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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9568918" data-attributes="member: 18">I think you're confusing two different trends. There's no Celtic resurgence in general - we're nowhere near 1980s or 1990s levels of Celtomania or interest in Celtic culture/myth. Sure, we're not in the racist-ass 1940s with &quot;No dogs, no Irish&quot; (most of my family are Scots or Irish, to be clear), but we're not anywhere good. There's always been some Celtic myth stuff, particularly once &quot;Anglo-Saxon&quot; stopped being an ideal we were supposed to be keen on, but also before that.However, the general &quot;Fey&quot; deal, disconnected from Celtic mythology as a whole, and filtered a pop culture lens that owes more to people like Neil Gaiman, Guillermo Del Toro, and yes, Susanna Clarke, is absolutely bigger than it was, say 20-30 years ago, and more commonly a part of SF novels or similar than it once was, even in some horror stuff like Lauren Beukes' Broken Monsters* (2014 note - this has been going on for a while).* = Terrible book do not read, especially do not read the &quot;interview with the author&quot; some editions have where Beukes reveals basically Nazi ideas about &quot;degenerate&quot; art, not entirely surprising given she grew up in South Africa but jesus, awful, and recontextualizes the book from a slightly boring horror-fantasy novel to &quot;YIKES&quot; (because it's about magically evil art).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9568918, member: 18"] I think you're confusing two different trends. There's no Celtic resurgence in general - we're nowhere near 1980s or 1990s levels of Celtomania or interest in Celtic culture/myth. Sure, we're not in the racist-ass 1940s with "No dogs, no Irish" (most of my family are Scots or Irish, to be clear), but we're not anywhere good. There's always been some Celtic myth stuff, particularly once "Anglo-Saxon" stopped being an ideal we were supposed to be keen on, but also before that. However, the general "Fey" deal, disconnected from Celtic mythology as a whole, and filtered a pop culture lens that owes more to people like Neil Gaiman, Guillermo Del Toro, and yes, Susanna Clarke, is absolutely bigger than it was, say 20-30 years ago, and more commonly a part of SF novels or similar than it once was, even in some horror stuff like Lauren Beukes' Broken Monsters* (2014 note - this has been going on for a while). * = Terrible book do not read, especially do not read the "interview with the author" some editions have where Beukes reveals basically Nazi ideas about "degenerate" art, not entirely surprising given she grew up in South Africa but jesus, awful, and recontextualizes the book from a slightly boring horror-fantasy novel to "YIKES" (because it's about magically evil art). [/QUOTE]

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