#edith liddell

[jokezm]

The oldest and youngest

[a-modernmajorgeneral]

The three Liddell sisters—Lorina, Elizabeth, and Alice—posed with the photographer’s husband playing the tragically deceived King Lear in one of Cameron’s few Shakespearean compositions. Goneril and Regan whisper false flattery in the aging king’s ear while the truly devoted but disinherited Cordelia—here unadorned and dressed in white—stands before him, an embodiment of disillusioned innocence.

King Lear Alotting His Kingdom to His Three Daughters, by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1872. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, bequest of Maurice B. Sendak, 2012.

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The Liddells never returned to be photographed by Carroll, but the sisters reappeared a decade later before Julia Cameron’s camera. Alice, Ina, and Edith posed for Cameron’s complicated tableaux vivants as Roman goddesses, literary heroines, and Shakespearean stories. In one photograph that typifies Cameron’s work, Alice and her sisters pose with her husband, Charles Hay Cameron, enacting a scene from King Lear. Charles plays the role of King Lear while the Liddells pose as his three ill-fated daughters, Ina’s index finger poignantly laid on his shoulder while Alice, hair down, fixes her gaze outside of the photograph’s frame, a look echoed by her younger sister Edith.

[internatlvelvet]

[christian-oc-tournament]

Round One Schedule

may 27 (group 1 left side)

Joy O'Connor vs A'den

Adelle vs Adrian Alyward

Ahleri vs Aithus

Aleksander Thunderblade vs Alice Liddell

Amelia vs Amaranth

Andre Caron vs Anwedd

Anise vs Lt. Strike

Aqua vs Ariella

may 28 (group 1 right side)

Adrian Mori vs Alexander

Andris Harkin vs Ashley Bethaz

Arkyn Thornburn vs Athaliah Taveet

Aris vs Atlas Fletcher

Arryn va Azarias

Barir Stelmer vs Beck Valentine

Bela Balogh vs Betani D'Agia

Billie Way vs Black

may 29 (group 2 left side)

Betty vs Bob Guppington the 1st

Blodeuwedd vs Brat

Burr vs Caldren

Cpt. Ambivalent vs Casey Dickenson

Caroline Schaeffer vs Cedric Blackwell

Cassidia Reynolds vs Christopher

Celeste vs Cluinn

Bobbert Guppington the 2nd vs Clair

may 30 (group 2 right side)

Bobby Guppington the 3rd vs Chris Carnovo

Conas vs Crispin

Copper vs Cusick

Connell vs Cymin

Dae vs Dallow

Daniel Grace vs Daven

DeathScreen vs Derik

Doc vs Domitius

may 31 (group 3 left side)

Dr. Victor P. Henly vs Dhrake

Dorothy Gale vs Dr. Elliott Sinclair

Eabennor vs Edith Wickham

Ellie vs Edlyn

Elysia vs Elwin

Emma Gardner vs Erin

Ephesia vs Eniss

Epic Palustre vs Eriol

june 1 (group 3 right side)

Dr. Riku Honda vs Edmund

Ethylene Petra vs Eva Blythe

Faraena vs Farold

Evelyn Vordur vs Felix Rodzic

Feire vs Gail Goffrey

Gerdie vs Ferir

Ghost Lad vs Gigi

Evangelinne vs grandma Maudie

june 2 (group 4 left side)

Haru vs Heather

Henry Pebbleton vs Hibiscus

Hiromi vs Hope Espy Chase

Hugo Mallory vs Ilumi

Ilias vs James Zauberen

Ilya Severin vs Impossible

Jacer vs Jack Archer

James (Loriair) vs Isidore Kavi

june 3 (group 4 right side)

James (Eyurenia) vs Isabel

Jarryd vs Jasper

Jett vs Joden

James Bracegirdle vs Julia Cook

Kabos vs Kate Riley

Kathryn vs Keres Blake

Keyto vs Kimera

Kodi Archer vs James Mulligan

june 4 (group 5 left side)

Korosa vs Kylin

Laughing Hare vs Leeli

Kurtis vs Kyra

Len vs Licia

Leo King vs Lt. Matthew

Lina Lane vs Loch

Logis vs Lucas Greydawn

Lt. Madeline vs Logolas

june 5 (group 5 right side)

Kyr vs Laurentiu

Maddox Darling vs Luria

Kestler vs Matthew Johnson

Marin of Yuneth vs Meridian

Mathilda Talbot vs Mina

Mihalis vs Max Way

Mip vs Milton

Misty Way vs Maristella

june 6 (group 6 left side)

Miranda Hayes vs Nikki Way

Mochrar vs Myra

Mr. Guardian vs Nabikio

Naru vs Ms Hallifax

Nimble vs Nevin Imre

Orchid Finch vs Prince Adar Griffith

Nokh vs Obsidious

Onne vs Peter Pensworth

june 7 (group 6 right side)

Mr. G vs Ourem

Pandora vs Owen

Oriana vs Peg

Peter Dragonsbane vs Percy

Pietro vs Princess Torva

Peter Bethaz vs Prince Adric

Princess Rovyna vs Prometheus

Protagonist vs Naphtali

june 8 (group 7 left side)

Puddles vs Queen Alyth of Avena

Quinn vs Ragunoe

Ramona vs Rannis

Relaner vs Rhyin

Ril'siya vs Ripple Fisher

Riema vs Riser Way

Rocoroi Markus Mikko vs Rosemarie

Ryphl vs Santeri

june 9 (group 7 right side)

Saskia vs Senaka

Sh'zkai vs Shleaema

Shiido vs Skylar

Sonrisa Firiel vs Syx

Sly Bastion vs Stelemi

Spike vs Sz'nami

Tad vs Tamaki

Teasel vs Tannufia

june 10 (group 8 left side)

Tehvlar vs Thaendric

the Enemy vs the Mailman

the Poppy Queen vs the Runaway Prince

Theo Gray vs Tiger

Thomas Hargrove vs Tiny

Thessaly vs Tsuname

TJ Valentine vs Toka

Trajeda vs Val (Keepers)

june 11 (group 8 right side)

Veelia vs Trevin

Verity vs Vokku

Vellatra vs Waizu

Valentina vs Wendy

Wryden vs Yasmin

Wisteria vs Zac O'Connor

Yuro vs Zaire

Zhahara vs Ziph

[bebemoon]

CASTING MUTUALS IN SPOOKY MEDIA FOR HALLOWEEN, PT. I

@interluxetumbra ~ margot (la reine margot) | jareth (labyrinth) | clara webb (byzantium)

@shalott ~ blind mag (repo! the genetic opera) | christine daae (the phantom of the opera)

@vampirkaninchen ~ nadja cravensworth (what we do in the shadows) | mina harker (the league of extraordinary gentlemen)

@ayzrules ~ alice liddell (alice: madness returns {video game}) | kang saebyeok (squid game)

@allthestoriescantbelies ~ edith cushing (crimson peak) | sarah (labyrinth)

@zenibas ~ selene (underworld) | william "spike" pratt (buffy the vampire slayer)

@bienenkiste ~ suzy bannion (suspiria)

@naiadereverie ~ hannah von reichmerl (a cure for wellness)

@konvalia ~ mina harker (bram stoker's dracula) | aya tsukimori (fatal frame)

@wrenling ~ carrie white (carrie) | wicked lady (sailor moon)

@blubbingbeautifully ~ star (the lost boys) | tank girl (tank girl) | diva plavalaguna (the fifth element)

@roseverie ~ mirror queen (the brothers grimm) | frieda gellhorn (twins of evil)

@rosehaunt ~ lisle von rhuman (death becomes her) | maria gellhorn (twins of evil)

@melethrille ~ princess nuala (hellboy 2: the golden army) | fiona belli (haunting ground {video game})

@silkfaun ~ princess lili (legend)

@uneorchide ~ nina sayers (black swan)

@blauestunden ~ dani (midsommar)

@senvive ~ saxana (the girl on the broomstick)

@mermaid-lullaby ~ akari (ghost squad)

[daisyprayers]

On July 4 1862 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (pen name Lewis Carroll) took the three Liddell sisters, Lorina, Alice and Edith, on a boat ride along the River Thames. On the bank at Godstow he told the story of Alice’s Adventures Underground (later renamed Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland) for the first time.

161 years later this book, and its sequel Through The Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, have had an indelible mark on our culture. A classic of children’s literature, it has never gone out of print. It has been translated into 174 languages, adapted into dozens of films (the first of which was made in 1903) and inspired countless works of art. Its nonsensical whimsy and celebration of childhood is beloved by children and adults everywhere.

Out of any story I’ve read, Alice has had the most profound impact on me. I am forever grateful to the man who told it and then wrote it down, the man who captured its magic with his illustrations, and - above all- the little girl who inspired it.

“Thus grew the tale of Wonderland: thus slowly, one by one, its quaint events were hammered out and now the tale is done, and home we steer, a merry crew, beneath the setting sun. Alice! A childish story take, and, with a gentle hand, lay it where Childhood’s dreams are twined in Memory’s mystic band. Like pilgrim’s wither’d wreath of flowers pluck’d in far off land.” - All in the Golden Afternoon, Lewis Carroll

[hikari-to-kage]

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll, 1832-1898)

Alice, Lorina, Henry and Edith Liddell, 1869

[mocktortis]

One of the zaniest experiences I've had studying Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is watching Carrollian scholars argue over what the weather was on July 4, 1862.

Most people who are interested in Alice have heard that Lewis Carroll, aka Charles Dodgson, first told the story on a boating trip to three girls, Lorina, Alice, and Edith Liddell, who were daughters of one of Carroll's colleagues. Carroll and others have described the afternoon many times: in the prefatory poem to Alice, Carroll opens with 'All in the golden afternoon'; in the epilogue poem Carroll talks about 'a boat, beneath a sunny sky'; in an article Carroll wrote for The Theatre, he again describes it as a golden afternoon; Alice Liddell once described it for The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll as a day where "the sun was so burning" they had to leave the boat and get into the shade; another quote from Alice, supplied to Cornhill Magazine by her son, calls it a "blazing summer afternoon with the heat haze shimmering over the meadows". Martin Gardner includes the full versions of all of the quotes in his Annotated Alice, and they take up nearly a full page.

AND AFTER ALL THAT Gardner writes, "It is with sadness I add that when a check was made in 1950 with the London meteorological office (as reported in Helmut Gernsheim's Lewis Carroll: Photographer) records indicated that the weather near Oxford on July 4, 1862, was "cool and rather wet."" He includes one other period sources that confirms this, and admits that maybe Carroll and Alice are misremembering the weather.

AND THEN HE CONCLUDES BY RECOMMENDING AN ARTICLE ARGUING THAT THE WEATHER REALLY WAS HOT AND SUNNY (the article is called "The Weather on Alice in Wonderland Day, 4 July 1862, if you're curious). I love Martin Gardner's ramblings, but this one really takes the cake, and it's only the first footnote in AA. It boggles my brain in ways I can't fully express.

[mcalhenwrites]

Cal's original fiction writing list

Rascal Rascal With a stressful job as the breadwinner of the household, Hazel unwinds at home by surrendering control to his trustworthy partner, Ferdinand. The youngest "Raston Rascal" is under pressure to follow in his father's footsteps. It includes everything from his job to his hobbies to his lifestyle choices. But when there's a new airship being built, one that the Rastons have invested in, Hazel finds a growing interest in the vessel for all the wrong reasons. Rascal Short Stories: Ravish Him Hazel Raston might have been a little drunk when he first spotted Ferdinand Aletto standing by the nearest exit of the dormitory common room. So drunk, in fact, that he snagged Sinclair’s sleeve and hissed much too loudly in his ear, “Who is he? I want to ravish him.” Specifically, Hazel wanted to rip the stranger’s buttons off his shirt with his teeth and lick his chest down to his navel until he had his cock in his mouth. Ungrateful Little Princeling The first time Hazel is ever called an Ungrateful Little Princeling. The insult follows him into adulthood, as do the unpleasant memories. Eda, Darling After her lawyers contact Willie, Edith Anne goes home to face her future ex-husband. Woeful Spring Colds Ferdinand can always count on Hazel to take care of him when he has a cold. In turn, Hazel can count on Ferdinand to paint his ass red whenever they're no longer sick. A year spent together, as always Ferdinand and Hazel are content to spend a lifetime together - even other lifetimes, if permitted. A collection of monthly prompt oneshots from Year of the OTP. all to see you smile Hazel/Ferdinand consensual whipping boy AU. Seasons Seasons Howie Liddell and his siblings are born from wishes their father made during different seasons. But as the years pass, and Howie realizes no one in his family is aging, questions arise. It has been almost two centuries since Howie was born from the first fallen leaf of autumn. His fathers continue to raise Howie and his brothers as if they were small children. When a strange woman starts to appear, mysteries about their past begin coming to light. Seasons Short Stories: Summer in Snow The cruel words and treatment chase Shannon away from home, but the person who mistreats him is the one to bring him back when he runs. Stolen Summer Songs Human babies aren't usually born from cicada shells, but this child isn't human. There are no guides for how to parent a Season, and the fathers are left to wonder exactly how to keep their child alive. The Unfinished Gift We know about the rattan cane. We’ve seen it several times. He’s threatened us numerous times with it, fetching it on occasion to send it whooshing down through air. Something to give us a sense of the impact it would have on our hides were it to land. It is always returned to the umbrella stand afterward. I don’t think he plans to wag it around as a warning this time. Summer's Storm Despair sweeps through me like howling wind. My arms ache as if fighting against the gale, and only then do I realize it’s not an emotion but a physical sensation against my skin. My magic has responded to my grief. Above me, storm clouds brew. The village boys glance up, appalled by the sudden change in the weather. They yell at one another. I can’t make out their words. Only their sense of panic. How to Love When he's little, his parents mean the world to him.But he doesn't mean the world to them.

Geckos, Automata Short Stories: Dancing Bones A glimpse into Julian's growing relationship with necromancy in his youth. Don't Julian's pleas are always silent, but one day, a stranger speaks up for him and says the words he can't. Stand-alone Short Stories: Umbrella Spider A spider with umbrellas for legs helps the local humans stay dry in bad weather, but they aren't always so kind to him. Train Cats A city with a unique tourist attraction: giant cats roam freely, and the citizens accommodate them. The Sky Market A grandmother falls in love with the woman selling crafts. Sanctuary A group of werewolves takes in and raises an abused little girl. Mish's Dolls Every doll Mish crochets and adds a heart to comes alive. Bridge of Affinity Two young girls - one a monster and the other a human - bond over their shared love of stationary and cats. Audra Grief can be consuming, but it helps when you're visited by a cat who can heal people's hearts.

[admiringalice]

Considering that Alice is based on her real-life counterpart, how would the story play out if her two sisters—Lorina (who is in the story unnamed) and Edith—joined her in Wonderland? I hope someday I can make two what-if stories centering around the sisters respectively. I could imagine Edith, who's the youngest out of the Liddell sisters, would enjoy floating down the rabbit hole as she plays around with her parachute dress

Having her two sisters with her would put Alice in the middle of two persons with qualities she shares: sensibility and desire for order (embodied by her older sister) and her childlike wonder and curiosity (embodied by her younger sister). Her two sisters would have those qualities turned up to a greater degree, which might make Alice have to be a voice of reason. It would make for an interesting story, though I might prefer Alice alone or just with a single other companion as, I think, some of the appeal of the Alice stories is Alice encountering whatever Wonderland throws at her, making mistakes or wise choices, and learning from the results. With her sisters on the journey with her, the attention might go more on her siblings.

[doriangray1789]

Alice in harikalar diyarında ki gerçek hikayesi

alice in wonderland... kanımca yazılmış en güzel masaldır. ama bunun yanısıra hakkında çoğumuzun bilmediği güzel detayları da barındırır. bu detaylar bilindiğinde zaten kusursuz olan bu masal daha da güzelleşiyor.

masala ismini veren "alice" gerçek bir karakterdir ve gerçek ismi alice liddel'dir

alice'in babası university of oxford'da matematik bölümü başkanı ve masalın yazarı lewis carroll'da aynı bölümde matematik hocası. bu arada lewis carroll bir mahlas. yazarın gerçek ismi "charles dodgson" henry liddel (alice in babası) ile lewis carroll aynı zamanda çok iyi iki arkadaş.

bir başka ilginç detay ise alice ve lewis'in aynı sinir hastalığından muzdarip olmaları

hastalığın adı "todd syndrome". bu hastalığa sahip bir insan sık sık halüsinasyon görmekte, bunun yanında da objeleri olduğundan çok daha büyük ya da çok daha küçük algılamakta.

hikaye, lewis tarafından alice ve kardeşlerine ilk defa 1862'de nehirde yaptıkları bir tekne gezisinde spontane anlatılmış. alice ve tüm aile hikayeden o kadar hoşlanmışlar ki bu gezi sonrasında her bir araya geldiklerinde lewis carroll'dan hikayeyi tekrar anlatmasını istemişler. chester kedisi ve kötü kalpli kupa kraliçesi aslında orijinal anlatımda yok. fakat lewis carroll hikaye sıkıcı olmasın diye her anlattığında içine yeni karakterler eklemiş.

1864 senesinde bir noel akşamı aile yine ısrarla aynı hikayeyi anlatmasını isteyince lewis caroll aynı hikayeyi ilk defa bugünkü haliyle anlatmış. eve döndüğünde ise kendisi de anlattığı hikayenin zenginliğinden etkilenmiş olsa gerek, hikayeyi yazıya dökmüş.

masala ilk olarak "alice in elf land" ismini veren lewis yazdığı hikayeyi beş kopya yapmış ve dördünü alice ve ailesine hediye etmiş (birini de kendisine saklamış). fakat alice masalın ismini beğenmemiş ve "alice in wonderland" olmasını istediğini söyleyince lewis carroll onu kırmamış ve masalın ismini değiştirmiş.

masal aslında 368 sayfalık mükemmel bir macera romanı

kötü karakter belli, iyi karakter apaçık ortada, mesaj kaygısı gütmeden sadece eğlenmek amacıyla okunsun diye kaleme alındığını, lewis'in kendi günlüğünde yazanlardan anlıyoruz.

kitap ilk defa 1865 senesinde basılıyor ve bir anda zamanının en çok satan kitabı haline geliyor.

kraliçe victoria'nın da eline geçen kitap onun tarafındanda çok beğeniliyor. (hatta bir efsaneye göre uzun bir süre devamlı yanında taşıyıp beraberinde ki hizmetlilere sesli okutuyormuş.) fakat efsane olmayan gayet gerçek bir detay daha var. o da kraliçe'nin lewis carroll la tanışmak istemesi. ingilizceyi bu denli güzel kullanan biriyle bir an önce tanışabilmek için şehrin en ileri gelen sanatçıları, edebiyatçıları, bilim insanlarını davet edeceği bir balo düzenlemiş. elbette bir davetiyede lewis'e ulaşmış. tuhaf olan ise lewis carroll'ın (kendi günlüklerinden anladığımız kadarıyla) kraliçeyi hiç sevmemesi. fakat emir büyük yerden. katılmış davete. hem de alice ve alice'in anne-babasıyla birlikte.

davetin ortalarında bir yerde kraliçe lewis carroll un yanına yaklaşmış ve ona "kitabınızdan çok etkilendim, eğer sizin için de bir mahsuru yoksa bir sonra ki kitabınızı bana adamanızı istiyorum"demiş. dedik ya emir demiri keser. "seve seve kraliçem, bu benim için çok büyük bir onur olur" diye cevap vermiş lewis carroll. zaman geçmiş lewis carroll yeni kitabını yazmış ve kitabın ilk sayfasına "majesteleri kraliçe victoria'a adanmıştır" diyede bir not ekletmiş.

yukarıda da belirtmiştim, lewis carroll bir mathematic profesörü ve alice in wonderland'den sonra yazdığı ilk kitap bir matematik kitabı, ismi ise "an elementary treatise on determinants, with their application to simultaneous linear equations and algebraic equations"... kraliçenin bu densizliğe karşı verdiği tavır bilinmese de çok mutlu olmadığı tahmin edilebilir bir durum.

bu arada lewis carroll'n çektiği birçok alice, ve alice ile kardeşlerinin olduğu fotoğraf günümüze kadar ulaşabilmiş.

bu resimde alice en sağda, ortada "ina" solda ise "edith"

bu resimde de, alice'in kendisi

[non-reader]

The Original Alice

This month i picked up this small book called The Original Alice by Sally Brown. It is a short biography about Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and how he came to create The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland. I picked up this book because I do want to read his book and wanted to know more about him. I've only read a little of The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland, but I've heard a great deal about Lewis Carroll.

There tends to be a lot of miss information about him, his works, and his reason for creating the works, so here's the basic gist of it. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) was a mathematician working at Christ Church. Oxford when he met the Liddells. He became friends with the three daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Liddell: Lorina, Alice, and Edith. The biggest issue that most people have with this friendship is that Dodgson was 24 when he met the girls and the sisters were still children.

He would often take the girls on outings and tell them stories. Eventually, Dodgson got into photography and began to take pictures of the girls. Though it is not in this book, there are sources that say he took pictures of the girls naked sometimes. It is unclear if this was meant to be predatory or simply an act of this time, however it does give off major red flags.

Alice was his favorite and main source of inspiration when it came to his stories. She would ask him to write down the stories he would tell her so she can have her own to read. It was then he wrote the collection of stories called Alice's Adventures Under Ground.

A bit later, when he began to take his writings more seriously and began writing The Adventure's of Alice in Wonderland, Mrs. Liddell began to separate the girls from Dodgson and proceeded to cut contact with him. She grew suspicious of how close Dodgson was with the girls and believed he had inappropriate interests in Lorina, the eldest of the sisters. Because of this, many have come to the conclusion that Dodgson was a predator and a pedophile.

Soon he eventually had his first work published and it was a success. It wasn't until after he published his second book, Through the Looking Glass, that Dodgson was able to the Liddell sisters again. Though Dodgson was happy to see them again, he was disappointed to see that Alice wasn't the happy little girl she used to be. He couldn't make her smile like he used to when she was younger, which bothered him.

I find the story of Dodgson to be interesting because his life does greatly revolve around his experiences with children as an adult. Finishing this book, which had a neutral perspective of him, along with the info from people I hear who are for ang against him, I've come to the conclusion that he's like a creepy uncle that adults are nervous about but children love. The reason why we don't have more information on him to fully come to the conclusion as to whether or not he was a predator was because a lot of his diaries, pictures, and works were either burned by his family after his death or as lost.

It was a light read that gave me good information and a better idea about his life. It has his diary entries and rough drafts of his works scattered about. It was interesting to see the original sketches and compare them to the final more well known illustrations we know. I am not sure how widely available this book is, but I would suggest it to anyone who likes to read up about famous authors.

[internatlvelvet]

Liddell Sisters

[princesssarisa]

Oc Info Questions: Alice Lidell

I don't normally do this for real people. But since she's also a famous fictionalized heroine, and since yesterday was both her birthday and the day she journeyed through Wonderland, I'll give answers that combine information about the real Alice and the fictionalized Alice.

FULL NAME: Alice Pleasance Liddell (later Hargreaves).

NICKNAME(S): N/A

FACECLAIM: Take your pick between the real girl...

...or Sir John Tenniel's illustration of the books' Alice...

...or Disney's Alice...

...or any other filmed or illustrated version of her you like.

BIRTH: May 4, 1852.

DEATH: November 16, 1934.

ZODIAC SIGN: Taurus.

SEXUALITY: Heterosexual (she married a man, at any rate).

GENDER: Female.

ORIGIN: Westminster, London, England.

NATIONALITY: British.

FAMILY: Henry Liddell (father), Lorina Reeves Liddell (mother), Lorina "Ina" Liddell, Edith Liddell, Rhoda Liddell, Violet Liddell (sisters), Edward Henry "Harry" Liddell, Frederick Liddell, Lionel Liddell (brothers).

And in her adulthood, after Wonderland and Looking-Glass Land:

Reginald Hargreaves (husband), Alan Hargreaves, Leopold "Rex" Hargreaves, Caryl Hargreaves (sons).

CHARACTERISTICS:

+ Imaginative, lively, adventurous, polite, friendly, intelligent, thoughtful, brave, determined, funny.

– Rash, careless, sometimes innocently callous, knows less than she thinks she does.

WEAPON OF CHOICE: Words.

OTHER PERSONAL INFO: This girl is so much more than just an audience surrogate. On one level she's an ordinary, well-bred, sensible child, thrust into a world where nothing follows the rules she takes for granted. But her inner monologues and Carroll's narration reveal that she's very imaginative and quirky in her own right, only "normal" compared to the Wonderland and Looking-Glass creatures. Underneath her prim and proper Victorian surface, she's most definitely the type of girl whose dreaming mind could create those fantastical lands.

[doc-avalon]

NAME: Rabbit or Hare, when the mystic or divine aspect of an animal is the subject that animal’s name is used, only it is capitalized, so there are rabbits and hares, and there is Rabbit and Hare, depending on the word used in the culture in question.

Some hare or rabbit gods & goddesses are

- Hittavainen the Finnish god of Hares,

- Kaltes, the Siberian goddess of the moon who often took the form of a hare,

- Jade Rabbit, who pounds out medicine on the moon for the Chinese the moon goddess Chang'e

- Ometotchtli (Two Rabbits,) Aztec god of fertility, parties & drunkeness who led 400 other Rabbit gods known as the Centzon Totochtin,

- Kalulu, (Central African) Trickster god.

- Nanabozho (Great Rabbit,) an Ojibwe deity who took part in the creation of the world.

We might also add Frith, the god of the rabbits, in the novel Watership Down.

(Note how many double sounds we have in the Hare & Rabbit god/desses above)

SYMBOLS: Depends on the culture; some are such things as colored eggs, several different glyphs and icons, and the “lucky” rabbit’s foot, which, if done right, should only come from a rabbit caught and killed in a graveyard on the night of the Full Moon on a Friday (New Moon according to some, and some say it has to be raining!) and only the left hind foot is to be taken.

One very prominent one that stretches from China, through the Middle East, to Europe is the three hares or the three rabbits in China.

The image is so old that its exact meaning is lost and consists of a circular motif that features three hares or rabbits, either chasing each other or running around in a circle. Each of the ears is shared by two animals so that only three ears are shown, forming a triangle.

While common. Its origin and meaning are uncertain; it is also unknown if this image spontaneously sprang up in the places where it appearers or moved from the East to the West or West to the East.

However, the earliest occurrences seem to have occurred in cave temples in China, dating to the sixth to seventh centuries. One of the latest ones is a coin from Iran dated around 1300.

In England, the three racing hares are almost always found next to the Green Man, a symbol known for its links to paganism.

Whatever the case, whether they are rabbits or hares, for critters running around in a circle, they have been able to travel a very long way!

USUAL IMAGE: Depends on the culture, but pretty much all of them focus on the long ears. Though the Aztecs also give Rabbit fangs!

HOLY DAYS:

- First Sunday following the first ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or after the day of the vernal equinox; this particular ecclesiastical full moon is the 14th day of a tabular lunation (new moon), and the vernal equinox is fixed as March 21.

- July 4th, date in 1862 on which the story “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” arose with the appearance of the White Rabbit as told by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, during a boat trip on the river Isis (the local name for the stretch of the Thames that flows through Oxford) from Oxford to Godstow with his friend Robinson Duckworth, and the sisters Alice, Lorina and Edith Liddell

- July 27, Bugs Bunny’s Birthday

- The first day of each month; see below.

FORM OF WORSHIP: Originally Welsh, the custom has spread and varies from place to place; the essential folk tradition is the saying of either Rabbit or Rabbits, or White Rabbits once or three times on the first day of the month; variations are saying Bunny, or Black Rabbit the last day of the month before going to bed, and White Rabbit on waking up on the first.

This is supposed to bring good luck; however, if you say Rabbit a second time that first day or hear someone else say it before you, it brings bad luck.

This peculiar folk belief, in its many other permutations in the method to be performed, survives to this day.

GODS & GODDESSES ASSOCIATED WITH RABBITS OR HARES: Eostre or Ostara (Anglo-Saxon) / Chang, ‘e (Chinese) / Ixchel (Mayan) / Hecate (Greek) / Okuninushi (Japan) / Venus (Roman) / Freyja, who had hare attendants (Norse) / Cerridwen (Celtic) / Andraste (Britain) / Holda, who had a whole troop of hares that carried torches for her. (Teutonic.) / Orion, whose hounds chase the constellation Lepus / Windmaker (Sioux) / The Buddha, who, as he was dying, called for all of the animal kingdoms, one the 12 that showed up was Rabbit, earning Rabbit a place in the Chinese Zodiac.

RABBITS & HARES FROM FOLK & POP CULTURE WHO HAVE FOUND A PLACE IN THE PUBLIC’S MIND:

Brer Rabbit in the Uncle Remus stories by Joel Chandler Harris were all based not on African but Cherokee tales of Rabbit.

Bunnicula carrot-sucking vampire bunny (Deborah & James Howe)

Peter Cottontail (Thornton Burgess)

Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Bunny, the Flopsy Bunnies, the Fierce Bad Rabbit, and others (Beatrix Potter)

St. Peter Cottontail, the first and true pope (South Park)

Rabbit, one of Winnie the Pooh’s posse (A. A. Milne)

Uncle Wiggily's subject of stories and an old board game (Howard R. Garis)

The Velveteen Rabbit

Hazel-rah, Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry, Dandelion, Pipkin, Silver, Speedwell, Hawkbit, Buckthorn, Acorn, and all the rest from Watership Down and El-Ahrairah & the Black Rabbit of Inie (Richard Adams)

The White Rabbit & the March Hare (Lewis Carroll)

One unlucky bunny in Of Mice and Men

Bugs Bunny, the American Trickster god

Frank, the 7-foot-tall apocalyptic rabbit in Donnie Darko

Harvey (actually a pooka) in Harvey

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Walt Disney’s main hero before Mickey Mouse

The Rabbit of Caerbannog from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Roger Rabbit, originally a cynical disillusioned Toon actor (a separate species from humans) who committed suicide in the 1983 novel, Who Framed Roger Rabbit by Gary K. Wolf (no spoiler warning needed, this all happens in the first chapter!). Turned into the very type of stereotypical cartoon rabbit that the Roger of the novel despised in a much more famous film set in 1947 that was totally unlike the novel.

Thumper, Disney’s Bambi

Bunny Rabbit, Mister Moose’s pal from Captain Kangaroo

Crusader Rabbit is the favorite cartoon of Elvis.

The Duracell Bunny Energizer Bunny

Mr. Herriman from Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends

The Trix rabbit

Binky Binkenstein from Life in Hell

Bun Rab in Pogo

Captain Carrot, leader of the “funny-animal” superhero group the Zoo Crew

Cutey Bunny from Army Surplus Komikz

Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, a member of the Marvel Family

Max from Sam & Max, “ground level” black and white comic book.

Snowball from The Secret Life of Pets.

Officer Judy Hopps from Zootopia

Alice and Thistle from Alice's Farm: A Rabbit's Tale by Maryrose Wood

And many, many others.

DETAILS: Most animals are regarded as sacred or manifestations of the divine to some degree or other in the past among some people.

It's easy to figure out the bear or horse for its ferocity or strength, the dog because of its loyalty, the cat because of its mysterious nature, eagles, hawks, and other birds for flight, and even the lowly spider because of its ability to spin webs.

Therefore it stands to reason that rabbits and hares would show up somewhere on the sacred radar screen as well.

The question, I think, is why have these creatures, who are one of the few to serve as pets, pests, and food simultaneously, gained such a prominent place in world myth, legend, and religion while other animals we are closer to show up less, or have less esteem?

Why have they found a place beside so many gods and goddesses that a dog, cat, or horse would more logically fill?

Is it their fertility? Their seeming ability to survive in a world where almost everything else seems to want to eat them? Their speed? Their agility? Perhaps it’s that they remind us of ourselves.

Small creatures in a larger hostile world with no allies and the companion of nothing, yet able to survive and multiply.

It’s a thought, and if that is the case, it seems that our ancestors might have been on the money; a recent study has shown that rabbits and hares are not as closely related to rodents as was thought but are, in fact, closer to primates.

Perhaps it’s just those ears.

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40 Day Anime Challenge  Day 19- Something you ship that makes absolutely no sense: Alice Liddell and Peter White from Alice in the Country of Hearts (2011)

Synopsis (paraphrased from fandom.com: Alice Liddell is kidnapped to  Wonderland and thrust into a "game," where the only way to return home is to get acquainted with Wonderland’s denizens. However, her attractive, weapon happy new friends are embroiled in a power struggle that may kill her first!

Warning: I know this is a post about anime, but in this case I will say DON’T WATCH THE ANIME! They adapted a 10-route otome game that took a 6-volume manga and 9 spin off series into an 85-minute movie. Needless to say, it’s terrible. Play the game or read the manga.

*MAJOR Spoilers Ahead*

Yes, Peter kidnapped Alice and brought her to this dangerous world. Yes, he constantly disrespects her boundaries. (To be fair, so do most of the other characters.) And yes, his attitude is really annoying. So, why do I ship this?

All based on a headcannon that isn’t even true. Peter was the only one who saw Alice in her world, and it’s explained in the manga that he brought Alice to Wonderland to rescue her from a tragedy in her world, that she doesn’t remember that her sister Lorina is dead, and that in order to bring her there, she couldn’t remember him from the Sunday afternoons in her world. My musings started when @sailorstarr-chan4​ told me she believes Alice killed her sister, which is why she feels guilt about her sister but cannot remember that she’s dead. And it made so much sense I couldn’t let it go.

Now, why would Alice kill her sister? We know she constantly compares herself to her sister and has incredibly low self esteem, and that she was dumped for her sister. Given Alice’s character, I don’t think these motivations alone are enough for her to kill her sister. However, let’s think about the life of the real Alice Liddell. She was the middle child of a well to do family, and thus routinely ignored. She received romantic attention from Lewis Carroll when she was 10. Something happened that led her parents to cut contact with him, and while that something has never become public knowledge, the rumors about it ended her engagement to the love of her life, Prince Leopold. Looks to me like someone was abused as a child and blamed for it later. So back to our anime/manga/game, why would her sister be the target of her rage? My theory is more fleshed out in this fic I wrote, but read the trigger warnings first!

But, after reading Peter’s spin-off and playing his route, I found no evidence to support either theory. In fact, his route didn’t even mention that Lorina was dead. But then I read this true end summary, and while her sister is confirmed dead, neither me or Star’s theories are true. The truth is actually way more boring. She blames herself for Lorina’s death (who died of illness) but blames herself after being blamed by her younger sister Edith simply because she cannot cry at the funeral. Just because she processes grief differently, she is blamed and blames herself. That’s the despair that Peter wanted to save her from when he kidnapped her. I mean, I’m glad she didn’t go through what I thought she did, but still...kind of underwhelming.

So, that’s basically why I ship Alice and Peter, because in my mind, he’s the one who saves her from trauma. And he still is, it’s just not as dramatic as I thought. And by bringing her to the Country of Hearts and making her forget the truth, he’s impeding her ability to process her grief and move forward, so really, how much of a hero is he to her? I ship them because I see Peter as Alice’s hero, but that opinion doesn’t make much sense anymore.

Also, the true ending shows that Nightmare had a role in bringing Alice to the Country of Hearts, and it’s unclear who’s idea it was originally to bring her there, so who is really her “savior?” And it’s revealed that all the characters loved her and tried to make her happy because of what she’d been through. So, if everyone knew, then any of them could have been with her based on my trauma bonding/healing ship dynamic. 

HOWEVER...I still ship it.