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Librarian. Trainer of Librarians. Husband. Father. Rotund Leaner. DnD3.5e and 5e DM - so far. South African, Cape Town. IDIC Daughter Approval Rating: Adequate
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My Audible Original novel The Shape of Monsters, read by the brilliant Omari Douglas (It's a Sin, Black Doves) will be out on July 3rd!

Just putting it out there that quite a few of my backlist titles are available on my Ko-fi store. Do stop by and pick up a little something-something to read. ko-fi.com/nerinedorman...

Happy Pride Day 16 youtu.be/88sARuFu-tc?...

Yep. @scalzi.com

I've seen this described as "Scalzi's Dune" – they're not wrong, and my unpopular opinion is that Scalzi is a better writer than Herbert by a long shot. nerinedorman.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-... #bookreview

Taking a two month hiatus from #DnD due to BBEG of DnD: Scheduling👹 Work shifts aren't shifting favorably. And 80% of my other group are the top 10 catan players in the country, and it's tournament season. (@criticalrole.bsky.social helps...a bit.) So what is a DM without his DnD players...

Just looking at the recent YT post-campaign 3 view count per video: Besides Ep1 of DH - Age of Umber (943k), Wildemount Wildlings Ep 1 (792k) is the most watched Episode 1. Sooooo, more Wildemount Wildlings? @samriegel.bsky.social @criticalrole.bsky.social @darringtonpress.bsky.social

Happy Father’s Day to all dads both here and there.

Had a coffee-fuelled lunch with my publisher and now I am all the excite. The world might be burning but we'll figure out how to make things here in South Africa awesome for science fiction and fantasy fiction.

Heard this song a thousand times and it's brilliant. This version is my new favorite cover. Desert Rose by #Faouzia youtu.be/-M67Obk8bis?...

ICYMI yesterday as it went up late in the night.

Oh.

In 2010 I conducted and wrote a comprehensive interview with Joe Vaz about Something Wicked for Books Live. I had to dig through archive.org to find it because that whole incredible site is web history now: web.archive.org/web/20160528...

My family are FROM South Africa, #CapeTown - descendant from the 1st People's, and settlers who have lived in the same geographic 20-miles radius for 250 years or so.... One: What the fuck is a Spatlo? Two: What about the Gatsby @cnn.com @cnnipr.bsky.social ? #Eish edition.cnn.com/travel/best-...

Yay Stev-..Lars! tvline.com/news/steven-...

Oh man, South Africa has lost a horror actor legend and a kind, warm, funny human. You've left a hole in the universe, Joe Vaz, thank you for 20 years of friendship and bringing all of who you are to every batshit role you were in from Dredd to Fried Barry, making it richer and deeper and Joe-ier. 💔

Thoroughly enjoying Sherlock & Daughter with David Thewlis and Blu Hunt, so of course it's going to get cancelled.

I do believe that the more third party content #WoTC adds to @dndbeyond.com, the less likely a la carte purchases will return. 😔 #dnd

So too many movies from the US have led to this dribbling out my head. The Posse Comitatus Act is a US federal law which limits the powers of the federal government in the use of federal military personnel to enforce domestic policies within the United States except where authorized by Congress

You know what else would be amazing though. A Killjoys videogame.

Eid Mubarak to all celebrating! Wishing you all peace xx

The Void thinks it's a bit chilly for June

Every morning I start my day with a small sip of disappointment looking at my Amazon report. This morning, I'm so happy someone picked up a copy of Inkarna. If ancient Egyptian reincarnation cults running around Cape Town's alternative scene are your thing, this one might tickle your curlies.

So I'm calling it, because it means nothing really - in the harsh light of day, opinions & thoughts are shouts into an ravenous abyss that feasts on word counts. ... Anyway. Doom in Avengers: Doomsday is from a universe where he lost Morgan & Pepper when he used the Infinity Stones. #MCU

Tartan for everyone! Countries have tartans, even #SouthAfrica. So remember when you go to Scotland. Also.... vm.tiktok.com/ZMSktJqyn/

LitNet: An interview with Karina M Szczurek from Karavan Press www.litnet.co.za/an-interview...

Everyone should read this. It's easy to see why people love Chatgpt - it's clearly programmed to give responses that trigger the human response to flattery so they will keep interacting. Only everything it says is worthless because it has zero understanding open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...

Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has 1764 edition of "Philosophie rurale ou Économie générale et politique de l'agriculture" by French economist & educator Victor de Riqueti marquis de Mirabeau, & economist & physician François Quesnay, born #OnThisDay 4 June 1694…/👇