#and sos the book of youre ready to handle a wild amount of 1902 racism

[kimodraw]

CAN U TWLL ME MORE WBABT TUR PEPTRWR PAN THING bc i feel like you have a llotee to say about it i can’t stop thinking about it i had to track it down you’ve ruined my life it’s so good i wanna print it out and bake it into a cake and put cream cheese frosting on it and eat it but i can’t because the united states is currently undergoing a cream cheese shortage due to supply chain issues

Hello yes i can tell you more you hilarious anon you. May I suggest some dark chocolate frosting? This stuff is sweet AND bitter. First, here's some more art i did for it.

Wendy Michael and John aren't in it but I still wanted to draw my interpretations of the darling kids. More rambling under the cut.

So James is from a noble family (i am pretty sure the original book implies he's a prince), and when a strange cocky boy with a greedy look in his eyes tells him he can take him to neverland, he doesn't look back. He craves adventure, danger, rebellion (children so do love pirates), and everything his proper life lacks. He's the first of the lost children, and the two of them are really happy playing and being besties for a while. Until james falls in loooove.

Here's dialogue from the 2003 movie adpatation between wendy and peter that drives me kookoo bananas to illustrate my thinking : "Why do you spoil everything? We have fun, don't we?I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be? "

"There is so much more."

"What? What else is there?"

"I don't know. I think it becomes clearer when you grow up."

So love is too big, too grown up of an emotion, but James can't stop it and he can't stop growing up either. Peter eventually notices "and when they seem to be growing up, which is against the rules, peter thins them[the lost boys] out." and banishes him. I had this idea that once he's no longer a child he can't eat the make believe food, and James kills and eats crows (associated with peter who imitates them, u know). He finds a big red coat on the shore like it got washed up by the sea, like neverland made sure it'd find him

Eventually love turns to bitterness and anger and hatred. They fight and to peter it's make believe, its all so very fun and he forgot they were even friends. James is just a character in his story. Once the hand cutting happens (he laughs when he does it and there's dark blue blood coating the green ribbon James used to be able to wrap around his waist), any hope of a reconciliation is just fully gone. Anyway time passes and Peter forgets (because he forgets so quickly: he forgets tink once she dies, forgets hook "I forget them after I kill them" he replied carelessely") and he gets new friends, staying forever a child

Oh also I want to try making this into a real published illustrated book? Thats absolutely a pipe dream because i have no idea of where to start but fingers crossed lol

Thanks for the ask and for caring!