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 swindle, where two little girls used trick photography to con the populace into thinking there were real fairies in their garden.
Contents
Examples
- Picnic at Hanging Rock
- Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess and The Secret Garden
- Heavenly Creatures
- Mary Pickford's silent films
- Peter Pan
- Maleficent
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Victorian fairytale ephemera
- Courtney Love's videos for Violet and Mono (aged-up)
- Ballet costumes, backdrops and stories
- Fairytale-esque renaissance paintings
Pursuits
- Reading - esp. archaic poetry and mythology
- Traditional pursuits in girls' education - sketching, sewing, cooking, dancing
- Cons, tricks, swindles, fraud and blackmail - any creative and elaborate offense
- Enjoying and learning about nature
- Pressing and drying flowers
Visual
Under Construction
Fashion
- Anything a young girl might wear in Edwardian times - white floaty dresses, party dresses, mourning-clothes
- Colors such as cream, sage green, muted pinks and purples, ivory, and brown
- Ballet flats or oxford "saddle" shoes
- Long hair with ribbons and flowers
- Linen aprons
- Structured bodices and corsets (if aging up)
- Straw hats
Music
- Ethereal vocals with unexpected heavy or industrial instrumentals - Grimes' Miss Anthropocene album, Naturtrane by Nina Hagen
- Cute songs with strange, disarming undertones - K-Pop and J-Pop
Courtney Love - Mono
- Pretty lyrics that sound hard rock-esque - 90s grunge music
- Classical, especially ballet, music. Tchaikovsky is a good example.
Gallery
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