Ok listen. I finished the haunting of bly manor and while yes it was very bittersweet, Jamie is now single and I do plan to shoot my shot with her
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part of why this works so well is that you have the same guy writing the script and directing so the vision is clear and consistent between the set up and execution but ANYWAYS
I love how difficult it is to tell when miles is acting out, being petulant, trying to smoke and drink because he's been manipulated by and wants to emulate peter. because he latches onto this cool, suave, know-it-all grown man after his father passes away. OR if he's actually being controlled by peter, who is a manipulator, doesn't care abt his affect on others, and likely can only smoke/drink through a host body like miles
it makes the whole puppet analogy that much stronger and is such an intense depiction of the direct or indirect control adults can have on children
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Something about Dani and Jamie, Bill and Frank, love stories cultivated in the heart of horror. Something about finding queer love, gay love, human and fallible and worth cupping hands around and protecting even in the darkest of times. Something about stumbling into your person when you least expect them, when your mind is fixed firmly on pain and survival, and letting their light open you up. Something about choosing to wake up every day and cherish this person, even when it’s hard, even when they’re being broken down right before your eyes. Something about saying “I am marrying you, not in the eyes of others, but in our hearts where it matters—legality be damned”.
Something about gay love being worth all the strawberries, all the moonflowers, all the persistence and the endings chosen on your own terms. Something about that hits me where it counts.
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Me praying the horror show about terminally ill teenagers is not as sad as the horror show about a family and the horror show about love.
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One of the things about Mike Flanagan’s series I both like and dislike the most is how often they say the same thing. Sometimes there is almost word-for-word the same line of dialogue (as many a beautiful tumblr gifset has highlighted over the years) and it feels repetitive and maddening if it’s not a subject that resonates with you, but when it is...it’s, in a weird way, healing.
Sometimes a character says something in one series that sounds like they are voicing what a character was thinking but not saying in another. Sometimes two characters go through different kinds of pain and come to the same conclusion about it. Sometimes they go through the same pain and experience it differently.
None of the series are directly connected, but it always feels like they are, intimately. Like every series is haunting each other.
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Mike Flanagan has to answer for his crimes.
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That one episode from Mike Flanagan series
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as soon as I saw the hat I should've known😂 (@flanaganfilm you genius)
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fuck tinder I wanna meet someone the old fashioned way. We both work at this mansion, but it turns out I've actually been dead for quite some time & can't leave, only I don't realize that until I finally make a decision to leave with you to Paris but I can't because im dead so I disappear/continue to afterlife. We never get together at all. But I loved you, I should've told you.
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If I had a nickel for every time T'Nia Miller's character repressed memories of a very personal death in a Flanagan show, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
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fuck, man. the year 2000 was a terrible year for sapphics. (specifically celia st. james and dani clayton)
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