#fantasy jokes

But for the many of you who wonder what I am talking about, "Chaudron Magique" (Magic Cauldron) was a short-lived French magazine (from 2007 to 2011) entirely dedicated to fantasy in all of its shapes and forms (including supernatural adventure, mythology, science-fantasy and more). While officially "from 8 to 1000 years", it was a magazine aimed at children and teenagers. Each issue came with little goodies and additional material (at least until 2011, when the magazine due to a lack of funds stopped making them... which partially accelerated the downfall of the brand).

For example, for the year 2010 they released this lovely, humoristic "fantasy-calendar", disponible in a poster format:

Scans by yours truly, don't mind the dates I circled at the time.

This calendar presents in a mix the days of "magical events to celebrate" (Epiphany, Easter, Walpurgis, Halloween, Samhain...), the anniversaries of "classical authors" (Maupassant, Lovecraft, Mary Shelley, Collodi, C.S. Lewis, Dickens, Jules Verne or L. Frank Baum...), and those of "modern authors" (Robin Hobb, Douglas Adams, Tad Williams, Mercedes Lackey, Tanith Lee, Michael Moorcock and more) ; all sprinkled with mock-"folk sayings" parodying the typical "weather sayings" of almanachs.

Each month is renamed after a pun associating it with a fantasy creature. January is the Giant month, February the Elf month, Mars the wizard's, April the dwarf's, May a gorgon month, June a demon month, July is for the zombie, August for the hobbit ; Septembre is for the Wraith, October for the Orc, November for the Gnome and finally December is the dragon's month. And each season is also given an imaginary figure to be associated with (all the credits for every artist's work is to be found on the poster itself).

Winter's is Ymir. "Born at the dawn of time, when the cold breath of Niflheim the world of darkness met the heat of Müspelheim the world of fire. He is the father of frost-giants in Norse mythology."

Spring's is the Ent. "At the end of winter sap spreads again in the veins of the Ents, who can move once more their branches and roots to go wake up the inhabitants of their forest-realm."

Summer's is Surtr. "At the end of times, according to Norse mythology, this prince of the ember-giants shall leave his burning realm of Müspelheim to set ablaze the entire universe with its smoldering sword."

But ya’ know, I was able to skillfully avoid this issue in my fantasy worldbuilding project by replaced the old bad monarch with a sick ass centaur monarch!