Moira_Darling_Roche

AO3 fanfiction writer riddled with ADHD (find me under the same name!)

[allofuswantgwinam]

how ironic that the child that was told to close his eyes THAT night is the one that doesn’t believe in the haunting of hill house but is also profiting off the stories of his siblings growing up there

[heartofanenigma]

It's late at night and I'm thinking about haunting of hill house and it's "i love you completely and you love me the same, the rest is confetti" and haunting of bly manor and it's "it's you, it's me, it's us".

[unwrittenismystory]

Haunting of Hill house... most heartbreaking yet beautiful moment for me.

Theodore feeling nothing... : When Shelly and Theo goes after Luke to the Hill house and Nell's ghost stops them. Her on the floor right after that... It felt so real ... didn't even feel like acting . Like it came from most vulnerable, honest and dark place. It wasn't just words or script,,,, the delivery was terrifyingly beautiful.

2. Henry Crane's last scene in the show... his sacrifice and conversation with Steve. When he says, " I am proud that I got to be your father." It tore me apart. Specially if you have lost your dad, it hits harder. This was a release for me, almost as if this is a message from my dad.

3. Henry and Olivia's conversation before he sacrifices himself. When he said, " If it wasn't for the kids, I would've laid down with you." Its just so ahh. I am sobbing writing this. That entire part was devotion and unconditional love, it was overwhelming and haunting.

4. Nellie meeting her end and seeing her younger self and other versions of herself ... no words. It was brilliant. My perception was that she was haunting herself. She was scared of her own shadows or darkness in a way. In a metaphoric sense, it feels like a comment on mental health in some ways. How your shadows shape you. I think I am going around what I want to say but its not hitting. anyways, you would get what I am saying if you watched it.

5. Just the characters itself. Shirley taking care of others, as much as she can. Paying for Luke's rehab, letting Theo stay in her guesthouse, stitching up Nell, taking care of little kittens, doing funerals at low rates and stuff for strangers. Theo feeling with her body in a supernatural sense, building extra strong walls to protect her sensitivity, being afraid of her gifts, being a psychologist, helping children and being open to them. Nellie seeing her own death since childhood almost like self fulfilling prophecy, being worried about Luke even though she is struggling too, her ghosts stopped haunting her when she was in love, almost like love heals and her going back to house, accepting her death almost. Steve not believing in ghosts but writing books on them, its like still the entire series was him rewriting and uncovering the truth, seeing spirits in such a way that he can't ignore it. Luke being so soft and sensitive to Nellie. Also to spirits. Like Nellie and Luke are the same person to me. Just coping through different escapes. Its as if emotionally and mentally, they were stuck in that house. Henry being " I can fix it"... about everything. Sacrificing himself. Protecting the kids. Just a man in love and a protector. Olivia being worried about her children but taking it to extreme. They both tried to love control their kids. a little. a lot , idk.

6. THE RED ROOM... fascinating... ahha. Just the entire part with Nellie's ghost in there ... Her saying things like " Time - moments fall around us and rest is confetti.... Not a heart, a stomach. (ofc Olivia's words. ). But the entire part was like a closure. A forgiveness , a release.

Im gonna go now. I think thats enough for now. :) Byeeeeeee

[residences-of-the-darkforest]

You know what I just realized while re-watching The Haunting of Hill House?

In the book, Dr. Montague is the person that invites some characters, namely Eleanor, to the House.

Who is he in the show? His appearance is short, but he is Nellie’s therapist—AKA—the one that told her to go back to the house.

[hugsandnoregrets]

rant about hill house fandom during my annual rewatch

getting mad all over again that people still act like shirley was a bad person for sending her brother (who was high on heroin) away from his sister's wedding after they established over and over again that he has stolen from them, lied to them, and wasted tens of thousands of dollars on rehab that he repeatedly ran away from and relapsed, and that every event he shows up to becomes about his failed recovery and his ongoing addiction and she doesnt want him to ruin nell's wedding day because nell would make it about luke because she loves him so much and she deserves one day about her and not about luke.

like. i experienced happy family events ruined by my alcoholic family members because people insisted they should be there, where the family member insisting they come is just an enabler who forgives too much and continuously lets these family members ruin every happy event. they are diseased, but i refuse to pretend like they have 0 agency. i love these people. i will always love them, and we supported them through numerous rehabilitation attempts.

good god its insane what being an attractive white guy with sad eyes will get you.

[cosmopolitanalienation-deactiva]

"nothing bad will touch them, well, nothing good will either". I think this keeps me going, this somehow still keeps me going. nothing good will either, nothing good with either. I'll sob. I'll sob. This series gave me such a beautiful view towards understanding and processing grief and so many other emotions we refuse to speak about because of so many reasons. Oh, so many and i get it. I get it. I'm going to cry.

[nihalias]

i cannot emphasize enough that two completely different people reblogged these things onto my dash like barely four posts apart.

damn website full of larks and katydids, is what.

[endoyamato]

thinking about how the house killed nell as a child. how she was dead from the moment they stepped into it. how she died because she saw herself die and how theres no reality where nell enters the house as a child and doesnt die as an adult. because she saw herself dead and it sealed her fate. which means theres no reality or choices she couldve made where she didnt die at the end of the road. the house killed nell long before she actually died. it was a ticking time bomb and no way to diffuse it. she died because she saw herself die which then killed her which she saw which killed her which she saw which

[cosmopolitanalienation-deactiva]

“you can't catch me now” by olivia Rodrigo, feat. In hunger games is one of the best songs ever made overall and especially for “haunting the narrative” trope, and aside from the hunger games context, the lyrics of the song are literally so accurate, on point and downbad haunting— “i'm in the trees,in the breeze, my footsteps on the ground”/ “you see my face in every place but you can't catch me now”/ “i'm here and there and everywhere but you can't catch me now” oh god — the way it can be dissected into so many contexts— anthropology/psychology/literature/concept of freedom/death/liberty/the state of becoming a living memory or a metaphor in other people's lives/the presense of someone's essence after the death of their physical existence/ the life of someone's still existing still burning bright in things they loved and liked/the way i can connect it to so many characters and situations— haunting the narrative, goddam. Somehow this song gives me this hope that even if I'm gone, goodness I'm not gone, I'm not really gone, (reminds me of hill house dialogue where Olivia tells shirley that when we die we become stories and then nellie says that "i'm not gone I'm scattered into so many pieces in your lives like rain or snow").

[le-ny]

big fan of horror media that starts scary and then turns devastatingly sad

[ambywoahs]

NO, DEAR. USE YOUR CUP OF STARS. INSIST ON YOUR CUP OF STARS. ONCE THEY'VE STRAPPED YOU INTO BEING LIKE EVERYONE ELSE, YOU'LL NEVER SEE YOUR CUP OF STARS AGAIN.

-- The Haunting of Hill House, Dir. Mike Flanagan

[k0sm1cs]

lottie (yellowjackets) having a vision as a teenager of the staircase she would die in 25 years later is the same energy as nell (haunting of hill house) being haunted since she was a child by the vision of her own eventual suicide

[psalacanthea]

I'm re-watching the Haunting of Hill House and I have to say, one of my favorite scares is Nell at Steve's apartment. There's something I always love about those moments when a character is doing something mundane, and then the big horrifying scare bursts in, violating the normalcy. A huge, shattering burst of terror that cuts through an everyday moment. Tainting the safety of the ordinary.

It's just really wonderful how they layered this one, with what Steve is treating as a normal conversation turning into something horrifying, and that horrified understanding turning into a visceral scare.

And then after the scare, you get that moment to come down from it, while Hugh's voice can still be heard faintly through the phone, in the otherwise silent room.

It's just a really beautifully well-done jump scare.

[makkarisbelova]

the fact that young yelena belova and young nellie crain are played by the same actress is something that will always be so special to me. those are my two best girls who have been through literal hell 😭

[jctko]

no one cares but a character dying is not the same as a character haunting the narrative. dying is a plot point, while haunting must be structural redefinition of the entire piece's form. it's why haunting of hill house begins and ends with the same line. it's why cassandra tells the audience of the oresteia exactly what is going to happen. they are defined by their endings- something that not all deaths lead to

[vanalex]

[clandestinewhore]