Hello! I don't know if i'm remembering correctly but I think I might have read about an experience that you had or someone else wrote here where someone disapproved of their relationship and interactions with the fae. If I were to come across a situation like this, what do you think would be the mode of action to go through? I'm not too good with confrontation but I also don't want someone to turn away from that with more resentment towards the fae than knowledge. Are people usually receptive?
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Yes, that was me. It was a couple years back, where my friend who was a witch told me that she didn’t trust Atri, and that she had a bad feeling about my interacting with him, which of course, gave me a mood dump, because Atri is also a friend of mine and someone I care about.
As to whether or not most people are receptive of the ideas of interacting and being friends with Fae? Unfortunately, on the whole, I’d say most are going to probably be cautious about this, or think it’s ‘weird’. Just being bluntly honest. It’s how most of this society is, (especially offline) but I don’t think this should ever stop you from voicing what you believe in and the beings you like and interact with. If you hide who you really are, you’ll never find the people that accept all of you and your otherly friends. When you speak up about them, you attract the ones that do accept - like my friend I just spoke of in the other post right before this one. He fully accepts that I talk and have history with Fae and he even has Fae around his home as well. So, it’s nice.
You’ll find your people if you are being true to you. If you’re afraid of people’s reactions, then that will tell you afterwards who’s really ‘your people’.
If your goal is to help teach people about them who just may be ignorant to who they are, then do baby steps. Talk about what you believe in and perceive in an honest way, so that they’ll know this is something important and sacred to you, not just a joke. Be sincere when you speak.
On that note, the friend of mine who was concerned about my interactions with Atri, has since changed her mind. Now, she thinks he came to me for a reason, as someone that I needed to see and hear, to get to where I need to be. People can change and grow if their hearts are in the right place.
P.S. I really wish Pantheacon didn’t end and that they do find a new way to have something like that, again, because that was one place that gave me that great offline crossover to a mass of people that believed in all the same things that I did. My experiences were normal there. I remember telling my friend that it felt like for a few days that I had stepped out of society and into a new one where all that I was was completely welcomed and magic and Fae and all of it were natural things that everyone was in on. It was amazing. It was a different world entirely. I really hope they make something new in its place. I’d definitely be back.
