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This is one of my favorite pics of Doyle. I really like the way his face came out, and it's the closest I got to how I really picture his facial structure being. Looks like he's caught a bad cold though...if fairies in this fandom could catch colds...maybe it's allergies. He is a dog after all...did Usna get in the bed? LOL I love seeing my favorite men all vulnerable.I couldn't resist putting a little nod to Anita Blake in there too with the penguin on the mug.
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Maybe at, oh I don't know, Green Burgers or something... lol. 
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Of course, on the other hand, pertaining to the previous post, Rhys has always seemed like a burger and coke kind of guy. Maybe he has to just make sure it's an all organic burger with a Jones pure cane sugar cola?
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*giggles* Yes he does. ...Do they serve those at the drive through?
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It might be so. There was a story in which a girl who was part fey became exremely sick- lost some of her hair, broke out in boils, and finally went into a coma- brcause the people in the rural 1950's town where she lived tried to treat an ailment by giving her powdered iron in water. (She recovered, thank goodness.) There are some folk tales in which salt is actually harmful to the fey, and stings there skin if it's thrown at them. However, some claim that only works if the throwee means the thrower harm.
Nonetheless, I imagine preservitives and chemicals in food would pose quite a problem. I wonder if LKH has ever thought of the Sidhes' diet...
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Ohh, that's very interesting, I hadn't heard of that! The 'bad intentions' also makes sense, because in alot of pagan religions the intentions are what gives things power. I think I'm going to use the iron poisoning in a rp i'm writing. Only it will be one of the other fairies trying to assassinate their king.
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That's very true. The idea of the spirit of the thing being more important than the physicality probably had a lot to do with the development of such beliefs- especially in Celtic lore. I mean, among the Celts the belief that everything had a spirit was so strong that it caused them not to write important things down, despite the fact that they used both Ogham and Greek letters for mundane things and inscriptions. According to a very interesting books I read once- "the Sacred world of the Celts"- they believed that the actual letters and words were the body of language, while the word color, emotions, and connotations were the spirit. They never wrote down important things because the spirit of those words, and thus the things they described, would be lost.
It makes me wonder about the idea of True Names, and the fact that every Celtic deity and fey seems to have several names in mythology. I've come to the conclusion that, after using a given name for long enough, a person began to associate himself with it, and therefore changed names to prevent any one name from becoming too closely connected to his self identity, and thus a part of his True Name.
Wow... that was a long post... Sorry, I tend to ramble when it comes to subjects of folklore- especially if it's Celtic.
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Hehe, nah, don't worry. I love gabbing about this stuff too. I bought a book called 'Decoding the Celts' but I haven't gotten around to read it yet.
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Well, I'm glad I'm not the only one. :smiles: Decoding the Celts... The name sounds familiar, but I haven't read it yet. I'll have to look it up.
This is completely off-topic, but I was looking at your drawing of Merry with Doyle in hound form, and this popped into my mind. Am I the only one who thinks having a puppy of the Wild Hunt for a pet would freaking rock? (Of course, it might also cause a good bit of trouble... I mean, regular puppies tear things up badly enough. Supernatural puppies which are bred to hunt and destroy fey villains would probably take destruction to a whole new level...)
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Hmm I think I'd only want one of those puppies if it could turn into a man as hot as Doyle
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Well, I admit I'd love to have Nodens, too, as well as Cromm. 
"Dubh-Dara! Dubh-Dara! See that irritating man over there? Yeah? Go get him, boy! Good dog!" LOL
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*Snort!* That would be great.
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Of course what I would truly love to have is a pair of adorable, magical flying kittens that could become huge Cath-Sidhes, or drink souls like some Medieval legends claimed cats do. That probably sounds weird and morbid, but in a way having cute and playful faerie kittens that can also be dangerous and dark fits my personality extremely well. (People always tell me I'm so multifaceted that I sometimes seem a little schizophrenic. LOL.) For the same reason I've also always loved the idea of a unicorn warhorse. Beautiful gentleness, mystical wonder and fierce courage all in one.
If you could have an Otherworldly pet, what would it be?
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I'm not certain whether I said this previously or not, so please forgive me if I'm repeating myself, but I would love to see your Falon comic if you ever have a mind to upload it. It sounds extremely cool!
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Ohh yes me too. I love cats, so I'd probably like a big panther or jaguar or something. I also wouldn't mind a crow or an owl. But those are more like familiars. Even a Cath-Sidhe would be a companion. If I chose something more mythical like a unicorn or a dragon I wouldn't be able to think of it as a pet, because they're too noble for that. How about a little fairy or goblin to help me accomplish mistchief?
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An excellent idea! Personally I've often wondered if I have a little fey in me. It would account for my mischievous streak- if the term "streak" can be applied to something roughly a mile wide.
I agree that unicorns and dragons can't be considered "pets" in the usual sense. They really are too majestic for that. However, I'm afraid I'm one of those odd people who doesn't believe any animal is a pet in the way most people use the word. I feel like all of them are companions, and I know each of my animal friends' personalities and quirks. People think I'm crazy, but I actually sit and talk to them. Sometimes I even read my cats bedtime stories. I read them for Pippin the dog, too, but he generally gets bored quickly. He prefers movies.
Any way, the point is, none of the afore mentioned creatures would be "pets," per se. I would love to have a raven or crow, too. I'd teach it how to talk, and perhaps even to repeat an English version of the ravens' warning from the Ulster Cycle. "Stay, stranger, til we know/ Are you friend or are you foe?"
Speaking of ravens, did you hear the NPR report about the study on them? It turns out that mythology told the truth again. Ravens and crows really CAN remember and recognize faces, and that combined with their known ability to talk means they could have actually been used as guard birds in ancient Ireland. Fascinating, isn't it?
(And yes, I did say NPR... Another of my oddities is my perchance for listening to programs like All Things Considered, Thistle and Shamrock, or A Prairie Home Companion, and then following it up with epic metal- Nightwish or Leaves Eyes- or Celtic rock. Weird? Who, me? LOL.)
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Hmm, I didn't hear that. But it explains why my OC, Falon, would have a crow for a familiar. He's half gargoyle, which are guardians also. Why am I not surprised? Falon is great that way, he just does things and later on I find out why it makes sense. Like when he 'told' me he didn't like water, and I later had a dream that it was because he was drowned as a witch in his past life.
I know corvids are very intelligent, can learn to talk, and did you see that video of them making tools so they could get to the food? It was a great YouTube video.
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That's really fascenating! Don't you just love it when characters come to life on their own? I actually have several characters that sort of created themselves, and more than a few have appeared in dreams. The trouble is sometimes when I write these characters- which I call creative archetypes- decide not to follow my outline, and take the story in a completely different direction. Usually the work turns out better, though. One such incident recent involves some of my favorite creative archetypes, the Book Keepers, Don (short for Dubhnadhann) and Cas (short for Cathasaigh). They're elven, and live in the modern world in the upstairs portion of a their bookstore in the historic district of a small city. They sale used and rare tomes, but their actual business is more dangerous... You see, the premise of this particular work is the idea of positive and negative energy from a magickal point of view. I envisioned it a bit like an underground war. It's a bit difficult to explain, though.
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That sounds cool...it's usually the case when characters develope themselves- they don't always do what you want them to do! I don't really write except for role plays and little comics. Sometimes I'll do a short story, but I haven't in a long time. I just made a comic for Falon though!
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Awww! Poor Doyle!!! I don't think the sidhe can get sick, but I doubt it was Usna either... Somehow I think that would just end in a cat-and-dog fight. lol. Maybe he's just sick from being around too much metal? Or maybe he's gotten himself injured again protecting Merry? Poor Doyle! He needs a hug, too! (Even if he did steal Anita's mug. LOL!)
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Haha, you noticed the mug!
Oh dear, that would be so funny if he and Usna got into it! I'm afraid though, I didn't really adhere to LKH's rules on this one. In her universe fairies cannot get sick...they're practically invulnerable, which I find slightly annoying...but I read in some fairy lore that they actually can get ill, so I used it 
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I agree the whole super-human thing is irritating. Especially as the fey are supposed to be able to become ill- albeit from different things than humans. I mean, their even supposed to be sodium sensitive! Doyls and the rest technically should be having to follow a careful diet to avoid salts, preservities, ect. (If that were the case, I guess it would be a good thing they were living in LA, lol!")
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oh gosh you're right! I'm not sure *tries to remember my folklore* if salt is something that harms them, or if its just a magical barrier for them. You see, salt cleanses an area, and they say if you put it on window ledges and doors spirits/fairies can't come in. But they should want a specific diet of all natural foods anyways, right? Cause I'm thinking natural beings wouldn't react well to our chemicals and preservitives. LA is the perfect place for that! Minus smog >_< And you know the whole 'cold iron' thing? I read a fic once where a fay got iron poisoning because they gave him iron in the hospital in his blood...I wonder if that is the same as 'cold iron'.
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