#depression in the mansion

[alistairs-raven]

Hatbox from my work sketchbook

#a daily hatty keeps the depression away #alistair crump #hatbox ghost #the haunted mansion #my art #endless sketches

[fairyroses]

— SMALLVILLE, “Wither” (6.03)

#can't believe they danced together in a fountain and we didn't get to see it 😭 #anyway I love the comfortable physicality of this scene #like lex talking with his hands while still holding lana's hand in the second to last gif #and the fact that they're both walking around the mansion barefoot #and their smiles!! (especially in gifs 2 and 6!) #(pretty sure this is the last time we really see lex genuinely smile like this... but that's depressing so let's not think about it) #(also I could obviously dig into lex refusing to admit that he's actually happy but hoo boy I don't have time for all that lol) #in my head time stopped here and nothing bad happened after this like that's it THE END #smallville #smallvilleedit #svedit #lex luthor #lana lang #lexana #sv 6x03 #dcmultiverse #my gifs #I told y'all that I had a gifset from this ep floating around in my drafts somewhere lol #not pictured here: me fist-fighting the smallville lighting department in a denny's parking lot

[lambinarmor]

betrayed

#It was more depressing in my head #anyway Spencer mansion sure was traumatic huh #song played while drawing to be extra sad: awake from Celeste #my art #jill valentine #chris redfield #re #resident evil #valenfield

[galaxyferret]

I had a Munchlings vision so please consider

The Hatpot Roast Ghost

#haunted mansion #my art #munchlings #Also other ideas include #Ghost Host as bacon wrapped… anything #BHB as a chocolate strawberry #Constance would nail a sour patch kid lets be honest #Hitchhiking ghosts as those fruits you put on a stick and dip in sugar #Can’t remember the name of those things #Phantom should be anything that comes out of those great depression jello molds #Y’know because anything that came out of those things were nasty just like him #Leota is just a singular meatball

[carewyncromwell]

"Playground school bell rings again... Rain clouds come to play again... Has no one told you she's not breathing? 'Hello -- I'm your mind giving you someone to talk to... 'Hello..."'

~"Hello" by Evanescence

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Told you there'd be more Haunted Mansion AU content coming! This one, unfortunately, is more on the sad side. Also, sorry for the blood trigger -- the mental image just was too strong in my mind.

Okay, so in the Haunted Mansion AU, I have mentioned that Bill Weasley fills the role of the "Ghost Host" -- the spirit who greets Duncan when he first comes to the Cromwell Manor and, as it turns out, ends up mostly taking charge of the other ghosts and daily affairs inside the Manor while his BFF the Beating Heart Bride (Carewyn Cromwell) takes on the responsibility of keeping the actual Master of the House, the malevolent Phantom, contained to the attic so he won't terrorize everyone else. When Duncan investigates more about the Cromwell Manor's history and the Cromwell family by extension, though, he learns that Bill was Carewyn's childhood friend, and that the eldest Weasley not only tried and failed to help Jacob and Carewyn run away from their uncle Blaise before they died, but that he was the one who discovered Jacob's severed head and buried it on his family's property, which ended up resulting in Charles not being able to lay claim to Jacob's soul postmortem the way he'd planned. What only was briefly touched on in the AU, though, was Bill's reaction to what happened to Jacob and Carewyn.

Carewyn was Bill's first real friend in the world -- one he made when he and his family had only just immigrated to upstate New York and had never had a true equal who he could rely on for emotional support just as much as he supported them -- and for Carewyn, Bill was the same. Both Bill and Carewyn had had their respective brothers -- Charlie and Jacob -- as emotional support, of course, but Bill had still always taken on the "big brother" role with Charlie and Jacob obviously was that same "big brother" role for Carewyn. Even despite their two year age gap, Carewyn and Bill treated each other like peers and, due to their similar personalities, often ended up "taking care" of everyone else around them (sometimes together), as well as helping take care of each other. Carewyn would stand up for Bill while he was working multiple jobs as a child to support his family and even coaxed members of her own family to give him odd jobs, so as to support him. Bill would hide Carewyn (often with Charlie's help) in his family's barn when her uncle Blaise came looking for her and taught her how to climb a tree and read the stars. When Jacob was stuck with his tutors and Bill was forced to work unpleasant jobs to make ends meet, Carewyn would keep him company and even help him complete his tasks, just to show moral support, even though her grandfather and especially her uncle so disapproved.

It's frankly no wonder that Bill immediately agreed to help get Carewyn and Jacob out, when Jacob approached him for help. It's also little wonder -- considering how close Bill was to Carewyn and how much he knew she loved her brother -- that Bill reacted so hostilely toward Blaise, when he confronted him about finding Jacob's skull.

“The only piece we have of Carey’s brother is this skull, thanks to you,” barked Bill, “and the only piece of Carey even left in this world is trapped in there with you, rather than buried in the cemetery where we can visit – ” “I want my nephew,” Blaise interrupted him, very harshly. “I know you have him, so give him back.” Bill’s eyes flooded with angry, grief-stricken tears.  “If Jacob were with me,” he said very quietly, “I would sooner burn in Hell than let you lock him up in here again.”

There was no way that Bill was going to let Blaise have a single piece of the person his best friend loved more than her own life.

So Bill buried Jacob's head under a tree not far from the Weasley house. He also kept Carewyn's usual red hair ribbon -- something she'd left at the Weasley house, the night she and Jacob tried and failed to escape the Cromwell Manor -- wrapped around his hand as he worked, before tying it to a branch right over the tiny plot. This blood-red ribbon would serve as a marker many years later, when paranormal investigator Duncan Ashe eventually discovered the tree and the skull buried underneath it.

Fortunately Bill and Carewyn were reunited long before Duncan came along and discovered the truth of the Cromwell family murders, when Blaise Cromwell insisted the medium Madame Olivia bring back his lost family members.

Carewyn actually didn't fully materialize for a very long time after being forced back to the Manor, even with the ghostly medium summoning spirits non-stop. Instead she appeared as nothing but a cold, light blue, ghostly orb, floating aimlessly into and out of the attic with seemingly no awareness or direction.

It frustrated and grieved the Phantom to no end, especially since the orb that was Carewyn would never speak and would dissolve away out of his clawed hands if he tried to grab her.

It was only when Bill brought his hands around the orb, not to seize it, but to cradle it, that the orb finally stopped wandering. Bill immediately knew this fog-like orb was his friend's spirit, too melancholy and hopeless to fully materialize, and choking back tears, he spoke to her.

"...Carey...Carey, forgive me. ...I failed you, Carey -- you and Jacob. God, I wanted so much to get justice for you, but I failed, Carey. It's why I'm still here, why we're all still here -- we all knew we failed you, Carey. Charlie and Mum and Dad...all of us. We should've been able to protect you -- we should've been able to get you away from your uncle, and yet even now...even now, you've been brought back here, against your will. Brought back here to this terrible house without your brother, without your mother. ...But...I'm not leaving you this time. I'm not leaving you alone here with him -- not again. And I will never leave you again. I swear 't on my life -- nay, on my...on my death...I will never leave you again."

And as Bill bared his heart to this incorporeal ball in his arms, he suddenly felt the cold light expand, growing limbs that clung to him just as much in return, that shook in his arms with silent sobs as strong as his own as she tried to comfort him. For a moment, all Bill and Carewyn's spirits could do, upon both being fully materialized, was hug each other and cry.

If anyone were to want a reason why the Phantom never banished Bill or the Weasleys from the Cromwell Manor the way he did the Wanderer Orion Amari multiple times, even with how much Blaise Cromwell detested them in life...the fact that Bill was the reason Carewyn didn't choose to remain in that hellish, spiraling, maddening, timeless chaos that exists for ghosts without a proper home may be very enlightening.

"...Bill...it's not your fault. It's not your family's fault. I made a choice, and it was mine, and it was cowardly. ...Forgive me..." "No -- no, no, Carey, you weren't cowardly. You were grieving, you were in pain, and...I just wish I could've helped you..." "You have, Bill. You have."

#hphm #hogwarts mystery #tw: blood #tw: suicide #tw: depression #tw: grief #carewyn cromwell #bill weasley #my art #haunted mansion #blaise cromwell #jacob cromwell #charlie weasley #I honestly listened to the entirety of evanescence's first album drawing this XD; #hey it did come out in 2003 when the haunted mansion AU is set!! #I promise the next bit of haunted mansion content I post will be nicer :'( #but yeah I do see the phantom harboring some *twinge* of guilt about what happened to the weasleys #mostly because he knows carewyn would hate him all the more knowing he had a hand to play in their deaths as well as jacob's and lane's #the phantom may loathe the weasleys' spirits ESPECIALLY ghost host bill #but that doesn't mean he really wanted to murder their entire family including ron and ginny who were *really* young #and hey at least bill weasley never acted like a suitor to carewyn #just presumptuous enough to act like her family when he's nothing but a pauper :I

[sir-buddy]

Finally watched the new Haunted Mansion last night and BRO???

I really enjoyed the movie and I had to draw Father Kent afterwards because reasons.

Also the amount of time I could connect it to NatM was kinda funny.

Like Jed really DOES think about the Roman empire every day! And he gets a cowboy hat at the end!!

#like when he said the line i was just like agsdjjbdbfkgydijf #sorry is this was kinda rambly but I really liked the movie #also the bottom drawing kinda makes him look like depressed Phoenix Wright #he misses his husband #pirate rambles #art #my art #traditional art #haunted mansion #father kent #natm

[moonsidesong]

really want to like the nightly manor more because artistically it's Gorgeous but man the writing really just doesn't grab me at all after they leave the mansion >___<

#for one thing uhhh i kinda wish it was an actual mansion murder mystery #kinda disappointing when they just Leave #mostly just because i think that's a really cool idea #but the bigger sticking point for me is just that like #i feel like it is asking me to mourn characters i didn't know #like man sorry gps that you're dead and maybe got Hacked or something that sucks but uhhh Who r u lol #and i feel like i barely know the surviving cast either? #it's hard to feel for a character depicted as disheveled and depressed in mourning when like #i barely know what top hat and sketchpad are like normally #it feels kinda like i'm missing episodes sometimes #bri talks #again tho The animation and overall presentation is really really good. #but like.... feel like the writing does not have enough meat on its bones i guess #brifdi

[seduceme-lovestruck-thearcana]

I had a weird seduce me dream.

It was like I was watching someone play a playthrough of SM2, but it wasn’t SM2. Like the art was different (still beautiful tho) and I can’t remember much of the actual words, but I feel like I was watching a different version of SM??? Erik’s route and he looked the same, but the scene was different. All I remember was something went wrong in the scene, like someone was doing something bad. Erik was in his demon form, so yeah something bads going on. Something went wrong, and you guys knows that bad ending in SM2 when Oribel goes to attack Mika, but Erik jumps in front of her and gets stabbed??? And that heartbreaking photo???

Yeah, well this was the same except the photo was different. It looked like the room was darker, since the picture had more, like, purple in it as if it was night and shadows were being casted instead of it being in a huge throne room with a bunch of light. Anyways, it was still sad bc Erik was literally stabbed through the chest, sword still in him, and he’s on his side looking at the MC with such a sad gaze like damn.

Haven’t had any weird dreams in awhile so I’m glad/sad to have had one. Of COURSE it HAS to be sad because it’s me😭.

EDIT: The scene was happening in the throne room, so I know it’s the same events of SM2, it’s just that it felt different, I guess. Weird.

#seduce me #seduce me the otome #my weird dreams #seduce me the demon war #seduce me 2 #seduce me 2 the demon war #never get many happy dreams #either weird and happyish or just straight up depressing #maybe bc of how the series is (finding almost dead men in your grandpas mansion and then war ya know) #but like dang I can’t get a nice dream of Erik being happy with Mika (or Michaela since that’s my Mc)??? #LIKE??? PLEASE??? I already write sad things so I want at least a happy dream #seduce me the otome 2

[sapphic-woes]

I rlly feel crappy not being able to write cuz of my mental state rn. But on the bright side, I named the vampire Olwyn :)

#the meet in the snow in her backyard #miss knight is struggling to breathe and is super hurt... literally was just in some battle and barely survived #and yk as shes abt to black out she comes across this old mansion and in the backyard its just a dead tree and a grave #and wOaH is that a super hot lady sitting in the snow in front of it– #then she blacks out and Olwyn is like 👁️👄👁️ #sigh olwyn is sosososo depressed and isolated and cries all day but shes a pure blood vampire so she cant die #and like now she gets this puppy dog human to give her a reason to live again. #i dunno i just like the idea of her refusing to get outta bed and miss knight geeeently picking her up and like #cradling her in her arms and is like 'you gotta eat' and Olwyn is like >:( and nibbles on her neck lololol

[buckwheeler]

deffo the quickest way to make Steve the like totally likeable and we’re rooting for him sympathetic guy is to have his parents cut him off and abandon him and he’s the hardworking poor 20something and his plight becomes really heroic. I do think it’s interesting tho if that’s not the case like. If Steve’s parents live in his house and he is rich and his dads on his ass about not getting into college but like. In a pretty average parent way. He’s still living really comfortably and they want him to make his own money but he also can always ask them if he needs anything. I’m just interested in that Steve being very privileged and comfortable but also very lost and kind of just listlessly bumming around Hawkins not knowing what to do with himself and feeling guilty and pretending to be a real person and then going to the mall with his mom and picking out a $200 cologne and then going home and spraying it on his family video vest

#interesting guy #and then I kind of want him to get fired from family video after robin leaves because he just becomes so depressed and then he’s just #wallowing around in his mansion and his parents are like #Steve what are u gonna do and he’s like #idk #and they’re like … ok well. go hand out your cv around town again #we’re making spaghetti for dinner #Steve Harrington

[countess-of-edessa]

watching the much-maligned by my side of tumblr dakota johnson persuasion and i kinda like it

#im not watching it as a period piece or a jane Austen adaption really. #just as like oh yes everyone should wear long dresses and live in pretty mansions in all movies #for me it’s set in like 2007 and everyone just looks like that #which is fun #I’ve never read persuasion but it does sound from the plot like the most wretchedly sad of austen's books #mostly from the idea that the initial sad backstory seems extremely commonplace and realistic and the romantic happy ending extremely #unrealistic and unlikely which just renders the whole thing depressing to me #so the fact that it doesn’t even feel like a period drama is fine with me. im glad Dakota is Jim from the office-ing all over the place

[lokiiied]

so i watched haunted mansion (not my review but)…

i texted my friend “lakeith and owen are giving gay uncles and im living” and not even 5 mins later lakeith called him baby TWICE (no, i do not recall him referring to anyone else that way except maybe? his dead wife) said - and i quote - “let’s do this, baby” before owen confesses something (unfortunately not that), lakeith reassures him that we he needs him and then says “cmon, baby” and owen goes “im gonna need a drink”…so yeah. i had fun.

#anyways if you want more fun gay uncle mobius you should watch this #also the cast ?? #hasan minhaj winona ryder and dan levy all had cameos #it wasn’t *good* good but like #silly goofy yk #i enjoyed it at least but im also like really depressed so #take this with a grain of salt #haunted mansion #lakeith stanfield #owen wilson

[godstrain]

better me than them- the thought echoes in his mind as the flames continue to burn. and it's an absolutely insane decision- he knows it's insane but he watches rika falter, he hears yuri's request, and if nothing else, he'll distract this monster-woman!

the fire burns him and he can't find it in him to care. maybe it's some sort of penance for the actions he knows he'll never be able to take back. maybe this will be the time- he'll face the teammates he killed in arklay in his own afterlife- but the others will get out this time-

in another life, he could've been a good captain. a good man. in another life, he lives and loves and even if it's in a place like raccoon city, he's happy. he could've had that life, and he threw away that chance.

he can't bring the others back. it's sickening, the guilt that he never thought would come. the knowledge that he'd ultimately failed- he failed S.T.A.R.s.- he'd failed william- he failed the parents that he'd never been able to truly know. but he didn't want to fail this team.

not again.

better me than them.

#event ╱ mansion incident 2 #oh wesker's depression sure is wild lmao this has been so much to unpack #ask to tag

[nixonsshades]

strawberry mansion is a good movie y’all. someone talk to me about it

#strawberry mansion #kentucker audley #my art #indie film #i havent been drawing much lately #depression sucks #BUT I GOT THESE DONE THE OTHER DAY N THATS GOOD