#now I wanna draw fairies from different civilisations. damn.

[thenearsightedmicroraptor]

Okay but everyone I feel like we are overlooking a very important opportunity as fiction writers here:

Space fairies

Fairies are tied to nature, but they're also from Another place. They're the reason you don't cut down that old oak, or go on the narrow path at night, if you cross them or take what is theirs they will absolutely fuck you up, they play by other rules and we don't understand them.

Aliens may have different norms and cultures and a whole other biology, but they still belong in this universe and they're still tied to our rules. Who says the veil can't be thin on other planets? Imagine alien civilizations where That One Natural Rock Formation is off limits because if you as much as chip that rock you absolutely will have bad luck for the next seven years. Places you just Don't Go. You ask for an explanation because you know that terrain is never what it seems on other planets and maybe there's beasts or toxic gasses in that area but people avoid the subject, or it's tradition, or they tell you it's just, not a good place, and nobody will explain further. Nobody can explain

And out there, figures that look eeriely like the creatures of the planet do their equivalent of dancing and singing, and even though humans can't hear the song of the locals and even less that of the fae, the feeling is there, you can feel the pull and the trembling of the soul and the feeling that you want to run to it and never turn back and also you know you should be running as fast as you can in the opposite direction RIGHT NOW.

The fair folk is different everywhere, on every planet, and yet no matter how different your planets are, there will be aliens who nod solemly, they know the feeling exactly, even through  translation channels and body language that cannot possibly be translated to human gesture, you know that you have shared the exact same feeling.