eleanor vance can't drive and she stinks and she has a moustache and her nose is too big for her face and her clothes don't fit her and she trembles and she has anger outbursts. and i love her

free my girl she did all that shit but the fandom is mischaracterizing her for it

free my girl she has the same character traits as a male character but is getting deemed a bitch for them

free my girl she acted irrationally in a situation where it was impossible to act rationally and is now being hated for it

things to ask yourself when designing a female character:

making this everyone's problem this halloween season

Being into gothic horror is wild, because you’ll look up the reviews/public opinion on a book and all the posts will be like “ugh, this was insufferable. The main character was the most melodramatic whiny narcissist cunt who’s perspective I’ve ever had the displeasure of following. When the main character wasn’t whining, it was just pages and pages of the most useless boring shit describing stupid landscapes over and over again. Boring and insufferable to read.”

And then you’ll get the book and read it and it’ll be like “Hi, I’m gothic protagonist. My entire family got brutally murdered by an unknown person and I also got horrifically abused as a child and struggle with severe mental illness, and now there’s unholy paranormal forces at work all against me, but at least I have the love of my life and my closest friends who I’d kill and die for and they’d do the same for me. Even though I’m cripplingly psychologically unwell and severely burdened with the mass of terrible things in my past, I’m going to figure out and track down the thing that killed my family and seek to destroy it, whilst poetically mirroring my suffering with the most beautiful and profound descriptions of the nature around me that you’ve ever read, contrasting the horror of nature with the beauty and goodness of it and giving you an existential crisis. This book is going to make you so ridiculously attached to these characters and change your whole perception of the life you lead.”

making this everyone's problem this halloween season

Propaganda

God! God! Whose hand was I holding?

I’m staying at Hill House. Wish you were here!

from Blowing Up the Nuclear Family: Shirley Jackson’s Queer Girls in Postwar US Culture

your blorbo should not be at the club. they'd ruin the vibe if i'm honest

Come home Eleanor

Eleanor Vance should NOT have been at the club (she should have been at her little cottage with her white cat and her oleanders) (and her stone lions) (and her cup of stars)

When the lesbians are haunted

Quick little Haunting of Hill House fanart because I finished reading it last week and I can't stop thinking about it!! Eleanor my beloved 😊😊

The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson // The night is darkening around me, Emily Brontë // A Little While, A Little While, Emily Brontë