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Big Finish Insider @bigfinish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Exactly 60 years ago (to the minute...), these bad boys made their TV debut in Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet.

The Fantasy Bookworm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Stoner by John Williams is an existential work of American academic fiction that explores the value of an individual human life. Has anyone else read it? Let me know your thoughts #BookTube #BookTok #BookSky 📚🖋️ youtube.com/shorts/stpNe...

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Stoner is an Existential Book

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The Fantasy Bookworm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This week I'm discussing the existential themes of Stoner by John Williams and how the novel explores the value of an insignificant human life #BookSky #BookTube 📚🖋️ youtu.be/vKRinCljzyw?...

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Reading Stoner Gave Me Existential Dread.

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The Fantasy Bookworm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My favourite thing about this is that with the main show being off the air I think far more adult fans are going to be watching TARDIS Crew than would have been otherwise, and I just can't wait to see the reactions from the kinds of fans who take things way too seriously #DoctorWho

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First look at Doctor Who animated adventure coming to CBeebies

Doctor Who: TARDIS Crew will arrive on CBeebies and BBC iPlayer in late 2027/early 2028

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James Goss @gossjam.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A book so thick you could use it to commit a murder. Which, funnily enough, I shall. #DoctorWho

Doctor Who and the Key To Time by Robert Sherman, David Fisher and me.

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The Fantasy Bookworm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's laughable the "mutilating kids" rhetoric is still going. If mainstream journalists were doing their job it would have been debunked long ago for the blatant nonsense that it is.

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The Fantasy Bookworm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Judging from the volume of videos on YouTube that are about things people "didn't want to talk about" or "weren't expecting to talk about," it must be very hard to not talk about things

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The Fantasy Bookworm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

These people always act like the concept of being trans is a newfangled thing that only just sprung up a few years ago

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 05/10/2026

Please don't forget about us trans people. Facing the worst attack on our rights in this country due to Labour's current transphobia. Don't forget my community. That's all I ask. Please.

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The Fantasy Bookworm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Is it any wonder transphobia is so rampant in the UK when the news outlet that is supposed to be trustworthy cannot be trusted to report on anything to do with trans people accurately or responsibly?

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Cwiar Cymru @cwiar.org · 01/09/2026

More appalling behaviour from the BBC. ⬇️ A trans person interviewed about their horrific experience having their surgery cancelled whilst in the hospital described as 'biologically female'. And then half the article devoted to praising the work of an unemployed transphobe. 🗣️ DEFUND THE BBC 🗣️

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Welsh Gender Service: Transgender patients told surgery cancelled in hospital

One patient said they were "heartbroken" after being told their surgery was called off 24 hours before.

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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 05/10/2026

Ahh, unlucky mate. Turns out trans healthcare is still the scientifically and morally correct thing to do. I assume you'll be apologising now? Not sure why you thought the last 5 years would be different to the nearly 100 before that but ok

Some prick from Twitter exactly 5 years ago saying "I do hope in five years when this has been consigned to the rubbish heap that your apology to the legions of mutilated 20somethings will be fulsome and abject, Katy. You're going to have a LOT of explaining to do."

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The Fantasy Bookworm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Today's charity shop find. Larklight, one of the very few books by Philip Reeve that I've not actually read yet #BookSky 📚🪐

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James Goss @gossjam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Didn't get Glastonbury Tickets? Why not come to #DoctorWho #TargetBookClub on October 24th. We've a line-up of talks, readings, interactive prose poetry and Free Tea. bit.ly/smallbluebox

Gary Brannan - Exterminations In The Library
Steve Cole - The Vampire Mutation
Robert Crighton - Zerbi-Ye-Ye!
James Goss - Young Men Are Dying For It
John Grindrod - Revenge Of The Blurboids
Simon Guerrier - The Six Doctors
Paul Kirkley - The Revolting Rutan Will Not Be Televised
Esther MacCallum-Stewart - The 5-FINGERED BOOKMARK
Jonathan Morris - Literal Targets
Bruce Nicholson - Chapter One
Andrew Orton - The Changing Face of Doctor Who
Phil Pascoe - « Et zut ! Ça recommence ! »
Julian Richards - Father In The Mirror
Robert Shearman - Power of Kroll
James Cooray Smith - The Timeless Pieces
Paul MC Smith - Drawing Inspiration
Dr Matthew Sweet - LYLE AND A TIME LORD
Jason Thompson - AND THE MYSTEROUS IMAGERY
STEPHEN WYATT - THE STALLSLADY IS BBC ENTERPRISES

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Robert Llewellyn @bobbyllew.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Anyone in the Oxford area, or in Oxford. This coming Tuesday I'm appearing at the lovely Caper Bookshop in east Oxford. Talking Red Dwarf, Scrapheap, books, electric cars and general nonsense. It might be fun. Come along. checkout.square.site/merchant/ML2...

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An evening with Robert Llewellyn - Caper

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The Fantasy Bookworm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The pining in itself I don't mind so much. It's the immature sparring with Rose that I find most irritating and a disservice to the character

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The Fantasy Bookworm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The initial scenes between the Doctor and Sarah in School Reunion are great. Then it all goes downhill with the bitchy rivalry with Rose which feels incredibly contrived. Rose being like that, fine, she's a teenager, but Sarah Jane shouldn't also be regressing to that level of immaturity #DoctorWho

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The Fantasy Bookworm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

$100 million is more than most of us will see in our entire lives. Imagine having that amount of money and choosing to spend it on fuelling hate toward trans people, especially when your own daughter is trans. Just how much of a deeply evil, sick person do you have to be?

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The Fantasy Bookworm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The vast majority of us don't possess the wealth to have any real tangible positive impact on the world as individuals. Why is it that those who do have to be fascist nutjobs.

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Theatre Goer @theatre-goer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Trapsters recruit a podcast novice. It’s me. We discussed a terrific new book about the gay creatives and themes associated with Doctor Who.👍🏿 It was a lovely evening of interesting conversation.👏🏿 Check out the podcast and the amazing book, It’s packed full of wonderful anecdotes. 🩷🩷➕🟦🏳️‍🌈📚 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

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The Fantasy Bookworm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There's a difference between outrage and actually caring about something. Outrage is shallow and impulsive. A lot of people are capable of outrage. Not many people are capable of caring.

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Trap One🎙Podcast @trapone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On the brand new Trap One🎙Podcast @drwhonovels.bsky.social, @denisery.bsky.social, @lucymccaul.bsky.social & @quarkmcmalus.bsky.social explore The Peter Davison Collection, out now on record and CD: Apple Podcasts: tinyurl.com/5dky5r2z Spotify: tinyurl.com/mr3zsbez Podbean: tinyurl.com/6u8ym9d8

The packaging for the Peter Davison Collection vinyl release.

The cover, record sleeves and artwork for the vinyls.

The packaging, CDs and booklet for the CD edition.

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The Fantasy Bookworm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thanks, I got the impression it was only a loose connection. I haven't read any of them yet so I'll probably start with Ghosts of India and go in order

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Jeff Goddard @jeffgoddard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fuck off with this shit. Look, I know Doctor Who is, well, Doctor Who. But this speaks to a broader problem which is essentially 'Fuck the arts and artists, they cost too much.' Which is some mealy mouthed bullshit, especially coming from an institution like the BBC. Ffs.

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The Fantasy Bookworm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A question for fellow #DoctorWho book fans. Do Ghosts of India and The Glamour Chase have any real relation to the 12th Doctor "Glamour Chronicles" trilogy of books? I know they both feature something called the Glamour, but the wiki article for the trilogy doesn't seem to reference them.

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Running Through Big Finish @runningtofinishbig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Doctor Who - The Main Range 37: The Sandman Written by Simon A Forward Directed by Gary Russell Sound Design by Gareth Jenkins Music by Russell Stone Cover by Lee Binding Released 24 October 2002 Recorded 4-5 March 2002

Cover to The Sandman featuring the Sixth Doctor, Evelyn Smythe, a lizard man, and lots of scaly textures.

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The Fantasy Bookworm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Finished Colony by Rob Grant. I enjoyed this book, though I'd say that it is less laugh out loud comedy, more dark sci-fi absurdism #BookSky 📚🪐 www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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The Fantasy Bookworm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also "glimmer of hope" really makes it sound like transphobes are the underdog, when they chose to attack a marginalised group and are very much succeeding in dismantling rights for that group right now

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026

It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."

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The Fantasy Bookworm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I guess we're all psychopaths who like genocide now. That's the way it seems.

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The Fantasy Bookworm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's sad how easily people can be manipulated

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ᖴᗩIᒪᗷᗝᗩ丅 ᑕᗩᑭ丅ᗩIᑎ @failboatcaptain.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This. Nobody cared about bathrooms or women's' sports or any of this anti-trans garbage until a well funded organized campaign told them to. None of this was ever organic.

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The Fantasy Bookworm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

10 years ago in my country trans people were existing just the same as they do now. People could use whatever bathrooms they wanted. It wasn't a problem. Largely nobody really cared or thought it was "harming women" or any such thing. The outrage was entirely manufactured.

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Jacob Licklider CR: Reign of the Empire: The Mask of Fear @newt5996.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Company of Friends: Benny’s Story by: Lance Parkin: Big Finish’s 2009 anthology is all about the Eighth Doctor’s less featured companions, at least on audio. First up is Prof. Bernice Summerfield in a story all about an aristocrat who thinks she can free the TARDIS from its oppression.

Cover of Doctor Who: The Company of Friends featuring the Eighth Doctor looming over Bernice Summerfield, Fitz Kreiner, Izzy Sinclair, and Mary Shelley, all in purple.

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The Fantasy Bookworm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Don't know if this comparison has been made before but watching the second season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer kind of reminds me of season two of the Owl House. After the first season was mostly fun and episodic, now it feels like I'm being pummelled emotionally every five minutes

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The Amazing Worlds of Doctor Who @worldsofdrwho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"...the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common..." "Doctor Who: The Face of Evil" part 4 (1977). #DoctorWho

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The Fantasy Bookworm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The only reference I see to Sherlock these days is people pointing and laughing at how terrible it is, which is so weird given that I'm pretty sure it was considered to be good quality at the height of its popularity

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As someone with AuDHD, this can mean the difference between life or suicide. And they just decided people can wait *at least* 2 years. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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NHS bodies in England impose two-year minimum wait for ADHD and autism assessments

Patient groups decry ‘scandalous’ delays as four integrated care boards take step due to soaring demand for diagnoses

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you’re feeling like a rewatch of The Sarah Jane Adventures, now is a good time. The Whoniverse on iPlayer was launched three years ago in RTD’s plan to collect everything Who-ish in one place. Some programmes had limited options but were renewed annually (Torchwood, IIRC) while RTD was in charge.

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

UK government is calling for evidence on puberty suppressing hormones for children and young people with gender incongruence. It’s asking: what research has emerged since 2023. How has the evidence base changed? What makes the evidence hard to generate, evaluate and use in clinical/policy decisions?

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Puberty-suppressing hormones for children and young people accessing gender identity services

How has evidence on puberty suppressing hormones for children and young people with gender incongruence evolved since 2023, and what challenges affect its interpretation and use?

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Ben Williams @wenbbilliams.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The thing about the current state of BBC and British TV is it's extremely complicated, there are many factors, nobody on Bluesky has the answer, that answer certainly isn't "just make Doctor Who cheaply", and we should let the experts sort it out. Unless you do, in fact, have a better plan.

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The Fantasy Bookworm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The gaslighty "you will love AI" adverts are really starting to irritate me now. Will tech companies give over already. I get you've invested a fortune in this but we don't care. Constantly telling us we do is not going to change that.

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James Goss @gossjam.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Here's a list of talks for #DoctorWho #TargetBookClub on Saturday October 24th. Tickets bit.ly/smallbluebox

Target Book Club - The Abbey Centre, Westminster Saturday 24th October

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The Fantasy Bookworm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

And you might say "what system would you replace capitalism with?" That's a valid question worth asking, but in the world I'm imagining it wouldn't really matter what system is used. In the world I imagine, with a humanity that is actually compassionate, nobody would even want to be a billionaire.

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The Fantasy Bookworm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The planet we live has abundant resources, it would take so little for us to collectively agree to share them somewhat fairly as opposed to a tiny percentage hoarding everything. It doesn't have to be perfect, just so no one is starving, desperate, homeless etc. Doing that would be painfully easy.

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The Fantasy Bookworm @fantasybookworm42.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This may be an out there opinion, but I think utopia, or something approaching utopia would actually be pretty easy to achieve, if we could all just start being compassionate. A mind boggling amount of what makes the world we live in not a utopia is so blatantly, needlessly self-inflicted by us.

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Reecy Pontiff @reecypontiff.com · 22/09/2026

Were the Doctor Who TV movie ratings -actually- bad? Was the shooting set a safe space? Might we finally get new Grace Holloway material? Find out that & more in my recent #LIWho 1996 TV movie panel w/co-star Daphne Ashbrook & producer Phil Segal! youtu.be/OUzAwJ43acQ #DoctorWho #8thDoctor

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Doctor Who TV movie panel w/Daphne Ashbrook & Phil Segal @ LI Who

YouTube video by the A/V of Reecy Pontiff

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