When you’re late in a fairy tale, people wind up dead. And not true-love’s-kiss, glass-coffin-nap-time dead. Really dead, the kind of dead you don’t recover from.

Seanan McGuire

Tags: fairy-tales



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Sure. If she gets mugged, she can just flute them to death.

Seanan McGuire

Tags: humor fairy-tales



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As presumptive heir to one of the largest Duchies in the Kingdom of the Mists, she could have easily grown up more spoiled than any human princess. Instead she grew into the sort of little girl who's always up a tree or down a hole, a magnet for mud, queen of worms and frogs and crawling things.

Seanan McGuire

Tags: fairies princess fae faerie tomboy duchess



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Humanity has always had a flair for guilt by association.

Seanan McGuire

Tags: guilt guilty



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Promises bind our kind as surely as iron chains or ropes of human hair. The fae never swear by anything we don't believe in. We don't ask for thanks and we don't offer them; no promises, no regrets, no chains. No lies.

Seanan McGuire

Tags: fairies faeries fae mythical-creatures



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In Tybalt's case, it means bloody control of the local Court of Cats. He became their king by right of blood; he's held the position by beating the crap out of anyone who tries to take it away. The Cait Sidhe take a more direct and bloody approach to succession than most of Faerie.

Seanan McGuire

Tags: cats king faerie succession cat-king



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But you're so easy to sneak up on." He crossed his arms, leaning back against the wall. "You should be honored that I bother, since there's no challenge to it."
"Right," I said dryly.
Tybalt has never made a secret of his contempt for changelings in general and me in particular. Not even the years I spent missing could change that. If anything, it made things worse, because when I came back, I promptly removed myself from all the places he was accustomed to finding me. Hating me suddenly took effort - an effort he's proved annoying glad to make. On the other hand, it's actually been something of a relief, because it is something I can count on. Dawn comes, the moon rises and Tybalt hates me.

Seanan McGuire

Tags: hatred bully changelings taunting faerie harrassment



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Only an idiot would trust a Kelpie this close to the water. Getting on its back with the scent of the sea in the air would be a fast, painful means of suicide, and I'm not a fan of pain.

Seanan McGuire

Tags: danger fairies faerie kelpie water-horse waterhorse mythological-beast



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It's not hard to marginalize people when they've already done it to themselves.

Seanan McGuire

Tags: caste poor class-difference marginalized



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You’re a Troll, driving a cab. Yesterday, I was a superhero, and today I’m addicted to jam. Jam. Do you really think we get to pass judgment on what does and does not get to exist?

Seanan McGuire


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