Rhys Kaminski-Jones
@rhyskamjones.bsky.social
Celtic Revivals and Imperial Cultures. Research Fellow at University of Wales (CAWCS) on C18th/19th travel in Wales, Scotland, and India. Cymrawd Oddi Cartref
Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (Boydell, 2025)
He/They/Fo/Nhw
Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (Boydell, 2025)
He/They/Fo/Nhw
We all had a really strong memory it was Gaiman too for some reason, but cracked open Dream Country and nope. False memory
Turns out it's in Ars Magica (1991 supplement) before Changeling though
Turns out it's in Ars Magica (1991 supplement) before Changeling though
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
We all had a really strong memory it was Gaiman too for some reason, but cracked open Dream Country and nope. False memory
Turns out it's in Ars Magica (1991 supplement) before Changeling though
Turns out it's in Ars Magica (1991 supplement) before Changeling though
Although they're happy to use "Faerie" too so maybe I'm reading way too much into that 😆
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Although they're happy to use "Faerie" too so maybe I'm reading way too much into that 😆
Ah interesting. "Faerie" has been popular for a long time, but you could see the White Wolf developers shortening to "fae" in this context to distinguish from a D&D use, maybe
November 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Ah interesting. "Faerie" has been popular for a long time, but you could see the White Wolf developers shortening to "fae" in this context to distinguish from a D&D use, maybe
It's a fun paradoxical one - old in French, a recent neologism in its current English form!
November 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
It's a fun paradoxical one - old in French, a recent neologism in its current English form!
Only in Old French though, which becomes 'fée' - it's seemingly not borrowed into medieval English as 'fae' ('fay' is the primary OED entry). "(The) fae", as a popular English from, is late twentieth/early twenty first century
November 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Only in Old French though, which becomes 'fée' - it's seemingly not borrowed into medieval English as 'fae' ('fay' is the primary OED entry). "(The) fae", as a popular English from, is late twentieth/early twenty first century
Thanks! I realise we might not get a solid answer here ("the fey" and "faes" already existed, so it was up for grabs to coin)
But if you did start it with that supplement you've had a real effect, it's got so deep into fantasy writing and neopagan culture now. Let us know if you think of something!
But if you did start it with that supplement you've had a real effect, it's got so deep into fantasy writing and neopagan culture now. Let us know if you think of something!
November 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Thanks! I realise we might not get a solid answer here ("the fey" and "faes" already existed, so it was up for grabs to coin)
But if you did start it with that supplement you've had a real effect, it's got so deep into fantasy writing and neopagan culture now. Let us know if you think of something!
But if you did start it with that supplement you've had a real effect, it's got so deep into fantasy writing and neopagan culture now. Let us know if you think of something!
I am going to pretend this is the case until I can get to the library to read it
November 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I am going to pretend this is the case until I can get to the library to read it
Many thanks again, that's hugely helpful! Would love to hear more from them if possible.
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Many thanks again, that's hugely helpful! Would love to hear more from them if possible.
Correctly identifying the world-historical problem of reactionary curdling C21st white supremacy in himself and then ending up not as an anti-fascist but an "all viewpoints are equally human and valid including the fash if they're nice to me" pabulum spouter. Depressing.
November 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Correctly identifying the world-historical problem of reactionary curdling C21st white supremacy in himself and then ending up not as an anti-fascist but an "all viewpoints are equally human and valid including the fash if they're nice to me" pabulum spouter. Depressing.
This stuff re: Arktos publishing is the closest connection I know about but the rest of it is just symbolic appropriation and/or "let the BJP do their own thing over there"
Hindu Mysticism and the Alt-Right
Despite its overt white supremacy, parts of the broader alt-right movement are trying to appropriate elements of Hindu philosophy.
hopenothate.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
This stuff re: Arktos publishing is the closest connection I know about but the rest of it is just symbolic appropriation and/or "let the BJP do their own thing over there"
Oh yeah absolutely. The strategic possibility is technically available and do-able in the background, but any of them who openly entertain will get inundated by the hardcore racists
November 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Oh yeah absolutely. The strategic possibility is technically available and do-able in the background, but any of them who openly entertain will get inundated by the hardcore racists
And that despite sections of the Bannonite right explicitly going hard on the "Indo-Aryan/European Civilization" stuff
November 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM
And that despite sections of the Bannonite right explicitly going hard on the "Indo-Aryan/European Civilization" stuff
In that this is in any way a rational 'social' response to Muslim communities in Wales, who go back in some areas to the nineteenth century, absolutely not
November 25, 2025 at 10:41 AM
In that this is in any way a rational 'social' response to Muslim communities in Wales, who go back in some areas to the nineteenth century, absolutely not
In that they are using paranoiac islamophobia to recruit people into a Christo-fascism, yes
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
In that they are using paranoiac islamophobia to recruit people into a Christo-fascism, yes
Dewar? Commiserations
November 25, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Dewar? Commiserations
This one's great too imo (and slightly less obviously fash, overall...)
The Tower
Some few remembered still when I was young A peasant girl commended by a song, Who'd lived somewhere upon that rocky place, And praised the colour of her face, And had the greater joy in praising her,...
www.poetryfoundation.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
This one's great too imo (and slightly less obviously fash, overall...)
Counterpoint: pigs are excellent.
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Counterpoint: pigs are excellent.
Oh just that for you? For similarly wildly right wing in sentiment but frustratingly good, I think The Statues is quite something, for one!
November 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Oh just that for you? For similarly wildly right wing in sentiment but frustratingly good, I think The Statues is quite something, for one!
(nowt wrong with occult dabbling, but in combination with the others it definitely shouldn't make good poetry)
November 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
(nowt wrong with occult dabbling, but in combination with the others it definitely shouldn't make good poetry)
We know there's shared personnel there so we wondered if that was the chain of influence! Previous to that we can only find 'the fey' or 'the faes' in the sources we've looked at (and even they're quite rare and mostly late 80s)
Thanks so much for the full response!
Thanks so much for the full response!
November 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
We know there's shared personnel there so we wondered if that was the chain of influence! Previous to that we can only find 'the fey' or 'the faes' in the sources we've looked at (and even they're quite rare and mostly late 80s)
Thanks so much for the full response!
Thanks so much for the full response!
Many thanks Justin! Re "the fae" being used in hobby games, do you mean that specific spelling, used as a collective name? That's the specific thing that we can find no evidence for before (as it turns out) not Changeling, but the 1991 'Faeries' supplement for Ars Magica in 1991?
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Many thanks Justin! Re "the fae" being used in hobby games, do you mean that specific spelling, used as a collective name? That's the specific thing that we can find no evidence for before (as it turns out) not Changeling, but the 1991 'Faeries' supplement for Ars Magica in 1991?