She just knows she’s in deep doody. Trying her hardest to appear innocent and regretful.
‘Butter wouldn’t melt’, my arse.
Giving off that look of “they might have got it wrong cos i’m not so sure i’m meant to be here”
Meanwhile poor papa Jones is getting a right earful off the principal, hearing the list of things she’s done.
OHMMMG YES
meanwhile you know it’s always something completely well-meaning, not malicious or harmful, but just….pure Alice.
Like the time she freed the class pet hamster because he looked lonely and couldn’t hear the stories being read during storytime from his tank in the corner.
Or the time she accidentally started a food fight because they just learned the basics of the scientific method and later that day at lunch she was all “papa says that toast always lands butter-side down and we have to test the hypothesis!”
Just sitting there swinging her legs on the bench all ready for papa to get out of his meeting because she has to tell him that she dropped 24 pieces of toast and only 17 of them landed butter-side down and, papa, she’s a scientist now and she has to record her observations and this delay is just quite unnecessary, really.
Yesssss!!! All of this!!!!
She would also absolutely be that kid that gets in trouble for correcting her history teacher, or refusing to do the art assignment given to them because the canvas is asking her to do something else, or reading ahead in class because everyone else is just so slow. Besides, she’s already read this book, and when are we getting to something a little bit more difficult or dramatic?
She pulls a Sarah from The Little Princess and during her time to read, she adds some Jones flare to it, putting on a sort of one-woman play until the teacher blows a gasket.
–♘♜– Wake up early, get to work, catch up on paperwork, cram in a little overtime, and oh–of course–get a surprise visit from your daughter, bringing the gift of take-out dinner and proud-of-papa cheek kisses. Nothing better.
(a gift art/peace offering to the readers of my recent angstfest. a palate cleanser, if you will. i’m sorry and i love you and i hope this makes up for it ❤︎)
*please don’t edit or share outside of tumblr, thanks :)
headcanon: in the 30s when steve rogers realizes his hearing is getting worse he goes to the public library and starts teaching himself sign language. eventually bucky catches him studying there, and he looks irritated so steve thinks ‘this is it, he’s finally realized im too much of a burden to be friends with" but bucky just flops down into the seat next to steve, snags a book from steve’s pile, and says “if you’d told me before we could’ve learned together, you idiot, now I have to catch up with you.”
later, when he’s in ct touring with the uso, a bunch of kids from the american school for the deaf are there, and when he’s meeting ppl the teacher tells him they’re deaf and he immediately starts signing with the kids, and they are so excited bc Captain America Speaks Sign Language
Okay, for this one I read The Child Thief by Gerard Brom. I am a huge fan of Peter Pan, and I’ve read Barrie’s original work several times. And one thing I’ve always loved are the adaptations on this story. I guess there’s something really appealing about the boy who never grows up, because it seems to inspire a lot of adaptations.
Here’s what I liked abut the book: It was dark af. This is absolutely not a children’s story. The story itself takes place in modern times, with Peter the child thief stealing children away from bad situations. It’s gritty, and it’s creepy, and it’s tragic, basically the antithesis f every idea I have associated with Peter Pan. The author has truly done his research, blending Barrie’s story effortlessly with pagan myth and other legends as well as the modern world we’re all familiar with. Even the magic portrayed in the book is not the “think of a glorious thing, it’s the same as having wings” kind that Disney touted, but instead a more traditional portrayal, something chaotic, that changed you, whether for the better or worse.
SIDE NOTE: Peter’s character is brilliant because it really shows his childishness, his inability to grow up. He’s playful and mischievous but also cruel and selfish, because that’s how children are. He never stops to think of consequences, only doing what he feels must be done in order to further his own goals. At the same time he really cares about his Devils, he honestly doesn’t see them as expendable, and mourns every one that he looses, and they in turn consider him their savior. Despite this, in his head it is always the Lady who takes priority, and he doesn’t realise how absolutely fucked up this is until it’s physically pointed out to him. Basically, Peter is very much what you would get if you took an actual child and let him live in an ongoing war for centuries. He’s never had the opportunity to mature, and it creates this extremely flawed character, and that’s what makes it brilliant.