A General Faery Archive

@focused-on-fae

You may call me Nyx or Arthur. Late 20s/he/they. Warmest greetings! You’ve found my blog on the fair folk! It will mostly be reblogs here but I may also post my musings on faeries. Feel free to chat/ask questions/show me art/share faery experiences as I record my fascination with these wonderful beings! Icon is my own illustration of Jenny Greenteeth Header is the work of Brian Froud Main account is @Nyxfaei

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Notice on where I stand:

No Zionists. No Terfs. No MAPS/NoMAPS. No Nazis. No Fascists. No AI. No NFT.

Enjoying the fae belongs to every race, every gender/sexual identity, every age, and all types of disabilities/abilities. The fae can be anywhere in the world and appear any way they’d like. You just need to know where to look.

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#illustration

#costume

#my art

#literature

#speculative biology

#folklore

#encounters

#photography

#crafts

#animation

Want to read through academic collections of encounters with the fae or even submit your own? Visit the Fairy Cenus! I am not affiliated, but it’s a fascinating resource and great to sink your teeth in

I also reblog probably too many pictures and gif sets of the forest. It’s not directly fae, but I love it and it sets a good mood, I think

fatalbellman

Cover illustration for The Grey Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1900 (via my Secretary of Parliament)

Something something, selkies and being separated from their skins/homes, unicorns and always being pursued for their purity, and pixies being trapped in jars because they're pretty... Went into the city last week and felt my breath stolen from me once we drove into the heart of it. Grey pillar buildings were all I could see and they reached impossibly high. Reminiscent of cage bars. We left just as quick as we came.

sistersbyfreya

moss 🌱

thingsfromthedirt

Mermaids at the forest spring by Moritz von Schwind (1846)

#illustration

weepingwidar

Theodor Severin Kittelsen (Norwegian, 1857-1914) Nøkken (The Water Sprite) (1904)

#illusration

homunculus-argument

"If you accept any food from the fae, they shall never let you go" is a human belief. The fair folk stand by the principle that if you feed 'em, you gotta keep 'em. If wildlife learns to rely on you for food, you have already fucked up, and you can't just stop feeding them cold turkey. That human is your responsibility now. Because you left your peach cobbler unsupervised.

teaboot

If you start feeding the humans in your yard then you need to make sure you keep feeding them or else they’ll choose not to migrate and starve in the winter. I recommend rolling something in peanut butter and seeds and hanging it out on the porch

aqua-regia009

The Forest of Suicides - Canto XIII, line 11: Here the brute Harpies make their nest - Canto XIII, line 34: And straight the trunk exclaim’d, ‘Why pluck'st thou me?’ Gustave Dore’s Illustrations for “The Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri

#illustration