Tea with no fixins please!

in almost every other children's book where the main heroine is swept away to a land of whimsy she's shown having a lovely time; braving dangers occasionally, trying to find her way home, sure, but ultimately delighting in the magic around her. meanwhile alice spends her entire time in wonderland like

look, here’s the thing: alice in wonderland’s enduring fucking charm is that it perfectly captures the vibe of being a very tired and annoyed child who is nonetheless required to play along with adult nonsense.

I'm gonna go ahead and add - the reaction image is barely even a joke. This is the original illustration of her at the Mad Hatter's tea party.

@pukicho pregnant bc he didn’t wish my gf a happy vacation!!!🤬🤬🤬

On this day, 5 July 1852, abolitionist and women's rights advocate Frederick Douglass delivered his famous speech "The meaning of July 4th for the Negro" in Rochester, New York. In it, he declared: "The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth [of] July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony." More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10524/frederick-douglass-%22fourth-of-july%22-speech