The Fair Folk - Blog Posts

thetelekineticfrog

5 months ago

I wonder if my personal outrage at fairies in so many different froms of media being made out to be perfect, pure, cute, and harmless rather than dangerous beings not of this realm is connected to me wanting neurotypicals to leave me alone (through fear or respect if necessary, I don't care) rather than treat me like I am a cute little child that cannot understand anything and never will.

Autistic folks like myself used to be perceived as like changelings and such after all.

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anyway…. autism pokemon huh actually autistic neurodivergent neurodiversity autistic things zoroark and wait palindrome fairies from zorua fey the fey the fair folk the good neighbors I have only heard that used to refer to fey once So I think that's what it means But am not entirely sure Refer is a Or maybe because I like folklore and stuff And just don't like seeing “fairies” That really don't seem at all like fairies Yes this is in part about why do you ask Seriously there are so many things about fairy-type pokemon I have problems with

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literally-just-moss

9 months ago

I once almost got hit by a car at night because I was trying to follow a juvenile opossum.

Naturalists have got to be one of the groups of people most susceptible to being tricked by the fae. Travellers these days are much less likely to follow a mysterious light or the smell of roast beef into the forest. Meanwhile, find me a naturalist who would not completely lose themself in pursuit of:

An unidentifiable bird call

A butterfly that's slightly off-color

An opossum with its head stuck in a yogurt tub

A really big woodpecker