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just fairy things

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look I don’t want to tell anyone what to do but if you go down that path you will wake up a thousand years later and all your great-grandchildren will be dead

But I get a thousand year nap out of it?

That’s not the intended use Sir

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nientedal

But I get a thousand year nap out of it???

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lynati

One person’s bug is another person’s feature.

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calico-heart

I know unicorns in modern media are kind of regulated to cutsie, MLP, rainbow plastic toys, or shitting rainbows, 'lets go to candy mountain' but man. I WISH more fantasy media would put them in unironically. There is so much symbolic and narrative potential in a creature that is, depending on your mythology:

  • A guardian of wild spaces, the embodiment of nature untouched by mankind's industry and greed. Fewer and farther between.
  • The ideal of "Purity" made manifest, elusive and powerful and hunted for fruitlessly by many a person. To kill. To actually kill. Living symbol of the oh-so-coveted Purity, not treated as a sacred thing to protect, or even predated for food to survive off, but a trophy for knights and lords to boast about.
  • So absolutely fierce and deadly that no one smart dared to fight it fairly. A gentle maiden had to betray it into resting in her lap so that a man could spear it while its guard was down.
  • Able to heal any wound no matter how severe - it promised miracles, if you could find one.
  • A creature who's magic vanished if it was captured or killed. In trying to take control of it, you destroyed it. Some things can only be given by free will, and no amount of personal desire or brute force can change that.
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mansizedfrog

Every cat believes herself to be the chosen one. Surprisingly enough, this is actually correct. It's just that each one is chosen for a different quest, and they're all so much work to discover in the first place, and there are rarely any consequences to not completing it if you just ignore the signs. So they rarely bother.

But she was still chosen.

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mansizedfrog

All cats are prophets. All cats receive divine transmissions and higher truths, but unfortunately it's only the ones directly pertaining to them. The great tragedy of their species is that they will never develop a meaningfully complete mythology. One cat alone assumes she's entirely normal and her perceptions are standard. Two cats in a apartment might begin to discuss some things, though they'll remain generally unbothered by it all. Larger groups in a home or barn will usually begin to cobble dream, true vision, and superstition into something resembling a low-commitment cult. Cats have folklore, sure, but the teachings remembered enough to be passed on are scattered in origin and intention. Only in large feral colonies do they begin to gain the ability to contextualize their individual divine experiences, and maybe start thinking about what they could do with it. The problem is that cats will never get anywhere with this because they're terrible communicators.

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Anonymous asked:

What do you think of "benevolent" fairies, like the doñas de fuera from Italy?

that neither you nor i can possibly understand their true motives and shouldn't trust like that

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Anonymous asked:

Do you ever like to watch as the sky melts into purple and pink? The soft swaying of the golden branches, the gentle pinks of the leaves that tremble beneath the hazy suns? I miss getting to lay on the grass, biting into luscious fruit that I have no name for in this language, the juice dribbling down my chin, the flesh yielding beneath the sharpest of my teeth so willingly.

remember when i said that sometimes i get asks that i'm sure weren't written by a human? sometimes i also get asks that were written by a human who read that and is trying to fool me, but you can't, because desire for picnics is a human impulse

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