Dan Varrette

@metamythomancer.bsky.social

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• Book editor (mainly SF&F) • Board game editor • Occasional writer • Hapkido & Muay Thai practitioner • Hapless romanticist • www.danvarrette.com

A photo of Val Kilmer as Madmartigan in the film Willow (1988).
An orchid with several blooms. The flowers are white with pink in the centre.
A photograph of people eating lunch at an automat in New York City in 1942. People are seated at tables like in a cafeteria, while others browse food labelled as cake, pies, and sandwiches in a wall that resembles a big vending machine.
An image from the video game Disco Elysium, featuring the two main characters in the foreground with the city of Revachol in the background.
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'" -Isaac Asimov, "A Cult of Ignorance," Newsweek, January 1980
The cover of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle