#faieries

[detournementsmineurs]

“Les Cent et Une Nuits de Simon Cinéma” d'Agnès Varda (1995), mars 2024.

[amphiptere-art]

Here's a question and a side tangent.

Where I live. Butterflies are remarkably rare and uninteresting. You see cabbage butterflies all over the place. The most unique butterfly you'll ever get to see is a tiger-like butterfly that is usually migrating. They don't stick around.

Dragonflies on the other hand. Those are everywhere and are much more unique. I find the small ones, and the big ones, The multi-colored ones, The single colored ones. They hold a much higher precedent than butterflies.

Which leads to a strange cultural preference when it comes to fairies. Whenever I think of a fairy. I think of dragonflies. Not butterflies. For me imagining a fairy with cottage butterfly wings just isn't interesting. Sure they're rare, and that should account to something, but it doesn't. I just see dragonflies a whole lot more, so dragonflies became my butterflies.

[levinssword]

im so happy i got like 3 of my dream neopets out of the pound today / yesterday and im in heaven thank you people throwing their pets in the trash ill love them instead!

[tobymaurer]

[evelofi]

christmas witchy yuletide faeries of harmony to bring the spirit of winter.

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Artist: Runa Mareuty

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[spacebarbarianweird]

Omg hi!!! Love your Writting, could you make an Astarion x Eladrin! Reader please? It can be and fey eladrin or a celestial eladrin (tough i prefer the celestial ones). I'm surprised no one asked for an eladrin hc already, they're such dolls)

Hi! Eladrins are truly interesting. The difference between two types depends on what edition you play - before the 4th edition Eladrins were native to Arvandor, distant cousins to elves. Beginning with the 4th Edition, they're fey creatures from the Feywild.

As there is more relevant info about Fey Eladrin, I will write this HCs based on them but the difference between different types of Eladrin isn't really big.

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Headcanons

Astarion x Eladrin!Tav

Your ancestors were casted away from Arvandor along with other elves but instead of going to Material Planes they chose Feywild as their home.

Many of your kind have slowly lost their humanoid form and allowing the wild magic of the Faierie to change them.

The seasons for you aren't times of the year, they are places you can visit and the form you can take.

When you are a Spring Eladrin, you sing and dance but so easily fall in love that you lose yourself.

When you are Summer, you are a stubborn fighter.

As Autumn you are kind and generous but to trustful.

But as Winter you are depressed and melancholic.

In trance you change your season like a dress and your change appearance as well.

It drives Astarion insane because you have four different personalities and four different skins.

Fey Eladrins and stability are complete opposites.

But at the same he is attracted to your wild magic, so alive and bustling, nothing like what his undead existence is.

You are also a gender fluid since sex and gender are too limitimg when defined.

Sometimes you feel like a man, sometimes like a woman, sometimes you are both, sometimes you are none.

The adventures on the Material Planes is just another fun experience for you since you are not intedning to stay there.

As for Astarion he doesn't truly knows what to do.

The Undead don't belong to Feywild, he can't go there with you and he isn't sure he wants all this fey madness.

Meanwhile the Material Plane is too exhausting, too stable, too bleak for you.

But you decide to stay.

To stay to get him the cure.

Astarion doesn't remember being alive, but you know how miserable he truly is.

Hunger. Cold. Pain.

There must be the way.

Astarion gets used to your changing nature. You just become a very complex person to him but luckily your pysical appearance betrays your mood change as well and he always knows which "you" he is going to deal with today.

You spend a century looking for ithe cure but nothing helps. It's just a ghost you keep searching for.

And the Material Plane is draining you, sometimes you are so week,you can't move for months, lying motionless in your trance and remembering the Feywild.

Astarion begs you to go.

He will be fine. This century was the the best time he ever hoped to have. He will remember you. He will cherish the memories of you.

But you have to part ways. He is an undead, he belongs to the Shadowplace and all what is dread. He will wander the roads for eternity as the creature of the dark. And you will live your long life in the magical place of fey wonders.

He will never forget you.

Beaides there isn't anyone like you, his tiny wild love.

You dissappear like a mist in the morning and he hopes you are happy in the magical feywild.

He keeps living

Hunting monsters .

Adebturing here and there.

Sometimes he makes griends, sometimes he takes lovers

But in his reverie he remembers only his eladrin of tje feywild the magical creature who gave him hope.

A century passes.

Lonely ten decades.

Astarion meditates and his meditation is so deep it is more like a real sleep.

He feels that something is beside him someone warm, someone familiar.

He wakes up and sees you.

You lie beside him in your atumn form warm like a lantern.

You break the silence and brush his cheek, making him sniff.

"I know how to cure you."

You spare Astarion of details, he doesn't need to know what price you paid.

A century of slavery. Of servitude. Of humilation.

A fey, powerful and cruel, shoved the cure up to your nose, bragging they have it and you don't.

A century. A terrible, difficult century with every day worse than another.

Losing your humanoid form. Being an ugly beast for a decade. Losing yoir mind and doing the most disgusting things for your master.

The feys are cruel when they know you need them.

The transformation is painful and long and you are afraid the fey bitch lied to you.

They didn't.

Astarion opens his eyes and they are emerald greem like Feywild woods.

It takes him time to adapt to his mortal body but it's much easier in Feywild than it would be in the Material Plane.

You don't know what the future holds for you two.

The elven nature is fluid and unpredictable.

But deep inside you know you have always meant to be together, you are thiramins, elven soulmates. Maybe, you knew each other in your past lives. Maybe you are both something new.

And you have centuries ahead to figure this out.

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[feyagreene]

Fun fact: in the medieval times, ‘faierie’ meant ‘the land of enchantment’ ⊹ ࣪ ˖

[hugemilkshake]

I have a dream when PV,elder faierie and other saw What Shadow milk cookie do to white lily cookie turn into a Jester(crimson lily cookie) and WL and SM are Dancing

I kinda doodled something based on this-

[the-fae-folk]

Hello! Do you have any tips for when it comes to writing stories about the fae? Are there things to keep in mind and things to avoid? I have a story in mind, but am a little nervous to get started. Since you have a lot more experience, I wondering if you could please help?

CAWRK!

Hah hah! I do have some tips.

Let's start with things to keep in mind when you're writing Fae.

1. The Fae we know and love are really more of a mixing pot. They draw from a myriad of European Cultures and multiple different time periods. The notable ones are Brythonic (Bretons, Welsh, Cornish), Gaelic (Irish, Scots, Manx). Also important to note are the Germanic Peoples and their mythologies (Norse Mythology, Anglo-Saxon Mythology, and Continental Germanic Mythology), as well as influences from Slavic Fairy Tales and Folk Beliefs.

In addition to other European or other Cultures that might have gone unmentioned, there are some historians, such as Barthélemy d'Herbelot, who believed that fairies were adopted from, or at least heavily influenced by, the Peris of Persian Mythology.

And even with the slow borrowing of ideas over the centuries of passing around Folklore and Fairy Tales, our idea of what the Fae are keeps being added to or changed. The English Middle Ages had its influences on them, and the Victorian Era British brought about massive changes to how they were viewed.

Literature over time has played its part in evolving how we depict them, and Modern Fantasy Literature has produced countless changes, likely even more than the Victorian Era.

2. There's actually very little about Faerie Folklore that is consistent across all of it's varied and tangled forms. We tend to assume Faeries are all Elf-Like and pointy eared, immortal royals because those were some of the most influential interpretations that our Modern Fantasy has carried to us. But research even a little about the Folk and you’ll instantly start coming up with all sorts of contradictions, even between people in the same cultural area over time. While there are a number of ideas of what Faeries are, from both ancient times and modern, we’re not even sure of that. Some believed them ghosts of the dead, or higher spirits, elemental spirits, fallen angels, demons, demoted pagan deities, remnant memories of prehistoric humanoid peoples (this theory is considered outdated), or even beings wholly different from humanity and possibly from another world. 3. There’s no particular reason Faeries need to be depicted as human-like in appearance. It is true that at times the term Fairy has been applied specifically to various groups of magical creatures with a human appearance, magical powers, and a mischievous nature. But it has also been used as an umbrella term for almost any magical creature. Many of them are vaguely humanoid such as gnomes, goblins, imps, trolls, brownies, etc. And sometimes there are beings who are not even remotely humanoid that are slipped under the umbrella of Faerie. Such examples as metaphysical beings or living elemental forces, the Cat-sìth, Cù-sìth, will-o’-the-wisps, the questing beast, or even occasionally dragons. Something that adds to this inclusion is the fact that the word Faerie, as it changed and moved about, came to mean many different things. Latin “Fāta” meaning the goddess of fate, to the Old French "Faerie" which meant not only the realm of enchantment, magic, or dream associated with the Fae, but also the occult, the collective canon of magical or mythological beings, beasts, or creatures, or anything that is the product of enchantment or illusion. From there it moved into the Middle English Fairye (faierie, ffayery, fayre, ffeyrye, faerie, feyrye, fairi, fairie) where it was to mean enchantment, illusion, dream at first. Then it expanded again to cover the inhabitants of fairyland as a collective. When they are humanoid, the appearance of the Fae can be as varied as humanity and likely more so. When they are not, they could be in any shape or form. Not everything has to be elfin, slender, white, and pointy eared. And this isn't even counting the countless stories depicting them as having some shapeshifting abilities. 4. Faeries are given many traits by many different stories. Immortality, a trickster nature, an aversion to iron, an inability to lie. But not all of these traits came from the same places or time periods. Indeed there are many stories both old and new that depict Faeries of various kinds perfectly well with only one, two, or even none of them.

5. Classification. A lot of people like to split the Fae into courts and various other groups and types. But it’s impossible to fully classify fairies, there’s just too much in folklore to properly sift through it all in a single lifetime, or even several lifetimes. But categorizing does serve a practical purpose, it helps to separate elements and groups from one another, and to understand underlying distinctions that ancient people would have just known but we have no contextual knowledge for. But many folklorists actually caution against over-categorization. Folk beliefs tended to be fluid and ever changing, leading to many names and types of beings that were inconsistent or having multiple names for the same type of being. Folklorists trying to stick to strict definitions are doomed to frustration. Even our delightful fairy courts, such as the seelie and unseelie, are really much less distinct that we like to think. Groups of faeries changed from tale to tale, and even from one version of a tale to another. Alright. Before I get too carried away, let’s look at the few things you might want to avoid or watch out for.

1. Despite the word Faerie being used as a way to refer to all the magical creatures and beings that those people would have known, be warned that trying to pluck mythical creatures and races from other cultures or religions and include them under the banner of Fae is not generally a good idea, even for a work of fiction. Best stick to stuff already connected to Faeries in one way or another from European Folklore. Or you might borrow some of the newly invented races from Modern Fantasy (such as Tolkien’s Orcs, or the later Dungeons and Dragons version of Orcs). Or if you’re feeling creative you can create your own entirely new and unique Fae creature.

2. Faerie Folklore, stories, fairy tales, and myths are unfortunately home to a lot of truly nasty things. Enslaving humans or Fae, kidnapping, rape, child murder, murder, permanent transformation into inanimate objects, racism, and much else. And while these do not make up the body of the story, they are there and consequently at least one or another will appear in most adaptations of the Fae. This in itself isn’t a bad thing, as those are legitimate motifs and themes that can be explored well in a narrative. But just because the characters might do something horrific, doesn’t mean you have to frame it as a normal or acceptable thing. Be very careful when exploring such themes as these in your work, do your research, and if you feel like you cannot discuss a disturbing theme such as this in a way that does it justice, that’s okay. You don’t have to include that just because it was in folklore. There’s a lot of folklore that doesn’t have it, there’s plenty to draw from about the Fae that isn’t awful. While I generally encourage instances of Blue and Orange Morality when it comes to the Fae, whether disturbing or light-hearted, If you find that you’re not comfortable with the elements of your own story… please don’t force yourself to write those in.

3. Don’t worry about making your Faeries historically accurate. You could try to copy one specific European Culture’s version of the Fae and only that one. But it’s inevitable that it’s not going to be completely right, or anywhere close. Studying the Faerie Folklore from even one Culture is the work of lifetimes. Your best bet is to take the folklore as inspiration, bits and pieces from here and there as you need them.

4. Always do your research, and make sure your sources are trustworthy. In addition to just plain old misinformation, there is a lot of folklore from these old European Cultures that has been appropriated and twisted, or misrepresented, or purposefully removed from context and time in some way in order to promote or justify racist ideologies, harmful or toxic behavior, to purposefully cause conflict and divide people, or even just to cause confusion.

My point is that you should be very careful about what you actually believe when it comes to researching folklore of any kind, Fae included. Can its sources verify the information solidly? Does it even have sources? Is the place you got it known for its reliability in information of this kind? If your source is somewhere on a social media site then it's a definite no. A blogging site, like Tumblr? Then you should know that blog posts are not considered verifiable sources, though there is some acceptance for those that fuel further research. Alright. I’ll leave it there. Now some quick tips for you.

1. Think about what style and atmosphere you want for your story. If you want the Fae to seem a certain way, or to feel close to a particular version, you need to find out what it is that makes them feel that way in the original and try to learn the writing technique.

2. The point is to tell a story, a narrative. You cannot include everything. You cannot represent everything people associate with the Fae. If you have some problematic theme from folklore you want to explore, or some social issue you’re planning on talking about in fiction form, fine. But stick to one or two. Not all of them. To tell an effective story you must narrow the focus so you and your audience don’t lose track of the central ideas.

3. It’s tempting to spend all your time building a huge complex culture for your story. I’m definitely guilty of that one. World-building is addictive. But set reasonable limitations for yourself.

4. Do spend some time considering who the Fae are. If they’re immortal, that will affect their whole culture, from what they eat or if they eat at all, to how they dress, what their art is like, and how they might think. People often forget that the Fae are supposed to be Other, not just magical nature humans with fancy gowns and a lot of lawyer talk. They are alien, different, strange. Their culture, their biology, their needs. 5. If you want to make a cliched Fae people in fancy courts who are averse to cold iron and cannot lie but deceive and dissemble with every breath… go for it. There’s nothing wrong with that. Cliches are cliche for a reason, they work. There would even be advantages to using this common depiction of the Folk, because many people are already familiar with it, you can spend more time in your story focusing on other themes or ideas, using the well known Fae traits to draw your reader’s expectations to where you want them.

6. Verse and rhyme are important tools you can use. Fae are often depicted singing or speaking in riddles and rhymes. Take a look at some writers who use a lot of poetry in their stories. Tolkien and Brian Jacques are some that spring immediately to mind, though there are many more. Keep in mind that if your poems or verse doesn’t add to or match the flow of your story and have purpose in forming your narrative, then it will likely just break the reader's immersion instead.

7. With the Fae a common theme is that beauty doesn’t equate good, and ugliness doesn’t equate evil. But beauty as a theme with Faeries is quite old and has taken a lot of different forms. Beauty of the ethereal or the divine, of the otherworldly and alien. The extraordinary beauty found in the natural and ordinary that we are blind to every day. The alluring beauty of illusions. Beauty is a very subjective thing, and so thus it is an excellent tool to use in exploring Fae narratives where it can be shaped in countless ways to do different things in the narrative.

8. Point of view is also very important to how you’re going to frame your faerie people. If your story is set from the viewpoint of someone who knows nothing about Fae then their understanding of these magical persons will be very different from the viewpoint of someone who goes into this adventure already having some working knowledge of them. Or you could depict the Faerie from the eyes of one of their own, and a faerie would see their own people in a very different way than a human would, for good or ill.

9. I cannot stress enough the importance and effectiveness of WHIMSY as a narrative technique when writing about distantly metaphysical or surreal subjects such as the Fae. Balanced well with the aspects of your work that are more grounded, it can help the flow of your writing immensely and aid in keeping your reader engaged and immersed.

[manfrommars2049]

Faierie by me, digital art, 2023 via FantasyArt

[anchikas]

Fairy, also spelled faerie or faery, is a mythical being of folklore and romance. They are usually depicted as a type of magical creature with supernatural powers, often existing in close relationship with humans on Earth. Fairies can be found in the folklore and mythology of various European cultures, including Celtic, Slavic, Germanic, English, and French folklore. They are often described as metaphysical, supernatural, or preternatural spirits. The legends and beliefs surrounding fairies are diverse, making it difficult to define them precisely. "fatum," meaning fa referred to the land of enchantment and its inhabitants.

Fairies play a significant role in myth, folklore, and legends, and are often featured in fairy tales and other stories that explore moral and ethical concepts. The word "fairy" may have originated from the Latin word "fatum," meaning fate, and is related to the French "fée," the Italian "fata," and the Spanish "fada" In Middle English, "faierie" (or "faeire" in Old French) referred to the land of enchantment and its inhabitants Fairies play a significant role in myth, folklore, and legends, and are often featured in fairy tales and other stories that explore moral and ethical concepts

[hyunjinspark]

your readers are so unhinged and dirty jade im crying 😭😭😭😭 (i am one too)

here i am writing about butterflies and faieries and soulmates and there you guys are 🧍🏻‍♂️ its very entertaining i dont mind at all. i love it lmao !!!

[vhagarswattle]

and if i'm on zlib.org downloading holly black grunchcore faierie books from 2011 well that's none of your business

[osoconlapiz]

I have seen faieries! Yes, I have! Well, i've seen them again because, actually, I've been seeing them since I was a toddler but for some reason at age 13th we grew apart. I guess it had to do with the fact me growing up and spend my time on the internet and stuff like that rather than searching for fairies in the forest. Anyways, I have have seen fairies, again! How wonderful, how happy I feel because, you see, this means I have kept my magic, I have not lost it in the "growing up box" like almost everyone do. No, I have not lost my magic, my sight, and now I can see fairies again! :)

[celestfoo]

WOII - Week 2 Aesthetics

Aesthetics focuses on individual ideas regarding expressing one's feelings and their form of art. This week, we captured a series of signs and looked into their differences. 

Through this activity, it made me realize that aesthetics encompasses elements such as proportion, color, texture, and typography. Which is what we often practice as designers. This was reflected in my studio work, when we were told to choose our desired artist based on how we connected to their work. I chose Armin Hoffman and Shepard Fairy as I found that both their work is clean, uncomplicated, and straightforward. 

Both of their style aesthetic are similar in terms of Fonts, Colors, and geometric shapes. They get the message across clearly with clear-cut information. This brings me to how aesthetics also contributes to FORMS | FUNCTION. Form and function refer to integrating both the visual appeal (form) and the practical utility (function) of a design. This concept emphasizes the idea that good design should not only look visually pleasing but also serve its intended purpose effectively. Let's take a look at these two prime examples. 

Digital Watch Cartier Crash Watch

While both watch tells time, let's be honest and ask ourselves which would be a more user-friendly. The digital watch clearly wins, yet why would users still choose the Cartier watch? The reason is simple - Aesthetics. The watch is sleek and one of a kind though it doesn't serve its practicability much.

To conclude, aesthetics plays a huge role in design as to how each designer expresses different art styles and how they want to intertwine with viewers. For now, I believe that aesthetics plays a bigger role rather than functionality as "first impression counts". However, this does not stop me from looking into how I can better incorporate function in my design aesthetics.  (299 words) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

References “What Is Aesthetics?” The Interaction Design Foundation, 14 Dec. 2023, www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/aesthetics.

Armin Hoffman Work Example Lisawallius. “Dialogue Studio: Armin Hofmann.” WordPress.com, 23 Oct. 2016, lisawallius.wordpress.com/2016/10/23/in-the-style-of-hofmann. Shepard Faiery Work Example Vanover, Gracie. “Street Artist Shepard Fairey Coming to Louisville to Discuss New Muhammad Ali Mural.” LEO Weekly, 15 Apr. 2024, www.leoweekly.com/arts/street-artist-shepard-fairey-coming-to-louisville-to-discuss-new-muhammad-ali-mural-15773976.

Digital Watch Image ZOLOHONI Mens Leather Watch Digital Watch Men, 12 24 Hour LED Alarm Countdown Wrist Watch for Men, Black : Amazon.ca: Clothing, Shoes and Accessories. www.amazon.ca/ZOLOHONI-Leather-Watch-Digital-Countdown/dp/B0BGBD9M9X.

Cartier Crash Watch Image “Cartier London Crash 1967.” Auctions | Loupe This, loupethis.com/auctions/cartier-london-crash-1967.