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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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The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 16h

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 · 18h

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 · 2d

Anyone know of any other good VORs they would recommend?

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

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 5d

#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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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…

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The Fantasy Book Worm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 7d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 20d

✨ 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 · 9d

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

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 9d

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 · 9d

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 · 9d

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.

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

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

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🎃Simon Threadgold🎃 @dimwittedly.bsky.social · 10d

Wish we’d got the scene in ‘Frontier In Space’ where the Master tells the Daleks to keep out of sight til he gives them their cue.

“No, look, seriously, trust me, it’ll be so much cooler if we do it this way. Just let me go out first, have a bit of a chat, then you roll out. His face!”

“ERR. OK.”

Roger Delgado’s Master having a proper chuckle.

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

Finished Arkspire by Jamie Littler. This story introduces an apparently utopian magical city that's actually not so benevolent beneath the surface. The illustrations are gorgeous and Juni might be the most audacious protagonist of any book I've read #BookSky 📚🪐

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Kyle Theobald's review of Arkspire (Arkspire, #1)

5/5: "Do you know what I've learned after centuries of living? That there's no such thing as good and evil. The only difference is between those with power and those without." Firstly this book gets ...

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

As a story Flux is a bit all over the place, but it's never boring. It's interesting to imagine what the series might have been like if it were not made under such extraordinary circumstances with the reduced episode count

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

Interesting you make the comparison with the alignment of the planets in The Stolen Earth. Personally the Blathereen's plan to teleport the entire Justicia system across space reminded me a bit of the Daleks wanting to pilot Earth like a spaceship in The Dalek Invasion of Earth. It's equally bonkers

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The Obsessed Whovian @theobsessedwhovian.bsky.social · 13d

The latest stories from the lost stories range are among the best releases from @bigfinish.bsky.social this year. Happy to have both on CD! 💿🙂
#doctorwho #bigfinishcollection
#peterdavison #sylvestermccoy #cybermen #alixion

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

The fact the most popular candidate people want to vote for in my country is someone who talks about sending people back to the Taliban is sickening. Feeling pretty depressed about this today. I can see the future and evil wins.

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

Well A Web of Air is from the Mortal Engines series, which is about traction cities, predatory cities that move about and "eat" each other for resources etc. And A Web of Air has nothing to do with traction cities and is instead about a boy who speaks to birds and is trying to build an aeroplane