#laura wilder

[valnvy]

i go insane everytime i think about them

#lottielee #lottie matthews x laura lee #laura lee #lottie matthews #charlotte matthews #yellowjackets #wlw #doomed yuri #religious imagery #theyre so cute #they’re so tragic #yj #yellowjackets s1 #they were totally in love #something about the girl who baptized you in the wilderness #situationship so bad she started a cult

[spitinsideme]

adult lottielee makeout ... woah ...

#lottielee fanart #laura lee x lottie #lottielee #lottie matthews #laura lee yellowjackets #laura lee #yellowjackets fanart #yellowjackets #yj fanart #yj #what if i just wnated to tell you all that they shpukd fucking makeout #season 3 yellowjackets shoukd actyally br all ahout how laurs lee was actually alive this entire time #she eas just like surviving alone in the wilderness with the poerr of god or whatrver #she lives trust me

[fictionadventurer]

For some reason, I'm thinking about Mary Ingalls.

I saw a Goodreads review talking about how ever since they were a kid, they disliked introverted quiet Mary in favor of bold outgoing Laura.

And that take bothers me because it was actually kind of the opposite of that.

In one of her columns written decades before the Little House books, Laura shares the story of the "Is blonde or brown hair prettier?" fight from Little House in the Big Woods. And she frames it as a story of how Mary was intelligent and good with words, and she could say the most cutting things, but the quiet Laura couldn't find the right words to respond with, so she'd be reduced to lashing out physically and thus getting in trouble for it. One sister liking indoor pursuits doesn't make her an introvert, and the other one liking outdoor pursuits doesn't make her an extrovert.

And that's also got me thinking about Mary's later life. Her blindness kept her inside. Whether she was introverted or extroverted, she was forced into a much more solitary existence than Laura was, who could go to school and make friends and run around town at will. Going to the blind school was her one chance in life to really socialize and make friends on a more even footing.

And anyway, one day I'd like to more properly explore the sisterly relationship as presented in these books. Because they are so deeply centered on Laura and her perspective, Mary barely shows up in the first books except to fight with Laura. And then when Mary goes blind, she becomes someone for Laura to take care of--another responsibility to consider as she takes over the role as eldest sibling. It's only in Little Town on the Prairie where the relationship shifts, and we get to see them interacting as two people. Mary admits that she was an insufferable goody-goody sometimes, but Laura also sees and admires the true virtue that Mary has cultivated, and how her blindness has given her a deep spiritual life unlike anything Laura's seen from anyone else. They've at last matured out of childhood rivalry and developed an adult understanding of each other's weaknesses and strengths.

It's just so much deeper and more nuanced than the common view of "quiet goody-goody Mary" and "bold and relatable Laura" would have you believe, and I think it deserves more appreciation.

#random thought of the day #little house #laura ingalls wilder

[fatalforesight]

have you guys considered nobody in the wilderness has died in ways that couldn’t be considered a martyr? we know Jackie yes and to a degree Laura Lee but also Javi. Javi died a martyr against the group’s hunger. saints… the saints they are so tragic the saints the saints the saints

#yellowjackets #jackie taylor #javi martinez #laura lee yellowjackets #jackie yellowjackets #misty quigley #lottie yellowjackets #shauna yellowjackets #yellowjackets showtime #allie yellowjackets #natalie yellowjackets #taissa yellowjackets #van yellowjackets #taissa turner #van palmer #Vanessa Palmer #natalie scatorccio #shauna sadecki #shauna shipman #the wilderness

[sleepylittle-wolf]

If you don't get warm, you're going to die.

I don't want to leave you.

#Lottie's dream sequence #Yellowjackets #Lottie Mathews #Lottie Fanart #Yellowjackets Fanart #Lottie Mathews Fanart #Lottie's Vision #Yellowjackets Death Dreams #The Wilderness #YJ S2E4 #Old Wounds #Yellowjackets Season 2 #Laura Lee #This took me 1 whole year #I tried a new difficult style #Art is fun #And difficult #And FUN #lottielee #Courtney Eaton #courtney eaton fanart #My art #Fanart

[kaligotajob]

I just realized that none of the kids who died in the wilderness have a death anniversary. Not even the girls (and Travis) know when anyone died...

#now i'm really sad #they were there one day and gone the next #imagine being a loved one and not knowing when it happened #yellowjackets #laura lee #jackie taylor #wilderness baby #Kristen not crystal #javi martinez

[key-cat]

If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. 心の底から自然を愛していれば、美しさはあらゆる所にあります。

Laura Ingalls Wilder ローラ・インガルス・ワイルダー

#Laura Ingalls Wilder #梅 #花 #landscape

[andallshallbewell]

#laura ingalls wilder #quote #inspiration

[yellowjackets-1996]

death, she is cunning, and clever as hell... and she'll eat you alive.

↳ the oh hellos

#yellowjackets #yellowjacketsedit #yjedit #lyricsongifs #laura lee #like. obviously the wilderness kills laura lee. she already has a god #and either she believes in that god enough to go on a suicide mission or she's content to die by suicide #either way. the wilderness will fulfill the promise #ive seen ppl theorizing that the wilderness killed laura lee to isolate lottie and like real and true 100000% #i just think its also true that lara lee was not only not of any use but like. an active threat #even if lottie didnt follow laura lee her presence would be disruptive. like some of the girls who need lottie mightve turned to laura lee #laura lees faith saved her once. but only once. and only surrounded by people who worshiped that god and acted in its name #literally god loves you but not enough to save you so baby girl good luck taking care of yourself

[haveyoureadthisseries-poll]

#tumblr polls #little house on the prairie #laura ingalls wilder

[kiinghanalister]

50 Years of the Ingalls Family ❤️

#lhotp #little house on the prairie #lhotpedit #lhotpgifs #laura ingalls wilder #1980s television #1980s tv #1970s tv #1970s television #classic tv #mary ingalls #charles ingalls #caroline ingalls #michael landon #melissa gilbert #karen grassle #melissa sue anderson #i had to get these from a fanvid and only just realized some of the gifs still have the fanvid watermark #oh well #damn liz back at it again with those gifs

[best-childhood-book]

Round 2, Poll 5: Little House vs The Immortals Quartet

#best childhood book #poll #little house #laura ingalls wilder #the immortals quartet #tamora pierce

[fictionadventurer]

I think I underestimated how cool it is that Little House books are a "woman remembers her childhood" children's classic by an author from a working-class and rural background. Most working-class books of the genre have urban settings, and most rural girlhood classics come from a family that's in a fairly stable community--maybe not rich, but comfortable enough that they don't have to worry about whether they'll make it through a winter.

Laura Ingalls grew up dirt poor in a family that knew how to grow or build or hunt or make everything that they needed, because they had to. Yet when she grew up, she got into a position where she could publish about it. Which is pretty astounding, because people in her situation are usually too busy doing the farmwork to write about it--they don't have connections to the publishing industry. Yet she did, so we get to hear from someone who knows that farm and small-town setting intimately, and not because she grew up and and ran off to the city as soon as she could escape, but because she still lives it and loves it and advocates for it.

She knows the details of that life and loves it. Like, she genuinely cares about raising the chickens, not as a housewife's hobby, but as an important source of meat, eggs and money for the family. It's grounded, earthy, sensible, but also romantic, because she while she's doing farm work or house work she's noticing the little moments of beauty or thinking about the big issues of life. But it took a long series of coincidences to get this ordinary farm wife into a position of wanting to write, being able to write, and having a national audience for her writing, so I just want to appreciate how amazing it is that it happened.

#little house #laura ingalls wilder #of course now that i've said this i'll think of 157 other authors with similar backgrounds #but it's something that comes to mind a lot while reading her columns #especially in the '20s it's like reading her blog #specifically my blog #in the sense of the entries being 'here's an interesting thing i saw/heard about and here's the bigger issues it made me contemplate' #and her background means that she shouldn't have had an outlet for this but she did and that's pretty cool

[princesssarisa]

Some thoughts on "Little Women" and the "Little House" books

In the endless discussions by Little Women fans of the issue of "Jo vs. Amy," I've noticed a slight recurring theme, both when Amy's defenders discuss Jo and when certain Jo fans put Amy down. It's the idea that the books' narrative inherently favors Jo and is biased against Amy. That Jo is the character whom readers are clearly "supposed to identify with," as if Louisa May Alcott expected most of her young girl readers to be free-spirited, ambitious tomboys who struggle with gender expectations. And that Amy's portrayal is "negative," or at least that we're supposed to view her femininity and love of refinement as slightly silly and annoying.

Not too long ago, I found similar sentiments in an essay by a woman writing about her childhood experience of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books. She wrote that she never identified with spunky, tomboyish Laura, but as a girly girl and as an eldest daughter who felt pressured to be "the responsible one," she related more to Mary. Then she complained that the books seem to expect readers to identify with Laura, and that we're "not supposed to like Mary."

I'm not sure those claims ring true for either of these literary works.

Both Little Women and the Little House books are autobiographical. Louisa May Alcott based the March family on her own family and Jo on herself, while Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote explicitly about herself and her family without changing the names.

In Little Women, I don't feel as if Alcott expected readers to identify more with Jo than with the other three sisters. Yes, Jo gets the most emphasis of them all, but that's because Alcott personally identified with her. Likewise, in the Little House books, Laura is the protagonist because she was the author. It's only natural that she wrote about her childhood from her own viewpoint, not because she thought readers would relate more to her than to her sisters.

Nor do I think Little Women is overly biased against Amy. Is her portrayal complex, and does it reflect Alcott's complex relationship with her sister May? Yes. Does Alcott use Amy to make fun of May's childhood foibles? Yes. Does she make it clear that May often drove her crazy when they were young, and does her envy of May's charms and social life sometimes bleed through the text? Of course! But none of it seems really mean-spirited; her affection and respect for May also come through clearly. Besides, she's just as willing to use Jo's foibles to make fun of herself.

And in the Little House series, do we really think Wilder set out to insult the memory of her beloved and by then deceased sister Mary? Just because she was honest about their childhood sibling rivalry and made readers feel for her envy of her "perfect" sister doesn't mean she wanted the readers to dislike her.

Maybe I'm giving these authors too much benefit of the doubt. But "An author writes about her own family, makes herself the protagonist, and honestly portrays both her closeness and her sibling rivalry with a sister who was very different from herself" doesn't inherently mean "The author expects all readers to identify with her self-insert and dislike her sister."

#little women #little house on the prairie #the little house books #louisa may alcott #jo march #may alcott nieriker #amy march #laura ingalls wilder #mary ingalls

[lvcygraybaird]

YELLOWJACKETS ⇢ 1x10 | SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI

#ok so when is this gonna come back around HMMMMMM???? where is my evil ghost jackie leading a clan of dark spirits in the wilderness hUH???? #yellowjackets #yellowjacketsedit #yellowjacketssource #96yellowjackets #jackietayloredit #jackie taylor #laura lee #1x10 #yellowjackets 1x10 #yjedit #mygifsets #mygifs #myedits

[nestaenthusiast]

I’m gonna go on a tangent about Laura Lees wasted potential.

I relate so much to Laura Lees character. I used to be a very devout Christian and was very known throughout all of my secular school and friends as a Christian. Everything that Laura Lee did in the show like pray constantly and reading her Bible in public and saying “you are beautiful in the eyes of the world”— I did too. And like Laura Lee I was always very interested in the “spiritual” side of Christianity like prophecies or speaking in tongues.

So trust me when I say as a former Laura Lee… she would have gone crazy in the woods and it would have been an amazing character arc if they let it happen.

There’s a reason that Laura connected so much to Lottie. They both have this connection with the spiritual and it’s never clear if this connection is actual divinity (God/The Wilderness) or underlying mental health issues. A lot of people who get deep in the faith like Laura Lee and I did, end up getting diagnosed with OCD.

Once I left Christianity I deep dived into the occult. And I think that if they kept Laura Lees character for the whole show she would have left Christianity and deep dived into worshipping the Wilderness.

Not a lot of people leave a toxic religion like Christianity and the church and enter a healthy relationship with Atheism or spirituality. They just join another cult or struggle with depression and existentialism.

Seeing Laura Lee go through that transition to innocent church girl who loves everyone to crazy deer worshipping cult leader who eats her friends would have been AMAZING.

In every church girl there’s a deep well of darkness cause you know the wrath of God and of Hell. Seeing Laura Lee embrace that darkness with every ounce of her being and co-lead a cult with Lottie would bring a truly unique storyline to this show.

#yellowjackets laura lee #Laura Lee #Yellowjackets #lottie #lottie yellowjackets #lottie x laura lee #lottie mathews #the wilderness #the antler queen