I intend to fly (for all I'm worth)

Hullo, call me Charley! This is my Peter Pan sideblog! No 1 Wendy/Tootles truther, and No 1 Slightly stan. Main account is @schiavonaintherye, any pronouns.

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Promoting my current Peter Pan WIP!

❁✦ Flowers From a Faraway Island ❁✦

Working book cover, not final so please no criticism because its subject to change!! This will probably be on AO3 and not actually physically published save for some posterity copies for close friends, but I’d like to share it anywho.

If you’re interested in a Peter Pan continuation with medium/low fantasy, an early 1920s vibe, historical references, magic vs modernity, some OCs, a dual narrative that switches between grown-up Wendy and her daughter Jane, family dynamics and drama, plus a dark take on what would happen to Neverland if the children stopped believing, maybe this is for you!

(This is not Evil Peter!!! Peter is treated neutrally!!)

London, 1919. The Neverland is out looking for you, but grown-ups can’t fly.

It’s been such a long time since the adventure.

The Lost Boys are all married men, who fought wars instead of pirates.

Wendy Darling is a real mother, with a moody daughter who longs for a change of scenery.

Children don’t believe in fairies all too much anymore.

Peter Pan is lonely, and things are changing in Neverland, so he decides to pay his former friends a visit. Taking Wendy’s daughter Jane and her cousin to see what the island has now become, it becomes clear that no one can escape their childhoods, no matter how long ago.

This is a complete reboot of a series I started when I was younger (SMQ) so if the plot sounds familiar that’s why. This is NOT SMQ and has little to nothing in common with the old SMQ stories.

Not affiliated with GOSH or Barrie and I am not making any money on this as of right now.

Also keep your eyes out for some character and OC bios on this blog, and feel free to send asks my way.

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watching an old disney movie

inspired by the comments in this video making me aware of the siamese cat scene in aristocats

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hey guys its me mickey and minnie mouse we were just looking for a third and noticed your vibe from across the bar. hey do you want to enjoy in the childlike wonder in the films we are associated with? i hope you looooooove traditional 2D animation with the MOST RACIALLY INSENSITIVE CARICATURES POSSIBLE snuck right in the middle to ruin the experience

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is there a peter pan fandom on tumblr idk how i don't talk about peter pan more often it's literally my autism special interest ever.

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Hey!! This is my Peter Pan sideblog (my main is @schiavonaintherye) and we are here, I swear! We were more active around 2021-2022 but the Peter Pan fandom is alive and well! It’s an autism special interest of mine too, as you can probably tell. Nice to have ya :D

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I think I may have solved a mystery that I didn’t even know was one.

So. In Peter Pan, the novel, this is the first mention of Captain Hook:

“Who is captain now?” “Hook,” answered Peter, and his face became very stern as he said that hated word. “Jas. Hook?” “Ay.” Then indeed Michael began to cry, and even John could speak in gulps only, for they knew Hook’s reputation. “He was Blackbeard’s bo’sun,” John whispered huskily. “He is the worst of them all. He is the only man of whom Barbecue was afraid.”

Later, we learn this:

Hook was not his true name. To reveal who he really was would even at this date set the country in a blaze; but as those who read between the lines must already have guessed, he had been at a famous public school; and its traditions still clung to him like garments, with which indeed they are largely concerned.

“Barbecue” is Long John Silver from Treasure Island. Jas. is short for James, but in “Captain Hook at Eton,” he’s also called Jacobus. The biblical figure Jacob was renamed Israel.

Blackbeard’s historical boatswain, and also a character in Treasure Island, was Israel Hands.

I’m just saying, if I got a hand chopped off and my last name was Hands… I might want to change it.

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'Lost' letters reveal JM Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson's mutual affection

Newly examined correspondence shows deep respect between Peter Pan and Treasure Island authors, who never met

Many kudos to OP, I’m still processing Captain Hook = Israel Hands. Because of this post, I stumbled upon this 2020 article. It is a fascinating and bittersweet read about Barrie, Stevenson, and the Peter Pan+Treasure Island connections.

Now, the letters of JM Barrie to Robert Louis Stevenson – presumed to be lost by several key Barrie biographers for over 70 years - will be published for the first time in a forthcoming book. The letters reveal how ardently the young Barrie both adored and admired Stevenson, who was an older and more established writer. A year into their friendship, which was initiated by Stevenson, Barrie wrote to him: “To be blunt I have discovered (have suspected it for some time) that I love you, and if you had been a woman…” He leaves the sentence unfinished.

and

Barrie has a real desire to incorporate Stevenson and his affection for Stevenson in his works, he believes. “I think what Barrie is saying is: if I can never meet Stevenson, because he has unfortunately died, then I want to create the opportunity for our characters to meet.

“I think he liked that idea that they could occupy the same world, and could potentially bump into each other.”

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Propaganda for why you should read Peter Pan In Scarlet "the official sequel" that i will always praise and glaze despite it not being very good— two of the lost boys grow up and they are ... a bit gay.

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are you excited for hit new peter pan adaptation by Charley @slightlys0iled: #MyDream

Bro I’m so excited for George galore, and focus on slightly, John and Micheal, with some slight mentions of whoever is “Peter pan” and “Wendy”

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Fellow Slightly truther……I come with harrowing news….the Cathy Rigby proshot is gone….😔 The copyright gods struck the best Charlap adaptation down

I'm not a very good pirate, but if any of my friends know their way around the Jolly Roger so to speak... do any of you guys know good sites to watch or slime tutorials that contain the 2000 TV special of Peter Pan starring Cathy Rigby?

Keep an eye out for this cover:

Camera quality and aspect ratio:

Fingers crossed it can be found!

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Good news, anon!

Thanks to my dear friends @gothlemonmonster and @sisaloofafump, it’s been successfully located on the Internet Archive! Thank you both so much, you’re stars!

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Fellow Slightly truther……I come with harrowing news….the Cathy Rigby proshot is gone….😔 The copyright gods struck the best Charlap adaptation down

I'm not a very good pirate, but if any of my friends know their way around the Jolly Roger so to speak... do any of you guys know good sites to watch or slime tutorials that contain the 2000 TV special of Peter Pan starring Cathy Rigby?

Keep an eye out for this cover:

Camera quality and aspect ratio:

Fingers crossed it can be found!

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wicked this wicked that, defying gravity this. for good that.

buuuut where is the love for the REAL best fanfic-eque-kinda-dark-prequel-about-school-days-and-homoerotic-friendship-from-the-villain-of-a-beloved-kids-story's-perspective

(this is a joke i love wicked so much but ALSO. i'd eat up any adaptation based on this book... ugh its so fun)

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WHAT year is it. have some memes based on the greatest and worst book of all time. geraldine mccaughrean's "the official sequel" peter pan in scarlet.

i was making memes abt this book in 2021. we're so back

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ever since reading your post on the likely candidate for Wendy's husband (and I completely agree with you that Tootles is the most correct answer) I've been running the other lost boys through my head to try and imagine each one as Wendy's husband and Jane's father just for fun, and I think that the less of a developed personality they have the funnier they are as an answer. "Wendy, what made you fall for Second Twin?" "Oh, I was just so enchanted by the way he does things." "...he does things?" utterly unusable for a story but so funny

So, yeah, it’s totally Tootles, but, with the exception of Slightly who is already spoken for (One can only assume his toff wife was wooed by the habitual lying and offensively tilted nose) sooooo, it COULD be any one of them. And as our eligble Lost Bachelors become… progressively less and less detailed, the idea of Wendy marrying one is quite funny.

I always imagine that, even as grown ups, the twins stick together and are inseparable, (not to promote my WIP book, but I do mention that they share a house and still dress the same, as grown men!) I imagine that the one hypothetical Wendy isn’t married to is always loitering around Number 14. Wendy and Jane kind of want him gone. The bastard just won’t leave.

But hey, at least one of them can dance! I forget which one but one of them certainly can.

For Nibs and Curly, I’ve always been quite tickled by how Barrie describes them in Island Come True and I think that’d lead to quite silly dialogues too.

“Wendy, what do you see in Curly?”

“Curly… is a pickle.”

(In Nibs’ case, ‘gay and debonair’ sounds a bit funny to our stupid modern ears, but I suppose being ‘debonair’ may be quite admirable in a possible husband? Mr White Rats over here may be our second best candidate?)

But honestly… it really is only Tootles and Slightly who do much and have any personality, so I think it’s 100% got to be Tootles. It’s Tootles. On my life, it’s Tootles.

That being said, I would absolutely cackle if anyone wrote something about Wendy being married to Second Twin now.

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So you know how we're told that Wendy was married in white with a pink sash...

Her wedding dress colours were to honour her dear husband Nibs' love of white rats 🥰🥰🥰

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I REALLY dont like the way black stache/hook is written in peter and the starcatchers im sorry

Hook went to Eton for goodness sake he's a gentleman pirate, not a barbarian

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I think it’d be so much more fun for a writer to exaggerate Hook’s Etonian genteel and focus on form and propriety than to make him a butcher. Keep his last words as Floreat Etona, have him yearn for his school days, have him be posh and well mannered and decent!! Never have him be uneducated!!!!

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ever since reading your post on the likely candidate for Wendy's husband (and I completely agree with you that Tootles is the most correct answer) I've been running the other lost boys through my head to try and imagine each one as Wendy's husband and Jane's father just for fun, and I think that the less of a developed personality they have the funnier they are as an answer. "Wendy, what made you fall for Second Twin?" "Oh, I was just so enchanted by the way he does things." "...he does things?" utterly unusable for a story but so funny

So, yeah, it’s totally Tootles, but, with the exception of Slightly who is already spoken for (One can only assume his toff wife was wooed by the habitual lying and offensively tilted nose) sooooo, it COULD be any one of them. And as our eligble Lost Bachelors become… progressively less and less detailed, the idea of Wendy marrying one is quite funny.

I always imagine that, even as grown ups, the twins stick together and are inseparable, (not to promote my WIP book, but I do mention that they share a house and still dress the same, as grown men!) I imagine that the one hypothetical Wendy isn’t married to is always loitering around Number 14. Wendy and Jane kind of want him gone. The bastard just won’t leave.

But hey, at least one of them can dance! I forget which one but one of them certainly can.

For Nibs and Curly, I’ve always been quite tickled by how Barrie describes them in Island Come True and I think that’d lead to quite silly dialogues too.

“Wendy, what do you see in Curly?”

“Curly… is a pickle.”

(In Nibs’ case, ‘gay and debonair’ sounds a bit funny to our stupid modern ears, but I suppose being ‘debonair’ may be quite admirable in a possible husband? Mr White Rats over here may be our second best candidate?)

But honestly… it really is only Tootles and Slightly who do much and have any personality, so I think it’s 100% got to be Tootles. It’s Tootles. On my life, it’s Tootles.

That being said, I would absolutely cackle if anyone wrote something about Wendy being married to Second Twin now.

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haven't posted on this blog in a hot minute. have a 2022 charley esque slightly meme

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peter pan (2003)'s portrayal of peter pan is so unhinged like. he can never die. but he can never live either. he'll never have to grow up. he'll never get to grow up. wendy could have convinced him to leave but what would have happened to neverland, which falls into a wintry darkness if he so much as leaves for a night, if he'd left for good? he has the world in the palm of his hand. it's a very small world. it would just as soon kill him to be sure he's paying it mind. everyone gets a satisfying ending except him. everyone changes except him. he's stagnant. he's constant. he's eternal. he's not a boy—he's a story. and sometimes that's the loneliest thing to be.