Posts

Showing posts from October, 2025

Update (October 2025)

Image
Hello my beautiful fairies! You may have noticed the shakiness of my upload schedule. There was a long gap in uploading part five and part 6 of my Rose Petal Place retrospective. The gap was due to a mental health crisis. I guess I should explain where I've been, and how I've been feeling. On September 12th and the following weekend, I had a failed suicide attempt. I suppose I should let you guys know the truth about what happened to me.   I spent the entire weekend in the hospital after I tried leaping out of my mother's moving car (I failed). She immediately tried driving me to the hospital. Instead, I begged her to take me to college. I saw three councilors at the school, the last one basically telling me to go to the hospital. I saw two more councilors there in the psych ward. It's both not as bad and as bad as it's imagined. There were "crazy" people screaming, but most of them were just in need of help or felt they weren't being listened...

Rose Petal Place - Cartoon Retrospective (Part 7)

Image
Rose Petal Place: The Record ("A Concert at Carnation Hall")   We're finally at the end, my beautiful fairies. The last stop on this 7-part journey. The last piece of media of Rose Petal Place. It's certainly been an interesting adventure, full of highs and lows, but all good things must come to an end (and thankfully, this is also true for bad things). “A Concert at Carnation Hall” was an album released by Parker Brothers in 1984 with 10 original songs all based on  Rose Petal Place. Marie Osmond reprises her role as Rose Petal, however none of the other actors from the animated specials return. Instead, we have actress Evalyn Baron as Nastina, famous for the musical Quilters, with all the male characters now voiced by Russell Horton, most famous as the voice of Trix rabbit (yes, the cereal mascot). The album was also was produced by two of the three Chapin brothers, Steve and Tom, sons of American jazz drummer Jim Chapin, though all three boys have gone on to be...