#fairyranting

[buggybro]

Night/dark fairy kinda inspo with sum buggies :3

(no images used r mine but the banner- it its ftu <33)

[geezerwench]

Not a great shot, but you can still kind of see it. It's more defined than it looks in the photo. Anyhow, seems we have a bit of a #fairyring in the yard. First time I've noticed it. Now I've got to go look up fairy rings in the grass and see what the heck it is. Besides a fairy ring. It's about 5 foot across. And, gee whiz, did it get warm today! 70⁰! Tomorrow, it's supposed to be a high of 46⁰, and Saturday is a high of 26⁰. Ahhhh, #Spring🌱 #23February2023 #southeasternPA #Pennsylvania (at Susquehanna Trails, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpBm8UHNKJi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[vynnyal]

This is a pretty good point in the wip to share this, methinks :]

Map part for the hole dwelling map, starring... Not my ocs! I wanted to use ocs, but I don't have any-- so I just used the characters from a fic I was reading at the time 😂

Turns out, the symbolism was so much fun to twist into the 11 seconds I had to work with, I ended up going way more complex than I meant to. If you wanna read the fic this was based on, please do!! And tell the author I said hi! :D

[birdsofrhiannon]

Fairyring by Kim Jacobs 

[cloudscare]

The duo ever—

Based on a small bit of this fic !! Go check it out !! (I’ll probably do more doodles from it as I read)

[howhow326]

For black history month, I think we should begin popularizing monsters from the African continent the same way European monsters are overpopularized. To that end, here's a list of some of the most famous folkloric figures from Africa!

Mmoatia

Origin: Ghana (Akan)

Creature it is not: Dwarf

(Singular: Aboatia) Mmoatia are a subclass of abosom (spirits in between Man and Creator) that live in the forests of Ghana. They are short, have curved noses, backwards feet, and a unique language made up of only whistling sounds. Whistling in the forest is a sure way to get their attention. According to legend, they are phenomenal herbalists that will sometimes share their knowledge with humans. When a person gets lost in the woods, they are said to have been taken by Mmoatia. Humans who come back after being taken will become incredible medicine men. In Ghana, Dust Devils are called "Mmoatia Mframa" (Wind of Mmoatia) because they are belived to be a portal to their world similar to how fairyrings are treated in Ireland.

Mmoatia are divided into three tribes: Black, White, and Red. Black Mmoatia are supposedly harmless, while White and Red ones are always up to some kind of mischief.

Adze

Origin: Ghana (Ewe)

Creature it is not: Vampire

In Ewe culture, the Adze is a type of demonic spirit associated with witchcraft. They take the form of a fire fly that, during the night, crawls inside human beings in order to posses them. People possesd by the Adze are said to be witches, who use the spirit to slowly drain the life force of people that they envy (Old witches target the young, Poor witches target the wealthy, enslaved witches target their masters as they should).

When targeting a person, the Adze will leave it's host human during the night and crawl into the house of the victim. When it's close, it will drain blood from the victim like a mosquito.

Werehyena

Origin: Pan-African

Creature it is not: Werewolf

Just like how there are Werewolf stories all over Europe, there are Werehyena stories all over Africa. Compared to werewolves, which are said to be men cursed to be monsters, Werehyenas are actually monsters that disguise themselves as humans only to eat it's friends during the night. The people most likely to be werehyenas are village outsiders and blacksmiths, who are associated with magic.

In Angola, there is a similar (but not the same) creature to the werehyena called the Kishi. It is literally a two-faced demon that has a handsome man's body and face in the front, and a hyena's face in the back. This creature lures unsuspecting women into relationships so that it may eat them. If the Kishi has any male children with it's prey, it teaches them the art of femicide.

Mami Wata

Origin: Pan-African

Creature it is not: Mermaid (ok, it kinda is a mermaid but I need to keep the joke running)

Even more wide-spread than the Werehyena, Mami Wata is a figure so popular that it is common for water spirits in Africa to be retroactively labeld as Mami Wata and take on her iconography.

The most famous picture of Mami Wata is actually a french painting of a black Caribbean snake charmer, who west africans later identified as Her. Mami Wata is worshipped as a powerful, female river spirit that controls the flow of the river, the rate at which fish can be caught, the money that men can make, and several other things important to humanity. She is also said to be a seductress, who sleeps with unsuspecting men only to later kill them for cheating on their wives. Indeed, Mami Wata is a defender of women and a slayer of sinful and abusive men.

In many places, it is common to believe that women who drown or go missing in bodies of water were taken by Mami Wata to be taught magic. The women who return become pristessess to her, while the women who never come back become new Mami Watas.

Impundulu

Origin: South Africa (Zulu)

Creature it is not: Thunderbird (no hate, Thunderbird gets constantly thrown into things where it shouldn't be by people who don't understand it. And those people tend to be not native)

Impundulu, or Lightning Bird (NOT THUNDER BIRD), is a person sized Hamerkop bird that has the power to control the weather and summon lightning. It is also creature of evil magic, allied with witches and it has a never ending hunger for blood. It is said to sometimes take the form of a handsom young men in order to seduce women (why dose that keep happening).

Impundulu are immortal, and the ones that serve as witch familiars are passed down in the family as the old master dies and the child becomes grown. The bird is immune to gunshots, stabbing, drowning, and poison. It's only weakness is fire.

[team-heavenly]

Chapter 23 - Part 3 (Wrap Up)

No real plot here, just some miscellaneous images I couldn't squeeze into Part 2. Oh, and here's Part 1.

If you'll humor me for a few more minutes, I want to show off a couple of oddities, such as the move sets of some of our newer recruits! For example...

We found Da Real Sneasel, and for some reason she only knows Blizzard.

BULBASAUR IS SECRETLY A FIRE WIELDER, APPARENTLY

Electrike has... no... moves... at all. I'm going to have to take him to a dungeon sometime. (Although he probably just uses his regular attack or Struggle.)

No quirks here, I just think this move set is really neat.

Another thing worth a brief mention:

See this? This is someone I recently recruited at the cafe through the drinks. "Joined at Evil Fairyring" has shown up on some of my Pokémon before, and it always threw me for a loop because I had never seen that place before. So I went to double-check to confirm my suspicions and...

YEAH. WHY IS THE NAME DIFFERENT??? I DON'T UNDERSTAND!

Last but certainly not least: I finally had a personal triumph! After losing this fantastic item in that wretched dungeon oh so long ago...

THE GLITTER ROBE IS BACK!!!! AT LAST!!! 😭💗

On that happy note, I will bid you farewell, but only for now. I'm debating whether to split Surrounded Sea and Manaphy into separate chapters because otherwise... Oh boy. It may be a bit. Regardless, thank you for reading, and take care!

[obsessivevoidkitten]

For audio ideas: How about a fairy that lures the reader into a fairyring to make them theirs or someone who can turn stories into reality and traps the listener in a book so they can’t escape anymore

I just have zero idea how to make these into audios at all. I am very inexperienced. I did some brainstorming though and have a few easy level ideas to start with now. Hopefully I can finish the commission I have then the werewolf fic quickly so I can have fun with the audios.

[scumsuckart]

Jan 29th, 2025

Reformatted the front page.

Added big ol' buttons that lead to the store, kofi, and commissions since that seems most pertinent.

RSS updates to this tumblr account are now visible via iframe.

Webrings are on the bottom.

Added link to fairyring, a ssg for webrings.

Reformatted documentation page to be much plainer and easier to read.

I really want to recode everything to be cleaner :P But that'll take up so much time. At the very least I need to refresh my commissions page to load faster with the pricing! Also add more art to my art page... Condense everything into my "work" or "projects" page...? Hmm very hard to condense menu items...

[toho-beads-style-tokyo-gallery-t]

『ビーズモチーフパーティー！vol.4 ～粒ぞろいクインテット～』

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[funkytrashsuperstructure]

READ THIS FIC READ THIS FIC READ THIS FIC

It's so good I love it. So angsty and so cool.

[frostiifae]

fehs problems vs fate go's problems? ive always seen fgo as the superior gacha because its writing is actually decent/sometimes VERY good (camelot!) but i know it has problems so like... which is worse in your humble opinion

well i mean you know already i think fgo is a dramatically better game overall… but idk it’s like, fate grand order isn’t an amazing game probably 85% of the time, 15% of the time it’s Camelot or Babylon or the Kara no Kyoukai collab event (which is fucking awesome, by the way), but the other 85% it’s just a pretty decent gacha game, and that makes it really tragic how short heroes still manages to fall comparatively 

being real fgo has two really serious weaknesses, one is the really inconsistent character design where some of them are awesome but a lot of them are just really gross and awful; the other is the inconsistent writing, which shows in grossness in characters like blackbeard etc and just the general cishet Bad Anime Fan pandering

and then, lesser weaknesses: 

 - the gacha in fgo is really unforgiving with no pity rates and with spirit origins being really hard to get for even big whales - i think you’ve already talked about the good ol’ Sold My Car For Jalter horror story, and others like it - the battle system isn’t super deep and also has some kind of weird idiosyncrasies, like the fact that you can’t see ‘star absorption’ as a stat on servants even though it’s a VERY important stat to understand, or needing to press ‘attack’ to see crit star distribution but not being able to go back to use skills afterward… but some of those things get fixed later in the game’s lifecycle, thankfully 

but compared with heroes… it’s easy to say that heroes has “bad writing” (and it does) but that doesn’t really tell the complete story. like… in my case, marisa was a character i had been looking forward to for a LONG time, even saying i might try to pull for her +10 when she was released (she’s a tempest trial unit, so of course i CAN’T do that, but oh well). once i finally got her, though, i really couldn’t do much with her. just… level her up, give her a skillset that sounded good, and then try to use her in any situation where it felt like she might work. that’s kind of all. it was honestly a let down, and that feeling repeating itself across a few characters contributed a lot to my decision to drop the game.

heroes has a lot of mechanics that compare straight across to grand order; tempest trials are like grand order events, complete with bonus servants vs. bonus heroes - but grand order events have a lot of writing and storytelling, commemorative CEs with charming character art in silly situations/costumes, and give away free welfare servants that are almost universally amazing - ryougi shiki, santa arturia alter, kintoki rider, scathach assassin, even chloe einzbern are all AMAZING top-tier servants that they just GIVE to you for free with max ascension/NP level materials. tempest trials tend to give you lackluster units and you have to spend a lot of materials just to get a +1 merge, meaning they’ll never really reach their full potential compared to a gacha hero. 

hero merit is basically the same as bond xp, except hero merit gives you feathers, but bond xp gives you new dialogue, expanded profile information, saint quartz, and a commemorative Craft Essence for a servant when you max it out. heroes has the accessory system now, which allows you to decorate your heroes with little trinkets you earn from events, while grand order has new arts for every ascension plus there will be event outfits later that you can earn and put onto your servants permanently, and while there are a more limited number of them, they’re designed specifically for that servant. 

there’s a pattern here - heroes just doesn’t really… do anything exciting. it has a lot of the same ideas as grand order, but it doesn’t seem to understand what makes those ideas fun or why players want to play their game at all. there’s no heart to fire emblem heroes. it’s empty and soulless by comparison. 

i worked really hard on my eirika, on my lachesis, on my kagero and my marisa, because they were characters that i really loved. the game only really provided my one way to show that love to them: leveling them and burning very expensive skills through inheritance to make them better. pulling for duplicate copies. it’s unfulfilling. i don’t get anything and the game doesn’t really change to reflect the love i have put into the characters that i care about. 

you can take one look at my support lineup in grand order and understand who my favorite servant is right away. same for ellie. same for you. 

i’m so excited to get jeanne alter’s bond CE. i know exactly who i’m going to Bond 10 after jeanne alter, too! tamamo! i’m gonna grail tamamo to 100, too! because i have that option. i can just pick characters i love and break the game’s rules to make them more powerful. the game gives us mechanics to demonstrate how much we love our favorite servants, and then the ability to show off how devoted we are to them and how much we are willing to invest into them. it fosters a community of celebration and excitement that heroes does not and probably never will have.

yeah, heroes is riddled with problems; pvp is a bad idea for gacha games, the power creep is literally ridiculous, event hero design is bad especially when children are involved, gross pandering dialogue, event heroes almost ALWAYS remark about how uncomfortable they are in their event outfits and people apparently LIKE that, the writing is forgettable at best… but all of those things are secondary to the core failure of fire emblem heroes, which is: it’s heartless. it’s a black hole for you to throw money into in the vain hope of feeling like you’ve done something for your favorite characters. 

maybe they’ll get better at that over time, but honestly, i don’t think it will make much of a difference, and i just don’t think they care enough.

[thegorgonist]

Day 31 of my mushroomonth prompts is Fairy Ring--Happy Halloween everyone!

[s-a-o-r-s-a]

Ink Illustration: The fairy ring 🍄 Fairy rings are naturally occurring rings of mushrooms, found mostly in forested and grassy areas. In mythology they are often found to be dangerous places, linked with witches or the devil, at other times they are said to bring good look and that they are a sign of a fairy village beneath the ground. Some myths even suggest that the rings are portals to another world. In English and Celtic folklore, fairy rings were said to be caused by fairies dancing in a circle. Furthermore, it was believed that if humans joined in the dance they would be punished by the fairies, and made to dance until they passed out from exhaustion. Would you dare to enter a fairy ring? Or do you perhaps know any more stories about these magical places? Gàidhlig word of the day is SÌOGAIDH (/ʃiːgɪ) - engl. FAIRY 🧚🏼‍♀️ Hope you're all doing well! 🖤 https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnh9gCeqPKC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[schersa]

Today’s #funguary faerie(s) Marasmius oreades or Fairy Ring 🧡 #fungi #fungifaerie #fungifaeries #marasmiusoreades #fairyring #fairyringfungus https://www.instagram.com/p/CodyqIJO19a/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=