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The Fantasy Book Worm

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Reader of nerdy books, especially #DoctorWho tie-in media, writer of weird things, lover of cats. Created the Midnight Chimes YouTube channel. Sometime former brony. #ProtectTransLives He/they, autistic, poly, kink-positive.

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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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Thunderball @thunderballartblog.bsky.social · 1d

#mylittlepony #mlp #mlpfim #mlpg4 #digitalart #DerpyHooves #Derpy #DoctorWhooves

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The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 1d

Love this

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

1. A new journal report in the prestigious Medical Journal of Australia eviscerates the Cass review, saying it is filled with fallacies and launders anti-trans disinformation.

It methodically goes through each problem in the review.

The latest from S. Baum.

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New Journal Report: Cass Review “Echoes Fallacies Promoted By Anti-Trans Disinformation”

While American lawyers pushed the anti-trans Cass Review this week, Australia’s top scholars rebuked it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Richard Binns @moralavenger.bsky.social · 1d

ON THIS DAY... today, The Chimes of Midnight and Jubilee by Robert Shearman were first released by Big Finish.

#DoctorWho #BigFinish

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The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 1d

Paul Magrs clearly enjoyed writing these books. I think he said in a recent YouTube video that it's a pity the series is ending

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Doctor Who Book Club @andwbcpodcast.bsky.social · 3d

The latest arrival to the #DoctorWho Book Club… it’s the 8th & final volume in the Puffin Classics Crossover line: “Dracula!” by Paul Magrs, featuring the First Doctor, Susan, Ian, & Barbara. 🧛‍♂️
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DOCTOR WHO
A vampire is on the loose!

The Doctor and his companions arrive in a quiet, unassuming seaside town called Whitby. The terrible significance of the place evades them. until they happen upon a theatre production that captivates their attention.
Dracula!

Suddenly, murders are occurring left, right and centre. lan is soon missing, and a town shrouded in myth and legend is beginning to live up to its name.

Clearly there is a Dracula at large, and more to the theatre than meets the eye. As the TARDIS team quickly realise, you can never trust a vampire...

All eight books in the Puffin Classics Crossover line arranged on a table. Half the books are written by Paul Magrs, two by Jacqueline Rayner, one by Bali Rai, and one by Jack Heath.

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The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 1d

Goofy porcupine aliens and characters getting violently assaulted. Winner Takes All is a book which mimics some of the growing pains of #DoctorWho series 1 onscreen, as it feels like it has an identity crisis with its tone 📚🪐

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Kyle Theobald's review of Doctor Who

2/5: Winner Takes All feels consistent with the tone of Doctor Who series 1, but not in a good way. Similar to how in Aliens of London you've Rose and the Doctor being interrogated by the police about...

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The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know who wrote this quote but it reads like the reviewer was simultaneously taking a swipe at both JK Rowling and Enid Blyton, which I'm totally here for #Reading

"Philip Reeve's intricate imagination makes J. K. Rowling feel like Enid Blyton" Independent

The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 2d

The table legs are a bit wonky, there's also how the gaps between the boards randomly fade out halfway across the porch. Wouldn't have noticed these things at a glance though if I was not looking for them

The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 2d

I'm curious whether this novel being commissioned resulted from a meeting with Justin Richards and the show staff that was like "we need to have at least one book be set on the Powell Estate," given it was clearly a conscious decision when reviving #DoctorWho to focus more on the domestic side

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

Anyone know of any other good VORs they would recommend?

The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 6d

People go on about the new voice actors in Rick and Morty sounding different, but I honestly believe if I didn't know about the new VAs I would never have even noticed

The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 6d

Ponies who've never met a unicorn before, whose entire perception of what a unicorn is comes from fearmongering and nothing else, and so this beautiful wholesome person is barred from their society. It hits differently when you are an adult and you see this happening to your friends in real life.

The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 6d

The Netflix MLP movie is not flawless but I maintain this specific moment of Izzy standing there being totally wholesome doing no harm to anyone while the other ponies are charging around in frenzied panic because she's a unicorn is crushingly relevant right now, almost depressingly so #MyLittlePony

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Leese on Life @katherineleese.is.tired.fyi · 8d

#DWSpoilers

I think the latest Christopher Eccleston Big Finish story is probably my favourite Ninth Doctor story alongside 'Girl, Deconstructed'. I think there's something about the more creepy types of Doctor Who stories that amplify Nine's often forgotten about warmth that makes him special.

#DoctorWho The Last Days of the Powell Estate

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The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 8d

Are we crapping on Kemi Badenoch, because given her mask-off transphobia, I'm quite happy to do that

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Big Finish Insider @bigfinish.bsky.social · 8d

Marin YOU. Marin ME. Marin US!

David Bradley’s First Doctor to Return to Marinus in new Doctor Who audio adventure

There’s a new full-cast audio adventure heading for the First Doctor this January as Big Finish announce The First Doctor Unbound: Return to Marinus, the second in the new trilogy starring…

www.flickeringmyth.com

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The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 9d

Not that that would make their identity any less valid of course, but the term "biological" is so misleading

The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 9d

Ugh reading "transgender women and biological women" in the preview. I really think some of the people who write these things perceive trans women as all having transitioned yesterday and that transition involved them putting on a bit of makeup and a dress.

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

The link seems to be broken when I tried it but I found the review. Personally it's my favourite of the Torchwood books I've read

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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️☕️🍰 @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 11d

Now 54,380 signatures of women who stand with trans women.

Let’s keep this going!

Please sign, if you haven’t already done so.
Please share, if you have.

Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 22d

✨ We’ve Moved! ✨

Thank you to the 42,890 people who have signed, shared and supported our letter so far: Not In Our Name: Women in support of the trans+ community.

🌐 NotInOurName.org.uk

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The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 11d

Still waiting for any of the newspapers to report on Rowling denying Nazi crimes

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 11d

I've chekced the News Letter, Belfast Telegraph, Telegraph and now the Mail and every paper so far has had this stupid fucking story

How Emma’s ignorant words poured petrol on the f lames of my trans storm torment, by JK Rowling
Daily Mail 30 Sep 2025 By Rory Tingle

The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 11d

I enjoyed some of her stories, but definite wasted potential. With her acting talent we could have had a lot better. That's why I'm very keen to hear her Big Finish stuff

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Scott agrees: FREE LINK @scottdagostino.ca · 11d

It says a lot about the psychology of DOCTOR WHO fans -- and how beloved the show itself is -- that the actors who’ve received the worst abuse when stars of the show, like Jodie Whittaker and Colin Baker, are still the greatest ambassadors for the character. Hate her all you want, she still loves 💙💙

Jodie Whittaker Says She “Wouldn’t Hesitate” To Return To ‘Doctor Who’: “It’s Absolute Joy”

After returning to her roots in the Season 15 finale of Doctor Who, Jodie Whittaker said she would happily return to play the Thirteenth Doctor again.

deadline.com

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The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 12d

The 9th Doctor books feel uniquely integrated with the show when compared with the later NSAs to me, with "bad wolf" being mentioned in every book, The Monsters Inside being Rose's first visit to an alien planet and then that story actually getting referenced onscreen #DoctorWho