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thepiedsniper · 1 year ago

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It's called The Ironic Imagination!

this is all correct. they're real enough that countless generations have actively modified their behavior because they believed that these things were real enough to interact with, and scary enough that they generally didn't want to. we have countless stories from all over the world as proof that believing in fairies is historically more common than not. real people died for fairytales. countless real lives have been affected in various ways. fairies are a very real influence on us, whether they physically "exist" or not.

#it's the same reason a bunch of Victorians legitimately mourned the death of Sherlock Holmes when his death story was first published #because even though every knew he was a fictional character #they acted like he was real #and in doing so they felt real emotions and carried out real mourning rituals #don't fuck with the good neighbours #don't let your kids play near bodies of water that have kappa #don't let Santa Claus catch you misbehaving #humans can act like something intangible has a real impact on the world #and in doing so they create that impact on the world #Ironic Imagination #fae #yokai #santa #Sherlock Holmes

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