#J. M. Barrie

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Newsworthy: a collection of weird headlines and book titles.

[alovelywaytospendanevening]

British gay/bi male writers and their social circles

As a great admirer of gay literature, the social circles of gay and bisexual male writers is something that piques my interest. Due to the dangerousness of the matter in the past and also because it revolves around a relatively small niche, it seems that there was high level familiarity between these figures. The United Kingdom, a country whose literary input has abundant homoerotic tones, is a very adequate setting to analyze such a configuration.

I've been building a graph on this subject for some time, and now it seems mature enough for me to post it. It's a diagram based on friendship connections — deep or superficial —, although romantic and family-related connections are also included. Just a mutual recognition of existence isn't enough to justify a connection (otherwise most of them would be linked to Wilde!), and rivalries were not considered too. All the writers included were born during the Victorian and Edwardian eras (1837-1910), where this interconnectivity seemed particularly strong.

This is just an early version, as I imagine there is still a considerable amount of information that I missed. Therefore, I'm very open to suggestions and comments on it!

(Three Irishmen were also included in the diagram: Stoker, Wilde and Reid)

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Illustration by Arthur Rackham for J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, Hodder & Stoughton, 1906 ..

[a-girl-and-her-quotes]

J. M. Barrie

[mqmotivate]

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it. ~ J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Peter Pan (1953, Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi and Wilfred Jackson)

16/09/2024

[mikyapixie]

16 years ago today Tinkerbell released!!!

Honestly weird day to release this!!!

[queeringclassiclit]

Captain James Hook

from Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie

submitted by @darkanachronism who said:

some kind of not cis. I have no thoughts more specific than that.

[symphonyoflovenet]

When you are older you will know that life is a long lesson in humility.

J. M. Barrie

[thelastofthebookworms]

Other polls in my 'polls' tag / pinned post

[who-canceled-roger-rabbit]

While I'm still Gaimanposting, does the Other Mother seem to anyone else like a weird hybrid of Peter Pan and Captain Hook? I mean, on one hand Peter is sorta the immortal god of a whimsical but dangerous fantasy world where kids can escape to, and due to his eternal immaturity he's more sinister and selfish than he initially appears. On the other hand, Hook has the animal nemesis and also the weird Freudian dynamic where he's like the fantasy world's alternate version of Wendy's dad (especially given that Hook and Mr. Darling are traditionally played by the same actor).

[nev3rland-4everr]

Currently working on my versions of the lost boys (I live those silly guys)

I wish I could draw digitally but I cannot 😞😞

[myclutteredbookshelf]

There could not have been a lovelier sight; but there was none to see it except a little boy who was staring in at the window. He had ecstasies innumerable that other children can never know; but he was looking through the window at the one joy from which he must be for ever barred.

PETER PAN by J. M. BARRIE

[gennsoup]

Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must just look on for ever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was. So the older ones have become glassy-eyed and seldom speak (winking is the star language), but the little ones still wonder.

J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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J. M. Barrie