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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

THE FOX AND THE DEVIL X HELL'S HEART In a vampire normative future, governments restrictions around gender affirming medicines start Delaney on their quest towards being turned into one of the changeless undead. It seems like the better option. #DVPit #LGBT #SFF #A

Mood board reads: The Monster They'd Courted. At the top it says 'Part twisted vampire horror'. At the bottom it says 'Part sapphic sci-fi schenanigans'. The four comp titles appear as Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, The Fox and the Devil, Volatile Memory and Hell's Heart

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

(I'm not on Instagram) But it has come to my attention that a public statement and apology was recently made after the below review of Adventitious Magazine's first issue. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social, it would be my great pleasure to formally accept your apology on behalf of us all 😆

Screengrab from Adventitious' Instagram about a much needed apology regarding the amazing short story by P. A. Cornell entitled "The Soundtrack of My Afterlife"

Text reads: It has come to my attention that, in a recent review of the first issue of the magazine featured in Interstellar Flight Magazine, Nicole Field refers to Red's situation as "rein-car-nation."

Text reads: I should have made that pun.

I never did. In 7 months since the release of the story, I never even thought of it.

For that, I am so, so sorry.

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Felt a bit out of sorts today so thought I would take advantage of today’s unseasonable warmth. Heres a shot of early buds on next door’s tree and my own little lemon tree reaching one little branch towards the sky 🥰

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I'm an editor at @phenomenapress.bsky.social and also work with @scyllapublishing.bsky.social and @radonjournal.bsky.social. If you've ever wanted to work with me but haven't had the chance, here it is! I am opening a couple of heavily discounted editing slots after a recently cancelled contract.

Promotional banner is a starry night sky with mustard yellow over the top that reads: DISCOUNTED RATE $100 USD for 10,000 words (or $10 USD per 1,000 words). 2 editing slots available.

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Not me picking up his latest like, ahhh let me settle into something that won’t inspire new writing ideas. Only to come across this top review and realise that ship has probably sailed:

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

THE FOX AND THE DEVIL X HELL'S HEART In a vampire normative future, government control and restriction of gender affirming medicines start Delaney on their quest to becoming one of the changeless undead. It seems the better option. #Questpit #LGBT #SFF #A

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

In a vampire normative future, where governments control and restrict gender affirming medicines, becoming one of the changeless undead seems a pretty good option. The narrative looks a lot at freedom and asks what that looks like in a world where corporations and governments fight over power.

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Special shout out to the authors who return years later to worlds beloved by their readers. Currently reading Dark Sun by @melissamarrwriting.bsky.social and I’m absolutely loving the mature direction she’s taken this installment in. Already can’t wait for Moonlit Stars!!

Cover art of Melissa Marr’s Dark Sun: Wicked Lovely Courts.

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Last but certainly not least! My contributor copy of the @starsandsabers.bsky.social anthology OF DREAD, DECAY, AND DOOM has arrived. I’m beyond excited to see everyone else’s stories as well as to share my own!

Picture of me standing outside the post office with a very special anthology on hand and a proud, proud expression 😂

Contents page of OF DREAD, DECAY, AND DOOM including my own “The Widow and the Raven” listing

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The launch party for @starsandsabers.bsky.social's OF DREAD, DECAY, AND DOOM was today and I am delighted to share a bit of the excitement over here! I very much hope that people enjoy my gothic fusion of Dracula and The Raven, and also can't wait to read everyone else's stories when it gets here!

Promotional image for Of Dread, Decay and Doom with cover and all author names

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

It's a Big News Day because I also officially just got on boarded as a reader for the revolutionary @radonjournal.bsky.social Submissions are accepted year-round with Issue 13 about to release on 1 June 2026. The wrap around cover for this edition is a thing of beauty! www.radonjournal.com/submit

Radon Journal Issue 13 Cover involves a blue spire with a full moon backdrop and the tiniest human astronaut in the foreground.

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I also want to shout out to @redscribe.bsky.social, whose truly amazing Australia based, debut novella, Grief Eater, earned a mention in the same article! @interstellarflight.bsky.social

Text reads: Protagonists don’t always need to be alive. Emma Osborne’s Grief Eater begins with the novel’s protagonist rising from the grave and making her way across Australia on a quest for revenge. The fact that writers like K Tidbeck and Cadwell Turnbull have had glowing things to say makes this particular story even more enticing. (Interstellar Flight Press; June 1, 2026)

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Delighted to highlight this section of the below @reactorsff.bsky.social article with the two @starsandsabers.bsky.social anthologies I just happen to be in 🥰 Omniboz is out now. Of Dread, Decay, and Doom in June!

Text from Reactor.com article reads: Jendia Gammon is among the editors for an intriguing pair of anthologies due out in the coming months. Omniboz: Tales From the Land of Oz (edited with Ernie Chiara) includes stories from the likes of Vincent V. Cava and Adrian Tchaikovsky, who opted to revisit the fictional world of L. Frank Baum. Of Dread, Decay, and Doom: a Horror Anthology (edited with Gareth L. Powell and Scarlett R. Algee) heads into grimmer territory, with contributions from a lineup including P.A. Cornell, David Quantick, and Eden Royce. (Stars and Sabers; May 15, 2026 and June 15, 2026)

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

As old as this makes me feel, I really do gotta share the cover.

Cover art for “Go the f*ck to college” by Adam Mansback and illustrated by Own Brozman

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

The Monstrous and the Divine (sapphic anthology) needs:

Star Trek text generator graphic reads “moar space-themed subs”

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Look, it’s here, it’s beautiful!! 😍 Thanks as always to @starsandsabers.bsky.social for letting me be a part of this anthology.

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

It is with very deep pleasure that I share my first Publisher's Marketplace book deal announcement. Submissions for The Monstrous & the Divine are open through to 31 July 2026: www.scyllapublishing.com/anthology

Screenshot of Publishers Marketplace deal report against a backdrop of promotional material for The Monstrous & the Divine.

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Today, in reasons why I believe someone should option my feminist retelling of #Helen🏺 (now #TroyandSparta) 😅

Text Reads: Yet it seems to me as though absolving one female character of villainy by replacing her with another seems a bit of a cheap, unsatisfactory trick. I’ve seen the same one pulled in the recent abundance of “feminist” retellings of Greek women in myth, all willing to throw Helen of Troy under the bus. All that inspired me to do was write my own feminist retelling of Helen, where even Aphrodite’s actions are rendered understandable.
I argue here even villainesses are more interesting when they are understandable.

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I, for one, am delighted by how much new Caroline Bingley content I am set to enjoy in the year of our lord 2026 😍

Image of Caroline Bingley from The Other Bennet Sister in the process of walking down stairs in a red dress.

Cover art for Linda McLeod’s book The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

It's been a week since this was shared with @scyllapublishing.bsky.social newsletter subscribers. I also wanted to share my #MSWL for The Monstrous and the Divine here. Remember we're open to questions if you're unsure your manuscript will fit our guidelines: www.scyllapublishing.com/anthology

Text on old looking paper reads: Be bold! Step outside Greek mythology.
Modern day reinterpretations
Angrboda and genderbent Fenrir
Any djinn hijinks
Seelie and unseelie shenanigans
Redemption for churel, bhootni, shankchuni and other spirits of wronged women
Polyamorous immortals
Stories showing characters bending / ignoring societal expectations

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

What do you mean DIVINATION and TRANSMUTATION by S. T. Gibson have been announced? My favourite polyamorous duology isn’t turning into a trilogy, but a *quartet*?! This is a great news morning!!

Cover art for Evocation by S. T. Gibson shows hanged man style tarot card.

Cover art for Ascension by S. T. Gibson shows magician type tarot card.

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

New image has dropped that’s inspired ideas for what I’m hoping to see in The Monstrous and the Divine submission slush pile 😍 www.instagram.com/p/CTX5BZOBs_...

Illustration of a pirate surrounded by 3 mermaids, being kissed by one, with 3 hearts hovering above and a pirate ship to the top left.

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

NEITHER OLDER NOR LARGER appears in Omniboz: Tales from the Land of Oz. I remember reaching out to Jendia while the submission window was open and almost talking myself out of writing this piece because a gender diverse Ozma might have already been covered by one of the early announced authors.

Graphic with the cover for Omniboz on the left and the list of contributing authors to the right.

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I see your cats and cackles, and raise you 1x cat, 1x dog and many cackles ❤️ Have a beautiful #caturday!

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Not me mocking up my upcoming #MSWL and cackling to myself with delight.

A classical-style digital painting showing three figures in Greco‑Roman clothing gathered around a boxy computer that glows with green and orange light. Two figures sit closely, leaning toward the screen, while a third stands behind them wearing a floral crown. Marble columns and a distant, blurred cityscape form the backdrop. Text along the bottom of the image announces: “The Monstrous & The Divine – Sapphic Anthology – Submission Call Coming Soon.”

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Fun conversation had with the team at @scyllapublishing.bsky.social earlier in the week sited that goddesses often being more vicious and monstrous than those labeled monsters! I cannot put it more plainly than that the energy we will be looking for when subs open on 1st May 2026 is this:

Social media screenshot reads: aelu03 i support womens rights. but i also support womens wrongs. i love when they do bad things

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

For anyone interested in the inspired ideas? They look a little something like this: #1 Aos Sí and fairy dog in human form #2 Angrboda and a genderbent Fenrir #3 The unfortunate result of a careless Jinn wish Got a story you think fits our guidelines? The submission call opens in just over a week!

Aged pages on mossy earth surface. Image of Hel printed on the aged pages

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

They’re here!! Well, they were here a week ago apparently while I was away. Thank you to @jendiagammon.bsky.social and the whole team at @starsandsabers.bsky.social!! Look, how pretty it is!! 🥰

A postcard of the cover for Of Dread, Decay, and Doom. It contains the head of a dragon breathing fire in the front, surrounded by black wings, skulls, and candles

Underneath is a white bookmark with the words "Nicole, thank you for The Widow and the Raven! Jendia Gammon" written on it

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I've been working hard with @scyllapublishing.bsky.social and we're delighted to announce our title for the upcoming submission call for the sapphic goddesses and monsters anthology you've all been waiting for!! 🥳👏🎉 Please do share & comment if you were initially interested in this pitch.

Open book against linen fabric that reveals the title for Scylla's upcoming anthology: The Monstrous and the Divine.

Also reads: Sapphic Anthology, Submissions call coming soon! scyllapublishing.com

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I see a lot of you newly liking the above post and, Yes! This is the sapphic anthology pitch that has officially been picked up by @scyllapublishing.bsky.social Anthology title reveal and submission call to come April 14th. I couldn’t be more excited by this collaboration!

a promotional image for the scylla publishing anthology themed around goddesses and monsters. Picture shows an illustration of the Norse goddess HEL with the words Goddesses & Monsters, Sapphic Anthology, Submissions call coming soon!

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Hello I am here for this! Although I don't know of any comps for *entirely* queerplatonic polycule, I do know both If it Makes You Happy by asexual author Claire Kann, and also Their Troublesome Crush by stone author Xan West.

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Been stuck on this chilling moment after equally difficult interactions during Dana’s time travel to Maryland in the early 1800s. Reminding myself that persistence is a strong takeaway message in Octavia‘s work as I open the book to continue.

Comic depiction from the graphic novel of Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred. A black woman with a split lip and black eye, evidence of a previous beating. She’s talking to a white man and the highlighted speech bubble reads, “Kevin, I’m not sure it’s possible for a lone black woman to survive these.”

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

In 2018, @foxbones.bsky.social surprised me with a gift of a book called Becoming Dangerous. Within its pages was an essay by J. A. Micheline that I think about often, and have done across the eight years since. (This is the power of the written word.)

Opening page of the essay Ritualising My Humanity by J. A. Micheline

Highlighted text reads: And so I look on with some mix of confusion and resentment seeing women—very rarely black—claiming monstrosity, declaring their dreadfulness, and wishing that men would see them as harpies, sirens, demons, and other such world destroyers.

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

For no reason, I’ve woken up so tired it’s hard to be upbeat. But this little one is helping. As is the truly lovely story I’m currently editing. 🙏

Cat on lap with blue blanket, laptop on one side.

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

I will never not appreciate the nuance of a character arc that begins from this place, then changes as Frodo gradually goes on to discover what it is to be a bearer of the One Ring.

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

And I have now finished my "modern faerie tale" short. This one was taken and developed from an unfinished project I started in 2008 with a character called Scratch that I've loved ever since I wrote him. Scratch happens to look a great deal like this.

Photo of a little fairy creature vaguely in the style of Brian Froud.

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

So it's one clown after another, taking turns to disturb the peace all the way to Rivendell then 🤡🤡🤡 At least Bilbo’s here to take back responsibility for the ring he rightfully decided to pilfer because Frodo *isn’t* like him.

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

“Arwen, we don’t have time for your kinky bedroom games right now.”

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Bilbo *probably* wouldn’t have left the ring to Frodo if he'd known about this.

Nazgûl’s coming to kill four hobbits just before stabbing Frodo

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

This moment feels like nothing more than continuing the dysfunctional family cycle of passing down terrible things to young hobbits who were just minding their own damned business.

Bilbo Baggins saying “the ring must go to Frodo”

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Also, I understand this now in a way that went completely over my head at 20.

Screenshot from Fellowship of the Ring of Bilbo saying "I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread."

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I read a graphic novel recently, actually, that's giving me similar vibes in both art style and content from Kindred's early pages @matjohnson.bsky.social's Backflash is also a Black-led graphic novel w/ time travel. There are some very different themes between the two but it's very worth the read!

Cover art for Backflash by Mat Johnson & Steve Lieber

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

A year or so ago, I experienced the graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower. Today, I finally feel like I'm finally ready to finish what I started and embark on this adaptation of Kindred. Slavery and time travel in graphic colour, here we come. #BookSky 💙📚

Cover art of the graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's Kindred.

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Definitely recommend reading this side by side with Baker Thief. You won't regret it!

Cover art of Claudie Arseneault's Baker Thief

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Recent years have shown a third generation of fairy stories emerging. These return fairy stories and folklore to the fantasy genre through use of analogs of history that refuse strict adherence to specific times and places - as seen in standalone novellas by @tkingfisher.com and @amalelmohtar.com.

Cover art of Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher.

Cover art of The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Set mostly in YA, these stories establish faeries as having a place in the present as protagonists, antagonists and love interests in their own right. @hollyblack.bsky.social contributes several novels between 2004-2024 to this generation of fairy stories, as does @melissamarrwriting.bsky.social

Cover art for Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr.

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Nor are fairy characters themselves a metaphor or situation through which MCs progress. This generation of fairy stories aren't set between the Victorian era and 1975. Whilst making use of old and familiar folklore, they signal a breaking of new ground at the beginning of the 21st century.

Text reads: John Usglass – the almighty 12th century magician known as the Raven King – is held to have possessed three kingdoms: one in England, one in Faerie (the name of which is not given) and “a strange country on the far side of Hell” sometimes called the Bitter Lands. Indeed, relations between Faerie and Hell are well established, not least in Scottish folk tradition where “the teind” (tithe) must be paid by the former to the latter every seven years. Mortals who have strayed into the Other Lands are sometimes taken as payment as hinted at in the 16th century ballad of Tam Lin and the 15th century romance of Thomas the Rhymer

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