#through the looking glass and what Alice found there

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

Through The Looking Glass and what Alice found there

Lewis Carroll - colour illustrations by John Tenniel

#old #books #old bookshop #bibliophile #old books #antiquarian bookshop #michaelmoonsbookshop #vintage #whitehaven #antique #lewis carroll #john tenniel #through the looking glass #through the looking glass and what Alice found there

[your-local-grinning-cat]

AR Speaks OOC

So I was watching Disney’s 1951 “Alice in Wonderland” and…

THEY SPELLED LEWIS CARROLL’S NAME WRONG

THE MOVIE THAT IS BASED ON THE BOOKS THAT HE WROTE

AND THEY SPELLED HIS LAST NAME WRONG

💀💀💀

#S C R E A M I N G #💀💀💀 #HOW DID I NEVER NOTICE THIS BEFORE #like this is funny but also #the DISRESPECT #the disrespect for the OG author omfg #like how can you make an ENTIRE MOVIE based on his works and then GET HIS NAME WRONG??? #ar speaks ooc #lewis carroll #charles dodgson #disney #Disney’s alice in wonderland #disney alice in wonderland #alice’s adventures in wonderland #alice in wonderland #through the looking-glass and what alice found there #through the looking glass and what alice found there #alice through the looking glass #through the looking glass #carrollian

[thatrandomartistjavi]

Im so tired of Alice in Wonderland as a whole being seen as this incredibly dark piece of media when it isn’t

You can interpret things that might make the text sadder or such but the portrayal that Wonderland is this nightmare land where everyone wants to kill people and eat children is just not accurate to Wonderland

The only thing this adds is shock value and if you’re only adding in smth for shock value then maybe you should reconsider adding it

#just ugh #alice in wonderland #alice’s adventures in wonderland #through the looking glass and what alice found there #javi rambles

[classic-art-favourites]

White Knight Riding His Horse by John Tenniel, 1871.

Context: illustration from Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll.

#classic art #drawing #illustration #john tenniel #english artist #19th century #literature #alice in wonderland #through the looking glass #through the looking glass and what alice found there #alice through the looking glass #old man #girl #knights #horses #forest

[tattypoo]

Some concepts I have for Alice and the Cheshire Cat, aka the best character in the whole book

#theyre bestfriends your honor #alice in wonderland #alice's adventures in wonderland #aiw #aaiw #alice #cheshire cat #my art #art #character design #through the looking glass #through the looking glass and what alice found there

[lepetitdragonvert]

The Cheshire Cat

Artist : Anne Bachelier

#cheshire cat #alice in wonderland #lewis carroll #anne bachelier #through the looking glass and what alice found there #cat #chat #alice au pays des merveilles

[ariel-seagull-wings]

THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS'S JABBERWOCKY

@themousefromfantasyland @bixiebeet @spengnitzed @professorlehnsherr-almashy @slimerspengler @inevitablemoment @amalthea9 @janeb984 @theselfshippingwitch

A ghost that Ray had been pursuing through the New York City Public Library encountered an "Alice in Wonderland" display. Reading the poem of the Jabberwocky, the ghost became inspired and took on the creature's form. The Ghostbusters chased the ghost down the middle of 16th Street in Ecto-1. They jumped out and pursued it down an alley. After it blew them away, they blasted it with all four of their streams and Slimer threw out a Ghost Trap, barely escaping its grasp a total of two times.

Aside from flight, the Jabberwocky could exhale a powerful gust of wind that blew the Ghostbusters off their feet. It was also so strong that four Proton Streams barely confined it. Even if one Ghostbuster stopped shooting it, it would have escaped.

Winston and Peter recite part of the Jabberwocky poem.

 Winston: "I can't believe we're chasing a Jabberwock down the middle of 16th Street."

Peter: "It's not my fault, I wasn't the one who chased it through the Alice in Wonderland display back at the library."

Winston: "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite! The claws that catch!"

Peter says: "Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun the frumious Bandersnatch!"

Winston: "And, as in uffish thought he stood, the Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came!"

#ghostbusters #the real ghostbusters #alice in wonderland #alice through the looking glass #through the looking glass and what alice found there #lewis carroll

[uwmspeccoll]

Christmas Greetings from Lewis Carroll

Barry Moser included these Christmas greetings in the front (in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland) and back (inThrough the Looking Glass) matter of the Pennyroyal Press Sesquicentennial Editions of Lewis Carroll’s iconic works, both published in 1982. The text is reproduced in each edition but the diligent Moser cut a new wood engraving for each book. 

From the Addenda to the Pennyroyal editions:

“the text [of the Christmas greetings] is taken from the final version published in the 1897 edition of Through the Looking Glass, but with two changes present in the 1897 edition of Alice’s Adventures, plus the signature (the bibliography of this item is complicated -- see “Bibliographical notes on ‘Christmas-Greetings’,” Jabberwocky, Summer 1972)

Master printer Harold McGrath finished the printing for Alice on New Year’s Eve of 1981, and printing for Looking Glass was completed on Christmas Eve of 1982, so these beautiful books themselves are like holiday miracles in their own right. 

Read more about the Pennyroyal Alice here (our very first Tumblr post!)

Read our prior post on Through the Looking Glass here. 

You can find more posts about Barry Moser here.

And more from Lewis Carroll can be found here. 

View posts from Christmases past.

Wishing you “the happiness of making others happy too” this holiday season.

-Olivia, Special Collections Graduate Intern

#Christmas #Merry Christmas! #Christmas Greetings #Lewis Carroll #Alice's Adventures In Wonderland #Through the Looking Glass #Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There #Barry Moser #Pennyroyal Press #Harold McGrath #Pioneer Valley School #wood engravings #olivia

[the-swift-tricker]

young me: (loves the alice in wonderland books, enjoys the absurdity and humor, relates to alice, read both books for the first time back to back in one night)

adult me looking back after realizing i have autism and a dissociative disorder: ah

#alice in wonderland #alice's adventures in wonderland #through the looking glass and what alice found there #books #autism #autistic #neurodivergent #dpdr #depersonalization #derealization #mental health #swift-tricker's posts

[samskaterguy]

Okay. I might be a little stupid.

I just realized the reason Alistair can be the next Alice despite being a guy is because Alice doesn't have a love interest. If Alice had a male love interest he would just be that.

So if Snow White had a boy, he'd have the "Prince" part in Snow White, not the Snow White part.

I thought it was just "You get the most important destiny" regardless of gender, like "Yeah you can be the next Cinderella even if you're a boy, a princess just throws the ball this time."

I'm assuming the same rules apply to Bunny, Maddie and Kitty.

#ever after high #eah #snow white #alistair wonderland #alice in wonderland #alices adventures in wonderland #through the looking glass #through the looking glass and what alice found there #alice #apple white #bunny blanc #kitty cheshire #madeline hatter #wonderland

[dragoneyes618]

I like your headcanon!

Have any theories related to that? Could be related to any other headcanons you might have :)

Well, I have a lot of headcanons related to Alice of Wonderland. She never actually appears in Ever After High, so I've imagined a lot of things about her.

So, first of all, her name is Alison. Alice isn't her name; Alice is her title. It is a title respected and awed in Wonderland, but still only a title. All the Alices have been this way. Alison is Alice, but she won't have anyone call her that. For instance, she'll introduce herself as "Alison, the Alice." Or, for formal occasions, "who bears the honored and revered name of Alice."

Which should show you how the Alices-"the Alice line," and even their relatives-are treated in Wonderland. They are respected, honored, treated with the utmost courtesy. An Alice's word is all but law.

The Alices-Wonderland in general-have never really been so into the whole "follow your destiny" thing. They do it, but they do it for Wonderland. Wonderland is not Ever After. They repeat their story because it's good for Wonderland, not because of the Storybook of Legends, and not because of Milton Grimm (whose popularity in Wonderland sunk drastically after he made the decision to seal it off). One way Wonderland is different from Ever After in destiny is the characters keeping their own names even after they've each fulfilled their respective destinies. Alice is Alison, of course, but Maddie's father is Maddigan Hatter and Kitty's mother is Katrina, and so on and so forth. They are all still called those by their families and friends. Their role is only ever their title.

Every Alice has a connection to Wonderland, far more than other Wonderlandians, even more than the other characters in the Alice tales, more so even than the Queen of Hearts-even the Alices that are half Ever Afterling, as they so often are. Each Alice can sense Wonderland, in a way. Can control it, even. For instance, if Alistair would ever be lost in a forest in Wonderland, the plants and shrubbery and even the trees themselves would simply bend out of their ways, creating a path for Alistair to walk on to safety. But, of course, this would never happen, because an Alice cannot get lost in Wonderland. And it is said that whenever an Alice dies, there is a part of Wonderland that fades and withers-even more so, more widespread, if the death was sudden, violent, unnatural.

(This will all be relevant to your question later on. Really.)

Now, onto the headcanon you specifically asked about: the one about Alison, Alistair's mother, having been missing for several years, since the beginning of the curse.

What happened to her?

One idea I have is that the Evil Queen killed her, early in her attempted takeover of Wonderland.

What is Alice? Alice is Wonderland. Alice represents Wonderland. What is the first thing you think of when you hear the name "Wonderland?" Alice, of course.

Kill Alice, and you have all but defeated Wonderland, in spirit at least, and definitely symbolically.

And that is why Alistair (canonically) panics whenever he sees Raven. He knows she isn't her mother, but she looks just like her, and whenever he sees her he thinks of his mother, and her death.

Another idea I have is that Headmaster Grimm killed her. I'm not quite sure why, though.

Perhaps he saw Alison as a threat. Wonderland, after all, has never fully aligned itself with Ever After. Alison and the other Wonderlandians even kept their own names after completing their destinies-a subtle but distinct rebellion against the status quo.

If Wonderland was ever hostile to Ever After, Ever After wouldn't stand a chance. Note how Grimm was the one who first had the idea to seal off Wonderland due to its curse, despite the curse only affecting Wonderland magic. (I think.) And also how he took advantage of the Wonderland curse to have three of the escapees, including the future Queen of Hearts, attend his school, as well as hire the White Queen as a teacher. He only ever wants everything to be under his control.

I might be making most of that up, though.

My point is, he was afraid of what Wonderland might become if left unchecked. He was afraid of the power Alison, the Alice, wielded. Perhaps there had been more going on between them than was thought; perhaps they had been arguing about the power destiny wielded in Ever After. Whatever it was, the result was the same.

This made more sense in my head.

But in this headcanon, if Milton Grimm did kill her, Alistair doesn't know this. All he knows is that his mother disappeared when he was seven or nine, and he's been living with the Mad Hatter ever since.

But when the truth is found out, well, Alistair is horrified and furious that he was living in the same building and attending a school run by his mother's murderer, and never realized the truth. The other Wonderlandians feel the same-Maddie, Kitty, and Lizzie attended Ever After High for years. He was technically the White Queen's employer.

They all immediately return to Wonderland, with no explanation. Wonderland declares war by the end of the week.

Another idea I have is that Alison is somehow lost in the Monster High universe. I have no idea how. I'm not very familiar with Monster High. I just like to imagine the characters meeting each other.

Basically, Wonderland is always there, somewhere in the universe. (Multiverse?) Wonderland can always be found, if you know where to look, or fall down a rabbit hole. The idea of Wonderland is known, everywhere.

But the curse damaged the essence of Wonderland. And Alison sort of fell through a crack in Wonderland and ended up in the Monster High world.

Another idea is that Evil Queen deliberately infected Alison with her curse. Alison was the first one to fall victim to it. In fact, that's how it started; it spread from her to all of Wonderland. The Evil Queen did this for the same reason I mentioned above: Defeat Alice, and you have defeated Wonderland. Alison either eventually died from the curse, or is still alive but has isolated herself from others, to prevent herself from infecting others with the curse.

Even after Raven undoes Wonderland's curse, it still remains in Alison. The curse is stronger, more virulent, more twisted, in a human being. In the first thing it infects. In Wonderland, because the Evil Queen's magic went all wrong in Wonderland, as the Pied Piper noted to Alistair that time, which is why Wonderland had to be sealed off.

Another idea. So, all the Alices are connected to Wonderland. Like, their very essence is part of Wonderland.

So what happens when Wonderland is cursed and sickened? It affects the Alice, too.

It affected Alison, not Alistair, since Alistair was not yet the Alice; he will only be the Alice when his mother dies or he fulfills his destiny. And so it was Alison, the Alice, mother of Alistair, who went a little mad.

Not the kind of mad that all Wonderlandians are. The kind of mad where she couldn't quite remember who she was, or where she was from, or what she was doing, or even her son - who in all these headcanons she loves more than anything. And all of her impressions, her thoughts, her vast knowledge of Wonderland got mixed up. And so she wanders Wonderland, not lost, but not found either. Wonderland watches out for her, its Alice, and no harm has or will come to her. But not even the undoing of Wonderland's curse healed her, because a curse as deep, as damaging, as intertwined with the essence of Wonderland as this one became is hard to undo completely; while Wonderland may be healed on the surface, Alice is Wonderland, and the curse penetrated deep.

.....This definitely made more sense in my head.

#ever after high #alistair wonderland #alice in wonderland #alice's adventures in wonderland #alice through the looking glass #through the looking glass and what alice found there #ever after high alice #alistair's mother #alice alistair's mother #alison of wonderland #ever after high wonderland #wonderland #wonderlandians #headcanons #lots and lots of headcanons

[vanilla-poisons]

OH ALSO I NEED TO SAY THIS:

HUMPTY DUMPTY IS AN ANNOYING ASSHOLE BITCH AND IM GLAD HES DEAD‼️

#quinnramblesandjabbers #alice through the looking glass #through the looking glass #through the looking glass and what alice found there #humpty dumpty #Humpty Dumpty sucks #fairy tales #he’s not in alice in wonderland but I’ll still tag it #alice in wonderland #alice’s adventures in wonderland #aiw

[logwire]

Through the Looking-Puddle, and What you Found There

#Alice #through the looking-glass and what alice found there #illusion #photographers on tumblr #original photographers #street photography #street photo #street photos #tokyo #harajuku #20180902

[slightly-unsure-buryatwoman]

I love the transition from hand-drawn animation to cutout animation and vice versa in these scenes ❤❤❤

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There(1982)

#soviet cartoons #kievnauchfilm #alice in wonderland 1981 #Through the Looking-Glass #and What Alice Found There #Alice Through the Looking Glass 1982

[daily-eah-facts]

Fact#5:

The White Knight from "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There" is a professor at Ever After High and teaches Hero Training.

It is not clear that he is from The Looking Glass until you notice that his suit of armor has chess pieace decals all over, including a horse in the middle, which is the symbol for the knight in the game of chess.

Also, he is described as having a white beard in the books, which would make sense because in "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There," here is how he looks

Should note in the Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There book he wins the fight that he was in however they were using wonderland rules of fighting which goes as follows:

"one Rule seems to be, that if one Knight hits the other, he knocks him off his horse, and if he misses, he tumbles off himself—and another Rule seems to be that they hold their clubs with their arms, as if they were Punch and Judy—What a noise they make when they tumble! Just like a whole set of fire-irons falling into the fender! And how quiet the horses are! They let them get on and off them just as if they were tables!’

Source: The episodes/books

Another Rule of Battle, that Alice had not noticed, seemed to be that they always fell on their heads, and the battle ended with their both falling off in this way, side by side: when they got up again, they shook hands, and then the Red Knight mounted and galloped off."

Also, in the Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There book the White Knight is one of the only ones to show Alice kindness as well as compassion. He answers her questions and makes jokes. He's also an inventor who's not that good at inventing. He's a Knight who can't seem to stay on his horse either.

Source: Episodes/Book

Outside Source: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

#eah #ever after high #professor knight #Through the Looking-Glass #and What Alice Found There #Wonderland #hes my second favorite character #darling charming #let him adopt her

[creppersfunpalooza]

so fun fact about me, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has been my special interest since i was in elementary school.

Another fun fact about me, while I love different interpretations of the books, I want to violently maul tim burton for ever making his. it makes me so angry. if i see one more person call the queen of hearts the red queen or vice versa i am going to lose it. i know this is an over response but it’s like. what if someone just kept calling a character harriet. they’re not named harriet. that’s another character in the series, but it’s not them. it’s never been them. they barely even act alike. they share like, three or four attributes at most.

like i’ll get a perfectly fine piece of alice in wonderland fan content and then

bam

“red queen/queen of hearts”

NO! NOOOO!!!!! this is my biggest pet peeve i want to bite tim burton. this isn’t even the worst fact about him it’s just my personal beef with this man.

#alice in wonderland #alice through the looking glass #tim burton #alice’s adventures in wonderland #lewis carroll #alice through the looking glass and what she found #special interest #autistic #actually autistic