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Published: 2020-02-17 14:06:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 8825; Favourites: 233; Downloads: 0
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Self Portrait.I am greatly inspired by folklore and fairytales, one in particular that I keep returning to are the Selkies and Swan Maidens.
Woman who transform between human and creature either my moonlight or magic spell and their fate often a sad one. Sometimes their magical skins are stolen by cruel men or must be hidden so their lovers do not discover their true forms. These stories usually end with the maiden transforming back into a creature and disappearing forever into the ocean or flying away into the sky, leaving their lover forever longing for their return.
This gorgeous cloak is from www.xiaolindesign.com and the headdress+gloves from Etsy
This is NOT a stock image. You do not have my permission to use it in any way
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Once again, beautifully done....swan princess!!!
Great texture with the feathers and great use with the white.
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For a genius you modest❤
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Interesting legend!
On Wikipedia i understood its a sort of beauty and the beast story but inverted.......where she can only be rescued if a young man swears eternal love and faithfulness to the Princess.
the final shoot (and concept) is cool thanks also to great outfit of Xiaolin. The soft make-up is excellent for this outfit
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In Irish mythology, Caer Ibormeith was a daughter of a Prince of the Tuatha De Dannan.
Every alternate Samhain she would change into a swan, in which form she would remain for a year before becoming human again the next year.
She eventually married Aengus of the Tuatha de Dannan, but first he had to pick her out, in swan form, from a group of one hundred and fifty other swans.
Having chosen correctly, he turned into a swan himself and they flew away, singing beautiful music that put all its listeners asleep for three days and nights
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Real fairy stories rarely have happy endings. The way I write them they're less like Tinker Bell and more like Cenobites from Clive Barker novels.
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I do love a bittersweet ending.
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I've described the stories as "Jessica Jones meets Hellraiser, except about fairies."
My fairy stories are about the escaped survivors of kidnappings by godlike fairies who twisted them to whatever They desired. When they look at themselves or in a mirror they no longer see a human, but no body else can see it except others who have had a similar experience. One looks like a fox-woman. One woman, named Woodstock, has a beak for a nose, scaly hands and yellow feathers for hair. Another looks like a living marble statue. One man appears as a man-shaped pile of rocks. Another woman looks like she's made of stone with swirls carved in the surface with vines and grass for hair. When they escape memories of their captivity disappear like waking from a dream, but most have nightmares of their time there and live in terror that they could be taken again at any time. Many of them were replace with a Fetch made of whatever was available at the time they were kidnapped and a piece of their shadow, so their families and friends never knew what happened.
It's a metaphor for survivors of trauma, how they never see themselves the same way again, how only other survivors can fully understand their experience and the struggle of living with PTSD. They also advocate for mental health issues and treatment, have social services workers as heroes and how sometimes you have the celebrate the little victories. (One subplot involves simply getting a young woman to sleep every night.)
It might sound original, but I outright stole a lot of ideas from the tabletop roleplaying game Changeling: The Lost.
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