We know that half-faeries exist. Butcher and the Dresden-verse love threes. How wicked (+1 point for faerie pun) would it be for Changes, Skin Game Spoiler
Hey guys. Long time faeries player. Its one of my favorite decks of all time. Its already incredibly powerful when in knowledgeable hands. Only a couple bad matchups in E-tron, Heliod company, and living end. All other matchups are either in your favor or pretty balanced.
That being said, it does require the skill to choice the right line of play when several are presented to you at every moment, and choosing the wrong one will punish you harshly. But im not here to talk about that today.
Today we are looking at our newest tool coming in MH2: Riptide Laboratory. People are saying that mh2 isn't bringing anything new to faeries. I beg to differ. We already have a great selection of creatures, which the deck runs few creatures anyways (usually 10-14). I run 4x spellstutter, 4x borrower, 3x vendillion, and 2x misting. Plus a player of bitterblossoms.
The point i am getting at here is that all our good faeries except borrower are faerie WIZARDS. Riptide allows you to pay 2 and tap to return a wizard to your hand. This means we can re use our spellstutters every single turn. We can reuse vendillion to rip cards out of our opponents hands, and also to sculpt our own. You can declare blocks and bounce to your hand saving you a hit and giving your faerie an extra use later on.
Those are very powerful in themselves. But the real fun starts when we have our mistbind cliques. Opponents upkeep you flash it in, tapping all of their lands and championing a faerie. We use Riptide Laboratory to return it to our hand, which puts whatever we championed back into play which could either be a vendillion clique generating card advantage, OR a spellstutter sprite meaning returning the mistbind would act as a counterspell. Thats still not the best part.
Once we have out mistbind and riptide in play, we completely lock our opponents out of the game. We tap their lands on their upkeep with mistbind, return it to our hand, and rinse and repeat which is basically the equivalent to casting a time walk every single turn.
Has anyone seen Howl’s Moving Castle where the main character is enchanted into an old woman and can’t communicate that she’s under a curse?
That’s how I’ve begun thinking of my autism. If I told anyone at my work, they wouldn’t believe that I’m an attractive woman in my thirties who is autistic. They only see that I’m unfriendly, standoffish, and oddly silent. They question my authenticity when I mask poorly.
They may ask how I’m doing but how could I explain three years of learning about myself and female autism in the limited attention neurotypicals can grant?
It is a curse of which I may not speak.
Another literary reference that now makes sense why I loved it so much is the Lady of Shallott, a poem where the main character is condemned to view life through a mirror and weave what she sees.
What is your favorite literary depiction of being autistic?
Give me your magic, faeries!
I’m not sure this is the appropriate subreddit to ask this. If it’s not, I would greatly appreciate being pointed to one that’s more appropriate.
What is a faery? I have seen them mentioned both as supernatural and as a title used in reference to humans. If they’re unique beings, have you ever encountered one?
I’ve had a couple of extremely important objects go missing, I have been leaving offerings out asking for my things back but I have the urge to say thank you, when asking for my things. Everywhere you check warns heavily against this but to me it intuitively seems like it would be appreciated, almost as if these things won’t be given back unless I “break that rule.” I’m completely new to connecting with fair folk and have started to now because so many of my things (all important or all things I’d definitely notice and be upset about) have gone missing :-( Thank you in advance 😊
Reading this book there's testimony from witness(es)) in scotland about a man who met a faerie woman in the wild and fell in love with her. And the faerie woman turned up ever night and began to wear him down. He moved to USA and he claimed the same faerie woman still appeared in US with him.
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https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/ffcc/ffcc122.htm
> THE TESTIMONY OF MURDOCH MACLEAN
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>Lachlann's Fairy Mistress.--'My grandmother, Catherine MacInnis, used to tell about a man named Lachlann, whom she knew, being in love with a fairy woman. The fairy woman made it a point to see Lachlann every night, and he being worn out with her began to fear her*. Things got so bad at last that he decided to go to America to escape the fairy woman. As soon as the plan was fixed, and he was about to emigrate, women who were milking at sunset out in the meadows heard very audibly the fairy woman singing this song:--*
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>What will the brown-haired woman do
When Lachlann is on the billows?
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>'Lachlann emigrated to Cape Breton, landing in Nova Scotia; and in his first letter home to his friends he stated that the same fairy woman was haunting him there in America.'
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>Fairies and Fairy Hosts ('Sluagh'). 1--'O yes,' Marian said, as she heard Michael and myself talking over our hot milk, 'there are fairies there, for I was told that the Pass was a notable fairy haunt.' Then I said through Michael, 'Can you tell us something about what these fairies are?' And from that time, save for a few interruptions natural in conversation, we listened and Marian talked, and told stories as follows:--
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>'Generally, the fairies are to be seen after or about sunset, and walk on the ground as we do, whereas the hosts travel in the air above places inhabited by people. The hosts used to go after the fall of night, and more particularly about midnight. You'd hear them going in fine. weather against a wind like a covey of birds. And they were in the habit of lifting men in South Uist, for the hosts need men to help in shooting their javelins from their bows against women in the action of milking cows, or against any person working at night in a house o
After overhearing someone mentioning on this subreddit about Faeries going UR for more aggresiveness (and realizing that [[Sprite Dragon]] is a Faerie), I tried to come up with a UR Faeries list:
https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/4062441#paper
It has all the good Faeries you expect, but also some of the UR spell slinger cards like cantrips/[[Mishra's Bauble]]/[[Expressive Iteration]]
But I'm not a Faeries player, so for the Faerie players here can you guys help out refine the list? It still feels like [[Mistbind Clique]] is a bit too slow nowadays
What do you see Faeries after MH2? I think that Riptide Laboratory and Counterspell help us nice. Any thoughts?
Per Battle Ground, >!Mab!< has red blood, which is full of iron. How is she alive?
And corollary question, can fae even do magic with human blood?
Okay, I recently binged watched something like 6-8 episodes of a show and now I can't seem to find it. I don't remember the show's name. I have many premium tv subscriptions, and this is making it more challenging to locate the show, because I have to check each subscription separately. Hopefully, someone reading this can fill me in based on my description.
The show centers around a young woman who does not realize she is magical, But she is a "light bender" or "light wielder" or something where she can control sunlight or pure energy. The imaginary world is set in pirate-like / colonial apparel. There are separate people groups that are separated by a great smokey/foggy rift. Ships pass through without sailing on water, they float mystically through the rift. Once inside, they are pestered and attacked by flying ghostlike creatures who can kill the humans passing through.
There is a handsome, but evil General, who takes the young woman in. His mother trains the young woman to wield her powers. It is later learned the evil General is thousands of years old, and he is the being who created the rift in the first place.
Anybody?
Hi guys! So I’m very grateful and thankful to be moving into a much nicer home (after being totally fucked over on my lease but I digress). I was making moving plans and then it hit me, MY FAERIES & FAE?!!!!
I’ve been building a relationship with them since around Ostara, (small faerie garden with windchimes, a rock I have been hot glueing shiny things onto i.e. broken rhinestone barrettes, watering hole, cool shiny frog thing) and I believe finally got their respect with a Beltane offering I did with my stepson (8). A couple days later, he randomly found my grandmother’s sapphire gold ring I lost in my house years ago I had suggested for them to assist giving back.
I’ve seen them manifest as bunnies and birds, I now have a family (I believe) of small, brown common bunny rabbits that frequent my backyard as well as the two exact same blue swallows, and a lot of white butterflies (which symbolisms align with my life right now so much it’s scary).
They have helped me in many ways, and I just began my bond with them so I don’t want to lose it. I’m a bit confused what to do. I know this is their land, so I can’t really..attract the same faeries/fae to follow me, right? I was going to leave the area I created for them behind, and continue what I normally do and then do a really grand offering and let them know I’m leaving and say I hope if they wish that they find me there; or do I still do that, but do I just expect to start attracting new faeries/fae at my new house, new faerie garden? In my 3 years of practice, the connection with the fae has been the most magickal for me.
TL;DR Basically my question is, can I attract/incentivize my faeries/fae to follow me to my new house, or when I say goodbye to them should I expect to have to form a new bond with the faeries/fae near my new house?
I'm a fairly new writer (still well under King's 1M words) revising my first novel and would very much appreciate a critique for my first chapter (3013 words). Fae motivations is contemporary/"urban" fantasy set 10-20 years in the future. I've mostly written short stories in the past, and the idea for this novel came from a series of short stories I'd written for my kids, where faeries come visit our world for a series of misadventures with their human friends. This novel takes those characters, sets them forward into the future, and hands them some serious problems.
As far as feedback, I'm looking for:
- What intrigued you?
- What irritated you?
- How do you like the characters?
- How's the magic?
- How likely would you be to keep reading?
- Do I need to/how could I make it a better "hook" ?
Google doc link-shared for commenting. Thanks in advance!
Content warning: profane language
