TERFS go away

do not talk to me, do not reblog my posts, they ain't for you. i may be a cis lesbian but yall disgust me. turning 23 this year. wack.

[earthlycneoht]

For if my love were an earthly knight as she is an elfin grey

I'd not change my own true love for any knight you have

aka Tam Lin, but lesbians

[keikigoodbetter]

It may just be the weather, but... if I could hie to Carterhaugh, etc etc...

[wizardysseus]

don’t care didn’t ask plus carterhaugh it is my own my father gave it me, i’ll come and go by carterhaugh and ask no leave of thee

[medieval-castle]

©Marketa Novak / Photographer

[winterofherdiscontent]

. 𝓜𝓮𝓽𝓪𝓶𝓸𝓻𝓹𝓱𝓸𝓼𝓲𝓼 

[ a commissioned digital painting created for @k_trattner on twitter based on their novel a modern retelling of Tam Lin a fairy ballad originating from the Scottish Borders ] 

instagram: @winterofherdiscontent 

[lady-janet]

Would you consider The Snow Queen fairytale to be loosely based on Tam Lin? I know the story is more child friendly but the elements of “girl saving boy from otherworldly queen” seems to be there. Idk I was thinking about it the other day.

I haven't read it in a long time, but from what I remember of The Snow Queen there are definitely some elements that are very Tam Lin-ish. "Girl saving boy from otherworldly Queen" can absolutely be read as a reference to Tam Lin. And I like to think that there's a nice parallel between the Faery Queen's threat of giving Tam Lin a heart of stone and Kai having shards from the troll-mirror freeze his heart. Wether or not H.C. Anderson was directly inspired by The Ballad of Tam Lin, I couldn't say. But, if I'm remember it correctly, he was a great lover of faerytales which inspired him to write his own. So perhaps it's possible. I'll try to do some research and see what I can find.

Thank you so much for the question! I really appreciate it.

[laurasimonsdaughter]

Janet: Yeah, so I went to pick roses in the woods and was seduced by a changeling fairy knight and he got me pregnant, but I told him I sure as hell wasn’t having his baby without him around to care for it. So I stole him from the Fairy Queen and married him.

Margaret: I wandered into faerie woods too! Ended up bespelled by an elf lord and had seven children with him. But eventually the oldest freed me from my trance, so I ran back home with them and had my father burn the woodland down.

Isabel: Good on you! I was charmed away from home by an elf knight blowing on his horn, but he tried to kill me. So I tricked him and stabbed him to death with his own dagger.

Janet: …so Tam Lin and me are still looking for godparents for our second and third, how about it?

[ilusion-fantasia]

[changeinenthalpy]

Seems like an appropriate day to have another crack at drawing my version of Tam Lin.

I wouldn’t necessarily recommend rescuing this one

[serranodebergerac-deactivated20]

“And pleasant is the Faery land, But an eerie tale to tell, Aye, at the end of seven years, We pay a tithe to Hell, I am sae fair and fu’ of flesh, I’m feard it be mysel.”

The Ballad of Tam Lin

[tam-nonlinear]

“It’s an odd and beautiful tale that insists on the agency of its heroine. Tam Lin’s body betrays him by turning into anything the fairies please, but Janet has the ultimate control and final say over her own body: it’s she who initially seduces Tam Lin and she who ultimately decides on the terms of her pregnancy. She’s willing to have the baby if there’s a father in the picture, but she makes it clear that otherwise, she’ll terminate the pregnancy. And it is Janet’s strength and power that saves Tam Lin — and she saves him from another powerful woman. But the Fairy Queen gets the last word, and the eeriness of her threat to Tam Lin settles over the hopefulness of Janet’s triumph in a creepy, skin-crawling moment that makes this story perfect for Halloween.”

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This Halloween-set medieval Scottish ballad is incredibly pro-choice (via ccgwrites)

@tam-nonlinear I think this is relevant to you and your readers…

(via aproposthessaly)

I had it up in the queue already, but thanks for the heads up. I’ll admit, when I read the article and hit the line ‘“Tam Lin” is the basis of three different YA fantasy novels’ I had a flashback to the old Look at All These Ducks joke, but, yanno, not wrong.

[tam-nonlinear]

This Halloween-set medieval Scottish ballad is incredibly pro-choice

"Tam Lin" is about a woman who lets no one tell her what to do.

[pointylesbian-blog]

seduce a fae by disagreeing with it

[tam-nonlinear]

#this is basically the plot of Tam Lin

[atmilescross]

trolling through the tam lin tag cause i'm In The Mood and i've been off tumblr for a hot minute and saw a post from @lady-janet about Labyrinth connections and it reminded me I don't think I've ever posted this but I actually wrote it last year lol

[nightmaskart]

The Ballad of Tam Lin

[mythologyfolklore]

Tam Lin: And just what do you think you're doing here?

Janet: *looks him up and down* You. ;)

[cav-core]

My favorite part of Tam Lin is Janet being a total bitch to her father about his serving men.