Anna Perenna
@annenathema.bsky.social
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.
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.
After The Incident With The Cousin, my throat was feeling scratchy and my nose was getting sniffly, so I took my temperature this morning to make sure he didn't get me fevery and sick. My temp was almost exactly two degrees below the "normal" temp of 98.6, so apparently I'm actually dead.
November 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
After The Incident With The Cousin, my throat was feeling scratchy and my nose was getting sniffly, so I took my temperature this morning to make sure he didn't get me fevery and sick. My temp was almost exactly two degrees below the "normal" temp of 98.6, so apparently I'm actually dead.
I'm currently in a Publix the size of an airplane hangar helping my mom pick up a bunch of stuff for Thanksgiving dinner and there's like a thousand people here and I'm pretty sure I'm in hell.
November 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I'm currently in a Publix the size of an airplane hangar helping my mom pick up a bunch of stuff for Thanksgiving dinner and there's like a thousand people here and I'm pretty sure I'm in hell.
"When does the new issue hit stands?"
"SEVEN DAYS..."
"SEVEN DAYS..."
November 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
"When does the new issue hit stands?"
"SEVEN DAYS..."
"SEVEN DAYS..."
Traveling for Thanksgiving sucks. I spent seven hours in a car and had to use the creepy outside bathroom at the rest stop because the main building had construction work being done on it and was closed and now I'm masked up at my parents house because my idiot cousin is sick.
November 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Traveling for Thanksgiving sucks. I spent seven hours in a car and had to use the creepy outside bathroom at the rest stop because the main building had construction work being done on it and was closed and now I'm masked up at my parents house because my idiot cousin is sick.
Finally finished "Dropsite Massacre". I liked it, but was slightly disappointed because it was about 40% the stuff I wanted (about the psychological impact of the betrayal and massacre on the Imperium and the Primarchs specifically), and 60% bolter porn.
I need to reread "Fulgrim" now, I think.
I need to reread "Fulgrim" now, I think.
November 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Finally finished "Dropsite Massacre". I liked it, but was slightly disappointed because it was about 40% the stuff I wanted (about the psychological impact of the betrayal and massacre on the Imperium and the Primarchs specifically), and 60% bolter porn.
I need to reread "Fulgrim" now, I think.
I need to reread "Fulgrim" now, I think.
Perturabo is far from my favorite Primarch, but I always loved this pic of him by Alex Boyd from the old Visions artbooks, because it shows that Perty is such a grumpy gus that even his hammer is a giant sourpuss. It's like he's wielding a daemon-possessed Mr. Yuk in battle.
November 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Perturabo is far from my favorite Primarch, but I always loved this pic of him by Alex Boyd from the old Visions artbooks, because it shows that Perty is such a grumpy gus that even his hammer is a giant sourpuss. It's like he's wielding a daemon-possessed Mr. Yuk in battle.
Hmm.
Again with the very carefully-gender-neutral pronouns for a Space Marine in "Dropsite Massacre".
What's going on here that both Loyalist and Traitor viewpoint characters are being so cagey about the gender of the Space Marines they're sometimes fighting, I wonder?
Again with the very carefully-gender-neutral pronouns for a Space Marine in "Dropsite Massacre".
What's going on here that both Loyalist and Traitor viewpoint characters are being so cagey about the gender of the Space Marines they're sometimes fighting, I wonder?
November 21, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Hmm.
Again with the very carefully-gender-neutral pronouns for a Space Marine in "Dropsite Massacre".
What's going on here that both Loyalist and Traitor viewpoint characters are being so cagey about the gender of the Space Marines they're sometimes fighting, I wonder?
Again with the very carefully-gender-neutral pronouns for a Space Marine in "Dropsite Massacre".
What's going on here that both Loyalist and Traitor viewpoint characters are being so cagey about the gender of the Space Marines they're sometimes fighting, I wonder?
This is an interestingly gender-neutral way to refer to a Space Marine.
(from "Dropsite Massacre", by John French)
(from "Dropsite Massacre", by John French)
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This is an interestingly gender-neutral way to refer to a Space Marine.
(from "Dropsite Massacre", by John French)
(from "Dropsite Massacre", by John French)
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I think science fiction needs a resection/excision. The old white male "fans" are a tumor on the genre. A very malignant tumor.
What do we do with tumors? Cut them out.
Conventions, stop inviting these racist, sexist, hateful people to be on panels. You know who these people are, or can find out.
What do we do with tumors? Cut them out.
Conventions, stop inviting these racist, sexist, hateful people to be on panels. You know who these people are, or can find out.
November 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I think science fiction needs a resection/excision. The old white male "fans" are a tumor on the genre. A very malignant tumor.
What do we do with tumors? Cut them out.
Conventions, stop inviting these racist, sexist, hateful people to be on panels. You know who these people are, or can find out.
What do we do with tumors? Cut them out.
Conventions, stop inviting these racist, sexist, hateful people to be on panels. You know who these people are, or can find out.
I watched a documentary about Lilith Fair on Hulu, and it gave me a surprisinglu intense nostalgic longing for the 90s.
I'm not entirely sure why it hit me so hard.
I'm not entirely sure why it hit me so hard.
November 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I watched a documentary about Lilith Fair on Hulu, and it gave me a surprisinglu intense nostalgic longing for the 90s.
I'm not entirely sure why it hit me so hard.
I'm not entirely sure why it hit me so hard.
Reposted by Anna Perenna
Really taken by all the Hello Kitty Warhammer art. Its perfect.
November 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Really taken by all the Hello Kitty Warhammer art. Its perfect.
Oh, hey, @shawntomkin.bsky.social, who made Ironsworn/Starforged, my favorite RPGs on the planet, also co-wrote the solo rules for Fria Ligan's Blade Runner RPG in addition to their Alien RPG!
November 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Oh, hey, @shawntomkin.bsky.social, who made Ironsworn/Starforged, my favorite RPGs on the planet, also co-wrote the solo rules for Fria Ligan's Blade Runner RPG in addition to their Alien RPG!
Taylor Swift got a lot of criticism for her new album, but "The Fate of Ophelia" is a bop and I can't stop listening to it.
November 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Taylor Swift got a lot of criticism for her new album, but "The Fate of Ophelia" is a bop and I can't stop listening to it.
Getting ready to watch Ken Burns' "The American Revolution" tonight, and trying to avoid spoilers.
November 17, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Getting ready to watch Ken Burns' "The American Revolution" tonight, and trying to avoid spoilers.
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No, thanks. I've already got one.
November 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
No, thanks. I've already got one.
Yes.
Yes I would.
Yes I would.
On hey would you like sapphic longing/enemies to lovers ?
This way
This way
Reading 2025 fiction?
Try the short story "The Breaker of Mountains and Rivers" by Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/HznhrfP
Try the short story "The Breaker of Mountains and Rivers" by Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/HznhrfP
November 14, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Yes.
Yes I would.
Yes I would.
This time, I failed to resist.
One of the annoying things about social media is that even when it's not a Nazifest like Twitter, it's still SOCIAL media, and the anxiety part of social anxiety doesn't care that the social part is just virtual.
One of the annoying things about social media is that even when it's not a Nazifest like Twitter, it's still SOCIAL media, and the anxiety part of social anxiety doesn't care that the social part is just virtual.
Today I successfully resisted posting a reply on a post made by someone I follow but who does not follow me, a reply that I thought was funny but I'm pretty sure would have just been embarrassing and awkward to everyone else, especially the person I was going to reply to.
So, you know, go me.
So, you know, go me.
a woman wearing glasses and a purple shirt is waving her hand in front of a window
Alt: Tina Fey high fives herself. It is sad and pathetic.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
This time, I failed to resist.
One of the annoying things about social media is that even when it's not a Nazifest like Twitter, it's still SOCIAL media, and the anxiety part of social anxiety doesn't care that the social part is just virtual.
One of the annoying things about social media is that even when it's not a Nazifest like Twitter, it's still SOCIAL media, and the anxiety part of social anxiety doesn't care that the social part is just virtual.
I feel everyone should have a favorite Burgess Shale creature.
Mine, of course, is Anomalocaris.
Mine, of course, is Anomalocaris.
November 14, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I feel everyone should have a favorite Burgess Shale creature.
Mine, of course, is Anomalocaris.
Mine, of course, is Anomalocaris.
This is pretty much how the executive presentation at today's big meeting at work went, too.
![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
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November 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This is pretty much how the executive presentation at today's big meeting at work went, too.
I'm hiding in back of the big conference room buying eBooks. I had no idea @chriswarcraft.bsky.social wrote a scifi novel, so naturally I had to get it.
November 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I'm hiding in back of the big conference room buying eBooks. I had no idea @chriswarcraft.bsky.social wrote a scifi novel, so naturally I had to get it.
Well, today is off to a good start. It's another one of those quarterly big meetings where I am stuck wearing the ouchie (but cute!) shoes again in a room crammed full of people. Only this time, they didn't even have a name tag for me and I had to get a perfunctory dashed-off handwritten one.
November 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Well, today is off to a good start. It's another one of those quarterly big meetings where I am stuck wearing the ouchie (but cute!) shoes again in a room crammed full of people. Only this time, they didn't even have a name tag for me and I had to get a perfunctory dashed-off handwritten one.
Oh no.
Oh no no no no.
Oh no no no no.
welcome to bluesky. if the word "mapquest" means anything to you and/or you used it as a verb, you're in the right place
November 11, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Oh no.
Oh no no no no.
Oh no no no no.
Last I might I dreamt that I met @marthawells.com in person, and embarrassed myself trying to pronounce "Ile-Rien", because even in my dreams I'm a socially-awkward dork, apparently.
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Last I might I dreamt that I met @marthawells.com in person, and embarrassed myself trying to pronounce "Ile-Rien", because even in my dreams I'm a socially-awkward dork, apparently.
Me: Oh, hey...Kobo is having a huge sale on all kinds of Star Trek eBooks!
My credit card:
My credit card:
a cartoon of ralph from the simpsons sits in an orange seat
Alt: a cartoon of ralph wiggum from the simpsons sits in an orange seat on a moving bus, with the caption "*chuckles* I'm in danger"
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November 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Me: Oh, hey...Kobo is having a huge sale on all kinds of Star Trek eBooks!
My credit card:
My credit card: