#The Glass Castle

[fairycosmos]

the glass castle by jeannette walls

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Brie Larson

Harper’s Bazaar

Photography by Collier Schorr

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Sadie Sink is destined to play characters with family issues, sometimes including an alcoholic mother and a dead sibling

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Sandra Castle

Parent's Story: The Glass Mountain

Powerful Qualities: Loving, romantic, trustworthy

Roommate: Rosalie Peyton

Secret Heart’s Desire: I would love to live somewhere closer to the ground. I love my castle, but living on a mountain made of glass is pretty terrifying sometimes you know?

My “Magic” Touch: Because I grew up on a mountain made of glass, my steps are very dainty and quiet. Trust me, the last thing you want is a whole mountain to have one tiny crack in it.

Storybook Romance Status: I know as much as the next princess that every girl in EAH has a crush on Daring Charming, but Ben Bernhardt is pretty cute right?

“Oh Curses!” Moment: My steps are so quiet, I sometimes scare people by accident.

Favorite Subject: Castle Design

Least Favorite Subject: Experimental Fairy Math

Best Friends Forever After: Alanna Dale, Irene of Augen, and Sweetie Plumfairy.

Pet: Ola the Eagle

[supernutellastuff]

Yooo I just read station eleven it was fantastic

(saw your tag on a post)

Also I really want to see those graphic novels it’s a shame they’re not real

Hiii I love Station Eleven so much. I can go on for years about it!

I first read it in December 2019, when news of coronavirus was just breaking. So that was obviously an anxiety-provoking experience haha. And then I re-read it last year, "post pandemic", and it holds up so well! Apocalyptic/sci-fi stories that centre the beauty of humanity, art, music, culture, cooperation, community, etc is one of my fav genres (re Mad Max Fury Road, Arrival, etc.). And yes my favourite bit was those graphic novels, it was so satisfying to read how she came up with the idea, the description of the text and the artwork - and it was brilliant to see how it touched multiple lives. I want to read them too!

Have you watched the HBO show based on the book? I still haven't, I'm a little scared it might not capture the book's essence haha. Also, I recommend the author's other books - Glass Castle and Sea of Tranquility - they don't reach the heights of Station Eleven imo but they're still pretty good, and they're set in parallel/overlapping timelines so some familiar characters turn up :)

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[mamuscript]

Who Are Your 5?

If you could get five (5) living authors in a room together, to interview or to give you writing advice or just to hang out with and drink excessively with or whatever you want (not like that), who would they be?

My choices:

Neil Gaiman Fonda Lee Jeannette Walls T.J. Klune Shannon Chakraborty

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[willowsfanarts]

lets go higher and higher - latest artwork

[fairycosmos]

the glass castle by jeannette walls

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Books I'm considering next

I mentioned before I add a new book every 5 sim years in my bookish save.. I'm torn about what book to add in next for Year 55. I know It seems too soon to be thinking about it bc I'm posting Year 50 right now, but in actuality I'm halfway through playing Year 53 so I need to give myself some time to finish reading and do prep like take notes, make a timeline.

Below are the ones I'm currently considering. They each have things about them that I really want to play and things about them that would be difficult to show with sims. Opinions welcome! I would love if somebody just tells me they have a clear favorite and then I don't have to decide lol.

In alphabetical order (info on each after the cut)

Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys (memoir)

Dust Child (historical fic)

Magic Lessons and the Practical Magic trilogy (fantasy)

Refugee High (nonfic)

Salvage the Bones ; Sing, Unburied Sing (fic)

She's Not There (memoir)

The Glass Castle ; Half Broke Horses (memoir)

To Kill A Kingdom (fantasy)

War and Speech (YA)

Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys (memoir of Viv Albertine, member of British female punk rock group The Slits. I'm interested in the aesthetics of this. She's also dated Mick from The Clash, has been friends with various ppl like Sid Vicous. But should I hold out for the possibility of a bands EP or GP in the future? And there's another memoir of hers I could also read before playing. It's more focused on her family rather than her music career)

Dust Child (historical fiction about a half Vietnamese half black man who is trying to find out who his father is in the present time intertwined with the story of two sisters who leave their small town to become bar girls in Saigon in past time. I actually haven't read this yet but I became interested in playing something with a Vietnamese storyline because of the tumblr @biplusco . Their Indochine cc collection made me want to play something set in Southeast Asia.

Magic Lessons; The Book of Magic; The Rules of Magic; Practical Magic (trilogy and a prequel following the Owens family of witches since the 1600s. You may know the movie Practical Magic. Of these books I've read Practical Magic and half of Magic Lessons but haven't read The Book of Magic or The Rules of Magic yet. The main issue here is 4 books is a lot to take notes about and make timelines for before playing through. Plus, starting from the late 1600s all the way to more current times at the speed I play will mean I never finish! But maybe I could JUST play the prequel.)

Refugee High (nonfiction about the high school in the U.S. with the highest percentage of refugees. The author chose some students, each from a different country, to delve into the lives of. Could be interesting depicting each one's past in sims before they end up together in Copperdale High School. But I've only just started reading this one.)

Salvage the Bones; Sing, Unburied, Sing (fictions both by Jesmyn Ward and they take place in the same town. The characters even cross paths at one point. I love her writing so much but a key part of one book is a hurricane and the other book mostly takes place in a car so I don't know if I can do this well in Sims 4 as the game is rn)

She's Not There (memoir, gender transition. I might want to read her other book called Good Boy about every dog she's had in her life first so I can play both together and have each of the pets join the family at the right times)

The Glass Castle; Half Broke Horses (both by Jeannette Walls. The Glass Castle is a really popular memoir about the author's nomadic upbringing with parents who eventually choose to be homeless. Half Broke Horses is her biography of her maternal grandmother. That one mostly takes place on ranches. What happens in The Glass Castle basically picks up right after what happens in Half Broke Horses.)

To Kill A Kingdom (fiction, fantasy, mermaids and princes. This one I'm worried about my lack of cc for. I want to play out a fantasy book at some point but I haven't done any collecting of fantasy cc whatsoever yet so it might take a while to accumulate it )

War and Speech (a humorous YA book about a high school girl, new to a school, who joins the super snobby speech team just to try to bring them down from the inside.)

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Not to complain and be like idk rude? or like one of those people that like..idk but fuck whoever decided to turn Glass Castle into a movie. The book was traumatizing enough and those poor child actors we should burn every copy of that book cause it sucks ass and idk anyone who likes that book, vomitrocious. And it's on Netflix no I will not be watching it I just want to bitch about it cause I can. My friends and I called it "The Ass Cast" and every time we had to read out of it we would chuckle. Like not to get into it but I was not the only one that had issues reading that book but lord did my teacher really push the traumatic events on me. And then he was like 'when the movie comes out I'm taking the class to see it together' idk if that happened cause we all graduated and I def didn't fucking go

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it's strange to have read Jeanette Walls' The Glass Castle and immediately follow it up with Jennette McCurdy's I'm Glad My Mom Died.

(thank you Tumblr for an easy time italicizing that. if I fucked up one of their names I hope God smites me dead. and soon.)

they both had very narcissistic parents, you really hate their parents for them. to me Rex Walls, the dad, and ms cancer mom, Debra, are the problem parent. Jennette is under so much control (and I should admit rosemary is shit but she's a whole other problem I won't get into right now) and forrce from her mother her whole life, while rex has such a lack of control and discipline, which forces Jeanette into survival mode. she works to live with desperation and the whole time her dad's "cheering her on" from the sidelines not contributing anything whatsoever. in fact actively harming via neglect. Both people have a problem seeing reality. it takes. a certain amount of attention to raise a child. throwing them to the wolves is bad. training them to do everything you dreamed of and allowing no dreams of their own also pretty fucked up. I think these fuckers are like bad soup. it's not hard to make a decent soup or get one from a damn can. it's a struggle to make bad soup. and yet, here we are, drinking sock water.

ahem

they don't let their children find their identity. they force them into roles. Jenn, Netty, nett, is the actor, the child, the forever baby. Mountain Goat ?? ms Jean is a golden child but also a parent-ified kid cause she has to be the one to tell the adults what to do. they literally won't even listen half the time. she s not even your mother why does she have to scold you like she is

like the lesson is, when kids want to be treated like adults, they should be. but not all the time and not your own fuckin kids lmao

it shouldn't be hard to be a better parent than most. to be an average pearrent, at least. it takes a certain person to fuck up your child so bad they write a memoir focusing on the fucked up things you did.

it's so hard to tell what is good and bad from inside that life, but when you shine a light on those behaviors, you can see the patterns and recognize the dangers.

when you tell your story it hurts, admitting you lived this bad. you see the errors of your parents ways. you realize they're not the god they acted like they were. it's bittersweet to have lived it. you have those painful moments but all the good memories too. and the days they showed up. but these sorts of days should be the rule, not the exception.

next up I'm gonna watch Matilda and think harder about all this. currently accepting any other book recommendations about an abused little kid and their parents.

[ivymeowmeow]

this book makes my brain flurry with so many emotions and thoughts. reading sometimes feels overwhelming and suffocating; by defining and resonating with another’s experience and words, it can force you to grapple with experiences and emotions of your own. it feels so heavy to connect to characters and get a glimpse into another world. the glass castle is so profound and omg my little goldfish brain is fried. i can’t comprehend how this story is real and how it has managed to make me think and feel so many things all at once; how these words transcend a page and has given me chills it feels so visceral. god it hurts so good just like god intended! also here is what this book sounds like

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