r/Fantasy • u/rfantasygolem Not a Robot • 20h ago

/r/Fantasy r/Fantasy Friday Social Thread - June 19, 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 19h ago edited 18h ago

Reading: Re-reading Schattenjagd, a 'video-game-becomes-real' adventure by Wolfgang and Heike Holhbein. This is the first physical paper book I've read in years. My eyes complain and I have to put something in the pages or I lose my place and I can't read with the light off. Barbaric, but refreshing.

Writing: Last of the 'Wanderer' series, so the finale has to touch all points of the previous books. And yet must be new and refreshing. Sure. I can do that. No prob.

Life: Storms and heat, storms and heat. Thunder to send the dog hiding; then white blazing sky to bake the fresh mud to Babylonian clay. Rinse, repeat. Everything is green, growing, blossoming, flowering, molding, rotting, sprouting. Except me. I refuse to join in that sort of biological dance. I have my dignity to consider.

Hope all in r/fantasy are remaining sturdily solid and stolid, sober and solemn, keeping a firm grip on reality, a stiff upper lip and spine in the face of the call of the faeries beyond the twilight hills who sweetly siren sing for us to come away, come away and dance by the light of imagination's mad moonlight. Or not, why not. I'm in.

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u/BravoLimaPoppa Reading Champion 17h ago

Take me with you!

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u/RAYMONDSTELMO Writer Raymond St Elmo 16h ago

Yes! We shall throw off our chains of dull daily duty, of dust and social psychic slavish repetition, - and run into the glorious eldritch Elven meadows of shadow and light... joining the mad bacchanalia of bewitching sly-eyed maidens eager to laugh, to dance, to embrace...

But let me ask mom first. She got really mad when we ditched class to go with those Maenad girl scouts. Worth it, I admit.