#from peter pan I think?

[weaponizedmoth]

Hook sketch.

#I'm gonna get to the art request I got but I was finishing this up #I love my art style when it's just this but I can never prevent myself from painting #I should cause I'm not good at it #but ye #most classic wmp style #thick black lines dead eyes babey #captain hook #peter pan #how do I even tag this #like this is obviously insp by Jason Isaacs' Hook cause he had a grip on me #I always think that if you scroll through my personal blog you'll definitely think I'm a lesbian but here #this man is the most beautiful man in the world and I am unfortunately not a lesbian #anyway #my art #art #illustration #fanart #artists on tumblr

[lostinbooks14]

I just recently noticed that MLB is like the stories I used to make up as a 7yo.

Includes over 20 animals (eh, animal based superheroes- tiny difference)

Keeps going on for an unholy amount of time with no glimpse of an ending

New characters turn up every 5mins (episodes) with no prior warning.

Random backstories out of the blue.

New plot pieces getting added only to never be spoken of again after 10min.

Random really dark and disturbing parts that have no lasting consequences.

Ends up in a completely different point from where it started.

Inconsistent characters who get redeemed or damned just cause

Honestly, the only difference is that in my stories the villains actually had to deal with karma.

#on point six and seven #once my story started with a princess and her pet turtle trying to find a pretty dress #and ended with the turtle sailing away in honey and the princess escaping from slavers to live in an abandoned mine under egypt #i think there was a flamingo too.... #and a tsunami and Peter Pan... #miraculous ladybug #miraculous #miraculous tales of ladybug and chat noir #mlb salt #ml salt #ml writers salt

[personinthepalace]

Happy Closing Night to Peter Pan Goes Wrong on the West End!

from pangoeswrong instagram

#THE END OF AN ERA #potentially the last time we’ll see the og cast as their cornley characters #i’m not crying you’re crying #also whoever shouts LETS GO right before the song starts #I think it’s leask? #anyway I’m obsessed #also the huh huh which I think is from matt #and charlie’s closing night speech 🥺 #getting emotional again ahhh #peter pan goes wrong #happy closing night to ppgw west end! #mischief theatre #mischief comedy #ppgw west end #ppgw video #world of make believe reprise #ppgw curtain call #ppgw bows #ppgw west end cast #pangoeswrong instagram

[witha-grumpdang-whoosh]

// Arin “literally just a happy little kid” Hanson 🥰

#special interests ;; #tmph spoilers #grumps spoilers #gg spoilers #game grumps #the grumps #arin hanson #10 minute power hour #💖 #my whole face aCHES from giggling and smiling while watching #it was SO MUCH FUN and SO WORTH THE WAIIIIIt!! 💖 #THANK YOU GRUMPS! 💖 #'look the bear's got a hat on!' / ' look it's peter pan!' 💖 #he's so cUte! 🥰 #also i think he was stimming during the small world ride 🥰 #he was everso subtly rocking from side to side 🥰

[lucky-numberme]

2/20 Queer Book Draw Challenge: Peter Darling by Austin Chant

[ID: An illustration of two men (Peter and James) in a dark cave dimly lit by a single match on the ground. James is lying on the ground, one shoulder lifted so Peter can wrap it in fabric. Peter is kneeling over him, stretching the fabric taut around James' bleeding wound. Their gazes are locked on each other, expressions intense and unreadable. End ID]

#y'all i literally cannot stop thinking about this novella. it's so intense and BUCKWILD from start to finish #rivals to lovers my beloved #Peter Darling #Austin chant #Peter pan #queer books #Captain Hook #James hook #transgender #trans characters

[atlantic-riona]

full offense but if you write a book about Neverland or Peter Pan and have there be a romance between Wendy and Hook I am sending you outside to consider your crimes. don't bother coming back inside until you repent

#'ooooooh captain hook is so sexy let's do a love triangle—' #do you hear yourself? why are you sexualizing a story meant for children #really think about that for a second #because you could go and write an original story about a woman who travels to a magic land and meets a sexy pirate or whatever #so why do you want to take a character who is a child and hook her up with a character who's an adult #and is also directly thematically tied to her father #(if you consider that in stage productions and movies hook is always played by the same actor for mr. darling) #(AND FURTHERMORE) #(one might argue that Peter Pan Hook and Mr. Darling represent the boy who won't grow up #the man who didn't grow up and the man who did grow up) #so if we're going down that road why are you simplifying those themes to 'hook sexy peter immature #literally do not talk to me until you have reread the original and considered the actual themes and takeaways from it #I rank this as a worse crime than taking a beloved magic land like Wonderland Oz or Neverland and going #'ooooh what if it was DARK and EDGY and ACTUALLY EVIL' #just stop #go make your own edgy original world #leave the beloved classics that you clearly do not understand alone #but anyway back to my original point: do not do this #if you think to yourself that children's classics need more sex or edginess they don't!! that's the devil speaking #hope this helps #peter pan

[burnbrightdoll]

i saw an edit on tiktok to peter from: ttpd and it was about peter pevensie from narnia.. and i need three days and a pill to attempt to recover from the emotional pain from that. 😭

(also it was basically re-contexualizing the song, with susan writing it to peter - so yeah, the emotional pain was REAL).

#taylor swift #peter pevensie #the chronicles of narnia #i know (or think) it’s about peter from peter pan #BUT HOLY SHIT DOES IT FIT PETER PEVENSIE 😭😭😭

[pixiedust-poppers]

Ya know I think Athena is the first person whose recognized he’s an asshole and dislike him for another reason than just “oh the show butchered and dumbed him down >:(“ like holy shit I didn’t realize how extensive his asshole crimes were like huh he yeah still is a villain. Sure he might not be “ill murder you in broad daylight” villain but he’s still a dick of villain

#that nostalgia gotta chokehold huh #also like obviously for a kids show that’s directed at preschoolers they’re going to make him lesser than og movie self #I do like the idea that he went insane and is stuck in a endless loop of no growth that’s pretty funny #miserable but funny #personally I think hook is fine but then again my attachment to Peter Pan comes from this show so

[grantaireble]

Ok so Fortnight is a Crazy! Fucking! Song! so jot that down.

Also I had a thought.

So fortnight comes from "fourteen nights." We know this. But the song is, like, teeming with double meaning and irony and contradiction and entendre right?

And with the word Fortnight, if you break it down and sort of take it literally it's:

"Fort" + "Night"

Some of us have also discussed "making forts under covers" so

Fort= Hidden / Secret

Night= Darkness / Shadow

Hidden Darkness? Secret Shadow? Does this have legs or am I stretching mine??

#also we are approaching a fortnight post (malone) release #fortnight #gaylor #friends of dorothea #this is also reminding me of peter pan and his shadow!! #the shadow the shadow oh my god!! #it like gets separated from him! split when the window closes!! #i either cracked it or im certifiable #but i think i cracked it

[jihef03]

There was something so entrancing yet ominous going on in the Darling Nursery in Spielberg’s Hook that unfortunately gets lost the moment we set foot in Neverland it drives me crazy.

The tone. The ambiance.

The tension. The chills. Like something cold is running through you spine. Something dark and magical. And the PAINTINGS !

The PAINTINGS !

And the scene where Wendy reveals to Peter who he used to be, are you kidding me??!! The rising choirs. The entrancment. The dread

Now *this* is my ultimate depiction of Peter Pan. *This* is what’s about. A wild child with unkempt hair, a sword and a cocky grin. Innocent yet menacing. Perfect.

And pretty much everything is lost once Peter lands on the Pirate Village. The rest of the movie becomes a Theme Park. A really fun one and I do like a fair bit about it, but I just wish we’d get more of what was set up at London.

I don’t know why we didn’t get it. Maybe Spielberg thought it was the best course of action to make Neverland a more colorful. Maybe others people told him to tone it down a bit. Anyway , I wish the movie had kept going in that direction.

#peter pan #steven spielberg #captain hook #james hook #wendy darling #spielberg himself stated he didnt like the movie save for everything that happens at Wendy's house #i don't even think hook is a bad movie or anything but i kind of get where he's coming from #i could also talk about hook is posed as a looming omniscient dread but loses a bit of his mystic once we do meet him #but i can spin this into how this is an interesting look to hook in a potential essay about hook and he how he likes to build his own legen

[constant-and-immovable]

[Wakes up] IS THE CROCODILE A REFERENCE TO PUNCH AND JUDY?????

#it was still popular and is the only other English-language sourced #work that i can think of that features a croc seen by the audience but not his prey to both comic and fearful effect #peter pan #ive never seen a whole punch and judy just a few min of one i walked past in a park #idk if it was st james? #idr it wasnt Kensington or regents #not even kidding im in bed and couldnt sleep and was thinking about #gaiman & mckean's punch comic bc i was thinking about how instead of doing what i needed to i went #to the bookstore and found the last volume needed of one of the only manga series i followed #and thought huh i should read that next vol of sailor moon too #but forgot i still didnt finish the comics from my last pilgrimage to the comicbook store #where i also finally found copy of punch #and then thought about the corocdile and wondered how long that character was a feature and then?!?!?!?!!? #i

[thebirdandhersong]

#there are TONS of adaptations spinoffs and retellings these are just a few that i'm somewhat familiar with! #anyway i was curious because i've been thinking about fairy tales lately >:) #i haven't watched peter pan 2003 or hook but have heard good things btw #and learned from doing a bit of research that syfy actually did a peter pan thing too

[thewertsearch]

AG: Hey speaking of which, what will the name of our team 8e? AA: uh AA: the blue team AG: No no no no no. I know that. AG: I mean the name of OUR team. You and me. Just uuuuuuuus. AG: ::::) AA: i havent given it any th0ught AA: n0r did i think such a thing was up f0r c0nsiderati0n AA: but if y0u want t0 pretend we b0th have a separate team t0gether AA: and name that team AA: then kn0ck y0urself 0ut

God, this is so funny. Aradia’s so fucking done with this girl that she’s spontaneously developing emotions again, just so she can be sarcastic. 

AG: I just thought it would 8e really fitting. AG: Kind of like a fresh start, you know?

It sounds like AG is trying to patch up a falling-out between the two. It seems like an obvious lost cause, so I’m not sure what her angle is. 

Depending on the timing, she might not realize that post-Accident Aradia is essentially a different person. You can’t really be friends with a Voice-puppet.  

AG: I don't know, what are our shared interests? I guess I never really thought a8out this! I guess I'm used to thinking of you as the enemy. There must 8e some overlap in profiles. [...] AG: Man, it'll 8e great. We'll 8e unstoppa8le. Surely you must admit it will 8e nice to re8ound from the Team Charge de8acle!

They were enemies? That’s certainly easier to swallow than the idea that they were old friends. 

We’re almost certainly talking about the LARPing Incident, so maybe troll LARPing is competitive in some way. Like, maybe different ‘Teams’ roleplay as different ‘sides’ in a faux-conflict, and one day, things went way too far. 

AG: Hey speaking of which, that loser isn't going to 8e on the 8lue team is he? AA: which l0ser AG: Your old team 8uddy! AA: n0 AG: Oh thank fucking goodness! Talk a8out dead weight. [...]

This is probably Tavros, the previous target of AG’s harassment, and the only guy we know who LARPs. Unfortunately for both of them (but especially Tavros), they’ll be merged into the same team later on. 

AA: i didnt exclude him f0r that reas0n AA: 0r at all AA: y0ure just n0t getting it AA: y0u never listen

Tavros simply isn’t ‘destined’ to be on the Blue Team - but I doubt AG is a fan of fate. Predestination is a sign that you don’t have control. 

arachnidsGrip [AG] ceased trolling apocalypseArisen [AA] AA: d0nt d0 that its really childish AA: uh w0w

Unlike with so many other trolls, there’s no ‘I actually like you’ exchange at the end of this conversation. 

Things are really dire between these girls. 

You try to be the mysterious spider girl and fail. She's way too mysterious for you to be her yet! Seriously, what's up with those glasses? What's up with that robo-arm? What's her deal!

Yeah, I’ve made an OC like this. I think we’ve all made an OC like this. 

Did she rip the sleeve off her shirt, just so she could show off her robot arm? That’s amazing, and I totally get it. 

#s9 #homestuck liveblog #full liveblog #2144 #act 5 #the captain hook vibes are immaculate #edit: ok this is kind of funny. I googled captain hook and he doesn't even have an eyepatch? #but the villain of TROLL peter pan from tavros's intro is described as having a missing arm and eye #which means the comic accidently mandela'd me into thinking the actual captain hook had those traits too #it also means AG is almost certainly a DELIBERATE reference to the TROLL version of captain hook #since her appearance was revealed so soon after tavros's intro #so this ended up being a rabbit hole that makes the reference here even MORE notable than before. what's UP with this girl?

[masteraqua]

still thinking about peter pan and wendy

i really did genuinely enjoy a lot of the movie and thought that the majority of the updates they made to the story felt not just natural but necessary

and the biggest thing that i feel this adaptation gets right is something i haven't really seen in any other version of the story: the protagonist is wendy

not peter, regardless of what the title says

it's absolutely, unequivocally, indisputably about wendy

this is her story. her adventure. her journey. and the movie never loses sight of that for a single moment.

the other characters exist to serve her character growth, which revolves around her fear of change: peter is what happens when you refuse to evolve past childhood; hook is what happens when you let resentment stunt your growth in adulthood; and tiger lily is what happens when you accept change as a natural part of life and a chance to determine your own future (aka you become extremely cool). it's through interacting with all of these people that wendy finds a resolution to her fears.

and honestly i think recontexualizing these characters in this way is really brilliant. it feels like a logical evolution of the source material, as though the pieces were meant to fit together like this all along. and i for one find it refreshing.

hhhhhhhhh and like i feel like there's so much more that could be said and analyzed in regard to neverland itself as a metaphor for escapism, the place you run to when you want time to stop, where the story quite literally never changes, and again how this relates to wendy's desire to retreat into the fantasies of her childhood as a coping mechanism for her anxieties. but i don't have the mental capacity for that right now so i'm going to stop now

#not me going to bat for a disney remake #but i think i'd make the argument that this isn't a remake at all #even if there are multiple sequences lifted straight from the animated movie #honestly what it reminds me of more than anything else is hook (1991) #it feels like an exploration of wendy's character from a similarly modern angle #i'm not going to call it groundbreaking or original #but i do genuinely feel that it has a voice and a vision that's distinct from other adaptations #on a separate note i'm rewatching the animated movie while writing this and oh god. oh god the racism jesus christ #peter pan and wendy

[outplacedwriter]

There's a belief that classics are unquestionable when it comes to criticism of their content, but time pass, society and culture change -- sometimes they evolve -- and this is why it is always fair to criticize a book with new perspectives.

I haven't read Coraline, so I won't argue in its favor or against it. All I know is that Coraline is already treated as some kind of horror story, but Peter Pan is treated as a magical wholesome tale when it is not. My focus will be "Peter Pan and Wendy".

Perhaps, the main reason why J. M. Barrie's book is worthy of criticism it's because of narrative framing. Narrative framing is the perspective one gives to a fact, for example:

The underdog team wins the soccer tournament. It's a happy ending if you're looking from the underdogs' POV, but if we told the story from the other team's POV -- a team who has trained for longer, spent bigger money, and had way greater pressure to succeed, maybe this win wouldn't look as joyful or fair.

Children's books can and should contain some darker themes, but it is the way these themes are framed or portrayed that changes everything.

I have seen fantastic books touching upon subjects such as rape, abuse, violence, that are dealt extreme care. JM Barrie had no care whatsoever about anything he presented.

One could argue that's because the book is old -- but I've seen older books more sensible and way more intelligent in their development of dark themes, so the "time period" excuse doesn't hold that well. Then again, I've heard this wasn't supposed to be a kids' book, which is super confusing and a bit ridiculous, but if it wasn't for kids then it's still disturbing for the way it was written.

Now, why is it disturbing?

A problematic protagonist who is treated as a hero and a good person by the narrative, who never learns anything, who never gets his faults even questioned, and sold as a grand example. Not only that, but it is true, and clearly said that Peter kills the kids who 'dare' to grow up. Not a way of saying he expells them, he kills them. In the literal meaning of the word. He doesn't allow the other children to be smarter than him or talk about 'mothers' because he doesn't like it. So fuck everyone else, this is his dictatorship. Peter lets them starve sometimes when he feels like he doesn't want to eat real food, just make-believe food, and no child must dare to question his sound logic and wishes. At no point the narrator -- who seems to love this boy -- gives the reader a solid reason to like him. He just isn't likable, and it is fine to have an unlikeable protagonist, but the book treats him as if he should be loved and cherished. Which is very hard if you're paying attention to what's being presented.

Appalling racism and misogyny. We have natives bowing and treating a white ass jerk boy as their king and hero, and respecting him almost as a god. The narrative also simplifies their existence and cleverness, making them almost ridiculous at times. Wendy is there to be a "mom" and that's it. We have Wendy's lineage becoming Peter's eternal housewives after being ridiculed, ignored, and forgotten by the same little jerk. For no reason, they keep coming back at him and obeying his silliness.

Violence, murder, and children constantly murdering people. All of this treated by the narrator as "an adventure", something cool, something great, and beyond silly dumb things like "going to school". We have an actual MASSACRE SCENE. Where a minority group is wiped out and no one, not a character, barely the narrator, bats an eye at this, and it's all made to be like a fantastic event. Kids constantly talk about how they kill pirates and it doesn't affect them in the slightest. Because, again, this is shown as something awesome and adventurous to do. Every single of their adventures narrated by the book had someone being killed or almost dying. We have the narrator stopping the book to take the reader to see how Hook coldly kills his crew, for no reason, and treats it as "it is what it is".

I have highlighted numerous horrid passages that I'll leave under the readmore so everyone can see I'm not lying about the awfulness of this story's portrayal.

Disney and the 2003's movie had done a FANTASTIC job adapting the horridness of this story. Still, they carry a lot of its faults, but the portrayal is so much more sensible and responsible that I can't help but congratulate them.

So, if you know all of this and still can't see why it isn't appropriate for children, you're just being biased by your attachment to the character/story, or you're being dishonest.

Awful passages ahead with "spoilers" (?)

"Peter never quite knew what twins were, and his band were not allowed to know anything he did not know, so these two were always vague about themselves, and did their best to give satisfaction by keeping close together in an apologetic sort of way."

"All wanted blood except the boys, who liked it as a rule, but to-night were out to greet their captain. The boys on the island vary, of course, in numbers, according as they get killed and so on; and when they seem to be growing up, which is against the rules, Peter thins them out;"

#peter pan #peter pan and wendy #j m barrie #peter and wendy #wendy darling #i still feel attached to the darling kids and I think they deserved better #specially my sweet girl #the biggest issue is the portrayal and the type of story the author chose to tell #i feel cheated because it was sold as a wholesome and special magic adventure #when its honestly far from it

[avieary]

In my head the physical ages of the nations are just realistic potential numbers they’ve chosen for themselves (for convenience, e.g. they need to put a birth year on a document). England actually looks 19ish and is stretching the limit of what people will believe, because in his mind, age = seniority and importance, etc. He’d love to say he’s 30 or 35, but he doesn’t want to push it too far lest he be ridiculed for the attempt.

#i’m used to people coming for me over headcanons so if you feel differently from this #then please just write your own headcanon instead of telling me an idea that i’m admitting is in my head and not in canon #is wrong #aph england #hetalia #i also have headcanons on how some of the other nations chose their ages #germany is so serious about it and he will literally study his teeth and skin etc with a magnifying glass #and compare them to info about ageing in medical and forensic textbooks #one day in like 1000 years america might look 42 and he’d still be saying he was 19 because he has peter pan syndrome #canada is scared to look stupid for choosing the right number so every few decades he’s practically doing surveys #tryna figure out what age people think he looks #he needs the reassurance #i can’t even remember if china has a canon physical age but this is a headcanon anyway so #in my head he’s similar to england in that he wants to look older #but he’s not shy to raise eyebrows and have people doubt him #so he looks early 20s but will boldly claim he’s 47 #france takes it the least seriously of anyone (he looks a handsome mid to late 30s) #which has england seething with jealousy btw #he arbitrarily changes his age on a whim #right now he’s 26 because he decided he misses his youth #but a few decades ago he was 40 because why not #but he would never claim to be a day younger than whatever england is currently claiming because he knows how much it gets to him