Noah Medlock

Human authors cannot coexist with GenAI.

The gardener carefully removes all invasive, self-sowing species of plants. If she didn’t, her whole garden would become a monoculture of weeds.

If we want richly diverse human stories tomorrow, we cannot tolerate GenAI today.

Human authors cannot coexist with GenAI.

The gardener carefully removes all invasive, self-sowing species of plants. If she didn’t, her whole garden would become a monoculture of weeds.

If we want richly diverse human stories tomorrow, we cannot tolerate GenAI today.

And shout out to everyone who picked up A Botanical Daughter, the royalties of which are paying for said therapist

Shout out to my therapist who researched some literary references I’d made last session, and came back armed with profound insight into the characters and how they relate to me 😭😭😭

I let my main character edit the trope map for his own book:

This is such a great summary haha! Thank you so much 🌿

a paperback of Noah Medlock's A Botanical Daughter lying on a stone ledge, surrounded by greenery. the cover is pale green with a central image of a girl in profile made from flowers and fungi, with a skull in her floral hair

can I just. listen. *cups your face in my hands* l i s t e n go read @noahmedlock.bsky.social's book. it's ADHD x autistic gay couple. it's our marriage is kinda failing but surely having a baby will fix it. it's let's frankenstein the baby out of plants and fungi. shit fuck bad idea abort abort

Ah sweet! I still need to read American Psycho myself, looks amazing 🌿

Much love to the protesters today in London, and anybody making noise about it online.

To those of us supporting online, remember to reach out beyond author spaces — we need to change the public’s hearts on this.

I’ve learned the hard way recently that the public aren’t with us yet

Sign the Petition Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training

My writing is the most vulnerable part of me. I share myself gladly with readers, in the hope that they might resonate with my pain and my hope. Meta has stolen that work and used it to power their chat bot.

www.change.org/p/protect-au...

Just seen my book for sale second for the first time — which is thrilling! We’re permeating the ecosystem 🌿 🍄

If you can get down to The Bookish Type in Leeds today, you can grab a bargain and support the store!

A cherished blurb!

I finished reading it and it was SO DAMN GOOD! This was the best book I have read in a very long time. The story is well-paced, the characters are perfectly imperfect and the language is so delightfully witty! Go read „A Botanical Daughter“ !!! #ABotanicalDaughter

This is thrilling to hear — I’m so glad you liked it! 🌿

Over 30 million users on Bluesky now, so I'm bumping the starter packs, starting with my OG: Queer Masculinity in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. Both authors and subject matter, people doing great work with exciting perspectives!

go.bsky.app/32GAjzH

Yeah I didn’t hit my chapter goal for this week. But I’m cutting myself some slack, given… *sigh*

Well anyway I’m cutting myself some slack

If you’d like a big hug from a plant monster, can I suggest Cʜʟᴏᴇ from A Botanical Daughter?

🌱 tender and inquisitive
🌱 made from 100% recycled materials
🌱 biological imperative to kill for you
🌱 mossy in all the right places

Time to write the most crucial component of any Noah Medlock novel:

A tersely worded and devastating letter

The horror author in me is fascinated by how wrong traditional versions get Puck. He screams forest entity, pagan/demonic changeling, obsessed with the revenant dead.

Playful, yes. But both the subject and object of horror. Oof this is gonna be good!

I am VIBRATING with excitement to say that I’ll be playing Puck in a few months here in York!

Calling it now — 2025 is my goblin era

a black and white photo of a man with curly blonde hair and a mustache . ALT: a black and white photo of a man with curly blonde hair and a mustache .

My plan is to have a pretty clean draft of this eldritch ballet horror by the one year anniversary of A Botanical Daughter

I just need to get a chapter out a day (these chapters are short at ~1000 words each) ?

Sketching out issues with AI technologies as they stand in 2025:

INFORMATION
🤔 AI powered search is frequently inaccurate, and if it doesn’t know something it will make it up
😳 Surrendering your sensitive data to it trains the model
📱 Many apps are junking up with useless AI functions

(1/3)

IMPACT
♻️ Power and water usage is astronomical
🙅‍♂️ Having learned from humans, these systems have been shown to be discriminatory
🧠 When we outsource our critical thinking skills, we ultimately lose them

(3/3)

IN THE ARTS
😴 AI created works are just poor quality, fake-seeming, and brand-damaging
🥷 Models have been trained on intellectual property (theft)
🥸 AI works are not copyright-able

(2/3)

Sketching out issues with AI technologies as they stand in 2025:

INFORMATION
🤔 AI powered search is frequently inaccurate, and if it doesn’t know something it will make it up
😳 Surrendering your sensitive data to it trains the model
📱 Many apps are junking up with useless AI functions

(1/3)

A Botanical Daughter is cheap on Kindle US at the moment!

Go fill your boots with plant-based Frankenstein realness — two gay dads grow themselves a daughter… of sorts 🌿 💀 🥀

If I say it has the found family trope I mean, like, found with a shovel

#queerbooks #horror

I love the dappled effect of the two colours!

I’m calling this colour ‘soft boy lilac’

Having a very disordered day after yesterday’s high. Feel like my nerve endings are tied in knots.

Fighting back with a cosy cardigan and a new nail polish colour. Might have a bath later. Take THAT, central nervous system!

Just wrote up three stonking chapters if I do say so myself. SUCH a good feeling as it comes together.

For a musicological horror, it’s coming out very pacey. I think this bonkers idea might work!