Happy Midsummer — Celebrate with the magical friends of Thistledown

Posted on by Teagan Riordain Geneviene

Monday, June 19, 2023

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Fairy Islands, Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, 1916, Wikipedia

It’s time for Midsummer — Thistledown: Midsummer Bedlam!

Some of you are already familiar with Thistledown — Midsummer Bedlam.  With Midsummer at hand, I thought it would be fun for us to play the “name game” that got that story started.

I had found a “What’s your fairy name” thing online and shared it on Facebook. When friends there started asking for a story related to the names, I made my own version of the game (and I used the older spelling of the word — faery).  However, it was just too sugary for me, and I also created a “scary faery” chart.  With everyone’s names as inspiration, I wrote the story.

Are you ready to play? To find your Thistledown faery name match the first initial of your first name to the table below. That’s your first name.  To get your last name. Go to the month in which you were born.  Use the same method to find your scary faery name.

Find Frilly faery name
Find your Thistledown faery name
Scary Faery Name finder
Find your scary faery name

Who was I? Fleur Rainbow — that’s what caused me to come up with the scary faery names! I really just can’t imagine myself as any sort of flower or rainbow… Although, maybe I’m really just Bedlam Thunder.  It’s hard to say.

Thistledown – Midsummer Bedlam

Thistledown - Midsummer Bedlam. New cover by Teagan R. Geneviene

Thistledown is a wildly whimsical tale of faeries.  However, lest you think you’re too old for that stuff, it also has a dark side.

My readers used a “find your faery name” chart to create names for most of the characters. Although I came up with some of the names myself, and a couple of people already had their own faery names.  Those names served the same purpose of inspiring the story as my “three things” method of storytelling.

About the Book

Thistledown ― Midsummer Bedlam, by Teagan Ríordáin Geneviene is a wildly whimsical tale of faeries. It was originally written for a grownup audience, but it is suitable for children ages eight and over.

Thistledown is a world of color and light. It has faeries, hummingbirds, and ancient books of magic. Bedlam’s visions begin to show her a parallel world devoid of color and brightness. The hate and darkness of that colorless world seeps into Thistledown. Will Bedlam and her friends be able to save their home?

Thistledown ― Midsummer Bedlam, with its radiant creatures and faeries will lift your imagination to new heights.

Universal Purchase Links

Paperback: relinks.me/1675233632

Kindle: relinks.me/B082RFN9GF

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Tell me your faery name in a comment. If you don’t like the results from either chart, then feel free to make up your own!
Happy solstice,

Teagan

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This is a work of fiction.  Characters, names, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, locales, or events is entirely coincidental.

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61 thoughts on “Happy Midsummer — Celebrate with the magical friends of Thistledown”

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  5. I loved it the first time you shared your fairy name generator and now loved it all over again, Teagan. You’re so creative. I don’t know how you do it. And a great book that deserves the attention. Happy Solstice!

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  10. That was fun Teagan…. I am Peaches Dragonfly- Fuzz Soulfire.. 🙂 I must have been tapping into my Fairy side last week as I took a photo of a tiny blue dragonfly while walking in the woods.. 🙂 Maybe I was getting a heads up on my fairy name 🙂
    Have a wonderful Solstice… I feel the energies are going to be Epic.. ❤ xx ❤

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    1. Thanks, Sue. Tee-hee, I like Fuzz Soulfire. The character named in your honor, Drummer Soulfire, felt so inspirational — just as you are.
      How wonderful about the dragonfly photo! Serendipity! I hope I can be focused enough to tap into that energy. I let that part of myself be shut-off the entire decade I lived in DC… I’m still trying to get back into the groove. Thanks for coming out to play. Hugs on the wing.

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    1. Many thanks for reblogging.
      By the way, dear Crystal passed away in February. I had sworn that I would never have another, because the pain of loss is too great. Then I found that I could not bear being cat-less. Now I have two young ginger sisters — little “scoobies” they are Daphne and Velma. They send you purrs.

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    1. Hi, Liz. I do like Blossom Moonglow. The scary faery names are not meant to be attractive. Hmmm… (LOL) now that I think about it, I should have added “Poot” or some other bodily function to the “clan” names. Oh well, too late now. 😀
      Thanks for coming out to play. Hugs.

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  20. I’m Flora Moonglow which sounds like a name for an air freshener. Stranglevine Blackmoon is so much better! I think folks would respect a faery with a name like that, don’t you?

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    1. Thanks for sharing from your tree house, dear Ape. That’s a fine name. Although I loved that you came to that “party” with your own name and description, which was very helpful — Field Yewwasp, the furry faery was a great character. Thanks for coming out to play. Hugs.

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  24. It was a fun story, and I loved my character. Now I’d be: Apple Dragonfly (not bad, as I love both, apples and dragonflies), but I prefer the scary one, Rotten Soulfire. Fabulous! Happy Midsummer, dear Teagan!

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