Contemplating the Fair Folk in the Modern World
I see so many people - not so much on Tumblr thankfully - that talk about the Good People as if they were stuck 500 years ago and/or were a kind of neo-Disney Tinkerbell guardian spirit mashup. I like reading urban fantasy because it imagines Themselves in the modern world, seemlessly sometimes, and sometimes just as vicious and mercurial as in the old stories. So that has me thinking today - if you were to encounter one of the Gentry now how would that go?
I’ve had people tell me stories of meeting Them in all sorts of places, in cities and towns and wilderness, and usually not recognizing Them until afterwards. Always something just a bit off with the stranger, or a bit too intense - a bit too insightful, a bit too uncanny. Sometimes helpful and sometimes frightening.
