Molly Blake

Author of Vampire Mall Cop (the novel and accompanying short stories, reachable through my linktree) and book reviewer.

[Molly Blake @molly_b_author]

@talexratcliffe If it means anything though, I frequently come back to your review of vampire mall cop for a rewatch. Lifts my mood every time and usually helps me through a slump when I’m stuck in one. It’s probably not enough views to sway you too much, but it’s something I do.

[Molly Blake @molly_b_author]

@talexratcliffe I’m literally about to make a blog post explaining why I’m doing something very similar. Annotating books and then writing a multiple page essay after reading each one sucks a lot of fun out of reading, and I want to enjoy reading.

[Molly Blake @molly_b_author]

So my idea of reading at least one Lovecraft story per day didn’t go as planned. I don’t have any reading updates tonight because for four hours after work I was working on my spam text vengeance document. And now it’s bedtime.

[Molly Blake @molly_b_author]

@RealCalypsed Hopefully that one is in the collection I’m reading!

[Molly Blake @molly_b_author]

Alright, I just finished Herbert West—Reanimator as tonight’s read and I gotta say it is the PERFECT Halloween story. It’s got mad scientists, it’s got monsters, it’s got what I’m interpreting as proto-Breekon and Hope from the Magnus Archives. Beautifully done. Excellent horror.

[Molly Blake @molly_b_author]

#currentlyreading
And just in time for Halloween!

[Molly Blake @molly_b_author]

I had a blog post just about ready to go but seeing as my website is hosted through Wordpress I’m just gonna… just gonna wait on that… for a bit…

[Molly Blake @molly_b_author]

Been reading Lovecraft for a couple days and this is how far I’ve gotten. Do not be deceived by the small fraction of pages! This book is 752 pages long! I’ll be reading this book for the next multiple weeks probably.

[Molly Blake @molly_b_author]

#currentlyreading
And just in time for Halloween!

[Molly Blake @molly_b_author]

Hiya @MTGSecretLair can you pause on sending me advertisements via email for one second and instead send me the verification email that I have requested three separate times so I can submit a customer service request? Thank you much.

[🗝️ @yewchubers]

i’ll be real i think this person’s anger is justified in this case

[Molly Blake @molly_b_author]

@UsagiTenshi1 Not at this time no

[Molly Blake @molly_b_author]

I wrote a short story where a vampire uses a horned lizard to set off an automatic door sensor in a cowboy outfitter’s shop. Hehe

[Punkey Doodles @punkeydoodles8]

MODERN VAMPIRE PROBLEMS

[Molly Blake @molly_b_author]

@UsagiTenshi1 @NinjaTogepi1214 I know you had the same thought I did seeing this picture

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Everyone should read this book.

In Leisure: The Basis of Culture, Pieper dismantles modernity's obsession with productivity and its misunderstanding of leisure.

Moderns think of "leisure" as a break from work: a way to recharge to make you a better worker.

Pieper argues beautifully that, instead, leisure is the foundation of all culture. And rather than passive relaxation, leisure is really a state of active receptivity: not the absence of activity but the presence of depth.

In the High Middle Ages, idleness wasn't understood as "doing nothing." Being idle was refusing to engage deeply with existence. Ironically, the modern workaholic is the true idler: "the restlessness of work-for-work's-sake arises from nothing other than idleness."

Engaging in true leisure isn't easy. You must learn to be at leisure, with intention and willingness to cultivate stillness. Pieper:

"The condition of utmost exertion is more easily realized than the condition of relaxation and detachment, even though the latter is effortless."

It's a paradoxical discipline, in the sense that it requires effort to relax in a way that truly restores you. But it is through leisure that you encounter truth, beauty, and meaning.

Pieper writes much about the role of the festival. If creation is good, we ought to celebrate it:

"And just as Holy Scripture tells us that God rested on the seventh day and beheld that ‘the work which he had made’ was ‘very good’—so too it is leisure which leads man to accept the reality of creation and thus to celebrate it, resting on the inner vision that accompanies it."

In our work-obsessed world, many use parties to drug or otherwise distract themselves from life. But in Pieper's conception, a true party is a heightening and celebration of life, a specific and time-bound event that points to the timeless and universal.

"Feast days and holy-days are the inner source of leisure. It is because leisure takes its origin from ‘celebration’ that it is not only effortless but the direct contrary of effort; not just the negative in the sense of being no effort, but the positive counterpart."

However, the biggest revelation comes when you realize that you can actually reverse-engineer this process and turn even "ordinary" moments into moments of leisure.

No matter where you are, leisure can be found when you let reality wash over you, pierce through the veil of mundanity to see its hidden beauty, and take a moment to express your gratitude.

[Molly Blake @molly_b_author]

@AngelArt_NEXUS A guy cat sitting for his neighbor finds a displaced fairy prince. The neighbor turns out to be an ex felon and a wizard and the fairy’s from another dimension. Also Hell is full of aliens that dissect and experiment on people.

[Molly Blake @molly_b_author]

Listening to the Magnus Archives after getting into deltarune

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Sharing this because I need Rolli und Rita to be in the public consciousness again

[Pocket @islandthembo]

I have discovered a new vocal stim…

[Molly Blake @molly_b_author]

@UsagiTenshi1 @The_Lord_Otter It’s me. I’m at least one person

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The second phase of my evil merchandizing machinations is complete! On to phase 3

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Makin more merch hehehe