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Fairy Academia is a feminine, otherworldly offshoot of Dark Academia, inspired by the aesthetics of Victorian and Edwardian childhood.
Fairy academics enjoy learning and education, as well as trickery and scheming - as in the 1917 Cottingley Fairy hoax, where two young girls used trick photography to con the populace into thinking there were real fairies in their garden.
Contents
Visual
- Victorian fairytale ephemera
- Ballet visuals
- Victorian and Renaissance-era paintings
- Hole - Violet (Official Music Video)
- Country Love - Mono (Official Music Video)
Written
- Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
- A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Peter and Wendy by J.M. Barrie
- A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
- Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Films
- Heavenly Creatures (1994)
- Sleeping Beauty (1959)
- Maleficent (2014)
- Mary Pickford's silent films
- Tinker Bell (2008)
Activities
- Reading
- Poetry
- Mythology
- Learning
- Walks through nature
- Picking flowers
- Sketching
- Painting (watercolour)
- Acting out a play/ballet for the woodland creatures
- Sewing
- Cooking
- Dancing (more specifically ballet)
- Cons, tricks, swindles, fraud and blackmail; any creative and elaborate offense
- Pressing flowers
- Tea parties
- Sculpting
Fashion
Note: These are not strict rules to follow when it comes to how you should dress, it's just inspiration/a guide!
Fairy Academia fashion consists of flowy, light dresses from a Victorian Era style. A typical outfit could be a long flowing dress with flats or boots, a flower crown or ribbons in your hair.
Tops
- Floaty dresses in pastel colours (mostly white)
- Party dresses
- Mourning clothes
- Anything a young girl might wear in Edwardian/Victorian times
- Button up shirts/blouses
Bottoms
- Long, flowy skirts
- Tutus
Accessories
- Ribbons
- Bows
- Flowers (flower crowns, flowers stuck to your dress, etc)
- Long hair
- Headbands
- Corsets/structures bodices (if aging up)
- Colors such as cream, sage green, muted pinks and purples, ivory, and brown
Footwear
- Ballet flats
- Oxford/saddle shoes
- Mary Janes
- Solid, light coloured tights
Outerwear
- Linen aprons
- Straw hats
- Pea coats
Music
- Ethereal vocals with unexpected heavy or industrial instrumentals
- Pretty lyrics that sound hard rock-esque - 90s grunge music
- Classical, especially ballet, music. Tchaikovsky is a good example.
Genres
- Classical
- Ballet
- K-Pop
- J-Pop
- '90s Grunge
- Psychedelia
Albums
- Miss Anthropocene by Grimes
- Pretty. Odd by Panic! At The Disco
- Just Another Diamond Day by Vashti Bunyan
- Moenie and Kitchi by Gregory and the Hawk
- In Your Dreams by Gregory and the Hawk
Musicians
- Gregory and the Hawk
- Vashti Bunyan
Songs
- Naturträne by Nine Hagen
- Soldier, Poet, King by The Oh Hellos
Playlists
Gallery
"Frances and the Leaping Fairy", the third of the five Cottingley Fairy photographs, taken by Elsie Wright in 1920.
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