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Roseanna Pendlebury

@chloroformtea.bsky.social

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SFF enthusiast, hobby-collector, blogger, shouter-at-the-internet. Editor at Ignyte and Hugo winner Nerds of a Feather, along with reviews elsewhere. 2025 Hugo Fan Writer finalist. All links here: https://linktr.ee/roseanna.pendlebury (she/her).

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 1h

Oooooooh. Up the pile it goes.

Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 1h

Today’s book post

Sea Now by Eva Meijer, translated by Anne Thompson Melo

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 2h

NoaF needs more contributors. Maybe that could be you?

If not, we'd really appreciate a share, or if you fancied passing the link across to someone who might be interested, so we can keep on covering as wide a ground in SFF as we can.

Nerds of a Feather @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social · 5h

Contributors Wanted!
Do YOU want to write for Nerds of a Feather?
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/10/cont...

Contributors Wanted

Do you want to write for Nerds? Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together is looking for 3-5 awesome individuals to join our team of regular contri...

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Nerds of a Feather @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social · 5h

Contributors Wanted!
Do YOU want to write for Nerds of a Feather?
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/10/cont...

Contributors Wanted

Do you want to write for Nerds? Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together is looking for 3-5 awesome individuals to join our team of regular contri...

www.nerds-feather.com

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 6h

I would like to see the baby...

Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 18h

Playing motivation ping-pong back and forth between a book I need to review and edits on a previous review, and thus actually accomplishing none of either.

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 1d

Another graphic novel review up from me - The Power Fantasy continues to be just so goddamn /interesting/, because it takes its premises the right amount of seriously and gets properly invested in what they would mean morally and philosophically. I am so here for it.

Nerds of a Feather @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social · 1d

Graphic Novel Review: The Power Fantasy vol. 2 by Kieron Gillen, Caspar Wijngaard, Clayton Cowles and Rian Hughes

@chloroformtea.bsky.social has the review at the NOAF blog
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/10/grap...

Graphic Novel Review: The Power Fantasy vol. 2 by Kieron Gillen, Caspar Wijngaard, Clayton Cowles and Rian Hughes

The tensions increase in a stalemate between superpowers, as does the backstory and the drama of all kinds. The second trade volume of The ...

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 1d

It is not only possible, but desirable under the correct circumstances to write in first, third, or even second person omni.

Finding these confusing is a skill issue (yours)

(y’all asked for unhinged okay)

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 1d

I was all confident that I only had two books to read to do the whole LeGuin shortlist... and now it's seven days until the announcement and I /still/ have two books left to read. Suddenly time to pivot on my reading plans then.

Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 2d

Have just finished The Power Fantasy Volume 2 (very good, recommend), and went back to read my review of the first volume before writing this one up. I am feeling very smug about some of the things I noticed and commented on which have very much come out in vol. 2. Gold star at reading for me.

Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 2d

This looks absolutely gorgeous.

Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 2d

Turns out insistent, tense and slightly anxious violins are extremely not the music to have on while looking at edits.

Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve not painted miniatures for a very long time (and those were generally airfix model planes not more fiddly things), but decided to have a go with a mini of my Hero of Fereldan from Dragon Age: Origins. Much to be improved but I don’t hate it, and I had fun.

Model about 3cm tall of a woman in leather and armour, holding a scroll with large red bottles by her feet

Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve had this cold for now slightly over a week and at this point, whatever benefit they may offer, I’m prepared to declare sinuses unnecessary for humanity.

Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 3d

Morning Womble! I’ve just started both The Power Fantasy vol. 2 by Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard and From These Dark Abodes by Lyndsie Manusos, because I’m indecisive.

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Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social · 4d

Intergalactic Mixtape is live! This week I and several readers built a rec list of our favorite reads of September. Plus: lots of great reviews, author interviews, and award news.

Intergalactic Mixtape #23

Hey! This week, the most mentioned book by far is a book that, as far as I can tell, doesn’t have a U.S. release date yet. That’s fine! I don’t suffer from...

buttondown.com

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 5d

Yesssss

Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 5d

Somewhat late in the game decision, but I think I'm going to Novacon now. Who else do I know going?

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 5d

The whole final section is pretty powerful - I am easy to convince of the emotional scouring power of Big Weather.

Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 5d

I see the hope connection, and interested how KSR isn't spelling any of it out plainly though.

Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 5d

Not very eloquent response from me, but this was Big Oof.

Frank looked back in its direction and saw that a streetlight reflected off the black cobblestones of the Grassmarket in such a way that there were thousands of brief white squiggles underfoot, looking like names engraved on black granite, as if the whole surface of the earth were paved by a single memorial.

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 5d

A good meal was had, and ended with an unexpectedly enorme slab of cheese to go with my eccles cake.

Menu of St. John, specific to today. Minimally explained English restaurant food.

An eccles cake on a plate with a large triangle of Lancashire cheese. Large. In the background, a dark chocolate terrine with a generous lump of honeycomb.

Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 5d

But if we did it as a podcast I couldn't spend the whole discussion monching honey cakes (they were good honey cakes).

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 5d

I think "ambivalent" is as far as I'm ever gonna get with Bombadil, but it's still growth.

Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 5d

I am deeply distressed that you are not the first or even the second person to suggest this

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