#fairybook

[laxibbeb]

i'm soooo normal about what could've been

[redstrewn]

I want leander to shock us simps so bad. Like jaw drop. Like baffle us with a complete 180 on his outward personality to his inward one. A total fucking asswipe bitch. Just fucken floor us. I think it would be amazing. Just have us levitating only to crash us onto the ground like a bad trip. I think it would be fun.

[sminny-wew]

Hands as a love language

[nelehjr]

I'm happy to announce that I've just posted the first chapter of my new novella series on my Patreon! This series will update weekly. Gary is a ranch hand that followed some polka music into a field in January 2020. Nyxlynn is the princess of the Night Court. It is her duty to marry the king of the Day Court to keep the peace in Fairy. Both want out of their respective situations. Can they help one another, or is it all in vain? This is kind of just a palate cleanser for me, but I think we'll have a lot of fun with it together! #Patreon #Novella #Series #ShortSeries #Romance #HelenMPugsley #FairyStories #FairyBooks #OlsenCounty #OutrunningTheNight https://www.instagram.com/p/Co-NfG8ucCs/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[nicklloydnow]

“See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire. Outside lie dark turned fields with rags of snow and darker woods beyond that harbor yet a few last wolves. His folk are known for hewers of wood and drawers of water but in truth his father has been a schoolmaster. He lies in drink, he quotes from poets whose names are now lost. The boy crouches by the fire and watches him.

Night of your birth. Thirty-three. The Leonids they were called. God how the stars did fall. I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens. The Dipper stove.

The mother dead these fourteen years did incubate in her own bosom the creature who would carry her off. The father never speaks her name, the child does not know it. He has a sister in this world that he will not see again. He watches, pale and unwashed. He can neither read nor write and in him broods already a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man.

At fourteen he runs away. He will not see again the freezing kitchenhouse in the predawn dark. The firewood, the washpots. He wanders west as far as Memphis, a solitary migrant upon that flat and pastoral landscape. Blacks in the fields, lank and stooped, their fingers spiderlike among the bolls of cotton. A shadowed agony in the garden. Against the sun's declining figures moving in the slower dusk across a paper skyline. A lone dark husbandman pursuing mule and harow down the rainblown bottomland toward night.

A year later he is in Saint Louis. He is taken on for New Orleans aboard a flatboat. Forty-two days on the river. At night the steamboats hoot and trudge past through the black waters all alight like cities adrift. They break up the float and sell the lumber and he walks in the streets and hears tongues he has not heard before. He lives in a room above a courtyard behind a tavern and he comes down at night like some fairybook beast to fight with the sailors. He is not big but he has big wrists, big hands. His shoulders are set close. The child's face is curiously untouched behind the scars, the eyes oddly innocent. They fight with fists, with feet, with bottles or knives. All races, all breeds. Men whose speech sounds like the grunting of apes. Men from lands so far and queer that standing over them where they lie bleeding in the mud he feels mankind itself vindicated.”

[slaviclore]

Illustration from Andrew Lang's The Yellow Fairybook, for the Polish fairytale "The Crow"

To help break the curse on a prince who's been turned into a crow, a young princess endures nightly hauntings by demons. Here they attempt to throw her into a boiling cauldron. Her crow boyfriend scares them off.

[edwinspaynes]

Answering your tag on DBD comics !

Yesssss @edwinspaynes have you considered getting the Omni? :O (That’s what I have). I don’t have single issues of that run!

Watching the show is on my tbr, but having been a fan of the comics for a while i thought i’d share some lore about it! The artist- Bucky - is quite legendary in the DC / Marvel comics artworld. Mainly because due to his former team up with legendary comic writer Bill Willingham for the very very awarded run called ‘Fables’. Fables follows classic Grims’ fairy tale characters (Snow White, Big Bad Wolf, Cinderella, Prince Charming, Jack Frost, Red Riding Hood and more) in a modern Adult content NYC setting trying to survive a normal world as magical beings.

The Fables comic run, is a great rabbit hole to fall into (pun intended) but i won’t go on that tangent (unless asked), but Bucky’s Fables artwork kind of created a ‘trend’ or rendered a very unique type of artwork unseen in the comic book space before. His artwork is very, Fairybook, victorian-esuqe, classical marionette characters/storybook artwork but made rated r (gore, slasher, etc.) which is a fantastic way to subvert expectations when viewing it’s idyllic artwork. His clean lines and attention to facial expressions bring the characters' emotions to life, while his creative use of panel layouts adds to the storytelling, often incorporating elements that reflect the fairy tale origins of the characters.

In Dead Boy Detectives, his art carries a slightly more whimsical and eerie tone, fitting the supernatural and detective elements of the story. Buckingham's ability to create atmosphere and mood through his detailed backgrounds and imaginative character designs enhances the narrative, making his art an integral part of the storytelling experience in both series. So it is no suprise that this was carried on when he joined DBD comics with the same household frame of artwork. A noteable shame, is that in Fables he did a lot of margins artwork which we’re missing out on in DBD comics.

I love Bucky’s mariontte timeless artwork, and i think no matter your entry point into the fandom, it’s a great pocket to celebrate English Victorian meets hardy boys storytelling. Which i really wish we will get more of! Either continue the comics or the show for sure.

So yeah i hope you enjoyed listening to my morning rant! LOL!

I don't have the omnibus and don't plan to get it because I already have the two major runs in their books. I can send a picture later if you remind me! But yeah, I don't want to pay $100 for stories that I already own most of. So that's not going to happen, sadly.

This was really interesting! Thank you for sharing. I love the art style in the Toby Litt run as well, which is what you're showing me. It's definitely my favourite of the DBDA comic art styles. I love Edwin's little freckles in it, they're delightful.

[mudg0bln]

Alright so, i took some pictures from one of the boxes i found :D

Heres some of the cool shit

Theres also a ton more of fairy books from when i was little in storage, i’ll make sure to show you guys when i pull it out <3

Also @caffiendbard heres the updates you asked for!!

(I found shiny rocks in the fairy boxes btw)

GUYS I WENT THROUGH SOME OF MY MUMS OLD DOLLS AND FOUND ALL THIS COOL FAIRY STUFF!!! I SHALL UPDATE YOU ALL ON THE WEEKEND WHEN I HAVE THEM 👹👹

[danniswrites]

Becky's Gift - Tears and... Trees (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/1450201057-becky%27s-gift-tears-and-trees?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_reading&wp_uname=DannisWrites Becky dreams of meeting a handsome prince, but SETI brings a real one to change her life! Then, she discovers that she has a Gift that can change theirs for the better. This fairybook kingdom has problems. Tom showed her a future in which she was dying of cancer and he linked with her mind to save her life. She won't get cancer now, but the Elshar who controlled Tom in those memories is still a threat to Tom's kingdom, and their way of living.

I am adding 6 chapters total today and releasing 3 at a time Tu, Th, Sat at 1 am until the complete story is up.

[bluedesertbooks]

Library sale really came through! 🧚‍♀️ Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Book 🧚 Absolutely loved this book when I was a kid. #fairybook #pressedflowers #pressedfairies #bookstagram #booktok #books

[sminny-wew]

Character exploration

[roxana-santiago]

"I'm fine. Really. It was more the shock that caught me off guard than anything. As the saying goes: no harm, no foul, right?" She really is okay. There are enough people at the event to make it impossible to avoid an unintended run-in. The shock didn't stop there because her stomach grumbled, and this guy heard it! He actually heard it. A hand covered her stomach, and Roxana's blush must've crept over every inch of her surprised features. "Oh wow. I'm sorry. I didn't realize how hungry I was until I saw your cookie. I forgot to eat breakfast this morning." That's a lie. She rarely eats breakfast. It's because she's surrounded by such delectable scents that her stomach is begging for sweet and savory sustenance! This handsome man (straight out of a fairybook level of handsome) and generous caused Roxana to hesitate. What's the catch? She could chalk it to paranoia from too many true crime podcasts and big-city living. He could be an all-around nice guy."Thank you," she said, peeking inside the bag before retrieving a still-warm chocolate chip cookie. "Sorry for my obvious hesitation. I'm not used to the whole kindness of strangers." she laughed, quoting Streetcar. Like a rabbit, she broke a small piece and nibbled it before him. That nibble turned into Roxana eating the broken-off piece in one go. If it's poisoned, she'll go out with one of the best cookies she's ever tasted. "Are you from Bearcreek? I'm relatively new. Been here for a week." She admitted as she broke off another piece.

Chris felt guilty when he accidentally bumped into a woman at the crowded Founder's Day celebration. "I'm really sorry about that bump! Are you okay?" he asked, slightly flustered. He noticed her reassuring smile and her attempt to brush off the incident. He couldn't help but admire her beauty as she fixed her hair. When she complimented the cookie he held, Chris relaxed a little. "Oh, I got this at the booth from 'Sip N' Time Cafe & Bookstore over there; it's delicious; you should check it out later!" he suggested, hoping to lighten the mood. Just as he was about to introduce himself, he noticed the rumble of her stomach. "You want to try one? I've got a few extra," Chris offered while holding out the goodie bag so she could take a cookie, hoping to make amends for the unexpected collision.

[rj-anderson]

TODAY’S THE DAY! For the next few weeks, my complete Flight and Flame Trilogy consisting of SWIFT, NOMAD and TORCH will be available in ebook for just $4.99!

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I am so thrilled and grateful to @enclavepublishing that I got to finish this trilogy after years of wistful dreaming — not to mention impassioned pleas from readers longing to know what would happen to Ivy and Martin next! You were right to believe there was more to their story and I’m so glad to be able to share the whole of Ivy’s surprising, mysterious, adventurous, romantic and life-changing adventure with you. Thanks to all of you who’ve read and loved the series and recommended it to other fantasy readers as well!

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If you HAVEN’T read the books yet, this is a great deal and it’s not going to last forever, so please check it out here!

[sugarfangs]

fairy book 🌸 ⁎ : ☁️ . • ✧ 🧚‍♀️ ⁎ . 🌷 : ⁎ .🐝. ⁎

[loftylockjaw]

[pm] I dunno. A guy gave it to me. [...] I'm fine. By the water. Cold is good. [ cold is the only thing keeping the user awake ] Can see the cabin from here, don't stress.

Oh. Ew. He's weird. Don't talk to weird people, Charlie. [...] That kinda sounds like uh. I mean I don't know about taking names, that's some fucked up fairybook shit, but like.... the handlers at the Pit use. You know. Magically binding contracts. Which I did not know when I signed one, lol. Maybe he's fae. [ user used his brain! yay! ]

[pm] Duuuuuude, work with me here. What did you take? Are you alright? [User grows worried.] Where are you? Do you need me to pick you up?

[User links to Beau's profile.] This dude. I don't know who the fuck he is but I swear to fuck he took my name.

[sailleengladelling]