#just fairy things

[littlescaryinternetguy]

Do you have a care routine you follow for your wings?

I mean, I'd love to tell you that there was some sort of magical ritual: perhaps glowing runes written in the air, stardust coating my gauzy wings and then evanescing in the clear pale light of the full moon, or I step into a cloud of nightingale song and emerge the other side glistening. Or perhaps that there was a mystical brook or pool, deep in the forest primeval, guarded by panthers and mountain lions and, and, uh... one of those other big cats. Pumas! That's it. Guarded by pumas. From the mossy side of the clear sweet water, I'd step in gracefully. Then a bunch of stuff would happen and you don't need to know about it because I'd be nude but it would look like a Maxfield Parrish painting, I'm sure. With tattoos. I'd like to tell you all that, but the truth is that I take a shower, but I have to be quick because the super (yes, fairies have supers) won't fix the goddamn hot water heater so after four minutes it's like diving into the Bering Strait. And I prefer Dr. Bronner's if we're talking soap. Peppermint if I can find it. You don't need a bunch of extra crap in there because that's where you get your wings gunked up. Then I buzz my wings for a bit and that usually dries em off. All this "don''t get a fairy's wings wet" stuff is some horsedootz. I'm not going scuba diving any time soon but we've been around for a good long time (longer than people, in any case) and we've been in plenty of rainstorms. Flying is a pain in the ass in the rain but it can be done. We got other ways to get where we need to go. Some of us just take the bus. Whatever works.

[nothwell]

I've been reading Oak King Holly King for seasonal celebrations, and I just wanted to share a little wild boar folk song with you. (ADORED the wild hunt scene - there's also a huuuge thing within folk music of so many songs about wild boars. So it activated my folk song joy) The song is Old Bangum, and I prefer the John Roberts & Tony Barrand version. In proper folk song fashion, really doesn't get to the wild boar until halfway through haha

How festive! Shrike would approve. (Wren would probs be the one singing it to him.)

[asterwild]

PENGUINS. all of them!

(not precisely to scale, but close)

[egophiliac]

like mother, like son, but less wholesome this time?

(I couldn't decide whether or not to put them together, so have them in all the different ways!)

[too-cool-for-facebook]

“I’m not a faerie!” she says

The more I think about it, the funnier it gets

“I’m not a faerie!” she says, her room covered in sunflowers

“I’m not a faerie!” she says, losing her damn mind every time she sees a mushroom

“I’m not a faerie!” she says, loving all things rainbow

“I’m not a faerie!” she says, handing magical gemstones to people

“I’m not a faerie!” she says, being heavily affected by sound vibrations

“I’m not a faerie!” she says, fantasizing about running away into the woods and never returning

“I’m not a faerie!” she says, ducking out of sight at the sign of any humans in the area

“I’m not a faerie!” she says, having literally cried over pumpkin sprouts that got trampled

“I’m not a faerie!” she says, hugging every pumpkin she sees

“I’m not a faerie!” she says, putting her forehead against a tree to relieve her headaches / depression / anxiety

“I’m not a faerie!” she says, talking to every animal she sees and trying to befriend it

“I’m not a faerie!” she says, bees constantly hanging around her

“I’m not a faerie!” she says, hoarding a collection of interesting feathers

“I’m not a faerie!” she says, being obsessed with the movement of the seasons

“I’m not a faerie!” she says, nibbling on a cookie

“I’M NOT A FAIRY!” she, who when angry pretends to puff up like a Jigglypuff (a Fairy type Pokemon)

“I’M NAWT A FAEWY!!!” she shouts, in an adorable uwu voice

“REEEOWWW!!!” throwing a tantrum like a cat, an animal associated with the fae

[parallelpie]

First off this absolutely cursed AU was inspired by Lemonomelette and a post they made -X Secondly I imagine it all being about bots and cons trying to one up each others factions and not actually helping in any serious way because their too busy with their own faction bs.

Think of two rival car dealerships across the street one upping each other to get business and instead of business with cars its interstellar robot fairys trying to woo sm children to let them grant their inconsequential wishes (which may or may not be worth it) instead of the other guy next door.

[may12324]

A Fairy for February

[fuedalreesespieces]

gossiping inukag is the best inukag, actually (ft disgruntled younger brother shippo)

[starbbypluto]

[fermentedgutz]

m….mama betilla……….😢

[nonpoppie]

tianjiu (food 4 me specifically)

[stanperformanceunit]

My problem is that I hyperfixate on dramas I really like but then when I finish them I feel empty inside until I find a new to drama to hyperfixate on...

[chimeride]

Tooth Fairy, the 242nd Known One.

[talesoftheglade]

sorry i've been too busy to work on the new chapter so we're going on unofficial official hiatus, ya girl gotta graduate highschool before returning to an overly ambitious project. have some drawings of my beautiful wife betilla and her darling son instead

btw this one and most of the other stuff i made are available as stickers on redbubble so cop if you wanna

[meowthefluffy]

lol just remembered that I am literally obsessed with the last unicorn and and it kinda took over my brain until I made this illustration

[mxtxfanatic]

Just saw someone make a post about how Hanguang-jun was “beefing” with a child (Jin Ling), and while the response I saw to it was fantastic—pointing out how Jin Ling was a spoiled brat who was constantly, knowingly putting others in danger and Lan Wangji served as one of the first adults in his life (the other being Wei Wuxian) who actually disciplined him for his unruly actions in order to teach him to be a better person—it made me think of something I never really took notice of: Jin Ling is afraid of other adults.

Now, obviously Jin Ling isn’t afraid of all adults. He’s unhesitant about bossing around the adult Jiang disciples when his uncle isn’t around. He treats “Mo Xuanyu” very disrespectfully until Wei Wuxian puts him in his place. He’s fine with yelling back at the adult rogue cultivators whose lives he’s endangered. But he reacts to Hanguang-jun as if Lan Wangji is going to kill him (or Fairy) for stepping out of line. Why? There are two reasons for this: 1) Jin Ling is afraid of adults that his uncles will not protect him from and 2) because he has not had any positive examples of care or discipline in his life, discipline, in his mind, carries an inherent threat of violence.

Let’s discuss point one. Outside of Lan Wangji, every adult listed above has been successfully suppressed by either Jiang Cheng or Jin Guangyao, Jin Ling’s uncles. The Jiang disciples are under Jiang Cheng’s control. The rogue cultivators are cowed by the threat of Jiang Cheng’s Zidian. Mo Xuanyu has been expelled by Jin Guangyao with the full weight of the Jin Clan behind him. So Jin Ling, the nephew who they allow to run wild, has nothing to fear by disrespecting them. However, Lan Wangji does not fall into this category. Lan Wangji is the younger brother of Jin Guangyao’s sworn brother, and as the uncle who does not step in to protect Jin Ling from violence, Jin Ling is well aware that Jin Guangyao would likely not side with him if he crossed Lan Wangji. At most, he would play peacemaker, as he does to discourage Jiang Cheng from reprimanding Jin Ling in his presence. This only works for individuals who care about reputation, though, and Lan Wangji is no such individual. That leaves Jiang Cheng as the only one who could potentially suppress Lan Wangji, but immediately upon confrontation, Jiang Cheng backs down from conflict and instead chooses to throw Jin Ling under the bus, probably for the first time in the child’s life. Neither of his powerful uncles will defend him against this adult, and this adult, himself, is unafraid to run afoul of Jin Ling. This, then, leads to the second point.

Jin Ling has only known violence as a form of discipline. It is notable that neither of Jin Ling’s uncles discipline him when he is in the wrong for his actions: Jin Guangyao coaxes Jin Ling while deflecting criticism while Jiang Cheng encourages Jin Ling’s bad behavior…except when directed at himself. Thus, let’s remove Jin Guangyao from this “discipline” conversation. What does Jin Ling know of Jiang Cheng’s discipline methods? Well, he whips first and asks questions later. He belittles Jin Ling with verbal abuse and resorts to physical violence against his nephew when under stress. He runs his sect with such an iron fist that his disciples are afraid to tell him things he does not like. Jin Ling has never known him to be anything but cruel and cold. And if we take into account how both the Jin and Jiang clans treat outsiders, we see that most situations of disagreement or discontent end in violence, with the Jiang and Jin as the ultimate victors. Therefore, with these stunning examples of “discipline” from his childhood guardians and their clans, it is no wonder that Jin Ling fears what being “disciplined” entails from the hands of an adult that neither of his uncles will fight for him against.

It is perfectly reasonable—in the most tragic of ways—that Hanguang-jun terrifies him at the beginning if the story. This is why the introduction of Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian into his life was imperative: Jin Ling got to learn that discipline—be it criticisms or reprimands—is not inherently violent and thus was made safe enough by his two unlikely mentors to listen to them in order to transform into the better person he is by the end of the novel.