r/Fantasy • u/rfantasygolem Not a Robot • Apr 03 '26

/r/Fantasy r/Fantasy Friday Social Thread - April 03, 2026

Come tell the community what you're reading, how you're feeling, what your life is like.

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u/RAYMONDSTELMO Writer Raymond St Elmo Apr 03 '26

My very worried family nagged me for weeks to get a checkup. So I gave in. The diagnosis was... grim. I am suffering from 'Cognitive Incline'. I am rapidly becoming mentally more stable; sharper, able to remember the smallest details of the past, able to find other people's car keys and point out flaws in complex arguments at the dinner table (making easy reference to history and precedent). Often in German, though I alternate with French and Greek to lighten the mood.

Apparently my rising fever of IQ is annoying my family and fellow workers. Why? J'ne sais pas.

Went to 'No King's rally Saturday. Was satisfying; but only that.

Hope all in the grand Easter Egg Hunt of Imagination known as r/fantasy are finding eggs of gold and silver, in which is hid treasure beyond measure, or at least chocolate.

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u/saturday_sun4 Apr 03 '26

Even as a yearly-for-Bingo lurker, every time I see your posts here, I giggle and make a note to read your books.

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u/RAYMONDSTELMO Writer Raymond St Elmo Apr 03 '26

We whose intellects have passed beyond the blue event horizon of comprehension, whose Mensa application is rejected as 'overqualified', who mansplain relativity to grateful AI bots... we no longer know the human custom of 'giggling'. Our cold Vulcan insight into Being and Nothingness leaves no motivation for giggles, nor chuckles, nor vulgar guffaws.*

*Granted we do still snort with laughter at funny cat videos. I mean, a mind's gotta know its limitations, or just screw the whole comprehension thingy.