Yeah, I can see what you mean with apples and cakes...the way she phrased it was just like she was trying to find a way to talk about how much cooler and better vampires are than fay, so that even if she was technically right, she was still wrong because fey can do a bunch of other things better, so yeah.
That whole business with the Seelie/Unseelie? I came away with the impressions that 1) being able to feed on humans like that was Unseelie, so it didn't ping me as humanocentric; 2) he was feeding off their energy, which could potentially mean he could drain them till they were comatose or dead....I pictured it as related to that, with not being thought of as 'good' leaving children unprotected, while being specifically defined as 'bad' (either their opinion or local community) would make them stand out to the boggles as prey.
I can go with both of these! Works for me.
Llyn being Christian, however, just seemed like an attempt at 'My fae are different!' Yeah, I'm not saying no fey could ever be Christian, but that PLUS giving a shit about converting humans, as if our souls are significant enough to save (going from the POV most fairies seem to take of man in a lot of lore)...I feel like there should be a shitload of a story around that to explain it, but no it's just "Yeah, he was a fur trapper who came to the US to hunt beaver, was also a Christian who converted some Indians too" and it's just...such a HUMAN story. (And, of course, the Dances With Wolves colonialist crap of him coming in, proselytizing the Natives, taking a wife from them, and then something he brought--Bloody Bones, because smallpox and such weren't enough--killing the whole damn tribe is never talked about as a historical injustice in-text at all.)
Something that didn't occur to me until now - where did Anita read the spell to bleed a fey? Why are there fey spells lying around for any interested human to read - or was it a human spell in the first place, in which case why would she have ever had reason and opportunity to come across it?
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That whole business with the Seelie/Unseelie? I came away with the impressions that 1) being able to feed on humans like that was Unseelie, so it didn't ping me as humanocentric; 2) he was feeding off their energy, which could potentially mean he could drain them till they were comatose or dead....I pictured it as related to that, with not being thought of as 'good' leaving children unprotected, while being specifically defined as 'bad' (either their opinion or local community) would make them stand out to the boggles as prey.
I can go with both of these! Works for me.
Llyn being Christian, however, just seemed like an attempt at 'My fae are different!'
Yeah, I'm not saying no fey could ever be Christian, but that PLUS giving a shit about converting humans, as if our souls are significant enough to save (going from the POV most fairies seem to take of man in a lot of lore)...I feel like there should be a shitload of a story around that to explain it, but no it's just "Yeah, he was a fur trapper who came to the US to hunt beaver, was also a Christian who converted some Indians too" and it's just...such a HUMAN story. (And, of course, the Dances With Wolves colonialist crap of him coming in, proselytizing the Natives, taking a wife from them, and then something he brought--Bloody Bones, because smallpox and such weren't enough--killing the whole damn tribe is never talked about as a historical injustice in-text at all.)
Something that didn't occur to me until now - where did Anita read the spell to bleed a fey? Why are there fey spells lying around for any interested human to read - or was it a human spell in the first place, in which case why would she have ever had reason and opportunity to come across it?
ooooh! Very interesting question indeed!