swanblood:

When I see people complaining about how “a fat person can’t be fae”, “a black person doesn’t look right as fae”, because the image in their head is an image of the current Western idea of slim, white, normative female beauty, I want to say…

What makes you think fae care about your Western culture beauty standards?

What makes you think fae care about modern beauty standards when many of them are immortal or don’t live in the same kind of time as humans?

What makes you think fae are white by race, when they’re not even human?

What makes you think fae care about the human ideas of gender?

What makes you think fae WANT to look like the ideas of beauty that have CRUSHED so many dreams of magic, wonder and joy, that have taken the confidence and wild nature out of so many people, that have hurt and abused so many people in the name of normality and everything looking the same?

If fae can look like anything, what makes you think they would want to embrace that damaging, hateful, controlling idea?

I think if fae could choose, they would embrace radical beauty. Queer beauty, gender-fuck beauty, beauty of color, big beauty, all the kinds of beauty that society FEARS. Because fae are beings to be feared. And they take joy in that. They take joy in messing up the social order. They take joy in being everything humans don’t want to think about, and being it proudly and loudly.

So the next time you think that fae HAVE to look like cis skinny white women… think again. Because I think fae are more radical than that.