“O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men’s… Read More »The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
“Where is ‘Faerieland’? Its position is elusive. It is sometimes just over the horizon and sometimes beneath our feet. Yet there have been periods when faerieland was thought to be an actual geographical area, although even this has tended to… Read More »Fairies by Brian Froud
So, unless you’re in a lucky corner of western Europe or Canada, you’re probably feeling the fingertips of the iron fist beginning to close around your neck. For those of us of the magical persuasion, this likely means discrimination, imprisonment, deportation or death. Most of all, it means fear.
And fear breeds silence. It crushes the ability to speak.
There are many things I’ve learned in life, but the biggest lesson I’ve learned is that a decision made from fear is almost always the wrong one.
a novel by John Crowley It’s a little know fact that portals to the faewild can be anywhere. Behind a waterfall, beneath a manhole, in a wardrobe, even in a book… if you know where to look…
Oi, the pagans have always been friends to the fae, knowing us as the whispers and giggling whistles of their gods. So, it’s not surprising that I’d use a bit of pagan potential to power this particular paradigm. So it’s… Read More »A salute to the pagans
Certain things are clear in this particular reality. First, there is a decided lack of available exits aside from the one across the river Styx. Which, given the current political turn of the world, poses a problem for most fae… Read More »Opening the Portal