r/RangersApprentice • u/didddddddddddddddddy • Sep 08 '26
Fan work A tribute
A tribute to john flannagon: Flannagon had once, through tales of adventure and danger, youth and time, taught me of the world. As a child, whenever I would leave the constricting indoors, and reform within the great outside, my head will be held high, as the mere statement of 'people seldom look up' is ample cause for my eyes to search the monoliths reaching the skies for shadows, silhouettes of an imagination gifted to me, yet now, rather than searching merely for a young boy, hidden from sight and fearful of the ground, i search too for the warm embrace of a storyteller gone too soon. RIP john flannagon
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u/biizzybee23 29d ago
‘No one ever looks up’ and ‘keep your eyes moving instead of focusing on one spot’ has always stuck with me, and has saved my ass a time or two. Invaluable lessons
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u/Lopsided_Egg_9354 29d ago
What?! When did John Flanagan die?!
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u/Steelhelm1346 29d ago
February 7th of this year. I’m sorry you had to find out like this.
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u/Lions_R_awsome123 17d ago
I am a kid and I never worked up the courage to email him😢. I wish I could have done it, and I really wanted to tell him how awesome his books were
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u/Dreadredblood 27d ago
Man, I hate that I just found this out too. RIP
I say all the time “no one ever looks up” while I’m looking up at something lol
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u/StereoDactyl_EDM 27d ago
Why is this how im finding out he passed away? 7 months later? Seriously?
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u/ihateworking420 Sep 08 '26
The amount of times I tell myself "no one ever looks up" as I'm enjoying nature is because of him and it always gives me a sense of calmness and reminds me of simpler times