[victorvanvoorhees]

Chucky (Brad Dourif) and Tiffany Valentine (Jennifer Tilly) - Bride of Chucky (1998)

[tvandfilm]

Pushing Daisies | 1x01 “Pie-lette”

[soulphiav]

[rebelwithoutacluee]

he’s so me

[willowgarlands]

Grief is the ghost of love...

"Most times, a ghost is a wish."

""I loved you completely, and you loved me the same," she said, "that's all." And this was the point I wanted the most to make. That at the end of our life, if we can say this about each other, the rest doesn't matter. It’s the love that stays."

“I'm in the hallway again, I'm in the hallway. The radio's playing my favorite song. Leave the lights on. Keep talking. I'll keep walking toward the sound of your voice."

"you can’t take loved away. time and death and mistakes take people from you, but nothing and no one can take back that love... everything changes irreversibly with every second that passes, but nothing and no one can change the fact that i was loved and i loved back... you can’t take it away from me. i was loved. i was loved."

"At the root of every ghost, a yearning. A tug, in which a living person reaches so fervently toward something absent, that the absence becomes bodied. As anyone who has known loss understands full well, lack is not in fact, an absence at all. It is a presence. A person we love dies, or leaves, or changes, and a gap forms. It takes on their shape. Mimics their movement. Echoes their voice like a mockingbird. We feel this gap take up space, filling every place our lost one once was, and now isn’t. It reflects in mirrors. Flickers in candle flames. A phantom."

The Amazing Devil, Inkpot Gods//Jamie Anderson//Haunting of Hill House//twitter user @tothedeaths//Lang Leav, Memories//@boymartyr//Mike Flanagan//Xie Lei, Blow//Valeria Luiselli, Faces in the Crowd (tr. Christina MacSweeney)//Haunting of Hill House//Richard Silken, You Are Jeff//Henri Nouwen//Spiritfarer//@boymiffy & @petrichara//Amanda Lovelace, to drink coffee with a ghost//Max LL, What You Leave Behind//@nickyandmikey//The Newton Brothers//@wifegideonnav//Shannon Barry//GennaRose Nethercott, “A Ghost Is a Memory.” On Bodies, Belief, and the Places Ghost Stories Live

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“Poetry transports you—translates you—in and out of your own language of loneliness. The book itself translates you—makes briefly exterior the raw glimmerings of your own dark darknesses, and then folds them back into you–layer upon gentless layer; petal upon petal upon page. You glimpse yourself in the broken shards of image, of dream, of song, in the curve of broken bodies, broken voices, broken circles.”

— Robin Walter, from “On Silence & Song: Kazim Ali’s The Voice of Sheila Chandra,” The American Poetry Review (vol. 52, no. 1, January/February 2023)

[witche-nerd]

Mike Flanagan really gave it all to us in The Haunting anthology. What is a haunting? Are we haunted by things we hate or things we love? What is a ghost? It is love persevering? Is it guilt persevering? Sometimes it’s irrevocable loss, grief for the things you never did or for the things you did do. Sometimes it’s one last return of those you didn’t get enough time with, so you can have a last farewell. What is possession? Is it desire? Is it selfishness? How can you hold someone close to you without destroying yourself or that someone? How can you hold the memory of someone close to you without destroying yourself or that someone? By staying with them. By letting them go. By forgiving them. By forgiving yourself. Can those who were hurt ever recover? Yes. No. Can those who hurt others ever be redeemed? Yes. No. Whose fault is it? Nobody’s? Everybodys? Where does your past end and where do your choices begin? How do you avoid a ghost without also avoiding everyone, including yourself? The solution to most things is love, the opposite of posession. And absolution is forgiveness, warm like a tear on a cheek. Everything, everyone, is fleeting so savour it. It’s all confetti. Find your family and hold them for as long as you are able. Because no matter the ghosts and the lingering pain, if we loved each other a little more and forgave a little more we could be okay in the future. Nothing will ever be perfect, horror acknowledges that. But we get kindness, we get peace. We rest in peace. Dead but not gone. Our loved ones keep us closer to their heart than we think. And we are not forgotten, gone, so long as we are loved. His work (especially the end scene with Flora and Jamie) reminds me of these words on the nature of time love and death by Joanna Newsom:

“When cruel death debases, we believe it erases all the rest that precedes. But stand brave life liver, bleeding out your days in the river of time. Stand brave: time moves both ways. In the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating joy of life. The moment of your greatest joy sustains: not axe nor hammer, tumor, tremor can take it away, and it remains. It remains. And it pains me to say, I was wrong. Love is not a symptom of time. Time is just a symptom of love.”

Do we find love because of time spent with someone, something? Is time such a greater power than love that it shapes it? But then where do ghosts, where does a haunting come from? How does love persevere long after your time with someone is ended, their time is ended? Isn’t it then that we perceive time and space, they are occupied, because there is love to fill them? Love colours and saturates life and is the greater power. Love damns. Love exhalts. Love is the haunting and the exorcism.

[chronicallylav3nd3r]

thought i should share two lines from my favourite show Bones that i think that might help many people

- “I am sad”

- “That is so much better than dead”

no matter how you’re feeling, what’s important is that you’re still alive and surviving

[moonstarkid-deactivated20220513]

Chinese Satellite- Phoebe Bridgers/ Little Women (2019)- Greta Gerwig/ The Perks of being a Wallflower- Stephen Chbosky/ this is me trying- Taylor Swift/ The Edge of Seventeen (2016)- Kelly Fremon Craig/ Bright Dead Things- Ada Limón/ Miss Americana (2020)- Taylor Swift/ Run River-Joan Didion/ Lady Bird (2017)- Greta Gerwig/ Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe- Benjamin Alire Sàenz

[daniclaeton]

the haunting of bly manor + aristotle’s greek tragedy

[phenomenaaa]

“Writing is a very vulnerable thing. But it’s also the safest thing. Because when you’re sitting and writing something personal, you are completely, at that moment, unexposed. It’ll only, after that, kind of open up to more and more people, and eventually it’ll be out there for everybody. But it’s the easiest thing to do alone in a room, when you don’t have to show an actor, you don’t have to show an executive… there’s safety on the page. To start.”

— Mike Flanagan, ep. 266, “The Boo Crew”

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. That’s how it is with us.”

— Kazuo Ishiguro, from Never Let Me Go (Faber and Faber, 2005)

[metamorphesque]

“Aside from myself, there was no sign of me.” ― Nicole Krauss

1.Rumi | 2.Holly Warburton | 3.Maggie Stiefvater | 4.Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 5.Nickie Zimov | 6.Clarice Lispector | 7.Nigel Van Wieck | 8.Georgia O’Keeffe | 9.Andrew Wyeth | 10.Mary Oliver | 11.Ilenia Tesoro | 12.Sylvia Plath | 13.Walt Whitman | 14.Nickie Zimov | 15.Jean-Paul Sartre | 16.Lydia Roberts | 17.Natalie Wee | 18.Lew Thomas | 19.Albert Camus

[katestewartt]

You know what it is I love about being Spider-Man? Everything!

[vahkarian]

#relatable

[ourchunkysalsa]

i never want to hear a man’s opinion on anything but i ESPECIALLY don’t want to hear a man’s opinion about black widow

[kae-leight]

Little Women behind-the-scenes 

[nessa007]

“I think Victoria Pedretti and I, we sort of work in a similar way. That’s why [since The Haunting of Hill House] we have become so close because we do approach stories the same way and she’s an incredibly interesting woman. We’re very, very similar personally as well.” “I feel like me and Oliver work somewhat similarly. When we talk about characters… I feel like we’re coming from a similar place. I feel like he is more technical than I am, still. He definitely pushes me [as an actor].”