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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 · 17h

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 · 22h

This looks absolutely gorgeous.

Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 22h

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 · 22h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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...

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 2d

Yesssss

Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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

Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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

Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 3d

Episode 4 of our close reading of The Fellowship of the Rings is now done, which brings us to the end of Book 1. In this episode, a shift into epic, more walking, uses of light, a jingly jangly horse and Tolkien's aesthetics of evil.

A Close Reading of LotR – Episode 4 – Intrusion of the Epic

How I imagine Glorfindel’s horse looks (sorry Asfaloth) In this fourth section we cover another three chapters: X – Strider, XI – A Knife in the Dark and XII – Flight to the…

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Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 4d

good morning, Bunny! new from me at the
@nytimes.com, just in time for spooky season: a Dark Academia starter pack, feat. Sofia Samatar, Melina Marchetta, Mona Awad, and unexpectedly, Sarah Rees Brennan, for lo, I am Like This full time.

Dark Academia: A Starter Pack

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 4d

I’ll let you know if it coheres out of lemony haze, but I feel like there’s something in there about refusal to accept ambiguity/plurality.

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 4d

I dunno if this is the lemsip or the cold talking but I’m sure there’s some big, joined up point to be made about spoiler culture, the wiki-isation of fiction and people trying to claim canon where no canon should ever be seen (Greek mythology).

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 4d

The merry tinkling of the bells could be really ominous, and I love that for him.

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 4d

I'm going to write up my LOTR close reading notes from today tomorrow, because two blog posts in a day would be excessive, but I am very stuck on Glorfindel and his jingle jangle blinged up horse.

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 4d

Also by far the realest thing in this book is the idea that people will still be making Boaty McBoatface jokes in thirty years.

Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 4d

Octobanger more like

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 4d

I only finished it yesterday but When There Are Wolves Again by E. J. Swift was so good (and so singular), I couldn't help but write about it immediately.

When There Are Wolves Again – E. J. Swift

The new novel from the author of The Coral Bones1, When There Are Wolves Again follows two women in Britain from the present, stretching out across the years into the future of the late 21st centur…

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