#the yellow wallpaper

[re-dracula]

Releasing to patrons this Wednesday...

[zeehasablog]

The Yellow Wallpaper

Based on the short story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper is short story, written as first person journal entries. The narrator is experiencing severe depression after the birth of a child, and her husband rents a home for the Summer, with hopes she can recover. She is confined to an upstairs nursery, where we find The Yellow Wallpaper.

As a form of treatment, the husband forbids the journal writer from working or writing, and encourages her to eat well and get plenty of air so that she can recuperate from what he calls a "temporary nervous depression – a slight hysterical tendency", a common diagnosis in women at the time. (wiki)

Of course, she still writes; as she descends into madness, obsessing about the wallpaper, which appears to pull her in. Seeing a woman creeping through it.

At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars! The outside pattern I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can be. I didn’t realize for a long time what the thing was that showed behind,—that dim sub-pattern,—but now I am quite sure it is a woman... It is always the same shape, only very numerous. And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern.

SO; here, we have the beautifully created pattern by @femmefatalegoth, inspired by the wallpaper described above. See if you can find the women in its intricacy.

I have added cornices and wainscotting, and a version with cornice and baseboard only.

I really didn't want to change the colour of the wallpaper , because it's The Yellow Wallpaper. So; sorry, not sorry, to those who want it in different colours - but feel free to do it yourself if you know how!

Unfortunately, due to limitations on how the wallpaper is made up in the game, I've had to do separate files to each type of cornice & wainscot:

I added the feature to make Sims tense when they're around the wallpaper!

Anyway - I hope you like these as much as I LOVE them! The colour is very bright, and it really helps you feel like the narrator in The Yellow Wallpaper.

I highly recommend reading the story. Maybe you can relate it to how you have felt at some time - I certainly have.

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[w0rld0fbeauty]

[windwenn]

People who write novellas must be absolutely going though it bc I've never read a novella that wasnt utterly devastating. These people really have Things to Say and whats more they do it in under 200 pages.

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

project gutenberg my beloved

[tackrusso]

it's always "for god's sake what are you doing" and "why did you peel back all the wallpaper" and never How was the creeping The creeping looked fun was it fun

[spookycathymorshaw]

I wish we had more room. If your favorite isn't there, comment !

[atlantis-just-drowned]

Ok so I went to an old apartment we're renovating and started ripping the old yellow floral wallpaper

And suddenly, for a brief moment of my life I was the narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman

[insomniac-arrest]

Can’t stop thinking about HER

[houseofwomn]

[caffeinatedcatlover]

❝I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind❞

The Yellow Wallpaper is one of my favorite short stories. I highly recommend it! It’s only 10 pages and it’s in the public domain, so you can read it for free.

[teenaged-athena]

my favourite literary genre is when a woman goes absolutely insane in first person narration - i'm right there with you girlie

[madelynejpryor]

Sofia Falcone in Cent'anni (dir. Helen Shaver) | The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

[aria-greenhoodie]

“This paper looks to me as if it knew what a vicious influence it had!”

Was reading The Yellow Wallpaper for a class a few weeks ago and thought “woah this is so Abigale Blackwing-core…” so I drew it :3

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Wallpaper design alone under cut ↓ (see how many hidden Bill Ciphers you can find!)

[medusas-daughter]

damn the yellow wallpaper imagery during sofia's forceful descent into madness directly caused by the gaslighting of all the men in her family and the doctors in arkham oh how i love female directors

[newvision]

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the Yellow Wallpaper // skeleton pleading (c. 1600s) // Bob Dylan, Idiot Wind on Blood On The Tracks (1975)