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Anna Perenna

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WH40k fan (especially Horus Heresy) hampered by my inability to paint. Lover of 40k novels, sci-fi, and romantasy. I buy LOTS of ebooks, so please feel free to recommend some! Pfp artwork taken from a pic by mydinh on DeviantArt. Looking for a new one.

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Anna Perenna @annenathema.bsky.social · 8h

I only barely remember what his actual deal was, but I definitely recall the name from RPG-related newsgroups when I was in college.

Anna Perenna @annenathema.bsky.social · 8h

Oh my God, I know that name.

...I feel so old.

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Anna Perenna @annenathema.bsky.social · 11h

From "The Fifty-Year Mission: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek" by Edward Gross and Mark Altman. Devra Langsam started one of the first Trek zines in 1967 and co-organized the first major Trek convention in 1972. We're still dealing with this nonsense 60 years later.

"DEVRA LANGSAM

From the very beginning science fiction was very male-focused or male-controlled. There were a few women involved, but an awful lot of them were just the wives of the fans. So when Star Trek started, it had a very large female com-ponent, which I think the networks never really understood. They had these three sexy guys as heroes and they didn't expect that women would say "Oh, wow!"? But they persisted in feeling that all Star Trek fans were sixteen-year-old guys with acne who wore eighty-seven buttons on their shirts. I mean, we tried to tell them, but they never listened. A lot of people were drawn into fandom because of Star Trek, many of them women, and the old-line fans started to feel like they were losing their grip on their own hobby. Look, I'm sure it must have felt like an invasion, just as when Star Wars came out and lots of people switched over from Trek to Star Wars.

Then there was the added problem that many of the old-line science-fiction fans were... less than perfect in regards to socialization. So if they saw a girl and they came up to you, they had a little difficulty perhaps socializing, and that an-noyed the hell out of them because they thought, "Well, she's here and she's a girl, she must be interested in science fiction and me." I'm not being very polite about this, but, again, it was just a question of "I want to talk about Asimov and you've never even heard of Asimov, so why are you trying to take over? There are so many of you!" I mean, we had about four thousand attending the Worldcon in 1967, and then when Elyse Rosenstein and I decided to do our convention, it was so many more people. So the science-fiction fans sort of felt overwhelmed, and there was a certain amount of hostility."

Anna Perenna @annenathema.bsky.social · 16h

The ENTIRE FUCKING REASON Star Trek wasn't a TV series that had three seasons in the 60s then was cancelled and forgotten is because colossal numbers of women fans organized numerous Star Trek conventions and made fanzines in the 70s which convinced the rights owners to revive the franchise.

Earl Grey: 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 @earlgreymemes.club · 1d

okay grandpa, let's get you to bed

To understand this problem, first, you have to understand the demographics of Star Trek viewers. Trekkies are and always have been men. Women are not usually interested in science fiction, but that’s doubly true of Star Trek in particular.

I hear you, random guy who once knew some lady who watched every Voyager episode. I see you on Instagram, attractive girl cosplaying in Starfleet miniskirts. Unfortunately, you very cool Trek-girls are the exception, not the rule.

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Anna Perenna @annenathema.bsky.social · 4d

"I'm against fascists! That's why I'm voting for the guy with the giant tattoo of the unit emblem used by the Nazi SS unit made up of personnel transferred from their duties as Nazi concentration camp guards that he's had for almost two decades!"

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Anna Perenna @annenathema.bsky.social · 4d

I'm telling you, they need to start adding werewolves to these things.

Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 10d

And, if the ratings look less than bright for Hallmark, things are downright grim on Great American Family, where they kicked off their Christmas programming to literal crickets

A WISCONSIN CHRISTMAS PIE failed to register in the ratings, which measured programming with as few as 153k live viewers

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Anna Perenna @annenathema.bsky.social · 4d

Twenty bucks, same as in town.

Anna Perenna @annenathema.bsky.social · 4d

The Ʊ stands for "UwU".

Anna Perenna @annenathema.bsky.social · 4d

I just took an internal survey at work about AI, and I was utterly utterly honest about how I think it's useless counterproductive bullshit and don't want it as part of my job.

So, I'm probably going to get fired.

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Erika Chappell 🏳️‍⚧️ Stop Asking For STLs @opensketchbook.bsky.social · 5d

SURPRISE!

I had an idea on Tuesday for how to do the Perfect Space Marine RPG, so I wrote the Perfect Space Marine RPG.

It's both a shitpost and a dead serious game. And it's, uh... 34,000 words long?

Anyway enjoy!!!

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Oath of Moment

【OATH OF MOMENT】 An Astartes Roleplaying Game They shall be my finest warriors, these men who give of themselves to me. Like clay I shall mould them, and in the furnace of war forge them. They will be...

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Anna Perenna @annenathema.bsky.social · 5d

a cartoon character with big eyes says it 's so beautiful

Alt: Jake the Dog from "Adventure Time" says "It's so beautiful!" with joyfully shining eyes.

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Anna Perenna @annenathema.bsky.social · 5d

This picture makes me wonder: why hasn't anyone ever written Sanguinius wingfic?

Anna Perenna @annenathema.bsky.social · 6d

The Hallmark Channel needs to adapt this into one of their Christmas movies. I'd be more inclined to watch them if they included more werewolves.

Screenshot of Kobo store page for "Werewolf Noel", book 8 of the Big City Lycans series by Eve Langlais.

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Anna Perenna @annenathema.bsky.social · 6d

I found it!

I ran across this book years ago, before I really started buying eBooks, but I couldn't get it at the time and I didn't have an account anywhere to save it on a wishlist then. And then I forgot the title!

But I remembered the description, and this was it! I'm so happy!!

Screenshot of Kobo store page for "Bridge Kingdom" book 1, by Danielle L. Jensen

Anna Perenna @annenathema.bsky.social · 8d

Yeah, as GW retcons go, it's barely noticeable. It only jumped out at me because I'm a giant nerd about Custodes, and in the past chuds have tried to argue with me about the various Custodes changes over the years, including one arguing with me about "Watchers of the Throne" at the Other Place.

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Anna Perenna @annenathema.bsky.social · 8d

It describes how the Companions around the Golden Throne look and how they're attired differently from the way 2017's "Watchers of the Throne" did (where they're fully armored in blackened auramite). The short story describes them as dressed similar to, but not EXACTLY like, the old 1e Custodes.

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Anna Perenna @annenathema.bsky.social · 8d

Ironically, the short story does actually contain a Custodes re-retcon, but it's not the one he thinks is there and that he's whining about.

He's just too much of a tourist to notice.

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Anna Perenna @annenathema.bsky.social · 8d

And by "a year's worth of content for the faction you ruined", he means "one short story in an anthology, and a third-party artbook about the miniatures with minimal fluff, both written before 10th Codex was published".

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Anna Perenna @annenathema.bsky.social · 8d

Starsworn too.

And I had the same idea about a dramatization-through-fic!

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Anna Perenna @annenathema.bsky.social · 9d

The first 40k novel I ever read, and one of the first ever published by Black Library almost thirty years ago, William King's "Space Wolf", featured a pre-Space Marine Ragnar Blackmane having sex with a girl from his village on Fenris.

Anna Perenna @annenathema.bsky.social · 9d

My most unhinged literary take is that Anne Rice's "Mummy" books are far superior to her Vampire Chronicles books

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Oculus Imperia @oculusimperia.bsky.social · 10d

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Anna Perenna @annenathema.bsky.social · 11d

THEN started watching.

Anna Perenna @annenathema.bsky.social · 11d

I read the first Expanse book, the started watching the series and liked it way better and now I'm kind of afraid to go back to the books in case they're not as good.

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Anna Perenna @annenathema.bsky.social · 11d

It's Rogue Interns all the way down.

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