Dan's Tumbled Up Blog

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heya!

this right here?

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY NOT REAL.

the "@staff" is just the bio text.

tumblr staff will not contact you through anything other than email or their official accounts, which will all have this badge:

DO NOT ENGAGE WITH THIS OR SIMILAR ACCOUNTS AND ABSOLUTELY DO NOT CLICK ANY LINKS FROM IT.

report and block. i'd also appreciate it if you shared this post, bc that blog was JUST created and was already tagging a LOT of people, and i know not everyone has the scam-sensing instinct, even if this might seem obvious to some.

If they ask you to click a link and enter sensitive information, there's a high chance it's a scam. Log into your account via the site's login page (NOT the page the message linked you to), and see if there's a notification in the account that corresponds to their claims.

If they have a mishmash of numbers or letters in their name, like the account screenshotted above, they're not the company's official rep. I've never seen an authorized rep with gibberish in their name, but scammers often have them.

I got sentimental thinking what if an 80's style Vanilla first met everyone before Cream was born. And the gang keeping an eye on her but theyre just chubby little kids too, and a spikier Vector.

prev drawing

Hello Cream!!

-Princess? -Sure, you're the daughter of a king and queen, remember?

screenshot redraw to practice some style mimicry again

Height problem (almost) solved

But. Like. Why is that everyone’s go-to.

I have read the original book. Peter is manipulative, Peter is selfish, Peter is so fundamentally a child that it hurts. But he’s not evil. He flatters Wendy into going to Neverland with him because he’s convinced that she would love it there, because he loves it there, and she just needs a push. He is the kind of child who thinks that what makes him happy would make everyone else happy too.

(And he’s right, Wendy loved Neverland.)

He kills pirates, yes. He also goes out of his way to make it sporting and is horrified at the idea of attacking one who was sleeping. He and Wendy get trapped, about to drown, and when a chance of rescue arrives he sacrifices himself to save Wendy without a single hesitation. He thinks playing schoolboy is an awesome game. He cries for his best friend, Tinker Bell, and frantically begs the world at large to save her from poison.

He’s bossy and kind and always wants to be in charge of the game and is really bad at considering that other people have their own opinions. He makes friends with mermaids and has horrific nightmares and invents the “Second to the right and straight on till morning!” off the top of his head because he’s embarrassed he doesn’t have an address (which the narrator then notes is nonsense and you would never get to Neverland that way).

Everything always has to go his way because he is nine years old and that is the point of the book.

Meanwhile Tinker Bell’s main plot in the book is trying to kill an eight year old girl for daring to look at Peter. Why don’t the retellings ever make her the villain?

Peter tried to keep her forever, yes. But seeing the sad face of Mrs. Darling broke his heart? He couldn't do it. He couldn't bear to separate Mrs. Darling from Wendy forever even if it would make him happy. That's what separate him from true sociopaths.

That's what people forget with all these dark interpretations of Peter Pan. You can always trust Peter to do the right thing in the end because that's who he is deep down.

And honestly, I'm more surprised there weren't darker interpretations of Wendy since nearly ever adaptations went for "Wendy goes to Neverland to avoid growing up, then learns a lesson that growing up isn't so bad because Neverland isn't what she thought."