Sims 4 Fairies Pack
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Forum Discussion
"AzukiMochi;c-17773548" wrote:
@DaWaterRat Pretty Pixies? Where did you read that? I'm just curious.
But yeah I've read a couple of Brian Froud's faery books as well, and I can see what you mean. I even prefer to spell it "faery" rather than "fairy" (just need to speak the Sims 4 language in the off chance a dev may read this, even though I don't know if there was much point in that xD). I think the biggest issue is that a lot of the faeries he depicts are not very family friendly, but with a few they do have very beautiful dresses and wings. And I love their abilities and lore. (Of course I was also excited that he was responsible for the artistic design of the movie The Dark Crystal, a childhood favorite of mine).
The thing is, his depictions of Fae are much closer to "real" faeries than the ... basically pretty pixies that are the "default" picture most people have of Faries. While the art is his interpretation of the fae, the faeries he's drawing are much, much older, coming from mostly European (and mostly English, Scottish, Irish and French) folklore.
Pretty Pixies is what I call the interpretation of Faries as Tinkerbell and her cousins... or more or less Fairies as they've been in the Sims so far. There's nothing wrong with it, but it's superficial (and Victorian) and doesn't touch on what makes Faerie Kind interesting to me. I don't want just pixies. I want Nixies, Dryads, Sidhe, Spriggans, Nockers, Redcaps, Pookas, Goblins, Boggarts, brownies, Domovoi, Water Babies, Swamp Hags, Leprechauns... But I know that's too much, even if they stick to the ones that look more or less like humans.
And like MeowchaFrappe, I want the Seelie court and the Unseelie court. They're a long-standing part of European (mostly gaelic) Faerie lore.
