Away with the Wee Folk

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Hey, fellow fantasy nerds, I invite you to vibe along to this lesser known early 2000s fantasy banger 

Don’t mind me, I’m just getting emotional about the way trans elder and renn faire musician Alexander James Adams conceptualizes his relationship to his pre-transition self, Heather Alexander: 

“Heather was a changeling. In 2006 she was called back to faerieland and Alec, the child in whose place she had originally been left, was released after beating the faerie queen in a fiddling contest. Thus, Alec now carries on Heather’s musical legacy as her appointed heir.” 

God…. good for him :’) 

This tag is the highest honor I could ever receive.

One of my friends is a skilled folk fiddler, and she has remarked that Alexander plays distinctively differently than Heather did. 

The story of his trans identity can be heard in the song He of the Sidhe

mimi evangeline, from ode to hades

There is something so beautiful about reaching out to the monstrous with intent to touch it gently. To risk the sharp teeth and the lethal claws, to defy fear and revulsion, and choose to be delicate with something that can be, and often is, incredibly brutal.

Fairy bridge (1836) located in Lough Key Forest Park, Roscommon, Ireland.

Abbotsford House, Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom ~ gisforgeorgina

Crinoid Fossils can be found in some UK rivers and were once thought to be fairy coins. Sometimes called ‘Star Stones’.

I love you violence I love you descent into madness I love you transformations into an unrecognizable self I love you monsters who were human I love you questioning if I’ve changed or been like this all along I love you being scared I love you secrets I love you twisted coming of age stories

Samhain by Lunaesque Creative Photography

Secret Rose Garden ~ Christina Deravedisian

Outtake for Dorado Magazine | Fawn DeViney 

you've heard of fuck him on the forest floor friday now get ready for sacrifice him to the sun god sunday

Creature of Habit

Fianna by Eithne Ni Anluain

"You said: The Shining Ones. You said: The Fair Folk. And you spat, and touched iron. But generations later, you forgot about the spitting and the iron, and you forgot why you used those names for them, and you remembered only that they were beautiful"

— Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett

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