#hangsaman

[magicoleanders]

#thought this trend was fun :) #shirley jackson #the haunting of hill house #we have always lived in the castle #the lottery #the bird’s nest #hangsaman #the sundial #the road through the wall #hyperspecific poll

[camcorderrevival]

hangsaman & the haunting of hill house, shirley jackson

#love you girls that are dead and also dying <333 #shirley jackson #the haunting of hill house #hangsaman

[hangsawoman]

hey girls.. did you know that um…. somewhere there is something waiting for you, and you can smile a little perhaps now when you are so unhappy, because how well we both know that you will be happy very very very very soon

#hangsaman #shirley jackson

[femmeterypolka]

had to use potatolord's picrew because there is no art of these characters

#hangsaman #shirley jackson

[marzipanandminutiae]

Shirley Jackson, writing Hangsaman: ...and then she takes her professor's drunk young wife- whose beauty she's frequently admired -home and tenderly puts her to bed, imagining all the while what it would be like to be married to this woman. Later, she falls asleep in her best (female) friend's room while the friend reads Victorian F/F/M threesome erotica aloud; the next morning, they shower together and spend the day wandering around town fantasizing about running away to live where no-one knows them.

also Shirley Jackson: BUT I'M NOT GAY AND THIS ISN'T GAY AND NO-ONE AND NOTHING IS GAY OKAY???

#shirley jackson #honey. honey. you are the Megan ButI'mACheerleader of gothic novelists #hangsaman

[femmehysteria]

I'm doing a series of "Best Character Named X" polls where all the characters have the same first name but are from completely different media, feel free to send in name/charcacter suggestions, I'm posting one poll a day, check my pinned post for active polls

#best character named x #poll #poll game #natalie goodman #natalie berzatto #sugar berzatto #natalie waite #natalie scatorccio #envy adams #natalia dragomiroff #next to normal #the bear #hangsaman #shirley jackson #yellowjackets #scott pilgram vs the world #murder on the orient express #agatha christie

[pseudobohemianlosers]

"She now felt alienated from her own memories of a self she no longer recognized, 'a girl who thought too much.' Jackson marked the change in uncannily stark terms: that girl is dead, she wrote, 'and her passing is, as I now see, mourned by few. She was a dreamer, and dreamers have no place in our matter-of-fact modern world. . . . A somewhat more matter-of-fact, and infinitely wiser person has taken her place.'"

- Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, Ruth Franklin

#that's so me #shirley jackson #the haunting of hill house #hangsaman #books and literature #we have always lived in the castle #gothic literature #growing up

[aaronstveit]

LIT POSTERS • Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson

The gap between the poetry she wrote and the poetry she contained was, for Natalie, something unsolvable.

#hangsaman #litedit #shirley jackson #hangsamanedit #booksociety #storyseekers #** #mine.graphic #lit

[magicoleanders]

always thinking about this

#hangsaman #shirley jackson

[camcorderrevival]

shirley jackson + fruit

[ hangsaman / we have always lived in the castle / the haunting of hill house ]

#fruit + harm specifically. #the violent fantasies tied with fruit imagery / the blackwood murder + the blackberries / the strawberries staining -> theos bloody clothes #shirley jackson #hangsaman #we have always lived in the castle #the haunting of hill house

[hangsawoman]

my quiz ‘which doomed shirley jackson girl are you’ is on the line !! <3

#im eleanor <333 #shirley jackson #the haunting of hill house #we have always lived in the castle #hangsaman #the bird’s nest

[mydaylight]

“A mother gets very lonesome without her daughter,” Mrs. Waite said. “Especially when it’s an only daughter. A mother gets lonesomer than anything in the world.”

One of the things which Natalie most disliked about her mother was Mrs. Waite’s invariable trick of putting serious statements into language that Natalie classified as cute. Mrs. Waite, too long accustomed to seeing her most heartfelt emotions exposed, discussed, and ignored, had long since fallen into protecting herself by stating them as jokes, with an air of girlish whimsy which irritated both Natalie and Mr. Waite as no flat statement of hatred could have. Because of this, Natalie—who had sometimes thought of running to her mother with a voluntary expression of affection—said briefly, “You’ll find something to do.”

Hangsaman, Shirley Jackson

#hangsaman #shirley jackson #mothers and daughters #quotes

[no-where-new-hero]

✣ Blake Wrapped: 5 Star Reads 📖

The first half of this post can be found HERE, and these were my 5-star reads for the second half of the year (in rough order). Tagging @batrachised, who was interested in recommendations!

Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh I posted a lot about this when I read it because in my opinion it’s one of the best SFF novels I’ve come across in a while. It reminded me of DWJ’s Hexwood, which is already high praise, but it’s a fabulous character study with incredible dynamics. It’s another new book with truly horrible marketing, imo—the whole “queer sci-fi” angle gives the impression of a Gideon the Ninth rip-off, but there’s much more political and social commentary with fabulous world-building. Highly, highly recommend this one.

He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan I loved the first book in this duology, but this one was exquisite to new heights. Even though it was never that overt, it did a lot of great meta-commentary work on the chosen one trope vs the doomed by the narrative trope, especially their intersection with gender expectations. The prose was simply gorgeous, occasionally philosophical, always sure-handed. I recommend the whole duology, though mostly so that you can get to this one.

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson I picked this up in my library’s for sale room, and it was the best choice I made this year. I can’t believe I had been missing out on Jackson for so long. It’s a ghost story and a Gothic novel and a girl book and feels a bit like the shadow side of an LM Montgomery story. The language and characters are rich and strange and is so thoroughly a Blake Book of all time. I want to be able to write something like this someday.

Yellowface by R. F. Kuang The reports of its readability are true—I went through this in three hours. I get why people complain about certain elements in this, but it also lives up to the hype, in my opinion. I might be the target audience as an aspiring author (who got throughly traumatized by the portrayal of terminally online author culture lmao) but I do think those dynamics and circumstances are its strength, more so than the social commentaries on Asian American tokenization, etc.

How Long ’Til Black Future Month? by N. K. Jemisin I don’t often read short fiction, but I was in the mood for some good SFF shorts to learn from, so picked this up. Jemisin is a master of form—her ability to depict a world in such a brief span, to make such deep characters with such clever scenarios is unmatched. Certainly, there are some better examples than others, but the best makes me wish there were a whole novel set in that world.

Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson This one is a slight cheat because it’s not Jackson’s best, but it’s also a Blake Book of all time, so how could I not give it five stars? I wish I had discovered it in college, if just to be able to be insufferable and call myself “irl Natalie Waite” everywhere. It’s such a Tumblr book too—the veiled queerness, the Plath vibes, the dark academia setting, the unhinged vibes. The prose is gorgeous and unsettling and is such a good portrayal of a character.

#bookblr #book review #book recommendations #reading recommendations #some desperate glory #he who drowned the world #hangsaman #the haunting of hill house #yellowface #how long til black future month #nk jemisin #rf kuang #emily tesh #shirley jackson #shelley parker chan #blake's last braincell #immortal poets society #blake wrapped

[florizels]

I think if I could tell someone everything, every single thing, inside my head, then I would be gone, and not existing any more, and I would sink away into that lovely nothing-space where you don't have to worry anymore and no one ever hears you or cares and you can say anything but of course you wouldn't be any more at all and you couldn't really do anything so it wouldn't matter what you did.

—Shirley Jackson, from Hangsaman

#shirley jackson #hangsaman

[light20sblog]

Shirley Jackson, Hangsaman

#book quotes #love #romance #citation #novels #shirley jackson #hangsaman #honestly wow #same bestie #1950s #dark academia

[poetfromthevoid]

Anne Carson, The Glass Essay (1995) || Shirley Jackson, Hangsaman (1951) || Emily Brönte, Wuthering Heights (1847)|| Alejandra Pizarnik, La condesa sangrienta (1966) || Wikipedia, Wuthering Heights

#anne carson #alejandra pizarnik #emily bronte #shirley jackson #hangsaman #wuthering heights #women #web weaving #dark academia