And he had memory issues, and couldn't tell reality from pretend, and he tells you mothers are fickle and you have been or will be replaced and he sincerely means it as a warning, but he also tells you no harm is to come to the bird who stayed with her nest and eggs when it fell into the water, and he tells you fairy tales he hears from mothers' and nurses' mouths in nurseries when they put children to sleep that are so often about the absence of a mother and the bravery of a little girl who runs away from home (JM Barrie fucking loved Cinderella), and then he brings you a mother.

It’s astounding how long it took for me to realize I was nonbinary when the funky little fairy boy was my childhood.

if you want to talk to me about Peter Pan, send asks to @slightlys0iled, not here

Slightly tells the audience that Peter found him in a bag labeled slightly soiled. So Slightly/Peter thought that was his name.

it's funny because the joke is that Slightly thinks his parents put his name on a bag in case he got lost.

Even the Peter Pan 2003 movie seems to think it's his actual birth name.

get to know me meme