#the roanoke girls

[sparksstreet]

if anyone has any recommendations for books similar to dark places by gillian flynn, sharp objects by gillian flynn, and the roanoke girls by amy engel, please send them to me!!!!

[goodbooksonly]

🥺🥺

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

[goforshexgo]

Normalize having illustrations in all kinds of books. Do you know how hard it is to imagine some things like houses especially when they're abnormal

[callmebrycelee]

HAPPY 66TH BIRTHDAY, ANGELA BASSETT!!!

[evanpeterswifeyyy]

September is for Coven / Asylum / Apocalypse rewatches, October is for Murder House / Hotel / Double Feature and November is for Roanoke / Cult / Freakshow. Idfc, I said what I said.

[newwavesylviaplath]

guys it's moms birthday today!!!! these are only SOME of my fave pics of her <3

[ahsgirlblogger]

new dvds i bought at my local record store <3

[cherrydeers]

oldish violet edit I forgot to post:')

[cxndiedvi0lets]

Guys, I might start a podcast with @serialkilluh1996 . I'm in my sophie green era.

Us exploring horrific fandoms together.

[lastfinalgirls]

Every book I read in 2023

Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel

★★★★★ / 5

[lilacisaflower]

May weekend vacays

[evanpeterswifeyyy]

Idk what timezone some of yall are in, but Taissa’s birthday is the 17th. Not the 16th. You’re a little early babes 😭

Anyways it’s midnight for me so…

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TAISSA LOVE!!!!!!

[willowsfanarts]

we are the lifeless stars shining in the dark

[beastsovrevelation]

That Evan Peters actor character had it right in Roanoke.

I mean...

I'd marry her too.

If I had the guts to ask her out in the first place

[callmebrycelee]

HAPPY 38TH BIRTHDAY, FINN WITTROCK!!!

[froody]

It burns me up that they perpetually build roads, lakes, housing developments etc. over historical Black cemeteries in the American south. It really does. The thin excuse of “urban development and progress” doesn’t change the fact that is 9/10 times you hear about a cemetery being relocated or otherwise desecrated, it was a cemetery for POC. It is an act of willful, disgusting racism and targeted disrespect towards their lives and their loved ones and descendants.

In Roanoke, I-581 is built over Big Lick Cemetery, a historical Black cemetery dating back to the 1890s containing the graves of more than 700 Black men, women and children, most of whom moved to Roanoke during The Great Migration when it was a developing railroad town. These are the graves of the people who built the city. These are the graves of people who came to make a better life for themselves and their children. The graves of the formerly enslaved, their children, their children’s children. The cemetery contains a disproportionate amount of children, even for a cemetery dating from a time when childhood mortality was high. Stillborn babies, children who died of marasmus (malnutrition) or diseases like tuberculosis and typhoid due to inhumane and cramped living conditions.

There is a road built on top of them, babies, boys, girls, men and women and no acknowledgment of their lives. Remaining undisturbed graves are visible from the road, it’s surrounded by a chain link fence and marked from the road only by a wooden sign bolted to the fence. Driving by you could not fathom the size of the cemetery or its significance or the stories of the people interred there. It’s notoriously badly kept, grown up, covered in litter, graves that are less than a century old already obscured by plant growth.

Please be mindful of the Black and Indigenous cemeteries in your area, protect historical cemeteries, protest their destruction, volunteer with cleanup and survey efforts and always be conscious that plans to develop over them are not innocuous, not an unfortunate but necessary sacrifice so your town can have a new Sheetz and a 4 lane highway. It is an act of racism.

The next time you drive through Roanoke, think of them.