#fae realm

[hiraeth-wayfarer]

Hiraeth Creature #1216 - Naul-Nyari

"The chaotic Fae Realm is known for its equally volatile lords-- Fae who manage to rise above the fold, who wield the whims of reality as a knight wields a blade. Thankfully, they tend to keep each other in check, for an empty realm is one not worth ruling. A lord known for pushing these boundaries is Lord Basil, forever an upstart. The Fae Realm is no stranger to change, but Basil fancies the route of acceleration-- to see the realm turn inside out in the hopes of birthing something new. 

Keeping him in check are the Nyari sisters-- twin lords who carry the fury of Fae Realm winds. Living blades, each bristle of fur stings like a spear, and their bones grow into scythes. They crash from the sky, cracking like lightning, no armour or hide strong enough to withstand their mere caress. The Nyari sisters were Basil's unofficial overseers, always making him doubt his movements, but now there's only Naul-Nyari. 

Her sister was lost during the Fae invasion of Hiraeth, fighting on the side of the defending Fae, said to have been banished and thrown into the wilds, left as a lesser creature. Naul-Nyari believes Basil had something to do with it, even though they briefly fought on the same side. Though the sisters are separated, Naul-Nyari still keeps her eyes wide open for any Fae Realm treachery."

#hiraeth #fantasy world #world building #fantasy #fantasy creature #fantasy art #fae realm

[existennialmemes]

Denny's parking lots are where you go to sword fight your ex with pool noodles.

Waffle House parking lots are where you go to have a conversation with the Actual Devil about the merits of biodynamic farming techniques.

Denny's: A Domain of Surreal yet Intensely Human Phenomenon

Waffle House: The Nexus Point Where the Fae Realm Bleeds into Ours

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk

#shitpost #shitposting #denny's #waffle house #fae #the fae #fae realm #dionysus

[intexda]

Making horror of more innocent IPs when they hit public domain is annoying but what's more annoying is every studio decides they have to be a generic slasher movie.

The setting and concept of Winnie the pooh lends itself to the fae realm really well. You don't need to have the characters be evil. You can have cute innocent winnie the pooh. The horror is the realm itself and fae law. Christopher robin possibly never getting to leave the hundred acre woods or losing himself.

Him partaking in the innocent picnics not realizing what eating the food means. The residents like Winnie the pooh, piglet, and owl being fae.

Stop with the generic slasher adaptations. At least get creative with this shit.

#winnie the pooh #horror movies #the fae #fae realm #public domain #I am not looking forward to the generic steamboat willie slasher

[monstersandmaw]

One (1) comment over on Kofi about my fae realm stories has prompted me to start reworking and completely overhauling Winter Solstice in earnest. I now know how it’s gonna end too, which I didn't before, and I fixed the big problem I had that made me stop working on it :3.

✨ Witness the power of a single comment to an artist, folks. Never underestimate it. ✨

#fae realm #fae fic #ghosti rambles

[nakedwitchinthemoonlight]

If I lay here long enough

Amongst the moss and stone

Will you open up the door

Will you welcome me home?

#the fair folk #fairy door #fae folk #faery #fairy #the good neighbors #the good people #witchcraft #magick #green witch #witch aesthetic #witchblr #cottage core #fairyland #fae realm #nature magic #mother nature #moss #waterfall #sound on

[nopizzaaftermidnight]

#the end!!! I hope you enjoyed it :) #under the river and through the woods #champ #lily #sera sophia #fae realm #fairy realm #tree #waif

[angelofhell323]

PLEASE tell me I’m not the only one who knows about the Beasts of the Briar series??? I’m obsessed and binge read the first two books in like 4 days.

#beasts of the briar #faery magic #faerycore #faery aesthetic #faecore #faerie #fae #fairy aesthetic #fae folk #faeries #fairycore #high fae #fae court #fantasy #fandom #romance #fae romance #reverse harem #fae realm #smut

[itsdifumino]

"Time's a weird soup" (2021) More Critical Role fanart, yay!! This Fearne Calloway portrait and the Opal one were made on the same night. I had so much fun doodling this absolute delight of a character.

#itsdifumino #fanart #critical role #fae #fearne calloway #fae realm #critical role fanart #dnd #dnd art #exandria unlimited #digital art #anti nft #anti ai art #artists on tumblr #support human artists

[dont-read-this-im-dead]

I saw a drawing, but I can't find it again, of a fairy and walrus, where the fairy says, "I'll try these doors, you try those, and maybe we'll find someone who can help."

And I love it, because it makes me wonder, on a level where my life makes no sense, if walruses are also fae folk.

The fairy has come from the fae realm to rescue the walruses from zoos and such, but he's tiny, so he needs help. He gets one of his walrus friends from his realm to start knocking on doors in one neighborhood, while he knocks on doors in another neighborhood, not knowing that the sight of the walrus will, in fact, shock people to their core.

They also fail to realize that humans do not speak walrus, so there's a lot of miscommunication when the humans call animal control.

(if anyone can find the picture I'm talking about, please reblog it. I wanna keep it. It's adorable.)

#fairy walrus #fairy walrus poll #fairy #walrus #fae realm #fae folk #fae #walruses are far folk #they're friends #they both be knocking on doors

[gigantic-spider]

Best of "The Lights of Rotten Row"

Continuing from the first two posts about Threats in my zine, here's the best from the third Threat!

It is "The Lights of Rotten Row", inspired by the absolutely bizarre name for an unremarkable (if picturesque) street on the south side of Hyde Park. The name is a corruption of Route du Roi (King Road), and corruption is the name of the game here.

The Threat itself is the remnant of a human child swapped for a changeling at birth, their body withered away and their multicolored soul the only remaining piece of them. They've entered London to get revenge on the changeling that replaced them.

I really enjoyed writing the Moments for this Threat. They're very evocative of its subjects and gives players something to actually do in response to them (thank you to Gauntlet discord members for advice on how to punch them up)

Something I'm trying to do in all these Threats is give a tweak to the standard format for The Between. Here, it might turn out that someone you met before was a changeling the whole time! Shake up the world! Nothing is certain!

Finally, the Rewards all give fun levers for the players to pull in future sessions. Faerie magic is all about change and chaos, so these introduce some of that into the game while still giving players control over when they engage with it.

There's still 4 days left to get a physical copy of the zine! Check out the campaign here:

#ttrpg #ttrpg stuff #indie ttrpg #tabletop roleplaying #tabletop role playing game #ttrpg design #gigantic spider designs #crowdfunding #crowdfundr #hauntings of hyde park #the between #changelings #faerie #fae folk #fae realm

[a2zillustrations]

Ghosties somehow found an entrance into the feywilds after exploring their mushroom forest

#my artwork #artists on tumblr #traditional art #ghosties #ghost painting #cozy art #art #illustration #cozy aesthetic #cottagecore aesthetic #mushroomcore #feywilds #fae realm #fae #dnd #5e #my art <3

[sometiktoksarevalid]

#cc #fae #fae realm

[existennialmemes]

We're all obsessed with Fae stuff because in the early days of the internet, it was an actual Fae Realm:

Never reveal your real name

Never show your true face

Never trust anyone who asks you to do either of the above

Find weird shit in the middle of the night, then never find your way back to it again the next morning

Everyone speaks in code

Secret traps are lurking everywhere, trying to steal your identity or destroy your belongings

#shitpost #shitposting #fae #fae realm

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Fae Realm Pendant. 25% discount until May 5th!

This pendant is a claim for fairies, sprites and dreamers. It come from the iconography of Changeling: The Dreaming 1st Ed. and it’s the symbol of the Fae Realm thanks to which changelings can affect the creatures of The Dreaming with their magic.

Available in Arte Feudo’s Etsy Shop.

#arte feudo #sculpture #changeling #changeling the dreaming #role play #role playing #fae realm #faerie #butterfly #pendant #necklace #dream #dreaming #witchcraft #magic #handmade #art #changeling art #etsy #artist on etsy #artist on tumblr #fae

[theemeraldforestafterdark]

you can lower your shield now

#own photo #otherworld #annwn #fae realm #woods #forest #january 2023 #winter #woodland #dusk #portals #doorways #lensblr

[the-broken-pen]

Map of Fae

I go absolutely Feral for Fae so I am ever so grateful that @hojo76 included it in his prompt idea

Anyways here you go

She hadn’t even wanted to take cartology in the first place—what kind of highschool offered it as an elective anyways?

She had marked it as last on her list.

But then the school secretary lost her class request form (because Janice hated her) and the principal wouldn’t let her switch (because he wasn’t paid enough to care) and so now she was stuck, cursing her way through a forest in the middle of a downpour.

“Fuck,” she slid on a patch of mud, catching herself at the last moment. Her paper, gleefully marked with the edges of the park, waited for her to draw the trails and elevation onto it. By now, it was soggy.

She didn’t really care.

She took another step, almost tripped again, and swore to kill Janice as soon as she got back into school grounds.

Distantly, she heard her class mates yelling, voices tinged with some emotion she couldn’t identify over the rain.

The paper dissolved in her hands.

One more step.

This time, she didn’t catch herself as she fell, the ground slamming into her and sending the air rushing from her lungs.

Her class mates were still yelling, but they were louder now, and she realized the emotion in their voices was fear.

Her name.

They were screaming her name.

Below her, the ground bucked, heaving as if the earth itself was breathing, and then she was falling, fast and slow and loud and quiet and up and down and—

She was on the ground.

She blinked, sucking in a breath.

It smelled like jasmine, like childhood summer break, humid forests and old libraries.

The rain, she realized, had stopped.

A voice so melodic it hurt laughed, and she bolted into upright.

“Hello, frightened thing.”

The person in front of her was the most beautiful, terrifying thing she had ever seen. Perfection like that wasn’t supposed to exist—how was it fair, that all the moonlight and whispers and long grown forests could be contained into one being?

They smiled, like they could tell what she was thinking.

“Who—“ she stopped. “Where—“.

“I,” they began, “am fae. This is the fae realm. You took quite the fall.”

She coughed. Lovely. They were insane.

“I’m sorry,” she rose to her feet, bones aching. Around her, the forest gleamed. “Could you point me back to the park exit? I need to find my class.”

The person, the fae, was still smiling.

“Cartology,” they hummed. “Such an interesting subject. Trying to map everything, to contain the world upon paper.” They ran their finger over a branch. “It never was the best idea, now, was it?”

She swallowed. Her feet, she realized, had drawn her a step back. The person matched her, easily.

“I never told you my class was Cartology.”

They tipped their head.

“Of course you didn’t. I picked it for you.”

Her gut sank, and she let loose a slow breath. Eyes, gut, groin. She knew this, her sister had told her where to aim in situations like this. She hadn’t thought she would need to use it. Her fists clenched.

“Look, I don’t know who you think I am, or who you think you are, but I’m going to leave, and you aren’t going to follow me,” she spat. She pretended her hands were shaking from anger. Her raincoat was still damp.

Something on the persons face shifted, and they were studying her like she was the most fascinating painting.

When she stepped back, they didn’t bother to follow her. A branch snapped beneath her sneakers.

“The mouth on you,” they whispered. “So sharp. Such a smart, wicked mind.”

They smiled again.

“Pretty, too.”

They got closer, and she backed up further, and her knees hit a log.

“Back up. Now.”

They hummed.

Their hand twisted, and there was a paper in it. They tipped it forward, and there was her name, inked across the top.

Her class request form.

Her heart skipped a beat.

“Where did you get that,” she whispered. Her chest hurt.

“Janice, of course. Poor thing, so weak minded. It was easy enough, to have her switch you into Cartology. Just a little twisting, and she molded like putty.”

Their canines were sharp. Too sharp.

“Who are you.”

They laughed.

“Come now. I know you’re smarter than this; I know you. Figure it out.”

Her gut clenched. The forest, she realized, was dead silent.

When her mouth moved, she wasn’t even sure she was the one talking. “Fae.”

The Fae smiled wider.

“There you go.”

The request form burst into ashes, crumbling into nothing. She watched it with a sick sort of detachment.

“Why.”

“Why what?”

“Why Cartology?”

The Fae laughed, a musical sort of thing, sharp as knives.

“I need you to go into the woods.”

When she said nothing, they continued.

“I needed to have you.”

She glanced towards where she thought the entrance might be, and turned back to find the Fae dizzyingly close. They ran a hand along her jaw.

“Do you know how special you are?” They murmured. “So bright. How could I let them keep you?”

She swallowed, hard, and the Fae tracked the movement. Too beautiful. So beautiful it hurt.

“I am not a thing to be kept. I’m a person. I have a name. Just let me go back to my class and I’ll—“

“Darling, trust me. I know you have a name. But you’re wrong.”

“About what,” she said, and their eyes crinkled. They leaned in to whisper into her ear, breath cool as wind blowing across a lake. They smelled like salt water and moss.

“I can keep you.”

She jerked, shoved her hands against their chest. It did nothing. Her fingers gripped into their shirt hard enough it hurt, and she pushed harder, meaner, anything, please—

“I won’t let you take me, and I won’t let you keep me. I’ll escape, and I’ll hurt you, and then you’ll never see the outside of a prison again. I’m not going to be some docile thing for you—“

“I would never want you to be docile,” the Fae interrupted. “I just want you to be mine.”

“That will never happen—“ she swore, and they cut her off with a hand curled around her jaw. They tipped her head up, eyes boring into hers. Their grip tightened.

“Oh sweetheart. Of course it will. For now, though, I’ll give you some help.”

“Let go of me—“

The word they said next rolled off their tongue like the clearest note of music, like sunshine in winter, the sound of her sister’s laughter and the creak of the kitchen table.

The Fae said her name, and the world exploded into colors and sounds and shapes and voices and

The Fae laughed as she slumped into their arms, bones jelly and mind half between delirium and pure, unadulterated joy, false and sugar sweet on her tongue.

“Oh, hello you,” they murmured with amusement. Their hand stayed on her chin, and they pulled her against them, arm wrapping around her waist. They were warm, and that stupid, dazed part of her wanted to stay there forever.

She managed a weak, half muttered curse word, and they pressed a kiss to her forehead.

“God, I’m glad you’re mine. I waited so long to have you.”

She sobbed, and they shushed her, gently.

“Hush, now. I’ll make it better. Everything will be okay, you’ll see. Soon you’ll love it without any magic helping you.”

A tear slipped down her cheek, and they kissed it away. They tucked her limp head into their shoulder.

“It’s okay, love.”

They said her name again.

And she was gone.

#angst #creative writing #heroes and villains #snippet #writing #fic writing #writing community #writing prompt #ficlet #love #twisted wonderland #fae #faeries #fae folk #fae world #fae realm #I love fae #capture #possesive love #kidnapping