my poor meemaws account is gone and i am in mourning. please do not contact me. anyone.
@mothercain please please PLEASE release a cover of bette davis eyes on spotify. i beg!!
Do you feel “famous” ?
i feel like shit
october 2020
thinking about…ethel’s future in her survival verse. i’ll likely write it out properly when i have the time but some of the major points are:
after her escape, she drags herself to the nearest police station where she reports the incident with isaiah.
she is taken to the hospital where her wounds are tended to and her mother is contacted back home in alabama.
ethel and mary-anne share a long, tearful phone call before mary-anne flies out to reunite with her daughter. ethel tells her mother everything, from her father’s abuse, to logan, to her journey with isaiah. she keeps her religious struggles to herself for the time being for fear of driving away the one person she has left in her life.
upon returning home to shady grove, ethel — the preacher missing no more — is welcomed back with open arms from her community. she suffers from immense ptsd, depression, and drug withdrawal, all while trying to fit herself back into life the way it was before she left. but she’s not that person anymore. she hasn’t been for a long time.
eventually she does step down from preaching with the help of therapy. her mother, while a little disappointed, is understanding and supportive of ethel’s decision.
she speaks out against sa and meets with other survivors, and years down the line writes and publishes a book/memoir.
the instrumental at the end of Amber Waves has destroyed me yet again
Photo: Ethel Cain for 'enfants riches déprimés', 2024
Ethel Cain, any updates on the Preacher's Daughter book?
ETHEL CAIN: "Writing a book takes a long time. I've got a lot of stuff I'm doing right now, but yeah, I'm just kind of… whenever things are meant to happen, they will happen. I am a very, very patient person, and I will create things as time allows and when I feel led to create those things. I don't want to put out a half-assed book. I've never written a book before, but I'm also very neurotic, and I can't have somebody else write it for me. So I've just been writing and scrapping, writing and scrapping, and reading, writing, and scrapping, just trying to own my writing style and whatnot.
I'm sure it will be a good long while before that book comes out, but you know, I like to give things plenty of room to breathe and really foster a healthy creative environment. I never want to feel like I'm creating because I have to; I always want to feel like I'm creating because I want to, because I think that yields the best results. So yeah, I don't know… book, movie, all that stuff… it is my highest goal. That's the way that I work: I set the highest goal I can, and if I could have anything I wanted, if money and time were no object, I aim as high as I can go, and I work towards it. And if I die or lose a limb or something that hinders me from doing it, well, I had a good run. But that will be the kind of mountain on the horizon that I'm always going for.
So, who knows? I might be 50 before all this stuff is done; I literally have no idea. But I'm just having fun and working on it in the meantime. So yeah, it'll come at some point, but it's always on the horizon for me. It's always in the back of my mind. So, one of these days… But I'm really excited. I can't wait."
Ethel Cain, April 10, 2024 (Audio transcription. Excerpt from Ethel Cain live on YouTube.)
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