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the dmv in silent hill

Peter Pan edited by Anne Hiebert Alton (2011)

(sorry to interrupt joke post but) this is true!

Children not clapping did happen too, (and some were even expected to have hissed, which was later written into the 1928 playscript and 1911 novel). But my all time favourite anecdote about it is from Pauline Chase (who played Peter)'s intro to Peter Pan's Post Bag 1909:

Children love to clap their hands at the play because then they feel that they are really part of it, and you can see them holding their hands poised ready to seize an opportunity. Their great chance is when I ask them to clap their hands if they believe in fairies, and so save Tink's life. But they are very wrathful if any one claps who has the reputation of being a cynic, and once there was quite an uproar in the front row of the dress circle because of a girl who clapped. Those about her pulled down her arms angrily. "How dare you clap," they cried, "when you know you don't believe in fairies!" There was one dreadfully hard-hearted little boy who came to the theatre not to clap. That was his object for coming, and he came round "behind" to tell me so in the middle of the play. His teeth were firm set. "I won't clap," he said doggedly; "I'm not going to clap." And when the time came he didn't clap; above the clapping of all the others I could hear him shouting from a box, "Peter, I'm not clapping."

something needs to change here

this is urgent

I don’t know how to do it

death is the ultimate metaphor for drastic change. it’s a general specific. whatever your problems are, it is very likely that dead people don’t have to deal with them. a real solution to your problems may demand a very narrow range of action that’s likely to be out of reach at this moment, but death is sold on every street corner, so it feels like a more realistic fantasy than happiness.

you don’t really want to die per se but it’s also not completely random chemicals swamping your brain for no reason. you want the pain to stop, you want to be somewhere else, you want to be someone else. it’s urgent. you don’t know how to do it. the end is not the end but a means that feels within your reach right now.

IM IN LOVE WITH THIS SCENE! I had to redraw it. Loved it so much i wanted to share it.

It's 9PM on a Wednesday so guess what you get to see! The AMV I've been wanting to make for 10 years! It's done! probably! I think!

Danny: like what?

Vlad, gesturing: you just… look like you want to laugh at me.

Danny, laughing: no that makes me want to laugh at you- Vlad, I’m adoring you, I am looking at you and am feeling happy.

but *far fewer* people seem to grasp/acknowledge that the final incantation, the line that Sarah could never remember until she understood it, ’you have no power over me’ ties into that element of Jareth-as-antagonist, on the level of both learning and fantasy.

the relevant element of the lesson being that men can’t actually make you play along in their romance games, no matter how much it feels like they have that power, or like you got yourself into this and now they define the terms of engagement. this is a growing-up Lesson about setting coherent boundaries that Sarah takes away for relationships generally, but because of how romantically coded that last exchange got it becomes very specifically freighted, as a lesson for a teenage girl moving into adulthood and adult romance and its dangers.

"Not that you can prove."

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1 BILLION likes and i draw them kissing

So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distasteful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.

So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.

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