#Malory Towers

[ladybirdvariant]

yk the fandom is peak when the majority of main characters are girls and you can pretty much ship them all interchangeably AND have valid evidence from the source material backing up every pairing without fail

#yellowjackets #eah #ever after high #monster high #mlp #a league of their own #heathers #mean girls 2024 #mean girls #malory towers #bottoms movie

[best-childhood-book]

#best childhood world #poll #malory towers #unlondon #un lun #luster #the unicorn chronicles #moomin valley #mumintrullen #the dollhouse #the doll people #deltora quest

[geese-in-a-frock-coat]

I'm working on something about the inadvertent queerness of Enid Blyton's works. So if you have absolutely anything to say on this matter, up to and including:

the transess of George Kirrin

Bill unorthodox gender presentation

Bill and Clarissa

The lesbian undertones in both Malory towers and St Clares

Adaptations adding/ removing queerness

anything else

Please, please, please talk to me about this in any way shape or form. I would love to hear anything you have to say.

#malory towers #st clares #enid blyton #the famous five #george kirrin #the famous five bbc #famous five #lgbtq #children's literature

[marietheran]

I used to love the Malory Towers and St. Clare's series as a kid and I still think of them with fondness, but I've come to realise I was (and am) exactly the sort of person who would be set up as a negative example by Blyton, derided and possibly "fixed" by the end of the book.

I mean:

hates sports - check ✓

would be homesick and cry - check ✓

would likely be annoyed at being sent to boarding school - check (though I do think I'd have been wiser than to try and make myself as unhappy as possible)

likes to dress fancy - check ✓

never follows rules and doesn't like to be ordered about by people the social hierarchy puts above her (teachers) - check ✓

asocial (autism) - check ✓

Maybe I'd be lucky and they'd chalk it up to my being a foreigner? Or, for that matter, a war refugee because that's what a Polish girl in late 1940s England would be? (What would I be doing in such an upper class school in that case? Early on, I'd have likely managed a scholarship but my grades dropped considerably around 16...)

Anyway, no point to this, only that those books, for all the fun they provided child-me with, do have considerable faults.

#original post #i have a feeling there might be some weird shenanigans going on with the tenses in this post... please warn me if this is true #enid blyton #malory towers #St. Clare's #children's books #ableism #(?)

[sn0wp1anets]

sirius black enjoyers did you guys happen to like alicia johns from malory towers as children too or is that too niche

#please tell me this is relatable #sirius black #malory towers

[morfitties]

Growing up reading Malory Towers and all those horse girl movies really had me feeling like I was left out of some coming of age shit because I didn’t run through English fields in the night gallavanting

#malory towers #horse movies #I was a socially awkward child #and I want my gay love story okay

[jevilowo]

Enid Blyton is so funny to me bc its either "only one character is allowed a personality per book" or "boarding school series where the main character is abandoned after three books in favour of introducing 2-5 new characters every term, so half of the characters there in the first books never show up again"

#justiceforviolet

#violet was mentioned twice in the first mallory towers book and never appeared again #i am her only fan #i left a comment on her wiki page and everything #when pamela cox wrote the spinoffs she made another character called violet #salt in the wound #enid blyton #malory towers #famous five #secret seven #five find-outers #twins at saint clairs

[blytons-fairy-cottage]

In the Fifth at Malory Towers was always my favourite book in the series I think. By the time of Last Term at Malory Towers the story becomes very focussed on the younger girls like June and Felicity, and the original characters that we have been with throughout the whole series suddenly “mature” and become very uptight and uninteresting. It feels seperate to the rest of the series and like a bit of a disappointing end. Meanwhile In the Fifth at Malory Towers is just a really fun story and I think it would have been a better way to end the series. The girls all work together and overcome their differences and dramas to create a play. Everyone gets their chance to shine and in contrast to some of the other more ✨dated✨ (violently sexist) stories Blyton wrote, the message of In the Fifth is one of teamwork and friendship and mostly holds up to this day.

#malory towers #enid blyton #rissirants

[snixx]

the way alicia johns darrell rivers and sally hope were the first love triangle i ever encountered and nothing has beaten them since

#as a kid i always had the biggest crush on alicia #i think i always shipped darrell/alicia #but now i think I'm hardcore team darrell/sally #THEY ARE EVERYTHING TO ME #malory towers

[ace-and-the-rpg-horrors]

dead fandom time!!!

if you are in these fandoms/enjoyed the series even just a little bit please please please interact, i have literally never been able to talk about them with anyone cause no one else knows them (cough prolly cause all four are children's shows/books)

Lego Elves: Secrets of Elvendale

The 13 Treasures Trilogy

Heirs of the Night

Malory Towers

#heirs of the night #lego elves #secrets of elvendale #the 13 treasures #the 13 curses #the 13 secrets #lesoe #malory towers

[twinsoftheday]

today's twins of the day are:

connie and ruth batten from the malory towers series

#the chokehold malory towers had on me as a child needs to be studied by scientists #twins of the day #fraternal twins #(i haven't read the books in years and for some reason thought they were identical?? silly me) #same-gender twins #books #connie batten #ruth batten #malory towers #enid blyton #twins #fictional twins #twinsoftheday

[definitelymustard]

Honestly, The Malory towers adaptation is actually not bad but if you read the book before the series, your like wtf is this? When did this happen?

But one thing that stands the same regardless of book or series?

Everyone is gay

#malory towers

[best-childhood-book]

#best childhood book #poll #tuesdays at the castle #revolting rhymes #loser #ghostgirl #what katy did #merlin #babymouse #austin family chronicles #un lun dun #malory towers

[wellamarke]

oh so in the USA periods just. aren’t a thing. sure must be convenient

#c’mon guys #malory towers #the irony that the episode aims to educate girls about their bodies by depicting a time when girls were not educated about their bodies #and then another broadcasting company quietly removes the education

[theyre-gay-because-i-say-so]

Today's LGBT+ Headcanon is;

The Girls of Malory Towers from the Malory Towers series by Enid Blyton-Lesbians

Requested by @absolutelynotclassicusernam-blog

Status: Alive

#Malory Towers #lesbian #lgbt headcanon #character of the day #wlw #literatre #books #lgbt #headcanons #enid blyton #requested #pride 2023 #pride month 2023 #fandoms i'm in #keuw #alive

[tortured-poets11]

anyway, darrell rivers is definitely sapphic everybody

#i just finished the show with my family #and i have so many thoughts #first of all #everyone is gay i think #maybe i’m projecting idc #at first i thought gwen was a bit fruity #but literally is everyone else #sally x darrell is actually so real #also irene is autistic for sure #her and gene’s relationship is so <3333 #i love them both with all my heart #also being someone w a visible disability and having that representation is cool #so glad she became more of a main character in the later seasons #and omg #the second bill came on screen i KNEW 12 year old me would’ve OBSESSED over her #not knowing i was gay lmfao #anyway this show is so cute and wholesome <3 #it was pretty good too #malory towers #malory towers tv #malory towers cbbc #cbbc #tv shows #lesbian #bisexual #sapphic #wlw #fiction