#thohh spoilers

[thespookybean14]

The Haunting of Hill House (2018)/“True Blue” by boygenius

[kurokuro08]

The Haunting of Hill House ending spoilers!!!!!

I just finished reading the book just then and it's affected me profoundly but now I can't stop thinking about this meme

[rimurutempest]

Confession: I haven't watched any of @flanaganfilm's films.

I'm obsessed with the miniseries he's done & I could watch The Haunting series a thousand times & never get tired of them. I've been meaning to give Hush & Doctor Sleep a go & just keep missing the opportunity to 2-birds-one-stone them with my husband & my sister.

I'm waiting so patiently for The Fall of the House of Usher & I'm being SO NORMAL ABOUT IT.

I think the miniseries format has really worked fantastically well for him & allowed for some absolutely stunning, beautifully powerful storytelling. It's also, as we've seen with Midnight Club, a risky format when it's not self-contained to a single season.

Midnight Club was just another reason for me to abhor netflix. Another nail in their own coffin that will only drive people away from the service. Certainly can't blame Flanagan for jumping ship with the way they run creatives into the ground. I just don't know that Amazon will be much better. (Though it occurs to me now that maybe since the union was successful, it may be applicable, or could be expanded to cover creators & contract hires, etc, in media departments…🤔)

Anyway having only seen Mike Flanagan's miniseries work so far, I wrote up a response a while back to some peoples' complaints about Bly Manor. Specifically folks were complaining about the supposed use of the "bury your gays" trope - which I wholeheartedly disagree with. It's a long post in & of itself, so I won't get into the whole argument here. I just am so frustrated with people just…throwing that phrase around.

While we did lose the opportunity to see Midnight Club's 2nd season played out on screen with the wonderful cast we got to see spotlighted in the first season(all of whom were simply amazing & I hope I see more of them thriving in similarly awesome roles for a long time), we were given the gift of closure via Flanagan's tumblr blog.

The storyline for Spencer, his journey with AIDS & his eventual recovery & future outside Brightcliffe, surviving & carrying all of his friends' stories & love & dreams along with him…

I loved Theo & Trish in Hill House & that Trish was stubborn enough to out-stubborn one of the Cranes & convince Theo to tear down that wall & let her in. That they reached a point where their relationship could be healthy & stable. I don't believe the House got the rest of them, though I am indeed aware that it's up for interpretation. I reject that kind of bleak reading on principle.

My point here really, is that I have been so impressed with how much love has gone into each of these series. My point is that someone looking at something where a queer character dies & saying "this is bury your gays" shows a distinct lack of understanding of what that trope even is.

Dani & Jamie live out a domestic lesbian dream life together. They live. I don't know how to put this any more plainly for the folks that don't get it. They lived a life together & had their happy ending. & Then one of them died before the other. Because that happens in the real world.

You can take it at face value - Dani & Viola returned to the lake for reasons supernatural; Or you can take it as a metaphor, as a representation of depression, anxiety, PTSD, etc. You can read it as a loved one struggling with mental illness & her partner helping her weather it for years. Yet even still sometimes we lose loved ones to such illnesses anyway.

Regardless, bury your gays is about robbing queer characters of their story. It's about denying them their opportunities to live out a lifetime the way cishet characters usually get to.

Flanagan has done a pretty excellent job so far of NOT doing that. Period. That's a truly significant part of what I love about his series, and why I'm so excited for more.

[transjudas]

The Fall of the House of Usher 1.01 / The Haunting of Hill House 1.01

[witchesroad]

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE 1x06 & YELLOWJACKETS 2x06

[2008hondacivic]

Jackie’s death in Yellowjackets x Nell’s death in The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (part 3)

Why don’t they stop me?

[ancrky]

the characters in the flanagan verse just don’t appreciate being murdered by carla gugino enough, like what more do you people want

[tolerateit]

CARLA GUGINO AND HENRY THOMAS

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE/THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER

[lovestrucklovesickslut]

Get yourself some regular clothes. Go have a life. You don’t have to be one of these people. Just go, okay? I appreciate you trying to teach me… [sighs] forgiveness. It’s a nice idea.

VS

It wouldn’t have changed anything. I need you to know that. Forgiveness is warm. Like a tear on a cheek. Think of that and of me when you stand in the rain. I loved you completely. And you loved me the same. That’s all. The rest is confetti.

[barrygeuse]

Midnight Mass (2021) The Haunting of Hill House (2018)

[marishaswingkink]

the fuck kind of problem does Mike Flanagan have with cats

[ouroboobos]

every time i rewatch hohh and get to ep 5 theres a couple minutes where i forget arthur fucking dies and then i remember and go through the 7 stages of grief

[pvrrhadve]

nona the ninth / the haunting of hill house

[transjudas]

Samantha Sloyan in Mike Flanagan shows for Netflix.

[dinkiplier]

Finally watched The Haunting of Bly Manor and oof

A truly tragic story

[2008hondacivic]

imagine you’ve been staying in a creepy ass haunted house and you’ve just gotten into a huge fight with your homoerotic girlbestfriend and you’ve found out she harbours a lot of resentment towards you. and you leave the creepy ass haunted house just to die on it’s doorstep. this happened to my buddy Jackie Taylor and also to my buddy Eleanor Vance