A Kiss For Peter

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Mon, 20 May 2013 20:44:08 +0200

the-pop-tart: Peter & Wendy by Laurent Durieux (via /Film)...

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:54:02 +0200

the-pop-tart:

Peter & Wendy by Laurent Durieux (via /Film) (available to buy here!)

sirjmbarrie: Clef personnelle de J. M. Barrie pour entrer dans...

Sun, 12 May 2013 23:51:29 +0200

sirjmbarrie:

Clef personnelle de J. M. Barrie pour entrer dans les Jardins de Kensington. (Beinecke)

JM Barrie’s personal key to Kensington Gardens

neverwozderland: All children, except one, grow up. They soon...

Sun, 12 May 2013 14:32:20 +0200

neverwozderland:

All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, ‘Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!’ This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

J.M. Barrie

Illustration by Maxin Mitrofanov

A very happy birthday to Sir James Matthew Barrie, who had he...

Thu, 09 May 2013 19:52:53 +0200

A very happy birthday to Sir James Matthew Barrie, who had he managed to escape to Neverland would be 153 today! (then again I doubt birthdays are celebrated in Neverland…)

grandenonfatmocha: Hook

Thu, 09 May 2013 18:38:51 +0200

grandenonfatmocha:

Hook

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Fri, 03 May 2013 08:33:06 +0200

twinpersonalitys: ironychan: redcaplf: thehipsterwhisperer: ...

Wed, 01 May 2013 22:42:59 +0200

twinpersonalitys:

ironychan:

redcaplf:

thehipsterwhisperer:

… Clockodiles? Is that pun very bad?

CLOCKODILES.

somewhere captain hook is shitting himself

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Wed, 01 May 2013 22:35:42 +0200

grandenonfatmocha: original article published in The Times on...

Wed, 01 May 2013 15:42:00 +0200

grandenonfatmocha:

original article published in The Times on May 1st 1912
(the picture is from 2011)

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Wed, 01 May 2013 12:14:27 +0200

In 1912, Sir James Matthew Barrie - author of the Peter Pan...

Wed, 01 May 2013 08:53:00 +0200

In 1912, Sir James Matthew Barrie - author of the Peter Pan books - hired sculptor Sir George Frampton to make a statue of the boy who never grew up. Barrie kept the project a secret, with only a select few, including Lewis Harcourt, the council’s commissioner of works, aware of the plan. After it was finished, Barrie arranged for it to be put in Kensington Gardens in the middle of the night because he wanted people to believe it was magic.

And on the morning of the 1st of May, 1912, there it was - and still is.

larpers-are-sexy: Steampunk Tinkerbell cosplay created by...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:38:00 +0200

larpers-are-sexy:

Steampunk Tinkerbell cosplay created by Firefly Path.

Things They Keep Putting Into Peter Pan Adaptations That Weren't in the Book

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:41:04 +0200

fracturedstories:

Find the full article here

1. The Lost Boys don’t fly.
J.M. Barrie’s novel makes it explicitly clear that the Lost Boys do fly. The pirates tie them up to keep them from flying away when they capture them, and by the end they’re flying around over Hook’s ship.

2. Nobody ages on Neverland at all.
The book disagrees. For a start, the very first line says “all children, except one grow up,” not “all children except those who come to Neverland.”

Peter says that the Lost Boys are children who fell out of their prams and remained unclaimed for seven days. This indicates that the Lost Boys arrive as infants and toddlers. Furthermore, the book states that when they “seem to be growing up,” Peter “thins them out.”

At the end of Peter Pan, we find out that the fairies of Neverland have extremely short lifespans - around or even less than a year in length. So it’s clear that Neverland does not grant immunity from aging.

Furthermore, in Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, Peter flies away from home as a seven-day-old infant and lives with the birds in Kensington Gardens, where he didn’t age at all. Although it’s questionable whether this book takes place in the same continuity as Peter Pan (since Peter is perpetually a baby in this story and there’s a replica of the familiar thimble/kiss scene with a different character), we do know that J.M. Barrie conceptualized Peter’s perpetual youth as being a quirk of Peter, not where he lived.

Now, Peter Pan makes it clear that Captain Hook was contemporary with “Barbecue” - better known as Long John Silver from Treasure Island. This would mean that Hook lived during the mid-18th century, where Peter Pan is set during the early 20th century, making Captain Hook well over 150 years old. Exactly what’s keeping Hook going is unknown, but it’s safe to say that it’s not simply being moored at Neverland.

3. Tinker Bell survives to the next generation.
As has been explained before, she’s dead by the time Peter Pan returns for Wendy a year after their first adventure.

4. Tiger Lily is a princess.
When Europeans first met native Americans, they assumed the natives had social structures exactly like their own. However, they didn’t - there’s no such thing as an “Indian princess.”

Tiger Lily was never referred to as a princess in either the play or the novel. The novel calls her “a princess in her own right.” This doesn’t mean she’s literally a princess, but rather that she has qualities befitting a princess - such as being a skillful leader.

5. Captain Hook is ugly.
I feel a bit bad putting this here because in a few adapations, Hook has been an absolute hunk. However, this doesn’t change the fact that some stories and adaptations have made him hideous.

While Hook is described as “cadaverous” (ie, looking somewhat like a corpse), he’s also described as “handsome.” In other words, he looks like one of those pasty vampire heartthrobs.

6. Peter Pan wears green.
The book describes him as wearing clothes made of “skeleton leaves.” Skeleton leaves, which are the remains of leaves after the softer tissues have decayed, are not green.

7. Peter is a trustworthy source of information.
A lot of adaptations take things Peter said as absolute truth. However, the book makes it clear over and over that Peter has a terrible memory (the price of eternal childhood and innocence), and when he doesn’t know the answer to something he’ll often make one up. “Second to the right and straight on until morning” didn’t actually mean anything; Peter just thought it sounded good.

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Sat, 20 Apr 2013 16:21:18 +0200

"There were odd stories about him, as that when children died he went part of the way with them, so..."

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 07:35:00 +0200

“There were odd stories about him, as that when children died he went part of the way with them, so that they should not be frightened.”

- Peter Pan - JM Barrie

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Thu, 18 Apr 2013 06:56:37 +0200

"Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal. John’s, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingoes flying..."

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 17:06:11 +0200

“Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal. John’s, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingoes flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it. John lived in a boat turned upside down on the sands, Michael in a wigwam, Wendy in a house of leaves deftly sewn together. John had no friends, Michael had friends at night, Wendy had a pet wolf forsaken by its parents; but on the whole the Neverlands have a family resemblance, and if they stood in a row you could say of them that they have each other’s nose, and so forth. On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.”

- J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan. (via bottleonthebookcase)

ciaraxalissa: Jinja Safari // Peter Pan

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:20:29 +0200

ciaraxalissa:

Jinja Safari // Peter Pan

wednesdaydreams: Favorite Coming of Age/High School Films:...

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:39:59 +0200

wednesdaydreams:

Favorite Coming of Age/High School Films: Peter Pan (2003)