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Next up is Dr Prachi Priyanka with paper 'Victorian Fairy Painting: Exploring the unknown, forbidden and concealed anxieties of the era'
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Ready for another day in dark fairyland? Why yes I am. 🖤
Away with the Fae!
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Inspired by the discussion of fairies, butterflies, and death, here’s my contribution to #IllMetMakeover . Very much enjoying the #GothicFairies #OGOMCon2021 conference and had fun with this creative makeover activity 🧚♀️ 🦋 ☠️
Hannah Pike -
In medieval lit and folklore there are stereotypes such as monstrosity, demonised fae whereas YA has become more sympathetic over time
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Yet Melusine's mother encourages her to reject her fairy heritage and instead choose humanity. She is determined not to be reduced merely as a beautiful object. But she can only turn into half a snake because of her human passion
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Vampiric fairies with @DrSamGeorge1 @OGOMProject is what I'm here for. Perfection. #GothicFairies #OGOMCon2021
@DrSamGeorge1 butterfly winged depictions of fairies links fairies as spirits of the dead as the butterfly is often considered the mythical shape by the soul following death
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Next we have our plenary by Dr Sam George on 'Fairy Lepidoptera: The Dark History of Butterfly-Winged Fae'
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@BillBloodyHughe - on the dangers of eating fairy fruit in Lud-in-the-mist. The magical fruit is stored in coffins - emerald green raspberries, tawny grapes and crimson grapes...
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Next up the incomparable @BillBloodyHughe on 'Fairy Carnival: Music, Dance, and food in the re-enchantment if modernity from Hope Mirlees's Lud-in-the-mist to paranormal romance'
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Getting ready for day two of #GothicFairies conference by @OGOMProject Yesterday was fabulous and today looks even better. #OGOMcon2021
Here’s the video for this guy. Plus a couple close ups in thread. Don’t mess with this dude.
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Next in Eco Faery 1 we have Dr Kaja Franck on 'No weapon forged by mortal or get can harm the Iron King': imagining the environmental apocalypse in Julia Kagawa's Iron Fey series'
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NYMPHOLEPSY: A word for fairy abduction taken from Classical culture. (Image: Arthur Rackham, 1933, for Christina Rossetti's 'Goblin Market')
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"Anatomy of Mélusine" by French illustrator Camille Renversade, inspired by late 19th-century Deyrolle school boards
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Preparing my paper on @ClayFJohnson's "A Ride Through Faerie" for #OGOMCon2021. You can read the poem here: https://t.co/NK3tXtCdGq #GothicFairies @EnchantedEzine
#GothicFairies Vivien Leigh as Titania in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", 1937 https://t.co/xCStGPf6yc
FAIRY COURTESAN Fuseli's Gothic vision of #AMidsummerNightsDream is full of menace. Titania & Bottom in his asses' head, mingle with a hooded midnight hag clutching a changeling and a fairy courtesan with her victim, an old man on a chain #GothicFairies #WyrdWednesday
FAIRY KEYNOTE I'll be presenting on 'Fairy Lepidoptera: The dark history of butterfly-winged Fae' #GothicFairies Conference 8-11 April How did fairies get their butterfly wings & how did they come to be associated with the dead? #OGOM2021 https://t.co/bqQr1JxA2I