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⌈ Secret Post #3235 ⌋

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Fairies

[(Anonymous)]

How do you like fairies depicted (i.e. terrors like Hellboy's toothfairies, nature-helpers like Disney's pixies, etc.) and what are your favorite kinds of fairies or stories with fairies in them?

Re: Fairies

[(Anonymous)]

How do you like fairies depicted (i.e. terrors like Hellboy's toothfairies, nature-helpers like Disney's pixies, etc.)

Neither good or evil, just alien and old-fashioned and strange and magical.

what are your favorite kinds of fairies or stories with fairies in them?

Little, Big.

Re: Fairies

[sarillia]

My favorite is the gentleman with the thistle-down hair in Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.

Re: Fairies

[(Anonymous)]

Mischievous and not very well-intentioned.

Re: Fairies

[(Anonymous)]

I prefer them to be neither good nor evil, but always trickster in some form.

And I really like how the Vesik series handles them.

Re: Fairies

[(Anonymous)]

Mischievous, stupid, unpredictable. I like them being very ... non-human? Like they are wild forces of nature, they aren't your friends. They aren't good or evil. Might help you one second and murder you the next.

Re: Fairies

[(Anonymous)]

+1 This is a perfect description, especially "they are wild forces or nature, they aren't your friends". Definitely unpredictable.

Re: Fairies

[(Anonymous)]

+2

Re: Fairies

[(Anonymous)]

+3
Also, I like the idea of them telling you what you need to hear when it's not what you WANT to hear.

Re: Fairies

[morieris]

Either way. I love fairies in any incantation, though 'overly artsy style you'd find on the shirt of a middle american woman on some kind of tye-dye print' is not my style'

Re: Fairies

[(Anonymous)]

http://trueblood.wikia.com/wiki/Faerie

Re: Fairies

[kaijinscendre]

Either size. I prefer evil, intelligent ones. Not just chaotic evil.

Re: Fairies

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Shakespeare > cute butterfly.

Re: Fairies

[ketita]

I kind of agree with everybody, so I'll just give an example or two XD
I really liked Mythago Wood. So weird, but very good (hated the sequel, though).

(There was also another book that I read years ago, I forget the title, but we only discover that the main character is actually female halfway through the first book - she was raised as a servant, and convinced that she was male. It was interesting.)

Re: Fairies

[(Anonymous)]

Eldrich, uncanny valley-looking, with values and morals so different to us that labels like 'good' and 'evil' are meaningless to them and communication is barely possible.

Re: Fairies

[(Anonymous)]

A Midsummer Night's Dream set the standard to which I hold depictions of faeries.

'Cause you can't beat the Bard!

Re: Fairies

[(Anonymous)]

Gunnerkrigg Court faeries are pretty great. With their weird alien morality.

Re: Fairies

[skeletal_history]

I like them either as nature spirits a la the Brian Froud/Alan Lee faerie books, or otherworldly beings between angels and demons a la WB Yeats' Celtic Twilight, or like beings who may be human or may be otherwise a la Elizabeth Marie Pope's The Perilous Gard.

Re: Fairies

[forgottenjester]

I like all kinds as long as it fits the world that's there. I tend to like Fae the most but that's because I just really like the idea of lying while being incapable of actually saying anything but the truth.

Re: Fairies

[nightscale]

I think like most thing I like variations, and maybe even seeing variations within the same setting, so having some fairies that are good and some that are bad.

Re: Fairies

[(Anonymous)]

like in fantasia where they are nature

Re: Fairies

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I mostly agree with the general theme in the comments here about them being neither good nor evil but very inhuman, but I want to mention two examples I have seen, one which I like and one which I hate.

The example I liked was a Harry Potter fic that explained faeries as being creatures created from the intersection of emotions and magic. All the different types of faery creatures represent certain types of emotions, and the Seelie/Unseelie courts represent, respectively, Summer and positive emotions, and Winter and negative emotions. In the story Harry was befriended by a brother and sister pair who had a love of food. They turned out to be young Redcaps and the reason for their love of food is that they are based on emotions of going hungry. The Queen of the Winter (Unseelie) Court was a representation of Winter itself.

The example I didn't like, well I didn't see it in person, but heard about it through someone on my LJ friends list. She used to spend time on Second Life and had got involved in an RP group with rigorous rules on character types allowed. The problem that eventually drove her from the group was that a new clique was gaining power and wanted to turn everything really grimdark, with even the Seelie Court being vicious brutally cruel torturers.
The point I took from it is that while the Seelie court is still very capricious, it still has be lighter and nicer than the Unseelie, if you're going to run with the whole two courts concept.