Corinne and Christopher's romance in Flowers in The Attic: The Origin. 📖 💌

it wasn't your fault, all you did was look at me

the dollangangers a-z — olivia foxworth

There are sins and there are sins. Even your generous contributions to the church can't undo the evil significance of what you have done.

Today's problematic ship is Chris Dollanganger and Cathy Dollanganger from The Dollanganger Saga

Brother/sister incest

Requested by anonymous

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..

I'll be on my deathbed and will never get over the fact that they chose a man to continue VC Andrews' legacy.

Then you do think of me? You think I’m pretty?

a24 should adapt flowers in the attic into a movie (or one of the books from the series)

Reaching for Roses by V.C. Andrews (A manuscript for Petals on the Wind)

This is an excerpt from Reaching for Roses, a manuscript that would later evolve into Petals on the Wind.

Corrine has a young man with her named Gary. She claims that this Gary is actually CORY. She says that once Cory was at the hospital, she told Olivia and the kids he had died. But secretly she had taken him to an orphanage where he was later adopted by Bart’s sister. She claims the pneumonia gave Cory amnesia. Cathy doesn’t buy it, she examines and questions Gary but can’t come to a proper conclusion. He’s much taller than Carrie ever got, and he has no cowlick. Bart claims it all makes sense now why Corrine dotes on Gary so much and always had to see him. But Cathy insists that she's just insane and wants to believe this random orphan was Cory.

Cathy lies and tells Corrine that one of Chris’s chemistry sets had a blood test function, so they know Cory has blood type O negative, which is rare. So if they test Gary’s blood it should confirm if he truly is Cory. Corrine is shaken by this and seems to lose conviction. Then Cathy claims she knows exactly where Cory’s skeleton is in the attic, and Corrine loses it. Chris comes in as Corrine runs off. Bart asks Chris to confirm if Gary is Cory. Chris seems uninterested and doesn’t really care if he is or isn’t Cory. But in the end he says Gary’s hair color is too different from their own, so he’s not convinced.

Gary says he may be Cory, he has no memories of his childhood and sometimes feels that he remembers Corrine at his bedside in the hospital crying. But in the end Gary only cares about his adoptive mother because she’s the only person who has ever claimed him as her own, so he leaves.

If you'd like to read more from this manuscript, or other manuscripts in the V.C. Andrews archives, DM me for a discord invite :) invite links expire so make sure you check for a reply sooner than later

VC andrews works Her ghostwriter

*My stack of unread books getting bigger*

I should read Flowers in the Attic again for the 3rd time!!!!!

Canon incest - 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Canon incest when they both got blonde hair - 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

the neighbors think we look so perfect. ↬ I DON'T WANNA BE A DOLL.

the dollangangers a-z — corrine dollanganger

I am a pretty, useless ornament who always believed she'd have a man to take care of her.

Chris, Bart, and Jory: the Saddest Theme in the Flowers of the Attic Film Series

I swear to you, all morality leaves my body when it comes to the Dollanganger siblings. (We're speaking the VC Andrews screen adaptions, as the books are wayyyy too messy for me to make excuses for the utter sexual exploitation of Cathy and her rejection of consent) Cathy and Chris had to fight through hell with tooth and nail, and where I absolutely am disgusted by the incestuous content presented in these films, its purely because they have been clouded in so much darkness that I just want them to be happy.

Which makes the judgment (not that those who judge don't deserve to judge, it is fucking gross under any other circumstance), so much harsher, because the characters that judge them through the duration of the series didn't experience the endless trauma Chris and Cathy did. They bonded through the things only they fought through together, and Chris was more than what he was to Cathy, which was why it was seamless for him to father Cathy's children. Though it hurt him to see her love other men and bed other men, Chris was there from the second both Jory and Bart were born, raising them, providing for them, and most of all, loving them. It is something in the film series that Chris doesn't get enough recognition, because Chris sure as hell didn't have to do this much for Cathy, but because he loved her, he loved Jory and Bart, too.

Which leads to my most hated part of the film series. How Bart completely throws all of Chris' love in his face, and I know it's a driving plot point, but it's so unfair to Chris with all he's fought through to also be betrayed by one of his sons. It's bonkers to me. Chris will never not deserve better. He deserved to live happily with Cathy, and embrace his sons lovingly, and create more of a home that was warm and comfortable. Chris Dollanganger bore a majority of the hurt for his siblings, and still was walked all over for providing, loving and protecting his family. This is the man that gives in to Jory's grandmother's blackmail so he wouldn't lose him, and would rather die than refer to Bart as his "stepson."

Christopher Dollanganger in the films >>>>

Nothing hits like a V.C. Andrews paperback with a keyhole cover