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Tag: folklore
Fairy and the peasant girl (for Mythbook 3) by
I love depictions of the fair folk where their capricious and dangerous side is shown. Traditionally they are often described as absolutely unpredictable with their behaviour reaching from benign to outright malicious and anything in between.
This scene especially could be right out of Terry Pratchett’s Lords and Ladies or Susanna Clarke’s books.
Beautifully drawn, ongoing comic.
fuck-yeah-monsters-and-villains:
RUSALKA – MERMAID (Russia 1997)
Reylo recommendation by @ewa-jednak-chce-spac. Thank you very much for introducing me to this gem.
The art style of this short film is unlike anything I’ve ever seen in animation. It’s like a moving painting.
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THE SCARLET FLOWER /THE TALE OF THE CRIMSON FLOWER (Russia 1952)
Reylo vibe recommendation by @ewa-jednak-chce-spac
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Agneta and The Sea King, John Bauer
Getting some Reylo vibes from that story.
Another example of a creature of darkness or the Underground falling for a young maiden who lives in the light, and in this one, just like Hades, he comes up to the surface and kidnaps the girl while she’s picking flowers.
“"Just tell me who you are!“ Agneta repeated. “If I can help you, I will gladly do so, and if I cannot help you myself, perhaps my father can for he is a powerful man.” Then the stranger began to speak: “no, you. You alone can give me peace and happiness.“His voice was mild and gentle like a breeze rustling in the sails of a ship. And again he raised his arm in supplication. Agneta had never seen a more beautiful face. Heavy, wet locks framed his cheeks, his purple lips opened to a gentle smile. Most wondrous of all, though, were his eyes. Agneta had never thought eyes could express such sorrow and tenderness. They were like the depths of the sea, which had so often captivated her gaze – one moment dark and mysterious, the next filled with glistening sunlight. Agneta stepped on to the furthest stones at the edge of the water. "Tell me who you are” she demanded a third time. ”
“"Will you just leave me like that?“ called the sea king in a voice full of pain. "Shall I just return to my realm as lonely as ever? At least give me a keepsake to comfort me on my way. Give me the lime blossom you carry in your hand. As long as the scent lasts I shall believe you are close to me.” Agneta stretched out her hand with the lime blossom and said: “Gladly will I give you that. Here, take it.” The sea king reached out for the blossom and took hold of Agneta’s hand. Then he reached for her waist and lifted her up in his arms. She struggled and cried, but he dived down into the depths with her. At the same moment the sun set and soon the clouds paled and night fell. ”
Seriously, I would love to see some nice fanarts of Kylo as the Sea King, butt naked, with glorious locks falling down his back xD
Had to reblog this because I’m in the mood again, damn gods, fearies and elves, always horny for human girls.
BTW he makes her forget her human life and she agrees to marry him but the story ends with Agneta returning home after 7 years (during which she birthed 7 children, ffs) because she get’s her memories back and misses her father.
Kay Rasmus Nielsen – East of the Sun and West of the Moon
Wonderful Norwegian fairy tale with a strong REYLO VIBE.
Read it HERE
RUSALKA – MERMAID (Russia 1997)
Reylo recommendation by @ewa-jednak-chce-spac. Thank you very much for introducing me to this gem.
The art style of this short film is unlike anything I’ve ever seen in animation. It’s like a moving painting.
Do you have a REYLO VIBE recommendation? Submit or contact me!💙💙💙
fuck-yeah-monsters-and-villains:
UPROOTED by Naomi Novik
Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. Of course that’s not true: he may be a wizard and immortal, but he’s still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every ten years. He protects us against the Wood, and we’re grateful, but not that grateful.”
Agnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life.
Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay. But he demands a terrible price for his help: one young woman handed over to serve him for ten years, a fate almost as terrible as falling to the Wood.
The next choosing is fast approaching, and Agnieszka is afraid. She knows—everyone knows—that the Dragon will take Kasia: beautiful, graceful, brave Kasia, all the things Agnieszka isn’t, and her dearest friend in the world. And there is no way to save her.
But Agnieszka fears the wrong things. For when the Dragon comes, it is not Kasia he will choose.
Check out this book on Goodreads: Uprooted https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22544764-uprooted
Reblogging the first entry of my blog. This book more or less was the incentive to start blogging about villains and monsters. @metamashina mentioned it on their first episode of their podcast and it made me very happy that finally someone was talking about exactly the kind of fiction I’m interested in. So thank you for inspiring me!
While lurking in the Star Wars fandom I’ve seen Reylos recommending stuff to each other but it was always sporadic and unorganized. Why was no one running a recommendations blog for stuff that is similar to the reylo dynamic? Why was no one blogging about exactly the things I’m interested in? Whyyyyy? Oh. Ok. Guess I have to do it. Story of this blog. 😊
Also read this book! Capable heroine, grumpy, but sexy wizard, creepy woods, elements of Polish folklore and graphic depictions of female friendschip…
fuck-yeah-monsters-and-villains:
THE BEAR AND THE NIGHTINGALE by Katherine Arden
At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn’t mind—she spends the winter nights huddled around the embers of a fire with her beloved siblings, listening to her nurse’s fairy tales. Above all, she loves the chilling story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon, who appears in the frigid night to claim unwary souls. Wise Russians fear him, her nurse says, and honor the spirits of house and yard and forest that protect their homes from evil.
After Vasilisa’s mother dies, her father goes to Moscow and brings home a new wife. Fiercely devout, city-bred, Vasilisa’s new stepmother forbids her family from honoring the household spirits. The family acquiesces, but Vasilisa is frightened, sensing that more hinges upon their rituals than anyone knows.
And indeed, crops begin to fail, evil creatures of the forest creep nearer, and misfortune stalks the village. All the while, Vasilisa’s stepmother grows ever harsher in her determination to groom her rebellious stepdaughter for either marriage or confinement in a convent.
As danger circles, Vasilisa must defy even the people she loves and call on dangerous gifts she has long concealed—this, in order to protect her family from a threat that seems to have stepped from her nurse’s most frightening tales.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25493853-the-bear-and-the-nightingale
Reblogging myself because I’ve been listening to the Metamashina podcast today. They did a great in-depth analysis of this book.
A resilient young heroine, a mysterious demon, russian folklore and a great evil lurking in the woods and in the hearts of men…
Monsters and Villains 