i'm youth, i'm joy, i'm the little bird that's broken out of its egg!

[aikochan]

i read violet and claire and then i read peter pan, and i realized that claire really isn't like tinker bell at all, not one bit. of course she's quite faerie-girl and all but she has none of tinker bell's personality to earn her such a nickname. she's not even like the overcommercialized disneyfied tink, sassy and pouty. she's too good-natured to

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[suzanami]

why does your mood say "underscore?" i am unfamiliar with that emotion. o_O;

[aikochan]

because i didn't really have a specific mood, but the image fit it so well i wanted to use it.

[lostsailors]

I love Peter Pan. jigglykat brought it to my house a December ago to read herself in preparation of the movie coming out. One evening our power blew out due to heavy snow fall. So with a lit candle, she, my sister, mother and I lit a candle and I read it aloud. When those three fell asleep I kept reading, with just the little candle, until it was finished.
As long as I will live, I am conviced such is the only way to read Peter Pan: by candle light listening to the soft hush of soft falling outside.

I also always felt Peter Pan wasn't so much a story about boys and eternal youth as is a story of a young girl's maturation. The boys and Peter never learn or retain anything from the adventures; it's Wendy who learns to love and discovers the nature of youth and growing old. In the end, she has a daughter and Peter comes to find her- so on, and Peter almost becomes the harbinger a young girl's beginning young womanhood. Like a rite of passage.

But maybe this is just me!

What is Claire and Violet? Sounds cute.

[aikochan]

to the soft hush of soft falling outside?

*snicker*

violet and claire is a book by francesca lia block. i recently started reading her work because it came so highly recommended, but while i'm finding that i love her writing style itself, her stories tend to leave me rather cold. V&C was all right, but nothing fantastic for me. (although there were some great quotes, as usual. i think i like FLB more for isolated quotes than for entire stories.)

[suzanami]

i found it: http://www.livejournal.com/users/beizy/351417.html

[i_eat_men]

i didn't read all of peter pan. but i wanted to..i just am lazy..

but i read the beginning and the end.
and the last chapter made me sad too!!! like when they said that Mrs. Darling died and she is not forgotten.. i was sadd! i liked mrs. darling :(

oh well.. we can still dream about peter pan.. i wonder how hot he is in person ;) haha jk