V.C. Andrews Trash

[taintedcrypt]

FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC ¦ paper flowers never to be colored yellow, never to be seen

[dollangxngers]

is it bad that i want the cutler series to be made into movies? honestly it’s just because i want to see my cinnamon roll jimmy but still

[dollangxngers]

guess i got my wish lol

[d0llanganger]

some mothers are impossible to love. [ insp. ]

[dollgr4ves-deactivated20260127]

cathy dollanganger would’ve loved lana del rey

[kingproteus]

— petals on the wind, vc andrews

—Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut

—The Carnivorous Lamb, Augustin Gomez-Arcos

—Twilight Eyes, Dean Koontz

[daydreaming-effy]

Cathy Dollanganger moodboard

[kuutamosonaatti]

Milton Charles was the accomplished designer and artist behind the cover of Flowers in the Attic. Charles’s idea was to create a die-cut window that would show a single character on the front cover at first glance, and then would reveal a cast of characters behind the ‘house’ when the reader turned the page to what is sometimes called the ‘stepback’. The contrast in the cover between the stark, graphic, almost secessionist-style house – resplendent in foil – and the almost photo-realistic portrait of the family (illustrated by Gillian Hills) is both queasy and intriguing. It also cleverly evokes the narrative without being too explicit – had he shown the whole family in the attic on the cover in the first place, the magic would have been completely lost. The books that followed directly after Flowers employed Charles’s established template – stark imagery with foil and a die-cut revealing photo-realistic illustration of the book’s characters. (x)

[dollangxngers]

just watched the trailer for “flowers in the attic: the origin”

i’m mostly pissed off that it’s not called garden of shadows bc… the fuck?…. can lifetime ever do anything right?????

[dollangxngers]

APPARENTLY ITS A SHOW?!?!?! WTF

[dollangxngers]

just watched the trailer for “flowers in the attic: the origin”

i’m mostly pissed off that it’s not called garden of shadows bc… the fuck?…. can lifetime ever do anything right?????

[dollangxngers]

what is your fav vca novel?

i think i’m gonna go with flowers but my sweet audrina is a very close runner up

[aokuro-san]

Definitely “My sweet Audrina”. I found Flowers in the Attic a bit heavy in its book format (I'll always recommend the 1987 adaptation over anything else, even over the book), and the Casteel saga might be close for its plot, but... I don't know, My sweet Audrina makes me more complete and has characters that you really love-hate (god, Damien Adare). It's authentic, morbid (Well, like everything from VC Andrews)... and special.

At least for me, of course.

[dollangxngers]

what is your fav vca novel?

i think i’m gonna go with flowers but my sweet audrina is a very close runner up

[cathydolla-deactivated20260123]

i want to write my own southern gothic novel again

[dollangxngers]

been way too long since i’ve posted on here but is anyone planning on reading the biography that neiderman keeps hyping? i’m on the fence about it

[dollangxngers]

i haven’t read the ruby/landry series but is it one of the better ones??? should i check it out????

[dollangxngers]

Update: I’ve read Ruby....it’s fairly average to me...but I’m hoping to get more invested as the series goes on

[dollangxngers]

heaven and i are so similar, we let our daddy issues manifest and put us into terrible situations that could’ve been avoided

[sssquiddles]

if ive learned one (1) thing from VC Andrews’ books, it’s that men are Vile, Disgusting creatures and that no matter how sweet and loving they seem at first, they will always leave you feeling like you’re nothing

[godlessondheimite]

all (authentic) vc andrews novels are captivity novels but the only thing forcing the characters in place are their families. even in flowers in the attic, the infamous “locked in the attic” book, where the captivity is the most obvious, they have several opportunities to escape, and at one point discover they can escape at any time, but they choose not to out of loyalty to their mother. the two parts of vc andrews novels are realizing that they’re captive and realizing that they’re not captive.