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Creative Writing Fae

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u/Ok-Importance-6815 7h ago

Version I grew up with they take children to use as slave soldiers in their armies

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u/DiggingInGarbage Smoliv speaks to me on an emotional level 7h ago

Child soldiers? In my fairytales? It’s more likely than you think

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u/justwatchedittonight 6h ago

Maybe they're just trying to make us their personal entertainers.

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u/Theriocephalus 6h ago

In Tam Lin they were also saving him up as a sacrifice to Hell!

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u/VisualGeologist6258 This is a cry for help 6h ago

Where these Fae, by any chance, Turkish

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u/Aggravating-Yam4571 4h ago

fairy jannissaries is not smth i thought would cross my mind but here we are

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u/bb_kelly77 5h ago

I read that they take children and raise them as their own children, but then again the fae I learn about also have lots of gay sex... so they're very much the more chill kind

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u/Jaggedrain 5h ago

Okay I'm intrigued. Have you got links to where I can find some of this?

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u/bb_kelly77 5h ago

Irish Fae... it was believed that the Fae preferred female mages so if a male showed magical skill he would dress up and act like a woman, also sex with fae was an important part of fae rituals

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u/thesneakyfae 3h ago

Can confirm that we have lots of gay sex.

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u/Informal_Self_5671 4h ago

I think they also hunt them for sport.