Bringing the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 into this story was inevitable. I started Otherworldly Goods in 2018 in response to things going on personally and politically, much in the spirit of the origins of the Fetch series, with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Indeed, what sort of chaos could an errant fae do in the human world? I’ve been reading WB Yeats’ great collection of Irish Folk and Fairy Tales (aka Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry), where the answer to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Who did the cat let out of the bag? Or really, he let himself out. The changeling will give Fetch a run for his money in the making of mischief. Let’s see how this goes. Given the context is what[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The time disparity between our world and the Otherworld is always a puzzle to sort out. In many stories of the Fae, an errant adult or abducted child who has spent only a short time among the Fae will upon[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Many thanks to Celtic folklore for establishing puddles as portals between the lands of the fae and the human. It makes for a handy storytelling device. Of course, it doesn’t account for the time differences between the two realms, but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Back in 2018 when I started this story, my youngest child still identified as a boy. In the last three years, however, she has slowly come to identify as a woman. Like for many trans and genderqueer folks, this was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The pronoun discrepancy in panel 4 is no typo. Tune in for next week’s page update to see how that develops. ↓ TranscriptPanel 1: Dagda scrutinizes Owen, who looks nervous. DAGDA: Hm. Mm-hm. Yes. I see. Human? OWEN: Yes, uh,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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