#Fairies

[misterbanzu]

The Name! 🤩

Superb Fairywren (Malurus cyaneus)

© Katy Globus

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[unknown-till]

★🧚‍♀️🌱FAIRY GRAPHICS🌷🪻

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[pixelsinmyveins]

It's Fairy night🧚

I've been updating my fairies a bit! I wanted them to look a bit more bug like, always very inspired by Zanaris fairies in RS 💜

Also Plum and Mr. Fox finally had their first kiss...though girly pop still doesn't know what or who she wants lmao

I'm girly pop

[faeriesandfolklore]

Imagine being adored in secret by a faerie king

Imagine a Faerie King who has been watching you for your entire life. Who has been enchanted with you ever since he saw you frolicking in a field, or aiding an injured fox. Who has sent ravens to see what you purchase from the market, so he can have the same things in his castle. Who has a trickster spirit shift into the form of a tiny girl, to trail behind you and hear the songs you hum. 

Imagine that the Faerie King comes to you after years and years, proclaiming his love. He is the loveliest thing that you have ever seen, all shining hair and aching eyes. You have never seen anything so lovely. So when he offers his hand, his castle, you do not hesitate to take it. 

Imagine the grandest place you have ever seen, with beds of ivory and sconces that flicker with the light of wisps. A ballroom filled with fair folk: nixies and brownies and nature spirits. Fruit so decadent that when you take a bite, liquid gold drips out. But he warns you not to eat of it, saying he will have mortal servants cook your food. He drapes you in necklaces of rowan and fills your pockets with iron. He says that even if it will hurt him, he will not let you be enchanted. 

Imagine the wedding, the most extravagant affair a mortal like you has ever had the chance to see. A gown or suit made of cobwebs, a crown threaded with morning dew, flowers humming with light. Moss grows from the forest floor to create an aisle, the very trees part to welcome you. The night of the wedding, you are ravished in a bed with sheets that smell of lavender, the music that always accompanies the King rising to a crescendo as he peppers your neck with kisses. 

Imagine a life with the Faerie King.

[bethdehart]

Emoji Adopt: Fae Wolf

This one turned out so cute!!! The color scheme was a bit of a happy accident, she's so pretty!!!!!

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[dushpshpsh]

This is my right leg; This is my left leg; This is my right hand; This is my left hand; This is me.

[artistfingers]

fairies and mermen 🧚‍♀️🧜‍♂️ i did these two pieces near the end of 2023 as holographic sticker designs! there's a few still available in my shop

sticker shop ✧ ko-fi

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[karlovycross]

Summer Berry Mix 🍓🫐 ♡⊹˚₊

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Stuck on the idea of vampires as a kind of reverse fae, or like someone's twisted, perverse attempt at moulding humans into fae.

They're repelled by liminal spaces.

A vampire could never enter fairyland, not just because they'd never be welcomed, but because most of the usual entry-ways are naturally barred to them.

They can't cross running water. They can't be seen in mirrors. They will wait forever at a crossroads, unable to pick a direction to go in. They can't even step over a thresh-hold unless there is absolutely no ambiguity about whether they are welcome inside.

They crave human blood, iron and salt, but are repelled by herbs and plants. They are supernaturally prevented from harming you unless the rules of hospitality have been invoked.

A fairy may replace your newborn child with something unnatural and ever-hungry. A vampire will do the same, but with your grandmother's corpse.

The fae are typically associated, even in stories where they're the bad guys, with flourishing and purity. Vampires, even in stories where they're the good guys, are typically associated with decay and corruption.

The fae turn ancient human burial mounds into fancy halls for their courts. Vampires take ancient human castles and let them grow mildewed and cobwebbed, exchanging the beds for coffins, turning them into burial places.

Fae don't tend to live among humans, but can generally pass for them with relative ease if they so choose. Vampires nearly always live among humans, but tend to find not revealing themselves a huge struggle.

I can't think of many stories I've read where fae and vampires even exist in the same universe, let alone ones where they actively interact. I feel like their enmity is almost more inevitable than that between vampires and werewolves, however.

The rivalry between vampires and werewolves is, essentially, the rivalry between two apex predator species who share a territory. (Even in stories where the werewolves aren't actually hunting humans.)

The vampires hate the werewolves because the werewolves interfere with their access to prey. The werewolves hate the vampires either because they consider themselves aligned with humans (the prey species), or because they are also predators and the vampires are competing with them.

By comparison, I think there's some story potential in the fae finding something genuinely creepy and uncanny valley about vampires.

They're immortal, like them, but also dead. They can be beautiful, like them, but that beauty is something they actively require humans to sustain. They like to inhabit beautiful and ancient ex-human dwellings, like them, but they actively work to make those places dark, damp and empty.

Fairies who are unflappable in the face of all sorts of Otherworldly monsters, can look an eldritch horror in the eye(s) without blinking, and have never been phased yet by any human, but will recoil from even the weakest vampire.

Vampires who hate fairies just as much, but in a more envious way. The way that the creature for whom immortality is a curse is bound to hate the creatures for whom immortality is an eternity of sunlight and laughter.

Maybe their touches burn each other. Maybe vampires can't stand physical contact with anything so alive and vital. Maybe immortal fairies become ill from too much exposure to the undead.

Maybe they fight over the human population when their territories overlap. The fairy need for servants and people to make deals with, competing with the vampire need for thralls and blood to drink.

Just… fairies and vampires. We need more stories about them interacting.

[camilleflyingrotten]

More faeries Good Omens AU ✨

[pixelsinmyveins]

🧚🏻‍♀️🌗🐺♪

[junktastic]

[mimimar]

a glimpse of the sea fairy

(prints)