Paperhouse is a 1988 British dark fantasy film directed by Bernard Rose. It was based on the 1958 novel Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr. The film stars Ben Cross, Glenne Headly and Gemma Jones. The original novel was the basis of a six-episode British TV series for children in the early 1970s which was titled Escape Into Night.

While suffering from glandular fever, 11-year-old Anna Madden draws a house. When she falls asleep, she has disturbing dreams in which she finds herself inside the house she has drawn. After she draws a face at the window, in her next dream she finds Marc, a boy who suffers with muscular dystrophy, living in the house. She learns from her doctor that Marc is a real person.

Anna sketches her father into the drawing so that he can help carry Marc away, but she inadvertently gives him an angry expression which she then crosses out, and the father (who has been away a lot and has a drinking problem, putting a strain on his marriage) appears in the dream as a furious, blinded ogre. Anna and Marc defeat the monster and shortly afterward Anna recovers, although the doctor reveals that Marc's condition is deteriorating.

Anna's father returns home and both parents seem determined to get over their marital difficulties. The family goes on holiday by the sea, where Anna finds an epilogue to her dream.

Charlotte Burke - Anna Madden, Ben Cross - Dad, Glenne Headly - Kate Madden, Elliott Spiers - Marc, Gemma Jones - Dr. Sarah Nichols, Jane Bertish - Miss Vanstone, Samantha Cahill - Sharon, Sarah Newbold - Karen.

Marianne Dreams is a children's fantasy novel by Catherine Storr. It was illustrated with drawings by Marjorie-Ann Watts and published by Faber and Faber in 1958. The first paperback edition, from Puffin Books in 1964, is catalogued by the Library of Congress as revised.

Marianne is a young girl who is bedridden with a long-term illness. She draws a picture to fill her time and finds that she spends her dreams within the picture she has drawn. As time goes by, she becomes sicker, and starts to spend more and more time trapped within her fantasy world, and her attempts to make things better by adding to and crossing out things in the drawing make things progressively worse. Her only companion in her dreamworld is a boy called Mark, who is also a long-term invalid in the real world.

Illustrations by Marjorie-Ann Watts, from Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr

#notyourclassics Day 5: Midnight’s Children

Marianne Dreams is a children’s horror book about a young girl who is bedridden with a long-term illness. She draws a picture to fill her time and finds that she spends her dreams within the picture she has drawn. As time goes by, she starts to spend more and more time trapped within her fantasy world, and her attempts to make things better by adding to and crossing out things in the drawing make things progressively worse.

Illustration by Marjorie-Ann Watts for Marianne Dreams.

Writing gets harder as migraines continue. I know that without the flow the content is worthless. As the techies have it - 

Garbage in, garbage out.

Ideas appear through the miasma but they’re disjointed and fragmented. 

I listen to Deborah Levy’s third memoir Real Estate. Like her, I think about living elsewhere. She fantasises about luxury while I fantasise about not having to deal with a faceless slumlord. Even in her discomfiture it’s a cosy listen for me, despite every single detail of our lives being different. 

A phrase swims into my mind - the Platonic house. I have no idea how I know about this. I google it and find I’m right. The Platonic house is that one that children always draw - four square with a pitched roof and chimney, and evenly spaced windows. There might be a line of blue representing the sky, some green around the house, maybe a tree or flowers, and perhaps a portrait of the nuclear family inhabitants in the foreground, scribbled in lurid Crayon. This house endures as the house of the childhood mind, despite most children not living in a detached house with no neighbours nor even knowing anyone who lives in such a house. 

One of my favourite childhood books was Marianne Dreams, by Catherine Storr. In this book a girl is ill in bed. She’s given a sewing box to play with, and in there she finds a magic pencil. She draws her platonic house and that night she dreams about it. The next day she adds details, and the next day. The story that unfolds is about the intensification of this dream life and her relationship with the boy she has drawn inside the house. She gets angry with him and draws eyes on the boulders outside the house and scribbles over the bedroom window. It’s a children’s book, so is ultimately resolved happily, but the slip into a magical realist life where the protagonist must solve self induced and frightening problems is a very human trope. We want to feel along with her, but safely, have the thrill of trouble without the groundlessness of real risk.

Meanwhile grey water from the flat above continues to flood into my bathroom and the ceiling and walls around it. I piss away what energy I have emailing and phoning my landlord, and even now, my MP. It goes on for so long that I begin to feel trapped, like the boy at the scribble-barred window. 

Rawr. :V

After 2 years and 400+ hours, Askr is complete

The dream address is DA-1467-4126-8598, please note that the island name is Moss as I didn't exactly set out to make Askr when I started this file

This island is more or less my love letter to Feh. I love that game dearly and it's brought me so much joy over the years, so this is my way of immortalizing how I feel about it. I've created dozens of character outfits and custom tiles for this island which you can find under MA-5331-4396-3952

Please give it a visit even if you're not a fan of Fire Emblem or even Fire Emblem Heroes. I put a ton of time and energy to make some truly incredible builds and I would really appreciate some good feedback on it.

Reblogs appreciated so much 💕

It's Dream. 😊 Took me ages to paint!

Marianne Boruch, "Gift-Distant, Scratched", Eventually One Dreams the Real Thing

its so homophobic that there are no marigard supports 😒

sequel to my "baby's first horror" post: moodboard for vintage children's fantasy that was a lot stranger and sadder than you thought it would be

roman empire

I had a dream with a pretty neat (yet messy cuz dreams are like that) story that featured yuri in the scale of "this girl is so in love with her boss but hides it in fear of her boss rejecting her so she's just content to be of service to her" and "the boss not knowing what to do with her own feelings towards the girl and also fearing of being rejected by her just kept calling her as "the best friend I've ever had" instead of being outright with it."

Somehow I ended up as an accidental wingman by disguising myself as the girl and when found out I was like: "Oh yeah and... if you're going to confess, can you actually like-- drop the "friend" thing? You're gonna end up in a deep misunderstanding cuz of that." Cuz during the time I was disguised as that girl, the boss was saying some INSANELY sweet things only to end it with "that's why I love you, as a Friend!"

people be like "damn it's fucked up that milk and eggs are 700% of normal price. anyway prepare to vote for biden"

i’m gonna be reacting to everyone’s intros at the funeral like it’s endgame

My fav OC. 🥺🥺

mari buys all the equipment for ame's home gym so she can sip wine and relax while watching her work out. if i were a rich milf and had a hot gf i would do this also.