• roguetrick
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    8 months ago

    The elf reich huh? I knew those long eared bastards were up to something. Goddamn thalmor.

  • @[email protected]
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    548 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      8 months ago

      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

      • @[email protected]
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        78 months ago

        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

    • femtech
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      118 months ago

      Any movies that go that route? Like hell boy and the like. I love original scary fairy tails.

        • Tekhne
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          28 months ago

          I read the book but I never watched the show - is it worth?

          • @NegativeInf
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            48 months ago

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

          • @[email protected]
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            38 months ago

            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

          • Septian
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            38 months ago

            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.

      • VindictiveJudge
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        78 months ago

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

      • v_krishna
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        58 months ago

        Grimm was a somewhat cheesy cop drama along these lines…

      • @Sanctus
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        48 months ago

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

  • @Heavybell
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    118 months ago

    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.

  • @Buddahriffic
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    18 months ago

    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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    18 months ago

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

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