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Kara Dennison

@rubycosmos.bsky.social

GODZILLA: HEIST is now available from @idwpublishing.com ! Read my review of this exciting new spin on kaiju action:

karadennison.blogspot.com/2026/01/comi...

#comicreview #comics #godzilla

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January 13, 2026 at 3:11 PM

Kara Dennison

@rubycosmos.bsky.social

Today on the blog, it's time for a fast-acting dose of action manga! 3-MINUTE BODYGUARD YOKO-CHAN comes out tomorrow from @titanmangahq.bsky.social , and I have an early look at Volume 1 in print!

karadennison.blogspot.com/2026/01/mang...

🍵: Chapters Tea & Co.
🕯️: LeaVea Candles

#mangareview

January 12, 2026 at 4:48 PM

Kara Dennison

@rubycosmos.bsky.social

Discotek always has my back for Lupin.

Discotek Media @discotekmedia.bsky.social · 6d

And last up, Lupin grabs another announcement...

Lupin the 3rd: TV Specials Collection 1!

The 1st 5 Lupin TV specials from 1989-1993 are collected in HD. All 5 are subbed, 1 & 5 are dubbed.

Plus 3 commentaries, liner notes, galleries, commercials, & more!

January 6, 2026 at 6:34 PM

Kara Dennison

@rubycosmos.bsky.social

Today on the blog: the original #WINNIE-THE-POOH book turns 100 this year. Join me in checking out this beautiful anniversary reprinting from @simonbooks.bsky.social !

☕: Chapters Tea & Co.
🕯️: Frostbeard Studio

karadennison.blogspot.com/2026/01/winn...

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January 6, 2026 at 3:44 PM

Kara Dennison

@rubycosmos.bsky.social

Today on the blog, I review #BethIsDead: a modern reimagining of #LittleWomen that brings the unique personalities of the March sisters back into sharp relief. Available tomorrow from @simonbooks.bsky.social !

☕: Chapters Tea & Co.
🕯️: Frostbeard Studio

karadennison.blogspot.com/2026/01/book...

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January 6, 2026 at 12:52 AM

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Obverse Books

@obversebooks.co.uk

Call for submissions!

We'd like to expand the diversity of our Archive authors, and are looking for proposals for any available story from anyone meeting the criteria of being disabled or a person of colour

obversebooks.co.uk/blackarchive...

Closing date for subs 30/06/26

Please share! #booksky

The Black Archive is a series of monographs about individual Doctor Who stories, published by Obverse Books. The editors recently ran a general call for open submissions, which we’re now following up with a specific call for book proposals from authors of colour and disabled authors.

We’re proud of the books we’ve published, and of the diversity of their authors in many respects, but we’re aware that our contributors to date have been skewed heavily, though not exclusively, towards being white and non-disabled. We’d like to change that if we can.

We want to expand the diversity of our authors in general, and will consider proposals for any available story, from anyone meeting the criteria of being disabled or a person of colour. We’ll give particular consideration to proposals from authors whose heritage or impairments might give them specific insight into a Doctor Who story – for instance, by a wheelchair-using author on Genesis of the Daleks, an author of Indian or Pakistani heritage on Demons of the Punjab, a Deaf author on The Well, a Nigerian author on The Story & the Engine, etc.

We have already published or commissioned Black Archives on many Doctor Who stories, and these are no longer available for submissions. A full list of available stories can be found here on the Obverse website.

Note: If we can do anything to make the following process more accessible for you, please contact us as soon as possible on blackarchivesubs@obversebooks.co.uk.

January 2, 2026 at 11:53 AM

Kara Dennison

@rubycosmos.bsky.social

Sure, your D&D party is chaotic, but are they “Dragonborn skateboarding on a human torso” chaotic?

January 2, 2026 at 1:08 PM

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Oxventure

@oxventure.bsky.social

You're doing WHAT, Egbert?! 😨

🎟️ Get your tickets to our fast-approaching live show TODAY!

🔗 bit.ly/OXGuild

January 2, 2026 at 1:02 PM

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✨ Hamish Steele ✨

@hamishsteele.bsky.social

Happy Public Domain Day to Nancy Drew, Golden Bat and The Shadow!

A drawing of Nancy Drew with her torch, Golden Bat (a Golden skeleton in a high collared cloak) with a sword and the Shadow (a cloaked figure with a red scarf around his mouth and twin pistols)

January 1, 2026 at 5:01 PM

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(๑･̑◡･̑๑)

@chocolett.bsky.social

I’ll see yall next year ✨

December 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM

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Graeme Allan 🟦

@graemeallan.bsky.social

"You boy! You! When is bins?"

Tom Baker (Doctor Who era) leaning out of Alastair Sim's window.

December 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM

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Misila 🎶

@misila.bsky.social

I want to own DVDs and videogames and books and not need wifi to use a fucking washing machine.

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

December 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM

Kara Dennison

@rubycosmos.bsky.social

I'm not a big drinker, but I love a themed mixed drink. From Winter Warmers in business class to drinks before the panto, I run down my list of holiday drinks sampled on my blog:

karadennison.blogspot.com/2025/12/mixe...

December 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM

Kara Dennison

@rubycosmos.bsky.social

AFTERNOON TEA REVIEW!

A full breakdown of the holiday menu at Fortnum & Mason's Diamond Jubilee Tea Salon:

karadennison.blogspot.com/2025/12/afte...

December 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM

Kara Dennison

@rubycosmos.bsky.social

And Akane-banashi:

youtu.be/yZxy7JKQhg0?...

TV animation “Akane-banashi” The first main trailer | Broadcasting Begins in April 2026!

YouTube video by tv asahi animation YouTubeチャンネル

youtu.be

December 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM

Kara Dennison

@rubycosmos.bsky.social

Gorgeous trailers for the anime adaptations of two of my favorite recent manga. What a joy.

Kill Blue:

youtu.be/5SvzWmg1c14?...

Anime KILL BLUE – Main Trailer set to premiere in April 2026!

YouTube video by DMM pictures

youtu.be

December 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM

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Samantha Ferreira Is In Her Research Hole Until January

@sam-animeherald.bsky.social

This is the way.

Insider Gaming @insider-gaming.com · 23d

Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage

insider-gaming.com/indie-game-a...

Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage

Sandfall Interactive and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been stripped of its wins at The Indie Game Awards due to use of generative AI.

insider-gaming.com

December 20, 2025 at 11:09 PM

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Chris Kohler

@kohler.bsky.social

oh my god

Jeopardy answer: "A literate spider on a farm sends messages to her non-Japanese friend who is obsessed with Japanese culture"

Jeopardy contestant gets the right question, which is "What is 'Charlotte's Weeb?'"

December 19, 2025 at 4:39 AM

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈

@haileypiperfights.bsky.social

Edit of a Simpsons meme showing how sad and lonely Millhouse's Dad Kirk is while Homer can't understand because he is not sad and lonely.
Kirk: I generate ideas in a car bed
Homer: I have my own ideas in a bed with my wife

December 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨

@davidgerard.co.uk

as I note in the linked post: techs linger for *years* past their heyday. NFTs are still here, so they must be here to stay! I can buy vacuum tubes on Ali.

December 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM

Kara Dennison

@rubycosmos.bsky.social

I checked out the first UK performance of RIDE THE CYCLONE, and it was absolutely worth it. Full thoughts on my blog:

karadennison.blogspot.com/2025/12/thea...

#theater #offwestend

December 17, 2025 at 11:35 PM

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Kaleidotrope

@kaleidotrope.bsky.social

This, 100%. I think there are many people turning to generative AI out of genuine love of characters—other writers’ or even their own—and somehow not getting that this is fundamentally different from fanart or an honest creative expression of that love.

🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 27d

The hardest conversation I had about this was when a reader prompted out slop as "fanart" for one of my books. She was gushing about how much she loved the characters, and I had the unpleasant task of explaining I couldn't accept it, and I would rather see stick figures she drew herself than this.

December 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM