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Yr Hmbl Satrap's Personal Appendix N ن Blogspot's sans serif Arabic nun is just killing me This has been going around the OSRsphere — confer Vodka Gobalsky's . Many of my entries will be familiar to anyone reading this; rather than introduce them to some alien or time traveller who never heard of Jack Vance or Moebius, i've put a few words about the meaning of these works in my imaginarium. fantasy & fantasy adjacent sf/horror Elric series, Michael Moorcock . I read a fair bit of lowbrow fantasy as a teen. Dragonlance, David Eddings. Elric was an antidote to all that: more than a role model to me and countless boys who thought a black trenchcoat made us more interesting (and we were right), Moorcock showed me that a an awesome dude with a badass sword can be a vehicle for serious literature. The lost boys and I came for gothdom without wedgies, but if we wanted to stay, the point is to break all the high fantasy tropes: betrayed, defeated, reveale...