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“The ballad’s enduring appeal (and Romantasy’s, too) is that it flips the traditional narrative of heroism on its head”
In the early Scottish ballad “Tam Lin”, the titular man is rescued from the fairies by the bravery of Janet, the heroine
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/romantasy-history-acotar-celtic-folklore
#Scottish #literature #folklore #ballad #romantasy #TamLin #16thcentury
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#LGBTQWriteAThon October 8:
What genre is your WIP?
Tam Lin is Scottish folk ballad where our heroine saves our hero from the Queen of the fairies. It's a #Fantasy but there elements of the mythical, Scottish Folk, naturalist spirit and oral balladry
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#LGBTQWriteAThon October 8:
What genre is your WIP?
Tam Lin is Scottish folk ballad where our heroine saves our hero from the Queen of the fairies. It's a #Fantasy but there elements of the mythical, Scottish Folk, naturalist spirit and oral balladry
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#LGBTQWriteAThon October 8:
What genre is your WIP?
Tam Lin is Scottish folk ballad where our heroine saves our hero from the Queen of the fairies. It's a #Fantasy but there elements of the mythical, Scottish Folk, naturalist spirit and oral balladry
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#LGBTQWriteAThon October 8:
What genre is your WIP?
Tam Lin is Scottish folk ballad where our heroine saves our hero from the Queen of the fairies. It's a #Fantasy but there elements of the mythical, Scottish Folk, naturalist spirit and oral balladry
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#LGBTQWriteAThon October 8:
What genre is your WIP?
Tam Lin is Scottish folk ballad where our heroine saves our hero from the Queen of the fairies. It's a #Fantasy but there elements of the mythical, Scottish Folk, naturalist spirit and oral balladry
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#PlotTober 8th October
Janet's conflict comes from both the mortal and spirit world.
The strict morals of the mortal world demand she conform; in the spirit world she must survive the trials she faces as the queen of the fairies tries to prevent her rescuing Tam Lin -
#PlotTober 8th October
Janet's conflict comes from both the mortal and spirit world.
The strict morals of the mortal world demand she conform; in the spirit world she must survive the trials she faces as the queen of the fairies tries to prevent her rescuing Tam Lin -
#PlotTober 8th October
Janet's conflict comes from both the mortal and spirit world.
The strict morals of the mortal world demand she conform; in the spirit world she must survive the trials she faces as the queen of the fairies tries to prevent her rescuing Tam Lin -
#PlotTober 8th October
Janet's conflict comes from both the mortal and spirit world.
The strict morals of the mortal world demand she conform; in the spirit world she must survive the trials she faces as the queen of the fairies tries to prevent her rescuing Tam Lin -
#PlotTober 8th October
Janet's conflict comes from both the mortal and spirit world.
The strict morals of the mortal world demand she conform; in the spirit world she must survive the trials she faces as the queen of the fairies tries to prevent her rescuing Tam Lin -
#QueerPrompts 8th October:
International Lesbian Day: GIF/Audio or description of a favorite lesbian character
Most of my characters are LGBTQ+ but not in my current WIP. I'm working on a novelisation of #TamLin a 16th century Scottish folk ballad. As you can appreciate there were few out characters during that period so instead let me wish you a blessed #InternationalLesbianDay & this...
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#QueerPrompts 8th October:
International Lesbian Day: GIF/Audio or description of a favorite lesbian character
Most of my characters are LGBTQ+ but not in my current WIP. I'm working on a novelisation of #TamLin a 16th century Scottish folk ballad. As you can appreciate there were few out characters during that period so instead let me wish you a blessed #InternationalLesbianDay & this...
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#QueerPrompts 8th October:
International Lesbian Day: GIF/Audio or description of a favorite lesbian character
Most of my characters are LGBTQ+ but not in my current WIP. I'm working on a novelisation of #TamLin a 16th century Scottish folk ballad. As you can appreciate there were few out characters during that period so instead let me wish you a blessed #InternationalLesbianDay & this...
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#QueerPrompts 8th October:
International Lesbian Day: GIF/Audio or description of a favorite lesbian character
Most of my characters are LGBTQ+ but not in my current WIP. I'm working on a novelisation of #TamLin a 16th century Scottish folk ballad. As you can appreciate there were few out characters during that period so instead let me wish you a blessed #InternationalLesbianDay & this...
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#QueerPrompts 8th October:
International Lesbian Day: GIF/Audio or description of a favorite lesbian character
Most of my characters are LGBTQ+ but not in my current WIP. I'm working on a novelisation of #TamLin a 16th century Scottish folk ballad. As you can appreciate there were few out characters during that period so instead let me wish you a blessed #InternationalLesbianDay & this...
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Describe your main character in twelve words challenge.
Janet is of her time yet eternal, headstrong but fearfully brave.
#Writing #WritingCommunity #TwelveWords #TwelveWordsChallenge #Fantasy #TamLin #WritersWeekend
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Tam Lin really is a - and I can think of no other way to put this - completely f———ed up ballad if you stop and actually listen to the story, isn’t it? Seriously, check it out if you’re unfamiliar https://youtu.be/WhZSkbuGc1k
#TamLin #Ballad #BroadsideBallad #FolkSong #Folk #Roud35 #Child39
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Saddened to hear of the passing of dub poet Benjamin Zephaniah.
He wrote and performed one of my favorite versions of the tale of Tam Lyn.
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@GaymerGeek I love the song in Anais Mitchell’s album #ChildBallads with Jefferson Hamer. “ What makes you pull the rose, the rose? What makes you break the tree? What makes you come to Carterhaugh Without the leave of me?” #TamLin #AnaisMitchell
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Are there missing verses from #FairportConvention's version of #TamLin? Because it goes from "I'll go where I damn well please whether you like it or not!" to "I think you're pregnant, love," without anything in between in the nature of things that usually lead to pregnancy. #EasilyDistracted
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Folktales for IWD
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The tale of Young Tam Lin is maybe the most famous of the Border Ballads, but the protagonist isn't Tam Lin, it's the young woman, Jennet (or Janet), and it's a classic story if you want a female hero.
In the story, Jennet, the daughter of a local laird strays to the fairy well at Carter Haugh, despite the warnings to stay away. There she meets Tam Lin, the fairy guardian of the well, and, over the course of a summer, the two fall in love. By the autumn, Jennet is pregnant with Tam Lin's child, and she despairs, because she cannot wed a fairy.
But then he reveals that he isn't a true fairy, but a changeling child, and Jennet can save him from the grasp of the fairy folk through her love.
Although the fairy queen turns Tam Lin into various terrifying creatures - and finally into a fiery coal that burns her hands - Jennet holds fast and breaks the spell. By throwing the burning coal into the well, she hides Tam Lin from the fairies' view, and they are forced to leave him to the mortal world, and to Jennet.
#folklore #ScottishBorders #BorderBallads #FairyStories #TamLin