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Oberon & Titania by Arthur Rackham
More faeries Good Omens AU ✨
I HAVE PROOF TINKERBELL DID IN FACT DOT THE I IN DISNEY
Art by Maxine Vee
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I wonder if my personal outrage at fairies in so many different froms of media being made out to be perfect, pure, cute, and harmless rather than dangerous beings not of this realm is connected to me wanting neurotypicals to leave me alone (through fear or respect if necessary, I don't care) rather than treat me like I am a cute little child that cannot understand anything and never will.
Autistic folks like myself used to be perceived as like changelings and such after all.
any theories/thoughts on the fairies (and maybe great fairies)? like why most games in the downfall timeline (wind waker being an exception) they seem to have human forms, but otherwise they appear as glowing balls of light with wings?
Fairies show up in various forms across the land of Hyrule—at least, that's how they look.
From the drawings we get of LoZ/AoL fairies tend to be your most basic and stereotypical; a little elf girl in a dress with sparkles.
A Link to the Past portrays them similarly, though this one has more vibrant hair and thinner wings, with a decent halo.
Wind Waker gives us a LoZ/AoL style fairy again
Which gets reused entirely for Four Swords Adventures.
But in every other game, we get these.
Interestingly enough, though, we're not actually seeing a change in biology, We're seeing the effects of magical duress.
Like you said, most fairies that show their humanoid forms occur in the Downfall Timeline. ALTTP has vibrant pink, then ALBW is more muted, until we finally get to the dull, glow-less LOZ fairies.
The glow you see at the tip of their wands is actually what little magic they can summon left, concentrated into a precise point, like a laser. As Hyrule declined, their magic faded, not letting them summon the glow they're best known for any more.
A healthy fairy doesn’t need a wand.
In Wind Waker, we also see a decline in fairy power—so much so that by Spirit Tracks, there literally aren't any left; at least, not in New Hyrule. Our big exceptions come from Phantom Hourglass.
Ciela, Leaf, and Neri all maintain their vibrancy and luminosity. But they also draw power from what's essentially a minor god in his own right, the Ocean King.
So they’re outliers, not examples.
In the child timeline, where Four Swords Adventures takes place, we also see the powered down form of a fairy. But in that era, the magic of the world has been robbed, crystalized into force gems that fairies try very hard to absorb power from.
A fairy’s glow is an indicator of its magical health. The fainter the glow, the harder the fairy has to work just to keep itself aloft, and the more stress it accumulates as it tries to use magic.
Great Fairies, however, are a much clearer indicator of the magical status of a kingdom. The larger and more humanoid the Great Fairy, the stronger the country they reside in’s magic.
Ocarina of Time is a good reference point to have. These fairies are particularly large and very human-like, and Hyrule (at least from a wildlife point of view) is thriving.
Wind Waker, however, has an unstable Great Fairy type. The magic in this land is bleeding out and spiraling away, unused and unrestrained as it depletes. These fairies rule a dead world; a sea with no fish but the fishmen, a world with scattered islands and few offerings.
A Link Between Worlds’ great fairy has enough glow for a halo, and remains humanoid, so the magic is being used and maintained. But she’s also barely bigger than a human, indicating that her power’s weakening.
And then by The Legend of Zelda, she’s indistinguishable from any other fairy out there.
But Breath of the Wild?
These Great Fairies are HUGE. They’re the healthiest Great Fairies to date, in part due to their strategic hibernation in their flowers, and they match what we see of Hyrule’s life.
Yes, Ganon has the Divine Beasts and Guardians on his side. Yes, this place has lost its king. But the country itself is alive is thriving. It’s so full of magic that you can find Koroks in literally every corner of the world.
If I had to hazard a guess, since we never encounter them, I’d say that these fairies are the closest they’ve been to Surface Great Fairies from Skyward Sword.
i found even more fairy dresses
while i admit, ive posted this on my private twitter previously...
has anyone ever noticed how flowers look like fair dresses, in Tinkerbell they use like, flower petals as clothes, but i reckon fairies are smaller than that, i think they wear upsidedown flowers as dresses
while i admit, ive posted this on my private twitter previously...
has anyone ever noticed how flowers look like fair dresses, in Tinkerbell they use like, flower petals as clothes, but i reckon fairies are smaller than that, i think they wear upsidedown flowers as dresses
Writing Prompt #28
She knew falling asleep on the bus would be a bad idea, but she never imagined that the last stop would lead her to a fairy den.
Writing Prompt #4
The Protagonist finds themself hungry and decides to make a simple grilled cheese.
Tell the story of how they somehow summoned a demon into their bathroom, became the ruler of the fairy realm, and ended up with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich as a result.
Prompt #66
A fairy, who is afraid of flying, and a dragon, who is scared of fire, save the world together.
Prompt #60
There is a fairy that has been born without wings. To still fulfill their dream about flying like the other fairies, said fairy decides to risk entering a very strange and dangerous world: the world of the humans.
YOU CANT CONVINCE ME THEY ARENT
Ler variants
Some types of Lers to fantasize about:
Vampire
Mad Scientist
Town sheriff (@sarcasticgiggles really inspired me with this post)
Parents / Older sibling / higher member of the found family
Ghosts
Aliens
Robots (or some other kind of emotionless machinery)
Goats/sheep/cows
Fairies
Giants
Sentient plant monsters
Nibbly fish
Witches/Wizards
Guardian Angels
Playful demons
Crime boss
Mischievous roommates
Elves
A big living teddy bear
Pirates
If you had to pick just one, or a group of three, which ones would you choose? Which ones are being unjustly unrepresented?
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Artfight attacks for Star_gazerrr on artfight, AmoRamen on af, and eldqst on Insta
I've been trying to do lineart again and I'm very happy with the result <(￣︶￣)>
Oh no. Now I'm on that level of desperation when I decided to wrote original story about OC-elf because I want some dark folklore story with all that folk shit (stolen kids, stolen wives and husbands, unfair favors, charmed people washing your dirty plates for 500 years, yeah, THIS stuff) and nobody understands. I can't find a role player who would play this with me, I have nobody to talk about it... But I want it so bad. Ugh. I'll just write this story in a google-doc and no one will see it...
But... Just why. Why I'm always into something specific that nobody likes. Why not kpop lol...
Fairy: Hey I didn’t get your name.
Me: Yeah that was on purpose.
Fairy: Oh my god stealing people’s names has been categorized as a war crime for like a hundred years. Do I seem like the kind of fairy that would do war crimes?
Me: Well yes, but that’s just my impression of you personally. Not fairies in general.
Fairy: You’re smarter than I thought.
I get to work and spend every weekend at my favorite place in the whole world! 💚 this is one of my many costumes I have put together my states Renaissance festival.
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This is my Spring fairy. 💗💚
Me and the besties