going into a new Mike Flanagan show like ohhh ghosts! and then coming out the other side like ... we're all just stories in the end and a ghost is just a wish and dying is a really shitty reason not to live
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who radicalized mike flanagan i wanna give them a kiss
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The haunting of hill house being about how the kitchen is the heart of the house, because that’s where we spend the most time together, and the red room is the stomach, and it’s where we spend the least time together, and how the place where you eat is where you love and when you haven’t been in home in a long while, you confuse being eaten for being loved
I mean how could you tell the difference? Your mother fed you and now your mother feeds on you and isn’t that what love is? If I can’t have the heart, I’ll have the stomach. That’s the way to the heart anyways. That’s where everything goes.
Food is everything and every child would be swallowed up by a wolf if it meant being everything to something.
Every child just wants to come home. Be welcomed home. Be called home. They’ll offer up space inside themselves to do it. Lonely and starving and wanting to prove they can share.
Nell hopes for coffee.
Luke buys burgers.
Theo eats with Shirley.
Shirley insists on family dinner.
Steven is an eater. He eats stories. (Stories live longer than people. Stories keep people alive).
Hill house makes eating sound cruel, to make the kids feel guilty for being hungry, to make them hungrier, and make them choose being eaten over eating.
But the kitchen is the heart of the house.
It’s where they eat. (where they give and take and share and keep and indulge and provide love).
Steven is shared stories, and in turn shares them.
Shirley makes family dinners.
Theo prefers to eat with her sister.
Luke fills someone’s stomach.
Nell is asked out for coffee.
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