#fairyteens

[kitotoka]

Banners based on the cartoon "Fairyteens"

Author: K¡totok@

[crisp-sweet-pink-lady]

I love your banner! where is it from?

Thanks! It's from Fairyland News, a supplement to the series Fairyteens, which originated in the Faynet app, but I don't think that's available any more. A lot of them can be found on Instagram, including the one my banner is from.

[princessfanatic]

I made wallpapers for fun

[crisp-sweet-pink-lady]

From faynet (and the Fairyteens instagram), popular elf singer Eclair wrote a song for the new year, "This Year is Mine." Meanwhile, his self-proclaimed rival Ketchup countered with his own song, "New Year is Just as Cool as Me," which wasn't as popular.

[crisp-sweet-pink-lady]

Where's your header image from? The one with the girl with a book over her face? It's really pretty.

It's from the Fairyteens instagram, though originally it was from the tie-in app Faynet. One of the things you could in the app was read the Fairy Land News, and every day there was a little paragraph fleshing out the fairy world, with an accompanying illustration. A lot of them have been posted on the instagram, but not all. Here's the one my header is from.

This is actually an interesting case, since the illustration is primarily for viewers of the show, not the fairy world at large. The fairy princess is currently in disguise as the teacher of the main characters in the show, which is why she couldn't attend, but the Fairy News reporters shouldn't have any way to know that.

[crisp-sweet-pink-lady]

[crisp-sweet-pink-lady]

Fairyteens has a fun supplemental called Fairy Land News that originated in the app Faynet, but a lot of them have been put on the official instagram (both in English and Russian), though you have to sort through the other posts to find them.

Each entry is paragraph about the goings on in the fairy world, whether that's new products that have come out, the latest gossip about various fairy and elf celebrities, news from young fairies and elves living in human households, or even quick interviews with ordinary fairies on the street.

Besides fleshing out the world of fairies outside of the main characters (though they do show up there from time to time), it also has super cute artwork. I've highlighted a few of my favorites here (and if you click, there's a brief description of the story they were attached to).

Sadly, Neither the app nor instagram has added any news since January of this year.

[crisp-sweet-pink-lady]

Having finished Fairyteens, I feel like it's (almost) what I wanted Dew Drop Diaries to be.

Both shows involve tiny fairies-in-training secretly living with humans, the main characters all have a different special ability that they use to help the children of the households they live in, and there's a mentor character, though one is more present than the other.

Dew Drop Diaries' weakest point is that the problems they help solve are usually not very interesting, and the best episodes are the ones that focus more on the fairies living tiny lives in the big city (what we see of it, anyway). Fairyteens, meanwhile, rarely focuses the episodes on the child they help, and when they do, it's usually in an interesting way: they find the manifestation of words her parents no longer say to her, like "I'm proud of you," etc., so they place those words where the parents will find them; when the girl and her mom are having a conflict, the fairy with dream powers uses that to create a dream-memory to remind the mom of how she felt when she was a girl, and so on.

Another thing that makes Fairyteens more interesting to watch is that the main characters are all different ages, which puts them in conflict more often than if they were the same age and just had different personalities. On top of that, they all live in the same household in a boarding school type of situation, whereas the Dew Drops have their own places, and one suspects they were friends prior to moving to the city. They rarely, if ever, have conflicts with each other, while the very first episode of Fairyteens opens with the fairies blaming each other for the predicament they're in.

Fairyteens' weak point is that it tries to have an ongoing plot involving a mysterious prophecy, but since only one character actually knows about it, she either has to work it in awkwardly somehow or the show "forgets" about it when the other characters are in focus. The show would work just as well if it left that out entirely.

One last thing in Fairyteens' favor: they release full versions of the songs! Not on itunes or Spotify, but they put music videos of the extended versions of every song that's appeared in the show on their youtube channel. Dew Drop Diaries only has one song, but it's broken into pieces, so it would be nice to hear the full version. But sadly Netflix has not seen fit to release this, not even as a music video on their youtube channel (which I would totally accept).