Peter Pan readthrough

I met up with many many strange people (as in strangers - although they are all strange, too, in a deeply wonderful way) yesterday for fluffymark's birthday party and a readthrough of Peter Pan, which was a fantastic success. Highlights included: andrewwyld's remarkably eloquent (and grammatical!) Tinkerbell (and his suggestion "drink every time someone says something gender-bending!"), mirabehn's casually cruel Peter (and beautiful tin whistle playing), the dialogue between Hook and Peter where Peter imitates his voice, which was done quite uncannily by mirabehn and the_alchemist, quite how many rude bits there are if you're looking for them, and robert_jones proving to be very very good on the piano.

Many thanks to the_alchemist for having the idea and putting all the effort into organising (and for having the most extravagant costume by a mile), fluffymark for hosting it, and everyone else for being there and being so damn talented!

I'd already started in on the alcohol during the readthrough, and toppled about afterwards being what Ellie described the next morning as a "delightful, inoffensive drunk" - which probably means embarrassing - before passing out on the sofa at about 11pm. I didn't regain consciousness until the next morning (someone actually had to put me to bed - thankyou so much, I'm so sorry) and don't remember a thing after about half past ten, which is incredibly disconcerting. I've been hungover all day but it was very much worth it, although it's stupid to drink so much at parties and miss most of them (I even missed the non-sexual stroking orgy! although we had something similar this morning with many soft toys and foot massages and toast and tea, so I don't feel quite so left out.) Remind me not to in future, especially on the back of an unusually anxious and sleep-deprived week five ...

Anyway, photos. These were very dark, so I've upped the brightness on a lot of them which has made them grainy. Sorry about that. But rah!

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