Steampunk "Wonderful Wednesdays" comic strip featuring reimagined…

By @CaylaCatz · Jun 17, 2026

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Tea with Alice and the Cheshire Cat Special Guest Stars: Portunus and and Duke Aubrey from Lud-in-the-Mist (google summary) Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees (1926): A surreal, dream-like fantasy novel that tells the story of a merchant town that has banned Fairyland, only for fairy fruit to mysteriously cross their borders and change lives forever.

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@CaylaCatz · Jun 17, 2026
lol, well then I won't tell you anything. You read it and tell me. Well, I'll tell you a little. The Duke here is open-minded towards fairyland and when he ruled, the borders were open. But he got thrown out and was replaced by middle-class merchant burghers who wanted nothing to do with Fairyland and closed the borders. But it's just across the river. And there's a murder mystery, a cold case. I do think you you'll like it. In many ways, it's a forerunner to today's urban fantasy with regular people and fae
@panos · Jun 17, 2026
Oh, wow!!! I have that book in my bookcase for YEARS AND YEARS. It was part of a british line of 'Fantast Masterpieces' and I habe bought a lot of that series! Is it good? (Please, no spoilers - once i hear them I can never forget them...)
@panos · Jun 17, 2026
sounds intriguing! Perhaps it'll end up in the list of books we'll take with us in the village for our work/vactions this summer
@CaylaCatz · Jun 18, 2026
yeah, it's from a 1926 fantasy novel. It's on gutenberg it you're interested. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68061
@legion · Jun 17, 2026
This time I didn't know any of them.