Fairy Academia

Note: This was a personal aesthetic, but because this was created before the ban on personal aesthetics was in place, many content creators used this page for inspiration, making this page necessary.
Fairy Academia is a feminine, otherworldly offshoot of Dark Academia, inspired by the popular children's novels and illustrations from the 19th and 20th centuries as well as the general themes and visuals of Victorian and Edwardian childhood.
The main inspiration comes from the concept or belief in English/Western European folklore, particularly fairies and their relationship to children. Key inspirations of the aesthetic are derived from Cicely Mary Barker's flower fairy illustrations, which remain popular with modern children because of picture books like Fairyopolis or with collectors of Barker prints/novelty home ware. Other artists that depict similar fairies are also included, as well as depictions of the fairies from the works of William Shakespeare, such as Titania, Oberon, and the fairy kingdom in A Midsummer Night's Dream or Ariel in The Tempest. 
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.
== History ==
Fairy Academia is an aesthetic that was created by wiki user Fairypage. It is a combination of an identified series of inter-related events and design movements, but was named as an aesthetic in that the categories relating to lifestyle and associated music are unrelated to the original Victorian/Edwardian time period, such as the grunge elements listed below. 
== Visuals ==
*Pastel colors
*Floral patterns
*Tulle and lace
*Tea parties
*Storybooks
*Fairies
*Victorian fairytale ephemera
*Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite paintings
*Hole - Violet (Official Music Video)
*Country Love - Mono (Official Music Video)
==Literature==
*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
*Fairyopolis (ghostwritten)
==Television==
*Winx Club (2004)
*Heavenly Creatures (1994)
*Sleeping Beauty (1959)
*Mary Pickford's silent films
*Tinker Bell (2008)
*Carnival Row (2019)
==Activities==
*Reading
**Poetry
**Mythology
*Learning
*Walks through nature
*Picking flowers
*Sketching
*Painting 
*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==
Fairy Academia fashion consists primarily of long and floor-length dresses from a Victorian Era style. A typical outfit could consist of a dress with flats or boots, a flower crown or ribbons in the hair.
=== Textiles ===
* Tulle
* Silk
=== 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/structured 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==
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*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
*New Age
*K-Pop
*Lo-Fi
*'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
=== Playlists ===
*ethereal by sophia ??
*looking for fairies (fairy academia) spotify playlist by miraya ☁️
*tea party with faeries but instead of tea it's peach soju by jessie
*1 Hour of Ethereal Remix by A.Krishna
===Songs===
*Naturträne by Nine Hagen
*Soldier, Poet, King by The Oh Hellos
==Gallery==
2.png|A photograph of Mary Pickford as a young girl.
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Fairyland.jpeg|Fairy illustration in The Little Green Road to Fairyland by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (1922)
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Outhwaite2.jpg|"Fairy Islands", 1916, from the book Elves and Fairies by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
Ballet Fairy.jpg|Marie-Alexander Alophe, "Melle Taglioni, dans la Sylphide", c. 1860
CottingleyFairies3.jpg|"Frances and the Leaping Fairy", the third of the five Cottingley Fairy photographs, taken by Elsie Wright in 1920.
IdaMoon.jpg|"Catching the moon on a rope of dewdrops", Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, c. 1926
Fairy-lady.jpg|Vivien Leigh as Titania performing A Midsummer Night's Dream at The Vic theatre.
Liliana.jpg|"Liliana y Flor de Lili", Apel·les Mestres i Oñós, 1905
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