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BEEP BEEP MOTHERFUCKER

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IN PETALS WHEN CATHY FINDS OUT CORRINE HAS BEEN FOLLOWING HER BALLET CAREER and other things i’m remembering after burning through the series in the last few weeks that make me want to scream

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that picture of the little boy holding a puppy and smiling with the writing on the bottom that says hi daddy this is my doggy chelsea isn't she cute i love you and the picture of the cat with the writing that says our michael... pet photos of all time

these ones

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Ah, now after reading some of 'Garden of Shadows' I feel so sorry for Olivia. I mean I also hate her for abusing Chris, Cathy, Cory, and Carrie. But oh my god do I sympathize with her so much.

Malcolm is such a pos. I fucking despise his character. I also find it really creepy how much he apparently hates his sons, but really wants a daughter. I know a little about 'the origin' and I know for a fact he has a thing for his daughter.

So Corrine Marrying his half bother didn't upset him because of the incest. It was because he wanted her to himself.

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I think other than Lolita, so many FitA covers mislead what the actual story is about.

This isn't a forbidden love story. It is a horrific story of the abuse of four children by their mother and the aftermath of that abuse.

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Paper flowers. Dresden Dolls. A wicker picnic basket. A swan bed. Grandmothers diamond brooch. The amaryllis plant. Yellow chrysanthemums. A perfect vintage dollhouse. Chrome scissors. Gray dresses with pockets. A semi-precious ring. A beloved guitar and banjo. Arsenic-laced doughnuts. An attic..

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chris, roughly five minutes after being locked in that attic: oh no the idealized versions of my parents i enshrined as idols have crumbled, and i appear to be doomed to repeat the sins of my father. *shrug* oh well. hey, cathy,

cathy: it seems the only way i will ever recover the idyllic childhood i lost when my father--the only perfect man ever to exist--cruelly abandoned us by dying in a comically graphic manner is to marry--

chris: hello,

cathy: my adoptive father.

paul: perfect! molesting traumatized teens is actually a specialty of mine.

cathy: actually, i changed my mind. it is to marry--

chris: hello,

cathy: my prince revolting of a dance partner.

julian: fuck you, fuck your brother, fuck your sist--

cathy: actually, i changed my mind. it is to marry--

chris: hello,

cathy: my stepfather.

bart: well, hey there, younger, hotter clone of my wife.

cathy: actually, i changed my mind. i've been so blind. the right man for me has always been--

chris: finally!

cathy: my adoptive father after all. paul again.

paul: oh, cathy, i'm so glad. being with you makes my heart flutter so!

cathy: actually, no, wait, wait. sorry, everyone. omg this is so embarrassing. it was actually my brother who is an identical copy of the father i will never stop idolizing. i should have realized there would be no other way to doom our children to repeat the cycle.

chris: thank fuck. okay, pack it up guys, we're going to california.

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Just finished rewatching Flowers in the Attic: Origins

Olivia will always be my favorite character, book or movies otherwise. This scene here where Nella (honestly, I love that they made her character here) tells Olivia that she doesn't have to replace one abuser over another.

Olivia, who had been ridiculed her whole life for not being feminine enough, not being beautiful enough, and acting too much like a man I fear will always try to find acceptance from men. I know that in the books and movies she distinguishes herself as strong independent woman, and yes, maybe she could have achieved that.

But at the end of the day, she is a crippled woman. She tries so hard to stir things into the right direction, she tries so hard to do the right thing. But in the end, it was never for the right reasons and she ended up straying far from being a good person. And she knows that, she knows that she's not a good person, but god how hard she fucking tried. She tried so fucking hard to be a good person that she fell into anther controlling man's arms because she thought she could be saved.

And I think at the end of this all, I think that's all she wanted. To be saved. She had tried so hard to save herself so many times, but in the end, she doomed herself. It was from her own choices that she doomed herself.

I love her as a character, she's so miserable and she can be so pathetic at times, but she covered it all in a face of looking strong and in dependent. When I first read Garden of Shadows, I loved her so much. She's so tragic and I know she wanted to love the children as much as she could, but she didn't allow herself because she allowed herself to be controlled by a man who she believed spoke from the word of god. The first man that controlled her told her of love, the second man told her about god. Two powerful things that many people believe in and she fell for it hook, line, and sinker.

I have so many things so say about Olivia Winfield Foxworth. But all in all, I love the tragedy of her, she could never be herself and be free because in the end, she chose to be chained down.

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Ah, now after reading some of 'Garden of Shadows' I feel so sorry for Olivia. I mean I also hate her for abusing Chris, Cathy, Cory, and Carrie. But oh my god do I sympathize with her so much.

Malcolm is such a pos. I fucking despise his character. I also find it really creepy how much he apparently hates his sons, but really wants a daughter. I know a little about 'the origin' and I know for a fact he has a thing for his daughter.

So Corrine Marrying his half bother didn't upset him because of the incest. It was because he wanted her to himself.

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dogmotifz

favorite part of flowers in the attic is this one single throwaway line that implies chris is a confederate sympathizer that is then never remarked on again

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kinqzaddy

just finished reading flowers in the attic and i am now onto petals in the wind. so far, the part that fucked me up the most was them killing the pet mouse. i literally had to walk away from the book and take a breather. like i've lived through similar family related horrors so that stuff didnt really bother me bc girl, same. been there, done that (unwillingly). but me owning pet rats and them knowingly killing their pet mouse... i could NOT

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silvermars

actually i could go insane about chris and cathy being PARENTS. they are parents. from the beginning, until the end. it is actually crazy. their love is always familial but they've twisted it to suit their feelings and desires.. and obviously as a result of the great traumas of their adolescence. idk how different the books are but based off of the movies it is clear that their "romance" is somewhat rooted in the responsibility of becoming the mom and dad to their younger siblings, and then to cathy's own children. and just like the fact that they don't seem to see the problem in being together outside of getting caught (i.e. being put in jail for literal incest) it is clear to me that they sort of fell into what felt natural as two people isolated in the roles of co-parents. sooooo fascinating i'm like really obsessed actually

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bashsbooks

vc andrews really said i'm going to put the world's most beautiful children into The Worst Scenarios And Situations & everyone was like wow that's fucking Compelling

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