The Fantasy Bookworm

Link to see what I'm currently reading. I accidentally deleted the original pinned post.

Just noticed the link is broken. This should be the correct one: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

It’s #AsexualAwarenessWeek this week. Looking for more ace representation to add to your bookshelf? Here are 20 LGBTQ+ books and graphic novels with asexual characters available at Proud Geek now: A list of book titles and authors can be found in the alt text #asexual #booksky

Happy publication day to #DoctorWho And The Key To Time (and thanks to @suttonwho.bsky.social for making the impossible happen)

To clarify @transparentaction.bsky.social exists to support proud parents (and other family) of trans people, to take a stand and speak up. Given we’ve recently heard that family members influenced the gender affirming surgery pause for adults in Wales, our action is needed more now than ever.

Rob Shearman *is* Kroll, performing the beast's inner monologue at #TargetBookClub #TargetBookDay

In today’s ep we look at the 1997 BBC PDA, Illegal Alien, which began life as an unproduced television script for Doctor Who, Season 27. Before then, we rip through the month's news, some short topics and then end - as always - with great listener feedback from you! thedwshow.net/2026/10/25/i...

Thanks to @gossjam.bsky.social and everyone who presented at #TargetBookClub today, some hilarious and informative talks #DoctorWho

Anyone else have multiple copies of the same book? #BookSky #BookTube #BookTok #Reading youtu.be/R5vrzGSBIwg?...

We're at the start of a run of stories that push firmly against how Doctor Who stories could be told, of which Project: Lazarus's atypical multi-Doctor story is the most 'normal'. Doctor Who and the Pirates is The One With All The Singing.

OTD 1982: Doctor Who – Logopolis by Christopher H. Bidmead “Events cast shadows before them, but the huger shadows creep over us unseen…” Always sends chills up my spine! One of the greatest and grimmest #DoctorWho stories becomes a great and grim Target book.

ONE WEEK to go until #DoctorWho #TargetBookClub and 16 tickets left. Be there and be square. Tickets: bit.ly/smallbluebox

OTD 1994 #DoctorWho St Anthony’s Fire Horror, twisted religion and anti-fascism often fit DW; less so here, I’m afraid, a lesser NA. Yet I have very fond memories – half-reading it, half-watching out for the correct bus stop on my way to a date with a lovely man I was getting to know called Richard…

Watching Vengeance on Varos for the first time. I gather this has a reputation as the one story from Colin Baker's TV era that's actually decent #DoctorWho

This week’s subway reading… I think this was the very first Doctor Who novel I read, when I was 15.

Our latest episode is now available. 🍂 We’re reviewing the 2019 novel “Scratchman” by Tom Baker (with James Goss), based on an unproduced script treatment by Tom Baker & Ian Marter. 🎃 Web andwbcp.libsyn.com/episode-116-... Apple podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a... Happy reading! 💙💙➕📚 #DoctorWho

Drop some COMPUTERS 🖥️ 🖤💻

OTD 1991: #DoctorWho Timewyrm: Apocalypse [Spoilers] The third New Adventure follows the Timewyrm to the end of the Universe… And encounters an ambitious purpose to create god—through exploitation and torture. What could possibly go wrong?

Under the guise of ‘impartiality’, right-wing forces are increasingly focused on controlling and restricting which materials, topics and perspectives young people have access to

I'm so fucking tired of this shit. Not a day goes by without trans eliminationism ramping up in the UK and globally. To those cheering this on all I have to say is this; fix your heart or die. www.thepinknews.com/2026/10/15/n...

The EHRC chair either does not understand the principle of rights, or has decided to gaslight trans individuals while stripping those rights. The EHCR code undermines, and, arguably in several ways, outright violates rights for trans individuals, including Articles 8, 11, and 14 of the ECHR. 1/

These organisations that segregate trans people all keep citing the Supreme Court ruling, you know the one that was supposed to only have negligible impact. The government could put a stop to all this blatant discrimination by amending the Equality Act.

When we've hunted down all the trans people (with dignity and sensitivity), who are we going after next (with dignity and sensitivity)? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pretentious speeches about how great humanity is, delivered without irony, are one trope that's practically guaranteed to make me check out of any story. I'm too much of a misanthrope for that. Humanity is awful. We don't deserve those speeches.

The Price of Paradise kind of gives me the vibe of '80s classic Doctor Who. The idea of a place that's so perfect one's mere presence there spoils it is an interesting poetic notion to explore, but I don't think it lands effectively here #DoctorWho 📚🪐 www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

The ban needs to be overturned. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

It's a noisy, cliched, aimless mess of a play, unclear on who the villain is, with very little for the regulars to do. There's not very much depth to almost anything in this play, it feels thin and superficial, with nothing of substance.

The reception to Doctor who ai videos is confusing me. I'm yet to see a single one that doesn't look and sound exactly like Space Babies: poor pacing, wooden acting, unnatural mouth movements. And yet everyone hated Space Babies but love ai slop? Where have everyone's standards gone?

Main Range: Davros damn in 2003 they made a story about how the billionaire ruling class would want to resurrect a nazi leader so they could profit off of them and it unfortunately is relevant to this very day

TERFs are organising an explicitly transphobic ‘gender critical’ “Reclaim the Night” event in Nottingham! 🤮 Don’t protest it (otherwise they’ll claim you’re “anti women” 🙄😖) Instead - take it over with loads of inclusive signs, chants, people - and reclaim the night for ALL ✊🏻💕

Ruin a book by adding a word Lord of the Undone Flies

There's a bit in the Jubilee novelisation about "the joy of a crowd realising they didn't have to be kind any longer. They didn't have to worry about having conscience or pity. They no longer had to care." That's exactly what I see all around me right now. It's really painful how relevant it is.

We should get one thing out of the way right now. Jubilee is incredible, still one of the best pieces of Doctor Who (not just audio Who) ever produced. It's dark and mature, confronting some very nasty truths about human nature, eschewing jingoism and, well, jubilation.

10 years ago the idea that wearing a t-shirt supporting trans people would really be considered controversial, let alone something to be censored by the BBC, would be kind of barmy. What the hell happened

the bbc regularly platforms transphobes to spout paranoid conspiracies, fearmongering lies, and medical disinformation about transgender ppl. but a t-shirt expressing support for us is ‘political’.

Counting this as my spooky reading for Halloween. Were the authors of these books given a stipulated "wiggins" count or something. I swear that word wasn't used so excessively in the show #Reading 📚🪐

Some books arrived.

I’m just about to start my coverage of the fifth full year of Big Finish, the 40th anniversary year for Doctor Who. I definitely wasn’t sure if I’d make it this far when I started, and very glad that I have done!

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

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...

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?...

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

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

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.