the seelie court are known to seek help from humans, to warn those who have accidentally offended them, and to return human kindness with favors of their own. still, a fairy belonging to this court will avenge insults and could be prone to mischief. the most common time of day to see them is twilight.
AESTHETIC MEME:[3/5] myths or mythical creatures: F a i r i e s Fairy, also spelled faerie or faery, a mythical being of folklore
and romance usually having magic powers and dwelling on earth in close
relationship with humans. It can appear as a dwarf creature typically
having green clothes and hair and
characteristically exercising magic powers to benevolent
ends; as a diminutive sprite commonly in the shape of a delicate,
beautiful winged woman dressed in diaphanous white clothing,
inhabiting fairyland, but making usually well-intentioned intervention
in personal human affairs; or as a tiny, mischievous, and protective
creature generally associated with a household hearth.
“faeries, come take me out of this dull world, for i would ride with you upon the wind, run on the top of the dishevelled tide, and dance upon the mountains like a flame.”
Imagine a fae who is just so mad about the idea of lying, like, I have spent a thousand years studying the subtle arts of deceit, weaving my spells of glamour and misdirection, and you, human, can just stand there and
say things
that aren’t true
“So yeah, I’m, uh, bright purple.”
“But you’re not! That’s not even plausible! How can you just – you are not even puce. Fine. Fine. Another one.”
“Are you sure? You seem pretty mad.”
“I assure you I am wholly and terribly sane.”
“Heh, you know that’s not the kind I meant.”
“Hssssss.”
“Haha, fine, fine. I’m … a dragon.”
“nO YOU’RE NOT THOUGH–”
i’ve seen this as screenshots and it’s even more beautiful on my dash
In medieval culture, an event like a royal christening is not a private party; it’s the public social event of the year. To not invite any person of rank to such an event is a deadly insult.
Maleficent is certainly someone you wouldn’t want at a party, but she’s also someone powerful enough that only a fool would ever dare treat her with such blatant disrespect. The only way the King and Queen could possibly have gotten away with not inviting Maleficent was to not invite any of the fairies at all; inviting the other fairies and excluding her is explicitly taking sides in the conflict between the fairy factions.
Which means they made themselves her sworn enemies, and she responded by treating them as such from then on. If you actually get into analyzing the social dynamics of the scene, it’s very clear that Maleficent was willing to show mercy at first by giving the King and Queen a chance to apologize for their disrespect to her. She doesn’t curse Aurora until after she gives them that chance and they throw it back in her face with further disrespect.
And yeah, if the King and Queen had done the properly respectful thing and invited her, Maleficent would have given Aurora a scary awesome present. Moreover so would the other fairies, because at that point both sides would be using it as an opportunity to show off and one-up each other. What they gave her before Maleficent showed up was basically just trivial party favors by fairy standards.
How do you know so much about the social dynamics of medieval fairies
How don’t you
maleficent is so deep and fantastic and i love it
important because so much stuff we think is weird, makes no sense, and thus write off as ‘because fairy tale’, ‘because bible’, ‘because story’, or ‘because foreign’ there exist reasons why certain elements are why they are. everything has its own context even if you didnt think it had one.
anything in grimms fairytale lineup makes far more sense if you see it through mid-late medieval germany mindset of very many small isolated rural kingdoms surrounded with wild forests with individual folklore, the bible makes infinitely more sense if you know anything about jewish law and how poorly it jived with roman law, anything in anime makes infinitely more sense if you know anything about their history or the novel ‘journey to the west’ because seriously two thirds of the ‘they did something weird but thats what they do in anime’ tropes originated from that book
Almost all Faiery lore implicates Faeiries are, for the most part, bound to their word. They ain’t going to cause the shit unless you bring it on yourself.
Be wary of any gifts they give. Do not even acknowledge the receipt of a gift even in the spirit of it, such as ‘Your presence here is a gift on its own’
Because that counts as something of your Word, too, and Faeries will gleefully mess with just how much that can be stretched if they feel capricious enough to do so. And since the fae are NOTHING BUT CAPRICIOUS, just be very fucking careful.
Be respectful to Faeries, but remember always they would turn you into a fucking snow drift for a decade or two if they thought it was funny enough.
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