#Faerie Day

[teresabeadle5]

Happy International Faerie Day 2023! by raaen99 Via Flickr: Did you know that today, the 24th of June, is International Faerie Day? Now, just by chance I was out in my garden when I happened upon a rather large toadstool growing out of the lawn, near a bank of camellias. Upon closer inspection, I noticed that the toadstool had a carefully concealed door and two little windows in it. So I sat very quietly and carefully nearby, and I waited... and waited... and waited. Finally my patience paid off when the little door sprung open and out popped two faeries. The first was a little toadstool faerie, who wore a red hat speckled with white spots, rather like their faerie toadstool house. With red hair streaming down her back, she was perhaps a little bolder than her friend the hyacinth faerie, who was trepidatious as she poked her head out the door, before following cautiously in her faerie friend's footsteps. So you see, there are faeries in your garden. You just need to be quiet and patient. And of course you need to believe in faeries. You do, don't you? Fairies have existed in just about every culture over the world, though they may have been called by different names. What they have in common, no matter where you go, is that they are spirits that inhabit the world around us and often operate by strange and often odd laws. That’s about where the similarities end, and where the amazingly diverse concepts that are the fae begin. We’ve all heard of the winged fairies that flit around flowers and are always drawn like butterfly winged cherubs of slight form, but did you know that Dwarves and Gnomes are also part of the fae family? These creatures were common among the Germanic folk, and especially those who worked in mines and mountains. Knockers were a form of fairy that lived in mines and would ‘knock’ to warn miners of pending cave-ins and danger, hence their name. Celebrate International Fairy Day today by participating in one of the many festivals and celebrations that have formed around the world to honor these mythical creatures. Or you can have a little festival at home by having a fairy themed party with your friends and family! Whatever you do, don’t forget to honor the fae in your own home and garden by leaving out a plate with biscuits or cake and a small portion of milk or wine. They will appreciate it no end, and bring you happiness, good luck and health as faerie wishes. to you for your kindness and generosity. I would like to acknowledge and thank my Flickr Friend Red Stilletto www.flickr.com/photos/thevixen/ for inspiring me to use the pairing of two images and the application of a wide white frame. Both of these design elements she uses to create great impact with her own images. The two little faeries are hand made and felted by Ambrosius and were acquired from Epoche Toys and Gifts in the small township of Kallista in the Dandenong Ranges, just outside of Melbourne. The Toadstool Basket is made of rattan and has been hand woven and painted for the sustainable Australian toy company established by two sisters - Olli Ella. It has a flip top that can be unfastened as well as a front door that may be opened.

[faeriedoodles]

Other Self

[starsofang]

dark faerie!simon who meets you, a light faerie, by pure coincidence at the border between light and dark realms.

dark faerie!simon who is the complete opposite of you, shrouded in smoky shadows, embodying the act of malice and evil, while you’re a gleaming ball of angelic light, radiating purity and kindness.

dark faerie!simon who aims to trick you into being his friend so that he could turn you over into his realm, where light faeries are looked down upon as weak beings.

dark faerie!simon who ends up falling in love with you instead when you gift him a handmade necklace. he was bewitched by your soft nature, like a sailor lured to the call of a siren.

dark faerie!simon whose wings begin to shift in color, lightening from their raven hue and morphing into an ashy white while your wings begin to darken to a menacing black.

dark faerie!simon who is prohibited from seeing you again, forbidden from returning to the border between your worlds, forced to remain chained and locked up in his own realm in attempts to shift him back to the dark faerie he was born as.

dark faerie!simon whose body begins to reject its sudden change, his wings becoming fragile and cracked, leaving him unable to fly. his skin becoming transparent, as if he were fading away.

dark faerie!simon who you break across the border to see despite the realm’s rules, only to discover his body had withered into his ash, like a flower losing its petals, with the necklace you gifted him lying absently in the dying grass.

light faerie!reader who was so lost in their grief towards simon’s death that they failed to notice the curse of falling in love beginning to fall on to them, starting with the subtle crack of their wings, just as it had started for simon.

[aquanutart]

"little miss prairie faerie" is a cute name actually... (but I won't use it if she doesn't like it)

[adobe-outdesign]

In 2010 as part of the Faerie's Ruin plot, TNT just straight-up killed longstanding villain character Hubrid Nox, which was pretty shocking at the time as TNT rarely kills off any characters, let alone long-established ones

Anyway Nox's longstanding archenemy was MAGAX, local edgelord. After Nox's death MAGAX ended up realizing he deeply needed the guy as his enemy to be whole, kind of a Batman/Joker dynamic. It was bad enough that he hand-carved Nox's tombstone

And then Nox came back as a ghost, because being some kind of vampire warlock wasn't enough, and now him and MAGAX have a slow burn enemies to lovers thing going on

[wyrm-not-worm]

Day 20 Darigan & Faerie neopets draik! ✨

[starbiology]

we hardly know anything about what happened and yet here I am lol,,,

[saevity]

dru blackthorn <3 read the tlkof sampler and i'm so excited for tlkof. the bookstore employees are scared and asking me to leave because "it's not 2026 yet" but i'm simply too excited

[cantva190]

Goth Talk (1999)

[thedancingemu]

"Faerie Forest: Moonrise"

5"x7" watercolor / multimedia

Available through Every Day Original

[ginnungagay]

Its our special guy’s special day today, prank-free as a gift

everybody be super duper quiet!!! he's still resting!!!

[rysinka]

Welcome to the City of Rocks

Klokočské skály - 2024

[strangecowplant]

couple quick gothies for goth day 🖤

[horse-head-farms]

day 2: Royalty/Knight @mcyt-yuri-week

False, a knight famous for her ability to slay magical beings, was sent by her king to defeat the greatest threat of all - the fae. Here, she enters the faerie realm and is greeted by none other than the queen herself, waiting upon her forest throne.

Having grown up on tales of the fae and their evil trickery, False is surprised by how beautiful and kind the queen is, but isn’t going to let down her guard yet.

Queen Stress is rather impressed by this mortal who not only managed to find her way into the faerie realm, but is also brave (and foolish) enough to try and fight her! She has no intention of hurting False, and instead wants to teach her the mischievous ways of the fairies, get her to lighten up a bit and all that. And, well, if she tries to court the handsome knight along the way, who can blame her?

[wikitpowers]

WE’RE OFFICALLY 499 DAYS AWAY FROM SPRING 2026!!! THAT ALSO MEANS THAT CASSIE POSTED THE KITTY LETTER ON DAY 500… I’M NOT OKAY :(

[bookishjules]

you guys ever think about how dru called kit her friend in the beginning of tlkof and how she and him have been in communication for the last three (3) years while the most communication kit's had with her brother in that same amount of time was a brief, accidental encounter when before the period of distance they were absolutely inseparable for.. weeks.

not years, barely even months. weeks.

you guys ever think about how dru has likely become better friends with kit than ty ever was..