David Thomas Moore

@dtmooreeditor.bsky.social

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World Fantasy and Hugo Award-nominated Editorial Director at Rebellion Publishing Ltd. Clarion West Instructor 2026. he/him

Front cover of a book entitled "Self-Esteem for Dummies."
- C'est Darth Vader qui rentre dans une boulangerie. Il demande quoi a ton avis? - ... - 3 pains at deux tartes tatins! Tu sais pourquoi? - ...? - PAIN PAIN PAIN TARTE TATIN TARTE TATIN
"Like if you want to get healthcare in the UK chances are you are stuck in an endless waiting list, unless you pay for private health care."
opened a folder called "fanfic_wips" and found: "Theseus_Minotaur_NSFW_070612.doc" "rev2Theseus_Centaur_NSFW_071123.doc" "Heracles_Centaur_NSFW_final.docx" "V3_Heracles_Centaur_coffeeshopAU_final_FINAL.docx" "Heracles_theseus_coffeeshopAU_final_FINAL_USE THIS ONE.docx" and I'm not sure which is the true ship of Theseus
An image of Nono from the classic anime Ulysses 31, a small red robot with a wide, happy smile.
An illustration of Sam Gamgee, a hobbit with curly brown hair and a heavy woollen cloak, admiring a flower in a garden.
A black-and-white photo of a group of soldiers from the Lancashire Fusiliers in a sandbag lined trench during the Battle of Somme, 1916.
An old sepia-tone photo of the class of army cadets from King Edward's School in Birmingham to which Tolkien belonged.
The cover to a recent edition of George Orwell's Animal Farm, featuring the title, the author's name, the Penguin logo, and a pig in silhouette on which have been scrawled the words "All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others".
Screen cap of a block of text: “But I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history, true or feigned, with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse ‘applicability’ with ‘allegory’; but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author” (Fellowship xv).
An old sepia-tone photograph of JRR Tolkien, a young man with a neat moustache and side-parted hair, in military uniform in 1916.
Screen capture of the bottom of a Facebook post showing a box with the text "An admin turned off commenting for this post."
A galah - a parrot with variable-shaded grey feathers over its wings, deep rose-pink feathers over its chest and all around its head, and a dusty white crest - standing on a grassy lawn.
Two players posing at the game table with copies of the Tunnels & Trolls Quick Start Guide and broadly smiling.
A gaming table set up to play Tunnels & Trolls, with Quick Start Guides and character sheets laid out and a troll-shaped dice tower in the middle.
Me (a white man with close-cropped white hair and beard) standing in front of a shop window. A Tunnels & Trolls banner is visible in the window.
A still from a period movie set in the early 20th century, with a man standing on the gallows with a noose around his neck addressing the camera, over the caption "First time?"
A map of the fictional city of Khazan, which features in some of the Tunnels and Trolls adventures.
A map of Trollworld, showing animal-shaped continents.
A gobliny-looking wizard in a red robe casting a spell from a spellbook.
A promotional slide for the new Tunnels & Trolls game, with an armoured skeleton cheerfully pointing to a distant castle with his sword.
An image from the new Tunnels & Trolls: A New Age roleplaying game, with a group of heroes fighting a troll, which has just punched one of the heroes, sending them flying.
A Tunnels & Trolls 5th Edition reissue with a colour image showing a party of adventurers fighting a monster. The tagline reads "The Complete and Easy Fantasy Role-Playing Game."
The cover of the Deluxe (9th) edition of Tunnels & Trolls, with a plate-armoured hero with a hammer, a leather-armoured hero with a bow and a robed wizard fighting a host of enemies.
A 5th edition Tunnels & Trolls box set, with an image of two adventurers venturing into a tunnel.
Three omnibus reissues of classic T&T solo adventures.
The 5th edition Tunnels & Trolls box set, opened up with various booklets and character sheets laid out.
The early logo for Flying Buffalo Inc. Which is a picture of a buffalo piloting a biplane.
A sketch of a wizard casting a spell by Robin Carver, waving a wand and shouting "Take that you, fiend!!!"
A humorous sketch from an early edition of Tunnels & Trolls by Robin Carver, featuring an ogreish looking monster with an arrow straight through his head, smiling and taunting his enemy, "Ha-ha! Yah missed all my vital spots!!"
A cover image from the very first edition of Tunnels & Trolls, featuring a burly unicorn looking down at a woman bathing in a pool. Beneath the image is the text ".....perpetrated on an unsuspecting world by Ken St. Andre, Robin Carver, James Peters, et al. of the Phoenix Cosmic Circle."
A photo of Ken St. Andre, a thin, middle aged white man with white stubble, thick-rimmed glasses and a brown hat, beaming happily in front of a banner advertising Buffalo Inc.
A promotional slide for Tunnels & Trolls, featuring the logo spread across the image of a vast, splayed, stony hand in a darkened cavern, reaching to grab three fleeing heroes.
The cover of the core rulebook for the new Tunnels & Trolls: A New Age roleplaying game, currently on Kickstarter. It depicts a large, monstrous, stony or crystalline figure holding an adventurer in the palm of its hand. The adventurer is casting some sort of spell, represented by glowing blue light at the end of their staff.
Meme depicting a Venn diagram with two circles - "What the author meant" and "What your English teacher thinks the author meant" - which are barely overlapping. Beneath the Venn diagram it reads: For instance: "The curtains were blue." What your teacher thinks: "The curtains represent his immense depression and his lack of will to carry on." What the author meant: "The curtains were fucking blue."
The famous "Is it raining? I hadn't noticed." shot from the climactic scene of Four Weddings and a Funeral. A young woman with short, dark hair streaked with water, standing in front of a blurred short of a tree-lined park, stares lovingly at a young man. The caption "As a friendly reminder, please ensure interactions adhere to the guidelines provided. Let me know how you would like to proceed." has been added to the bottom of the image.
a lego model of a handsaw about 15mm in length shown on the palm of the photographer's hand
Screenshot from the linked column, saying "What remains a rallying cry for the extreme right can now be found across a far broader cross-section of public discussion, appearing everywhere from the opinion pages of the Daily Telegraph to neighbourhood Facebook groups and the speeches of MPs such as Nigel Farage."
A small segment of the Sorayama piece used on the cover of the Mercurial adventure, with Sorayama's (sadly blurry and illegible) signature apparently engraved into the subject's cyberleg, circled here in red.
The artist Hajime Sorayama, wearing a T-shirt and jeans, posing next to a 2024 sculpture of a robotic woman in the style of his digital art.
High quality digital illustration of a naked blonde woman with silvery cyberarms and -legs clutching a silver blanket to herself for modesty.