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The Fantasy Book Worm
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I read nerdy books and share my thoughts on them, usually though not always in the sci-fi/fantasy genre, and especially #DoctorWho tie-ins. He/they, autistic, poly, kink-positive. #TransRightsAreHumanRights #LetWomenSpeak
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The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · Dec 14
For any curious what I'm currently reading:

www.goodreads.com/user/show/18...
Kyle Theobald
Kyle Theobald has 50 books on Goodreads, and is currently reading Doctor Who: Night of the Humans by David Llewellyn
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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 7h
“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 · 6h
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 · 13h
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 · 2d
On This Day in 1983, 'Arc of Infinity' was first released in paperback.
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Simon Guerrier @0tralala.bsky.social · 2d
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
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The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 2d
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 · 2d
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 · 3d
🚨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 · 2d
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 · 11d
linktr.ee/junostump
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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 · 3d
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
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The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 3d
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
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The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 3d
"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
bigfinish.bsky.social Big Finish Insider @bigfinish.bsky.social · 12d
📚 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 · 3d
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 · 6d
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 · 3d
I can't wait to read these! So excited
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The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 3d
I'm guessing this is about the "dead as it's ever been" quote.
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Richard Binns @moralavenger.bsky.social · 4d
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 · 4d
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 · 4d
Who were always free to express themselves how they wanted so that hasn't changed
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The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 4d
That is so the opposite of true that it's comical
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The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 4d
So I guess Freida McFadden has supplanted Colleen Hoover as the bestselling author who it's popular to trash at the moment
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Maggie Chapman MSP (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 7d
Why do we keep talking about trans healthcare?

Because of statistics like this.
Because every day waiting, in this world obsessed with harassing trans people, is a battle that many don't survive.

So, we keep talking about it, and keep fighting back against systemic transphobia.
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The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 5d
Enjoyed this one myself, but it really is brutal
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The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 5d
A theme of the discourse about the Monk onscreen is that what he's doing isn't actually that bad and the Doctor is a hypocrite, and I love how Jonathan Morris basically took that notion and went "okay, let's explore that a bit more." It just feels like the next logical thing to do with the character
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