> get lamp

eta 1/9/2021: Argh, Facebook apparently won't let the images be embedded without valid URL signatures and they've all expired. Well, click through to the maker's page and you can see.

Aww, why did I have to find these after the maker has apparently gone out of business?



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(De Ambershay Fairy Couture)

https://grimnirslee.tumblr.com/post/190020957055/how-do-you-dab-with-faeries:

ANONYMOUS: How do you dab with faeries?
I’m wheezing I had to check three times to make sure I didn’t have a typo on my sidebar but it says dabbling. I am dabbling with them, ie. I don’t really work with them, but I drop in from time to time. I have some past experience with them and I want to rekindle that.

I cannot unsee the idea of dabbing with the sidhe now, though, and it seems like such a terrible idea. I feel like the Unseelie in particular would love it. Remember, kids:

Do not face death and dab backwards into Tír na nÓg.

(me: Whaddya mean, "do not"? :D )

Oree des legendes by CyrilBarreaux on DeviantArt

Why Do We View Fairies As Nature Spirits?

While many modern pagans and some non-pagan academics may view fairies, in toto, now as nature spirits that is definitely not how they have been understood across history, although as noted some nature spirits do fall into the wider definition of 'fairy'. ... This modern view of fairies as nature spirits then is one that has been woven across the last 150 years or so initially coming from groups who did not necessarily believe in fairies but were indulging in a need for entertainment using fairies as the players on the stage, taken from there back into belief, then out again, then back in. This process has largely divorced the fairy-as-nature-spirit from the folkloric fairy, and even perhaps the actual nature spirits from the popular culture ideas of nature-fairies.

Also touches a little bit on differences between faeries and elementals and the influence of Theosophy.

Just some quotes I've collected lately...


It is said that the land of Faery is as near as breath. So it is. And as far away as a land beneath the waves or deep underground. That is true too. Faërie logic allows for this contradiction.
     --Greg, "The Faery"

As through the hard rock go the branching silver veins; as into the solid land run the creeks and gulfs from the unresting sea; as the lights and influences of the upper worlds sink silently through the earth's atmosphere; so doth Faerie invade the world of men.
     --George MacDonald, Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women

I longed with all my heart for a fresh green silence between living water and forests.
     --Renée Vivien (tr. Jeanette H. Foster), A Woman Appeared to Me

The fae breathed magic. They were magic. To separate a faerie from magic was to cleave them from life.
     --India Drummond, Blood Faerie

...the mere presence of the Otherworld kindles in us the spark of higher consciousness, or imagination. It is the stories and tales and visions of the Otherworld--the magical, enchanted land just beyond the walls of the manifest world--which awaken and expand in human beings the very notions of beauty, of reverence, of love and nobility, and all the higher virtues.
     --Stephen Lawhead, The Paradise War

The land changes. Faerie overlays the land and comes and goes with the waxing and waning of eldritch tides. And those follow the lead of faerie time, which is no' like time in this world at all. It does no' flow straight nor consistent, and I canna' help ye understand its passing. Indeed, it does no' quite pass. It ... spirals. It goes and returns, always moving, never changing, for Faerie is an eternal world.
     --Cliff Seruntine, An Ogham Wood

Legend-making is not something that took place in the dim and distant past but a continuing process.
     --Jennifer Westwood, Albion: A Guide to Legendary Britain

http://www.fancyfairy.com/news/2018/8/23/galactic-goblin-fairy-wings

I needs them, precious. (Maybe not that exact design, but that color scheme.)

"[The Feywild] is like a Vegas casino. It's always the same twilight."
-- whatever episode of Critical Role enotsola is watching at the moment

Fairy Propaganda by shannon-freeman on DeviantArt

Otherworld by ~Kuuraturkki on deviantART

http://www.enjoywildwines.com/wines.html

Oh my. Elderflower, elderberry, dandelion, and hawthorn wines, as well as various other fruits!