Fantasy Files Podcast

Welcome to The Fantasy Files Podcast where we talk about our favorite Fantasy series and Topics!
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It's Here.
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We got an awesome new Dresden Files novella and it was pretty great! Short and very sweet! Check out our thoughts in our latest episode here!
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@shawzsav Yeah I'm definitely gonna get my reading opinions from an OF bimbo 😂 fuck offff

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@Fantasy4theAges That too! I was like 30 is nothing lol

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I fucking hate the timeline we're in 😂 lady, I don't think you actually like reading OR writing 😂 because you're currently doing neither. (Not the reposter or OP but the "an" chick)

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WHAT IS HAPPENING?!?!

WHAT IS HAPPENING?!!!

WHAT?!!!

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The final one 😭😭😭 what will I even do after this?! Ahhh so bittersweet! I can't wait to listen to it but I don't want it to be over... Again!

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@gerardthelawyer @APepeIsFineToo @Nobleshield If you like challenging stuff, yeah.

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@DavidRoomeAuth I was trying to use it to recap the previous dungeon crawler Carl book when this new one came out and practically everything it spouted was completely wrong lol

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NEW ACHIEVEMENT!! Gabe and I discussed the new #DCC book, A Parade of Horribles, by @mattdinniman ! Come join us as we talk about oddly horny kangaroos, a meatball eating frozen chicken patties, and I may even do my best System AI impersonation!
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@DavidRoomeAuth A night at home sitting in your shower crying = priceless.

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@hodges522 @ItsLazBoi Have you ever played an AC game? You're always getting stuck on random edges and jumping where you didn't mean to. It's literally been a thing throughout the whole series lol

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@BiqA215 @ItsLazBoi Preach!

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@ornithopteryx @ZB_Steele whaaaat the fuck is this?!

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I read Sisters of Mercy by Yuval Kordov not too long ago. It's about two girls who have their minds implanted in giant war machines to fight invading demons in the post-apocalypse.

Something I noticed was the prose. Most books that get published today emphasize "invisible prose" which avoids drawing attention to itself, which is fine if it suits the material, but when you do that, you miss out on a lot of nuance. See how Kordov describes the buildings of an abandoned city as "anonymous tombstones" and describes a fence as not just cut open but "scythed" open. The prose itself if evoking feelings of violence and death.

When you write a scene, don't just think about the action and dialog. Think about how the reader will interpret it. The way you phrase things, your choice of words, which words you choose to emphasize or downplay, can alter how the reader feels without changing the substance of the content, like the background music in a movie.

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@IndieGameJoe Is the studio behind this game making big payouts to game critics to promote this game? I've seen the same exact bullshit post from like 8-10 different accounts.

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LOL what the actual fuck is this??

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''Bro just go read some books''

Meanwhile the newest James Bond book:

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"Don Quixote was swinging his giant nipple sock over his head" is a quote directly from the book, while Carl karaokes "Take on Me" and a massive bar fight breaks out because of a unicorn.

I fucking love this book dude. It's just.... Got "it". Ya know?

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@KeenGamesStudio Guys please remove this Updraft nerf. This is rediculous. All it does is slow down exploration. I can't believe this was thought up and implemented. I now have to glide, updraft, land, and then wait for my Updraft meter to fill back up. A rediculous tweak.

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I rarely find myself agreeing with Matt Walsh, but good lord this is a great point. I see people say "Why are you nostalgic for a decade(s) you barely lived in" .. this is why.

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Another point about our cultural decline. We started watching the show Widow’s Bay. It’s really good. Fantastic writing. Perfect blend of comedy and horror. Last night’s episode was legitimately one of the finest episodes of television I’ve seen in years.

If this same exact show came out in 2002, we’d probably remember it as an all time classic. But in 2026 most people haven’t even heard of it. It’s a blip on the radar. Another piece of content in the endless sea. You see it, or you don’t, and then it’s forgotten.

It’s not that good stuff isn’t made anymore. It’s that even when good stuff is made, we don’t have any shared experience of it. There’s plenty of good music you can find on Spotify, recent stuff, but you experience it in your little algorithmic silo. Almost nothing breaks containment to become a bonafide cultural phenomenon. That’s what made Project Hail Mary so unique. Severance maybe also achieved escape velocity. But even in those cases the escape is fleeting.

For the most part we experience the culture through the narrow pathway constructed for us by the algorithm. It might intersect with other people’s pathways, but only briefly. When we feel nostalgia for the Before Times, this is why. It’s not simply that we had a “better” culture back in the 90s or whenever. It’s that we had a culture at all.

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A couple weeks ago we got to talk with the wonderful @Catrionaward , author of Last House on Needless Street. We talked about all sorts of stuff including real serial killers narrating audiobooks😂It was a ton of fun, thanks so much, Cat!
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