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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
A photograph of Mary Pickford as a young girl.
Fairy illustration in The Little Green Road to Fairyland by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (1922)
"Fairy Islands", 1916, from the book Elves and Fairies by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
Marie-Alexander Alophe, "Melle Taglioni, dans la Sylphide", c. 1860
"Frances and the Leaping Fairy", the third of the five Cottingley Fairy photographs, taken by Elsie Wright in 1920.
"Catching the moon on a rope of dewdrops", Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, c. 1926
Vivien Leigh as Titania performing A Midsummer Night's Dream at The Vic theatre.
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