at 5:09 PM
I'm so glad it's turned out to be useful!
Reposted by Molly Templeton
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January 10, 2026 at 12:53 AM
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just the book shopping, lol! someone far more artistic than me created the tree
January 10, 2026 at 3:34 PM
just the book shopping, lol! someone far more artistic than me created the tree
genuinely couldn't believe how much delight I took in Ambulance. I didn't think a Michael Bay movie could still be fun!
January 9, 2026 at 8:01 PM
genuinely couldn't believe how much delight I took in Ambulance. I didn't think a Michael Bay movie could still be fun!
I tried to get a little bit of everything in there!
January 9, 2026 at 7:40 PM
I tried to get a little bit of everything in there!
Reposted by Molly Templeton
Life is hard. Watch Labyrinth. Read good books.
What to Watch and Read This Weekend: We Could All Use a Little Labyrinth Right Now - Reactor
Plus: Sister Simone, Carol Sturka, and (some) of the best books of 2025.
reactormag.com
January 9, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Life is hard. Watch Labyrinth. Read good books.
what season was this!!!!! i have ZERO memory of it and i was obsessed (to a point)
January 9, 2026 at 3:40 PM
what season was this!!!!! i have ZERO memory of it and i was obsessed (to a point)
jesus fucking christmas
January 9, 2026 at 12:48 AM
jesus fucking christmas
"The man who had been shot called for help in the area of Northeast 146th Avenue and East Burnside Street, where both victims were found, according to Portland Police."
So ... the feds who shot them just ... left them there?
So ... the feds who shot them just ... left them there?
Man, woman shot by federal agents in Portland: Police
Two people were shot by federal agents in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday, local and federal sources told ABC News.
abcnews.go.com
January 9, 2026 at 12:44 AM
"The man who had been shot called for help in the area of Northeast 146th Avenue and East Burnside Street, where both victims were found, according to Portland Police."
So ... the feds who shot them just ... left them there?
So ... the feds who shot them just ... left them there?
you don't think the 15 or so beans on that big bowl of white rice are sufficient? 😂
January 8, 2026 at 6:51 PM
you don't think the 15 or so beans on that big bowl of white rice are sufficient? 😂
Reposted by Molly Templeton
I’m joining Rep. @robinkelly.house.gov to introduce articles of impeachment against Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and will use every lever available to end the terror ICE has unleashed on our communities.
Stay loud.
Stay loud.
January 8, 2026 at 5:19 PM
I’m joining Rep. @robinkelly.house.gov to introduce articles of impeachment against Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and will use every lever available to end the terror ICE has unleashed on our communities.
Stay loud.
Stay loud.
(I do really disagree with the bit about critics wanting objectively good/bad, but that's due to some hard-won, full-bodied acceptance of the fact that criticism, like any experience of art, is fully subjective, no matter what the early-Twitter filmbros tried to bully me into thinking)
January 8, 2026 at 5:22 PM
(I do really disagree with the bit about critics wanting objectively good/bad, but that's due to some hard-won, full-bodied acceptance of the fact that criticism, like any experience of art, is fully subjective, no matter what the early-Twitter filmbros tried to bully me into thinking)
this is one of the things I love best about criticism: new perspectives on things I don't even like. I do not like Stranger Things! but I LOVE reading pieces that reconsider and reposition it like this!
Critics want subtlety. Traumatized kids need clarity. Stranger Things doesn't win because it's subtle. It wins because it's not afraid to say the truth out loud to the people who need to hear it most. www.kameronhurley.com/we-are-the-s...
We Are the Stranger Things - Kameron Hurley
CONTENT CAUTION: Contains spoilers for Stranger Things season 5 and discusses childhood emotional and physical abuse. When I was a child, I lived with a monster. He slept in the big room at t...
www.kameronhurley.com
January 8, 2026 at 5:22 PM
this is one of the things I love best about criticism: new perspectives on things I don't even like. I do not like Stranger Things! but I LOVE reading pieces that reconsider and reposition it like this!
Reposted by Molly Templeton
FOR THE LOVE OF HERA when nominating for a Lodestar, the book better fucking be an actual YA novel. I don't wanna see any middle grade or adult/new adult books on that nominations list this year.
Did you know that you, yes YOU, can vote in the Hugo Awards??
@mollytempleton.com breaks down the process, including how to register before the January 31st deadline!
@mollytempleton.com breaks down the process, including how to register before the January 31st deadline!
Anyone Can Vote in the Hugo Awards — And Here's How - Reactor
You — yes, you! — can nominate work and vote for the winners of the 2026 Hugo Awards!
reactormag.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:46 PM
FOR THE LOVE OF HERA when nominating for a Lodestar, the book better fucking be an actual YA novel. I don't wanna see any middle grade or adult/new adult books on that nominations list this year.
I only started participating in Hugo voting two years ago. It always seemed arcane and exclusive, and it never occurred to me that it might be otherwise. I was wrong! I'm glad I was wrong.
(I only went on about the Lodestar and YA a LITTLE here; please applaud my relative restraint, lol)
(I only went on about the Lodestar and YA a LITTLE here; please applaud my relative restraint, lol)
Did you know that you, yes YOU, can vote in the Hugo Awards??
@mollytempleton.com breaks down the process, including how to register before the January 31st deadline!
@mollytempleton.com breaks down the process, including how to register before the January 31st deadline!
Anyone Can Vote in the Hugo Awards — And Here's How - Reactor
You — yes, you! — can nominate work and vote for the winners of the 2026 Hugo Awards!
reactormag.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:29 PM
I only started participating in Hugo voting two years ago. It always seemed arcane and exclusive, and it never occurred to me that it might be otherwise. I was wrong! I'm glad I was wrong.
(I only went on about the Lodestar and YA a LITTLE here; please applaud my relative restraint, lol)
(I only went on about the Lodestar and YA a LITTLE here; please applaud my relative restraint, lol)
idk I think if we could just be like "here are some books we're looking forward to reading" that would be pretty great, but no, it has to be MOST anticipated, making it into an anticipation contest, which, ugggghghhhhhhh
January 8, 2026 at 3:39 PM
idk I think if we could just be like "here are some books we're looking forward to reading" that would be pretty great, but no, it has to be MOST anticipated, making it into an anticipation contest, which, ugggghghhhhhhh
finally some good news
New ‘Jackass’ Movie From Johnny Knoxville Sets Summer Release
"Well a wang dang and hot damn doodle, we are starting the year off with a bang. We wanted to let you know that this summer Jackass is back!!" posted Knoxville.
deadline.com
January 8, 2026 at 2:23 PM
finally some good news
can't wait to buy a large plastic tub of Butter Orbs™️ at the local superstore
January 7, 2026 at 11:49 PM
can't wait to buy a large plastic tub of Butter Orbs™️ at the local superstore
is THAT what's supposed to be at the bottom?!?!?
January 7, 2026 at 11:49 PM
is THAT what's supposed to be at the bottom?!?!?
pretty sure I saw the same phrase on a wall on 84 the other day!
January 7, 2026 at 6:56 PM
pretty sure I saw the same phrase on a wall on 84 the other day!
Reposted by Molly Templeton
God almighty. I'm not a political historian, but I don't know how this could be described as anything other than fascist retaliatory violence. People are bleeding on the streets because those we elected to safeguard this nation's most baseline democratic guardrails have utterly failed us.
Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis.
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
January 7, 2026 at 5:29 PM
God almighty. I'm not a political historian, but I don't know how this could be described as anything other than fascist retaliatory violence. People are bleeding on the streets because those we elected to safeguard this nation's most baseline democratic guardrails have utterly failed us.
sorry my alt text is incorrect: in my bafflement I left off the JR on RFK JR, which was quite rude of me
January 7, 2026 at 5:29 PM
sorry my alt text is incorrect: in my bafflement I left off the JR on RFK JR, which was quite rude of me
from here cdn.realfood.gov/DGA.pdf
cdn.realfood.gov
January 7, 2026 at 5:02 PM
from here cdn.realfood.gov/DGA.pdf