User:JAQ

I am Jason A. Quest. I am the operator of this site.

This site began as research for a graphic novel I wanted to create. Yes, like so many others, I set out to write a sequel to Peter and Wendy. Even though mine was going to be anything but a mainstream media sequel along the lines of Return to Never Land or as meticulously researched as Peter Pan's NeverWorld, I wanted to make sure I didn't screw it up, by calling Wendy's brother "Matthew" or by contradicting some little-known but clearly-stated facts about fairies. And I didn't want to duplicate any story ideas that anyone else had done. So I researched.

In the process, I found myself adding what I was learning to Wikipedia, and contributed rather substantially to the development of Peter-Pan-related articles on that site. But Wikipedia has rules, about notability, neutrality, and so on. Most of them make sense for Wikipedia, which works without editorial oversight by insisting that only verifiable facts be included; any statement that can't be attributed to a published source can be removed. Because it operates internationally, with a very high profile, it errs on the side of skittish paranoia on the question of reproducing images. And any wierdo on teh intarwub can add crap to it. All of which put some serious limits on what I could accomplish there.

Fortunately, Wikipedia's license allows reuse of anything on the site, as long as you attribute the source, and you let other people reuse your material too. And I have a friend with a crush on me who is a digital wizard. Thus  was born.

My graphic novel is scripted and waiting, for a final revision and for me to decide whether to draw it myself or find an artist to work with. Meanwhile, my research has inspired two additional Peter-related works. One is a biography of Michael Llewelyn Davies, focusing on his relationships with J. M. Barrie and with Rupert Buxton, and the deaths of the two friends/lovers by drowning at the age of 21. The other is inspired by an actual meeting of the adult Peter Llewelyn Davies – who hated being "the real Peter Pan" – and the elderly Alice Hargreaves – who wasn't all that happy about being "the real Alice in Wonderland" – in the 1930s, and adds the boy Christopher Robin Milne – ditto "the real Christopher Robin" – to the mix.

(Speaking of Wonderland... doesn't the "tea party" moniker in current politics seem a bit... apt?)