#vc andrews

[asoftepiloguemylove]

WHY ARE YOU HAUNTED? // ON HAUNTED HOUSES

Frederick Kiesler Inside the Endless House // The Haunting of Hill House (2018) cr. Mike Flanagan // Lisa Robertson Magenta Soul Whip // Joan Tierney Why Are You Haunted? // V.C. Andrews // Heather Havrileskyb Haunted Womanhood // Shirley Jackson The Haunting of Hill House // The Haunting of Hill House cr. Mike Flanagan // Tracy K. Smith Ash // Anatomy (2016) cr. Kitty Horrorshow

[clem8tis]

1st ed. vc andrews covers by milton charles & gillian hills

[rosehathawhey]

Hannah Dodd and Callum Kerr in FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC: THE ORIGIN | 1x03

[lavenderhottie]

this is how i picture flowers in the attic

[dollhouse-lurker]

[dandelionapril]

Lick the Star (1998) Dir. Sofia Coppola

[johannesburchard]

imagine how insane the shenanigans would have been if corrine had died and christopher, sr. had raised the kids by himself. cuz you know that man would try to replace corrine with cathy. and of course chris, jr. would be doing the same but having to compete with their father for cathy’s love and attention. meanwhile, carrie and cory are growing closer and closer and closer as the rest of their family becomes ever more insanely obsessed with one another… and cathy, never having grown disillusioned with her mother, compares herself unfavorably to corrine’s perceived perfection and comes to hate herself for not living up to it, for not literally being corrine… damn, none of these kids ever had a chance, did they?

[bitterkarella]

Midnight Pals: A Tragic Romance

King: gosh joanne sure has been trending a while on twitter King: like, for almost a week straight Poe: oo Poe: er Poe: that's King: yeah that's not good Poe: that's very bad Poe: i don't think it's healthy Poe: it does things to you

Vladmir Nabokov: ok i got a story Nabokov: but i'm only gonna tell it if you all promise not to be mad at me Poe: we promise Nabokov: you promise? Nabokov: you all have to say it Poe: we all promise King: sure we promise Barker: promise Nabokov: swear i

Vladimir Nabokov: ok this is the story of the guy who raised his own child bride Piers Anthony: why would you say something so controversial and yet so brave

King: wow jeez um Nabokov: but before you all get mad at me Nabokov: keep in mind that the narrator is unreliable King: i dunno this really seems kinda... Nabokov: unreliable, goddamnit! unreliable!

King: wow this story seems pretty out there King: and you endorse this kind of thing? Nabokov: unreliable, dammit! i said unreliable! King: cuz i don't think we can approve of this Nabokov: oh my GOD

Nabokov: you had a baby clown gangbang King: WHOA now you're taking that scene WAY out of context vladimir and you know it

Nabokov: you all can't understand this! this is REAL literature JK Rowling: exactly Nabokov: see? she gets it Rowling: a beautifully tragic love ssstory Nabokov: yes a bea Nabokov: Nabokov: what

Rowling: yeah i thought it was a wonderful love ssstory King: Poe: Koontz: Lovecraft: Barker: Rowling: why are you looking at me like that? Rowling: iss it becausse you hate women?

Rowling: i know i know, you're all thinking Rowling: a romance between a middle aged man and a child?? Rowling: but don't worry! Rowling: they're both their assssigned at birth genderss Rowling: sso it'ss all ok

Rowling: humbert humbert ssufferss greatly in the purssuit of romance sso when lolita sstartss looking elssewhere for attention, humbert will carry her off on a desperate cross-country misadventure all in the name of love Rowling: in National Lampoon's Cross State Line Vacation

VC Andrews: i don't think that's much of a romance Rowling: oh yeah??? well what would YOU know? Andrews: funny you should ask Andrews: i do have some ideas about that

VC Andrews: [singing] i have a secret recipe Andrews: concocted with much skill Andrews: and once you've tried my special dish Andrews: you'll Andrews: never Andrews: get Andrews: your Andrews: filllll Andrews: TAKEEEEEE Andrews: ten terrific blood relatives...

Rowling: tell them, vladmir, it's a romance right? Nabokov: no it's about how i heard these scientists taught an ape to draw Rowling: Rowling: Rowling:

Nabokov: ironically the ape only drew the bars of its prison Nabokov: makes you think Poe: i have no sympathy Poe: that ape can rot for all i care Barker: yeah edgar has strong feelings about apes Poe: ROT, i say

[nerdby]

I think toxic romance should qualify as a subgenre as horror, and I can't stand horror nerds that don't believe in subgenres. Like the kind of people who think that anything that isn't oozing shock value and gore doesn't count as "real" horror. The kind of people who say Flowers In The Attic is a psychological thriller or tragedy instead of a horror-tragedy.

Like how is tragedy not horrifying???

What is not horrifying about children being locked up, starved to death, and so completely cut off from human interaction that they develop an incestuous bond as a coping mechanism???

[dollanganger-in-the-attic]

My work in progress coffin bookcase housing my Flowers in the Attic collection 🌸

Im always keeping an eye out for various Fita editions 👀

[macau1ay]

[sweaterkittensahoy]

Just cried laughing at a youtube thumbnail of someone who read Flowers in the Attic, and the text on the thumbnail was "PEOPLE LIKE THIS??"

Yes. I fucking LOVE IT.

But also, honey, I get that you hate it. I'm not going to watch the video because I don't trust you won't claim that my loving the best incest fuckery in the whole world makes me a dangerous degenerate, but I respect that you gave it a shot.

100% here for hating Flowers in the Attic, but in this house, we have that shit in hardback and are forever mad there isn't a single fucking accurate swan bed in ANY of the adaptations. INCLUDING THE ONE WHERE THEY CARVED THE WHOLE FUCKING BED.

IT'S A ROUND BED GODDAMNIT WITH WINGS AS FUCK COVER AND GAUZY CURTAINS LET ME SET DESIGN THIS SHIT WITH JOHN WATERS TO DIRECT

[rosehathawhey]

Hannah Dodd in FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC: THE ORIGIN requested by anonymous

[lettherightrobin]

[dollhouse-lurker]

[spn2006]

flowers in the attic is soooo good what the fuck. i just watched the 2014 movie and i need to read the book now, because i have so many thoughts about it and i KNOW the movie doesn't do justice to the book.

i just can't stop thinking about how it's slowly revealed that everything that happens to the kids is rly the result of generations of trauma and abuse...wow. they were really doomed from the moment they born. it's tragic, but so beautifully written.

also i love the commentary about purity culture that's clearly happening. like the grandmother literally from day one treating cathy and christopher even looking at each other as inherently sexual even though they're LITERALLY SIBLINGS...she acts like she's protecting them from sex but really she's the one even putting the thought into their heads. all the stuff about sexual desire being sinful and seeing boy + girl + same room together = sex is textbook purity bullshit that we see in the real world all the time. it reminds me of how i could never have male friends growing up without my parents or other adults screaming about how it was inappropriate and sexual.

i just know i'm going to be thinking about this movie for a long time, and even longer if i end up reading the book. there's just something really tragic and powerful happening in this story. i love it. also as proud wincestie i can see where a lot of wincest tropes got their start from, because flowers in the attic is kind of the Ultimate Claustrophobic Incest Story and the whole romance being based around the kids being forced into isolation together is soooo wincest of them. or maybe, i should say, sam and dean being forced into isolation together is soooo cathy/christopher of them?? idk. all i know is i love it