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Anna Perenna
@annenathema.bsky.social
WH40k fan (especially Horus Heresy) hampered by my inability to paint.

Lover of 40k novels, sci-fi, and romantasy. I buy LOTS of ebooks, so please feel free to recommend some!

Pfp artwork taken from a pic by mydinh on DeviantArt. Looking for a new one.
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ℑ𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪 𝔇𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔉𝔞𝔯 𝔉𝔲𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔢, 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔒𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔐𝔬𝔦
November 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
One of my favorite RPGs, Ironsworn: Starforged, is on sale on Drive Thru RPG for $5.

Buy it!

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...
Ironsworn: Starforged - Shawn Tomkin | DriveThruRPG
The Sci-Fi Evolution of the Ironsworn RPG is Here! In Ironsworn: Starforged, you are a spaceborne hero sworn to undertake perilous quests. You will explore uncharted space, unravel the secrets of a my...
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November 29, 2025 at 11:13 AM
I'm pretty sure the only vegetables I've eaten over the past two days have been the green beans in the green bean casserole and the pumpkin in the pumpkin pie.
November 28, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Thanksgiving dinner is like 16 hours of prep and cooking for half an hour of actual eating.
November 27, 2025 at 9:41 PM
My mom is insisting that I help her with the Thanksgiving cooking despite the fact that this is literally me in the kitchen.
homer simpson is reading a box of corn flakes
Alt: homer simpson pours corn flakes in a bowl, adds milk, and then the whole thing bursts into flames
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November 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
After The Incident With The Cousin, my throat was feeling scratchy and my nose was getting sniffly, so I took my temperature this morning to make sure he didn't get me fevery and sick. My temp was almost exactly two degrees below the "normal" temp of 98.6, so apparently I'm actually dead.
November 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I'm currently in a Publix the size of an airplane hangar helping my mom pick up a bunch of stuff for Thanksgiving dinner and there's like a thousand people here and I'm pretty sure I'm in hell.
November 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
"When does the new issue hit stands?"

"SEVEN DAYS..."
SADAKO for VOGUE JAPAN
November 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Traveling for Thanksgiving sucks. I spent seven hours in a car and had to use the creepy outside bathroom at the rest stop because the main building had construction work being done on it and was closed and now I'm masked up at my parents house because my idiot cousin is sick.
November 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Finally finished "Dropsite Massacre". I liked it, but was slightly disappointed because it was about 40% the stuff I wanted (about the psychological impact of the betrayal and massacre on the Imperium and the Primarchs specifically), and 60% bolter porn.

I need to reread "Fulgrim" now, I think.
November 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Perturabo is far from my favorite Primarch, but I always loved this pic of him by Alex Boyd from the old Visions artbooks, because it shows that Perty is such a grumpy gus that even his hammer is a giant sourpuss. It's like he's wielding a daemon-possessed Mr. Yuk in battle.
November 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Hmm.

Again with the very carefully-gender-neutral pronouns for a Space Marine in "Dropsite Massacre".

What's going on here that both Loyalist and Traitor viewpoint characters are being so cagey about the gender of the Space Marines they're sometimes fighting, I wonder?
November 21, 2025 at 3:25 AM
This is an interestingly gender-neutral way to refer to a Space Marine.

(from "Dropsite Massacre", by John French)
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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I think science fiction needs a resection/excision. The old white male "fans" are a tumor on the genre. A very malignant tumor.

What do we do with tumors? Cut them out.

Conventions, stop inviting these racist, sexist, hateful people to be on panels. You know who these people are, or can find out.
November 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I watched a documentary about Lilith Fair on Hulu, and it gave me a surprisinglu intense nostalgic longing for the 90s.

I'm not entirely sure why it hit me so hard.
November 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Really taken by all the Hello Kitty Warhammer art. Its perfect.
November 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Oh, hey, @shawntomkin.bsky.social, who made Ironsworn/Starforged, my favorite RPGs on the planet, also co-wrote the solo rules for Fria Ligan's Blade Runner RPG in addition to their Alien RPG!
November 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Taylor Swift got a lot of criticism for her new album, but "The Fate of Ophelia" is a bop and I can't stop listening to it.
November 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Getting ready to watch Ken Burns' "The American Revolution" tonight, and trying to avoid spoilers.
November 17, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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November 16, 2025 at 11:26 AM
No, thanks. I've already got one.
November 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Yes.

Yes I would.
On hey would you like sapphic longing/enemies to lovers ?
This way
Reading 2025 fiction?

Try the short story "The Breaker of Mountains and Rivers" by Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com!

You can read it here!

buff.ly/HznhrfP
November 14, 2025 at 5:18 PM
This time, I failed to resist.

One of the annoying things about social media is that even when it's not a Nazifest like Twitter, it's still SOCIAL media, and the anxiety part of social anxiety doesn't care that the social part is just virtual.
Today I successfully resisted posting a reply on a post made by someone I follow but who does not follow me, a reply that I thought was funny but I'm pretty sure would have just been embarrassing and awkward to everyone else, especially the person I was going to reply to.

So, you know, go me.
a woman wearing glasses and a purple shirt is waving her hand in front of a window
Alt: Tina Fey high fives herself. It is sad and pathetic.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I feel everyone should have a favorite Burgess Shale creature.

Mine, of course, is Anomalocaris.
November 14, 2025 at 1:34 AM
This is pretty much how the executive presentation at today's big meeting at work went, too.
November 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM