• IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
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    Makes sense. The original fey creatures were often way more terrifying than what currently comes to mind when we say “fairy”.

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      Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
      Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
      Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
      Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
      Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
      Elves are terrific. They beget terror.

      Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

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        I’ve been reading through Disc world as a pallette cleanser between heavier fantasy, and you’ve just reminded me it’s time for the next one. Terry Pratchett is wonderful

          • NegativeInf
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            Yes. But this is coming from someone who never read the book. I enjoyed the show.

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            It’s been a while since I’ve seen it, but I think I remember it being pretty faithful. It’s definitely a good TV show in its own right

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            Read the book and watched the show. Both are fantastic in their own rights, very different ways to consume the story with some differences that fit well for their medium.

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        The Other Mother in Coraline is patterned after classic fae, especially in the book.

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        Alternatively, people’s “real” accounts of Fey encounters are equally terrifying if taken at the perspective of reality.

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    Honestly unshocking. Eldritch horrors and fey are basically the same thing anyway; a powerful entity with alien intentions and motivations, not good or evil particularly, just unknowable.

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    Though could “Eldritch horror” mean “something horrifying to the Eldritch” rather than “a horror that is Eldritch”?

    Though I’ve never read Lovecraft, so I don’t know the full context of how he uses the term.

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    “But Fey Blast doesn’t sound a cool tho.”

    • Private, probably idk it’s been years since I last watched Penguins of Madagascar