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la-knight: hugtheteadrinkthekitten: checkyourbucket: doctorslippery: douevencomicbro: blue-eyed-hanji: lotrlockedwhovian: maybe-this-time: supernaturalshadowhunter: adventuretimetimeline: fuckier0: tempestuous-sovereignity: alittleworldofimagination: forgetpolitics: mariavontraphouse: philliciaglee: nowyoukno: See More Daily Facts Here! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAH Sorry….kind of isn’t captain hook and his crew suppose to be a lost boys who escaped and that’s why he’s trying to kill peter pan …what the actual fuck I NEVER TRUSTED PETER PAN nah everything in Peter Pan was fucked up. Tinkerbell and her fairy buddies were having an orgy when they found baby Peter. Tinks also extremely jealous, tricking one of the Lost Boys into shooting Wendy in the fucking chest. Peter’s also crazy omnipotent. Like, he “make believes” he’s a doctor, and heals Wendy. When he’s hungry, he pretends to eat imaginary food and his stomach actually gets fuller. He’s also a dick. He would teach children how to fly but never how to stop, so they’d fly for months on straight without rest or break, and they couldn’t sleep either or they’d stop flying. And when one of Wendy’s brothers actually fell asleep and plummeted into the ocean, Peter laughed his ass off. He only saved him when Wendy begged him too. okay but that’s the point of Peter Pan. It’s not supposed to glorify never growing up, it’s supposed to show kids why growing up is not only good, but necessary otherwise they’d end up as fucked up as Peter. He never matured, never learned right from wrong, he never listened to his parents because - according to Peter - he ran away as an infant.It’s a tale to teach children that listening to their parents and growing up is good. As far as Tinker Bell goes, if you actually read Peter Pan you would know that fairies only feel one emotion at a time and they feel that emotion very strongly so the orgy? lust. Trying to kill Wendy? Jealousy. She embodies the seven deadly sins and what happens if you let your emotions get the best of you. (And as far as the new fairies series of films making her nicer it’s because you only see the jealous side of her in Peter Pan and you see other sides of her in the series because those movies are about her).Rant over, you can go back to your regularly scheduled blogging now. So if Peter Pan shows up in your window. Stab him in the fucking chest kids. You have school tomorrow Reblogging because I believe this will be important to the Once Upon a Time fandom tomorrow. It’s more complicated than that. Peter is kind of a tragic hero. He chooses not to grow up, he knows he is incomplete. I mean, he cut off Hook’s hand because he thought it was a game. He clearly doesn’t know right from wrong. He also only knows the unconditional love of a mother to a child, which is why he thinks everyone wants to be his mother. He also switches sides in a fight just for fun, kill pirates for fun, and “thins” out the Lost Boys when they can’t fit in the tree anymore. But, like, it wasn’t a cautionary tale to tell you to listen to your parents, it’s a story about death and youth. Why can’t Peter grow up? One of the popular theories is that it’s because he’s dead. J.M. Barrie’s older brother died when Barrie was little and he dressed up in his brother’s clothes to please his mom. His mom - who was always distant, whose love Barrie craved like Peter craves a mom - started crying and said something like “At least my baby will never grow up” and that idea stuck with Barrie forever. Then, as an adult, it’s believed he never slept with his wife because Barrie was just a kid. He was Peter Pan. He was too innocent for that. He befriended the Llewelyn-Davies boys and based Peter Pan off of them and their games. (Fun fact: The boy Peter Pan was named after, Peter Llewelyn-Davies, threw himself under a train). There was also a bunch of stuff about Barrie being in love with The Llewlyn-Davies boys’ mother, but that’s not important here. People think Peter’s dead because he literally cannot return home. He tried and the window was barred and his parents had replaced him with another baby. Why? Probably because they had lost Peter to the flu. Why does Peter come in through the window? Because of the joke “I once had a bird names Enza. I opened up the window and ‘influenza’.” Because lots of babies died back then form the flu. The Lost Boys are children who fell out of their prams. Odds are babies could not survive falling out of their prams. Peter is liked the pied piper ferrying the souls of young children to the neverland/afterlife. Barrie believed that all children were “gay and heartless” but he didn’t think that was a bad thing. Also, Hook and his crew are not old lost boys trying to kill Peter. Hook was once a British gentlemen (hinted at to be associated with Charles II and attended Elton) and he is afraid of growing old. His biggest fear is growing old and dying - that is why his nemesis is the embodiment of eternal youth. That is why the crocodile that chases him swallowed a clock and ticks. That is why when Peter finally decided “It’s Hook of me this time” the crocodile has stopped ticking and Peter started (he’s trying to trick them into thinking he’s the croc). At that moment - Peter is time and time has ran out for Hook. Also, it’s not so much that Peter is omnipotent. All kids basically are in the Neverland. Like, it states that the island looks different to every kid because it’s the land of their dreams and stuff. Also, the island legit freezes when Peter leaves and thaws when he comes back. He’s been there so long he’s not human anymore - but fey. (keep in mind being fey isn’t good, just chaotic neutral). Peter even secretes pixie dust now. The island is so fine tuned with him because he’s one of the only people that stay, that it caters to him. Most likely any child that stayed as long as he did would become omnipotent to an extent. As for Tinker Bell, the above stated is true. Fairies are so tiny they can only have one emotion at a time - “Tink wasn’t all bad” - and they also have really short lifespans so, like, Tinker Bell isn’t even that important to Peter Pan. He forgets all about her and Hook by the time Wendy is grown up.And the orgies thing is because in the legends fey are known for their revelries. And it wasn’t so much that Peter was a dick, he just doesn’t know when to stop. He’s a child. He doesn’t know right from wrong. He doesn’t know when to stop playing -cutting Hooks hand off was a game to him. He also has the memory of a child, so odds are he just forgot to teach kids how to stop flying or how to imagine food, etc. He is just carefree, like all children. Everything is a game to him, because he never learned anything else. But like, no, Peter Pan is not a cautionary tale. Barrie loved his character and the story and brought up a lot of good things in it. He wrote Peter as an exaggeration of a cocky overconfident boy, but, like, Peter wasn’t afraid of death. It says “he felt scared, yet he felt only one shudder run through him when any other person would have felt scared up until death. With his blithe attitude towards death, he says, “To die will be an awfully big adventure”.” and with that Barrie is showing us both a naivety and bravery we possess as children but lose as adults and is basically telling us that we shouldn’t let that go. Like, the point is growing up is inevitable but you don’t have to lose everything. And so yeah….I’m really passionate about Peter Pan. Today, I have learned. reallifetink holy shit I didn’t wake up expecting to know so much about Peter Pan Trusting trickster gods leads to disaster. I just want to add two little observations: First, the book states that Peter never lost his baby teeth. That detail has always stuck with me. Despite his growing to boyhood, he has little creepy tic-tac sized teeth. Second, the not-growing-up trope connects the two legendary charming sociopaths of Brit kids’ lit. Mary Poppins’ powers stem from the fact that she never lost the connection to the universe around her that the Poppins novels suggest all children are born with, but forget as they grow up. Poppins never forgot, and is, in essence, still internally, a super-powered child. “Despite his growing to boyhood” - don’t kids start losing their baby teeth when they are like 7? Kids generally start losing their front teeth between the ages of 3 and 5. I remember when my first tooth fell out - I was in Kindercare (pre-Kindergarten) so I was about 4 and it fell out during the Pledge of Allegiance so I had to hold it in my mouth until the Pledge was over because we weren’t allowed to speak except to say the Pledge so I couldn’t tell my teacher (which is what my parents told me to do when they realized I was getting ready to lose my first tooth). Other kids younger than me and older were losing their first tooth as well so that’s why I say 3-5, barring unique genetics (like that curly-haired boy from Stranger Things).Peter doesn’t grow up past the age of losing his teeth and then just doesn’t lose his teeth, though. He doesn’t grow. He ran away as a literal baby in baby dresses and was raised in Kensington Park through toddlerhood by birds and fairies, then when he was like, 3 or 4, the fairies take him to Neverland and he stops growing because in Neverland you don’t age. All the Lost Boys are between the ages of 3-6 because:- they’re all physically younger than Wendy- they’re all physically older than MichaelWendy is the eldest child in the group, between 6-8 years old at the most; possibly 9 due to her sewing & darning skills but I doubt it, because: - she’s still in the nursery (contrary to the Jeremy Sumpter Peter Pan film, children “left the nursery” well before 13; usually between the ages of 8 and 10)b) she still has a nurse/nanny rather than a governess (and John, who’s younger than Wendy, also has a nanny, not a governess or a tutor). Girls in that era from families that well off would normally have a governess by the time they’re 8 or 9, which is the same age boys would be sent to school.For the record, all 3 Darling children are still in the nursery, which means: John is probably no older than 5 or 6 (as he would have a governess or tutor to prepare him for going away to school if he were much older), Wendy might be 8 but probably isn’t yet, and Michael is maybe 3 because he’s out of baby dresses but not yet off leading strings, but it’s possible he’s a precocious walker so maybe he’s 2. This is the main reason Wendy is treated as a mother even by Peter (who as a literal magical 5yo has a skewed sense of what being a married man is because the only men he’s really paid attention to are Mr. Darling, who’s not really around because of Victorian/Edwardian parenting roles, and the pirates, who aren’t married and, except for Hook, “aren’t gentlemen”). She’s a girl, yes, but she’s also older than they are. She is still a child, but when you’re 4, a kid who’s 5 is often considered a Big Kid™ and much older, because you haven’t been around that long. Also most of the Lost Boys have never seen a girl before because “girls are too sensible” to do the shit that gets you taken to Neverland.Anyway, my point is, Peter Pan is physically a very small child and so are most of the kids on Neverland (who are white). Peter is like, 4. Wendy is probably 6 or 7. John is like, 5. Michael is maybe 3. Most of the Lost Boys are no older than 6. These are really little kids. So yeah, Peter still has his baby teeth because he’s like, 4, not because he’s 14 with baby teeth.For the record, this is the closest I’ve ever seen in a live action film to what Peter is supposed to look like. This is Max Hoffman in Hook, the 1991 film, as Peter going to see his mother after living in Neverland for several years. In this shot, Max Hoffman is 5 or 6 years old.(This is the Watsonian explanation, obviously, not the Doylist one)Sidenote on Mary Poppins: she’s not basically a super-powered child. Yeah, she still has that connection to the universe that children have and lose as they grow up, but it’s more than that. Even Jane & Michael, who are still little kids (again, nanny but no governess and they’re still in the nursery), don’t have the powers Mary does. John & Barbara (who are in the books but not the movie) don’t have all the same powers - they only have the single overlapping ability - and they’re really little. She’s called the Great Exception, because she’s one of the only “humans” who hasn’t forgotten the language of fire, wind, and stars (which only newborns know and forget once they stop looking so much like tiny potatoes), or the language of beasts (which only toddlers know and lose once they begin gearing up to speak human languages because Adults Are Stupid and Can’t Understand Them). But that’s not the only source of her power.I mean, think about who the hell she’s related to! In the film we only meet that one uncle (Albert?) who gets stuck on the ceiling when he laughs. But we meet others in the books. She has an aunt (cousin?) who’s made of gingerbread. She has another aunt-cousin who makes sapient candy canes (the big ones that are like, 2-3 feet long). She’s cousin to the Sun. The actual Sun. She’s an immediate relative of Noah, he of the Ark and the Flood. One of her relatives is the oldest creature on the planet (which the book says is a magical giant talking sea turtle). She’s cousin to the women who put the stars in the sky. She isn’t a normal human woman with the Powers of Childhood Magic. She comes from an actual magical family. Unlike Michael and Jane, whose dad is a banker and whose mom is a housewife.At various times in her life, she’s been nanny or childhood friend with: - one of the Pleiades (a living star)- Cinderella- the son of the god Neptune- Prince Valiant- a talking cow possessed by a falling star But these things aren’t shown as being relevant to being a child, because when they pop up, everyone can see and interact with them. They flock to her, or to people she’s related to or knows, but everyone knows they’re there and usually who they are. One of the servants in their house has been there since Jane & Michael were babies, and he’s magical too, and he’s friends with Mary.I’m tired and not as coherent with this part but basically, Mary being a super-powered inner child is not why she’s magical, or a gaslighting bitch. She has some infant language skills she never lost, but that does not account for literally everything else about her.Including her magical boyfriend, by the way. Let’s not forget she has a boyfriend. And considering the historical context/timing of the book, a serious boyfriend, because she’s the nanny for a respectable upper class family and she’s willing to step out on her day off with a chimney sweep - and in the book, unlike the movie, it’s without the children.Nah, Mary’s just mean and has magic. -- source link
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