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The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 4h

Exploring the idea of them understanding emotion but seeing it clinically as a tool to manipulate sounds cool. Coming to a planet/colony and targeting perhaps families of the terminally ill or the people most desperate

The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 10h

Tempted to marathon these books in the coming months, as I've just completed reading/re-reading all the 9th Doctor novels

The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 17h

Have now acquired all of the original series 2 tie-in novels. Apologies if the paperback/hardback inconsistency is annoying to some people, I try to get hold of these books as cheaply as I can (in reasonable condition) #DoctorWho 📚🪐

The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 10h

I've not read them in so long but I remember liking Black Island, especially the prologue which is just dripping in Gothic horror atmosphere. I'll have to revisit those books soon

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Richard Binns @moralavenger.bsky.social · 17h

ON THIS DAY... 24 years ago, The audio story Colditz, written by Steve Lyons, was first released by Big Finish Productions. Cover design by: Clayton Hickman.

#DoctorWho #BigFinish

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The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 17h

Have now acquired all of the original series 2 tie-in novels. Apologies if the paperback/hardback inconsistency is annoying to some people, I try to get hold of these books as cheaply as I can (in reasonable condition) #DoctorWho 📚🪐

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 1d

“I WRITE as a feminist and the parent of a trans teenager. I have also spent years working to safeguard women and children. I understand risk – and where harm comes from”…

Guidance from EHRC should be challenged by the Labour government

I WRITE as a feminist and

www.thenational.scot

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Target Books Remembered @targetbooks.bsky.social · 1d

On This Day in 1982, 'Logopolis' was first released simultaneously in hardback & paperback, with cover art by Andrew Skilleter.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 1d

60,000 signatures for the @nionwomen.bsky.social petition for cis women opposed to their names being used to justify transphobia,

notinourname.org.uk

Women in support of the trans+ community
We want the media and politicians to recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm.

60,000 have signed. Let's get to 100,000
Kathryn signed 1 minute ago
Serinn signed 17 minutes ago
Laura signed 19 minutes ago
Holly signed 21 minutes ago

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Target Books Remembered @targetbooks.bsky.social · 3d

On This Day in 1983, 'Arc of Infinity' was first released in paperback.

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Simon Guerrier @0tralala.bsky.social · 3d

Part two of my exhaustive, exhausting piece on Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster by Terrance Dicks, in which Doctor Who and one of his best friends strip off… 0tralala.blogspot.com/2025/10/doct... #DoctorWho

Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster, by Terrance Dicks — II

0tralala.blogspot.com

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The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 3d

The Billie Piper regeneration is the ultimate culmination of the whole "generate content" philosophy of the Doctor Who RTD2 era. No consideration, no plan, no artistic justification whatsoever, just a last minute ploy to grab some headlines and get people talking about a thing.

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The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 3d

The Billie Piper regeneration is the ultimate culmination of the whole "generate content" philosophy of the Doctor Who RTD2 era. No consideration, no plan, no artistic justification whatsoever, just a last minute ploy to grab some headlines and get people talking about a thing.

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 4d

🚨This is an emergency🚨

This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.

Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan

Image has a pink background and scraps of torn blue and white paper behind the text. Text reads: Scrap the Bathroom Ban. Tell Your MP to say no to segregation. This is urgent. The EHRC Code of Practice could be laid in Parliament any day.

Act now. Tell your MP to stop this. Write to your MP:
tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

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The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 3d

How about "this person could have not been a sex pest, then it wouldn't have exploded in their face." Why is responsibility put on the victim.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 12d

linktr.ee/junostump
venmo.com/u/junostump

tips super appreciated

i am a trans girl indie journalist w/ 16 years exp.

bylines formerly included: game informer, polygon, gamespot, kotaku, ign, the daily mail, etc etc etc '

im behind on bills, need groceries, more HRT, more cat food, etc et ♥️

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The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 4d

The reactionary mob running with a quote from Robert Shearman about #DoctorWho being dead reminds me when they took Christopher Eccleston's line about Doctor Who "politics" out of context. It's comical because both those people are about as ideologically far removed from that movement as you can get

The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 4d

Especially now with all the discourse from the right-wing about Doctor Who "going woke" and how it isn't supposed to be political. As though they missed the point of the entire thing. We are literally seeing the events of Jubilee on a meta level playing out in real time #DoctorWho

The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 4d

"Jubilee was [...] a rather angry piece of work. I was alarmed by the growing acceptance of far-right politics, although in retrospect, 2002 seems like such an innocent time now!"

Interesting to read this Rob Shearman interview. I said recently Jubilee is a story that is only getting more relevant

Big Finish Insider @bigfinish.bsky.social · 13d

📚 HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to @robertshearman.bsky.social! There's an exclusive interview at https://bgfn.sh/robert25 all about the new novel adaptations of The Chimes of Midnight and Jubilee.

The covers of the two Robert Shearman novels, Jubilee and The Chimes of Midnight.

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The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah I read that interview and knew that it wasn't intended in a negative way, but I can see how that quote could be taken out of context

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Reecy Pontiff @reecypontiff.com · 7d

Ooh two Whos!

Now, which one to read first...? 🤔

#doctorwho #bigfinish @robertshearman.bsky.social

Reecy mugging with the novelizations of Big Finish audios Jubilee and Chimes of Midnight, both by Robert Shearman

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The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 4d

I can't wait to read these! So excited

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The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 4d

I'm guessing this is about the "dead as it's ever been" quote.

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Richard Binns @moralavenger.bsky.social · 5d

ON THIS DAY... 41 years ago, The novelisation of Inferno, written by Terrance Dicks, was released by Target Books. Cover art by Nick Spender.

#DoctorWho

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The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 5d

Adding #LetWomenSpeak to my bio because standing up for trans rights and listening to women are NOT mutually exclusive concepts, despite what gender critical activists and mainstream media would have you think

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The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 5d

Who were always free to express themselves how they wanted so that hasn't changed

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