Iron

[frameacloud]

Page number 7 of Theri There, originally posted on October 10, 2005.

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Image description:
Large calligraphy letters say "Fae fear iron."
Below, a fae acts melodramatically horrified about an ironing board.
Description ends.

Notes: A more serious explanation of why fairies legendarily fear the metal is found in the Elvendrums song, "Iron."

[Edit October 21, 2023: Added local images, links, and transcript.]

Comments

[cloakable.livejournal.com]

Heh. I don't know any fae, so I cannot confirm/deny any of it (either fae fearing iron, or dragons doing the housework). Would the source of this comic please stand up?

[frameacloud]

Who, me?

[cloakable.livejournal.com]

Ah, so it's you. Heh. You live with a fae?

[elynne.livejournal.com]

"Live with"... yeeaaaaahhh... I'll let waywind explain that, if xie's of a mind to. ;)

completely confused now

[frameacloud]

Live... with...? Uh... I think we're communicating from different platforms or something.

This week's particular comic strip is a hypothetical situation based upon sort of a pun, and the assumption that fae dislike doing the ironing as much as anyone else.

Why would you think that I'd live with a fairy in order to draw a comic about one? Or that the person making the comic would be someone else than usual?

Re: completely confused now

[cloakable.livejournal.com]

Heh. I thought you were talkung from experience. No worries.

The comic commentary below the comic hinted at some experience.

And I thought someone gave you the *idea* not the *strip*.

Re: completely confused now

[slupine.livejournal.com]

Because I think, by "who is the source", it wasn't meant "who drew it?" but "who gave you the idea?"

Re: completely confused now

[cloakable.livejournal.com]

Bingo!
*gives slupine a cookie*

Re: completely confused now

[slupine.livejournal.com]

*squees* Cookie!!!!!! *curls up with cookie and snuggles it before eating*